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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (805905)	9/9/2014 8:19:47 PM
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Pat Robertson: ‘Blessed are the fully armed’ in church, ‘theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven’ By David Edwards rawstory.com Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:45 EDT TV preacher Pat Robertson on Tuesday argued that more guns in churches was a “good idea” to protect Christians because “blessed are the fully armed.” “It’s Sunday morning and they sing hymns and they praise the Lord and you listen to a sermon, good or bad, and you shake hands with your neighbors, and it seems like the one place in America you’d think you’d be safe: a church,” Robertson explained to 700 Club viewers. “But sadly, that isn’t always true.” “Violent attacks and even deaths on church property occur far more often than people realize,” he continued. “The good news: you can protect yourself. What are you going to do? You going to give church members AK-47s at the door to let them blow away those intruders?” After showing a report about how some churches were forming armed “eyes and ears teams” to watch for trouble during services, Robertson suggested an approach slightly more measured than giving the congregation military-style assault rifles. “What is the new Beatitude? Blessed are the fully armed for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven,” the CBN host laughed. “I really believe that if the bad guys understand that the citizenry are able to react against them then they won’t be as free to go into a crowded mall or a school or a church and start blowing people out.” “I do believe that that if people are trained with firearms, and they’re able to protect themselves, I don’t think it will lead to more violence, it will lead to less,” he continued. “The idea of having citizens who are trained or to have off-duty police in your church is not a bad thing.” “Anyhow, it’s something to consider,” Robertson concluded. “You don’t even think about it. You want to go to church to praise the Lord. You don’t want to go to church to shoot people or to get shot.” Watch the video below from CBN’s The 700 Club, broadcast Sept. 9, 2014.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (805905)	9/9/2014 8:26:09 PM
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Study: Science and religion are not only incompatible, religious areas being left behind By Travis Gettys rawstory.com ( Ten prefers to live FAR from his fellow bible-thumpers! ) Tuesday, September 9, 2014 15:16 EDT Science and religion just don’t co-exist, according to a recent study by economists at Princeton University. The researchers used an economic model to explore the relationship between scientific innovation, religious faith, and government power as they formed different “regimes.” They identified a secular, European-style regime where religion had very little policy influence and science enjoyed great support; a repressive, theocratic regime where the state and religion suppress science; and an American-style regime where religion and science generally thrived. They study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, found a strong negative relationship when they analyzed data on patents per capita and religiosity, using data from the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Values Survey, showing that more religious countries had fewer patents. Other factors – such as wealth and education – can influence the number of patents per capita, but the researchers found the same results even after they controlled for a number of variable, such as population, foreign investment, and intellectual property protections. Japan and China stood out as highly secular, highly innovative countries, while Portugal, Morocco, and Iran were found at the other extreme. The authors applied a similar analysis to the 50 United States, using data from the US Patent and Trademark Office and religion questions from a 2008 Pew Survey. Vermont and Oregon were found to be highly innovative and not very religious, while innovation lags in highly religious states such as Arkansas and Mississippi. The authors said their findings were the same in religious states outside the Bible Belt. The researchers said the findings were correlational, and their study didn’t allow for definite causal relationships to be drawn. They said the causation likely went “both ways” – meaning, religion probably snuffs out innovation as science weakens religion. [Image: Woman praying via Shutterstock]