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While politicians debate whether guns belong in the hands of teachers, a medicine woman, aka witchdoctor, has handed the Parkland, Florida school shooting survivors a talisman, a dream catcher, to welcome demons to their school. An article in “The Wall Street Journal” about this inane action was entitled, “A Talisman of Solidarity Given to Attack …

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The story has circulated since President Trump’s Inauguration, January 21, last year. Now the account is gaining steam with at least one pastor claiming inside information that First Lady Melania Trump demanded an exorcism of the White House before she’d move in. According to the uncorroborated account, she had priests and pastors anoint the place …

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It happened again, in Parkland, just a 30-minute drive from my seminar, March 2, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. By the time you read this, the death toll, initially set at 17, will likely be higher. This tragedy has been called “catastrophic” by USA TODAY and “pure evil” by Florida’s governor. Journalists, political pundits, and talk …

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A recent news report was about as bizarre as it gets. A five-year-old child faces a lifetime of permanent disfigurement from burns, cuts, beatings and unspeakable torture because of a Voodoo deliverance. The Haitian mother of the youngster claimed that her child was behaving badly due to evil spirits. So, she took the little girl …

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I’ve been reading again the gospels, for my own edification. Over a lifetime, I’ve read them many times, but this go-around is to see what fresh truths I can find. As I began Mark’s gospel, I was struck immediately that this account of Christ’s life is unashamedly a document about demons. Consider the evidence: Mark’s …

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A few weeks ago, the citizens of Hawaii thought they were facing the end of the world, or at least a nuclear explosion on their islands. By now you’ve heard the story of the erroneous warning that went out: BALLISTIC MISSLE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Of course, …

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Let me start by saying I believe in the American way of freedom of religion. I also recognize that there are many decent Muslims who love this country and respect Christians. But there are also many Muslims who want to take over the world and re-establish a caliphate, a worldwide rule of Islamic law, under …

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 I was in California a week ago and came across two things that makes me wonder about the sanity of the Golden State’s leaders. Worried that Trump is unstable? Don’t throw stones if you call California home. First, the photo on the left. If you’re building a new public facility in California (I saw this …

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There it was, an illuminated display of the Christian cross, along with symbols of other religions: yin-yang for Taoism, Star of David for Judaism, peace symbol, crescent of Islam, science relativity, i for Buddhism. The only thing missing was the usual “coexist” conglomerate including a pentagram for Wicca (Witchcraft). My family and I were enjoying …

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In 1972, at the age of nine, she was pictured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, that some think was the beginning of the end of the Viet Nam war. With her arms outstretched and naked, she epitomized the horror of war especially the ugly effects of burning napalm that clung to the skin in a …

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