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• Franklin commission blesses Commandments display | The Franklin County Commission has become the latest Northeast Georgia government to become part of a national campaign to publicly display a version of the Ten Commandments (Athens Banner-Herald, Ga.)
  
  

Pat Robertson:

• Pat Robertson loses it in attack on high court | If his followers pray hard enough, God might make these sick and elderly justices see the wisdom of retiring, he said, although the underlying suggestion seemed to be that if they don't, they could be struck dead (Sheryl McCarthy, Newsday\)
  
  
• And on Earth, Pat's will be done? | He fell into one doozy of a tailspin and is apparently so dizzy from the landing that he's called for a "prayer offensive," aptly named because it is indeed an odious abuse of the gift of prayer (Connie Schultz, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Bible:

• More than one take on Scripture | The devil can cite Scripture for his own purpose (Pat Cunningham, Rockford Regiester Star, Ill.)
  
  
• The meaning behind the words | Are the Bible, Torah and Koran meant to be taken literally? (Daily Pilot/Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Some hotel nightstands looking beyond the Bible | Bucking a ubiquitous hotel industry tradition that dates back to 1908, the Borgata has nixed in-room Bibles in favor of stocking its lobby library with loaner editions of the Gideon Bible and 12 other religious texts, from Jehovah the First Godfather to the Bhagavad-Gita (USA Today)
  
  
• Also: Bible losing its monopoly in hotel rooms | Something as simple as a ubiquitous Bible in hotel rooms reflects our level of respect for the faiths and beliefs of others. (Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times)
  
  
• Everything is illuminated | For William Dalrymple, the Lindisfarne Gospels is more than a marvel of Celtic Christianity. Its Italianate portraits and Egyptian patterns make it the first great work of multicultural Britain (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Books:

• In the name of God | Book raises the specter of religion twisted into violence (USA Today)
  
  
• Author raps modernist view of Jesus | In Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder, Richard A. Horsley compares ancient Roman imperialism to what he calls modern American imperialism (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• What heresy? | The things NeoGnostic seekers want in Christianity—experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God—are already there (Frederica Mathewes-Green, Beliefnet)
  
  

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