Kermit Zarley

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Texas Defies Supreme Court By Requiring Display of Ten Commandments in SchoolsLast week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state’s legislature have defied the federal government by passing a law requiring that the Bible’s “Ten Commandments,” in Exodus 20.2-17, be displayed in a 16″x20″ frame in all public schools and state-funded universities in Texas. This has happened before. In 1980, Kentucky did the same, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

3 days ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

Justice Sotomayor’s DissentYesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed six of her Court colleagues for “rewarding lawlessness” regarding President Donald Trump. In a scathing 19-page dissent, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson on an immigration case in which the Court overruled an appeals Court and thereby favored the government deporting illegal immigrants to foreign countries other than their own country of origin.

1 week ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

Last week Israel bombed Iran, saying it destroyed over a hundred targets in the theocratic, Islamist state. Israel claimed that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. U.S. intelligence claimed that was untrue, that Iran still remains years away from achieving that. U.S. intelligence surely knows what it is talking about. Israel knows that too. Then, why did Israel really bomb Iran last week?

1 week ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

“Mexico Will Pay For It”When Donald Trump was elected to a second term as U.S. president last November, he then said he would “not start wars but stop them.” For instance, he had been campaigning that if elected president he would end the Russian war in Ukraine on the first day of his presidency. There isn’t even sniff in the air of that war coming to an end. Trump had said Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make a deal to end the war. That to me was a bunch mafia talk.

1 week ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

Christianity seems to have been in decline in the U.S. in this century witnessed by a decline in church attendance. Yet, in other places in the world for the past few decades, especially Africa and South Korea, Christianity has been flourishing witnessed by an increase in the number of churches and church attendance. However, Bible reading in the U.S. seems to be on the incline.