Given the damage that religion has wreaked in our modern world—and no religion is exempt—one would think that in attempting to rehabilitate the role of religion in modern life, one would seek to avoid association with violence.
But instead, with “The Book of Eli,” that is what we get: Violence. Post-apocalyptic violence justified by the Bible. [...]

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Sometimes idiocy occurs naturally, and sometimes it takes a lot of work to happen. Case in point, the folks over at “Natural News,” promoting the idea that flu vaccines are “worthless.”
The article starts out with a tenable premise, but then works hard to come up with this asinine statement:

Consumer health advocate Mike Adams, author of [...]

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Hand in hand with the lunacy that God uses weather to smite the sinful is the lunacy that by thinking hard enough, the invisible man in the clouds will read your thoughts and do your bidding. So we get what we had here a couple weeks ago, which is Focus on the Family praying for torrential rain of “biblical proportions” during Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday.

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