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Most Americans claim belief in God but many are living as “Christian atheists,” according to some pastors. “We believe in Jesus enough to get us out of hell but not actually enough to change the way we live.” Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Team Obama Recruiting at Public Schools; Global Warming Boss Takes Chauffeured Ride 1 Mile to Work; Atheist Group Opposes Postage Stamp Honoring Mother Teresa; Star Wars Text Makes it to Earth; Canadian Premier Flees Government Health Care to United States; The Super Bowl Kerfuffle; South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature; and more! Read more »

A group of atheist and agnostic “freethinkers” opposed to religion has criticized the United States Postal Service for honoring Mother Teresa with a stamp that it says goes against postal regulations. Last month, in announcing the Mother Teresa commemorative stamp, the USPS praised the internationally famed Catholic nun for her 50 years of service to “the sick and destitute of India and the world,” as well as her “humility and compassion” and “respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind.” Read more »

These are the top 10 articles readers thought were the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Top 50 Articles of 2009; What is the Cause of Meaning; Opposition to Govt Health Care Bill Locked In; Napolitano’s Comments Were Taken in Context With Administration Stance on Defense; Nelson Feels the Heat on Health Care Sell-out; New Study: No Rise in Carbon Dioxide Fraction; and more! Read more »

Ravi Zacharias has been doing a series on “Is There Not a Cause?” which deals with purpose and meaning. If you enjoy thinking, check it out. Read more »

A poll by Harris Interactive of over 2,000 adults found that 59 percent of Americans are “absolutely certain” and 15 percent are “somewhat certain” that there is a God. Those over the age of 40, in the South, or who are female are most likely to be absolutely certain compared to 25- to 29-year-olds, those who live in the East and males. Read more »

You probably won’t want to play this in your Sunday School class or for Sunday night church, and probably not even at your small-group Bible study, but some slightly irreverent parts aside, this is funny and insightful in many ways. How to find God in 60 Days (or your meaningless existence back). Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Roadblock in the War on Terrorism: Transgender Politics; Full Video of Lord Monckton’s Speech on Global Warming Hysteria; Another Openly Marxist Obama Official; Lord Monckton Discusses UN Climate Change Treaty in Glenn Beck Interview; Baucus Health Care ‘Reform’ Bill Now Posted Online; Kevin Jennings Sponsored Anti-Christian, Obscene ‘Art’ Exhibit; In the Open Against South Dakota’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban; and more! Read more »

Islam, Christianity and atheism all have their militants in their ranks. But only the militants from one group are likely to hear any condemnation for their immoral acts from others in their peer group. Can you guess which which one it is? Read more »

These are the top stories at Dakota Voice in the last week.  You, Dear Reader, made them the top stories through your hits and your comments on them.
In case you missed them the first time, or just want to read them again and ponder them in the glow of your Sunday leisure, here they are:
Mercy [...] Read more »

Marie Jon’

While reading the Word on a flight to visit a family member who recently moved from Southern California, I overheard some remarkable comments. I have had some really amazing discussions on airplanes, when a small white Bible seems to become a controversy.
For instance — “You Christians believe you know it all.” Then the next [...] Read more »

Here are 10 of the best installments from Dakota Voice over the past week.  These articles made the list because of the  number of hits, number of comments, importance and impact of the material, etc.
For your Easter Sunday leisure reading, here they are in case you missed them the first time around or want to [...] Read more »

The lastest TurnSignal video from FocusAction examines the recent court affirmation of the First Amendment right to religious expression–even in public schools.
One might assume that atheists and their “useful idiots” in the public education system simply don’t understand the First Amendment (a frightening thought, since the educators are entrusted with teaching our children).  But I [...] Read more »

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By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Mar. 10 2009 06:23 PM EDT
Proposed equality laws by the European Union threaten to make it easier for atheists to file lawsuits against any organization offering public service if they are offended by a displayed religious symbol or by a religious act.
Something as conventional as [...] Read more »

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By Lawrence Jones
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Mar. 09 2009 01:10 PM EDT
A group of atheists, known as American Atheists, contend in their suit that steel memorial crosses erected by the Utah Highway Patrol Association (UHPA) on state land constitute an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
In November 2007, a federal judge ruled in [...] Read more »

There are people who have many misconceptions of Christianity. Some believe it is a heavy weight of do’s and don’ts piled upon one’s shoulders. Others believe that it’s an “if you sin, you’ll go to hell” doctrine.
Some believe that preachers are only in the pulpit to make money. There is the proverbial lie that God [...] Read more »

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By Maria Mackay
Christian Today Reporter
Mon, Feb. 16 2009 05:57 PM EST
LONDON – The offices of a conservative Christian political organization were vandalized following the launch of a new bus advertising campaign proclaiming that there is a God.
“I’m disappointed more than shocked,” said the Rev. George Hargreaves, head of the Christian [...] Read more »

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By Katherine T. Phan
Christian Post Reporter
Wed, Feb. 04 2009 09:00 AM EST 
A humanist group released a report disputing the results of Baylor University’s 2008 Religion Survey, arguing that it is atheism, not religiosity, that is on the rise in America.
The report on Monday by the Council for Secular Humanism calls [...] Read more »

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By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Jan. 20 2009 10:01 AM EST
The anti-God bus ad campaign has now spread beyond the borders of England to the heavily Catholic nations of Spain and was also scheduled to start appearing in Italy next month.
In Spain, where 94 percent of the population is Roman [...] Read more »

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By Jenna Lyle
Christian Today Reporter
Sat, Jan. 17 2009 11:09 AM EST
A Christian bus driver refused to drive buses carrying an advertisement that declares “There’s probably no God.
Speaking to BBC Radio Solent, Ron Heather said he felt “shock” and “horror” at the slogan on the ads when he turned up for [...] Read more »

By Maria Mackay
Christian Today Reporter
Tue, Jan. 06 2009 09:17 AM EST 
As atheist ads hit London’s buses on Tuesday, one faith-based think tank says they will only get people thinking more about God.
The ads by the British Humanist Association carry the slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” They are to [...] Read more »