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Some Japanese people are having plastic surgery to alter their palms. Since they believe that the lines on their palms govern their lives, they are turning to a simple 10-minute $10,000 operation to change their fate. Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week, July 26, 2013 p. 12 ISA 44:15-17 HCSB It…

William Falk, editor of The Week, a weekly news wrap up of local and international news, comments on the newest self righteousness related to food. “Food is the new religion. . . Secular sophisticates have jettisoned traditional beliefs about sin and sanctity, so they fulfill their instinctual need for…

A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life discovered that many people who call themselves Christian also have practices considered New Age or Cultic. Pew says “two in three adults believe in or cite an experience with at least one supernatural phenomenon” These include: 26% who find ‘spiritual…

SEDONA, Ariz. — James Arthur Ray led a group of more than 50 followers into a cramped, sauna-like sweat lodge in Arizona last week by convincing them that his words would lead them to spiritual and financial wealth. The mantra has made him a millionaire. People routinely pack Ray's seminars and follow…

One of the fastest growing religions in the United States is Wicca. In a recent survey, “nearly 2.8 million people now identify with dozens of new religious movements, calling themselves Wiccan, pagan, or “Spiritualist,’ which the survey does not define.” “Wicca, a contemporary form of paganism that…

Islam and Christianity Compared Islam is one of those “other gospels” that Paul warned us about time and again. In Chapter 11 of II Corinthians, Paul warns us that Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Islam teaches that God is so far above man in every way that he is virtually unknowable.…

BALTIMORE — Prosecutors agreed to some unusual terms to win a guilty plea from a former religious cult member charged with starving her 1-year-old son to death: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed Monday to testify against four other members of the…

The Waco Tribune-Herald Series, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/March 3, 1993 By Mark England and Darlene McCormick /On Saturday, the Waco Tribune-Herald published the first story of an indepth series exposing the Branch Davidians and their leader, Vernon Howell. The series has become part of the unfolding…

2 Peter 2; 2 Peter 2:1-3 Sooner or later we all get conned at least once. Perhaps you’ve been bamboozled by a forgery or a bogus investment scheme. Maybe you lost only your spare change; maybe it was your life savings. Or perhaps it nearly cost you your sanity, as it did Christopher Edwards. Listen to…