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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 ...
Congratulating Jewish communities on their seven year completion of the 11th cycle of the daily study of the Talmud.
Post Date: 2005-03-16 10:32:41 by 1776
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Bill Summary & Status for the 109th Congress H.RES.124 Title: Congratulating Jewish communities on their seven year completion of the 11th cycle of the daily study of the Talmud. Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 3/1/2005) Cosponsors (56) Latest Major Action: 3/1/2005 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] Whereas the 11th cycle of the daily learning of the 2,711 pages in the Babylonian Talmud, through the Daf Hayomi study program will culminate on March 1, 2005, the 20th day of Adar... (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House) HRES 124 EH H. Res. 124 In ...
Secret Service To Prohibit Cross Displays At Bush Inauguration
Post Date: 2005-03-15 20:01:01 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Public display of crosses at President George W. Bush's Inaugural Parade on January 20 will be prohibited, according to a letter sent to the National Park Service by the U.S. Secret Service last month. On December 17, 2004, the Secret Service sent a letter on U.S. Department of Homeland Security letterhead to Terry Carlstrom, who serves as the regional director of the National Park Service in the National Capitol Region. A list of banned items during the Inaugural Parade is outlined in the letter, including firearms, ammunition, explosives, weapons of any kind, aerosols, sign supports, packages, coolers, thermal or glass containers, backpacks, large bags, ...
Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-03-15 17:59:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies' ROME (Reuters) - A top Catholic cardinal has blasted "The Da Vinci Code" as a "gross and absurd" distortion of history and said Catholic bookstores should take the bestseller off their shelves because it is full of "cheap lies." Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in an interview with the Milan newspaper Il Giornale, became the highest ranking Italian Churchman to speak out against the book, an international blockbuster that has sold millions of copies. "(It) aims to discredit the Church and its history through gross and absurd manipulations," Bertone, the archbishop of the northern Italian city of Genoa ...
Rewritten Bible Banishes Saints
Post Date: 2005-03-15 11:38:37 by Brian S
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For readers of the Bible confused by its archaic language, such as its use of the term "stoned" for a form of execution rather than the effects of smoking dope, help is at hand. One of the world's most widely read Bibles, the New International Version, has been modernised by a team of 15 American and British scholars and is published today. Gone is the word "aliens", which the academics thought was invariably associated in the minds of the younger generation with extra-terrestrials. It is replaced with "foreigners". Even the term "saints" is deemed to be too "ecclesiastical" and has been banished, to be replaced with "God's chosen ...
HOMELESS JACK ON KARMA, SUBATOMIC PARTICLES AND THIS WEEK'S BLOOD LIBEL
Post Date: 2005-03-14 21:55:37 by 1776
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"Man, you're gonna say I've fallen down a voodoo hole, but I'm telling you there are invisible connections--subatomic particles, waves, rays, things unseen--in the universe and it is these unseen things that are behind the law of karma and many other things that we don't yet understand. Why do you think that Arman says we always have to have sacred symbols--especially Arman's fylfot--on us and why some are tattooing them on their bodies so they'll never be without them? These symbols are like buttons and knobs and levers to the ultimate. "How do they work? Hell if I know. Look, if we take apart an adding machine from the '50's we can pretty much understand how it works because ...
Hal Lindsey's Cousin Quits Zion Oil
Post Date: 2005-03-14 13:33:29 by 1776
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Back on April 1 last year, Hal Lindsey used his WorldNetDaily column to promote shares in Zion Oil: A man named John Brown – without much more than his faith – has put together an oil company and purchased leases in a specific place in Israel. It is a in a location that is very much a part of some important prophecies in the Old Testament. He founded the Zion Oil and Gas Company as the result of studying prophecies God proclaimed to two of the sons of the Patriarch Jacob. Lindsey then did some bizarre Biblical exegesis to prove that there is oil in Israel, and concluded: At this moment, Zion Oil and Gas is selling stock in order to finish its first well. It is right in the ...
Answers Sought After Church Group Shooting
Post Date: 2005-03-14 12:08:51 by crack monkey
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Answers Sought After Church Group Shooting By RYAN NAKASHIMA and JULIET WILLIAMS The Associated Press Monday, March 14, 2005; 11:43 AM BROOKFIELD, Wis. - It was just another weekend service for churchgoers in this Milwaukee suburb when, without warning, they began to be gunned down by one of their own. Now victims' relatives are struggling to keep their faith and find answers. "This is a totally senseless thing," said Jeff Miller, whose 44-year-old brother, Gerald, died shielding an elderly woman who survived. "He was a great guy. He didn't deserve to die." Terry Ratzmann, a buttoned-down churchgoer known for sharing homegrown vegetables with his neighbors, walked ...
Bush White House's Christ-less Christmas [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-03-13 15:25:33 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Bush White House's Christ-less Christmas Official commemorations emphasize Santa, Rudolph over Jesus in 2004 Posted: December 21, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Santa Claus joins President and Laura Bush in singing carols at the White House WASHINGTON – What's virtually missing from the White House commemoration of Christmas this year? Jesus. The little baby in the manger. The reason for the season. While President Bush was re-elected last month in an election victory many attributed to an outpouring of support by evangelical Christians impressed with his candid outspokenness about his faith, some Americans notice the White House website lacks even a ...
Mall bunnies hunt for neutral names
Post Date: 2005-03-11 23:56:24 by 1776
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The Easter Bunny is a vanishing breed. Not that there's a shortage of 6-foot white rabbits carrying baskets of colored eggs. It's just that Mr. Shopping Mall Bunny is becoming more politically correct. The bunny at The Gardens mall Easter egg hunt last weekend — oops, make that just plain "egg hunt" — was called Garden Bunny. "The name just complemented The Gardens of the Palm Beaches," mall Marketing Director Jeannie Roberts said. Saturday, Baxter the Bunny is available for photos at the Mall at Wellington Green. At Town Center in Boca Raton, Peter Rabbit will hand out goodies and pose for pictures. "Because we're such a multicultural community, it's ...
Physicist Is Awarded the Templeton Prize in Spiritual Matters
Post Date: 2005-03-10 06:06:51 by 2Trievers
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Dr. Charles Townes, a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to invent the laser, added another and most unusual prize to a lifelong storehouse of honors yesterday. In a news conference at the United Nations, he was announced as the winner of the $1.5 million Templeton Prize, awarded annually for progress or research in spiritual matters. Dr. Townes, 89, a longtime professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has long argued that those old antagonists science and religion are more alike than different and are destined to merge. "Understanding the order in the universe and understanding the purpose in the universe are not identical, but they are also not very far ...
Jewish Settlers Plan to Storm Al-Aqsa
Post Date: 2005-03-09 21:08:24 by robin
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A file photo of Jewish settlers, guarded by Israeli soldier, entering Al-Aqsa Mosque. NABLUS, March 8, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Extremist Jewish settlers are planning to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest place, by next April, according to Al-Aqsa Institution for Reconstruction of Islamic Sanctities. Leaders of Jewish settlers have declared some 10,000 settlers are planning to storm the holy mosque in a bid to perform Jewish “religious rituals” in the holy place, they claim to be the site of “Temple Mount”. Leaflets are being distributed by Jewish settlers to urge Jews to join the storming of the Islamic holy site on April 10. Extremist Jewish groups, ...
Author Anne Rice Hears Minister's Message
Post Date: 2005-03-08 23:03:06 by 1776
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Best-selling author Anne Rice has always been fascinated by first-hand accounts of near-death experiences. But it was the story of a Fort Thomas man, Howard Storm, that motivated her not only to write a foreword for his new book, but to become an advocate for its publication. "I think he's one of the most important mystics of our time," Rice said in a phone interview from her suburban New Orleans home. Storm's story, as told in "My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life" (Doubleday; $14.95), begins on June 1, 1985, when he nearly died in a Paris hospital after suffering a tear in his intestines. While his near-death experience story includes being embraced by ...
500 million Christians urged to divest
Post Date: 2005-03-08 09:36:56 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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500 million Christians urged to divest By SAM SER An organization representing up to half a billion Christians worldwide has encouraged its member churches to divest from companies that participate in "illegal activities" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The central committee of the World Council of Churches, which represents more than 340 Protestant and Orthodox churches in more than 120 countries, announced the decision on Monday, toward the conclusion of the governing body's meeting in Geneva. It specifically noted the "process of phased, selective divestment from multinational corporations involved in the occupation" now being implemented by the Presbyterian ...
Body of Christ gets new improved flavour
Post Date: 2005-03-08 04:30:33 by 2Trievers
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Funen bakers have taken up the challenge to find a new recipe for communion wafers For centuries, Danish churchgoers have received the body of Christ in the form of a small, bland communion wafer. Now, competition is on the way. Ninety master bakers from the island of Funen have taken up the challenge to experiment with new recipes for the holy flesh, daily religious newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad reported on Thursday. ‘We have never tried anything like this before,’ Svendborg baker Gerner Pedersen said. ‘It’s very exciting. I think I will go for a baguette made out of a mixture of wheat and rye flour. That would give a good, strong taste of bread.’ Copenhagen ...
Putting Israel First
Post Date: 2005-03-07 21:52:44 by 1776
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My friend Arthur Silber points me toward the ravings of one Kay Arthur, a popular "Christian Zionist" author and minister, at the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters:"Perhaps the most startling moment of the morning was an appearance by popular Christian Zionist author, Kay Arthur of Precepts Ministries. 'I love America,' Arthur said, her voice quivering with emotion. 'But if it came to a choice between Israel and America, I would stand with Israel.' While the crowd applauded tepidly, I looked around and saw more than a few faces cringing with embarrassment. Arthur went on to read excerpts from the Book of Revelations, painting a surreal image of Jesus seated ...
Air Jesus
With The Evangelical Air Force
Post Date: 2005-03-07 10:13:19 by robin
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As Christian broadcasting's leading lights gathered at the National Religious Broadcasters' convention in Anaheim, California, only power-mongering and profiteering could keep their contradictions from bubbling to the surface by Max Blumenthal for Mediatransparency.org POSTED FEBRUARY 27, 2005 -- "How many of you out there think ministering the Word is unpopular?" the Rev. James McDonald asked a rapt crowd of hundreds at the opening ceremony of the National Religious Broadcasters' (NRB - website) convention. A beefy, bald-headed evangelist Air Jesus: With the Evangelical Air Forcewith a folksy style and an uncanny resemblance to Jesse Ventura, McDonald spent his 30 minute ...
Gannon Cannon - Part 3 Bush/FBI/CIA/IRS Role In Muders Of Federal Judge's Family
Post Date: 2005-03-06 17:23:28 by Zipporah
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They dare not tell you about it. That would antagonize their patrons, the Aristocracy. Knowing how to survive is the spy-riddled, oil-soaked, massive tax-cheating Monopoly Press. Details you need to know: In 1995, formerly with the IRS, was Chicago U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen [312 435-7xxx]. He had on his civil docket a troublesome piece of litigation. Among the charges and claims in the suit was that top officials of the Chicago IRS had secretly taken for their own personal benefit, and not for the public Treasury, some fifty million dollars belonging to a tax-payer. And that some of this ended up with Bill and Hillary Clinton to keep them from going to prison for embezzling ...
An open letter to Christians of this country about death and taxes:
Post Date: 2005-03-06 11:33:45 by Tax Pro Tester
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> An open letter to Christians of this countryabout death and taxes: If you received this letter in plain text format and would like to view with all visible links please visit: http://www.taxfreedom101.com/ezines/openlettertochristians.htm The wise old Patriot Benjamin Franklin who implored the Continental Congress to seek God's divine direction in making better the articles of Confederacy, once uttered this: "There are only two things certain in life, death and taxes." It is interesting that Franklin used the word "death" in conjunction with "taxes" to make a point, as the thought of either is not particularly appealing. We have all ...
Notorious Earth-Centered Solar System Denier is Arrested!
Post Date: 2005-03-06 00:52:21 by 1776
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The Passion of Ernst Zundel... "GALILEO GALILEI, a notorious denier that the earth is the center of the solar system, was arrested recently and is being held in isolation lest his hateful ideas be heard by others. A spokesman for the Inquisition has said that the sale or possession of Galileo's book is banned and anyone found reading it or discussing its ideas will be arrested. 'Let everyone be cautioned by the experience of the hater Galileo,' said the spokesman. ' We will not tolerate such intolerance in our community.'" "'Free speech is fine, but Galileo went too far,' said an Anti-Slander Organization spokesman. 'His venom and bigotry are beyond the pale. We all know ...
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