| January 26, 2008 | - Stanching rumors circulating in a widely forwarded email that he is a radical Muslim, Senator Barack Obama repeatedly professed his faith in an “awesome” Christian God and defeated former President Bill Clinton's wife in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
| Source 1:
Boston Globe
Source 2:
New York Times
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| April 4, 2007 | - Lapsed Albanian
Communists were rediscovering God.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 9, 2006 | - To protest the Iraq war, a man named Malachi Ritscher committed suicide in Chicago by setting himself on fire next to a 25-foot-tall sculpture called “Flame of the Millennium.” Along with a self-penned obituary, the 52-year-old Ritscher posted a farewell message on his website in which he described the “deep shame” of a day in 2002 when he stood, knife in hand, next to Donald Rumsfeld, but was unable to bring himself to slash the defense secretary's throat. “I too love God and country,” wrote Ritscher, “and feel called upon to serve.”
| Source 1:
Malachi Ritscher
Source 2:
Chicago Reader
Source 3:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| October 8, 2006 | - In Newport News, Virginia, former President George H. W. Bush attended the christening of the aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush. When ominous thunder marked his speech, Bush looked at the sky. “I'm finishing, Lord!” Bush said to God. “I'm finishing!”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 30, 2006 | - A study revealed that the brains of nuns “flicker” in the presence of God.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| July 19, 2006 | - U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia claimed that God supported a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages. “I think,” he said, “God has spoken very clearly on this issue.” “It's part of God's plan,” said Texas
Congressman John Carter, “for the future of mankind.” “We best not,” said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez, “be messing with His plan.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 5, 2006 | - A megachurch called the World Overcomers congregation in Memphis, Tennessee, unveiled a 72-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty (with the Ten Commandments under one arm, a tear on her cheek, and “Jehovah” inscribed on her crown) holding a cross of gold.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 20, 2006 | - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to allow experimental liturgies that would permit the Holy Trinity to be evoked as Mother, Child, and Womb, or Rock, Redeemer, and Friend.
| Source 1:
Episcopal News Service
Source 2:
FOX News
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| June 15, 2006 | -
Gay
Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson said that he is “not an abomination before God.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 18, 2006 | -
Singer Mary J. Blige said that she had found God. “My God is a God who wants me to have things,” she said. “He wants me to bling.”
| Source:
MSNBC
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| January 7, 2006 | -
Ariel Sharon had another stroke. Pat Robertson blamed Sharon's poor health on God. Sharon later began to move his right hand,
| Source 1:
YNetNews.com
Source 2:
CNN.com
Source 3:
ABC News
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| December 2, 2005 | - An atheist student group at the University of Texas was handing out pornography to anyone who gave them a Bible as part of a “Smut for Smut” program. “We consider the Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” said a student.
| Source:
XBiz [NSFW]
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| November 27, 2005 | -
Singapore fired its executioner, Darshan Singh, after his identity was revealed in the media. Singh, who conducted more than 850 hangings over 46 years, said that his last words to condemned prisoners were always: “I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you.”
| Source 1:
Sky News
Source 2:
News.com.au
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| November 9, 2005 | - Eight pro-Intelligent-Design members of the Dover Board of Education in Pennsylvania were voted out of office and replaced with pro-evolution candidates. Pat Robertson suggested that God would forsake the people of Dover if disaster struck their town. “If they have future problems in Dover,” said Robertson, “I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them.”
| Source 1:
Post-gazette.com
Source 2:
The Miami Herald
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| August 11, 2005 | - Thousands of Israelis rallied against the Gaza pullout in Tel Aviv. “God will hear us,” a rabbi told the crowd. A few days later, Israel began its withdrawal from Gaza, lowering a road barrier at the Kissufim Crossing as 200 people looked on. The barrier didn't work, so Israeli authorities finally rigged it shut with some wire.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
AP
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| June 26, 2005 | -
Bill Clinton appeared at a Billy Graham rally in New York City. “God bless you, friend,” said Clinton.
| Source:
AP
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| May 30, 2005 | - In Denmark, a Lutheran minister who was suspended for preaching that God does not exist was allowed to return to the pulpit.
| Source:
AP
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| November 19, 2004 | - A new poll showed that nearly one half of the U.S. population believes that human beings did not evolve, but instead were created by God within the last 10,000 years, while only one third believe that the theory of evolution is accurate.
| Source:
Gallup
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