|
Latest Articles: Religion
The Gospel According to Rick Warren
Post Date: 2006-02-01 22:16:56 by Red Jones
5 Comments
The Gospel According to Rick Warren By Ingrid Schlueter - January 25, 2006 http://sliceoflaodicea.com The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story on Rick Warren on Sunday, January 8, 2006 that tells us a great deal about the man who is changing the face of American evangelicalism. Here's an excerpt: "Warren predicts that fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be one of the big enemies of the 21st Century. 'Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism-they're all motivated by fear. Fear of each other.'" This remark is no surprise to Pastor Bob DeWaay of Twin City Fellowship in Minneapolis. DeWaay has just published a book that shines ...
Cut, Thrust and Christ
Post Date: 2006-01-30 11:38:14 by robin
0 Comments
Feb. 6, 2006 issue - When you believe the end of the world is coming, you learn to talk fast. On a Friday afternoon the debate team from Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's fundamentalist Baptist college, is madly rehearsing for the tournament about to begin. This year's topic: should the United States increase diplomatic and economic pressure on China. They may just be practicing, but you wouldn't know it from the menacing mosquito-buzz rising as all 20 debaters read their speeches at once, as fast as they can. Policy debate on the college level has become a rapid-fire verbal assault, an arguments-per-minute game, that sounds more like the guy at the end of the car commercial than an ...
Students ban Christians in row over gays
Post Date: 2006-01-25 23:14:05 by Red Jones
0 Comments
Students ban Christians in row over gays By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent A UNIVERSITY Christian Union has been suspended and had its bank account frozen after refusing to open its membership to people of all religions. The Christian Union, an evangelical student organisation, has instructed lawyers and is threatening court proceedings against the Birmingham Guild of Students. The Birmingham Christian Union has more than 100 members who attend meetings regularly and has been functioning at the university for 76 years. Members claim the actions have been taken against them after they refused on religious grounds to make “politically correct” changes to their charitable ...
George W. Bush, Zionist Double Agent, American Traitor?
Post Date: 2006-01-24 18:37:40 by Grumble Jones
8 Comments
It was in 1990 that I first met the remarkable and brilliant Boris Lunachev. Aged, bent over slightly by repeated attacks of osteoporosis, Lunachev had asked to see me privately. He had, I understood, once been a most distinguished professor of Marxist doctrine at the prestigious Lenin Institute. He was a rising star on the Soviet political and educational scene. But in the late 70s, Lunachev was abruptly and unceremoniously ousted from his post and exiled to the West. Shaking the wisened old man's hand and seeking to inject a friendly tone into our conversation, I smiled and said, "So, you are a Russian, Dr. Lunachev?" "Yes, I am a Russian," he answered. "But ...
Transformations II, Political Christianity and False African Revivals
Post Date: 2006-01-22 19:49:35 by Red Jones
1 Comments
Transformations II, Political Christianity and False African Revivals By Kato Mivule January 9, 2006 Romans 12:2 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 8:29 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 1 John 2:15-17 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father ...
Who's Behind NBC's 'The Book Of Daniel' ??
Post Date: 2006-01-22 13:31:25 by Red Jones
5 Comments
Who's Behind NBC's 'The Book Of Daniel' ?? By Rev. Ted Pike 1-20-6 "The Book of Daniel," now airing Friday nights on NBC, is an unprecedented assault on the time-honored ideal of the Christian family. Star Aidan Quinn: "I'm an Episcopalian priest who struggles with a little self-medication problem and I have a 23-year old son who's gay and a 16-year-old daughter who's caught dealing pot and another son who's jumping on every high school girl he sees, and a wife who's very loving but also likes her martinis." 1 "Daniel's" dysfunctional and degenerate family, led by a weak-willed father, is permeated with suspicion and backbiting. The second episode ends ...
A Nation Under God [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-01-21 21:48:52 by Red Jones
41 Comments
A Nation Under God News: Let others worry about the rapture: For the increasingly powerful Christian Reconstruction movement, the task is to establish the Kingdom of God right now—from the courthouse to the White House. By John Sugg December/January 2006 Issue TRINITY CHAPEL in suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County is hardly the picture of a revolutionary outpost. It’s a stylishly modern Church of God—a denomination that, though conservative, is certainly mainstream. Parishioners are drawn from a community whose average income is a comfortable 35 percent above the national norm, whose tree-lined country roads intersect McMansion subdivisions. If Norman Rockwell were ...
The Sheep and the Goats, Part II
Post Date: 2006-01-21 21:00:15 by Red Jones
6 Comments
The Sheep and the Goats, Part II Charles E. Carlson Jan 19, 2006 Dallas Theological Seminary, outpost for Christian Zionism In part I, we explained why Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches find it impossible to tell the truth about many New Testament Bible passages without compromising their position, which is always in support of the state of Israel. Their words often conflict with Jesus' statements to his disciples about heaven and hell, especially in the 25th Chapter of Matthew. Jesus' words should be of vital interest to anyone who claims to be a follower of Christ, or to anyone who believes in an afterlife. But not so, this one chapter may be the most deliberately and ...
Christian Coalition sued for unpaid bill
Post Date: 2006-01-21 12:15:31 by Zipporah
1 Comments
January 20, 2006 The Christian Coalition goes to court today in Richmond, where the former powerhouse of the religious right faces a lawsuit filed by a Maryland moving company that says it was underpaid when it moved the group out of its Washington offices three years ago. Reese & Sons Enterprises of District Heights, which filed the lawsuit in Henrico County General District Court, says it gave the coalition a $4,580 estimate to move out of its office at 499 S. Capitol St. SW to a storage facility in Clinton, Md. But when packers and movers arrived on Thanksgiving weekend in 2002, they found more items waiting to be moved than they had seen during a preliminary visit, owner ...
Churches could face IRS probe (TV preacher Parlsey is one)
Post Date: 2006-01-16 13:20:24 by Zipporah
15 Comments
Pastors Parsley, Johnson exploited pulpits to play politics, ministers’ complaint alleges Monday, January 16, 2006 Mike Harden and Joe Hallett THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ADAM CAIRNS | DISPATCH Eric Williams, senior pastor of North Congregational United Church of Christ, tallies up petitions that ask the IRS to investigate political-campaign activities of two central Ohio churches. The complaint alleges churchsponsored events have showcased Republican gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell. The Rev. Rod Parsley, left, and the Rev. Russell Johnson have been accused of using their churches for partisan politics. More than 30 local pastors last night officially accused two ...
America's Arcane Origins
Post Date: 2006-01-16 10:13:14 by Zoroaster
10 Comments
America's Arcane Origins Frank Joseph – New Dawn Magazine January 14, 2006 When Benjamin Franklin was leaving the first Continental Congress, he was asked by one of many anxious patriots waiting outside the courthouse, “What have you given us?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” The difference might seem trivial or even non-existent to narrow-minded persons for whom democracy and dictatorship are the only conceivable forms of government. Yet, the very word, “democracy,” does not occur once in the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, or any state constitution. It was mentioned often by America’s Founding Fathers, but invariably as ...
Tim LaHaye, the Richest Divinator in the World All about LaHaye before he co-authored the Left Behind series
Post Date: 2006-01-15 20:27:40 by Zipporah
13 Comments
[Yurica Report Editor's Note: The Bible prohibits using divination of any kind or being “an observer of times,” in Deuteronomy 18:10-11. Christians are not supposed to be trying to figure out what the future holds! Yet millions of evangelical Christians have blindly followed the teachings of Tim LaHaye, but few know that he is the father of a divination system. His so-called “Temperament Theory” is nothing more than a variant form of astrology. It is no wonder then that right wing religious followers of LaHaye are being led into political back rooms where corrupt political ideology is pawned off as “Christian.” In the hope that the backslidden churches will ...
Please Pray for My Wife
Post Date: 2006-01-13 00:44:58 by scooter
13 Comments
For about a month now, my wife has had swollen lymphnodes in her pelvic area. She has a high white blood count and elevated liver enzyemes. Our doctor called back and asked for an immediate re-scheduling which will be Friday at around 4pm after lab results came back on Wed. And as of right now, ya'll know just as much about the situation as we do. It could be any number of things to a simple infection on up to things I don't even want to think about at this time. Please pray for us. As soon as this is posted, I will probably copy this over to LP and then go to bed. Thanks in advance for prayers and thoughts. I will be back sometime tomorrow evening or night to give an update. Thanks.
Their Armageddonites, and Ours...
Post Date: 2006-01-12 11:47:33 by Brian S
4 Comments
Iran's president and Pat Robertson more alike than you think by Jon Basil Utley Pat Robertson and 20 million American fundamentalists are not alone. The new president of Iran also believes that the end of the world is nigh and "believers" can help speed it up. His government has now allocated millions of dollars for the Jamkaran mosque to help believers prepare for the event. It is staffed by the Bright Future Institute, which fields inquiries and prepares Iranians for the end of this world and eternal life in the next. Among Muslims, especially Shias, much attention is given to this coming battle between good and evil: some 20 percent of the population in Iran is reported to ...
Israeli biblical theme park plans in doubt
Post Date: 2006-01-11 13:53:51 by Zipporah
6 Comments
Plans to build a biblical theme park on the shores of the Sea of Galilee today appeared to have collapsed after Israel refused to do business with Pat Robertson, the project's main backer. The US evangelist angered the Israeli government when, a day after Ariel Sharon had suffered a huge stroke, he said the Israeli prime minister was experiencing divine retribution for the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip. "He was dividing God's land, and I would say: 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course', he told viewers of his long-running television show. "God says: 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone'." Avi Hartuv, a ...
Spain's Little Piece of Africa
Post Date: 2006-01-11 11:56:13 by robin
2 Comments
Spain's Little Piece of Africa The enclave of Melilla considers itself a model of multiculturalism. But some say blissful coexistence is a myth amid tension and fear. By Tracy Wilkinson Times Staff Writer January 11, 2006 MELILLA, Spain — As evening descends along King Juan Carlos Avenue, shopkeepers shutter their stores and people stroll and chat amiably, some in Spanish, and just as many in Tamazight, a Berber dialect. On a nearby two-block stretch, sparkly Christmas decorations have been strung across the street from Mohammed's Gift Store, around the corner from the Hindu temple and a couple of doors from the 80-year-old synagogue. The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church tolls ...
School Proposes 'No Divorce' Policy
Post Date: 2006-01-11 11:38:24 by robin
2 Comments
EDMOND, Okla. -- An Oklahoma university has proposed a policy that would allow officials to fire employees who get a divorce, Oklahoma City television station KOCO reported. Oklahoma Christian University is already getting some attention for a letter it sent to faculty that stated: "Because the Christian mission of the university is most effectively fulfilled through mentoring and example, all married faculty and staff should strive to model (healthy) marriages to students." University President Mike O'Neal said this doesn't mean everyone who gets a divorce would lose his or her job. He said the university would look at each individual case.
How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism, Why Celebrity Leaders Bow
Post Date: 2006-01-10 08:45:15 by Zoroaster
3 Comments
The Sheep and the Goats, Part 1, corr Editor Jan 02, 2006 How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism, Why Celebrity Leaders Bow By Charles E. Carlson Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about many New Testament Bible passages without compromising their position on supporting wars, and on the state of Israel. Some of their teaching and preaching directly contradict that which Jesus taught, and more surprisingly, conflict with Jesus' statements to his disciples about Heaven and Hell. We examine one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages in the Bible and how ...
My father went to Heaven
Post Date: 2006-01-09 20:12:59 by Lod
31 Comments
After a few years of serious health problems, the angels took Daddy Home, where he wanted to be, this evening.
Jesus 'Healed Using Cannibis - Marijuana
Post Date: 2006-01-08 21:45:52 by tom007
1 Comments
Jesus 'Healed Using Cannabis' B The Guardian - UK 1-7-6 Jesus as almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was Jesus a Stoner? The incense used by Jesus in ceremonies also contained a cannabis extract, suggests Mr Bennett, who quotes scholars to back ...
The Sheep and the Goats - How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism, Why Celebrity Leaders Bow
Post Date: 2006-01-08 14:14:40 by Red Jones
8 Comments
The Sheep and the Goats, Part 1, corr Editor Jan 02, 2006 How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism, Why Celebrity Leaders Bow By Charles E. Carlson Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about many New Testament Bible passages without compromising their position on supporting wars, and on the state of Israel. Some of their teaching and preaching directly contradict that which Jesus taught, and more surprisingly, conflict with Jesus' statements to his disciples about Heaven and Hell. We examine one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages in the Bible and how it ...
Close But No Cigar Did Zoroastrianism Influence Christianity?
Post Date: 2006-01-06 23:41:29 by A K A Stone
7 Comments
Of all of the Christ-myth, pagan-copycat sources I refute, only Acharya S deigns to include and make much of Zoroaster on her list. She puts together about a dozen similarities after her usual fashion: * Zoroaster was born of a virgin and "immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason." * He was baptized in a river. * In his youth he astounded wise men with his wisdom. * He was tempted in the wilderness by the devil. * He began his ministry at age 30. * Zoroaster baptized with water, fire, and "holy wind." * He cast out demons and restored the sight to a blind man. * He taught about heaven and hell, and revealed mysteries, including resurrection, judgment, salvation ...
American "Rapture"
Post Date: 2006-01-06 18:16:26 by Zipporah
9 Comments
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 ...
Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest
Post Date: 2006-01-03 14:45:31 by Zipporah
6 Comments
NI_MPU('middle');AN ITALIAN judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist. Signor Cascioli, author of a book called The Fable of Christ, began legal proceedings against Father Righi three years ago after the priest denounced Signor Cascioli in the parish newsletter for questioning Christ’s historical existence. Yesterday Gaetano Mautone, a judge in Viterbo, set a preliminary hearing for the end of this month and ordered Father Righi to ...
Unavoidable and Unpopular Truths that are a key to our Freedom
Post Date: 2006-01-03 12:58:29 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Unavoidable and Unpopular Truths that are a key to our Freedom Charles E. Carlson Oct 11, 2005 We Hold These Truths has always tried to be an evidence builder, rather than a maker of unsupported declarations. We like to see each read what we have to say and decide what conclusions they should draw. But time is getting shorter for both of us, so we offer some blunt statements that we find to be self-evident. Our forefathers, in writing the Declaration of Independence, were forced to draw some conclusions they did not have time or space to prove. They called these unsupported claims "self evident truths," meaning they are so obviously true that they do not need to be proved, and ...
Latest [Newer] 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 [Older]
|