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Latest Articles: Religion
THE 29TH CHAPTER OF ACTS [DISCOVERED]
Post Date: 2007-08-05 16:17:39 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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WHAT! ! ? ? THE 29th CHAPTER OF ACTS! ? ? Sometime in the late 1700's and before 1800, C.S.Sonnini published his copy of Sonnini's Travels in Turkey and Greece. Interleaved was a copy of the manuscript found in the Archives of Constantinople presented to him by the Sultan Abdoul Achmet. He was traveling during the reign of Louis XVI, who reigned from AD 1774 to AD 1793. He published his travels between those two dates, 1774 and 1793. It's absurd to think that he deliberately invented the manuscript. He was a Frenchman! What possible object could he have in glorifying the English, their mortal enemy? What did people know or care about the message he was going to proclaim ...
Video, Report Details Evangelism at Highest Levels of US Military
Post Date: 2007-08-04 20:30:24 by Zipporah
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Video, Report Details Evangelism at Highest Levels of US Military
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Friday 03 August 2007
A report released publicly on Thursday by the Defense Department's (DOD) inspector general has found high-ranking Army and Air Force personnel violated long-standing military regulations when they participated in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization while in uniform and on active duty.
The report recommended Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack Catton, Army Brig. Gen. Bob Caslen, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, Maj. Gen. Peter Sutton, and a colonel ...
Hagee - Ashamed of Jesus' Name
Post Date: 2007-07-30 15:13:26 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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To pray or not to pray in Jesus' name -- that question now confronts Christian evangelicals. Increasingly, Jewish activists demand that Jesus' name go unmentioned in public prayers. They also insist that Christians not witness to Jews. Some evangelicals give them what they want.Dr. John Hagee, passionate "Israel-first" televangelist, worked closely with the Jewish lobby to found Christians United for Israel (CUFI). CUFI's purpose is to unite every evangelical across the nation to "speak and act with one voice in support of Israel." *** For three days in the Capitol last week, Hagee and an array of political and religious luminaries lavished praise on ...
Our Congratulations to the People of Turkey
Post Date: 2007-07-29 07:42:45 by Zoroaster
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Our Congratulations to the People of Turkey from Israel Shamir – July 27, 2007 Our congratulations to the people of Turkey on the election victory of the Islamic Party! This is a fateful event: the East returns to God, and finds its own way. Istanbul has followed Gaza: the AKP-ruled Turkey will be a friend to Hamas-ruled Palestine, to Islamic Iran, to Orthodox Greece and Russia, to the religious anti-occupation forces of nearby Iraq. She will again take her place of pride as the centerpiece of the Eastern mosaic, while its pro-American and God-hating generals, the Turkish Dahlans, will creep back to their barracks. Faith in God unites us, while the nationalists had divided us. ...
Hitchen's Hubris
Post Date: 2007-07-27 09:47:16 by ghostdogtxn
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The Mainstream, Sane, Serious Joe Lieberman
Post Date: 2007-07-27 09:35:35 by ghostdogtxn
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LOCAL TEAM SOLVES ANCIENT MYSTERY
Post Date: 2007-07-26 16:26:56 by rowdee
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Printed date: 2004-10-15 In 1979 two tiny pieces of cracked and deteriorated silver found in a tomb outside of the Old City of Jerusalem proved to be one of the most important archeological discoveries of the century. The silver strips had Hebrew writing on them — albeit a very different-looking Hebrew to the one we know today — and the words spelled out the priestly blessing: “May the Lord bless you and guard you. May the Lord make his countenance shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn his countenance to you and grant you peace.” The strips, which were initially dated from the seventh or sixth century B.C.E., contained the earliest known citation of a ...
All Aboard the Ship of Fools
Post Date: 2007-07-25 18:02:10 by ghostdogtxn
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Symbol in NYC building a history mystery
Post Date: 2007-07-23 09:51:53 by Eoghan
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NEW YORK - A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse. It was a 3-foot-by-10-foot section of timeworn brick wall, its predictable rows abruptly interrupted by three distinct, deliberate-looking triangular shapes. Once part of a warehouse, it now does nothing but raise questions. Painstakingly preserved from a 175-year-old building in lower Manhattan, the brickwork symbol is part of a tantalizing historical whodunit. The setting conjures both New York's mercantile past and its future, and those who may be involved include a ...
Polish homosexuals flee persecution by new right-wing government
Post Date: 2007-07-23 00:45:52 by Split
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... Poland's Roman Catholic right-wing government has openly homophobic members and Polish media recently announced that the Health Ministry had created a special committee responsible for 'curing' gays. ... —Daily Mail, 20.07.2007 Following the rise to power of Poland's Roman Catholic right-wing government, including some openly homophobic members, Polish gay rights groups claim that thousands of Polish gays have emigrated to United Kingdom to escape increasing persecution including the Health Ministry's "special committee responsible for 'curing' gays". The Deputy Health Minister, Marek Grafowski, stated the ministry was developing guides ...
Hagee, Israel backers push a get-tough policy
Post Date: 2007-07-22 19:58:31 by Red Jones
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Hagee, Israel backers push a get-tough policy Web Posted: 07/22/2007 01:29 AM CDT Abe Levy Express-News WASHINGTON — Inside a reserved Senate room, several hundred evangelical activists who came by plane and bus Wednesday waited for the arrival of Texas' two senators. As their leader, Pastor John Hagee, entered the room, they erupted in cheers, snapping photos of the face of modern Christian Zionism, a movement that promotes Israel as a biblical mandate. The room turned silent as Hagee greeted Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn near the stage. Hagee looked the senators in the eye and said: "These people are from Texas — and they are voters." That ...
Televangelist Tammy Fay Bakker Messner dies
Post Date: 2007-07-21 23:23:11 by Eoghan
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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the televangelist who helped lead the PTL ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died at age 65, her Web site reported on Saturday. Messner, who lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, died on Friday after a long battle with lung cancer, CNN said.
Origins of Environmental Religions
Post Date: 2007-07-21 21:29:39 by farmfriend
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Origins of Environmental Religions Written By: Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Published In: Heartland Perspectives Publication Date: July 12, 2007 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Conventional religions have been under attack for some years from liberals who have drifted into secular humanism and away from any devout belief in God. But as Margaret Mead discovered long ago, no culture has ever existed without some belief in a supernatural being. In today's world, the worship of the "environment" has filled the bill perfectly. Green religion competes with old-style religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam. Environmentalists passionately believe its stories and ...
Exerpt from "They Thought They Were Free"
Post Date: 2007-07-19 10:34:35 by ghostdogtxn
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Envy and Poverty
Post Date: 2007-07-18 10:42:11 by ghostdogtxn
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head
Post Date: 2007-07-17 22:34:27 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down By the Riverside
Poster Comment:"Ain't gonna study war no mo'..."Play it, Sister: play it a long time...!
The Bosnian Connection
Post Date: 2007-07-17 06:06:50 by Ada
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The civil war that inspired both liberal hawks and Islamist jihadis In a recent Vanity Fair feature, Christopher Hitchens bemoaned the transformation of London into “Londonistan.” He wrote about Finsbury Park, a shabby, multicultural corner of the capital, where the old sights of Irish immigrants staggering from dingy pubs and Greeks trying to hawk kebabs have been replaced by young Muslim men sporting beards and women cloaked in the black hijab. Then there is the notorious Finsbury Park mosque. Abu Hamza al-Masri, the hook-handed, one-eyed former Mujahi-deen of the Afghan-Soviet War, was the imam there until his arrest and imprisonment in 2006 for soliciting murder and ...
'Chastity ring' girl loses case
Post Date: 2007-07-16 20:29:48 by robin
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'Chastity ring' girl loses case Lydia Playfoot says her ring is a way of expressing her beliefsA 16-year-old girl was not discriminated against when she was banned from wearing a "purity ring" in school, the High Court has ruled. Lydia Playfoot was told by Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, to remove her ring - which symbolises chastity - or face expulsion. The school had denied breaching her human rights and said it was "delighted" with the outcome. Miss Playfoot said she was "very disappointed" by the decision. She said the ruling would "mean that slowly, over time, people such as school governors, employers, political organisations ...
The Ratzinger Effect: more money, more pilgrims – and lots more Latin
Post Date: 2007-07-12 06:09:58 by Ada
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With donations to the Church from around the world almost doubling and pilgrims pouring into Rome in ever-greater numbers, Vatican watchers are beginning to reassess the two-year-old pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI and noting a positive “Ratzinger effect”. Today the Vatican will publish the Pope’s “motu proprio” decree allowing broader use by Roman Catholics of the Latin Tridentine Mass — the pontiff’s last act before leaving for his traditional summer holiday. The move, which amends the Second Vatican Council’s decision in the 1960s that worship should be in the vernacular, is regarded as yet another sign of Benedict’s conservative attachment ...
Pope: Other Christians Not True Churches
Post Date: 2007-07-10 19:03:24 by innieway
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LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches. Benedict approved a document from his old offices at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that restates church teaching on relations with other Christians. It was the second time in a week the pope has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that modernized the church. On Saturday, Benedict revisited another key aspect of Vatican II by reviving the old ...
Cows that burp less seen helping in climate fight [COOL!!!]
Post Date: 2007-07-10 08:45:26 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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LONDON (Reuters) - Manners aside, getting cows to burp less can help reduce global warming. Using modern plant-breeding methods to find new diets for cows that make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Monday. The key is developing new varieties of food that are easier for cattle to digest and also provide a proper balance of fiber, protein and sugar, said Michael Abberton, a scientist at the UK-based Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. This could open up plant-based solutions as alternatives to reducing stock as farmers look for ways to cut methane emissions amid warming climates, he told a briefing on farming and climate change ...
Return Of The Latin Mass—Traditionalists Triumph, Despite ADL
Post Date: 2007-07-09 23:37:15 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Elevated to the papacy at 78, Benedict XVI will take no action greater in significance for the Catholic Church than his motu proprio [Latin for "on his own motion"...it's a Catholic thing... :P] declaring that the Latin Mass must be said in every diocese—on the request of the faithful. Dissenting bishops must comply. "What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred and great for us, too," said the Holy Father in his apostolic letter, as he authorized the universal use of the sole official version of the mass allowed in the four centuries between the Council of Trent and Vatican II. To which many Catholics will respond: "Alleluia! Alleluia!" ...
Time to fire Jack Bauer
Post Date: 2007-07-09 06:18:15 by Ada
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While we’re at it, let’s close Gitmo There’s no doubt, Jack Bauer as portrayed by the talented actor Kiefer Sutherland, has become an American cultural icon of late. As the hero of the smash television production, 24, Bauer often uses torture, lies, and theft to save the free world from annihilation at the hands of terrorists. The Bauer character, championed by many prominent conservatives, is hailed through consequentialist justifications for doing evil. Michael Brendan Dougherty’s excellent piece in the American Conservative lays out a list of conservative Bauer devotees, including: Kathryn Jean Lopez, Ben Shapiro, and Cal Thomas. Recently, in response to whether ...
Latin mass a looming headache for Catholic parishes
Post Date: 2007-07-09 00:32:58 by freepatriot32
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PARIS (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's decision to promote the old Latin mass is a dream come true for delighted Roman Catholic traditionalists and a looming headache for the harried priests now expected to celebrate it By issuing his decree on Saturday, Benedict aimed to end a 40-year "culture war" between the overwhelming majority of his 1.1-billion strong Church and a small minority that never accepted the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. His solution was to allow the long-sidelined traditionalists to ask their local priests to offer the 16th-century liturgy and protest all the way to the Vatican if they don't comply. His letter to bishops explaining the ...
About The Holy Bible (Robert Ingersoll-1894)
Post Date: 2007-07-08 21:42:18 by Pandora
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Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Professors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not. They would be defeated. Editors dare not. They would lose subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. Men of fashion dare not, fearing that they would lose caste. Even clerks dare not, because they might be discharged. And so I thought I would do it myself. There are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God -- millions who think that this book is staff and guide, counselor and consoler; that it fills the present with ...
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