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Secular scholarship places Christ's real birth at about 3 or 4 B.C. The Christian church has never been very quick to acknowledge poor scholarship--it took the church nearly four centuries to get the heliocentric model of the universe right. Nonetheless, four years ago the church could have made...
Israeli police surrounded the field outside Jerusalem where the battle of Armageddon is foretold to take place in order to keep the peace at the New Year. Nearly 20 Christian fanatics were escorted out of Israel in the weeks leading up to 2000.
Perhaps it is better to take the money out of the hands of the fanatical and put them in the hands of airlines, hotels and restaurants, but a lot of needless worry and government expenditure could have been diverted if the church had just recognized the 2,000th anniversary of...
Drinking hurts--from the confused tumble down the stairs, to a painful death from liver damage. Still, 43 percent of college students "binge drink," according to an Oct. 24 New York Times report.
The recent discovery of this high rate of drinking at colleges, coupled with several recent alcohol-related deaths on campuses around the country, have sparked colleges nationwide to reconsider, and in most cases step up their alcohol policies and enforcement measures.