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OCTOBER 17, 2015

MUSLIM PRAYER ON FLORIDA BEACH HAS ISLAM HATERS UPSET, SMALL TOWN REELING FROM CONTROVERSY [PHOTO]

AARON HOMER

A photo of a group of Muslims praying on a Florida beach has ignited a firestorm of controversy in a small town, with some decrying the advance of Sharia Law into their community, and others disgusted at their neighbors’ attitudes, The Daily Beast is reporting.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2501856/muslim-prayer-on-florida-beach-has-islam-haters-upset-small-town-reeling-from-controversy-photo/#HJ7QzPFjmp0Axize.99

                                                                            

Latest Disputes over Lessons on Islam Show Need to Better Inform Parents

• By Linda K. Wertheimer, link.huffingtonpost.com
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• October 13th, 2015

Some Tennessee lawmakers and parents are in a tizzy because they believe seventh-graders are spending too much time learning about Islam as part of social studies.

A Tennessee lawmaker leading the charge has spewed an all-too common refrain, saying the state's schools were leaning toward indoctrination because they emphasized learning about Islam more than about Christianity. The lawmaker last week upped the ante and proposed a billprohibiting Tennessee public school courses from including "religious doctrine" until students are at least in 10th grade. What the lawmaker means by religious doctrine is fuzzy. But she's a part of a statewide movement of parents and groups taking aim at lessons on Islam. A Christian organization joined the fray by submitting a public records request to every school district in the state asking for curriculum that included Islam.

                                                                            

Myth: The Bible is the Word of God

• By Christian Chiakulas, link.huffingtonpost.com
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• October 8th, 2015

What is the Bible? Is it a collection of scriptures written by men, or something more?

Conservative Christianity affirms the idea of "Biblical Inerrancy;" that is, the Bible is the literal, Divinely-inspired Word of God. Whether or not they accept the scholarly consensuses on authorship of specific books (and some do not) they do believe that these authors' pens were guided by the hand of God, and thus the bible is in a sense perfect. This can be expressed in two nonexclusive ways: 1.) that the bible is without error, and 2.) that the bible does not affirm anything that is not true.

This idea is the source of all misuse and misunderstanding of biblical passages.

                                                                            

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