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Sin Management is BIG Business
Post Date: 2006-08-24 08:14:02 by Tauzero
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By Paul Proctor August 23, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com I caught an interesting article last week from http://LifeSiteNews.com that highlighted the frustrations of a disgruntled AIDS activist by the name of Martin Sempa, who was commenting on the absurdity of a recent international AIDS conference held in Toronto. As I read his rant I discovered some rather disturbing parallels between the AIDS movement and the church growth movement in how they both handle "disease." Here's just some of what he had to say: "The 'AIDS industry,' is a multi-billion dollar international enterprise now, and those who gather to enjoy lavish meals and hotels in Toronto this week, are more ...
Pastor accused of Molesting Girls; ``We are preparing your body for service to God,''
Post Date: 2006-08-23 23:05:30 by Brian S
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Thursday August 24, 2006 3:46 AM WASHBURN, Mo. (AP) - The minister of a rural Ozarks church, his wife and her two brothers have been accused of molesting young girls from their congregation for years, sometimes as part of a religious ritual, officials said. The county prosecutor says the Rev. Raymond Lambert, 51, of Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church, repeatedly had sex with two underage girls with the help of his 49-year-old wife, Patty, according to court records. For 10 years, the pastor told the girls, ``We are preparing your body for service to God,'' the prosecutor said. Patty Lambert's brothers - Paul Epling, 53, and Tom Epling, 51 - each are accused of repeatedly having sex ...
TO STUDENTS, ARTISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTION SERVANTS
Post Date: 2006-08-23 19:35:02 by Dakmar
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Literacy is not education and education is not culture, and all these together do not constitute "Dnyan" or gnosis. This stands in a class by itself, independent of any concomitant factors. Illiteracy and ignorance invite exploitation, but literacy can also become a willing tool in the hands of those who exploit. Education devoid of culture is inherently destructive, although on the surface it seems to represent progress. Since all types of people have claimed that their greatness constitutes "culture," the word has become indefinite in the minds of the public. True culture is the result of spiritual values assimilated into life. Therefore you must keep before you the ...
The 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Part 1
Post Date: 2006-08-23 17:02:40 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Part 1 info Avg: 3 out of 6 ratings Visions and Voices 26 min 58 sec - Sep 27, 2005 http://www.prophecywatch.com Today the cry worldwide is for global peace. The glue melding the coming worldwide false religion into one voice is the demand for ... all » planetary peace at the expense of Biblical truth, the existence of Israel, and the exclusion of Christianity and Jesus Christ. The 1st Horseman Of The Apocalypse is False Peace endorsed by False Religion. Special guest, David Reagan of Lamb & Lion Ministries. The 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Part 2 26 min Our world is armed to the max with atomic, biological, chemical, and “dirty ...
What is Left? What is Right?
Post Date: 2006-08-22 20:21:18 by Jethro Tull
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p>August 28, 2006 Issue Copyright © 2006 The American ConservativeHeather Mac DonaldUpon leaving office in November 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft thanked his staff for keeping the country safe since 9/11. But the real credit, he added, belonged to God. Ultimately, it was God’s solicitude for America that had prevented another attack on the homeland.Many conservatives hear such statements with a soothing sense of approbation. But others—count me among them—feel bewilderment, among much else. If God deserves thanks for fending off assaults on the United States after 9/11, why is he not also responsible for allowing the 2001 hijackings to happen in the first ...
ILLUSION COMES AND GOES BUT THE SOUL REMAINS [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-08-21 22:04:11 by Dakmar
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It is natural to be tired on account of the body. Although the body and mind are two different entities, they are interdependent. When the mind feels tired, the reaction is felt by the body; when the body feels tired, so does the mind. Only the soul is aloof from both. All this feeling is done by the ego. The "I" does not feel content; that means "I am unhappy," "I am in trouble." All this is the ego. Now this limited "I" takes all that is unimportant as important, and vice versa. There is a world of difference between importance and necessity. Bodily needs and comforts are unimportant but necessary. Spirituality, which is important but externally ...
Christians call for monetary justice as Bono weathers tax storm
Post Date: 2006-08-21 17:19:24 by bluegrass
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Campaigning rock star Bono, who has made a major impact with Make Poverty History and global debt cancellation initiatives, is in hot water with development and church groups over the justice of his own finances. Along with Irish politicians, they are expressing surprise and dismay at U2's decision to move part of its multi-million pound operation from Ireland to Amsterdam, where the tax rate on royalty earnings is miniscule – and the Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ) says this is just one part of a global money system gone badly wrong. The singer and his band U2 are facing for accusations of hypocrisy for switching their financial affairs to avoid paying higher taxes in ...
Madonna’s magical nuclear waste cure
Post Date: 2006-08-19 19:23:50 by Eoghan
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‘Kabbalah fluid can clean it up’ MADONNA and her husband Guy Ritchie have been lobbying the government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid. The couple, both followers of the Jewish spiritual movement, approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) promoting a “mystical” liquid tested in a Ukrainian lake. “It was like a crank call . . . the scientific mechanisms and principles were just bollocks, basically,” one official said. But civil servants at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and scientists at BNFL were obliged to take the celebrity couple seriously. It ...
Workers discover chocolate Virgin Mary
Post Date: 2006-08-18 22:28:59 by Morgana le Fay
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities — but on Thursday she held in her hand a figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star. Workers at Angiano's gourmet chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary. Since the discovery Monday, Angiano's employees have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it. "I was raised to believe in the Virgin Mary, but this still gives me the chills," Angiano said as she ...
BABAJAN CLOSING SHOP
Post Date: 2006-08-18 19:29:21 by Dakmar
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I had this dream of Babajan years after She had passed away. She was the only woman Perfect Master during our beloved Avatar's time. But if anyone referred to Her as a woman, She would go into a rage and swear at the culprit in no mild terms. Which is why She was never called "Amma" (mother) - "jan", but "Baba" (father) - "jan". "Jan is an endearment meaning "precious as life". Her fanatic preference for being called a man had nothing to do with gender. It was referral to the courage and strength that were attributed to men in the old days when wars were fought and won by men, while women were protected as the weaker counterpart. So ...
Contentious W.Va. Jesus Painting Stolen
Post Date: 2006-08-17 23:21:38 by Morgana le Fay
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So much for "Thou shalt not steal." Just before 4 a.m. Thursday, an intruder snatched the contentious painting of Jesus Christ from the halls of Bridgeport High School. The theft came just two days after the Harrison County School Board voted to fight a legal challenge over the portrait. Schools Superintendent Carl Friebel said the bandit took the painting, but left behind the gilded frame and backing. "The picture was the only thing stolen, so the deliberate intent was to steal the picture and only the picture," Friebel said. Three security cameras caught images of the intruder, whose face was obscured. The security tapes have been turned over to police. A ...
May You be Blessed
Post Date: 2006-08-17 08:10:17 by Lod
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One million blessings in one hundred days experiment.
Swords Being Crossed Over Memorial to Katrina Victims
Post Date: 2006-08-17 00:44:46 by robin
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Swords Being Crossed Over Memorial to Katrina Victims A New Orleans-area parish wants to erect the symbol on the storm's first anniversary. But the ACLU says the effort is unconstitutional. By Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writer August 16, 2006 NEW ORLEANS — A proposed memorial to victims of Hurricane Katrina from St. Bernard's Parish that includes a cross bearing a depiction of Jesus has spurred a conflict between parish officials and the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says incorporating a cross in the memorial is unconstitutional because local government officials were part of the committee that conceived the idea and because the group thinks the site where it will be ...
Some See Jesus In Dental X-Ray
Post Date: 2006-08-15 00:11:19 by Morgana le Fay
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The patient came in for a routine exam on Tuesday. The image was revealed when the X-ray was developed. The patient described himself as a devout Christian, but said he has never before seen Jesus in an X-ray. The patient's dental exam was perfect. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewri
The "Rapture" Business -- Part Two [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-08-14 22:09:58 by Enderby
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I was involved, the other day, in another thread here at Freedom4um, in which the discussion turned to the question of whether "the rapture" is a Biblically-supported concept. After exchanging a post or two with Yertle Turtle and Zipporah, I began to wonder whether we were all working from the same definition of "rapture." Having done some reading, I still think that's the problem (definitional differences, that is). 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 says (NASB translation, emphasis added by me): For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive ...
Internet 'Rapture Index' has been garnering major media attention during war in Lebanon
Post Date: 2006-08-13 21:09:09 by Zipporah
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A Website devoted to "calculating" how long the world has until "endtimes" arrive has garnered a lot of media coverage since the war in Lebanon began a few weeks ago, RAW STORY has found. "Last week, the forums at Rapture Ready, the site devoted to the notion that the endtimes are near, bizarrely atwitter with excitement when Israel and Hezbollah started trading blows," Tom Zeller Jr. reports in Monday's edition of The New York Times. "This week, posts on what the foiled London terror threat means," the article continues. Rapture Ready is a Website which features the Rapture Index, billed as sort of a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time ...
American Evangelists See God At Work In Israel
Post Date: 2006-08-09 11:31:11 by Brian S
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Word of God: Pastor John Hagee.Photo: Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times Alec Russell, Washington August 10, 2006 ANYONE wanting to understand why Israel has unwavering support from the United States should speak to one man. Fiery television evangelist Pastor John Hagee has become the rallying voice for thousands of American Christians who believe Israel is doing God's work in a "war of good versus evil". When he strode on to a stage in Washington last month, he was cheered to the rafters by 3500 prominent evangelicals — as well as by Israel's ambassador to the US, a former Israeli chief of staff and a host of US congressmen from both sides of politics. "After 25 ...
The Jews & The War God
Post Date: 2006-08-09 09:29:16 by gengis gandhi
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The Jews & The War God By Luise Light, Ed.D. 8-9-6 "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and we wept when we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof did we hang our instruments. For there, they that had taken us captive asked us for words of song. And they that had led us away asked us for a hymn, saying: Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. Let my tongue cleave to my throat, if I remember thee not, If I set not Jerusalem above all other, as at the head of my joy. Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, Who said, 'Lay waste to ...
American Madrassas - Jesus Camp
Post Date: 2006-08-08 01:43:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Saw a screening of a documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer camp in North Dakota. Right wing political agendas and slogans are mixed with born again rituals that end with most of the kids in tears. Jesus CampTears of release and joy, they would claim — the children are not physically abused. The kids are around 9 or 10 years old, recruited from various churches, and are pliant willing receptacles. They are instructed that evolution is being forced upon us by evil Godless secular humanists, that abortion must be stopped at all costs, that we must form an “army” to defeat the Godless influences, that ...
Demonizing Islam threatens religious freedom
Post Date: 2006-08-08 01:12:43 by Morgana le Fay
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When Christian activists burned a Quran in Mississippi last month, you could almost hear Osama bin Laden cheering them on. For years al-Qaida has spewed propaganda to convince Muslims that America’s “war on terrorism” is a thinly disguised “war on Islam.” Now Christian Right groups are helping to make al-Qaida’s case. The Mississippi burning of Islam’s holy book was part of an anti-abortion rally held by Operation Save America. According to their leader, the Rev. Flip Benham, this wasn’t the first Quran-burning — and won’t be the last. Islam opposes abortion, but that makes no difference to Christian groups bent on saving America from a ...
JEWISH REFERENCES ERASED IN NEWLY FOUND NAZI BIBLE
Post Date: 2006-08-07 23:58:43 by Mind_Virus
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JEWISH REFERENCES ERASED IN NEWLY FOUND NAZI BIBLE An institute in Germany has unearthed a Nazi bible ordered by Adolf Hitler to replace the old and new testaments expunged of all references to Jews. Hitler’s race theorists even rewrote the 10 commandments and added two more for good measure in the book called ’German with God’ which was – alongside Hitler’ s autobiography – meant to be required reading in every home in his Third Reich. Thou shalt not kill, coveting one’s neighbour’s wife, thou shalt not steal and all other others were scrapped by a regime that stole, murdered and plundered its way across the world. Hitler admired the ceremony and ...
Half of All Christians Have Fled Iraq Since 2003, Says Baghdad Bishop
Post Date: 2006-08-06 17:26:08 by Zipporah
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LONDON (CNS) --- Half of all Iraqi Christians have fled their country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, said the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad. Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad said that before the invasion there were about 1.2 million Christians in the predominantly Shiite Muslim state. Since then the overall number has dropped to about 600,000, he said. "What we are hearing now is the alarm bell for Christianity in Iraq," the bishop said. "When so many are leaving from a small community like ours, you know that it is dangerous -- dangerous for the future of the church in Iraq." The bishop said 75 percent of Christians from Baghdad had fled ...
GOP Operative Wants You Dead
Post Date: 2006-08-04 01:44:51 by ...
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GOP Operative Wants You Dead by Grand Moff Texan Thu Aug 03, 2006 at 12:53:33 PM PDT This man wants you dead. You and pretty much everyone else you know. Everyone who isn't already a part of his death-cult, that is. For them, the end of the world is a good thing. He wants the US to bomb Iran, not to advance US interests, but to destroy them, along with the rest of the world. He wants to light the fuse that will ignite Armageddon. It's hard to understand the thinking of a murderous cult, like Jonestown or the Branch Davidians, but here they are among us, in San Antonio in fact, operating freely while we fight religious extremism abroad. That, it seems to me, is a severe case of misplaced ...
For Sacred Indian Site, New Neighbors Are Far From Welcome
Post Date: 2006-08-04 01:31:16 by Morgana le Fay
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STURGIS, S.D., Aug. 2 — Robert Simpson pieces together a living, building ranch fences and riding saddle broncs at rodeos. When things get tough, he says, he makes a trip from his home in Montana to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he can practice the traditional ways of his tribe, the Northern Cheyenne, with four days of fasting and praying on a bed of buffalo robes and sage atop Bear Butte. “Spirits come and hear your prayers,” Mr. Simpson said. “You can regroup from everyday life, and get your marbles together. It’s peaceful.” But Bear Butte, which dozens of tribes hold as one of the most sacred sites in North America, is getting a new neighbor: a ...
Christian right steps up pro-Israel lobbying
Post Date: 2006-08-04 00:38:50 by robin
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Over the past two decades, as the Christian Right has grown in political power in the United States, there has been parallel growth in support for Israel. A number of organizations made up of conservative evangelical and Jewish leaders have been founded, and millions of dollars have been raised and donated to charities in Israel. Now, a new group plans to take it up a notch, becoming a significant presence in any political policy debates involving Israel. In mid-July, while the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict continued to escalate, Christians United for Israel (CUFI) -- an organization founded less than six months ago by Texas evangelist Rev. John C. Hagee, pastor of the 18,000-member ...
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