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Pagans' Yule often misunderstood
Post Date: 2006-12-26 00:33:48 by Morgana le Fay
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In many ways, the celebrations that Amber K and other pagans undertake this time of year are similar to those associated with Christmas. There are trees with decorations, gift exchanges and time spent with family and friends. It's the differences that drew Amber K - that's her full name - to the spiritual practice she estimates could have 7,000 members in the state. "Most mainstream churches don't have a big emphasis on the sacredness of nature," she said. "If I'm sitting indoors on a church pew, I feel bored. If I'm out walking through the mountains, I feel like I'm in touch with all that is sacred. That was very important to me." While many ...
Jews aren't supposed to love Christmas
Post Date: 2006-12-25 18:41:18 by Zipporah
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Jews aren't supposed to love Christmas Jews aren't supposeed to love Christmas.Historically, our job as Jews was to resist its charms, suspect its motives, endure its excesses. At best, in a Diaspora where schools were public and Christianity assumed, we were supposed to grin and bear it. At worst, in a Diaspora where Jews were vilified and Christianity a cause, we were supposed to survive the murderous pogroms that at times attended it.We were never supposed to love it. That's why it comes as such a shock, that so many of us do.This week, the New York Times' second most e-mailed article was "Jewish in a Winter Wonderland," a paean to Christmas by author ...
DAMAGE DONE BY SANTA CLAUS
Post Date: 2006-12-25 16:33:26 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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DAMAGE DONE BY SANTA CLAUS THE SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE OF THE SANTA LIE! The extent and depth of the damage of the Santa Lie to the innocent minds of little children is non-researched and unknown. Spiritually, when a parent teaches their Child the Santa Lie, they are shattering their very first faith and belief system. The parent also shatters their own Credibility. The Child realizes, "if my parents lied to me about Santa, maybe JESUS is also a lie? After all, they are both connected to the same day, DEC 25th, Christmas. A Child who has been deceived by The Santa Lie not only doubts the Truth about JESUS but everything else a parent tells them from ...
Hee! Hee! Jesus isn't coming back anytime soon!
Post Date: 2006-12-25 06:24:12 by YertleTurtle
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"There shall be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars." - Jesus Christ, Luke 21:25 The Bible is filled with references to astrology. This is because astrology was widely accepted as truth in Biblical times. Christians who believe that astrology is Satanic would be surprised to learn that the Bible is filled with astrology and even Jesus himself made numerous references to astrology. People believed in the study of the stars in Biblical times. Everyone knew the influence of the sun on the earth, and the sun was a star. It certainly made a pattern, so far as life on earth was concerned - it shaped everything, or at least nourished everything - and the shape had to be such as ...
The Jesus Dynasty: An Alternative History of Jesus' Royal Family
Post Date: 2006-12-24 23:08:24 by Destro
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The Jesus Dynasty: An Alternative History of Jesus' Royal Family By Destro This is a thesis I have been working on that began with me trying to figure out why King Herod would according to New Testament accounts go out of his way to order a massacre of new born males upon hearing of Magi's tale of the birth of Jesus. If the event did happen - and I think it did - then I an explanation for Herod's motives needs to be found. First we must understand the significance of the Magi. The Magi were the holy men of the Zoroastrian faith and thus would have been considered a hostile presence by the Roman world. The Romans were in a Cold War with the Persian empire of their day and ...
Exclusive Truth Wins Out Video: James Dobson Slammed By Professor For Lying
Post Date: 2006-12-23 20:43:39 by Zipporah
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Exclusive Truth Wins Out Video: James Dobson Slammed By Professor For Lying JAMES DOBSON REBUKED ON VIDEO FOR DISTORTING RESEARCH OF NYU PROFESSOR CAROL GILLIGAN Renowned Author/Researcher, England’s Angela Phillips, Condemns Focus on the Family’s Leader For ‘Seriously Misrepresenting’ Her Work Miami Beach, FLA. ? Truth Wins Out released an exclusive video today featuring celebrated New York University educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, PhD, who upbraided Focus on the Family leader, James C. Dobson, for misrepresenting her research in a guest column he wrote in last week’s issue of Time Magazine. Additionally, Angela Phillips, the renowned author of ...
The Origins of Christmas
Post Date: 2006-12-23 14:55:07 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Origins of Christmas 45 min 10 sec - Dec 19, 2006 From the Greeks to Pagans to grafted Christian Holidays. Proof that the war on Christmas is a pathetic marketing tool for the Right
Virgil Goode And Another Virginian
Post Date: 2006-12-22 14:53:52 by bluedogtxn
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by BarbinMD Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 05:04:49 AM PST By now, most people are familiar with the letter written by Rep. Virgil Goode, in response to reports that Rep.-elect Keith Ellison plans to use the Koran when he is sworn into office. Goode said, in part: When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. [...] I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America... As long as I have the honor of ...
'Seinfeld' spurs Festivus pole sales
Post Date: 2006-12-21 23:57:09 by Indrid Cold
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MILWAUKEE - Kevin Campanella hates buying and receiving Christmas presents that he says inevitably disappoint. This year, no such worries. Campanella plans to seek "serenity now" by celebrating Festivus, a wacky holiday popularized in a 1997 "Seinfeld" episode. Billed as "Festivus for the rest of us," the holiday celebrated by the Costanza clan on Dec. 23 features an airing of grievances and feats of strength in which a guest must pin the host before the party ends. In protest of Christmas' commercialism, character Frank Costanza puts up an unadorned aluminum pole instead of a tree. The metal, he says admiringly, has a "very high strength-to-weight ...
Does God Play Dice with the Universe?
Post Date: 2006-12-21 10:08:38 by Zoroaster
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Does God Play Dice with the Universe? Richard Stone and Rixon Stewart “Physics has had to accept the indignity of the Principles of Uncertainty… instead of billiard ball particles like electrons, there are probability waves, instead of matter composed of particles and energy composed of waves there is light made of particles and objects made of matter waves. In this surreal sub-atomic world matter has ceased to have any solid form and has no more than a tendency to exist.” From ‘The Facts Of Life’ by Richard Milton England’s churches are empty, their tiny congregations consist mainly of the elderly whilst the buildings themselves are looked upon as ...
Yule celebrates winter solstice
Post Date: 2006-12-21 01:53:12 by Morgana le Fay
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Once again the holiday season is here. Though the most well-known and familiar holiday is that of Christmas, it is not the only holiday celebrated at this time of year. Another holiday not as well-known, but still celebrated, is that of the winter solstice. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and its occurrence marks the beginning of the winter season. The celebration of the winter solstice has taken numerous forms for different cultures. One of those forms has been the holiday of Yule. "The traditions of Yule encompass the celebration of the winter solstice and originate from the ancient Scandinavian Norse and Germanic peoples. Yule celebrations predate ...
A Muslim defence of the Christmas tree
Post Date: 2006-12-20 19:42:10 by Tauzero
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A Muslim defence of the Christmas tree Peter Breiger And April Lindgren, National Post Published: Friday, December 15, 2006 TORONTO - Ontario's Premier and several religious groups yesterday criticized a provincial judge's decision to banish the Christmas tree standing in a Toronto courthouse lobby because it might offend non-Christians. "It's so stupid, I'm at a loss for words," said Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. "The judge should take a trip to the rest of the world. Christmas is celebrated by Muslims in many countries -- they should ban political correctness, not Christmas trees. "If people are offended [by a Christmas ...
Another Pastor at Haggard’s New Life Church resigns over ‘sexual misconduct’
Post Date: 2006-12-19 14:17:11 by Brian S
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - Updated: 11:05 AM EST COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A pastor who worked with young adults at New Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality. Christopher Beard, who headed the “twentyfourseven” ministry that taught leadership skills to young adults, resigned Friday, said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000-member church. Brendle said Beard told church officials about “a series of decisions displaying poor judgment, including one incident of sexual misconduct several years ago.” The church said in a statement that the misconduct was ...
Think how the pagans must feel at Christmas
Post Date: 2006-12-17 23:40:21 by Morgana le Fay
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’Tis the season for Christian clergy to issue jeremiads about the paganization of Christmas and reminding anyone who will listen that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” In fact, a good case can be made for saying the opposite is true. We do not know when Jesus was born, though it was probably sometime between 7 and 4 BC. The 6th-century monk who gave us our BC-AD designation, Dionysius Exiguus, got the math wrong. He also cemented in place an earlier, though not universal, custom that placed the celebration of Jesus’ birth at the winter solstice, which is when the steadily shortening days turn around and the faintest hope of spring appears with the gradually ...
Christmas Music
Post Date: 2006-12-17 14:32:00 by robin
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My mother still has a Mario Lanza Christmas album that my family has enjoyed at Christmas over the decades. Mario Lanza - Christmas - We Three Kings of Orient Are more Mario on YouTube
Poster Comment:This is a good place to remind everyone to listen to: *Music Club* The Christmas Song by HOUNDDAWG posted 2 days ago by christine
The Criminal History of the Papacy
Post Date: 2006-12-17 07:19:17 by innieway
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Most Catholics go through life and never hear a word of reproach for any pope or member of the clergy. Yet the recorded history of the lives of the clerical hierarchy bears no resemblance to its modern-day portrayal, and the true stories of the popes in particular are among the most misrepresented in religious history. The Catholic historian and Archbishop of New York, John Cardinal Farley (d. c. 1916), subtly admitted that the "old legends of their dissolute lives may be partly true...that they didn't sternly insist upon sexual virtue and injustice was a general licence of the papal court, but it is probable that moral improvement was at the vanguard of their thinking" ...
[LWAN]: An Appeal to the US Supreme Court
Post Date: 2006-12-16 15:09:26 by Neil McIver
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David Carmichael, who won his case against the US Navy for unlawfully forcing him out of the Navy instead of accommodating him in his religious beliefs, is campaigning for support in continuing on the Idaho case of Larry Lewis. Larry was refused a driver license because he could not in good conscience identify himself with an SSN. He lost and the loss was affirmed by a superior court. It was appealed to the Idaho Supreme court, but they refused to hear it, thereby affirming the SSN requirement to obtain a license. The next step is to appeal the case to the US supreme court. What follows are two communications from David, the first describing the basic plan and the second going into legal ...
Priest jailed over Rwanda genocide
Post Date: 2006-12-16 03:06:30 by Max
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Priest jailed over Rwanda genocide About 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days during the 1994 genocide A former Catholic priest has been jailed for 15 years for participating in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted Father Athanase Seromba for ordering militiamen to burn down and then bulldoze a church where 2,000 ethnic Tutsis were hiding. About 800,000 people died during the country's genocide. According to the charge sheet, the militia "attacked with traditional arms and poured fuel through the roof of the church, while gendarmes and communal police launched grenades and killed the refugees". Seromba then ...
“Why did you hold up a WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? sign at my church?”
Post Date: 2006-12-14 19:30:29 by Red Jones
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“Why did you hold up a WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? sign at my church?” Charles E. Carlson Dec 14, 2006 *Project Strait Gate is a practical movement led by lay-disciples in the Way of Christ, calling out to church members who already know the church is in error, but who have not yet come out. *Its Vigils are at churches that are known to wrongly teach support of wars and falsely name Jesus as their authority. *Strait Gate Vigils are intended to be God-honoring, instructive, scripturally honest, and non-confrontational. Volunteers are asked to dress, act and speak appropriately, observing Jesus’ Beatitudes--peace, humility and love--and adopting the apostles’ way. We confess ...
KOL NIDRE
Post Date: 2006-12-12 20:46:41 by richard9151
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"All vows, oaths, promises, engagements, and swearing, which beginning this day of reconciliation til the next day of reconciliation (one year) we intend to vow, promise, swear, and bind ourselves to fulfill, we repent of beforehand; let them be illegalized, acquitted, annihilated, abolished, valueless, unimportant. Our vows shall be no vows, and our oaths no oaths at all." Schulc,han Aruch, Edit. I, 136. (This is known as the KOL NIDRE (All Oaths) OATH. It is sung as a chant each Yom Kippur, Jewish New Year Service (Sept. 17] and absolves a Jew from any promises he makes during the year." How can one trust a Jewish judge, or a Jewish politician, who takes an oath to protect ...
In the Beginning...
Post Date: 2006-12-12 01:23:25 by IndieTX
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In the book of Genesis we read that in the beginning the earth was without form and void of where there had once been a thriving civilization, it had been obliterated out of existence. Signs of earlier life would be found thousands of years later such us batteries, air craft, and microwaves. These artifacts indicate extreme intelligent life had once existed before ours and pre-dated well before the flood of Noah. So much so that our own modern technologically advanced world could not even begin to explain how a civilization before ours could have been so much more advanced than our own. Religion tried to squelch inquiries as if such truth seeking was not of God, or even necessary. They ...
Catholics disconnecting from Mass see church out of touch, study says
Post Date: 2006-12-11 17:56:15 by gargantuton
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Catholics disconnecting from Mass see church out of touch, study says 12/1/2006 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) SYDNEY, Australia (Catholic Online) – Catholics disconnected from Mass attendance and other parish life believe the Catholic Church is out of touch with the world today and is not relevant to their own lives, according to a new study commissioned by the Australian bishops. Catholics’ alienation from the church in general, the study found, has been a “gradual process in which changing attitudes to church teaching have interacted with negative personal experiences of church personnel and regulation.” The summary of the report, “Catholics Who Have ...
The Pilgrimage Continues: Is Immigration Catholic?
Post Date: 2006-12-11 17:35:30 by gargantuton
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The Pilgrimage Continues... IS IMMIGRATION CATHOLIC? by Mark and Louise Zwick Q.: Are you in favor of immigration? A.: Absolutely not! We oppose undocumented immigration because it destroys families, separates parents and children and ruins marriages. Q.: That doesn't sound like someone who has had over 30,000 immigrants pass through their doors, does it? A.: We pick up the pieces, as it were. After people are at your doorstep, it's hard not to accept them. Not to accept the homeless at your doorstep is tantamount to rejecting one's belief system. Q. Your work is hard and the hours are long. How many years do you plan to continue this work? A. We are going to try to ...
This is Christmas... uh, excuse me; This is XMAS!
Post Date: 2006-12-11 10:49:00 by richard9151
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Semiramis declared that her son, Tammuz, was in actuality the return or rebirth of her husband, Nimrod. this is where reincarnation was born. And since Tammuz was born on the day corresponding to December 25, this day was highly honored and recognized by Nimrod's supporters. Note, therefore, that this date (December 25) was observed in honor of the birth of Tammuz long before Christianity existed, and that it was not until many centuries later this pagan custom was "Christianized" as being the birthday of Christ (or Christmas day). "It can be stated they worship another Jesus" Nimrod's followers began to also worship Semiramis. And her son Tammuz was worshipped ...
Will Christmas Be Crucified Again?
Post Date: 2006-12-10 22:18:40 by robin
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"Did you enjoy the Holiday Concert?"* the school principal asked my friend. "Yes, but why didn't you call it a Christmas Concert?' "Oh I can't. The Superintendent said the concert must be inclusive of all the diverse cultures in the school. We are not allowed to mention Christmas, Christ, or Jesus." My friend was bewildered. The school is 95% Christian. Yet all the carols with Christian references were performed as instrumentals. Instead they recited "In Flanders Fields," a poem commemorating the dead from World War One! This humiliating scene was replayed millions of times this Christmas season. Some Christian groups even boycotted ...
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