| January 5, 2005 | - Religious leaders blamed God for the tsunami,
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The Washington Post
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| October 20, 2004 | -
Pat Robertson revealed that God told him the Iraq war would be a disaster and that he tried to warn President Bush, who refused to listen. "I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be (a), a disaster, and (b), messy," Robertson said. "I warned him about casualties."
| Source: CNN
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| June 28, 2004 | - While in Turkey for the NATO summit, President Bush met with religious leaders and thanked them "for being so faithful to the Almighty God."
| Source: New York Times
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| April 14, 2004 | -
Bush also said that "freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom."
| Source: New York Times
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| February 5, 2004 | - Police in Peru said that a decapitated baby boy found near Lake Titicaca, on a hill surrounded with flowers, liquor, and blood, might have been sacrificed to a pre-Colombian earth god.
| Source: Guardian
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| January 14, 2004 | - "There will be a purge on God's orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows," said the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the cult leader and owner of the Washington Times, in a recent speech. "Gays will be eliminated, the three Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the Communist purge but at God's orders."
| Source: New York Press
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| January 2, 2004 | -
God told Pat Robertson that George W. Bush would be reelected.
| Source: Associated Press
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| April 10, 2001 | - In Philadelphia, a crazed drifter cried, “God lives on,” and struck the Liberty Bell with a hammer, damaging it slightly.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Many Roman Catholics were hoping that Pope John Paul II would use his absolute power in such matters to declare the Virgin Mary a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ; 6 million Catholics, including 550 bishops and 42 cardinals, have signed petitions beseeching the Pope to do so, which effectively would make the Virgin a god.
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