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Jewish Anti-Christianity Intensifies As Christians Ignore It
Post Date: 2007-02-08 15:08:11 by Zoroaster
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Jewish Anti-Christianity Intensifies As Christians Ignore It By Harmony Grant 2-8-7 Attacks by Jewish activists on Christianity have never been bolder in the US than this past year. Some Jews themselves state this fact, such as Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who warns of his liberal brethren's onslaught against Christianity. Zef Chafets, Jewish journalist and author of A Match Made in Heaven, recently offered a warning, too. He wrote a Christian-friendly rebuttal to Abe Foxman's scathing critique of the church in Time online. "In early November 2005, the Prime Minister of Iran stated his intention to wipe Israel off the map," writes Chafets. "At almost exactly the same ...
Gnosticism and Jesus' "Destroy this temple"
Post Date: 2007-02-07 21:53:43 by Morgana le Fay
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Gnosticism and Jesus' "Destroy this temple"by a gnostic [Subscribe] Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 06:14:18 PM PSTAs some know, this is my on-going personal project, and the latest massive hypocrisy in relation to John Edwards' bloggers has inspired me to clean up my essay; I do plan a complete overhaul with the essay written in academic format at some point... Anyhow, here's my latest editing of my diary on the original christians, the Gnostics, an alternative expose of Jesus' teachings that survived to the modern Bible, and my expose of St. Stephen in relation to this same meme that the early christians were against organized religion with physical temples or churches and ...
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, Part II
Post Date: 2007-02-07 20:52:47 by gargantuton
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Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, Part II Peter Chojnowski See also: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, Part I A) Who is to Blame? The "spirit" of capitalism, which we have attempted to express in the first part of this article on Amintore Fanfani's work Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, is a intellectual force which has a specific historical origin. According to Fanfani, the "spirit" of an age, like the one of capitalism, cannot be merely the conviction of one active man or even a group of active men. For it to be truly categorized as the spirit of an entire age (clearly the German word Geist better conveys the meaning intended), the ...
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism: Part I
Post Date: 2007-02-07 20:42:57 by gargantuton
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Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism: Part I Peter Chojnowski When Amintore Fanfani wrote his book Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism1 in the mid-1930s, capitalism was at its nadir. Not only had the engine of modern capitalism, the stock markets, staled, but also, the major nations of the world were governed by ideologies which were specifically and primarily anti-capitalistic. It was during this decade, between the bubble-economy of the 20s and the wartime economy of the 40s, that the thought of many in the United States and Europe was focused upon two very specific questions: Why had capitalism failed so catastrophically in 1929-1930 and what could be put forward as an ...
Mike Jones responds to Ted Haggard's announcement of his heterosexuality
Post Date: 2007-02-07 11:29:29 by Zipporah
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Mike Jones responds to Ted Haggard's announcement of his heterosexuality by David Edwards and Michael Rogers The prostitute who first exposed Evangelical minister Ted Haggard as a closeted gay man and crystal meth user has responded to Haggard's claim that he has successfully completed three weeks of "ex-gay" counseling. In response to Haggard's statement, Jones giggled and responded "Well, that's the quickest therapy I've ever heard of. It's hard for me to imagine someone who is performing oral sex and saying that he is 'straight.' That just doesn't jive." If you were to ask me 'Do I think is Ted haggard gay?' I would have ...
Economic Science And Catholic Social Teaching [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-02-06 19:56:01 by gargantuton
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June 17, 2004 ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING by Thomas Storck Even among otherwise orthodox Catholics in the United States there is generally little knowledge of or interest in Catholic social doctrine, that body of Catholic teachings which concerns man in society, especially with reference to the political and economic orders. Since Leo XIII began vigorously to develop and apply this teaching to the changing conditions of the modern world, especially with his encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), Catholic social doctrine has seemed to many to constitute an alternative both to free-market capitalism and all forms of socialism and communism. But lately an objection to Catholic ...
Haggard now "completely heterosexual"
Post Date: 2007-02-06 11:41:51 by Arete
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DENVER — One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual." Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition. "He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing." Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his ...
The Things that are Not Caesar's: How to Catch Fish, Unlock Locke, and Settle the Just Bounds of Church and State
Post Date: 2007-02-06 01:01:54 by gargantuton
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The Things that are Not Caesar's by Thaddeus J. Kozinski How to Catch Fish, Unlock Locke, and Settle the Just Bounds of Church and State Stanley Fish is infamous for his subversive talents, especially his ability to deconstruct what seem to be impregnable arguments with a mixture of penetrating intuition, rigorous analysis, and ironical wit. Catholic scholars skeptical to the coherence of liberal political thought owe Fish a great debt for his uncanny ability to expose the rotting skeleton of liberal orthodoxy, revealing the irrational and intolerant dogmas hiding underneath its shiny skin. Although normally the enemy of secular liberalism is the friend of Catholicism, this is not ...
God and Capitalism: Reflections of a Catholic Banker
Post Date: 2007-02-06 00:55:41 by gargantuton
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God and Capitalism 2/6/2005 - 5:00 AM PST Reflections of a Catholic Banker ROME, FEB. 6, 2005 (Zenit) - How to order the modern economy according to moral principles was the subject of a book published in November in Italy. "Denaro e Paradiso: L'Economia Globale e il Mondo Cattolico" (Money and Paradise: The Global Economy and the Catholic World) is a book-length interview with Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Italian operations of one of Europe's largest banks, Banco Santander Central Hispano. Gotti Tedeschi starts off by explaining to author and journalist Rino Cammilleri how the market system, even with its imperfections, is the most efficient way of ...
Christians Should Follow Christ, Not Do The Bidding Of AIPAC
Post Date: 2007-02-05 17:28:19 by Brian S
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Dear Editor: Christ said, “Blessed are the peacemakers." So, how did Christians turn into Christian-Zionists (evangelicals), elect Bush, and fund the bombing of Iraqi and Palestinian children? And how can they claim to be “pro-life?" I guess the tourists don’t go into refugee camps where Palestinians are starving. They don’t visit the Baptist Church in Gaza where American and Arab Christians worship together (and pray the American-made missiles don’t hit them). Where does the Bible say we should support the “state" of Israel? When God spoke to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3, there WAS no state of Israel. Israel, the grandson of Abraham, hadn’t ...
Anglican/Episcopal Church Officially Promotes Idol Worship [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-02-05 15:16:12 by richard9151
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Date: Sun, Jan 21 2007 2:49 am *False Churches, False Brethren, False Gospels Weblog: Anglican/Episcopal Church Officially Promotes Idol Worship* *"Women's Eucharist" calls for worship of pagan deities specifically condemned in Scripture.* Compiled by Ted Olsen Imagine for one moment that you're a leader in the Anglican/Episcopal Church USA. You know that within the next few days, a global commission is going to release a report on how the global Anglican Communion should respond to your church, and is likely to be critical of the ordination of an actively homosexual man as bishop. You know, and have said yourself, that the debate isn't just about sexuality: ...
Jewish Baby Seriously Injured In Circumcision Ceremony
Post Date: 2007-02-04 18:57:24 by Brian S
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Mohel apparently cuts off part of baby's penis during circumcision in Bnei Brak. Baby rushed to hospital suffering from massive blood loss Meital Yasur-Beit Or Published: 02.04.07, 23:54 An eight-day old baby sustained serious injuries to his penis during a circumcision ceremony held at a Bnei Brak event hall Sunday evening. The baby was rushed to the emergency room at the Sheba Medical Center, where he is currently undergoing surgery to stop the bleeding. Following the bris and after the mohel (circumciser) had already left the building, the baby's parents noticed that his diaper was soaked with blood. The parents phoned the mohel, who advised them to call an ambulance ...
We're far too nice to Muslim extremists
Post Date: 2007-02-03 20:12:20 by gargantuton
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The Sunday Times February 04, 2007 We're far too nice to Muslim extremists Minette Marrin It is hard not to feel a desperate anger at last week’s news. Nine British Muslims have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to behead a British Muslim soldier, as a traitor to Islam, and to show a videotape of the act on the net to terrify us. In the same week Policy Exchange, the think tank, has published a poll-based study that shows young British-born Muslims are far more alienated from mainstream society than their parents. Of British Muslims aged 16-24, 37% would prefer to live under sharia in Britain, 37% would like to send their children to Islamic state schools and — most ...
The Origins of Christian Zionism
Post Date: 2007-02-03 11:30:52 by Zoroaster
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The Origins of Christian Zionism History; Posted on: 2007-02-02 23:27:30 Most English-speaking Christians who support Zionism claim the Bible as the inspiration for their position. Few realize that what they actually believe is a novel interpretation of Scripture concocted by a notorious con artist. In this article, Christian writer C. E. Carlson tells the story of Cyrus Scofield and the wealthy Jews who used his work to turn today's Christians into near-Judeolaters by C. E. Carlson The French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote Democracy in America when he traveled here in the first third of the 19th Century. In ringing tones he sang the praises of America's invulnerable ...
Preparing for a New Translation of the Roman Missal
Post Date: 2007-02-03 04:20:52 by gargantuton
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Preparing for a New Translation of the Roman Missal Msgr. James P. Moroney From the Nov/Dec 2006 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine On June 15, 2006, members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a slightly amended form of the translation of the Order of Mass by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (I.C.E.L.). Now we await the consideration of that translation by several other English-speaking conferences of bishops (the Episcopal Conference of India is scheduled to vote on the text in January 2007) and a review by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments in consideration of its confirmation by the Holy See. In the ...
The Troubling Worldview of the "Rapture Ready" Christian
Post Date: 2007-02-02 12:49:13 by bluedogtxn
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The Troubling Worldview of the 'Rapture-Ready' Christian by Bill Barnwell by Bill Barnwell DIGG THIS When the subject of the "end-times" comes up, many Christians and non-Christians don’t want to talk about it. Some Christians, annoyed with all the competing theories and terminology just say, "What difference does it make? Jesus is coming back and I just need to be ready." Non-Christians just assume that since Christianity isn’t true, then the whole issue doesn’t matter. Well, actually, it does matter. I will submit that the popular doctrines of the Left Behind series pose very real threats not only to Christianity, but also to the wider ...
Christian Fascism: The Jesus Gestapo of St. Orwell
Post Date: 2007-02-01 17:40:31 by Zoroaster
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Voices 02/01/07 06:40:26 am, Categories: Voices, 1800 words Christian Fascism: The Jesus Gestapo of St. Orwell Carolyn Baker New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, has written an extraordinary book, American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America. Having survived a Christian fundamentalist background myself, I marvel at the timely urgency of Hedges’ book, but also, at the obtuse disconnect most Americans have with the pivotal thesis of his book: the power of the religious right in the United States to bring forth a nation whose totalitarian repression could dwarf that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. [More:] As Hedges notes, we are well on the path toward such a reality, ...
Cardinal Martini and Euthanasia: When It Is Licit to Cut Life Short
Post Date: 2007-02-01 01:37:33 by gargantuton
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Cardinal Martini and Euthanasia: When It Is Licit to Cut Life Short For the former archbishop of Milan, the seriously ill person has at every moment the right to interrupt the care that keeps him alive. No, objects the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. But the real clash is between Martini and the pope by Sandro Magister ROMA, January 30, 2007 – Just nine months after the bombshell manifesto of opposition to the reigning pope published in the Italian weekly “L’espresso” – on artificial insemination, embryos, abortion, euthanasia – cardinal Carlo Maria Martini has returned to the last of these topics, euthanasia, with an article that appeared on ...
Gog and Magog: Thew false prophetic underpinnings for war
Post Date: 2007-01-31 14:16:43 by Zoroaster
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"As it turns out that Gog and Magog are generally nothing more than one's favorite bad guy." Often times it's not what Holy Writ says so much as how we construe it that counts! Especially is this so when Zionists and Dispensationalists, the Neo-Cons and the Theo-Cons, get together to do the construing. When these two are in agreement, watch out, for their aggressive ideologies depend on an apocalyptic "clash of civilizations" to bring about their shared vision of a "New World Order" ruled from Jerusalem. Thus saith the Reverend John Hagee: Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran, followed by Ezekiel’s war (as described in Ezekiel, ...
Badeye: Malador and Company Intimidate Goldi-lox
Post Date: 2007-01-30 09:56:51 by Badeye After Five
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I am alleging that malador and company intimidate Goldi-Lox. I don't really believe this, but then I don't really believe most of the crap I spew. So what else is new? I'm just hoping that Goldi buys into my whine and protects me from those awful fact based people who keep contradicting my carefully crafted spin. How am I supposed to convince people that bullshit walks and talks if those little monsters keep posting hard facts to the contrary? They are being unpatriotic and revealing stuff about Bush and Cheney that normal people arn't supposed to know about. Well, I have to go. I am going to get my hummer at the car dealership today. I hope it's in the main bay where ...
Luke 16:19-31
Post Date: 2007-01-29 11:15:45 by richard9151
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Luke 16:19-31 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell-fire he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his ...
Secrets of Obama family unlocked
Post Date: 2007-01-29 01:26:56 by TommyTheMadArtist
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WHEN Barack Obama, America’s newest presidential hopeful, was hit by allegations that he had attended a radical Islamic madrasah school as a boy in Indonesia, the claims spread like a virus through the media and internet. It was a lie — the school was barely more religious than British church schools — but it was also a sign that Obama’s chances of winning the presidency depend to an unusual degree on his life story and character. The race is on to define the gifted but little-known senator for Illinois and The Sunday Times can reveal that his heritage is far more diverse and astonishing than anything American voters have heard so far. Obama, 45, has two half- ...
Map of connections between characters in the New Testament
Post Date: 2007-01-27 16:56:06 by Zipporah
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Map of connections between characters in the New Testament When you feed the names and connections in the King James Version of the New Testament into the ManyEyes social visualization tool, you get this incredible hairball map of the social relationships between the characters in that novel. Link (via Waxy)
Porn and Pancakes?
Post Date: 2007-01-27 16:49:51 by Zipporah
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Porn and Pancakes? 1/24/07 See News 10NBC Report By Jennifer Johnson Many churches have coffee hour, but have you ever heard of Porn and Pancakes at church? That event will happen next month at a church in Wayne County and the advertisements are already up. There is a billboard on Route 104 that says people are talking about porn and pancakes. It's an event that will be held at Living Word Assembly of God Church in the town of Ontario, next month. The discussion is being advertised as an honest discussion about pornography. “It's everybody's dirty little secret in America and it needs to be addressed. It needs to be spoken about openly so people can get healed,” ...
Dinesh the Dhimmi: Jihad’s Fellow-Traveller’s Agenda
Post Date: 2007-01-25 01:40:49 by gargantuton
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Dinesh the Dhimmi Jihad’s Fellow-Traveller’s Agenda Nearly two years ago the Jihadist lobby in the United States made a concerted affort to have my book The Sword of the Prophet banned from National Review Online. Jihadi activists gathered around CAIR claimed the book defamed Islam and its “prophet.” When it did not get immediate satisfaction from National Review, CAIR instructed its partisans to pressure the Boeing Corporation to withdraw its advertisements from the magazine. Faced with the loss of revenue National Review briefly took down The Sword, but then quickly reposted it, under pressure from mainly conservative quarters. It is ...
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