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Latest Articles: Religion
Pray, seek new societal vision to fight abortion, archbishop says
Post Date: 2007-01-24 00:06:19 by gargantuton
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Pray, seek new societal vision to fight abortion, archbishop says By Nancy Frazier O'Brien 1/22/2007 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) – Calling silence and ignorance the "twin allies of atrocities," Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington urged participants in a Mass preceding the March for Life Jan. 22 to "repudiate all forms of violence" and pray for an end to abortion. "If the spiral of violence and death that haunts our streets, schools, families and communities is to be broken, we need a new vision," he said. "We must realize and proclaim that there is something wrong with our society if all we can offer a woman caught up in the ...
Islam monotheistic, but believers not monolithic in thought, attitudes
Post Date: 2007-01-24 00:02:16 by gargantuton
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Islam monotheistic, but believers not monolithic in thought, attitudes By W. Patrick Lang 1/20/2007 Catholic Near East Welfare Association NEW YORK (CNEWA) – Who are Muslims? What do they believe? Are their ideas and traditions so alien there cannot be reconciliation between them and Christianity? Are they united in their beliefs and attitudes? Are they uniformly and permanently hostile to the West? In the last five years, these have become important questions for us all. Once, the nature and theology of Islam were the concern of Orientalist scholars, but no more. Roots. Islam appeared suddenly in the seventh century after the birth of Christ, emerging in a world long ravaged by ...
Extremism: Radical preachers offer a magical world for battered believers. (American Fascists)
Post Date: 2007-01-23 10:23:44 by Destro
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Posted on Sun, Jan. 14, 2007 Extremism: Radical preachers offer a magical world for battered believers. The engine that drives the radical Christian right in the United States - the most dangerous mass movement in American history - is not religiosity, but despair. It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart by neglect and indifference, and who eventually lost hope that America was a place where they had a future. This despair crosses economic boundaries, of course, enveloping many ...
Are biblical spouting “patriots” head cases? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-01-23 09:25:29 by Jethro Tull
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Yeah, they are. I’m amazed at the arrogance of some self professed “patriot” Christians. IMHO, they do more to fracture those of us who get it than any elitist agenda ever could. They are unwitting foot soldiers of the globalists.
The Illusion of Secular Salvation: the limits, and opportunities, of politics.
Post Date: 2007-01-20 23:32:13 by gargantuton
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The Illusion of Secular Salvation: the limits, and opportunities, of politics. by Thomas A. Droleskey - Issue and year The decision by President George W. Bush to permit “limited” federal funding of research conducted on the stem cell lines of embryonic human beings who were killed for the harvesting of such cell lines has sharply divided many pro-life Catholics. Some praised the President for the “limited” nature of the funding he approved on August 9, 2001 – ignoring, however, that the President premised his “compromise” on his acceptance of the evil of in vitro fertilization as a necessary means to “help” infertile couples. These ...
Of Men And Apes
Post Date: 2007-01-20 20:31:44 by robin
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Of Men And Apes By Jim R. Schwiesow http://NewsWithViews.com 1-18-7 "We are witnessing a carefully planned program of social engineering, which is being carried out by an increasingly despotic government and the internationalist thereof. The nation is rapidly being immersed in a depraved satanic system. For the government to carry out this program for the total subjugation of a once free people it is necessary to dull the senses of the people and instill in them a totally false system of beliefs. They must be dumbed down and made compliant ... If the putrescence that we are witnessing today in society is just a small sample of things to come in a new world order, we have to ...
The root of the word religion
Post Date: 2007-01-20 16:21:29 by richard9151
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The important significance of the root of the word religion is that it has the same root as the word legal. The Roman system of law in its inception was a good governmental system as was the American. Both became corrupted and broke down. In the Christian paradigm, as has been stated, God forces no one. Still men participate in a legal system (God's civil law) of their own choosing. The important difference between a good Godly government and that of evil is that men administer the civil law within their own community (i.e., the churches of Christ). They agree to everything or they are not subject to it. Adjudication proceeds amongst peers. There is no improper force involved but ...
Angst-Ridden Germans Look for Answers -- And Find Them in the Koran
Post Date: 2007-01-20 13:39:02 by Brian S
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The number of Germans who have converted to Islam has increased fourfold within one year -- despite the negative perception of Islam among the general public. In terms of his appearance, Kai Lühr seems out of place. Lühr, who is kneeling between bearded men in white robes and bowing in the direction of Mecca, is clean-shaven and wearing jeans and a gray jacket. He might pass as a member of the Christian congregation next door, sent here to cultivate inter-faith dialogue. But he clearly knows the Islamic prayer ritual too well for that to be the case. He bends over and prays in Arabic: "Allah listens to him who praises Him. Our Lord, to You is due all praise." Lühr ...
Politics and society: Dealing with religious extremism
Post Date: 2007-01-20 11:29:51 by robin
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Politics and society: Dealing with religious extremismBy Jeffrey S. Victor Ph.D.Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 19, 2007, 01:40 The meaning of religious tolerance presents a particular dilemma for liberals, because we feel called upon to preach tolerance as a central ideal in our worldview. What constitutes religious tolerance towards Christian extremists at home and Islamic extremists abroad? How should we deal with religious extremists who preach hatred and violence toward people of religions other than their own? Are we intolerant when we strongly oppose religious ideologues who use government to promote their particular brand of religious belief? We need to keep in mind ...
Using your faith over mans corrupted process
Post Date: 2007-01-18 12:14:09 by richard9151
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In the United States only 51% of the people have any say in who will be their sovereigns. This is why democracy is the system of choice for the elite; ´money´ spent on issues can be guarenteed to confuse enough people that behind the scenes manipulation of vote counts are not easily discovered. So the United states is a democracy where 51% of the people can take away the rights of the 49. If the congress and executive branches can make law for you, establish courts where judges determine fact and law then that body is your law maker and sovereign and you are no different than the days of Samuel when the voice of the people rejected God and became an ungodly country in ...
congregate and prepare to be free
Post Date: 2007-01-18 11:03:11 by richard9151
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I point out that the latest draft of the Jural Society Handbook that I put online gives detailed instructions on how people can congregate and prepare to be free. Between that and what Gregory has put on this list and his site, no stone is unturned in examinations of these matters of getting people ready for the "exodus." The handbook details how to set up dejure government. Figuring out the rest is pretty much common sense and just requires the will to do it. As for me, I have until 2011 before they will ask me to take the national ID slavery badge. In that time I will have enough money to buy and move a sizeable number of lands into allodium ownership under congregations, if ...
oaths and bindings
Post Date: 2007-01-18 10:43:02 by richard9151
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Matthew 5 verses 33 to 37 should create a lot more controversy in the modern church than they do. Many Churches have no policy or doctrine on taking oaths or swearing, yet this statement was clearly a directive from Christ and one of the few times he gave particular instructions: Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: The word Oath is horkos which is from horion which has to do with boundaries which is "from a derivative of an apparently primary horos (a bound or limit)" The word foreswear is from epiorkeo, to swear falsely, from epiorkos which is a perjured person. In verse ...
National Park Service Now Distancing Itself from Creationist Book It Approved
Post Date: 2007-01-16 17:42:21 by Ferret Mike
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The National Park Service insists that it does not teach creationism or endorse the view that the Grand Canyon is the product of Noah's Flood, according to a new agency public statement posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Despite this statement, the agency will continue selling a book making those "Young Earth" claims about the origin of the canyon - a book that top agency officials approved over the objections of its own park superintendent. In a statement issued by the National Park Service (NPS) Chief of Public Affairs, David Barna, on January 4th, the agency contends that park rangers have been instructed to "use the following ...
Baptists Announce Breakout from the Christian Right
Post Date: 2007-01-16 11:24:57 by Red Jones
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Baptists Announce Breakout from the Christian Right The Associated Press Jan 13, 2007 Carter, Clinton Back Moderate Baptists Carter, Clinton Announce Baptist Meeting As Counter to Conservative Southern Baptists By DANIEL YEE The Associated Press ATLANTA - With the help of former President Carter, Baptists who have distanced themselves from the conservative Southern Baptist Convention announced plans Tuesday for a major meeting that aims to improve the Baptist image and broaden its agenda. Carter, who left the Southern Baptists in 2000 after the denomination came under conservative control, and former President Bill Clinton, also a Baptist, joined leaders of about 40 Baptist groups in ...
The Carter Center Revolts Over “Peace Not Apartheid”
Post Date: 2007-01-16 11:20:56 by Red Jones
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The Carter Center Revolts Over “Peace Not Apartheid” Charles E. Carlson Jan 12, 2007 The much heralded uprising at the Carter Center (all recent Presidents have their own museums) in Atlanta involves 13 apparently Jewish employees and advisors who resigned en masse in protest of former President Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The resignations came on the heels of resignation of Emery University’s Kenneth Stein, formerly Jimmy Carter's mentor on Israel, and a public complaint by author Dennis Ross. Ross’ mother is Jewish, making him an honorary Israeli patriot, eligible for citizenship there along with the others. The letter of resignation ...
Who Really Was King James
Post Date: 2007-01-14 17:19:29 by christine
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For the last three centuries Protestants have fancied themselves the heirs of the Reformation, the Puritans, the Calvinists, and the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. This assumption is one of history's greatest ironies. Today, Protestants laboring under that assumption use the King James Bible. Most of the new Bibles such as the Revised Standard Version are simply updates of the King James. The irony is that none of the groups named in the preceding paragraph used a King James Bible nor would they have used it if it had been given to them free. The Bible in use by those groups, until it went out of print in 1644, was the Geneva Bible. The first Geneva Bible, both Old and New ...
(My title) Chavez: Jesus the greatest socialist in history
Post Date: 2007-01-10 14:10:01 by Jethro Tull
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Chavez promises a socialist Venezuela as he starts new 6-year term CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez echoed Fidel Castro's cry of "socialism or death" as he was sworn in for a new six-year term on Wednesday, promising to accelerate Venezuela's transformation into a socialist state. Chavez took the oath of office at the National Assembly after a sweeping re-election victory that has given him free reign to pursue more radical changes, including plans to nationalize power and telecommunications companies. His right hand raised, Chavez declared: "Fatherland, socialism or death — I swear it," invoking the Cuban leader's famous call ...
Raise minimum wage as a matter of justice, U.S. bishops urge Congress
Post Date: 2007-01-09 21:01:59 by gargantuton
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Raise minimum wage as a matter of justice, U.S. bishops urge Congress 1/8/2007 Catholic Online WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – The U.S. Congress needs to increase the minimum wage for working people as “a matter of simple justice for a decent society,” said the U.S bishops. In a Jan. 8 letter to members of the U.S. House and Senate, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Domestic Policy Committee, urged passage of H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. The bill calls for an increase of the minimum wage from the current $5.15 an hour to $5.85 an hour beginning 60 days after passage, $6.55 an hour beginning one year later and $7.25 an hour ...
Orthodox Christmas Celebrated
Post Date: 2007-01-07 12:23:57 by robin
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Orthodox Christmas Celebrated
Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral(epa)January 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- From Russia to Ethiopia, Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas today.
In Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Aleksy II, celebrated a midnight Mass for 5,000 people at Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The five-hour service was broadcast on national television.
Orthodox Christmas was not officially recognized by the communist regime, but became a public holiday in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Communists demolished thousands of churches, including Christ the Savior Cathedral, which was rebuilt in the late 1990s.
The ...
VIDEO: Pat Robertson’s terrorist–mass killing conversations with God
Post Date: 2007-01-05 21:03:55 by Zipporah
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Pat Robertson’s terrorist–mass killing conversations with God By: John Amato on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 11:45 AM - PST Pat Robertson is at it again. In his " Conversations with God," series, he tells us that Armageddon is on the way for '07, Kreskin has nothing over this guy…Keep the fear level high, Pat. Be a good little propagandist. Download (1265) | Play (1067) Download (466) | Play (677) Pat: There will be some very serious terrorist attacks. The evil people will come after this country and there’s a possibility – not a possibility, a definite certainty - that chaos is going to rule. And the Lord said the politicians will not ...
Robertson Predicts 'Mass Killing'
Post Date: 2007-01-02 18:36:09 by TommyTheMadArtist
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In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007. "I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that." Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September. Robertson ...
Faith, Logos, and Antichrist: A Post Scriptum on Regensburg
Post Date: 2006-12-28 15:02:09 by gargantuton
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Faith, Logos, and Antichrist: A Post Scriptum on Regensburg “God is not pleased by blood—and not acting reasonably is contrary to God’s nature” is the essential statement in Emperor Manuel’s verbal duel with his Persian interlocutor, which Pope Benedict quoted in his now famous Regensburg lecture last September. “Faith is born of the soul, not the body.” The world outlook based on this simple yet essential adage is light years away from the Verse of the Sword (9:5), the essential message of the Kuran. It is, in fact, so diametrically opposed to it that we may be forgiven for concluding that Muhammad’s “inspiration” was indeed supranatural, ...
Where Will You Be When the Boat Capsizes?
Post Date: 2006-12-27 09:50:13 by bluedogtxn
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by David Calderwood DIGG THIS In watching the investment markets quite closely for the past decade or so, I concluded that trends often continue until their trajectory is accepted as inevitable. This is related to the Magazine Cover Indicator (MCI) that shows how a trend often reaches terminus when its acceptance is so great that it appears on mainstream magazine covers. Internet history demonstrates the usefulness of this; the link I used is from June 2005, almost exactly when the housing bubble topped. The columnist was writing at that moment how the boom would continue, ignoring the MCI to which she referred. [Join with me, please, in a collective smirk at the irony.] It’s ...
Religion Is A Gigantic Fraud
Post Date: 2006-12-27 03:53:54 by IndieTX
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Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason. [Some] 433,000,000 Mohammedans believe that the Koran was brought by an angel from heaven; 335,000,000 Hindus believe one of their gods, Siva, has six arms; 153,000,000 Buddhists believe they will be reincarnated; 904,000,000 Christians believe a god made the world in six days, Joshua stopped the sun by yelling at it, and Jesus was born of a virgin and ...
The Psychology Of Terrorism [Psychology and its Practice]
Post Date: 2006-12-27 03:48:30 by IndieTX
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Terrorist. What sort of mental image comes to mind when you think of a terrorist? Most persons would likely think of men with assault rifles and bombs, men who feel so betrayed by someone or something that they will attack anyone, even the innocent, to get the territory or the recognition they believe is due to them. Such is political terrorism. It is motivated by bitter hearts, and it breeds bitterness and hatred. In his movie The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock created horror by showing us what birds could do, but thankfully don’t: they could viciously attack anyone and everyone without provocation. We humans have the same capacity for aggression as animals, but it is fortunately contained ...
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