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Religious Overreaches Could Backfire by Charles Franklin

Religious Overreaches Could Backfire by Charles Franklin


clock icon 02 Dec 2020
author icon WRN Guest


It’s an old story: A business like Enron or Pfizer goes flat out for profit, ethics and the law be damned and boom! Enron is disemboweled for conspiracy and fraud and Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion in the largest...

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Is Spirituality the Fountain of Youth? by T. Riggs Eckelberry

Is Spirituality the Fountain of Youth? by T. Riggs Eckelberry


clock icon 22 Oct 2020
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What is it about spirituality that makes people look younger? Ten years ago, I stepped out of an elevator at the Scientology church where I was studying, and ran into Maggie, a co-worker from back in the seventies....

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Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas

Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas


clock icon 14 Oct 2020
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I remember as a young child of around four years old standing in my front yard and watching a squadron of planes flying in formation overhead. It was a time where heroes of World War II adorned the movie...

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Want to Worship? Show Me Your Papers! by Charles Franklin

Want to Worship? Show Me Your Papers! by Charles Franklin


clock icon 23 Sep 2020
author icon WRN Editorial Staff


We have seen government abandon the First Amendment protections of religious liberty to tell people of faith they must toss out their long-held beliefs on the sanctity of marriage, for example, and condone...

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Religion’s Role in the Wild West of Immorality and Irresponsibility by Charles Franklin

Religion’s Role in the Wild West of Immorality and Irresponsibility by Charles Franklin


clock icon 16 Sep 2020
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Right conduct is a spectrum of action. For many people justice is the most important point on the spectrum. Justice is the society taking action against someone who has transgressed against the rules of society,...

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QAnon – a New Religion or the Latest Stupidity?

QAnon – a New Religion or the Latest Stupidity?


clock icon 19 Aug 2020
author icon Sam Field


QAnon is a conspiracy theory group – some call it an emerging religion – started by a mysterious figure and it is blowing up on social media, even getting traction from elected officials. Katelyn...

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Blasphemy a Capital Offense in Some Countries, Expunged in Others

Blasphemy a Capital Offense in Some Countries, Expunged in Others


clock icon 17 Jun 2020
author icon Sam Field


In 1988 Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a book which Muslims thought disparaged Islam. Riots broke out in Muslim countries, and shortly thereafter, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued...

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You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin

You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin


clock icon 05 Jun 2020
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For those rational individuals who thought that the First Amendment kept government out of religious affairs, assured the people’s right to worship as they chose, and guaranteed the right to “peaceably...

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In a Cemetery on Memorial Day

In a Cemetery on Memorial Day


clock icon 27 May 2020
author icon Sam Field


“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day. No, no, man was made for immortality.” – Abraham Lincoln I visited a cemetery...

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Open Houses of Worship, or Keep Them Closed? The Pros and Cons

Open Houses of Worship, or Keep Them Closed? The Pros and Cons


clock icon 22 May 2020
author icon WRN Editorial Staff


COVID 19 has many side effects, not all of them medical. Many parts of life have been put on hold and only essential services have been allowed to continue to function, albeit usually with social distancing,...

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