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Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 5/31/2006 12:00AM
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Born-again innocent | Timothy K. Beal reviews A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders (The Washington Post)
Going beyond God | Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God (Salon.com)
Rejected | Dear Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, et al., I've enjoyed reading your material greatly. (David K. Israel, Los Angeles Times)
Holocaust victim names in Mormon database | Jewish leaders in a dispute with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over the practice of posthumous baptisms say there is new evidence that names of Jewish Holocaust victims continue to show up in the church's vast genealogical database (Associated Press)
Top scientist gives up on creationists | Steve Jones, a leading British scientist, said yesterday that he had given up trying to persuade creationists that Darwin's theory is correct after repeatedly being misrepresented and, he said, branded a liar (The Guardian, London)
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