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Latest Articles: Religion
Hitchens Is Not Great: An Atheist's Defense of Religion
Post Date: 2007-06-11 17:09:43 by farmfriend
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Hitchens Is Not Great: An Atheist's Defense of Religion By Karl Reitz : BIO| 08 Jun 2007 Religion has been under more fire than usual lately. Daniel Dennett wrote "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon", Sam Harris wrote "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason", Richard Dawkins wrote "The God Delusion", and Christopher Hitchens wrote "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything", to name just a few attacks. Most reviews of these books and interviews with the authors have raised the not-so-hot record of atheistic societies. The authors, of course, promptly dismiss these concerns. As The Economist review ...
Jesus - Dissident Teacher
Post Date: 2007-06-11 05:55:38 by wudidiz
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Jesus of Nazareth - Dissident Teacher
Jesus was not a good little boy. By all accounts, the mystic drifter was critical of the government, critical of organized religion, and critical of apathetic souls who complacently sustained the status quo.
Forever the malcontent freethinker, Jesus habitually ignored taboos, unceasingly empowered disrespected riffraff, and wandered from town to town with a hippy gang of penniless communal punks, bringing disorder and chaos wherever he dusted his sandals.
And two thousand years later? The man’s real identity has all but disappeared.
Faux Dead Celebrity Religion
Even as millions worship a faux image in his name, Jesus’ most important ...
American Idols
Post Date: 2007-06-11 01:24:52 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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How can this country survive much longer, when the younger generation is so appallingly ignorant? Only half of them can name the first book of the Bible, or any of the four Gospels. Worse yet, in a way, I’m not sure they can even read the New York Post! They all know who the current American Idol is, but a shocking number are unable to identify Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco. No use trying to converse intelligently with such people about Antony and Cleopatra. I have my own problem with the Post. My eyes are so weak now that without my reading glasses I can’t tell whether it still supports Israel. I’ll have to start getting the Braille edition, I guess. Today’s ...
The Gospel of Judas: Jesus did not die for your sins
Post Date: 2007-06-10 11:48:27 by Kamala
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The Gospel of Judas: Jesus did not die for your sins (http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/421388,CST-CONT-judas10.article) June 10, 2007 BY ELAINE PAGELS The first time I heard of the Gospel of Judas was about five years ago, when I got a call from someone who said, 'I have a book for you to edit -- the Gospel of Judas.' That astonished me, since I knew that the "church father" Irenaeus had mentioned such a gospel nearly 2,000 years ago, denouncing it as terrible blasphemy. But no one had ever seen it, or known whether it actually existed. But this dealer in Cleveland was telling me he had it there. Was he telling the truth? I called the Met, the Getty and the Frist ...
Jewel encrusted sex toys available at Moscow sex fair
Post Date: 2007-06-08 20:21:48 by kamikazi
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Jewel-encrusted sex toys available at Moscow sex fair 2007/06/08 Eros Moskva exhibition has recently taken place in Moscow. It was open for four days. Every visitor could speak to representatives of sex-industry and buy any sex toys he/she liked. Jewel-encrusted sex toys available at Moscow sex fairVisitors could chose from a wide variety of dildos. There were thin, thick, long, short and colored toys. They also were of different shape - some looked like parrots others like caterpillars. “Glamorous” dildos were also represented on the exhibition. A German company was exhibiting dildos encrusted with Swarovski crystals. They cost about $250 and could vibrate with different ...
Dobson endorsed sermon blaming "lesbian sex" for God's "abandonment" of America, justifying destruction of a U.S. city by God
Post Date: 2007-06-07 21:24:32 by Zipporah
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Dobson endorsed sermon blaming "lesbian sex" for God's "abandonment" of America, justifying destruction of a U.S. city by God Download this clip here On the June 4 edition of his Focus on the Family radio show, Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson broadcast a sermon by John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, titled "A Nation Abandoned by God." In the sermon, MacArthur said America had forsaken God and engendered the "wrath of abandonment" as a result. MacArthur declared: "You know a society has been abandoned by God when it celebrates lesbian sex." MacArthur further argued that ...
My New Blog on Rudysms - Rudy at the Pops
Post Date: 2007-06-07 08:23:39 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Rudy at the Pops - the GOP debate of June 5, 2006 Find the full transcript here.On "don't ask don't tell" and the need of changing to a "hybrid army" while avoiding fundamental changes and performing much needed nation building.And I think in time of war, in a time where we’re trying to deal with this transition to a new kind of warfare that we have to be fighting — and we haven’t gotten all the way there yet, we need a hybrid army, we need to look at nation-building as part of what we have to teach our military — I don’t think this would be the right time to raise these issues.MR. BLITZER: Thank you.MR. GIULIANI: And I think we should ...
Man tries to jump in Benedict's 'popemobile'
Post Date: 2007-06-06 12:15:12 by Jethro Tull
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VATICAN CITY - A German man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI’s uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience Wednesday and held onto it for a few seconds before being wrestled to the ground by security officers. The pope was not hurt and didn’t even appear to notice that the man had jumped over the protective barrier in the square and had grabbed onto the white popemobile as it drove by. The pontiff kept waving to the crowd and didn’t even look back.
Poster Comment:ANYONE SEE CORAL SNAKE?
An Observer at Christian Zionist Leader John Hagee's Cornerstone Church
Post Date: 2007-06-05 11:18:57 by Red Jones
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An Observer at Christian Zionist Leader John Hagee's Cornerstone Church By Rev. Art Preisinger, Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism, November 26, 2006 If John Hagee’s "Night to Honor Israel" extravaganza is any indication, Christian Zionism is a misnomer. From happy-clappy Jewish praise music, to love songs crooned to and about Israel, to a kitschy Hava Nagila; from invocations and benedictions that turn out to be sermons; from Muslim-bashing to Israel lauding; from dramatic processions to keynote addresses; from offerings taken and offerings given -- there was not a shred, a trace, a scintilla of Christianity in the proceedings. It could well have been ...
Amanita muscaria, Vision Creation and Manipulation and the Roman/Jesuit NWO
Post Date: 2007-06-04 01:24:16 by Coral Snake
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Amanita muscaria, Vision Creation and Manipulation and the Roman/Jesuit NWO by Coral Snake In lieu of the regular Coral Snake's Bites Of the Week Column this study can be considered as "bites" for the following recipients: The CIA, Pope Benedict XVI, (Joseph Ratzinger), Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), Pope Benedict XV (Della Cheisa), "Reverend" Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carrol), Herbert George Wells (H. G. Wells), Jesuit Superior General "Father" Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1983-2008), Jesuit Superior General "Father" Peter Beckx (1853-1887) Jesuit Superior General "Father" Luis Martin (1892-1906), Jesuit Superior General ...
Paul Zahn Report: Christian-Newsom murders
Post Date: 2007-06-01 11:39:22 by Eoghan
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Predictable Paula Zahn/CNN spin A blogosphere response... Let's Be Honest: You're All Nazis So says Linda Chavez, at least of all of you who oppose the new open-borders bill. And if you thought that the Christian-Newsome murders weren't being covered because the victims were white and the perpetrators black, CNN says you're a Nazi too. A lot of people have weighed in on this, but apparently the only people CNN can find to suggest a media double-standard are avowed White Supremacists with blogs with such names as "Arayan Awakening." That has got to be one of the most despicable hit-pieces I've ever seen. The media is claiming its brand-new "objective ...
Man gets death for blasphemy after video trial
Post Date: 2007-05-31 14:40:32 by mirage
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LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday sentenced a blasphemy accused, Younis Masih, to death after a video jail trial. The court also fined him Rs 100,000. Factory Area police had registered a blasphemy case under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against Masih on September 10, 2005, after he had allegedly made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at a Qawali function on September 9, 2005. The accused challenged the whole legal process in his case and said that the investigation against him was illegal. He said that according to the law, a police officer below the rank of superintendent of police (SP) could not conduct investigation in a ...
Bush Appoints Another Jesuit Catholic World Bank Chief
Post Date: 2007-05-31 05:08:49 by Zoroaster
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Bush Appoints Another Jesuit Catholic World Bank Chief By Chris Maynard 5-31-7 (Note - To try to make the point for those who still don't quite get it. http://Rense.com would cover this story the same way with news and commentary no matter WHICH group had a strangle hold on much of the western world as do Zionists. This is how Mr. Maynard's commentary might read if the Jesuit Catholics wielded the massive control that Jewish Zionists do. It's all about absolute power and the loss of our freedoms...who holds that power is not the primary issue on the table. -ed) I cannot tell you how surprised I am that Bush has appointed another Jesuit Catholic to replace the Jesuit ...
Image of Jesus inspires World War II vet
Post Date: 2007-05-29 08:42:48 by Jethro Tull
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Web Posted: 05/23/2007 Bridget Smith KENS 5 Eyewitness News People have seen Jesus' image in a lot of places — in a pan, on a window, in a tree — but now a Floresville man says an image of Jesus has landed on his car. There's a reason the old Mercury Grand Marquis in the front of yard of Toney Guerrero's home is covered up carefully. "So if it rains, it wouldn't wash off," he said. You see, 78-year-old Guerrero hasn't always had a strong walk in faith, but what he discovered on his car window after getting out of his car this past Sunday makes even a tough World War II veteran like him a little teary eyed. "I couldn't believe ...
Swiss move to ban minarets
Post Date: 2007-05-28 22:14:56 by Ferret Mike
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A row is brewing over religious symbolism in Switzerland. Members of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently the largest party in the Swiss parliament, have launched a campaign to have the building of minarets banned. They claim the minaret is not necessary for worship, but is rather a symbol of Islamic law, and as such incompatible with Switzerland's legal system. Signatures are now being collected to force a nationwide referendum on the issue which, under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, would be binding. The move has shocked Switzerland's 350,000 Muslims, many of whom have been campaigning for decades for more recognition for their faith. In theory ...
The Creation Museum
Post Date: 2007-05-28 14:31:09 by Zipporah
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y: Steve Benen on Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 5:10 AM - - (h/t Scarce for the vid) The Creation Museum, a $27-million tourist attraction for those who don’t care for modern science, will open its doors this morning near Cincinnati. The LA Times had an interesting editorial on the facility. [B]efore the first visitor risks succumbing to the museum’s animatronic balderdash — dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted! the Grand Canyon was carved by the great flood described in Genesis! — we’d like to clear up a few things: “The Flintstones” is a cartoon, not a documentary. Fred and Wilma? Those woolly mammoth vacuum cleaners? All make-believe. Science is ...
The Unholy Desire of Christians to Legitimize Killing in War
Post Date: 2007-05-28 08:59:52 by Ada
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"People want to kill people, and they want biblical permission to do so." ~ Wilma Ann Bailey
It is bad enough to hear the Bush Administration, the neocons, the Randians, most Republicans in Congress, the right-wing talk show hosts, and some assorted libertarians still defend the war in Iraq, but it is even worse when Christians do the same.
Never at any time in history have so many conservative, evangelical Christians held such unholy opinions.
The adoration that many of these Christians have toward President Bush is unholy. The association of many of these Christians with the Republican Party is unholy. The alliance between evangelical Christianity and the military is unholy. The ...
The Lost Secret
Post Date: 2007-05-27 08:43:14 by Zoroaster
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The Lost Secret By Gnostic http://RumorMillNews.com 5-26-7 It took me a very long time to break away from conventional religious ideas that created the notion that God was something exterior to us, something impersonal. Like others, I believed in the idea that God was a being of form that appeared like us but separated from us. I believed that God gave us laws, and demanded obedience through worship. It was often quoted that God sits upon his throne, so of course all images were of God sitting like Kings and Queens do today. That we were mere peasants that were to come before this throne to worship and give of our goods before the kingdom. It was difficult to view God in any other ...
Low caste Indians set to convert
Post Date: 2007-05-26 21:59:17 by robin
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Low caste Indians set to convert By Zubair Ahmed BBC News, Mumbai The conversion is expected to be the largest in modern timesThousands of tribal and Dalit Hindus in India are to embrace the Buddhist faith at a huge gathering in Mumbai. The ceremony, which may be presided over by Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is billed as the largest religious conversion in modern India. The converts hope to escape the rigid caste system in which their status is the lowest. Right-wing Hindus have often opposed conversion, pushing some Indian states to restrict legal changes of faith. The organisers say the number of people to convert in Sunday's ceremony could go up to 100,00 ...
Shop for clothes at the Christian Domestic Discipline Store: "Loving wife spanking in a Christian Marriage"
Post Date: 2007-05-25 19:57:52 by Zipporah
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Shop for clothes at the Christian Domestic Discipline Store "Loving wife spanking in a Christian Marriage," is the motto at the Christian Domestic Discipline Store. Choose from a variety of reasonably-priced crotchless pantaloons. You can also purchase a book about Christian Domestic Discipline. Excerpt: Biblically, a man’s right to chastise and discipline his wife is strongly implied. Just as a parent would never stop to ask permission to chastise his child, a husband should not have to obtain consent to discipline his wife; however, our legal system has put him in the position of having to do so. Just as our culture is turned upside down in so many other things, the ...
What the Talmud Really Says About Jesus
Post Date: 2007-05-22 23:08:55 by robin
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What the Talmud Really Says About Jesus “What exactly is so scandalous? How about Jesus punished in Hell for eternity by being made to sit in a cauldron of boiling excrement? That image appears in early manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, as does a brief account of Jesus’ trial and execution—not by the Romans but by the Jewish high court, the Sanhedrin.” Publisher’s Weekly story on new book called Jesus in the Talmud Comment by David Duke – The following article appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, a mainstream literary magazine and website. It concerns a new book, Jesus in the Talmud, that exposes the shocking truth about the position of Judaism toward ...
Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology
Post Date: 2007-05-22 07:54:13 by gengis gandhi
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go to this link to access the other links in report. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/audit/andrhome.html Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology by Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C. Published 1965 by the State of Victoria, Australia Contents * Prefatory Note * 1. Preliminary * 2. Introduction * 3. Scientology and claims made for it * 4. The Organization of Scientology * 5. Financial Aspects of Scientology in Victoria * 6. Hubbard - the founder of Scientology o Hubbard's Morbid Preoccupation with Perversion * 7. Hubbard's scientific deficiencies o Hubbard and Medicine o Hubbard and Psycho-Analysis o Hubbard as a Scientist o Hubbard as a Nuclear Physicist * 8. ...
Pastor, Prophet and Priest
Post Date: 2007-05-22 05:53:45 by Ada
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"[T]he English regard and practice their religion only insofar as it relates to their duty as subjects of the king. They live as he lives and believe as he believes; indeed, they do everything he commands. ... [The English] would accept Mohammedanism or Judaism if the king believed it, and told them to believe it." ~ Giovanni Micheli, Venetian ambassador to England during the reign of Henry VIII, as quoted in Reformation Europe: Age of Reform and Revolution, p. 174 "Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is." ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower as quoted in Civil Religion and the ...
Should Christians support Israel?
Post Date: 2007-05-21 11:42:34 by Zoroaster
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Should Christians support Israel? by David Duke MP3 Streaming Download MP3 file In the conversation with Nixon, Rev. Billy Graham, the Southern Baptist evangelist expressed disdain for what he saw as Jewish domination of the media. “This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain,” Graham said, agreeing with Nixon’s comments earlier in the conversation. “You believe that?” Nixon says in response. “Yes, sir,” says Graham. “Oh boy. So do I,” Nixon agrees, then says: “I can’t ever say that, but I believe it.” (From the Associated Press) I am a Christian, but I must also state that I am ...
Former Satanist here for ministry
Post Date: 2007-05-20 14:45:06 by Indrid Cold
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As a student in a Roman Catholic high school, he was given a book on the occult by a nun. That book became a gateway for a life in which he embraced witchcraft, freemasonry, satanism, voodoo and Mormonism. He even drank human blood for 18 months. Dr. Schnoebelen, 57, is in Jamaica until May 29 to warn the nation about the dangers of occultic involvement and to offer ways in which the Christian community can help those who are trapped in such bondage. A few weeks ago, he became the talking point for many viewers of Ian Boyne's 'Religious Hardtalk' television programme where he unveiled his dark past. He is in Jamaica at invitation of Joseph Ade-Gold Ministries. While here, he ...
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