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Latest Articles: Religion
What Separation of Church and State?
Post Date: 2006-09-22 15:34:42 by richard9151
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What Separation of Church and State Good day. My name is Richard, and I am a Christian. I am about fifty years old, and I was raised in Montana, where I spent roughly the first forty-one years of my life. I have been in Mexico for nearly nine years now, and I like it here, a lot. I like the people, the language, and the food. Please, I ask of you that if you are angry about something that I write, please be specific about the perceived problem. Most of what I send out will be based on facts, laws, statutes, legal definitions, government documents and the like. Just because you do not like something does not mean that it is incorrect, so if you have a problem with something, quote me ...
Speaking in Tongues Resurfaces as Southern Baptist Controversy
Post Date: 2006-09-21 23:40:21 by Brian S
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Sept. 21 - The practice of speaking in tongues is again brewing controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention. Last year, the denomination's International Mission Board adopted a policy that forbids considering missionary candidates who use a "private prayer language." Now, an Arlington, Texas, pastor and trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has written to Southern Baptist President Frank Page to request that the issues of "spiritual gifts, private prayer language and speaking in tongues" be addressed in the denomination's statement of faith. The Rev. Dwight McKissic previously discussed the issue in a chapel sermon at the seminary in Fort Worth, ...
Open Letter To War Criminal George Bush
Post Date: 2006-09-21 11:25:12 by Zoroaster
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Open Letter To War Criminal George Bush By Joe Cortina 9-21-6 Mr. Bush I cannot in good conscience call you my 'President'. That undeserved and unearned degree of respect would stick in my throat like warm vomit. - I respect the title, but do not respect you NO decent American does. You are not only a disgrace to your high office, but a debasement to the dreams of our Founding Fathers. Your conduct is untrustworthy traitorous and treacherous to the good people of this country. You can forget the predictable disrespectful letter nonsense. You must FIRST be proven WORTHY of respect to assess any criticism 'disrespectful'. You have broken the Holy oath you took as President. ...
Why doesn’t the IRS investigate James Dobson?
Post Date: 2006-09-20 19:52:28 by Zipporah
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Why doesn’t the IRS investigate James Dobson? When I read this article in the LA Times I wasn’t surprised at all. Antiwar remarks at All Saints in Pasadena were made two days before the 2004 election. The church is ordered to hand over records. The IRS investigation was triggered by an antiwar sermon delivered by its former rector, the Rev. George F. Regas, at the church two days before the 2004 presidential election. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who unsuccessfully tried to launch a Government Accountability Office investigation into the IRS’ probes of churches nationwide last year, called the summons "a very disturbing escalation" of the ...
Did Bush's Speech Violate Geneva Convention on Genocide?
Post Date: 2006-09-20 05:29:00 by Zoroaster
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September 19, 2006 Did Bush's Speech Violate Geneva Conventions on Genocide? Presidential Incitements to War Crimes By LIAQUAT ALI KHAN On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, President George Walker Bush delivered an illegal speech and may have committed an international crime, that is, the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide of a religious group. Determined to rally disbelieving Americans behind a failed Iraqi war, the President drifted into calling for open-ended violence against Muslims. Says the President: "The war against this enemy is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, and the calling of our ...
Simon Magus
Post Date: 2006-09-19 11:46:37 by richard9151
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SIMON MAGUS by Ernest L. Martin http://www.historicist.com/related_subjects/articles/simon_magus.htm What were the origins of Catholic-Babylonian Christianity? What was Simon’s religion before he met Peter? Where did that religion originate? Read in this series of articles the detailed and documented account of Simon Magus and his great COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY! More About Simon Magus | Simon Magus Begins UNIVERSAL Church | Peter Was NOT The First Pope! | A "PETER" Was in Rome Two Thousand Years B.C.! | Simonites Establish UNIVERSAL CHURCH | Magus Counterfeit Marked Throughout New Testament | Review Back to Related Subjects More About Simon Magus THE FALSE religious system ...
Et tu, pontiff?
Post Date: 2006-09-19 08:17:33 by Arete
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Pope Benedict XVI knows a lot about Catholicism and Catholic doctrines. But no one would consider him even a lightweight authority on Islam. So it is hard to understand why he decided to conjure up a controversy regarding Islam at a time when insulting that religion seems to have become a regular indulgence of a number of people in the West who would never dare to insult any other things sacred. In a speech at Regensburg University in Germany last Thursday, the pope quoted from a 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos, and said, "I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread ...
Bush Tells Group He Sees a "Third Awakening."
Post Date: 2006-09-19 05:56:53 by Zoroaster
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Waking Nightmare by Chris Floyd by Chris Floyd DIGG THIS Bush Tells Group He Sees a "Third Awakening." From the Washington Post: President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil." Bush told a group of conservative journalists that…."A lot of people in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including me," Bush said. "There was a stark change between the culture of the '50s and the '60s – boom – and I think ...
VIDEO: Kids At Jesus Camp Worship To Bush Picture
Post Date: 2006-09-19 05:22:43 by Mind_Virus
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VIDEO: Kids At Jesus Camp Worship To Bush Picture
Film Shows Youths Training to Fight for Jesus
Post Date: 2006-09-18 18:47:57 by Morgana le Fay
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New Documentary Features Controversial Bible Camp, Evangelical Movement Sept. 17, 2006 — - An in-your-face documentary out this weekend is raising eyebrows, raising hackles and raising questions about evangelizing to young people. Speaking in tongues, weeping for salvation, praying for an end to abortion and worshipping a picture of President Bush -- these are some of the activities at Pastor Becky Fischer's Bible camp in North Dakota, "Kids on Fire," subject of the provocative new documentary, "Jesus Camp." "I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are in Palestine, Pakistan and all those different places," Fisher ...
Neocon pope
Post Date: 2006-09-18 07:24:45 by Eoghan
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Some Italians began to refer to Pope Benedict XVI on his ascenscion to the throne of Peter as "the Panzer Kardinal," a nickname bestowed on him apparently by his German curiae colleagues. This was a sly reference to Benedict's disputed military past in the last days of the terminally delirious Third Reich -- and, perhaps, to his continuing reactionary politics. Today, a better label might be "the neocon pope." In a recent lecture ("polemic" would be a better word) at the University of Regensburg, where he had lectured in theology from 1969 to 1977, Pope Benedict XVI apparently made the dubious decision to catapult the Vatican into the fray of the fraudulent ...
AMERICAN JUSTICE: A Visit with a Man Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo For Five Years
Post Date: 2006-09-18 01:20:37 by Max
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A Visit with a Man Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo By Cem Özdemir Murat Kurnaz was detained in the United States detention camp at Guantánamo, Cuba, for almost five years and released three weeks ago. Cem Özdemir, a member of the European Parliament, visited Kurnaz at his home in Bremen and reports back about a German man of Turkish origin who appears to be anything but a fanatic. AP / Radio Bremen TV Twenty-four-year-old Murat Kurnaz spent five years as a detainee in the US military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He was wrongly identified as an accomplice of the Taliban and recently released. How does one talk about the emotions stirred up by a meeting with ...
Nun shot dead as Pope fails to calm militant Muslims
Post Date: 2006-09-17 19:37:45 by Brian S
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Muslims outside Westminster Cathedral, London, added their protest to those around the world (ANDREW PARSONS / PA) AN ITALIAN nun was killed by gunmen at a children’s hospital in Somalia yesterday in an apparent revenge attack for the Pope’s speech about Islam last week. Sister Leonella Sgorbati, 65, left, was shot four times in the back by two men at the entrance to the hospital in the capital, Mogadishu. Her bodyguard was also killed. The Vatican said that it hoped that the “horrible tragedy” was an isolated incident. The killing came after Benedict XVI expressed deep regret yesterday at the furious reaction to his remarks on Islam and holy war, saying that ...
IRS Orders All Saints to Yeild Documents on '04 Political Races
Post Date: 2006-09-17 09:31:03 by Zoroaster
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Published on Saturday, September 16, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times IRS Orders All Saints to Yield Documents on '04 Political Races Antiwar remarks at All Saints in Pasadena were made two days before the 2004 election. The church is ordered to hand over records. by Louis Sahagun Stepping up its probe of allegedly improper campaigning by churches, the Internal Revenue Service on Friday ordered a liberal Pasadena parish to turn over all the documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election year with references to political candidates. All Saints Episcopal Church and its rector, the Rev. Ed Bacon, have until Sept. 29 to present the sermons, newsletters and electronic ...
Somali Cleric Calls For Pope's Death
Post Date: 2006-09-16 21:05:07 by Brian S
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A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam. Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah in a speech that he said was as offensive as author Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. "We urge you Muslims wherever you are to hunt down the Pope for his barbaric statements as you have pursued Salman Rushdie, the enemy of Allah who offended our religion," he said in Friday evening prayers. "Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the ...
The Pope and the Rabbi
Post Date: 2006-09-16 00:32:03 by Max
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The Pope and the Rabbi Every time a new Pope is elected, there are a lot of rituals in accordance with tradition. Well, there is one tradition that very few people know about. Shortly after the new Pope is enthroned, the Chief Rabbi seeks an audience. He is shown into the Pope's presence, whereupon he presents the Pope with a silver tray bearing a velvet cushion. On top of the cushion is an ancient, shriveled parchment envelope. The Pope symbolically stretches out his arm in a gesture of rejection. The Chief Rabbi then retires, taking the envelope with him and does not return until the next Pope is elected. John Paul II was intrigued by this ritual, that's origins were unknown to him. He ...
Crisis in the Church:: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests
Post Date: 2006-09-15 15:07:52 by Max
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The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests http://www.americancatholic.org/News/ClergySexAbuse/ The scandal of sex abuse by Catholic priests has shaken lay people, priests and bishops alike. As the hierarchy works to address the problems of pedophilia and coverups, many in the pews are demanding accountability and change. Q U I C K L I N K S Crisis in the Church: Our Search for Healing, a special issue of St. Anthony Messenger Bishops Release John Jay Study on Scope and Nature of Crisis • The Latest News from Catholic News Service • Restoring Trust: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Respond • Bishop Wilton Gregory: St. Anthony Messenger Profile • ...
Pope's 'Jihad' Quotes Spark Muslim Fury; Islamic Leaders Demand Apology
Post Date: 2006-09-15 11:28:29 by Brian S
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Fri, 15 Sep 2006 ISLAMABAD: Quotes used by Pope Benedict XVI during a speech in a German university earlier this week have sparked outrage among Muslim leaders across the world. Islamic bodies and statesmen of countries like Turkey and Pakistan reacted sharply to what they consider the Pope's attack on the Islamic faith and demanded that he apologize. Benedict XVI had quoted certain passages from a book that made a reference to 'jihad', or holy war. The passages contained a dialogue over aspects of Christianity and Islam, between an educated Persian and Manuel Paleologos II, the 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor. During the conversation, the emperor speaks about jihad, which the ...
Badeye: The Secrets of El Pee Guru Status
Post Date: 2006-09-15 01:22:36 by Badeye After Five
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After watching you peolpe stumble around I have decided to step down from my lofty perch and give you some pointers. Listed below are the things you must keep in mind if you are to someday achieve the degree of respect and credibility that I now hold. If you religiously adhere to the principles set out below, you may someday be in a position to reward yourself, as I did, by giving yourself a Hummer. My guiding principles are as follows: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all ...
Russian Security Services Study Turin Shroud, Say Christ Was Crucified
Post Date: 2006-09-13 10:22:34 by Eoghan
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Experts from the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB have studied the shroud of Turin and found proof of it being indeed an image of a crucified man with wounds that Jesus Christ could have. Criminologists of the Federal Security Service subjected the shroud, believed to be Christ’s grave clothes, to a number of experiments. For the purity of experiment, the shroud with an imprint of a human body was studied as an ordinary corpus delicti, regardless of its historical value. “First, we have dated the cloth,” the head of the criminology department Anatoly Fesenko told Zhizn daily. “We estimate it to be no less than 2,000 years old. American experts were wrong to ...
World doesn't end, sect upset
Post Date: 2006-09-13 08:12:08 by leveller
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World doesn't end, sect upset Sep. 13, 2006 at 1:50AM A Kenyan sect that predicted the world would end Tuesday in a nuclear war ended the day in some confusion. The Kenyan Standard reported some members of the House of Yahweh spent the day in concrete bunkers they had prepared. The group's teaching was that the 1993 Oslo Accord between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would collapse, triggering a nuclear holocaust. But the leader, Eleazor Kamotho Mugwe, said members of House of Yahweh spent the day in normal activities. He said the prophecy had been misunderstood and that Sept. 12, 2006, is the beginning of a seven-year period of collapse and destruction. "What we know is that ...
America is revealed as one nation under four faces of God
Post Date: 2006-09-12 19:06:14 by Eoghan
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A survey shows that the way Americans see the Almighty is closely linked to their political beliefs NINE in ten Americans believe in God but how they vote, or see the Iraq war, depends on the very different views they have about His personality, according to the most detailed survey of religion in the US. It found that Americans hold four different images of God — Authoritarian, Benevolent, Critical or Distant — and these views are far more powerful indicators about their political, social and moral attitudes than any of the traditional categories such as Protestant, Catholic or Evangelical. The study also suggests that America is more religious than previously thought, with ...
Tampa woman who lost eight relatives in the attacks converts to Islam as tensions simmer from the memories and new terror plots. But she presses on.
Post Date: 2006-09-12 16:59:23 by Ferret Mike
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Her mother named her Elizabeth after the queen of England. More than four decades later, she took another name: Safia Al-Kasaby, reflecting her new identity as a Muslima. Safia, 43, is an unlikely candidate for conversion. She claims Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry. She is a former sergeant first class in the Air Force National Guard. And she lost eight relatives — one uncle and seven cousins — in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Back then, Safia did not imagine the faith professed by the hijackers would one day become her own. “It didn’t really matter who did it,” says the Tampa woman now, reflecting on the 2001 attacks. “I just ...
The Devil in David Berkowitz - Renegade Christians Believe Son of Sam is an Apostle of the Lord.
Post Date: 2006-09-12 01:36:09 by Morgana le Fay
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The way the man once called Son of Sam sees it, Satan and Jesus have long been fighting for his soul. Thirty years ago, when he killed six and terrorized the city, the Devil was winning. But now Berkowitz says that Jesus has the upper hand. And a growing flock of renegade Christians believe he’s an apostle of the Lord. One crisp, early-summer morning, MaryAnn and Jimmy Skubus and I are holding hands at a Starbucks—they’d extended their hands and, taking the cue, I grabbed them. MaryAnn says grace, blessing our scone and marble cake, then turns to the subject that’s brought us together. “David is so different from what everyone thinks,” she says. ...
Does God want you to be rich?
Post Date: 2006-09-11 01:39:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Editor's note: The following is a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story. http://(Time.comexternal link) -- In three of the Gospels, Jesus warns that each of his disciples may have to "deny himself" and even "take up his Cross." In support of this prediction, he contrasts the fleeting pleasures of today with the promise of eternity: "For what profit is it to a man," he asks, "if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Generations of churchgoers have understood that being Christian means being ready to sacrifice. But for a growing number of Christians, the question is better restated, "Why not gain the whole world plus my ...
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