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Bishop Eddie Long – Mega-churches & the Prosperity Gospel

By: admin | Date: February 5, 2017 | Categories: news

    (The late) Bishop Eddie Long – on homosexuality “It’s the most unattractive thing I have ever seen, when I see women wearing uniforms that men would wear, and women fighting to get in the military,” Long shouted to his congregation. “The woman gets perverted to turn towards woman … and everybody knows it’s […]

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The Problems of Lotteries

By: admin | Date: January 17, 2016 | Categories: news

Problems with the Lottery Maybe we could better see the odds if it was actual people – 300 million people – the population of CA, all trying to get through a door that will only admit 1. Dave Ramsey: “the lottery is a tax on the poor and people who can’t do math.” It’s Gambling. […]

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Forgiving Your Enemies

By: admin | Date: April 16, 2012 | Categories: news, stories

October 2, 2007, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver, entered an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself. The Amish, descendants of Swiss-German settlers, eschew many aspects of […]

Millionaires Need $7.5 Million to Feel Wealthy

By: admin | Date: January 21, 2012 | Categories: news, surveys

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/03/14/millionaires-need-7-5-million-to-feel-wealthy/ The definition of  “wealthy” is a moving target, depending on the economy and prevailing politics. To some in the White House, a salary of $250,000 a year is wealthy, to others, it’s barely a living wage. Everett Collection But millionaires have their own benchmarks.  According to a Fidelity Investments survey of more than 1,000 […]