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ADL's Foxman Warns of Efforts To `Christianize America'
Post Date: 2006-03-01 19:35:04 by Mind_Virus
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ADL's Foxman Warns of Efforts To `Christianize America' By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz, November 6, 2005 NEW YORK - Institutionalized Christianity in the U.S. has grown so extremist that it poses a tangible danger to the principle of separation of church and state and threatens to undermine the religious tolerance that characterizes the country, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, warned in his address to the League's national commission, meeting in New York City over the weekend. "Today we face a better financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state ...
Thousands of Indians Protest Bush Visit
Post Date: 2006-03-01 10:08:48 by Brian S
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NEW DELHI - Tens of thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting "Death to Bush!" rallied Wednesday in New Delhi to protest a visit by President Bush. Surindra Singh Yadav, a senior police officer in charge of crowd control, said as many as 100,000 people, most of them Muslim, had gathered in a fairground in central New Delhi ordinarily used for political rallies. "Whether Hindu or Muslim, the people of India have gathered here to show our anger. We have only one message — killer Bush go home," one of the speakers, Hindu politician Raj Babbar, told the crowd. Bush arrives in India later Wednesday for a three-day visit focused on strengthening ...
''Da Vinci Code'' Raises Eyebrows Over Mary Magdalene, But Experts Say Intrigue Lacks Biblical Basis
Post Date: 2006-02-28 17:09:32 by Mind_Virus
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''Da Vinci Code'' Raises Eyebrows Over Mary Magdalene, But Experts Say Intrigue Lacks Biblical Basis RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer February 28, 2006 10:54 AM Redeemed sinner, prostitute, wife of Jesus? Mary Magdalene's image has gone through myriad incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season she's drawing new attention thanks to the upcoming movie version of ''The Da Vinci Code,'' a slew of books and Internet arguments. But those looking for a salacious side to the biblical figure will be disappointed: Serious religious scholars agree characterizations that stray from faithful disciple and witness to the Resurrection are bogus. Despite stage and screen portrayals, ...
Porn Industry Stoops To New Low : CAUTION: The Following Story Contains Descriptions That Some May Find Offensive
Post Date: 2006-02-28 16:01:44 by Mind_Virus
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Porn Industry Stoops To New Low By James L. Lambert February 28, 2006 CAUTION: The Following Story Contains Descriptions That Some May Find Offensive (AgapePress) - In what is further evidence of the porn industry's disdain of Christianity, an Internet-based sex toy company has begun selling items modeled after religious icons. Web-based Divine Productions goes out of its way to promote products that clearly offend and mock Christianity and the Catholic Church. Through its website, the company is offering sex toys like a "baby Jesus b--- plug," a "jackhammer Jesus," and a "diving nun." Gene McConnell is director of Authentic Relationships International, an ...
Pimp My Church: 'Catholics' Gone Wild
Post Date: 2006-02-28 15:17:20 by Mind_Virus
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Pimp My Church: 'Catholics' Gone Wild The pictures I have seen of the performance are indecent, including actresses who look under 16 in sexually provocative roles. Illustrate the depth to which the Catholic Church has sunk In Luxemburg there is a project "Pimp My Church" which is being run in a magnificent Church of St Joseph in Esch. The priest responsible is a Father Paul Galles. I asked by e-mail where is there a injunction in the Bible to "Pimp My Church" which is made to sound as if it is a command from God. Our Holy Mother is not a whore. The phrase originates from American evangelical groups; sick protestant minds . He replies: Thanks for the question. ...
ADL'S FOXMAN: MAN OF FAITH?
Post Date: 2006-02-28 11:28:24 by Mind_Virus
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ADL'S FOXMAN: MAN OF FAITH? By Rev. Ted Pike Last summer, Orthodox rabbi Daniel Lapin shocked the world by warning that "secular Judaism" was in "relentless attack against evangelical Christianity." 1 Lapin was primarily referring to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and its executive director, Abe Foxman. But are Foxman and ADL really secular? In his latest book, Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, 2 Foxman reveals that despite 41 years of association with ADL, the most anti-Christian of liberal Jewish activist groups, Foxman remains a devoutly religious Jew. Foxman entered ADL in 1965, after graduating law school. At about that time he joined ...
Man [founder of the Domino's Pizza ] To Build Catholics-Only Town
Post Date: 2006-02-27 12:17:41 by Brian S
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February 27, 2006 A FORMER marine who was raised by nuns and made a fortune selling pizza has embarked on a $540 million plan to build the first town in America to be run according to strict Catholic principles. Abortions, pornography and contraceptives will be banned in the new Florida town of Ave Maria, which has begun to take shape on former vegetable farms 145km northwest of Miami. Tom Monaghan, the founder of the Domino's Pizza chain, has stirred protests from civil rights activists by declaring that Ave Maria's pharmacies will not be allowed to sell condoms or birth control pills. The town's cable television network will carry no X-rated channels. The town will be centred on a 30m ...
ADL'S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC
Post Date: 2006-02-27 08:23:04 by Mind_Virus
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ADL'S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC By Rev. Ted Pike Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, believes anti-Semitism will last as long as Christians accept the New Testament's "lie" that the ancient Pharisees were responsible for the death of Christ. 1 In his recent book, Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, 2 Foxman claims this "deadly" 3 deception has caused untold Jewish suffering through the millennia. Such New Testament-generated hate culminated in the Holocaust, he claims - but it breaks out afresh as the "Christ-killers" charge is inferred in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ and ...
Preaching the Word and Quoting the Voice
Post Date: 2006-02-26 17:09:44 by DeaconBenjamin
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In the twilight of the biggest snowstorm in New York City's history, the pews of a rented Baptist church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan were packed for the Rev. Timothy J. Keller's fourth sermon of the day. The 600 or so who braved the snow for the evening service got what they had come to expect — a compelling discourse by Dr. Keller, this time on Jesus' healing of the paralytic, that quoted such varied sources as C. S. Lewis, The Village Voice and the George MacDonald fairy tale "The Princess and the Goblin." It was the kind of cogent, literary sermon that has helped turn Dr. Keller, a former seminary professor whose only previous pulpit experience was at a small ...
The Brutal Christ of the Armageddonites Religious fanaticism in foreign policy
Post Date: 2006-02-26 12:32:39 by Zipporah
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Most Americans don't comprehend how our nation's foreign policy is affected by a small minority of religious fundamentalists. This Vanity Fair piece on the best-selling "Left Behind" novels provides a glimpse into their worldview:
"Far from being a Prince of Peace, the Christ depicted in the 'Left Behind' series is a vengeful Messiah – so vengeful that the death and destruction he causes to unconverted Jews, to secularists, to anyone who is not born again, is far, far greater than the crimes committed by the most brutal dictators in human history. When He arrives on the scene in Glorious Appearing, Christ merely has to speak and 'men and women, soldiers and horses, ...
American "Rapture"
Post Date: 2006-02-26 12:30:05 by Zipporah
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Best-selling author and evangelical leader Tim LaHaye has contacts that extend to the White House. That could spell trouble, since his theology espouses a bloody apocalypse in Israel On a scorching afternoon in May, Tim LaHaye, the 79-year-old co-author of the "Left Behind" series of apocalyptic thrillers, leads several dozen of his acolytes up a long, winding path to a hilltop in the ancient fortress city of Megiddo, Israel. LaHaye is not a household name in the secular world, but in the parallel universe of evangelical Christians he is the ultimate cultural icon. The author or co-author of more than 75 books, LaHaye in 2001 was named the most influential American evangelical ...
Greek Catholic church appoints first Arab Israeli bishop
Post Date: 2006-02-25 21:49:43 by Zipporah
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Elias Shakur was formally elevated to a bishopric of the local Greek Catholic church yesterday, thereby becoming the first Israeli citizen ever to hold this post. Shakur, 67, is an Arab Israeli born in the Galilee village of Biram. Until now, the local Greek Catholic bishops have generally been citizens of Lebanon, Syria or Egypt. In 1999, Boutrous Mualem, who was also born in the Galilee, became a bishop, but Mualem spent most of life in Lebanon and South America. Shakur, in contrast, has lived most of his life here. The ceremony, which took place at a church that Shakur himself built at the Mar Elias campus in Kafr A'avlin, near Shfaram, was attended by all the leaders of the church ...
Outlaw Heterosexual Marriage Now!
Post Date: 2006-02-24 19:46:35 by Mind_Virus
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Outlaw Heterosexual Marriage Now! BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM 11.29.2005 | SOCIETY The divorce rate stands at just under 50 percent in the United States today--a 50 percent failure rate for that vaunted institution of marriage. And it's logical to assume that any institution consistently failing half the time should be drastically reformed, if not junked altogether. Accordingly, Congress should act to draw up a Constitutional amendment abolishing heterosexual marriage. Many will scoff. But the time is right. The gay marriage controversy has placed the issue of the curse of marriage squarely before the public. As it turns out, the outlawing of heterosexual marriage will nip the gay marriage ...
The New Dream Team: White Power And Radical Islam
Post Date: 2006-02-24 19:36:24 by Mind_Virus
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The New Dream Team: White Power And Radical Islam BY RUSS WELLEN 12.13.2005 | POLITICS Imagine if White Power and radical Islam formed an unholy alliance to end all unholy alliances? Among those who believe they already have is Lorenzo Vidino of Steven Emerson's terror-busting Investigative Project. In his new book, Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad, he writes, "Several members of European fascist and Nazi organizations expressed their support for the 9/11 attacks." According to Vidino, they're beguiled by Al Qaeda's discipline, field prowess, and heartfelt hatred of Jews. In fact, "there have been reports of contacts between their groups and ...
The Brutal Christ of the Armageddonites; Religious fanaticism in American foreign policy
Post Date: 2006-02-24 10:47:23 by Brian S
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Most Americans don't comprehend how our nation's foreign policy is affected by a small minority of religious fundamentalists. This Vanity Fair piece on the best-selling "Left Behind" novels provides a glimpse into their worldview: "Far from being a Prince of Peace, the Christ depicted in the 'Left Behind' series is a vengeful Messiah – so vengeful that the death and destruction he causes to unconverted Jews, to secularists, to anyone who is not born again, is far, far greater than the crimes committed by the most brutal dictators in human history. When He arrives on the scene in Glorious Appearing, Christ merely has to speak and 'men and women, soldiers and horses, ...
In God They Trust : A Class At Bell Shoals Baptist Church Embraces An Alternate History That Advocates The United States As A Nation By Christians For Christians
Post Date: 2006-02-24 00:04:42 by Mind_Virus
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Religion In God They Trust A Class At Bell Shoals Baptist Church Embraces An Alternate History That Advocates The United States As A Nation By Christians For Christians. By Times Staff Writer Published February 24, 2006 VALRICO - In an unadorned classroom at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday, about 30 men and women are sitting in metal folding chairs, praying. "Lord," one man says in a low voice. "We come together tonight to really look into the history of America, Father, how your hand has really been on this country." "Amen," the others murmur. This is the Christians in Government class at Bell Shoals Baptist Church. Students in this class want to remake America. ...
Catholic Boycott Backfires: South Park Gets Record Audience
Post Date: 2006-02-23 23:35:19 by Mind_Virus
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Boycott Backfires: South Park Gets Record Audience Last Updated Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:01:13 EST CBC Arts (From left) Kenny, Cartman, Kyle and Stan star in the hit series 'South Park.' (Getty Images) An appeal from the Catholic Church for New Zealanders to boycott an episode of South Park has resulted in a record audience there for the controversial cartoon. The "Bloody Mary" episode of South Park drew more than six times the normal audience, New Zealand broadcaster TV Works announced Thursday. The episode, which aired Wednesday night, was seen by 210,000 viewers, according to Rick Friesen, the broadcaster's chief operating officer. "I expected a bit of a rise, but not ...
Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted
Post Date: 2006-02-23 16:31:15 by Starwind
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DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture. The church says the studies are being twisted to attack its beliefs. By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago. "We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God." A few years ago, Loayza ...
Virgin Mary Cartoon Stirs Debate Over Freedom To Offend
Post Date: 2006-02-22 14:04:15 by Mind_Virus
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Virgin Mary Cartoon Stirs Debate Over Freedom To Offend By Patrick Goodenough http://CNSNews.com International Editor February 22, 2006 http://(CNSNews.com) - While the Mohammed cartoon controversy rages around the world, a television channel in New Zealand was under fire Wednesday for a decision to show an episode of the South Park comedy series featuring a menstruating statue of the Virgin Mary. The episode, entitled "Bloody Mary," originally was scheduled to air in May, but after a religious row erupted, the network decided to move it up to Wednesday. Earlier, Catholic bishops wrote to TV Works, a New Zealand subsidiary of the Canadian media company CanWest, and urged it to ...
Clinton man forced from Harvard helm
Post Date: 2006-02-22 10:07:03 by Tauzero
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Clinton man forced from Harvard helm February 23, 2006 NEW YORK: A growing rebellion by Harvard dons has toppled Lawrence Summers as president of the oldest and most prestigious university in the US. Facing a no-confidence vote by the faculty next week, the former Treasury secretary to Bill Clinton announced on Tuesday he would step down at the end of the academic year after five turbulent years at the helm. The revolt was triggered by his suggestion at an economics seminar that women's "intrinsic aptitude" might explain why so few women became professors of mathematics and science. He later apologised for the remarks. Mr Summers's resignation ends the briefest tenure of any ...
Is Darwin Holy?
Post Date: 2006-02-22 09:21:49 by Phaedrus
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"The great sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim called the contrast between the sacred and the profane the widest and deepest of all contrasts the human mind is capable of making," wrote the late Robert Nisbet. "Everything above the level of the instinctual, Durkheim concluded, began in human veneration, awe, reverence of the sacred -- be it a god, spirit, grove of trees, or lake or stream. Religion in the sense of gods, churches, liturgies, and bibles emerged in due time from the primitive sacred essence. So did the rest of human culture, its signs, symbols, words, drawings, and acts." A fascinating observation. I happened to run across it while I was marveling at ...
Europe Forsakes Christianity For Islam?
Post Date: 2006-02-21 18:28:03 by Mind_Virus
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Europe Forsakes Christianity For Islam? By Dale Hurd CBN News Sr. Reporter http://CBN.com – Welcome to post-Christian Europe, a land filled with beautiful monuments to an ancient religion that few Europeans practice anymore or know much about. While Christianity is still very relevant in the United States, and is exploding in the developing world, Europe today has sunk below unbelief, and is now labeled "Christophobic" and "anti-religious." While an American might look at a church building and think nice thoughts, that's rarely the case with a European, especially here in France, where religion is more likely to be associated with oppression, irrelevance, or ...
Jesus Cartoons Everywhere And Christians Are Not Rioting
Post Date: 2006-02-21 12:52:11 by Mind_Virus
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Jesus Cartoons Everywhere And Christians Are Not Rioting February 21, 2006 Bird of Paradise I "Googled" and "Alta-Vista-ed" the phrase "Jesus Cartoon" this morning and found that there were quite a few to choose from. Most were from Christian sites, some from anti-Christian sites, some were whimsical, some were coarse and degrading, many were from European sites (mostly German with cartoon dialogues that defied translation by Babel Fish). There were even political cartoons from American newspapers. When I was finished I checked for "Muhammed Cartoon" and found . . . nothing. Google and Alta Vista have apparently blocked access to the many Muhammed ...
U.S. Supreme Court Says Church Can Use Hallucinogen in Ritual
Post Date: 2006-02-21 11:44:06 by Brian S
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, saying law enforcement goals in some cases must yield to religious rights, ruled that the Bush administration can't block a New Mexico church from using a hallucinogenic tea. In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the court today said the church, a 130-member branch of a Brazilian denomination, is protected by the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The justices upheld a preliminary injunction barring federal prosecution of church leaders. The case put the Bush administration in the unusual position of opposing religious groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of ...
The ADL/ACLU Anti-Prayer Axis
Post Date: 2006-02-20 12:11:34 by Mind_Virus
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The ADL/ACLU Anti-Prayer Axis Written by Don Feder Sunday, February 19, 2006 The Anti-Defamation League is running neck-and-neck with the American Civil Liberties Union in competition for the coveted title: Most Despised Group in America. Both are involved in a concerted effort to purge expressions of faith and religious symbols from our public life. The ADL is making up for its late entry into the field with a newcomer’s enthusiasm. In late January, Andrew Rosenkranz wrote to the Village of Wellington, Florida, in Palm Beach County, demanding that invocations at meetings of the village council be “inclusive” and “fair” – i.e. not invoke the name of Jesus. ...
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