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Festival of Lights Illuminates Stony Brook

Samantha Robinson • December 8, 2019

Stony Brook University held its 19th annual Festival of Lights on Dec. 4 to celebrate the holiday season.

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Kanye West’s “Jesus Is King” is different but still controversial

Isabelle Panza • November 3, 2019

Kanye West's new album is nothing short of controversy despite his new apparent lease on life. "Jesus is King" released on Oct. 25.

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Sufi Dances and Songs of Love returns to the Charles B. Wang Center

Patrick Tuminski • October 10, 2019

The Amir Vahab Ensemble performed at Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center this past Wednesday, Oct. 2. The performance included traditional Iranian and Turkish folk music and the samâ, known to many in the West as the Whirling Dervish Dance.

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Sikh Spotlight: Guru Granth Sahib

Karina Gerry, Anna Correa, and Melissa Azofeifa • October 15, 2018

“Sikhism is a monotheistic religion. We believe in one God and we call HIM Waheguru,” Sagardeep Singh, a senior mechanical engineering major and a member of the Sikh Student Association, said.

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The Harbor: Bibles in a Bar

Caitlyn McDuffee • September 9, 2018

89 North, a bar in Patchogue, is typically a music venue built for a fun night out. But on Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings, its dance floor and black wooden stage transform into the unlikely location of mass, held by a Christian-based group called The Harbor Church.

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Have a holly, jolly Christ-less Christmas

Christopher Leelum • November 19, 2015

The number of non-religious adults in the U.S. is on the rise, but many still live in fear of expressing their indifference.

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Keep Christ in my Christmas Blend

Briana Finneran • November 12, 2015

We Christians have had our beliefs spat upon for decades because of that whole “separation of church and state” and “basic human rights” nonsense.

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“Under God” needs to be removed from Pledge of Allegiance

Matthew Boose • May 8, 2014

“Our nation was founded on sound Christian principles.” If I had a stick for every time I heard this phrase, I would have enough timber to build a thirty-foot burning effigy of Donald Sterling.

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Why Creationism is not Science

Zachary Kurtz • October 5, 2008

For the purposes of this article, I consider Creationism, also falsely know as "Creation Science," as the same thing as "Intelligent Design." While in reality, there are subtle differences; the Intelligent Design movement is merely a renewed attempted at hijacking science for the sake of religion, by the religious right in this (and other) countries.

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Towards Something Ugly

January 28, 2003

By Arif Rafiq 'To win without fighting is best,' wrote Sun Tzu, the great Chinese warrior-philosopher of the 4th millennium BCE, and author of the treatise 'The Art of War'. 'Blessed are the...

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