as a christian. i guess muslims acknowledge jesus in the new testament but they don't call themselves christians so there's a gap between those two things between the bad just the catholics on one in the and the and the more and the muslims on the other as mormonism fall in that gap well i don't know it falls in that gap or not i mean that would be that would be a question for. some kind of church historian or even a mormon theologian if you can find one my only point is that. i want to be able to represent myself the religious feelings that i have my understanding of the identity of jesus if i have such an understanding i think that it's mine to say and not either. a group of people calling themselves christians or or even other mormons who aren't particularly happy with the way that i've characterized myself as a not a christian why do you think the so many mormons feel the need to identify themselves as christians. well mormons grow up with a concept of jesus as a divine person and for them what e

how are christians dealing with this? are they caught between these two forces, assad on one side and the free syrian army? >> you've been there and you know assad and his government, his people, have protected them somewhat over the years, as long as they remain in their church. as they go out and e evangelize, they safe. if they side with assad, then the free syrian army and the rebels will oppose them and attack them. if they side with the rebels, they have to deal with the aloites. they're stuck in a rock and a hard place. >> just like hussein protected them -- if it is a sunni government, what happens? >> if it is a secular sunni government, they won't have any problem. it won't be any worse than they have now. but if you have extreme government, islamists who impose shari'a law, their churches will be attacked. >> this is footage that you actually look. >> yes. in a church. >> in syria, and that's the story that perhaps is not getting out. in the midst of all of this fighting and massacre, there is a church and a ch

maybe not if you are a christian. >> some leading websites maybe censoring christian views. once again here is paul strand. >> twitter, facebook, apple and google are extremely popular. some of the companies could limit the american tradition of free speech speech. >> after four or five months of evaluating the risk, we saw it come to life. >> antichristian censorship on new media platforms. apple twice removed viewpoints that they believed were offensive. google refused to accept a pro-li pro-life. christian content critical of same-sex marriage is at risk for censorship. twitter appears to be the only exception that doesn't sensor christian ideas or content. they have a clear written policy on free speech values. the others reserve the ability to ban it. >> there is an interesting legal dilemma, first amendment was drafted to restrain the federal government, on the other hand, american people will demand that free speech prevails. >> paul strand, cbn news, washington. >>> coming up, gospel on the go. how gps technology is impacting korea. >> modern technology is helping a

>> this week on "christian world news" bloodshed in syria. the world warns the outside regime to stop the attack. we'll tell you what is happening to the country's christians. bringing hup to a nation, what one nation the is willing to do despite challenges in a land of many gods. why many african-american pastors are so upset with president obama and how it could make a big difference come election day. the world calls on the syrian government to stop brutal attacks on civilians, hello everyone i am george thomas. leaders from around the world are expressing shock and anger over gruesome scenes of children and women lying dead. little has been done to stop them. u.s. and u.n. officials warn syria, there will be consequences if the attacks continue. john waage explains. >> thousands dead in the syrian revolt that began 16 months ago, the obama administration will not commit american forces to try to stop the killing. former u.n. secretary general corp.yan has been shattered by the armed opposition. u.n. observers travel from town to town. thi

>> today on "christian world against nigeria's christians. the deadly group that wants to drive the church out of northern nigeria. represents a major step forward movement. a freak accident, even from his hospital bed, steve saint is encouraging others to give god your all. >> welcome to "christian world news" i am gary lane, george thomas and wendy griffith are out this week. religious violence. suicide bombers targeted three churches killing at least 21 people. boko haram took credit. charlene israel has the story. >> reporter: on june 17th, suicide bombers attack three nigerian churches killing 21 people. >> the terror group boko haram claimed responsibility. government with muslim extremism. >> they want to bring in sure ree yoo law in the country. churches in kaduna. christian south and muslim north. >> i knew many leaders ghandi, martin luther who have achieved so much through peaceful means. and i would love to see that this approach should be addressed to a peaceful one, through peace cannot be achieved through guns. >> it appeals to

i don't think you have to be a christian to espouse judeo christian values. i also don't like murder. i also don't think we should be molesting our children. see, we have a lot in common, if we would just sort of get down to it. so the thrust of losing our religion is actually all in the subtitle, i examine the liberal media's attack on christianity and if that sounds alarmist or hysterical, well i'm a pundit, that's what we do. we feign outrage, but in this case at least i'll tell you that the outrage is entirely sincere and deserved. plan is unfolding in every american small town, in every american big city, on the coasts in the heartland, schools, librari libraries, and the sidewalks of main street. it is everywhere [ audio muted ] and now careful covert nudges from the obama administration, a secular revolution that began decades ago has gained unprecedented momentum. the goal of this secular revolution is to overthrow god and silence christian america for good. not a modest goal. and if you think that has nothing to do with you, you're wrong, whether you

ine in our count row, they are quaza morons. >> except for christian dorsey. >> i don't think of christian as a pure economist. i think of him as a commentator and someone who is bright. he is looking at all kinds of things. in any case, let answer the questions if i may. it is not a question of them lecturing or we lecture them. we are all looking at a world economy and recognizing that we are not independent, but inner-dependent. if we spend to much we'll go in the toilet like they d. >> we agree on what we agreed on before. what about what they are saying? do you think it would help the u.s. economy if we raise taxes and take away the mortgage interest deductions. would that help the country. >> no, you absolutely not. you will not see prosperity in the country. you will not see it globally either. france and awe of the european countries nodes the united states to surverify. ohm way we can do that is by cutting taxes. you heard it with the supreme court. and you cannot raise taxes in this count row and expect good things to happen. >> that's a good point that is made about the u.s. eco

he also has the support of other minorities, like the christians. >> we have more on why some christian still support assad. >> it is one of the serial's oldest cloister's. -- syria's oldest cloister's. it is one of the last places in the world where aramaic is spoken, the language jesus spoke. christians have allied themselves with the assad regime. they say outside secular ideology is the best chance for religious freedom. christian patriarchs have allied themselves with the president and have nothing but praise for assad. >> he doesn't want to kill anybody. he is a very special man. >> to prove this, she shows a photograph of a group of orphaned girls in her care. bair posing with assad and his wife -- they are posing with assad and his wife at easter. she says without assad, the christians are lost. >> guitar -- qatar and saudi arabia -- we are afraid. we are afraid for the future. >> she says if this continues she is afraid for the christian community in syria. she says the christians' main enemies are al-qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. both are opposed to the syrian government.

christiane, your thoughts? >> jonathan, it is incredible to be standing over here watching this square explode and enjoy, obviously, these are the muslim brotherhood supporters who've been brought over here for so long. but this is a dramatic moment. we did not know, they did not know who was going to be their president. it's the first time in the history of modern egypt that egyptians have not known who they will have as their leader. this is also the first islamist head of state to emerge from these arab up risings. it is the first islamic head of state in the arab world. this is a fundamental, historic, transformative moment with all the questions. you noticed a bit of hesitation in my voice. because it's been all the questions that accompany what is going to happen next. but after an hour of reading out painstaking, perhaps more than an hour, reasons for coming to this answer and coming to this result, egypt's highest election commission has announced mohammed morsi will be and is the next president of egyp

we know that the virgin birth was not a part of the earliest christian preaching. earliest generation, the earliest decades of christian preaching had to do with the resurrection, the fact that this man who is crucified is our messiah and god raised him from the dead. that was the systems of the early preaching. it was in the succeeding decades as more questions began to arise as the notion of jesus' did i have vicinity began to really take hold that questions were to arise that well, if he was divine how did that happen? and then questions of his birth became very important questions. it's very clear that, for example, luke went back and had to do research. he had to investigate. he tells us that at the start of his gospel. in order to find out what he calls the exact truth. and the fact that he concluded that jesus was born of a virgin may well be because that was a part of the tradition that he discovered as he went back and did his research. >> do you have thoughts on what you're hearing? >> of course i do. this is my business. >> what are your thoughts? >> two

for bryan his christianity was a applied christianity. he believed if you were a good christian, you want to save the world and help the poor and help workers and level the playing field as the caller mentioned. so for him his religion and politics were not separate. in some ways i think this hurt him among some people that weren't evangelisprotestants, a supported prohibition beginning in 1910 and was a very big supporter of what became the 18th amendment to the constitution. this was a very, you know, decisive issue in american life. the came to prohibition because hemented to purify the american politics. to him this was a christian issue. a lot of people from 1910 on didn't trust him because he was a procehibitionist. >> sometimes he ate as many as six meals a day, and he was known to devour three chickens at one sitting. >> this is the contenders series, we're looking at 14 candidates for the presidency that lost, but in their own way shaped american politics and resonate today with the ishs they put forth. we're coming to you from h

this is what christianity is. it means the same thing everywhere in my kingdom, and we are going to be doing that in virginia. people are going to be back to whipping baptist. were they necessary to christianity? utah clearly not. besides that, he said several states have been devoted to religious freedom and have prospered. he thought that new jersey was more christian than virginia. he pointed to article 16. he said this is contrary to our state declaration of rights. people are going to be entitled to the free exercise of religion. my religion says i should only support a minister who is behaving the way i think he he ought. this guide is there. this year i don't want to give him any money. i should be able to give no one my money this year. not because i am deciding i hate religion, but because i like it. madison didn't think that the government should be secular because he was your religious. we often make the mistake of thinking that anyone enforcing religious positions doesn't think religion is important. h

why do we as christians do that?p people who are not from our own clan, from our own ethnicity, from our own faith tradition? why do we help people that aren't texans, really? and the answer is our faith teaches us to love. our faith teaches us charity, caritas, agape, i'll do the greek and latin before dr. land landau. at the core of our christian faith and our shared faith we're taught to be generous, be sacrificial, to help this merit or to be the samaritan. so what's more heinous than this is that this administration, barack obama's definition of what any religious institution whether it's catholic or baptist, church of christ or methodist is that it's religious if it serves only its own. so, in effect, he is saying we will recognize you as religious if you're not charitablcharitab you're not generous, if you are not loving, if you are not imitating cries, if you are not a disciple. so he is cutting the heart out of the christian life, the life that ironically is behind what barack obama himself says he believes

and it isn't happened. >> christian, are you speaking. go ahead, next question. >> johnathon is having a fit. >> and the major, what is the difference the government or private health. that is a major. difference. obama care is forced. if i buy it is a choice. but obama is forcing health care and health care companies to give it to you and the governmentads wayne runs the whole ship. >> i have to go back to something we said earlier. what are we doing to the medical device industry we are killing it, right . so that costs is going to be passed on as well in-- unintended consequences will not be quantified at this point. >> major insurance company united health care said a lot of the provisions we will keep. it is too expensive to undo what is happening in the law. the supreme court throw it out or even pieces of it. what does it mean for insurance companies? >> i think they will pick and choose what they think is good for them. there is talk about government being good and versus the private. since when has our government been efficient i

>> this idea that the christians are out to make this a christian nation, let's get back to the wordket. are there pockets of those people around in the country? sure there are, just like there are those who are way to the left as well. but over all this is not especially the tea party movement, this is not about returning the country to a christian nation but to a judeo christian structure which our founding fathers felt very strongly. is it up for debate? sure but one of the challenges for evangelicals is to win the argument in the court of public opinion. look john, i'm honest about this. there are a lot of challenges involved and i try to tackle them. >> john: absolutely. i get confused. jesus never mentioned gay people or abortion but talked about taking care of the poor. they feel like they don't want to do that at the ballot box. >> i got to tell you one of the things that i mentioned and it has to do with paul ryan's budget. that's a whole other show, i'm sure paul ryan's budget. but there is a belief that that is not an immoral document which we've heard talk in liberal circ

but for bryan, his christianity was what he called applied christianity. it was really the social gospel. that is he believed that if you're a good christian, you want to go out and save the world. you want to go out and help the poor. you want to help workers. you want to lel the playing field, as the caller mentioned. so for him, his religion and politics were in the separate. but in some ways i think this hurt him among some people that were not evangelical protestants. most people were. but catholics and jews were less enthusiastic about him because he was such a crusader. also he supported prohibition beginning in 1910 and was a very big supporter of what became the 18th amendment to the constitution. this was a very divisive issue in american life. he wanted to purify the american body of politics. for him this was a christian issue. that meant that a lot of people from 1910 on didn't trust him. even people that voted for him before. >> one side note, he did not drink, but he did enjoy eating. >> oh yeah. sometimes when he was on the campaign trail,

he might choose a coptic christian. he might choose one of the youth, the young revolutionaries from tahrir square. so they are at pains at the moment to stress that these impressions -- they want to stress that women have full and equal rights. coptic christians have full and equal rights. but we'll have to see if beyond this moment of celebration that those promises will still stick when he actually starts conducting his duties as president. >> all right. ben wedeman, thanks so much from cairo. we are awaiting to hear the first remarks from the president-elect, mohamed morsi. when those comments come, we understand there will be some english translation. when they come we'll bring them to you as soon as we can. again another look at a very crowded tahrir square on a windy evening as you saw ben's hair blowing there which was a very hot day. perhaps these are indeed winds of change. >>> all right, the white house is reacting to egypt's election. it just released this statement, saying, in farther, "we look forward to w

and so far, at least, a christian. but i think, though, that it's most people on the liberal side of politics mistrust people who talk too much about their religion in politics. and most people on the conservative side want that religious talk to be focused primarily, i think, on issues of the body, you might say, issues of personal piety, of personal responsibility, of abortion, of same-sex marriage, of this kind of thing, stem cells and so forth. so the kind of social christianity that, as you say, many christian democrats in europe stood for and certainly bryan stood for. i don't see that really as a real possibility at least in the future. one figure who is important to realize is we have an actual holiday named after him, martin luther king jr. martin luther king jr. was very left wing in economics but an evangelical minister at the same time. so we in some ways, there's a lot of differences between bryan and king, race among others. but it's interesting, we have a national holiday named after somebody who did try

nation but it wasn't founded as a christian nation although we were overwhelmingly a majority christian people at the time the constitution was written but what did the founders do in the constitution they made a break with all previous documents including the state constitutions at the time after the revolution and they didn't mention god they didn't say that governmental power flows from god they said we the people the word god does not appear in the constitution at all which always astonishes my college audiences when i tell of that which tells you how badly american history is taught in fact that what's generally taught about the origins of the united states is everybody who came here came here for religious liberty which is true but initially before. we became the united states and were colonial america the people who came here for religious liberty came here for religious liberty for themselves not for anybody else so the first thing the puritans did in massachusetts was try to get rid of everybody who did agree with them however the founders had a very different view which is bec

believing what christians believe, yeah. >> i would choose the atheist over the christian. i think religion is one matter but not the only matter. >> that's because you are not a bigot, robert, that's great. that's symptom what we are seeing here. people should be elected on their policies not on whether they are adescribed to one religion or not. i do however take umbrage with your assertion that president obama has launched an attack on all people of faith and i challenge you here and now to declare how exactly you have done that. >> laura: david, let me chime in here one second, please. right now you might not know about, this david, but we are in the midst of something called the fort night for freedom. this is a group of catholics and evangelicals, people of faith, black denominations around the united states who have gotten together to say no to this cram down of policies that are anesthetic call to the consciences of christians across this country. >> like what? give me one. >> laura: like the contraception mandate. >> contraception? >> hhs mandate you are apparently

3rd, 2006, christian is atop kirad mountain in southwest norway.on cord himself, testing each screw, and edging along the wire checking it inch by inch. his only protects if he falls will be a safety harness attached to the line. if the cord or screws break, christian will plunge to his death. >> translator: there are a lot of things that can go wrong. for example, you could have something sharp in your pockets that could cut the line. >> once christian has gone through the safety check, he begins psyching himself up. music gets him in the zone. it's hard to believe that anyone can relax perched so high above the rocky cliffs, but with his feet dangling like he's just sitting at the kitchen table, christian finds peace. he's ready. he edges along the rope to the other side of the ravine. christian climbs onto the line and struggles to find his balance. he's tried and failed this same walk before. so he knows how difficult it will be. >> translator: the first steps are some of the worst. the start is the most difficult. >> tentatively, he takes a fe

the employee would say when i signed on, i agreed with your christian base. it's just that you and i differ on this issue of gender identity. the employer says this is a substantial wuburden on us. the judge has to decide is there case of religious discrimination, in which i agree, and in that situation the christian bookstore would get a pass or is it a case of sex discrimination, in which case they wouldn't get pass. let me also say if it's a for profit bookstore, they probably will not get any kind of a pass because of the way in which the courts have treated for profit as opposed no nonprofit religious organizations. thank you. >> i'm resisting the urge to jump into this as a lawyer. these debates can go on. i think this is a very technical part of the bill. this is technical. there's always these kind of technical aspects of legislation. you're the author of this bill, the sponsor of it. i would ask if you have any view on this yourself since you're the lead sponsor. if you want to address yourself, if not, that's fine. we'll move on. >> i think it's in

by the way, if you're not aware he is a christian. from the church of reverend wright, the church of christ. that's watch. 11% of the country think he's muslim. this is insanity. you know what this is? this is a giant failure of the media. 70% of the country when we attacked iraq thought that saddam hussein was responsible. when you go to the republicans it gets worse. look at these numbers, 18% believe he's muslim. it's almost tied with the number of people who think he's a christian. 24% to 189% 18%. he's the united states of america. we don't know what religion he is? here's the most amazing thing. it has gotten worse since he has become president. shouldn't we know more about him? in 2008 pew asked the same question. at the time 53% thought he was a christian. only 10% thought he was a muslim. this is among all americans. how can we know less about our president! how did we get confused? yes, he's christian. he's in office? i don't know. maybe he's a muslim. because they do lies and propaganda over and over again and nobody ever c

impulses and that were at peace with some of the tenets at the heart of christianity. and religion clearly impressed tocqueville. he was from a country, france, in which everybody was technically catholic but had gone through a revolution that was secular and anti-religious where in the wake of that revolution, the catholic church had become an ally of the royal family instead of a kind of adversary to it as it had been in the pre-revolutionary period and in which the catholic church in the form of the papacy was explicitly hostile to democracy and said that it was not a good system. and so, religion from tocqueville -- in tocqueville's -- from the perspective of the people among whom he had grown up, religion was the enemy of democracy. tocqueville writes "on my arrival in the country, it was the religious aspect of the country that first struck my eye." in contrast to the countries with established churches and with monopolies of religious belief established by law or enforced by the state, tocqueville notes the spirit -- in those situations he said the spirit of rel

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and in the old days, christians were moved by the fact we don't know.usiness establishment? >> as a matter of fact -- >> it's effectively done that. >> what they're thinking about is the same thing. this big government -- it's government run amok. they believe -- here's what they believe. they believe god is getting smaller and government is getting way out of control. look at the health care situation with obama care. this has become a rabid situation. >> how does it effect their lives you have a regular person and get a salary. making $30,000 a year. you're a regular person. how does the government get bigger in the last three years? >> it's a threat. >> it's just a concept. >> it's more than a concept for that. >> how are we in their face. >> look at barack obama care. they're going to if he would quote, stay out of health care, there wouldn't be the potential problems down the road. >> no. i would say that them in church everybody ought to take individual responsibility for their health care. you can't have some people buying and then other people c

right so riled up well it's probably because these nuns are highlighting how republican christians preach some pretty unchristian ideas. the work i do as a catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best i could make of it he only talks about individual responsibility and that's only half the story the rest of the story is that we know we can be responsible but only in community we have to have each other's backs that's what the christian faith is about and so i like to say that because congressman ryan only has half the facts he's a one hundred percent wrong when it comes to interpret in this space. well it's not hard to see why these nuns have such a problem with paul ryan's budget sixty two percent of his five point three trillion dollars deficit reduction plan will come out of programs that serve the poor food stamps medicaid and pell grants to name a few meanwhile ryan is pushing for an additional four point six trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich while claiming these can be paid for by closing loopholes he hasn't named yet as it stands his plan would raise the

time for our first break of the evening but when we return we'll tell you why a self described a christian libertarian joked about assaulting a nun then we'll have attorney and blogger debbie hines on to discuss the supreme court decision from yesterday that probably receive the attention it deserves. a lot of american power continue. things. might be time revolution. i mean. they were very good. review. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry is a big issue. here is what i. like and they alone as though they'll get the real headline with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . wel

we're joined once more by glo anchor christiane amanpour.p reading tahrir square is as full tonight as it was last year. i can still fireworks. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. it looks very much like a street party in tahrir square. there's no element of tension or no element of any kind of menace. people were worried before the official election result was announced there might be some kind of violence depending which way it went. the military staff, the acronym that denotes the military ruling council, they had issued orders for hoot to kill if there was going to be any aggression against government buildings or police. they deployed many extra police and security forces throughout the country. it's turned out to be up until now and probably throughout the next days and weeks, a very peaceful release and leif. even though we have been mentioning the challenges morsi will face and the fact he doesn't have full presidential powers, people do see this as a transformational moment. as one of our guests said earlier on, for 7,000 years of