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GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening
Post Date: 2006-10-14 09:55:57 by Red Jones
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GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening Party's Showing in Midterm Elections May Be Hurt as Polls Indicate Support Dropping in Base By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 6, 2006; A06 ANOKA, Minn. -- Lynn Sunde, an evangelical Christian, is considering what for her is a radical step. Come November, she may vote for a Democrat for Congress. Sunde, 35, manages a coffee shop and attends a nondenominational Bible church. "You're never going to agree with one party on everything, so for me the key has always been the religion issues -- abortion, the marriage amendment" to ban same-sex unions, she said. That means she consistently votes Republican. But, she ...
Pipes Hates Muslims
Post Date: 2006-10-13 10:30:39 by bluedogtxn
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Pipes Plumbs the Depths of Islamophobia by Michael Tennant by Michael Tennant DIGG THIS Daniel Pipes is angry at Muslims – again. Yes, I know: Daniel Pipes is always angry at Muslims. Usually, though, he reserves that anger for so-called Islamofascists in the Middle East. Today Pipes is steamed over a seemingly small domestic matter: taxi cabs. You see, there are Muslim cabbies who service the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and – horror of horrors – some of them take their religion seriously enough to refuse to transport passengers who are carrying alcohol, for the Koran forbids not just imbibing but also transporting the devil’s brew. Worse yet, the ...
The sucker punch. Were both christians and muslims created as punching bags for clandestine jewish rule? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-10-12 17:27:29 by christine
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... the Flavian emperors invented the character of Jesus to deceive the Jews into worshipping a false messiah. — Joseph Atwill A time is coming to men when he who adheres to his religion will be like one who seizes live coals." — Muhammad, Tirmidhi Hadith 5367 'Turn the other cheek' my ass! When somebody steals something from me, I'm going to do two things. I'm going to get it back, and I'm going to make sure he doesn't steal it again. Thus, in contemplating the poisonous gap between public crimes deceitfully reported by robot journalists as positive steps for freedom — and what is really going on in the world that leaves so many people bleeding and poisoned — ...
Pope Assures ADL Leaders He Is A Moral Voice Against Anti-Semitism
Post Date: 2006-10-12 14:03:30 by Mind_Virus
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Pope Assures ADL Leaders He Is A Moral Voice Against Anti-Semitism New York, NY, October 12, 2006 … In a private audience today with leaders from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI issued his strongest declaration against anti-Semitism since assuming the papacy, telling the visiting delegation of Jewish leaders that he would, "be a strong, constant voice against anti-Semitism." "I will always be there for you in fighting anti-Semitism," Pope Benedict personally assured Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, in informal words following his prepared remarks to the delegation. "The church deplores all forms of hatred or ...
Merry mortality
Post Date: 2006-10-11 22:21:43 by Morgana le Fay
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Mexicans honor death in their Day of the Dead festival on the two days after Halloween DEATH IS ONE of the few guarantees in life. If you are born, your life will eventually end, and no culture on Earth is unaware of that fact. All cultures, however, don't have the same attitude toward death. Halloween, which is celebrated in this country on Oct. 31, treats death as something scary and upsetting. Death is the Grim Reaper, cruelly taking loved ones away, his skull of a face unyielding and uncaring. Loved ones who have died come back as ghosts, terrifying us and perplexing us. We dress up in costumes, hoping to trick death into thinking we are somebody else, and to trick our neighbors ...
Other shoe drops: 60 Minutes to cover WH religion tell-all
Post Date: 2006-10-11 21:40:19 by Zipporah
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Olbermann had a segment tonight on the forthcoming blockbuster book from David Kuo, "Tempting Faith -- An Inside Story of Political Seduction," as dKosser PLS already previewed. Kuo worked in the White House as deputy director in Bush's highly touted Office of Faith-Based initiatives from 2001 through 2003. There is little advance information about the book online. But based on Keith's story, Kuo's kiss and tell sounds devastating, exposing the cynicism and hypocrisy underlying the relationship between the Republicans and the religious right. Yes, of course -- the rubes won't read it. But (a) some of the shepherds will, and (b) perhaps a few of them will watch "60 ...
Tucker Carlson to Evangelicals: Duped [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-10-10 19:43:24 by Zipporah
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Tucker Carlson gets honest about what he says the Republican elites feel about the Extreme Christian Right. Video-WMP Video-QT Duncan: CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in… MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that? CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. They live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look ...
Did anti-gay church have rights violated? Funeral protest law could face ACLU challenge
Post Date: 2006-10-09 16:34:04 by Ferret Mike
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The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a broad inquiry into how Illinois is enforcing a new state law designed to keep picketers affiliated with a radical Kansas church from disrupting military funerals. The ACLU has sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the offices of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and several suburban and Downstate mayors and police chiefs to see how members of Westboro Baptist Church were dealt with and whether their free-speech rights were infringed upon. In Illinois in the last five months, church members have shown up at seven funerals for soldiers killed in the line of duty, carrying signs that said, "Thank God for dead soldiers," and, "God hates ...
Woman Dedicates Her Virginity To Jesus : A Rare Catholic Ceremony
Post Date: 2006-10-09 11:48:41 by Mind_Virus
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Woman Dedicates Her Virginity To Jesus - - - - - - - - - - - - October 07,2006 | EAST AURORA, N.Y. -- She stood at the altar in a white gown and veil, but she was there for no earthly man. Lori Rose Cannizzaro was dedicating her virginity to Jesus. Saturday's rare Catholic ceremony, one her own pastor didn't know existed, turned the 42-year-old into a "consecrated virgin." Fewer than 200 women in the United States and 2,000 worldwide have declared their perpetual virginity this way, according to U.S. Association of Consecrated Virgins. "There are people who think I'm nuts," Cannizzaro said. The ceremony was a revival of one of the church's oldest rituals. The rite ...
Benny Hinn v. Benny Hill: Jesus Jacket
Post Date: 2006-10-08 22:13:38 by Zipporah
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Benny Hinn v. Benny Hill: Jesus Jacket
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I HATE TO DISILLUSION YOU, BUT GOD IS MADE UP
Post Date: 2006-10-08 13:32:07 by Mind_Virus
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I HATE TO DISILLUSION YOU, BUT GOD IS MADE UP Joan Bakewell/Guardian Books posted Monday, 25 September 2006 It's Time the West Lost Faith in God In The God Delusion he displays what a formidable adversary he is There is no hesitancy or doubt here Dawkins comes roaring forth in the full vigour of his powerful arguments, laying into fallacies and false doctrines In September 1997 Richard Dawkins allowed an Australian film crew into his Oxford home, only to realise in the course of a particularly inept interview that they were creationists trying to trap him. Tumbling to this, he paused some moments while deciding whether to throw them out or attempt a long and thoughtful ...
The real terms of the game
Post Date: 2006-10-08 10:39:55 by Zoroaster
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The real terms of the game By John Kaminski – October 7, 2006 skylax@comcast.net "At the Feast, the Jews were watching for Jesus and asking, 'Where is the man?' Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, 'He is a good man'. Others replied, 'No, he deceives the people.' But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the Jews'." — John, 7:10-13 I try to write this so you can understand the terms of the game. The game to which I refer is your life. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) once wrote in his famous novel Coningsby (1844) So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different ...
Sadr City outraged over 'Buddy Jesus'
Post Date: 2006-10-08 06:00:23 by Zipporah
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Shiite residents of Baghdad's Sadr City expressed anger yesterday over a picture of a grinning Jesus they mistook for a Shiite holy figure that appeared in the area after a joint US-Iraqi operation. Residents found a picture of "Buddy Jesus" from the 1999 film "Dogma" posted in the streets, accompanied by a badly photocopied pamphlet bearing a crude approximation of a US military crest and outlining a US "plan" to subjugate the neighbourhood. "That picture abuses our Imam Mahdi and his holy character, and mocks our sacred figures," said resident Abu Riyam, apparently mistaking the satirical movie still of Jesus for one of Shiite ...
Inside, outside church structures, U.S. Catholics gather to face change
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:16:08 by gargantuton
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National Catholic Reporter: Inside, outside church structures, U.S. Catholics gather to face change by Joe Feuerherd 10/3/2006 National Catholic Reporter WASHINGTON (National Catholic Reporter) – The Catholic gatherings were separated by 25 miles and five days. In fact, they were worlds apart. The first meeting, held on a balmy late summer Saturday in a nondescript suburban Washington hotel, had a more narrow agenda if the broader title – “Catholics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Sponsored by the Brunswick, Maine-based group Celibacy Is the Issue, it drew more than 100 participants, including married priests who once served the institutional church but now offer ...
Contraception: Why Not?
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:00:25 by gargantuton
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Contraception: Why Not? JANET SMITH Why does the Catholic Church keep insisting, in the face of the opposite position held by most of the rest of the modern world, that contraception is one of the worst inventions of our time? Thirty years ago the case in favor of contraception seemed eminently reasonable. But the widespread use of contraception has had so many devastating effects on marriage, the family, and society as a whole, that the Pope's predictions about it make him now look, it retrospect, like a modern day prophet. My topic for tonight is the Church's teaching on contraception and various sexual issues. As you know, we live in a culture that thinks that contraception is one of ...
Vatican Document on Limbo Might Be Ready
Post Date: 2006-10-06 12:05:32 by Brian S
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(10-06) 08:52 PDT 11VATICAN CITY, (AP) -- Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday. "All of us have hope for the babies" that they will go to heaven, under the revised thinking on limbo, said the Rev. Luis Ladaria, a Jesuit who is secretary-general of the Vatican's International Theological Commission. The commission, which advises the pope and other top doctrinal officials of the church, has spent the week debating the question of limbo in view of preparing a document. Although Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized ...
Papal Address on Stem-Cell Research: "A Good Result Can Never Justify Intrinsically Unlawful Means"
Post Date: 2006-10-05 22:16:37 by gargantuton
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Papal Address on Stem-Cell Research 10/5/2006 - 5:45 AM PST "A Good Result Can Never Justify Intrinsically Unlawful Means" VATICAN CITY, OCT. 5, 2006 (Zenit) - Here is a Vatican translation of the address Benedict XVI gave Sept. 16 to the participants in the symposium on "Stem Cells: What Future for Therapy?" organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life. * * * Hall of the Swiss, Castel Gandolfo Saturday, 16 September 2006 Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I address a cordial greeting to you all. This meeting with you, scientists and scholars dedicated to specialized research in the treatment of ...
US Bishops Conference Set to Release Document on Contraception and the Culture of Life
Post Date: 2006-10-05 22:13:19 by gargantuton
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http://LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday October 4, 2006 US Bishops Conference Set to Release Document on Contraception and the Culture of Life By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, October 4, 2006 http://(LifeSiteNews.com) - At the fall meeting of the United Stated Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which will take place November 13-16, the Bishops will be asked to give final approval to a document on contraception. A media advisory from the USCCB notes that the bishops will vote on approval of "a document from the Pro-Life Committee offering pastoral guidance on the Church's teaching concerning contraception, linked with a culture of life." The issue of contraception has launched ...
Your Christian President
Post Date: 2006-10-05 10:59:42 by richard9151
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For those of you who have Christian friends who are firm, firm supporters of Mr. Bush, I suggest you take a look at this site. It would be hard for anyone to argue with the material presented here, if, indeed, they are Christian. http://www.yourchristianpresident.com/
An Analysis: The Socially Conservative Male
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:26:31 by Zoroaster
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An Analysis The Socially Conservative Male By BEN TRIPP Joke: Q: What's the hardest part of being a child molester? A: Getting the blood out of your clown suit. Mr. St. Clair of this paper recently supplied me with a list of sex crimes committed by prominent conservative Republicans. The list originated on Wikipedia, and he found it here, probably while surfing the Internet for Lolita pictures. It is replete with cross-references and is genuine. Mr. St. Clair, being high on dope, thought I would find the list interesting. He probably did not think I would read the entire thing aloud to my co-workers at the Philistine Worker's Daily, to heartbreaking cries of horror and implorations ...
The end of the world as they know it
Post Date: 2006-10-02 07:15:41 by YertleTurtle
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From New York Magazine: Imperial City The End of the World As They Know It What do Christian millenarians, jihadists, Ivy League professors, and baby-boomers have in common? They’re all hot for the apocalypse. By Kurt Andersen The week of September 11 (two weeks ago, not five years), I noticed a poster up at Frankies, my sweet neighborhood trattoria in Brooklyn: It advertised a talk on 9/11 by Daniel Pinchbeck—the former downtown literary impresario who has become a Gen-X Carlos Castaneda and New Age impresario. My breakfast pal nodded at the poster and said, “The guy is selling his apocalypse thing hard. †...
God 'intends for us to have great sex,' minister says
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:51:19 by Zipporah
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God 'intends for us to have great sex,' minister says Desert Vista Church's pastor plans series of sermons on intimacy; it's a growing trend Kate Nolan The Arizona Republic Sept. 30, 2006 12:00 AM SCOTTSDALE - Mark Einersen insists it's what God wants. "He intends for us to have great sex," said Einersen, lead pastor of Desert Vista Church in Scottsdale and creator of "Pure Sex," a series of Sunday sermons he plans to give at his church. "God is the one who designed sex, and one of his first instructions is to enjoy sexual intimacy," Einersen said. "But how do we enjoy it to the utmost?" Based on common perceptions of Christianity, one might ...
NPR 100: Master List of top 300 Songs
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:16:46 by Zipporah
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NPR 100: Master List of top 300 Songs The list below was compiled by members of the NPR News and Cultural Programming staff and several distinguished music critics and scholars. "Adagio for Strings" Samuel Barber (prem. 1938) Afro-American Symphony William Grant Still (1930) "After Hours" Avery Parrish (1940) "Ain't That a Shame" Fats Domino (1955) "Airmail Special" Jimmy Mundy/Goodman/Charlie Christian (1941) "Alexander's Ragtime Band" Irving Berlin (1911) "All or Nothing at All" Jack Lawrence/Arthur Altman (1940) "All the Things You Are" Oscar Hammerstein/Jerome Kern (1939) "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" ...
Muhammeds' Sword
Post Date: 2006-10-01 18:20:09 by Rube Goldberg
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Muhammad's Sword by Uri Avnery (Saturday September 23 2006) "The story about "spreading the faith by the sword" is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims - the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna. I suspect that the German Pope, too, honestly believes in these fables. That means that the leader of the Catholic world, who is a Christian theologian in his own right, did not make the effort to study the history of other religions." Since the days when Roman Emperors threw Christians to the lions, the relations between the emperors ...
Pastors Guiding Voters to GOP
Post Date: 2006-10-01 14:22:38 by robin
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‘PATRIOT PASTORS’: “There are times in a pastor’s life when he needs to take a biblical stand,” says the Rev. Rick Scarborough, who urges church leaders to help get out the conservative vote. (David Kennedy / EPA) July 31, 2006 CHURCH BACKING: J. Kenneth Blackwell, right, with former Rep. J.C. Watts, is running for Ohio governor. (Will Shilling / AP) March 9, 2006 Pastors Guiding Voters to GOP The Christian right seeks out members who might not go to the polls. The focus is issues, but some leaders don't oppose endorsement. By Stephanie Simon Times Staff Writer October 1, 2006 With a pivotal election five weeks away, leaders on the religious right have ...
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