Poll Finds 94% of Americans Believe in God

According to the news article, a Gallup pool released on Tuesday revealed that a whopping 94% of Americans believe in God, 5% don’t think He exists but “are not sure,” and 1% have their heads stuck in the sand (are confident that God does not exist). But you don’t have to go to the pollsters to figure that one out. The Word of God declares:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. (Romans 1:18-20)

In China, No Money, No Emergency Health Care

Imagine a world where your wife goes in to deliver a baby but is allowed to die from complications because you only have enough money to pay for the childbirth. Imagine a world where a young boy is left to die from a treatable disease because his parents are too poor to pay for doctors.

That world is now! On the other side of the globe in China, people are routinely denied health care if they cannot afford it, even in life-and-death cases.

U.S. Quitely Pulls Out Safety Net for Working Poor

According to the WSJ article,

Nearly a decade after welfare reform, some states are placing a new emphasis on food stamps as a program to improve the nutrition of the working poor. . .That trend is colliding with Congress’s drive to attack red ink in the federal budget. . . The federal government’s food-stamps tab rose to $27 billion in 2004 from $17.1 billion in 2000, an increase that has made the program a ripe target for budget cutters on Capitol Hill.

I can understand cutting back funding for non-essential services like bridges to nowhere. But food for the working poor?

We Told You So (Who Says Music Doesn’t Influence People?)

Christopher Duncan, 21, an London-based Eminem impersonator, was jailed for life, following the murder of his girlfriend, Jagdip Najra.

WARNING: the remainder of the post is NOT PG-rated

Nonbelievers Can Also Be Saved, Says Pope

I didn’t want to touch this one originally, because I thought the article came from a biased source. However, the article comes from ZENIT or The World Seen from Rome, the news agency for the Pope (so it could not possibly be filled with rumors, conjectures, and the like.)

Let us therefore see what the article had to say:

Coming Soon to a City Near You, “Surprise” ID Checks

In order to “to keep terrorists guessing” and to “remind people to be vigilant,” Miami police will soon be conducting random ID sweeps at banks, malls, and other public places. The modus operandi will be to surround the place, check the IDs of everyone coming in and out, and “hand out leaflets.”

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Chinese Government Jails Bible Salesmen

Speaking of state churches, in China, Cai Zhuohua of Beijing, was recently sentenced to three years in prison for distributing Bibles and other Christian materials.

His only real crime? That he is also the leader of an underground church. The Chinese government is very intolerant of unregistered churches, taking extreme measures in an effort to control them. Torture and forced labor camp are frequent methods of control as the Washington Times article reveals.

Liberal Church Risks Losing Tax-Exempt Status Over Antiwar Sermon

According to an LA Times article, the sermon was a “searing indictment of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq” that described “tax cuts as inimical to the values of Jesus.” The church in question is the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, and the pastor is Rector J. Edwin Bacon. The sermon was given two days before the November 2004 election.

Now before you shrug this off as an out-of-control liberal church getting what’s coming to them, note that the same laws can be used against any run-of-the-mill, conservative, bible-preaching church by whatever party is in power. The loop-hole lies in the fuzziness of the law:

We Told You So (Who Says TV Doesn’t Influence People?)

After a night of drinking and watching a slasher film, police say John Hetzel, 40, reenacted a scene from the very same movie he and his friends were watching. Fortunately, the victim suffered only stab wounds to the hand.