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Wonderful numbers, but what do they mean?

Earlier this month a high-profile American preacher, addressing a gathering of Jews and Christians in his country, sent this message to Israel: “You are not alone.
“Fifty million American evangelicals stand with you,” he said.
This was encouraging news.
So were reports this week that a newly-commissioned survey of US voters conducted by a highly-regarded polling company found [...]

The worst possible message

Americans are asking themselves why they are not winning the war on terror; why democracy is not taking root in Iraq. Why are these battles, into which the Bush administration has poured so much time, effort and American lives, not being won?
I think I have one answer.
Ask any responsible parent: If you hope to turn [...]

First we dehumanize you, then we can destroy you

“The Nazis didn’t kill the Jews in 1933. They killed them in 1941. They killed them after dehumanizing them.”
So states Shulamit Enber of the International School of Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, in an interview with Michael Greenspan for the television docu-drama “Against all Odds” which is poised to screen on [...]

‘The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing’

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
(Psalm 33:10-12)
 
Well, they certainly are straining to push [...]