Okay, everybody open up your bibles (or whatever you call them) to Psalm (or whatever you call it) one. Not One Psalms (there aren’t multiple books of Psalms that I know of*), but the first psalm (the capitalization here is getting confusing). I guess before we get going, though, I should note that I know this particular psalm well. And to tell you why would require quite a bit of backstory. But this is my blog, so let’s do a backstory. The church I guess you could say I largely grew up in was a fundamentalist Christian...
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The Number of the Beast
You’d be remiss to not check out Richard Eskow’s new post on his blog: Revelation/Channel 13: “Biometric ID,” The Mark of the Beast, and Immigration Reform, where he does a spectacular job explaining why many evangelical/fundamentalist Christians will fear the proposal in immigration reform requiring workers to carry biometric identification by comparing it to the the “Mark of the Beast” referenced in Revelation, and why the administration may want to tread carefully on this: If Arizona’s draconian new law has put immigration back in the public consciousness, the proposal for a national “biometric ID” is about to...
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