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Latest Articles: Religion
Barack Obama's race speech is a knowledge test, not a Rorschach Test
Post Date: 2008-03-21 11:52:32 by Peppa
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Yesterday I came across comments that Barack Obama's race speech is a "Rorschach Test;" i.e., if you support Obama you think it's a great speech and if you don't, you think the speech is awful. That view is a cop-out by people who are too poorly informed about black liberation theology and Barack's past to provide an objective analysis of the speech. Obama depended on widespread ignorance of such matters to pull the wool over America's eyes about his church -- just as he depends on widespread ignorance of Chicago political corruption and the intricacies of his relationship with Tony Rezko to dupe the gullible. I also came across mention yesterday that in ...
Biblical Guidance for Voting
Post Date: 2008-03-21 10:03:54 by snoopdougg
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A recent e-mail exchange on the subject of this fall’s election prompted these thoughts on Romans 12 and how Christians should vote. While the Bible says nothing about voting, it does guide us on how we should live. Its advice for living applies everywhere, including the voting booth. I wrote the following in an e-mail to SG. “Hillary, Obama, and McCain are all cut from the same cloth. Oh sure, they talk a little bit differently. However, they are ALL for endless socialism, endless war, UN membership and the surrender of our independence, open borders, a full-blown police state and abortion on demand of 1 million babies per year. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!!! Don't vote for ANY ...
2008 Election And Religion
Post Date: 2008-03-21 05:04:46 by Zoroaster
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The Huffington Post Welcome | Edit preferences | Logout | March 21, 2008 Log In | Sign Up | March 21, 2008 Home Politics Media Business Entertainment Living More on HuffPost... Politics HuffPolitics OffTheBus Fundrace Media Eat The Press Business Entertainment Living All Blogs All News 23/6 23/6 Home > The Blogs > Cenk Uygur Site Web Cenk Uygur BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Similar Bloggers Different Standards for Black and White Preachers Posted March 19, 2008 | 11:50 AM (EST) Read More: 2008 Election, 2008 Election And Religion, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Race Speech, Black Preachers, Catholic Church, Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, John McCain, Media Coverage ...
The peculiar theology of black liberation
Post Date: 2008-03-20 23:24:13 by mirage
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Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people". At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy. What played out last week on America's television screens was a clash of two irreconcilable cultures, the posture of "black liberation theology" and the mainstream American understanding of Christianity. Obama, who presented himself as a unifying figure, now seems rather the living embodiment of the clash. One of the strangest ...
Darkness at Full Moon?
Post Date: 2008-03-20 14:39:05 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Thallus' Statement To Be Explored "For the Hebrews celebrate the passover on the 14th day according to the moon . . . but an eclipse of the sun takes place only when the moon comes under the sun." - Julius Africanus, THE EXTANT FRAGMENTS OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF THE CHRONOGRAPHY OF JULIUS AFRICANUS Consideration If we look for natural events - a solar eclipse - to explain the darkness that occurred during the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, we must explain away the existence of the full moon. Our first piece of information is found in John 19:14-16 where we are told that Jesus died on a Friday just before the Passover. This is important because the Jews schedule the Passover ...
The Bland, Meaningless and Unthreatening Religion of the Ruling Class
Post Date: 2008-03-20 04:01:27 by Zoroaster
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Once Upon a Time... March 17, 2008 The Bland, Meaningless and Unthreatening Religion of the Ruling Class I'll have a lengthier consideration of certain issues arising out of the Obama-Jeremiah Wright fracas very soon. For the moment, I'd like to focus on one particular aspect of this faux-controversy. I'm listening to Rush Limbaugh on the general topic. Limbaugh, of course, is delighted by anything at all that causes disarray and distress for and among the Democrats, thus perhaps accruing to the Republicans' advantage. I'm delighted by it too, but for rather different reasons. My fervent desire is that most Americans are so disgusted by everything about the ruling ...
Hillary's Nasty Pastorate (must read)
Post Date: 2008-03-19 19:43:03 by Indrid Cold
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There's a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama. You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that "through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as "The "Fellowship," a k a The Family. But it won't be a secret much longer. ...
Legend of the Dogwood Tree
Post Date: 2008-03-19 19:36:14 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Legend of The Dogwood Tree Story Two thousand years ago, few trees in the Middle East were big enough to construct anything. However, one tree was valued above the others for its thick trunk and fine, strong wood. When the Romans came to rule over Jerusalem, their government used this same timber to build the crosses for executing criminals. A group of workers were assigned to gather wood for the crosses. Before long, every Roman official knew the best wood came from these gatherers of execution wood, so those workers became popular. One day, the wood gatherers received a special request. An officer of the Roman court came and said, "The King of Jews is to be put to death. Deliver ...
SATELLITE PHOTOS REVEAL CONFIRMATION OF EPHRAIM'S RETURN WRITTEN IN JERUSALEM MOUNTAIN FORMATIONS
Post Date: 2008-03-19 19:26:40 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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[excerpt from A "Bible Revelations" Presentation - Created Nov. 2000, updated Dec.16, 2007 End-Time Joining together of the Two Houses of Israel Behold! - the miraculous fulfillment of Prophecy before our eyes. After 2700 years of lost Identity amongst the nations of the world, the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, the 'Skeleton' of Ezekiel's Prophecy - is coming ALIVE! Proof that we are standing at the dawn of the establishment of God's Kingdom on earth! This page will bring you the relevant Scriptural details and updated News and Reviews in this amazing Drama of the fulfillment of Prophecy which is taking shape right before our eyes! If the Return of Judah (the ...
The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers
Post Date: 2008-03-19 06:37:51 by Ada
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Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein are arguing about whether Jeremiah Wright's statements are comparable to those of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee's. To argue that they're not comparable, Douthat -- like most people commenting on this raging controversy -- conflates two entirely separate analytical issues: (1) Given their close and long-standing personal relationship, does Wright merit more scrutiny vis-a-vis Obama than white, radical evangelical ministers merit vis-a-vis Republican politicians? and, (2) Are the statements of white evangelical ministers subjected to the same standards of judgment as those being applied to Wright's statements? Even if the answer ...
The Despoiling of America -- How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State
Post Date: 2008-03-18 22:32:17 by richard9151
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With Editorial and Research Assistant Laurie Hall Originally Published by the Yurica Report The First Prince of the Theocratic States of America It happened quietly, with barely a mention in the media. Only the Washington Post dutifully reported it.[1] And only Kevin Phillips saw its significance in his new book, American Dynasty.[2] On December 24, 2001, Pat Robertson resigned his position as President of the Christian Coalition. Behind the scenes religious conservatives were abuzz with excitement. They believed Robertson had stepped down to allow the ascendance of the President of the United States of America to take his rightful place as the head of the true American Holy Christian ...
The Children of Palestine and Israel -- Cannon Fodder For The Rapture
Post Date: 2008-03-18 21:33:44 by richard9151
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18/03/08 "ICH" -- - Safa Abu Saif, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was visiting a friend’s apartment when the bullet fired from an Israeli rifle slammed into her chest, punching a gaping exit wound in her back. No ambulance could reach her because of the fighting. Safa died in her father’s arms three hours after being shot. Danielle Shafi, a 5-year-old Israeli girl, was killed by the bullet fired from a Palestinian rifle as her mother combed her hair in the child’s upstairs bedroom. Drenched in the blood of her wound, Danielle slowly stopped breathing and died in her mother’s arms minutes after being shot. According to a United Nation’s report, 971 ...
Obama Race Speech: The Full Text [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-18 11:13:50 by ghostdogtxn
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Achieving Harmony Through Diversity
Post Date: 2008-03-17 22:51:41 by Dakmar
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Peoples, races, tribes and communities might have different and varied customs, habits, tastes, character, inclinations and ideas. Their opinions and thoughts are often contrary to one another. Yet it is possible for unity to be revealed and perfect accord among human souls to exist. Don't different notes in music blend to strike a perfect chord? Separately, each note is so different from the other. When strung together with care, they make beautiful music, and harmony is created. Differences are of two kinds. One is the cause of annihilation and is like the antipathy existing among warring nations and conflicting tribes who seek each other's destruction, uprooting one ...
A Christmas Promise : THE SCEPTER OF JUDAH
Post Date: 2008-03-17 15:54:22 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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A Christmas Promise: The Scepter of Judah by Chuck Missler One of the most familiar "Christmas Card" verses is found in Isaiah: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. Isaiah 9:6-7 [ http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Isa/9/7.html ] As we mentioned earlier, David's throne didn't exist in ...
Time to Resurrect Him, Jesus Entombed in Heaven
Post Date: 2008-03-17 05:39:36 by Zoroaster
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Weekend Edition March 15 / 16, 2008 Time to Resurrect Him Jesus, Entombed in Heaven By Rev. WILLIAM ALBERTS Religion should humanize people. Enable them to live together. To recognize each other's similarities. Respect each other's differences. Affirm each other's rights. Religion should create unity not uniformity. It should embrace people's diversity and connectedness, their individuality and commonality, their uniqueness and oneness. Religion should equalize not marginalize. Harmonize not imperialize. Inspire people to empathize not demonize. Lead them to empower not impose. To love their neighbor as themselves. Yet the very prophet who taught this humanizing ...
Theocracy Rejected: Former Christian Right Leaders 'Fess up
Post Date: 2008-03-17 00:12:49 by richard9151
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Posted March 10, 2008. Frank Schaeffer, John Whitehead and Cal Thomas have repudiated the theocratic movement they once led. Here’s why. Frank Schaeffer spent several years making a good living writing books promoting the Religious Right's worldview and speaking before rapturous crowds of fundamentalist Christians. Schaeffer, the son of evangelical guru Francis Schaeffer, was the closest thing to a rock star that politically conservative fundamentalism can offer. As the Religious Right soared in the 1980s, Schaeffer was there to ride the wave. Young, bright and charismatic, he could have founded his own Religious Right group or perhaps even launched a political career. Twenty ...
First Christian church opens in Qatar
Post Date: 2008-03-16 16:54:57 by robin
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DOHA, Qatar - Thousands of worshippers gathered Saturday for the consecration of Qatar's first Christian church, ending decades of underground worship in this Sunni Muslim and deeply conservative Persian Gulf nation. Cardinal Ivan Diaz, envoy to Pope Benedict XVI, presented the new Roman Catholic parish of Our Lady of the Rosary with a chalice offered by the pope. Many congregants wept when a relic of Saint Padre Pio da Pietrelcina was dedicated in the five-hour mass. Three dozen bishops and priests gathered to celebrate the mass, which was conducted in English with prayers in the Tagalog language from the Philippines, Hindi, Arabic and other languages. "It is a wonderful day ...
The Nonviolent Palm Sunday and the Nonviolent Holy Week of 33 AD
Post Date: 2008-03-16 09:26:23 by Zoroaster
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The Nonviolent Palm Sunday and the Nonviolent Holy Week of 33 AD by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy DIGG THIS As there are uses and abuses, by commission and omission, of history, theology, sociology, psychology, etc., in the service of ideology and politics, so also there are uses and abuses by commission and omission of religious liturgy for the same purposes. Just in case your Palm Sunday and Holy Week liturgies do not communicate it clearly, or just in case your priest, minister, bishop, preacher or pastor do not tell you it from the pulpit, Palm Sunday and Holy Week are 100% about the victorious and salvific Nonviolent Coming of God into His ...
10. Re-Judaizing Jesus
Post Date: 2008-03-15 14:24:13 by robin
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Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2008 Re-Judaizing Jesus By David Van Biema Recently a popular blogger — let's call him Rabbi Ben — zinged the scholarship of a man we shall call Rabbi Rob. R. Ben claimed R. Rob did not "understand the difference between Judaism prior to the two Jewish wars in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. and later Mishnaic and Talmudic Judaism." He helpfully provided a syllabus. Actually, neither man is a rabbi. (Sorry.) Ben Witherington is a Methodist New Testament scholar, and Rob Bell a rising Michigan megapastor. Yet each regards sources like the Mishnah and Rabbi Akiva as vital to understanding history's best-known Jew: Jesus. This is seismic. For ...
Obama's fiery former pastor becomes political liability
Post Date: 2008-03-15 00:15:57 by richard9151
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1 hour, 1 minute ago http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080315/ts_alt_afp/usvotereligionwright_08031503071 9;_ylt=AmKfW02TojIcOM30SXaGY3xh24cA CHICAGO (AFP) - After nearly two decades serving as a mentor and moral guide to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Reverend Jeremiah Wright may become his biggest liability as he closes in on the Democratic nomination. Obama on Friday was forced to publicly denounce Wright's controversial remarks in video clips of his sermons of months and years past, after they threatened to turn into a major campaign issue. "I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama wrote in a blog ...
Navy chaplain who called for attack on Islam finds his credentials under scrutiny
Post Date: 2008-03-14 20:53:23 by robin
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Navy chaplain who called for attack on Islam finds his credentials under scrutinyBy Jason LeopoldOnline Journal Contributing Writer Mar 13, 2008, 01:06 On paper, Lieutenant Commander Brian K. Waite, a United States Navy chaplain, appears to be one of the nation's foremost scholars on a wide range of topics such as traumatology, theology, and Biblical history. According to the July 2005 issue of "Tower Notes," the newsletter of the Graduate Theological Foundation, where Waite is the Father Francis Duffy Professor of Military Chaplaincy, the Navy chaplain's official biography states that he holds two doctorates, a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Georgia's ...
The My Lai Massacre Revisited
Post Date: 2008-03-14 12:21:12 by Zoroaster
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eyey The My Lai Massacre Revisited by Gary G. Kohls by Gary G. Kohls DIGG THIS Forty years ago this week, on March 16,1968, a company of US Army combat soldiers from the Americal Division swept into the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed residents, all women, children, babies and a few old men, and executed them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons were found in the village, and the whole operation took only 4 hours. Although there was a serious attempt to cover-up this operation (which involved a young up-and-coming US Army Major named Colin Powell), those who orchestrated this "business-as-usual" war zone atrocity did not deny the details of the ...
Martin Luther's Tragic Mistake [...or was it? Classic Luther diatribe against the Jews]
Post Date: 2008-03-12 16:24:14 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Jun 29, 2005 NOTE: This installment is part of Dr. Luther's treatise which has been used for acts of hatred against the Jewish people. I am running this series that we may learn from Dr. Luther's tragic mistake and, hopefully, prevent a repeat in the future what has happened in the past. A I have covered the topic of "Who Killed Jesus of Nazareth" in a previous article. Please feel free to read that piece for my thoughts on the topic. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the Discussion Forum. While Luther was a man of great importance and influence, not every thing Luther said, thought, or wrote is inspired by God. This treatise is definitely not from God, nor ...
BIRTH OF CHRIST RECALCULATED [...and the Heavenly Signs that accompanied His birth]
Post Date: 2008-03-12 12:52:48 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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BIRTH OF CHRIST RECALCULATED 1. Preliminary Considerations 1. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that Christ was born in 3BC rather than the commonly accepted years of anywhere from 4 to 7BC. 2. This evidence is based upon modern discoveries in the fields of history, archaeology, and astronomy. 3. The new information dovetails with the chronological statements of early Christian Fathers that Christ was born in 3 or 2BC and with the natural reading of Scripture to this effect. 4. We will learn why Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem during a Roman census. 5. We will learn the identity of the star associated with the Magi (astrologers/astronomers). 6. More than all this, ...
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