Building managers and legislative staffers have sought to reassure some concerned Tennessee lawmakers that recent renovations at the state Capitol did not install special facilities for Muslims to wash their feet before praying.

Via Daily Kos

...if the far left can marginalize Santa and the Easter bunny, or they can tell the children those symbols are obsolete and unnecessary, they then set the stage for a totally secular society in the future.

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Csanad Szegedi, a rising star in Hungary's Jobbik Party, which overtly campaigns with anti-Semitic materials, has discovered that he is himself a Jew. Via PoliticalWire

The most common three-word phrase in 2008 was "one of the"; in 1520, it was "of the Pope".

-- via Andrew Sullivan

What good is praying for money if you don’t enable God to give it to you?

Issamar Ginzberg, a Hasidic rabbi, on buying a Mega Millions lottery ticket, via MSNBC

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The Vatican's former chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, claims to have performed 50,000 exorcisms before retiring in 2000.

Even if he's been practicing his craft for 50 years that's still about three a day, every day. That's devotion to a cause. Leave it to Amorth to have deeply studied his adversary's ways:

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Christians who engage in yoga are participating in a religious expression that is antithetical to Christianity.

-- Pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, via Joe.My.God

There are now more exorcists in the United States than at any time in modern history. Some 30 of them.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex

Via Andrew Sullivan

And some may be too embarassed to admit it.