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ULC Defends Conscientious Objection on Secular Grounds

June 19th, 2013

Applicants for U.S. citizenship may object to taking up arms in defense of the United States on religious but not secular grounds, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). Consequently, a woman applying for U.S. citizenship h

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The Shocking “Truth” About the Gospel of John

June 17th, 2013

Perhaps the most beloved book of the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the most frequently used at Christian funerals, it wins out in polls as the favorite book among Christians, and its preamble was used for ages as “the last gospel” in Catholic

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Is Religious Fundamentalism a “Mental Illness” to Be Cured?

June 3rd, 2013

Religious fundamentalism is a mental illness that will someday be curable by science, a leading University of Oxford neurologist recently argued. Can we 'cure' religious fundamentalism?

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School Yoga Class Controversy

May 29th, 2013

Should children be taught yoga in public school classrooms? That is the question being mulled in a lawsuit filed by legal representatives of two California parents, who say that yoga is a religious act.

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Mother Teresa’s Doctrine of Masochism

April 30th, 2013

A recent news article posits that the late Agnes Gonxha—better known as Mother Teresa—celebrated the pain and suffering of the sick and poor, and was hardly the saintly woman we know from popular culture.

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Pope Renews Crackdown on “Unruly” U.S. Nuns

April 18th, 2013

In a nod to tradition, Pope Francis I has reaffirmed the reprimand issued by his predecessor, Benedict XVI, against a group of U.S. Catholic nuns criticized for eschewing church doctrine by ranking charity as a higher priority than railing against abortion and

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Universal Life Church Commends North Carolina Decision on State Religion

April 11th, 2013

A bill that would have made Christianity the official religion in the U.S. state of North Carolina became history when it was struck down by the speaker of that state’s House of Representatives.

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The Bible Series Tarnished by Satan-Obama Link

March 25th, 2013

Despite the network's lofty vision for The Bible series, some media outlets have critiqued the resemblance between the actor who plays Satan and President Barack Obama.

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What ULC Ministers Can Expect from Pope Francis I

March 14th, 2013

When the papal conclave had concluded and the smoke ran white on Wednesday, 13 March, the Vatican had finally chosen a new Church father—Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.

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Minister’s New Book Redefines the Bible

March 13th, 2013

Which books truly belong in the Christian Bible, and how do we identify these? This question has been raised by the discovery in the past few decades of a surprising number of apocryphal texts which were rejected by Church leaders from inclusion in the Bible.

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