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  79% of Americans Believe in Miracles

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  http://abcnews.go.com/wn/miracles-world-news-question-day/story?id=9908545.

  the full study here:.

  http://pewforum.org/docs/?docid=510.

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  behemot

  http://abcnews.go.com/WN/miracles-world-news-question-day/story?id=9908545

  The full study here:

  http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=510
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  The Cult of "El", paganism in bible? Saturn=Satan?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. bible

  would appreciate any additional help and research into this.

  if any of you have researched this at all would appreciate your findings and conclusions.

  do not want to stumble anyone, so just be warned this could do that if you believe at the very least the english translations of the bible are pure.

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  behemot

  See also:

  Jeffrey H. Tigay, You Shall Have no Other Gods. Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions, Harvard Semitic Studies 31, Atlanta, Scholars Press 1986

  Johannes C. De Moor, The Rise of Yahwism. The Roots of Israelite Monoteism, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 91, Leuven, University Press, Peeters 1997

  John Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 265, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 2000

  Barbara Nevling Porter (ed.), One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World, Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1, Casco Bay, Chebeague Island 2000

  Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2001
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  The Cult of "El", paganism in bible? Saturn=Satan?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  would appreciate any additional help and research into this.

  if any of you have researched this at all would appreciate your findings and conclusions.

  do not want to stumble anyone, so just be warned this could do that if you believe at the very least the english translations of the bible are pure.

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  behemot

  A good read for this topic:

  Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, Cambridge, Eerdmans 2002
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  Don't Spare the Rod (?)

  by behemot in

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  parents killed daughter with 'religious whips':.

  http://kdka.com/national/parents.accused.of.2.1507239.html.

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  Parents Killed Daughter With 'Religious Whips':

  http://kdka.com/national/Parents.Accused.Of.2.1507239.html
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  Membership stats for 25 top USA Churches

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  http://www.ncccusa.org/news/100204yearbook2010.html.

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  http://www.ncccusa.org/news/100204yearbook2010.html
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  Faith complicates a young mother's life-or-death decision on lung transplant

  by behemot in

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  2. medical

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/ar2010021606057.html.

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  Some interesting comments on this case here:

  http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/02/17/faith-and-the-issue-of-blood-transfusion/

  and here:

  http://online.worldmag.com/2010/02/17/self-imposed-martyrdom/
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  Faith complicates a young mother's life-or-death decision on lung transplant

  by behemot in

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  2. medical

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/ar2010021606057.html.

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  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021606057.html
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  The origins of religion: evolved adaptation or by-product?

  by behemot in

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  trends in cognitive sciences, 08 february 2010:.

  http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/s1364-6613%2809%2900289-7?large_figure=true.

  pdf here:.

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  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 08 February 2010:

  http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613%2809%2900289-7?large_figure=true

  PDF here:

  http://download.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/PIIS1364661309002897.pdf?intermediate=true
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  Abuse scandal in German elite Catholic school

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7014136.ece.

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  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7014136.ece
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  A good read

  by behemot in

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  i'm reading this book now:.

  http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/ack.html.

  it talks about the experiences of a young girl grown up in a strict mennonite community.. a good read for ex jws, who can relate in many ways..

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  behemot

  I'm reading this book now:

  http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/ack.html

  It talks about the experiences of a young girl grown up in a strict Mennonite community.

  A good read for ex JWs, who can relate in many ways.