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Latest Articles: Religion
We die... then what?
Post Date: 2005-05-17 17:51:16 by gengis gandhi
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The great scientist Dr Robert Crookall, DSC. PhD, who undertook a systematic study of many of the above sources and of hundreds of other communications from the afterlife and published the results in his book The Supreme Adventure (1961). His work is considered ´scientific´ in that it painstakingly and objectively examines the evidence, it is internally coherent and it provides hypotheses consistent with a great mass of factual evidence. Crookall was amazed at the consistency of the evidence coming from all over the world. Communications from every country — from Brazil, from England, from South Africa, from Tibet from Europe, from India and from Australia are all ...
Fonda distances herself from 'fundamentalists'
Post Date: 2005-05-15 20:28:26 by Don
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Fonda distances herself from 'fundamentalists' 'Feminist Christian' regards Bible as 'metaphor' Posted: May 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Actress Jane Fonda, whose conversion to Christianity was first reported by WND in 2000, distanced herself from "fundamentalists" in a recent interview, saying she regards the Bible as a metaphor, reads extra-biblical gospels and is still searching for a church. Fonda explained to New York Post columnist Liz Smith that she's a "feminist Christian," distinguished from fundamentalists. "I don't want to offend anyone," Fonda said. "But I believe people have different ways of approaching The ...
Pope was investigating Knights Templar before his election
Post Date: 2005-05-15 13:25:29 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Pope was investigating Knights Templar before his election "The Insider" mailing list article, 30 April 2005. *** The new Pope, Benedict XVI, was actively investigating secret societies including the Knights Templar and the Illuminati, it was revealed yesterday. Details were exposed by a local newspaper in Hertfordshire, England. Cardinal Ratzinger was head of the Inquisition, the arm of the Church set up to investigate, persecute or eliminate heretics. But the curious thing is, we now know that he started his investigation shortly before he was elected as the new Pope. Did he know something? He certainly made no secret of his ambition to become Pope. *** Pope’s probe ...
Sold Out Churches
Post Date: 2005-05-15 10:38:14 by christine
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In Russia and China, believers meet secretly in homes. When government officials find out about these unregistered Churches, Christ's followers are tortured, pastors go to prison, and property is confiscated. In America, churches meet openly and there seems to be no persecution. Why is America different? The reason there is no persecution in America is because the Churches have "sold out" to the State regime. They have registered or incorporated under the State. Once they have become part of the State, the State loves its own and there is no persecution (John 15:19). Almost 100 percent of the churches in America have become State corporations. They did it voluntarily to save a ...
What do we know about the Old Testament? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-05-15 08:44:21 by Zoroaster
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What do we know about the Old Testament? by Matt Giwer, © 2005 [March] Proceeding strictly from the physical evidence the material we consider to be the Old Testament first appears in history as the Greek Septuagint. Neither belief nor argumentation is acceptable. Only physical evidence is of interest. There is not one prior mention of such material, stories or events. There are a few questionable translations of single words or passages. There are a few name similarities. In no case do any of these have any connection with any event or situation in the bible. Today not one inscription has been found which predates it. While Egypt is the most professionally dug place in the world, ...
Aristotle versus the Big Jew in the Sky [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-05-14 08:25:42 by Zoroaster
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Aristotle’s Prime Mover evokes motion, not some big Jew in the sky. The commonly accepted model of the beginning of our universe, often referred to as the “Big Bang,” suggests that it began between 15 and 18 billion years ago in an infinitely compact and singular state, enclosing a space even smaller than an atomic particle. If Aristotle were alive today, he would say the Prime Mover caused the Big Bang, not the tribal war god of ancient Israel. According to Aristotle the Prime Mover is the Prefect First Cause responsible for moving objects, which, in turn, move other objects: The Prime Mover is always at absolute rest, beyond time and space, motionless and changeless in ...
The religious right: An anti-American terrorist movement
Post Date: 2005-05-13 21:52:59 by Zipporah
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May 13, 2005—When I was in college, I wrote a research paper that changed my life forever.I had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian family living in the buckle of the Bible Belt where I was fed a steady diet of racism and Cold War anti-communism. My grandfather had been a member of the Klan in the 1920s, and as a high school student, I was saving money to join the John Birch Society.Most personally detrimental to me, however, was the denigration by my high-school-educated parents of higher education. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," they exhorted from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. And, when I insisted on attending college, they reminded me ...
Zionism & Judaism ... Comparing Apples To Rocks
Post Date: 2005-05-12 00:18:31 by NOLAJBS
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As a young person, I was taught that there are three things one must never discuss...... politics, religion and sex. My response was "what else is there to talk about?" I have always found those topics interesting to study, question and discuss. I call myself a "truth seeker," and my pursuit of truth has led me down some long and winding roads. I was born of Jewish parents, became an atheist in my late teens (it seemed so hip) and ultimately became immersed in psychology. From the readings of Carl Jung, it was a short hop into the realm of metaphysics. My metaphysical pursuits led me to Hinduism where I experienced Shaktipat with a Guru. Next came Buddhism, which, ...
Investigation: America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives?
Post Date: 2005-05-10 18:25:10 by Zipporah
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EARLIER PARTS:- Part I: The Lure of Christian Nationalism - Part II: Hang Ten and Fight!- Part III: A Deadly Culture of Life Long-haired preachers come out every night,Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;But when asked how 'bout something to eatThey will answer with voices so sweet:You will eat, bye and bye,In that glorious land above the sky;Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die. -Joe Hill, International Workers of the World (IWW), 1911Rev. Tim LaHaye thinks deep thoughts. Co-author of the best-selling Left Behind and Babylon Rising novels, the 78-year-old evangelical probes the mind of God as revealed in Holy Scriptures. Rev. Tim LaHaye, arguably ...
Pentagon Seeks Promotion for Academy Commander as Inquiry Set to Start Into Religious Intolerance Complaints
Post Date: 2005-05-09 22:45:24 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Pentagon Seeks Promotion for Academy Commander as Inquiry Set to Start Into Religious Intolerance Complaints By Robert Weller Associated Press Writer Published: May 9, 2005 AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - The Pentagon said Monday it wants to promote a top commander at the Air Force Academy - a born-again Christian who has been the subject of complaints that he improperly mixes religion with education. The announcement about Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida came one day before the scheduled arrival of a task force investigating allegations that cadets were pressured to attend religious services, public prayers were held before official events and Jewish cadets were harassed and insulted at the ...
Catholic Diocese in Canada to Sell All Its Churches to Pay Sexual Abuse Claims, Bishop Says
Post Date: 2005-05-09 22:38:21 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Catholic Diocese in Canada to Sell All Its Churches to Pay Sexual Abuse Claims, Bishop Says The Associated Press Published: May 9, 2005 ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) - A Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Canada plans to sell all its churches and missions to raise the money to pay the victims of sexual assault by a priest who was convicted more than a decade ago, a bishop said Monday. The Catholic Diocese of St. George's will sell about 150 properties to raise $10.5 million as part of a settlement for the victims of the Rev. Kevin Bennett, who was convicted in 1990 of hundreds of sexual assaults over three decades as a priest in the province of Newfoundland. "All of the churches, ...
Virgin Mary image restored on underpass
Post Date: 2005-05-09 15:43:45 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Virgin Mary image restored on underpass CHICAGO (AP) ? A stain on the wall of an expressway underpass that some believe resembles the Virgin Mary is again attracting visitors after two car wash employees cleaned graffiti and brown paint off the image. Rosa Diaz and Anna Reczek used a degreaser to clean the wall Friday on their lunch break. Onlookers said they again could see the Virgin Mary. The Illinois Department of Transportation has said the stain was likely the result of salt runoff on the emergency turnoff area under the Kennedy Expressway. A man had scrawled the words "Big Lie" in shoe polish on the image Thursday night, and authorities charged Victor Gonzalez of ...
Parishes in Oregon Battle to Keep Assets Held by Bankrupt Archdiocese
Post Date: 2005-05-08 15:49:36 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Parishes in Oregon Battle to Keep Assets Held by Bankrupt Archdiocese By Joseph B. Frazier Associated Press Writer Published: May 8, 2005 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Roman Catholic parishes and schools are competing with alleged victims of clerical sex abuse to claim assets held by the Archdiocese of Portland, the first in the country to file for bankruptcy because of abuse settlements. Court records show that about 340 claims, totaling $198 million, were made on the archdiocese by the April 29 deadline set by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Elizabeth Perris. The attorneys listed in the documents and the large sums sought suggest about 150 of those claims may be related to sex abuse. Because ...
Returning Free Speech to Our Houses of Worship
Post Date: 2005-05-08 09:38:09 by Zipporah
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HR 235 was introduced to liberate clergy from the muzzle imposed by the absolute ban on all speech that may be regarded as "political," and thereby enable them to speak out on all vital and moral and political questions of the day. It will free houses of worship from the fear and anxiety and uncertainty created by the threat that the IRS will impose financial penalties or revoke tax-exempt status altogether.Call now - Ask Congress to return Freedom of Speech to America's churches by passing the language in HR 235. Speaker of the House - Dennis Hastert: (202) 225-0600House Majority Leader - Tom Delay: (202) 225-4000Ways and Means Chairman - Bill Thomas: (202) 225-3625 And this re ...
New Indictments -- priests and mobsters and murder, oh my!
Post Date: 2005-05-06 23:14:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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INDICTMENTS IN CALVI MURDER FOCUS LIGHT ON VATICAN BANK SCANDAL, FASCIST & MOB LINKS, GLOBAL AGENDA In the latest chapter of a decades-old scandal, four people have been indicted in connection with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, a powerful international financier and the man dubbed "God's banker" for his close ties to the Vatican. Calvi was found hanging beneath Blackfriar's Bridge in London on June 18, 1982. His body was weighed down with 14 pounds of bricks and mortar, and he had $15,000 worth of currency stuffed in his pocket. Although his hands were secured behind his back, the incident was promptly ruled a suicide and the matter mysteriously dropped. Calvi had been ...
Ruling gives atheists Statehouse for prayer day
Post Date: 2005-05-05 14:14:50 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Ruling gives atheists Statehouse for prayer dayIdaho group had reserved steps, sued when state tried to block them Associated Press May 5, 2005 BOISE (AP) ? A group of Idaho atheists was allowed to rally on the front steps of the Statehouse on Thursday after a ruling by a federal judge in Boise forced religious groups to go elsewhere to celebrate the National Day of Prayer. It was a victory for the Idaho chapter of American Atheists, a national group that has criticized the National Day of Prayer on its Web site as "a political wolf in religious sheep?s clothing." U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill said Wednesday that Idaho Atheists had presented enough evidence for him ...
Racist E-Mails From An Orthodox Jew
Post Date: 2005-05-04 17:40:40 by 1776
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Messages seized from Abramoff's computer told a story of racism, front groups, secret kickbacks, manipulated tribal elections and political payoffs.IT WAS DECEMBER 2001, Jacob Abramoff (pictured) was one of New York City's richest and best-connected lobbyists. His former personal assistant had gone to work for Karl Rove, the new president's top political adviser; he was close friends with the powerful Republican congressman from Texas, Tom DeLay, a relationship most of his competitors would kill to boast of. He was making millions on fees of up to $750 per hour; he was the proprietor of two city restaurants; and he was the founder of a yeshiva school in the Maryland suburbs. But he was ...
Former PDX Archbishop may be appointed as high Vatican official
Post Date: 2005-05-04 10:30:35 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Former PDX Archbishop may be appointed as high Vatican official 07:06 AM PDT on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Associated Press Former Portland Archbishop William Levada could become the next guardian of religious orthodoxy in the Vatican, charged with safeguarding church doctrine and morals. The position was previously held by former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before his election as Pope Benedict XVI. "It's a quiet rumor that I have heard," current Portland Archbishop John G. Vlazny told The Oregonian. Levada met privately with the pope Tuesday, according to news reports. Levada was Portland archbishop from 1986 to 1995, before he left for his current job as the seventh archbishop ...
The History of Christian Zionism
Post Date: 2005-05-03 21:51:57 by Dakmar
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The British have had a long-term fascination with the idea of Israel and its central role in biblical prophecy that dates back to their earliest recorded literature. The Epistle of Gildas (circa. 6th century AD) and the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (735 AD) both saw the British as “the new Israel,” God’s chosen people, who were destined to play a strategic role despite repeated invasions by their Nordic neighbors.It's an interesting article, too long to justify stealing it to here. Click for Full Text!
Pastor, Wife Charged With Setting Fire to Their Own Church
Post Date: 2005-05-03 16:04:47 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Pastor, Wife Charged With Setting Fire to Their Own Church The Associated Press Published: May 3, 2005 SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A pastor and his wife have been charged with arson in a fire that gutted their church last week, authorities said Tuesday. The Monday arrests of The Rev. Harold Hunter and Patricia Hunter came just one day after the pastor gave a sermon in which he said he prayed for the "sick, sadistic" person who burned down the church. No one was hurt in the blaze. Police would not discuss a possible motive, but said they had suspected that Thursday's fire and three earlier acts of vandalism at the 64-year-old Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church were an ...
The Atheist
Post Date: 2005-05-03 14:54:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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The atheist Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Gordy Slack April 28, 2005 | Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous out-of-the-closet living atheist. He is also the world's most controversial evolutionary biologist. Publication of his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene," thrust Dawkins into the limelight as the handsome, irascible, human face of scientific reductionism. The book provoked everything from outrage to glee by arguing that natural selection worked its creative powers only through genes, not species or individuals. Humans are merely ...
De-homosexualization of the Catholic Church
Post Date: 2005-05-02 12:59:17 by Don
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De-homosexualization of the Catholic Church Analyst: New pope to reverse course, purge 'gay' leaders from ranks Posted: May 2, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The reason Catholic Church leadership includes homosexuals is because John Paul II refused to believe reports that potential clergy held that orientation – a mistake that will not be repeated by Pope Benedict XVI, says geopolitical expert Jack Wheeler. In a column on his intelligence website, To the Point, Wheeler explains that a Vatican source disclosed to him why John Paul discounted the charge of homosexuality. "Whenever Vatican investigators brought the results of their vetting process ...
Theocon Valley: A door in the wall of separation
Post Date: 2005-05-02 12:01:13 by Zipporah
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"Fascist theology in this town sees God on the side of the U.S. The U.S. government is an agent of evangelization that provides a security cover for them."—Former Catholic Priest in Colorado SpringsApril 29, 2005—Colorado Springs is a military town, home to the US Air Force Academy, NORAD Headquarters, Air Force Space Command, multiple Air Force Bases, and numerous other military installations. There is, however, one additional compound being used to launch, not a military, but a cultural offensive against what evangelical extremists believe to be the deterioration of America's "traditional" values.As one writer put it, "Colorado Springs [is] a testing ...
Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
Post Date: 2005-05-01 13:47:38 by Zipporah
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A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616. The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally deciphering the original writing. Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and ...
Mother charged with stabbing son and daughter to death
Post Date: 2005-04-30 01:23:38 by Dakmar
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The mother of two children stabbed hundreds of times in their Hoffman Estates home was charged today with two counts of first-degree murder, authorities said.Tonya Vasilev, 34, will be held without bond, following a court hearing this afternoon in Rolling Meadows. A defendant automatically is held without bond in murder cases in which there are two or more victims or in which any of the victims is younger than 12 years old. Vasilev, who appeared in Cook County court with a bandaged left hand, is scheduled to appear in court again on May 20. Hoffman Estate Police Lt. Rich Russo said there were signs both Christian, 9, and Gracie, 3, struggled with their killer."It really doesn’t ...
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