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Latest Articles: Religion
Benedict vs. the War Party
Post Date: 2007-04-11 05:52:19 by Ada
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Neocon 'theologian': Benedict XVI is pope of the 'American Left' Pope Benedict XVI, in his annual "Urbi et Orbi" declamation, has drawn a picture of the global landscape that bodes ill for the cause of peace, exclaiming: "How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world!" From the Solomon Islands to Somalia, from Latin America to the volatile Middle East, it's bad news all the way – and it's especially this last that draws the pontiff's anguished attention: "Afghanistan is marked by growing unrest and instability; in the Middle East, besides some signs of hope in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian authority, ...
J. S. Bach - "Christ Lag in Todesbanden" BWV 4
Post Date: 2007-04-09 21:01:52 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Poster Comment:Versus III-V of Bach's well-known Easter Cantata, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" (Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death), performed credibly (tho' a tad out of tune :( ) by the UC Berkeley University Baroque Ensemble.
Keeping the Faith
Post Date: 2007-04-08 11:40:44 by Ada
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Walk into a shop to buy a newspaper or a wurst or a Game Boy in the German city of Regensburg and your server will probably welcome you with a brisk “grüss’ Gott,” shorthand for “God greet you.” It’s the local form of hello: street-corner dudes and grandmas, everyone says it. This is Bavaria, Germany’s Catholic heartland, a region that gives the lie to the popular notion that Western Europe has tossed its Christian heritage in history’s dustbin. Bavaria is as modern as you please — a center of the European telecommunications industry, the home of BMW (as in Bavarian Motor Works) — but on any special occasion you see couples wandering ...
What He Said
Post Date: 2007-04-07 10:10:20 by Ada
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Richard Bauckham JESUS AND THE EYEWITNESSES The Gospels as eyewitness testimony 538pp. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. $32. 978 0 80283162 0 The Synoptic Gospels – Matthew, Mark and Luke – present a conundrum that is probably unique in the annals of literary research. On the one hand they display similarities which are sometimes so close that it has been thought impossible they should have occurred had not the author of one had access to at least one of the others (and the reigning but not the only possible hypothesis is that Matthew and Luke both made use of Mark). On the other hand they have differences, mainly of verbal expression but sometimes also of content and arrangement, ...
J. S. Bach - St. Matthew Passion (Opening Chorale)
Post Date: 2007-04-06 20:06:31 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Poster Comment:Appropriate for Good Friday, this is the opening chorale from Bach's Passion According to St. Matthew. Gustav Leonhardt conducts.
Understanding Mormon Theocracy and Dominionism [They Make Jerry Falwell Look Sane]
Post Date: 2007-04-06 15:13:47 by ...
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Today is the 177th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in upstate New York. It is blythely known as "conference weekend" when all of Mormondom tunes into T.V., Radio, Satellites and worship services out of Salt Lake City to hear the living Prophet, Seer and Revelator and the 800px-Temple_Square_October_05_(8)_c Council of Twelve Apostles speak in the historic Tabernacle in Temple Square as they have done bi-annually since arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The importance of this world-wide event corresponds with the blogoswarm weekend on Theocracy and Democracy and the knowledge that progressives need to understand the dominionist ...
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
Post Date: 2007-04-06 11:35:33 by bluedogtxn
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I'm leaving for Easter, got a lot of family in town. Take a moment, if you will, to think about what Easter means. God himself, who created the whole effing deal, came down for a while and hung out with a dozen losers just like us. He told them the secrets of the universe. For being so bold, the religious parasites of his day and age arrested him, dragged him in front of the Romans because they didn't have the courage to kill him themselves, and had him crucified. He knew it was coming, and he knew it was gonna be tough, but he went ahead despite the fact that all of his buddies deserted him and left him to suffer alone. His last act was to forgive the sins of a murderer and a ...
Jesus Wouldn' t Bomb Anyone
Post Date: 2007-04-05 05:15:11 by Zoroaster
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Jesus Wouldn't Bomb Anyone Why are we waging war on the poor and oppressed? By Jason Miller 4-4-7 "I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally." ---Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) Contrary to the perpetual barrage of bovine fecal matter spewed forth by our beloved corporate media whores, terrorism is not an imminent threat to the continued existence of moral, peaceful human ...
Books: 'Religious Literacy'
Post Date: 2007-04-03 06:04:54 by Zoroaster
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Tuesday, March 6, 3 p.m. ET Books: 'Religious Literacy' Stephen Prothero takes questions and comments about his new book, "Religious Literacy," an examination of how the United States can be such a religious country, when so few people know very much about their own religion, let alone other religions. By Stephen Prothero HarperSanFrancisco. 296 pp. $24.95 The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural -- from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels and demons. Americans are also the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world. Fewer than half of us ...
Amazing Prophecy - Must See Before it Happens!!
Post Date: 2007-04-02 20:31:25 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Amazing Prophecy - Must See Before it Happens!! WorldsLastChance 8 min 32 sec - Jan 1, 2007 http://www.worldslastchance.com Revelation 17 reveals that the Next Pope will be a demon impersonating John Paul II! Click for Full Text!
God's squad
Post Date: 2007-03-31 18:34:47 by robin
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God's squad They picket the funerals of dead soldiers, hate homosexuals and lament an America sliding in to the moral abyss. Louis Theroux meets the Phelps - the most hated family in America Saturday March 31, 2007 The Guardian In the annals of strange religious groups, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, occupies a place of some distinction. Just 71 strong, its congregants made their name in the mid-90s by picketing gay pride rallies and the funerals of Aids sufferers, waving placards of unbelievable insensitivity ("Fags Eat Poop", "God Hates You"). More recently, they've ratcheted up their ministry of hate by taking the pickets to the funerals of ...
US May Be Stepping Into Prophetic Disaster With Positions On Israel and Iran
Post Date: 2007-03-29 17:41:13 by Brian S
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US May Be Stepping Into Prophetic Disaster With Positions On Israel and Iran By ill Wilson, Daily Jot News Service Senior Analyst 2007-03-29 -- WDC Media News -- WASH—Mar 29—DJNS-- While the United States appears to be pressuring Iran, another pressure by the U.S. on Israel to give up its land for peace may place America in the crosshairs of prophetic disaster. The U.S. is conducting the largest military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Russian intelligence reports that American military presence is building along the Iraq-Iran border, raising speculation that the U.S. is preparing for a massive land, sea and air military operation against Iran. ...
“Perillous” Days for British Christians
Post Date: 2007-03-29 16:58:14 by IndieTX
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Before we get too many emails, I am well aware that ‘perillous’ should be spelt with only one l on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the double l spelling is the one used by John Foxe, in his 1653 book Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church, better known to us as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.1 Foxe catalogued the persecution and, in some cases, execution of leading English Christian figures, such as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. An old chestnut of a wayside pulpit sign reads “If you were arrested for being a Christian, how much evidence would there be against you?” Although I haven’t noticed the ...
Militarism and Foreign Missions
Post Date: 2007-03-29 08:12:40 by Red Jones
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Militarism and Foreign Missions By Thomas Williamson For the purpose of this article, we will define “Militarism” as an attitude among followers of the Christian Right and other conservative Americans, which favors an aggressive, military approach to foreign policy problem-solving. Militarism is that which favors “pre-emptive first strikes” and military intervention in foreign nations, based on such justifications as total obedience to the President, looking for weapons of mass destruction, revenge for 9-11, war on terrorism, nation building, clash of civilizations, bringing democracy to the Third World, fulfillment of Bible prophecy, etc. (Desire to help Israel and ...
The One Who Attacks, God Does Not Love the Aggressor
Post Date: 2007-03-27 06:42:33 by Zoroaster
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March 26, 2007 The One Who Attacks God Does Not Love the Aggressor By DIANE CHRISTIAN The line "God does not love aggressors"is from the Koran and begins "Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love aggressors." It is sometimes cited as the true Islamic stance, to defend Islam against jihadist-crazed stereotyping. It forbids attacking first. Christ's counsel is more radical-it is not even to answer or resist evil with evil. Christ does not say fight only if attacked. He says if attacked, don't fight. Christians historically have often been jihadis, however. They have rationalized just wars as wars of ...
Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America
Post Date: 2007-03-25 15:49:01 by Zoroaster
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Us Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America Contributed by Tom By Scott Ritter While American strategists may speak of the rise of al-Qaida in Iraq, this is misrecognition of what is really happening. 03/24/07 "ICH ' -- -- The ongoing hand-wringing in Congress by the newly empowered Democrats over what to do about the war in Iraq speaks volumes about the level of concern (or lack thereof) these “representatives of the people” have toward the men and women who honor us all by serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. The inability to reach consensus concerning the level of funding required or how to exercise effective oversight of the war, both ...
Pope: Europe's trends indicate continent losing faith in its future
Post Date: 2007-03-24 12:39:43 by robin
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Pope: Europe's trends indicate continent losing faith in its futureFrances D'EmilioCanadian PressSaturday, March 24, 2007CREDIT: Pope Benedict XVI gives blessing while touring St. Peter's square at the Vatican Saturday, during a meeting with young people of the Italian "Comunione e Liberazione" organization. (AP/Plinio Lepri) VATICAN CITY (AP) - Europe seems to be losing faith in its future, Pope Benedict said Saturday, citing the continent's population trends, which include generally low birth rates. "One must unfortunately note that Europe seems to be going down a road which could lead it to take its leave from history," the pontiff told a gathering of ...
Son of a TV preacher man: Jay Bakker in "One Punk Under God"
Post Date: 2007-03-20 21:50:54 by Dakmar
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For Jay Bakker, the son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker, loving God meant always having to say you were sorry. “I had this idea of an angry God, that everything I did was bad and wrong,” he says now about his childhood, which until the age of 13 was spent living, literally, in a theme park, Heritage USA, built by the millions of dollars the Bakkers raised through their Praise the Lord ministry. Despite his seemingly idyllic upbringing, Bakker says, “I thought I was losing my salvation.” Those feelings of guilt only intensified in 1987, when a sex and accounting-fraud scandal brought the PTL empire crashing down. Eventually his parents would divorce, Jim Bakker ...
The Best of the Worst of GodTube
Post Date: 2007-03-20 15:51:32 by Indrid Cold
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Amongst the legions of YouTube knock-offs that have sprung onto the Internet, aiming to appeal to interest groups who feel marginalized by YouTube's terms of services or its wide spectrum of subjects, there are some which are so disgusting and fetishistic that they really can only be explored during a reverie of private self-loathing [BeastTube, YouTube for bestiality enthusiasts. Not work safe and very disturbing, although a lot of the dogs seem like they're having a good time]. On the other side of the spectrum, there's GodTube, a YouTube clone that is dedicated to Christian-themed videos. And while many of the videos GodTube has to offer are no more offensive in their ...
Propaganda and the Politics of Perception
Post Date: 2007-03-18 12:23:42 by Zoroaster
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Propaganda and the Politics of Perception by Michael Carmichael Global Research, March 12, 2007 Planetary Movement Email this article to a friend Print this article A version of this text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur Conference on War Crimes, Perdana Global Peace Organization, 5-7 February 2007. War propaganda glorifies military indoctrination as the highest form of patriotism while simultaneously demonizing the enemies of the state. Adolf Hitler realized the power of propaganda to mould and shape public opinion. Hitler wrote a highly informed essay on the powers of propaganda in his political autobiography, Mein Kampf. Modern governments employ propaganda to incite ...
To Christians Here [Amazing Video]
Post Date: 2007-03-18 01:32:28 by IndieTX
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Amazing vid. Be sure and watch to very end...... http://www.woodsidebible.org/splatvideo.htm
Reagan's ALIEN speech to UN
Post Date: 2007-03-17 19:52:44 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Reagan's Preject Bluebeam speech to UN
Moderate Christians fight rapture with Sunday school
Post Date: 2007-03-17 15:36:39 by Arete
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CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Real estate agent Dave Eschenbach is an active member of his church, but he feels uncomfortable around a sizable portion of U.S. Christians -- those who believe they could be transported to heaven at any moment. Several years ago, Eschenbach had a boss who scheduled meetings around the rapture, the term for an event that around 20 percent of U.S. Christians believe is imminent. "One day he announced to the employees that they probably wouldn't be there next week because of the rapture," Eschenbach said of his former boss. "His church had decided that the rapture would happen that week." The belief has been fueled by the bestselling ...
The Enemy D'Souza Knows: Rejecting a thesis
Post Date: 2007-03-16 20:05:07 by gargantuton
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The Enemy D'Souza Knows Rejecting a thesis. By Symposium Editor’s Note: Over the course of four days this week, Dinesh D’Souza has been responding here at NRO to conservative critics of his book The Enemy at Home. Below a number of these critics respond to D’Souza. (Victor Davis Hanson responds in a separate column, which can be found here.) Dean Barnett Before offering a brief response (as opposed to a rebuttal) to Dinesh D’Souza’s massive “Grievance Tour,” I must confess to some confusion over the entire project. D’Souza had an entire book to convince America’s conservatives of his “provocative” (cough, cough) thesis. Having ...
The Dead End of Jewish Culture
Post Date: 2007-03-15 13:19:54 by Tauzero
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The Dead End of Jewish Culture by Sara Yoheved Rigler One-quarter of American Jews have rejected watered-down Judaism in favor of full-strength Christianity. Why? One December afternoon, my precious four-year-old niece Jodi* walked into my mother's suburban New Jersey kitchen and asked, "Bubbie, are you Jewish?" "Yes, I am," my mother answered proudly. "So am I," Jodi confided, "but don't tell Santa Claus." I laughed when my mother told me this story, and I chuckled every time I thought of it --for twenty-two years. Last week, Jodi got married, in a Catholic church, kneeling in front of a huge gilded cross. I stopped laughing. ...
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