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A Jerry Johnson Live broadcast from June 27, 2008: Pew Survey of American Religion indicates 21% of atheists believe in God; but most “Christians” do not believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life.
There is a post on this topic here.

UPI is reporting that the lottery in New Jersey is still selling $1,000,000 scratch-off lottery tickets even though all the top prizes have already been claimed and the highest remaining prize is worth only $10,000. To be clear, people are buying scratch-off tickets with the expectation that they could win $1,000,000 (foolish anyway goes without saying) when in reality the most they can win is $10,000. Before it was run by the state, it was illegal to work the numbers so.
The “numbers racket” has been a problem in poor communities throughout Europe and the United States for hundreds of years. Although there are a number of variations within the game, the constants are these: mostly poor people pay a small amount of money to select three or more numbers, then hope those numbers are chosen as winners at the end of a certain period of time. The winning numbers traditionally received 60% of the pot–sometimes more, sometimes a little less.
There were two parts of the racket which made it a racket, rather than just a game. Read the rest of this entry »