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Latest Articles: Religion
A Review of Chris Hedges' American Fascists
Post Date: 2007-04-23 10:15:09 by Stephen Lendman
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A Review of Chris Hedges' Christian Fascism - by Stephen Lendman Chris Hedges is a journalist who for two decades was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times spending much of his time reporting from conflict zones in El Salvador, the Middle East and from Serbia covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s that divided and destroyed a country under the guise of humanitarian intervention providing cover for naked imperialism. There it allowed NATO (meaning the US) to expand into Central and Eastern Europe to keep predatory capitalism on the march for markets, resources and cheap labor everywhere using wars to get them and eliminate "uncooperative" heads of state like Slobodan ...
Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries
Post Date: 2007-04-21 12:05:47 by Zipporah
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Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries By Philip PullellaFri Apr 20, 2:21 PM ET The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went. In a long-awaited document, the Church's International Theological Commission said limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of salvation." The 41-page document was published on Friday by Origins, the documentary service of the U.S.-based Catholic News Service, which is part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Pope Benedict, himself a top theologian who before his election in 2005 expressed doubts about ...
Richard Dawkins' Message To Virginia Tech Mourners--Get Over It!
Post Date: 2007-04-21 10:34:55 by Mind_Virus
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Dawkins' Message to Mourners--Get Over It! Posted Apr 19th 2007 8:37PM by Dinesh D'Souza The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. --Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden And boy the atheists are up in arms! They're mad as hell about my post "Where is Atheism When Bad Things Happen." Many responders informed me that tragedies are normally considered a problem for religion, not atheism. Where is God when bad things happen? Yes, people, I know this. My point was that if evil and suffering are a problem for religion--and they are--they ...
If Imus Had Called Mother Teresa a “Ho” He’d Still Have a Job
Post Date: 2007-04-20 15:04:48 by Ada
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In case you were planning a career as a nasty, mean-spirited shock-jock, who makes his living using his media pulpit to slam people who mostly can’t (or won’t) fight back, here’s a handy tip: Stick to attacking our culture’s designated pinatas. Working-class whites, Southerners, all white Protestants (but especially Evangelicals), stay-at-home moms, and Mormons are all safe targets. In most circles, Arabs and the French are fair game, too. Feel especially free to trash Catholics, of course. The admirable Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights has highlighted the extent of the double standard applied to the defamation of Christians and of other groups in the U.S. ...
Biblical Question [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-20 14:35:03 by intotheabyss
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I was wondering about Mathew 5:18-19. 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. When you read the 4Th commandment it says: KJV - 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy ...
FREE REPUBLIC: Summation of Virginia Tech Killer's Ties To Islam
Post Date: 2007-04-19 11:57:00 by Mind_Virus
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Summation of Virginia Tech Killer's Ties To Islam Various links listed within ^ | 1/19/07 | Dangus Posted on 04/19/2007 4:47:03 AM PDT by dangus The following are ties Cho had to Islam. They are not offered as proof of anything, but merely to prompt consideration or disproof of any links. Cho’s father lived in Saudi Arabia as a young, single man. His sister works for a State Department contractor which oversees billions of dollars of aid for Iraq. Previously, she worked in Bangkok. (1) Both of Cho’s plays are about sexual abuse. (2) Bangkok is a city famous for its sex trade, which caters especially to Muslim businessmen. Cho’s rampage was on Holocaust Remembrance ...
3 killed in Turkey Bible attack
Post Date: 2007-04-18 16:50:08 by robin
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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Assailants on Wednesday slit the throats of three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Turkey's small Christian minority. The attack added to concerns in Europe about whether the predominantly Muslim country - which is bidding for EU membership - can protect its religious minorities. It also underlined concerns about rising Turkish nationalism and hostility toward non-Muslims. The three victims - a German and two Turks - were found with their hands and legs bound and their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in the central city of Malatya. Police detained four men, ages 19 to 20, and a fifth ...
VT Student known to ACLS
Post Date: 2007-04-18 14:21:07 by Neil McIver
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David Carmichael sent this notice. My best to the McCain family.
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We have known a very special young lady, Lauren McCain. She is no doubt in Paradise today. She had great faith, courage and love for the Lord Jesus. Encouragement should have been her middle name. She, and her mom and dad, have been a great encouragement to our family over these last many difficult years. We are all grieving deeply at their loss, and our loss, though rejoicing at Lauren's gain. She walked with Elohim and she was not, for Elohim took her.
Pray for the Lord's grace upon her family. She was one of two young ladies who were attending German class, who were not identified until Tuesday afternoon. The ...
Neo-Cons To Spin Virginia Tech Massacre As Terrorist Attack - Say Bloodshed Was Spurred By Militant Islam
Post Date: 2007-04-18 11:24:01 by Mind_Virus
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Neo-Cons To Spin VA Massacre As Terrorist Attack Propaganda junkies may milk "Ismail Ax" to say bloodshed was spurred by militant Islam Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Neo-Con media cheerleaders for the Bush administration's war on terror are set to connect killer Cho Seung-Hui with militant Islam as an excuse to propagandize the notion that Monday's VA Tech Massacre was a terrorist attack. Reports state that Seung-Hui wrote two words on his arm in red ink before carrying out the bloodbath - "Ismail Ax." Explanations as to the meaning of the words vary but according to a Chicago Tribune report, "One popular theory spreading ...
Humans 'hardwired for religion'
Post Date: 2007-04-18 09:33:10 by Jethro Tull
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Humans 'hardwired for religion' James Randerson Monday September 4, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The battle by scientists against "irrational" beliefs such as creationism is ultimately futile, a leading experimental psychologist said today. The work of Bruce Hood, a professor at Bristol University, suggests that magical and supernatural beliefs are hardwired into our brains from birth, and that religions are therefore tapping into a powerful psychological force. "I think it is pointless to think that we can get people to abandon their belief systems because they are operating at such a fundamental level," said Prof Hood. "No amount of rational evidence ...
Westboro Baptist Church Will Protest The Funerals of Slain VT Students
Post Date: 2007-04-18 03:25:42 by Mind_Virus
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Westboro Baptist Church Will Protest The Funerals of Slain VT Students WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is 'horrified' by it all. You know nothing of horror -- yet. Your true horror is coming. "They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads" (Eze. 7:18). Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. On April 16, 2007, this nation, ...
WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead - "You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet."
Post Date: 2007-04-17 18:25:02 by Jethro Tull
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WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is 'horrified' by it all. You know nothing of horror -- yet. Your true horror is coming. "They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads" (Eze. 7:18). Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was ...
1960s Moral Decline Blamed For Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandals
Post Date: 2007-04-17 13:52:11 by Mind_Virus
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1960s Moral Decline Blamed For Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandals Retired archbishop of Washington cites Woodstock By Julia Duin The Washington Times WASHINGTON -- Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the recently retired archbishop of Washington, blamed the "loose morals" of the 1960s for the massive sex-abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church. Speaking at a conference in Auckland, New Zealand, last weekend, he said the priestly sex abusers had been caught up in the sexually lax climate of the 1960s -- an era that he said was "when anything goes." "It was Woodstock," he said, according to the New Zealand Herald. "People were smoking marijuana, ...
Final Warning - A History of the New World Order
Post Date: 2007-04-15 21:35:33 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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David Rivera: Final Warning - A History of the New World Order The Prophecy Club 2 hr 42 min 31 sec - Apr 7, 2006http://www.prophecyclub.com In 1910, a group of international bankers secretly met on a small island off the coast of Georgia. Their plan: to formulate a program to ... all » destroy the financial structure of America. To do that, they pushed Woodrow Wilson into the presidency; and in 1913, Wilson signed into law, the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Income Tax. In 1921, these international bankers established the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The U.S. Government took advantage of the CFR's experience in finance and foreign affairs, and one of their study ...
A top Brazilian rabbi charged with shoplifting says he plans to seek God's forgiveness when he meets next month with the pope
Post Date: 2007-04-14 23:31:39 by Red Jones
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A top Brazilian rabbi charged with shoplifting says he plans to seek God's forgiveness when he meets next month with the pope April 14, 2006 JTA Sobel seeks forgiveness in pope's presence A top Brazilian rabbi charged with shoplifting says he plans to seek God's forgiveness when he meets next month with the pope. Rabbi Henry Sobel, who has led the Sao Paolo Jewish congregation, told the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper that he still plans on joining other Brazilian religious leaders next month in a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Brazil, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation. "I am not Catholic, so I cannot ask for the pope's forgiveness," Sobel ...
Praying for the Apocalypse
Post Date: 2007-04-13 20:45:40 by YertleTurtle
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The Gilead Baptist Church, outside Detroit, is on a four-lane highway called South Telegraph Road. The drive down South Telegraph Road to the church, a warehouse-like structure surrounded by black asphalt parking lots, is a depressing gantlet of boxy, cut-rate motels with names like Melody Lane and Best Value Inn. The highway is flanked by a flat-roofed Walgreens, a Blockbuster, discount liquor stores, a Taco Bell, a McDonald’s, a Bob’s Big Boy, Sunoco and Citgo gas stations, a Ford dealership, Nails USA, The Dollar Palace, Pro Quick Lube and U-Haul. The tawdry display of cheap consumer goods, emblazoned with neon, lines both sides of the road, a dirty brown strip in the middle. ...
Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack
Post Date: 2007-04-12 11:20:08 by gengis gandhi
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Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack By ETGAR LEFKOVITS [Print this Article] [EMail this Article] [Subscribe] [JPost Toolbar] [Download article to your iPod/mp3 player] [JPost ePaper] Talkbacks for this article: 118 Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows. The dramatic clarifications, compiled by epigrapher ...
Racial Bias in News Coverage Comparing the Duke Lacrosse Team “Rape” Coverage to the torture, rape and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
Post Date: 2007-04-11 23:00:43 by christine
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For more than a year the District Attorney in the area of Duke University accused members of the Lacrosse team of a rape against an African American woman who happened to be a stripper, drug addict and prostitute. The politically-minded prosecutor clearly committed the felonious crime of obstruction of justice as he hid exculpatory forensic evidence absolving the boys of any crime. After months of scandalous news coverage and universal condemnation against the Lacrosse team and Duke, the cases were dropped. Because this incident concerned alleged White perpetrators and an alleged Black victim, the prosecutor felt he had a right to criminally obstruct justice to the point of jailing some ...
Calif. diocese threatened with contempt
Post Date: 2007-04-11 11:51:04 by Arete
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SAN DIEGO — A federal bankruptcy judge is threatening the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego with contempt for allegedly attempting to hide assets to avoid payment to clergy sexual abuse victims. Judge Louise DeCarl Adler ordered the diocese's lead attorney into court Wednesday to explain why she and her colleagues should not be sanctioned. Adler cited a March 29 letter sent by a diocese parish organization to pastors urging them to get new taxpayer identification numbers and transfer funds to new accounts. The threat Monday came six weeks after the diocese sought bankruptcy protection amid lawsuits by more than 140 people who accuse priests of sexual abuse. The judge said any ...
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 ...
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