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Pope Francis slams Fake News, Disinformation
Post Date: 2018-01-24 20:27:21 by hondo68
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Pope Francis releases 2018 World Communications Day messageIn his message for the World Communications Day 2018, Pope Francis calls for a “journalism for peace” in response to the threat of fake news, which “thrives on the absence of healthy confrontation with other sources of information”. Pope Francis on Wednesday released his message for World Communications Day, which is held annually on the Sunday before Pentecost, falling this year on 13 May 2018. “The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). Fake news and journalism for peace” is the theme of the Pope’s message. The Holy Father explores what makes fake news ‘fake’, how to recognize it, ...
Odds and Ends
Post Date: 2018-01-23 08:52:49 by Ada
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As I offer on occasion, a grab bag. What’s Up, Trump? Russiagate, Clinton corruption, FBI and various spooks working to undermine US elections, etc. Trump has the authority to declassify any and all documents that shed light on any of these. Yet he hasn’t. Why? Is it possible he is ignorant of this power? I doubt it. Do the classified documents counter the suspected truth? No chance of that. Is it possible Trump has a different plan in mind? Maybe. If Trump does have a different plan in mind, I can think of two possibilities: first, with all of his enemies focused on the non-scandal scandals, Trump is able to have a freer hand in other things he wants to get done. If he did ...
Christian Zionism: The Heresy of Choice for Neocons
Post Date: 2018-01-05 09:40:30 by Ada
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For each Jewish Zionist there are ten wacko Evangelical Christian Zionists At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This view is known as Christian Zionism. The Pew Research Center put the figure at 63 per cent among white evangelicals. Christian Zionism is pervasive within mainline American evangelical, charismatic and independent denominations including the Assemblies of God, Pentecostals and Southern Baptists, as well as many of the independent mega-churches. It is less prevalent within the historic denominations, which show a greater respect for ...
Putin promises to help rebuild Syria's holy sites and bring refugees home
Post Date: 2018-01-03 14:46:37 by X-15
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin recently vowed to help rebuild the holy sites destroyed by the war in Syria and to facilitate the return of displaced Christians and refugees from other faiths. During a meeting with Orthodox Christian leaders on Monday, Putin declared that Syrian and Russian troops have succeeded in freeing Syria from the clutches of terrorists. He also promised that Moscow would help rebuild the country's holy sites and added that the return of Christian refugees and other displaced minorities could be instrumental in the restoration of peace, RT reported. "We will help also the members of other faiths, including Muslims, who, as we are well aware of, have ...
The Incomparable One
Post Date: 2018-01-03 09:09:48 by Ada
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Griffin Internet Syndicate,6/4/2009 – Jesus was far from being an old man when his earthly life ended. He was probably well under 40, roughly the age of Mozart, who died at 35, as his genius was still approaching its unimaginable peak. By contrast, nobody thinks of Jesus as having died prematurely, as if he had been killed before his teaching had been fully developed, and as if it might have ripened into something more profound and interesting had his life span been longer. There is about his life a sense of completeness; he had done what he had come to achieve. At the very end, he said, “It is consummated.” He had foretold his own death and resurrection. The Jesus ...
Who Stole Our Culture?
Post Date: 2018-01-02 08:17:15 by Ada
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Sometime during the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 years ago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It was decent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Even blue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes, so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values. Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadent place we live in today – so different that those who grew up prior to the ’60s feel like it’s a foreign country? Did it just “happen”? It didn’t just “happen.” In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed to steal our culture and ...
Israel Shahak: The Laws Against Non-Jews In 2 Minutes
Post Date: 2017-12-29 19:07:51 by Horse
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A Jew who murders a Gentile is guilty only of a sin against the laws of Heaven, not punishable by a court. To cause indirectly the death of a Gentile is no sin at all. Thus, one of the two most important commentators on the Shulhan Arukh explains that when it comes to a Gentile, ‘one must not lift one’s hand to harm him, but one may harm him indirectly, for instance by removing a ladder after he had fallen into a crevice .., there is no prohibition here, because it was not done directly: He points out, however, that an act leading indirectly to a Gentile’s death is forbidden if it may cause the spread of hostility towards Jews. A Gentile murderer who happens to be under ...
So What? Christians
Post Date: 2017-12-26 15:08:24 by Ada
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Thanks to a note from a preacher friend, I think I’ve discovered a new type of Christian: the So what? Christian. I have written many times about Christian jihadists, Old Testament Christians, Christian armchair warriors, theological schizophrenics, Christian Coalition moralists, nuclear Christians, Janus Christians, evangelical warvangelicals, Catholic just war theorists, reich-wing Christian nationalists, theocon Values Voters, imperial Christians, pro-lifers for mass murder, Red-State Christian fascists, bloodthirsty Christian conservatives, beam Christians, nuclear Christians, Christian Coalition moralists, double-minded Christians, Christian warmongers, God and country ...
Messianic Communism in the Protestant Reformation
Post Date: 2017-12-22 09:16:28 by Ada
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[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith.] Communist Zealots: the Anabaptists Sometimes Martin Luther must have felt that he had loosed the whirlwind, even opened the gates of Hell. Shortly after Luther launched the Reformation, various Anabaptist sects appeared and spread throughout Germany. The Anabaptists believed in predestination of the elect, but they also believed, in contrast to Luther, that they knew infallibly who the elect were: i.e., themselves. The sign of that election was in an emotional, mystical conversion process, that of being “born again,” baptized in the Holy ...
Negative Liberty’s War on Nature
Post Date: 2017-12-21 08:36:02 by Ada
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Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society, edited by John C. Rao. What I would like to demonstrate in this study is the unnatural “nature” of what has been labeled “negative liberty.” So writes Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula (to save myself much trouble, from here on I will refer to him as IBC). In this post, I will not examine the background of why the author lays blame on the Reformation for the war on nature brought on by the spread of the idea of negative liberty; I will merely examine the ramifications of this idea – ramifications that are manifest in the west today. The non-aggression ...
Duterte hits back at Catholic Church after clerics tried to undermine drug war
Post Date: 2017-12-17 09:26:16 by Ada
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s newfound support for homosexual marriage is a move which could politically checkmate a perennial opponent. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has apparently switched his position on the issue of homosexual marriage, in a move which is a clear challenge to the power of the Catholic Church, whose leaders have opposed Duterte from the moment he took office. Duterte has been known to have very poor relations with the Catholic Church as clerics have spoken out in opposition to Duterte’s war on drugs and related violent drug criminals. From the point of view of a secular leader, the drug war has been instrumental in helping to reduce ...
Resisting Jesus
Post Date: 2017-12-15 08:46:59 by Ada
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Griffin Internet Syndicate, 12/23/2004 — As always in our time, Christmas is provoking dissent from people who don’t want Christian symbols on public property or Christmas carols sung in public schools. Many Christians find this annoying and churlish. Some even feel that Christianity is being persecuted. The columnist Michelle Malkin writes, “We are under attack by Secularist Grinches Gone Wild.” Pat Buchanan goes so far as to speak of “hate crimes” against Christians. I disagree. In some parts of the world, from Sudan to China, Christians really are being persecuted, even murdered. But what is going on in America’s symbolic opposition to Christianity ...
Man who holds keys to holy Christian site in Jerusalem will refuse to welcome Pence
Post Date: 2017-12-13 17:30:25 by Ada
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Man who holds keys to holy Christian site in Jerusalem will refuse to welcome Pence The official custodian in charge of the keys to one of the most sacred sites in Christianity will not welcome Vice President Pence when he visits the Old City of Jerusalem this month. “It has come to our attention that Vice President Pence intends to make an official visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and asked me to receive him officially,” Adeeb Joudeh, who is responsible for the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, wrote in a letter on Wednesday, according to Israel's Channel 2 News. “I absolutely refuse to officially welcome the American Vice President Mr. Mike Pence ...
Oh, Lord! Norway’s Christian Schools Double Amid Multiculturalism
Post Date: 2017-12-08 08:58:55 by Ada
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Over the past few years, the number of Christian elementary schools in Norway has doubled. This increase is believed to be a popular reaction to Norwegian society becoming more secular and multiethnic. At present, there are currently 82 Christian primary schools spread across the Nordic country, according to the Norwegian Directorate of Education. Nearly half of them have been established over the past seven years. During the same period, only seven schools have been discontinued. Western Norway stands out as having the largest proportion of Christian children and youth schools. At the very top, Rogaland county is replete with 13 Christian schools, with another one scheduled for next ...
The Saudi Religious Establishment Pushes Normalizing Relations With Israel
Post Date: 2017-11-29 09:40:53 by Ada
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No matter how hard the Saudi media machine struggles to justify official normalization with Israel on political, economic and security grounds, it will not reach its goal without providing Saudi Arabia’s hardline Sunni establishment with a religious justification. BEIRUT, LEBANON (Analysis) — On Monday, pictures of Israeli journalist Ben Tzion, posing inside Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, inundated Arab news outlets and social media. Tzion held a bag with Hebrew script on it, publicly posing at several sites in Saudi Arabia. The scenes signal an unprecedented improvement in Saudi-Israeli relations. The interests of Riyadh and Tel Aviv overlap on more ...
Saudi Arabia's Religious Tyranny
Post Date: 2017-11-23 20:17:01 by BTP Holdings
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Saudi Arabia's Religious Tyranny By Nina Shea Posted 2005-04-25 15:41 GMT The religious tyranny in Saudi Arabia is not just Saudis' business. Before boarding his flight to Crawford to meet with President Bush Monday, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah presided over the arrest of 40 Pakistani Christians on Friday. Their crime? The Pakistanis were caught praying in a private home in the capital Riyadh in violation of the state's strictly enforced religious law that bans all non-Muslim worship. As the State Department has determined, there is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia and everyone there, Muslim or not, must obey the rules of the extreme sharia of the ...
Now an Anglican Theologian Warns: This Pope Isn’t Catholic Featured
Post Date: 2017-11-18 20:21:47 by Ada
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"Oh, please! Don't be such a promethean neo-pelagian Anglican." At this point in the Bergoglian Debacle, the recognition that Francis is a threat to the integrity of the Faith has become so well established in mainstream commentary that even an Anglican theologian, writing in First Things, has sounded the alarm. “Is the pope Catholic? For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about anything that seemed too obvious to state,” writes Gerald McDermott, holder of a theology chair at Beeson Divinity School. But, he continues: “Now we must ask in seriousness whether the pope is a liberal Protestant.” McDermott cites numerous examples of the ...
Where Do Church Donations Go? The Catholic Church Has Used Almost $4 Billion Settling Child Molestation Lawsuits
Post Date: 2017-11-13 15:53:07 by Horse
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Pedophilia has become a huge topic of discussion over recent weeks as not only have sexual abuse outings been taking place in Hollywood, but the exposure of pedophilia in Hollywood and amongst the elite is becoming more common. The reality of child molestation by the Roman Catholic Church has surfaced time and time again, and yet, somehow, it continues to happen. If you watched the movie Spotlight, perhaps you have an idea of just how things are going down. But let’s break it down to date. While you can’t put a price on the innocence of a child, you can put a price on just how much the Roman Catholic Church has paid out in lawsuits over the never- ending epidemic of child ...
Church Warns Would-be Mass Shooters: ‘We are NOT a gun-free zone’
Post Date: 2017-11-11 08:04:24 by Ada
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‘If I don’t protect my people, I’m being complicit,’ says pastor Adan Salazar | A Pentecostal church in Central New York state is issuing a stern warning to would-be mass murderers in the wake of the Texas massacre: not in our house. The letter board outside the Lighthouse Church in Mexico, New York, now displays a message that reads, “We say it again – We are not a gun-free zone.” Pastor Ronald Russell tells Spectrum News he’d rather his congregation have the ability to protect themselves should an event play out like the one at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church where a gunman left 26 people dead and 20 injured. “Times are changing,” ...
The Greek Occupation
Post Date: 2017-11-09 20:37:06 by Ada
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The Pope of Jerusalem (one of the five original popes, His Beatitude the Patriarch of the Holy Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and Holy Land, by his usual title) Theophilos III hardly dares to visit churches nowadays. Whenever he is coming, his flock stands outside and prevents his entry. Last week, Jewish police helped him to enter a village church, while hundreds of believers stood by and cursed him loudly. There is a plan to stop him on Christmas from entering the Nativity Church. Bear in mind that his predecessor Irineos I had been deposed by the bishops twelve years ago, and since then he lives in a lonely cell in the monastery, refusing to leave its walls. He knows that if he ...
Catholic Hospital Group Grants Euthanasia to Mentally Ill, Defying Vatican
Post Date: 2017-10-27 16:54:51 by Ada
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Belgium’s Brothers of Charity, once a ‘beacon of hope and resistance,’ offers to help patients end their lives VATICAN CITY—A chain of Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium is granting euthanasia to non-terminal patients, defying the Vatican and deepening a challenge to the church’s commitment to a constant moral code. The board of the Brothers of Charity, Belgium’s largest single provider of psychiatric care, said the decision no longer belongs to Rome. Truly Christian values, the board argued in September, should privilege a “person’s choice of conscience” over a “strict ethic of rules.” The policy change is highly symbolic, ...
Alabama Bill Would Eliminate Marriage Licenses, Nullify Federal Control in Practice
Post Date: 2017-10-26 08:39:45 by Ada
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Oct. 23, 2017) – A bill prefiled in the Alabama Senate would abolish marriage licenses in the state and effectively nullify in practice both major sides of the contentious national debate over government-sanctioned marriage. Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Bay Minette) prefiled Senate Bill 13 (SB13) in September. The legislation would abolish all requirements to obtain a marriage license in Alabama. Instead, probate judges would simply record civil contracts of marriage between two individuals based on signed affidavits. According to the bill summary, SB13 would “eliminate the requirement for solemnization of a marriage for it to be considered valid” and ...
Michelle Goes Full-Ghetto At Religious Holy Site With FOUL Thing She Taught Her Daughters To Do
Post Date: 2017-10-25 21:42:39 by BTP Holdings
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Michelle Goes Full-Ghetto At Religious Holy Site With FOUL Thing She Taught Her Daughters To Do Published 2 weeks ago on October 15, 2017 By wpengine Michelle Obama may be out of the White House but she’s still making an international embarrassment of herself as she travels the world on the taxpayers’ dime. While we’re certainly thankful she’s a civilian now and not representing America, she still manages to make a mockery of the country with her disrespectful antics that proves just how classless this woman and mother is who is teaching her daughters to go out into the world and be just like her. Michelle has assumed the status of a queen from the time ...
Churches merge, close: 'We no longer live in Christendom. We really have to accept that it's a thing of the past'
Post Date: 2017-10-23 08:23:52 by Ada
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For a decade and more, Govans Presbyterian Church and Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church have labored in the manner of many mainline Protestant congregations: Working ever harder to provide spiritual resources for dwindling number of congregants. Govans, on York Road in North Baltimore, has been hosting its Sunday night dinners for the poor and helping lead GEDCO, the social service organization it co-founded in 1984. Brown Memorial Woodbrook, about two miles from Govans on North Charles Street, has been running its busy Sunday school and community garden and working on LGBT equality and other social justice issues. But with attendance stagnating, maintenance costs rising and ...
Michigan helped make Donald Trump president. Is it ready to elect the nation's first Muslim governor?
Post Date: 2017-10-10 07:27:59 by BTP Holdings
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Michigan helped make Donald Trump president. Is it ready to elect the nation's first Muslim governor? Democrat Abdul El-Sayed gives a high-five after a town hall event at Hope College in Holland, Mich. If elected, El-Sayed would become the nation's first Muslim governor. (Laura McDermott / For The Times) Mark Z. Barabak Contact Reporter The Democratic candidate for Michigan governor stood before liberal activists, alone on stage, delivering a message of hope and inspiration. His beloved state, he said, the state where he was born, where he summered on Crystal Lake, where he spoke for his graduating class at the University of Michigan and helped rebuild Detroit's ravaged ...
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