MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'church and state'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:34:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723789&cid=t_356675_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FuQHo05x7vAc%2F By Ilya ShapiroEveryone knows that students have First Amendment rights, that the Constitution proverbially doesn’t stop at the schoolhouse door.  Yet students in the Plano Independent School District in Texas (against whose speech code Cato previously filed a brief) were prohibited from handing out pencils with messages such as “Jesus is the reason for the season” and “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so,” or sending holiday cards to retirement homes that said “Merry Christmas.” The students, through their parents, sued the district on First Amendment grounds, and were successful through a Fifth Circuit panel ruling that “qualified immunity,” a doctrine that prevents government officials from being held personally l... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723789 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:44:27 +0100 4723789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3157629&cid=t_356675_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fchurchillian-fortitude.html   Sir Winston Churchill by webcarveView more Sir winston churchill Photo Sculptures  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942 William Rivers Pitt is having trouble finding a sense of measurable accomplishment after ten years of hard work in the front lines. I empathize and concur, to a degree. He starts out thus:t r u t h o u t | Go: "I've been writing about unbelievably bad news for more than a decade now, so when the New Year came around this time, I made up my mind to try and come up with something to write about that was optimistic, positive, more upbeat, or something."But in the end he finally comes to this conclusion:The Left has done some truly amazing thin... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3157629 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:01:00 +0100 3157629 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122172&cid=t_356675_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fyoung-conservatives-and-evangelicals.html I'm not quite sure how I came to this idea on Christmas day, other than perhaps this commonplace, common-sense observation. It's the part of faith to give us a better understanding of God.It's the part of religion to make it easier to do that, when things like community and knowledge help with that understanding, and putting that understanding into practice. And as a community of faith, it must needs be as inclusive as possible.It's the part of politics to give us a better understanding of the principles of governance.It's the part of government to make it easier to put those principles into practice, for the good of all, even for the benefit of those who passionately disagree.At the top of each parallel stack are individuals with a vocation, a calling to a particular discipline, and the s... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122172 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:11:00 +0100 3122172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044735&cid=t_356675_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRCpTMzq_Z94%2F In the Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke wrote, Nobody… neither single persons, nor Churches, nay, nor even commonwealths, have any just title to invade the civil rights and worldly goods of each other, upon pretence of religion. Those that are of another opinion would do well to consider with themselves how pernicious a seed of discord and war, how powerful a provocation to endless hatreds, rapines, and slaughters they thereby furnish unto mankind. No peace and security, no, not so much as common friendship, can ever be established or preserved amongst men, so long as this opinion prevails, that dominion is founded in grace, and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms. A lot has changed since 1685, of course, but some things never will. Even today, the only way tha... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044735 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:43:19 +0100 3044735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871937&cid=t_356675_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhubris-of-conservapedia.html It's not the size of your fish... T-Shirt by webcarveView other Graphictruths T-Shirts Who polluted the Bible with liberalism? Masoretes? Council of Trent? King James I? My money's on Jesus. #conservativebible (Malacandra)I say unto you, when an interlocutor uses bedeviling facts and history to fool you, Call him a pinko and plug thine ears. #conservativebible (hyperlocavore) This has become a genuine phenom.  There's a general, non-partisan agreement this is a stupidity that transcends even that of Glenn Beck. The Schlafly based, Eagle-Forum derived Conservapedia Bible Paraphrase is misrepresented as a "translation," glossing over all the required evidence, fact, scholarship and other stuff that's hard and requires critical thinking skills. That's irrelevant to the entire concept tha... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871937 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:34:00 +0100 2871937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865862&cid=t_356675_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fworld-you-cant-make-this-shit-up.html The title is a HT to ... well, it seems like everyone on twitter. But it was @shoq who clarified that the fun was all about this. The Conservative Bible Project. Conservative Bible ProjectFrom ConservapediaJump to: navigation, searchLiberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning: lack of precision in the original language, such as terms underdeveloped to convey new concepts of Christianity lack of precision in modern language translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one. Of these three sources of errors, the last introduces the largest error, and the biggest component of that error is liberal bias. Large reductions in this error can be attained simply by retranslat... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865862 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:20:00 +0100 2865862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=811188&cid=t_356675_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fbill-moyers-on-karl-rove.html Categories: politics Bill+Moyers PBS Karl+Rove corruption big+money religion separation+of+church+and+state bigotry homophobia (Source: 2sides2ron) 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=811188 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:47:00 +0100 811188