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Latest Articles: Religion
Filipinos Celebrate Good Friday with Nails, Blood
Post Date: 2005-03-26 09:52:57 by 2Trievers
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CUTUD, Philippines (Reuters) - Filipinos marked Good Friday by retracing Jesus Christ's last steps and reliving his crucifixion with nails, whips and blood. The gory rituals in several parts of the heavily Roman Catholic country are not sanctioned by the Church as part of Easter but have become a magnet for the curious and devout during a week of prayer, shopping, visiting and little work. With millions on the move and churches packed, security forces were on full alert after Muslim rebels vowed to avenge the killing of 22 comrades during a recent jail siege. Abu Sayyaf, linked to al Qaeda and regional militants from Jemaah Islamiah, is a small but deadly group that claimed three ...
Open Letter to Alex Jones
Post Date: 2005-03-25 23:19:54 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Dear Mr. Jones After having listened to your radio show for years and having watched most of your films I am greatly disapointed. You have given your audience much to expound on and conclude about certain elements of the New World Order but you fail to connect the dots for them. Wether you want your viewers to connect the dots for themselves, so you avoid being taken off air, is a mystery to me. You give all the groundwork for the New World Order but you will not tell the truth about the Judeo-Masonic headship of it. Are you afraid of loosing your show? Are you afraid of getting killed like Cooper, Webb, JFK, and others? Are you afraid of being imprisoned illegally like Fritz Springmeier? ...
REVELATIONS
Post Date: 2005-03-25 15:55:17 by hfrancis
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Revelations Performed in the UK in the early 90's You're in the right place. It's Bill. I'm living out in Los Angeles now so, you know, I like coming over here, you know, for the weather. You guys have weather. Cool. Los Angeles, every day, hot and sunny, today, hot and sunny, tomorrow, hot and, for the rest of the... hot and sunny, every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. "Isn't great, every day, hot and sunny?" What are you, a fucking lizard? Only reptiles feel that way about this kind of weather. I'm a mammal, I can afford coats, scarves, cappuccino and rosy cheeked women. LA is the home of the pedestrian right of way law. What this law is, is if a pedestrian ...
America's Worst Scandal: The 14th Amendment
Post Date: 2005-03-23 18:29:49 by CWRWinger
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America's Worst Scandal: The 14th Amendment, by J. A. Davis Funny how flashbacks of the memory work. Just the other day my mind wouldn't dismiss something I read in 1957. It was a column in U. S. News and World Report titled "There is No 14th Amendment" by the then editor, David Lawrence. Regularly, throughout all these years that column comes to mind frequently. I can't recall all of it accurately but I would like to hit on some memorable highlights. Some you know of these facts but you need to refresh yourself regularly and even more make sure your children and grandchildren are familiar with them. What was the greatest scandal in America's history? Mr. Lawrence said it was ...
Voters Deciding Whether To Recall Official Over Pledge(refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance before board meetings.)
Post Date: 2005-03-23 11:05:29 by hfrancis
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TheDenverChannel.com Voters Deciding Whether To Recall Official Over Pledge Estes Park Recall Election Generating Lot Of Interest POSTED: 8:46 am MST March 22, 2005 UPDATED: 9:31 am MST March 22, 2005 A recall election is scheduled in Estes Park Tuesday for a town trustee who has refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance before board meetings. David Habecker sits while others stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. David Habecker, 59, refuses to stand and say the pledge because of the phrase "under God." He said the phrase violates his religious convictions and invites religion into a government function, violating the U.S. Constitution. Those who signed the recall petition said ...
Episcopal Church's Office of Women's Ministries removes pagan ritual from
Post Date: 2005-03-22 20:25:56 by Don
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Episcopal Church's Office of Women's Ministries removes pagan ritual from website. "We have been astounded and grateful for the number of people who have taken an interest in The Office of Women's Ministries of the Episcopal Church through Christianity Today's recent weblog," begins a press release from that office today. "We profoundly regret that Christianity Today did not contact us before making claims such as, 'leaders of the Episcopal Church USA are promoting pagan rites to pagan deities.'" Let's get one thing out of the way. Here's what we've (Christianity Today) repeatedly said, and this message is linked at the end of every Weblog posting: "Weblog is a ...
Thousands are drawn to Bay doctor believing that he heals with prayer
Post Date: 2005-03-22 17:37:37 by Red Jones
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Thousands are drawn to Bay doctor believing that he heals with prayer Saturday, March 19, 2005 Sarah Crump and David Briggs The sick and desperate come by the thousands because they have heard stories of miracles. They line up for hours at Cleveland Catholic church altars for the touch of a 50-year-old Bay Village man who says that from the time he was a boy, he knew he would do something great for God. Dr. Issam Nemeh is not surprised by the turnout. "Even as a small child, I saw thousands coming," he said in short, quiet phrases that carry the accent of his native Damascus, Syria. "I always knew this was my calling." Nemeh (pronounced Name-y) will minister ...
Juan Cole on the Republican Taliban
Post Date: 2005-03-22 10:30:26 by hfrancis
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Today's Informed Comment has an excellent entry comparing the Republican's behavior on Terri Schiavo to Islamic hisba. Hisba allows an individual to bring a court case when they think religion has been harmed, even in a case where they have no interest. The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats, whether deliberately or accidentally, the tactics of Muslim fundamentalists and theocrats in places like Egypt and Pakistan. These tactics involve a disturbing tendency to make private, intimate decisions matters of public interest and then to bring the courts and the legislature to bear on them. President George W. Bush and Republican congressional leaders like ...
N.C. school district teaches kids to find Jesus by smell
Post Date: 2005-03-21 13:24:31 by hfrancis
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Mon Mar 21st, 2005 at 08:45:34 PST In just another example of the ways in which religious idiots are taking over our country, an elementary school teacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had students learning from a creationist textbook that contains the following gems: "God has a niche for each creature He has created, down to the tiniest microscopic being. He also has a niche for each person He has created. As Christians, we can trust Him to show us our niche in life -- where we fit into His plan for the world and for His kingdom." SCENTS MAKE SENSE "God's word tells us about a kind of odor only Christians have. 'For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ ...' (2 ...
Pet store owner: Satan's image on turtle's shell
Post Date: 2005-03-21 11:05:46 by hfrancis
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MICHIGANTOWN, Indiana (AP) -- An Indiana pet store owner says he sees the image of Satan on the shell of a turtle that was the only survivor of a store fire in October. The palm-sized red-eared slider turtle, named Lucky, was the only animal to survive the fire at Dora's A-Dora-ble Pet Shop in nearby Frankfort, about 40 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Owner Bryan Dora now says he sees Satan's face on the critter's shell. He can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky's back. "The marking on the shell was like the devil wanted us to know he was down there," Bryan Dora said. "To me, it's too coincidental that the only thing to come out ...
National Trauma, Church Drama: The Cultural Politics of Christian Fear
Post Date: 2005-03-21 00:56:58 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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National Trauma, Church Drama: The Cultural Politics of Christian Fear Fear has become a righteous tool for spreading Jesus' word and Republican politics. It's also a great moneymaker. Ethan Blue Issue #72, February 2005 Red states and blue states, the heartland versus the decadent city. Like many, I'm wary of these too-easy distinctions for the political effects they create, and the illusion of a homogeneous religious movement based on so-called "family values." But, living in central Virginia for the past few years, if in the admittedly "blue" town of Charlottesville, I knew that the politics of the Christian right were very real, and very serious factors in ...
PILGRIMS RETRACE JESUS' TRIP TO JERUSALEM
Post Date: 2005-03-20 18:20:43 by rowdee
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(AP) Backdropped by east Jerusalem s Old City, Christian altarboys and priests walk down the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, some holding palm leaves, during the traditional Palm Sunday procession, Sunday March 20, 2005. Palm Sunday, which begins the Christian church's most solemn period, marks for Christians Jesus Christ's entrance into Jerusalem, when his followers laid palm branches in his path, before his crucifixion.AP Photo/ Oded Balilty) JERUSALEM (AP) - Thousands of Christian pilgrims, the crowd swelled by foreigners taking advantage of a lull in Israeli-Palestinian violence, waved palm fronds Sunday as they marched from the Mount of Olives into the Jerusalem's Old City to ...
Transformed by the Light--Daniel Rosenblit near-death experience
Post Date: 2005-03-19 18:34:15 by christine
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A Judgment Day Experience Daniel Rosenblit was not beneath ridiculing people who practiced religion or believed in God. He believed that religious people were weak-minded and that religion was their crutch. But all that changed in 1978 when, after weeks of failing health, he died and was forced to "face the music." While dead, he was shown true reality for the first time - from God's perspective. While dead in body he was tutored by God Himself. Daniel was taught the “spirit of the law" and how "the letter killeth," but "the spirit giveth life." Daniel returned from bodily death and his private tutoring session with God and was given his divine ...
Boston Archbishop Will Wash Women's Feet in Annual Holy Week Rite
Post Date: 2005-03-19 18:04:36 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Boston Archbishop Will Wash Women's Feet in Annual Holy Week Rite The Associated Press Published: Mar 19, 2005 BOSTON (AP) - Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley has decided to wash the feet of both women and men during this year's Holy Thursday foot-washing ritual, a year after angering Catholic women by washing only men's feet. O'Malley decision, which came after consulting with the Vatican, drew immediate praise from advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church. "I really applaud his flexibility and his willingness to interact with the Vatican over this and to reflect on the needs of the archdiocese," said Lisa Sowle Cahill, a professor of theology at ...
Judge Refuses to Let Cousins Marry
Post Date: 2005-03-19 17:30:27 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Judge Refuses to Let Cousins Marry HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A county judge refused to make an exception for two first cousins who want to marry, even though the couple assured the judge they don't want to have children. Blair County Judge Jolene Kopriva on Thursday denied the marriage license application for first cousins Eleanor Amrhein, 46, and Donald W. Andrews Sr., 39, of Logan Township. The couple say they have been together for several years, but Kopriva said state law bars first cousins from marrying because of an increased likelihood their children will have birth defects. The couple petitioned for an exception after a court clerk rejected their license application earlier in ...
'Satan' Said to Appear on Turtle's Shell
Post Date: 2005-03-19 17:06:46 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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'Satan' Said to Appear on Turtle's Shell MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. (AP) -- Could it be... Satan? A central Indiana pet shop owner says a turtle that was the only animal to survive an October fire has developed an image of Satan's face on its shell. Bryan Dora says it looks like the devil wants us to know that he was there. Dora says he can see a goatee and a pair of pointy horns on the shell of the palm-sized red-eared slider turtle named Lucky. He says Lucky is healthy and its behavior hasn't changed. Investigators could not determine the cause of the fire, which destroyed the A-Dora-ble Pet Shop and several other businesses in Frankfort, about 40 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Dora has ...
Ecumenism undergoing 'radical change' in 21st century, cardinal says
Post Date: 2005-03-18 19:54:56 by Don
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NEWS BRIEFS Mar-17-2005 By Catholic News Service U.S. Ecumenism undergoing 'radical change' in 21st century, cardinal says NEW YORK (CNS) -- The president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity told a New York audience March 16 that ecumenism was the will of Jesus and central to the task of the church, but could not simply continue in the path it took in the past century. Speaking of a "chaotic situation" brought by a "new fragmentation," Cardinal Walter Kasper said the ecumenical movement was currently "undergoing a most radical change." "The enthusiasm of the '60s and '70s has dissipated by now," he said. "We must prepare ...
Jury Holds San Francisco Archdiocese Liable for Child Molestation
Post Date: 2005-03-18 15:20:27 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Jury Holds San Francisco Archdiocese Liable for Child Molestation By Kim Curtis Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 18, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Archdiocese of San Francisco knew or should have known that one of its priests was molesting boys during the 1970s, a jury decided Friday in a landmark case. The jury will now decide how much to award the victim. By a 10-2 vote, jurors decided in favor of 47-year-old Dennis Kavanaugh, who had sued the archdiocese, alleging that the late Rev. Joseph Pritchard had molested him during the early 1970s. Kavanaugh's was the first of more than 750 lawsuits against Roman Catholic dioceses in California to go to trial since California ...
Teen girls' Bible talks of oral sex, lesbianism
Post Date: 2005-03-18 14:48:23 by Red Jones
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Teen girls' Bible talks of oral sex, lesbianism Critic says publication smears 'filthy graffiti across the Word of God' Posted: March 18, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Ron Strom © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A Bible created especially for girls age 13-16 that includes profiles of fictional teenagers discussing oral sex, lesbianism and "dream" guys is drawing sharp criticism from some Christian parents who say such material should not appear alongside Scripture. The "True Images" Bible, published by Zondervan, promises on its dustcover to "strengthen your relationship with God, family, friends and guys." While the book includes the entire text of the New ...
20 Million Copies Later, Vatican Says Don't Read 'Da Vinci Code'
Post Date: 2005-03-18 07:00:05 by crack monkey
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20 Million Copies Later, Vatican Says Don't Read 'Da Vinci Code' The bestseller is a pack of lies that maligns Jesus and harms Catholicism, a cardinal announces. By Tracy Wilkinson Times Staff Writer March 18, 2005 ROME — OK, so maybe author Dan Brown takes a few liberties. Jesus wasn't divine, after all; he married Mary Magdalene, a woman of possible ill repute, and they had kids. What's the fuss? This now-famous premise shaping Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" has infuriated leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and led to demands from a senior Vatican official that the book be shunned. "My appeal is as follows," Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said this week ...
Preachers Taking to New Pulpit: The Internet
Post Date: 2005-03-17 16:10:46 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Preachers Taking to New Pulpit: The Internet By Stephanie Schorow Boston Herald 03/17/05 5:00 AM PT Jumping on the podcasting bandwagon are preachers and just plain folks with faith-based shows from various perspectives -- Jewish, Catholic, Unitarian, Tibetan Buddhism and paganism. There's even a "PsalmCast podcast." That old-time religion has met that new technology. In something dubbed "Godcasting," spiritual pundits are spreading the good word via audio shows downloaded from the Internet to iPods or portable MP3 players. "I think this is huge," said Rick Wezowicz, online streaming manager for WGBH in Boston. He began producing the podcast ICM Raw, ...
Top Italian Cardinal Is Out to Break 'Code' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-03-17 07:00:06 by crack monkey
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Top Italian Cardinal Is Out to Break 'Code' By Daniel Williams Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 17, 2005; Page C01 ROME -- As is just about everywhere else in the world, Rome is awash in editions of "The Da Vinci Code," the blockbuster whodunit with a narrative that includes a Vatican coverup of an explosive theological secret: Jesus was married! Despite the heretical plot twist, in which Jesus fathered a child with his wife, Mary Magdalene, Dan Brown's novel was on sale at the bookstore of Gemelli Polyclinic, the Rome hospital where Pope John Paul II underwent a tracheotomy last month and spent 18 days recovering before being released Sunday. Well, enough is ...
Cleft Lip Abortion "Done in good Faith"
Post Date: 2005-03-16 22:15:32 by noone222
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Cleft lip abortion done 'in good faith' James Meikle, health correspondent Thursday March 17, 2005 The Guardian Doctors and health officials will consider whether more guidance on abortions is needed following the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute two doctors who authorised a late abortion on a foetus with a cleft lip and palate. Jim England, the chief crown prosecutor for West Mercia, said the doctors believed, in good faith, that there was a substantial risk the child would be seriously handicapped. "In these circumstances, I decided that there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that there should be no charges against ...
Paranoia grips the U.S. capital
Post Date: 2005-03-16 17:30:59 by boonie rat
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Sun, February 6, 2005 Paranoia grips the U.S. capital By Eric Margolis -- Contributing Foreign Editor The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro." Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are ...
JERUSALEM -- A grassroots Jewish organization plans to bring 10,000 Jews next month to the heavily restricted Temple Mount to spark Israeli dialogue about reclaiming the holy site from its Muslim custodians.
Post Date: 2005-03-16 11:34:48 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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JERUSALEM -- A grassroots Jewish organization plans to bring 10,000 Jews next month to the heavily restricted Temple Mount to spark Israeli dialogue about reclaiming the holy site from its Muslim custodians. "The Temple Mount is the single holiest place in the world for Jews. It's about time the Israeli government restores it to the Jewish people, where it belongs," David Ha'ivri, chairman of Revava, the group orchestrating the gathering, told WND. The visit, scheduled for April 10, would be the largest Jewish presence at the Temple Mount since the ancient Temple period, said Haivri. The Mount is the area directly behind the Western Wall in Jerusalem. It is the site of ...
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