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Latest Articles: Religion
Evolution is stupid!
Post Date: 2005-11-20 09:59:40 by A K A Stone
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Evolution makes no sense at all. I just don't see how any intelligent person could believe such nonsense. I mean, have you ever seen an ape that could be taught to do algebra? No! Other than the most basic skills (which a dog can also be taught), an ape does not have the capacity to learn anywhere near the human level. Apes are dumb! You can say a dog is smart (and it might be), but it can't logic like a human being can. Furthermore, if we evolved from a lower species, then why is it that the apes didn't evolve in the evolutionary process? Come on folks, you don't need a PHD (post hole digger) to figure this out. Where are all those half man/half ape fossils which should be abundant in the ...
Jewish Leader Blasts 'Religious Right'
Post Date: 2005-11-19 22:10:42 by Dakmar
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HOUSTON (AP) -- The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism blasted conservative religious activists in a speech Saturday, calling them "zealots" who claim a "monopoly on God" while promoting anti-gay policies akin to Adolf Hitler's. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said "religious right" leaders believe "unless you attend my church, accept my God and study my sacred text you cannot be a moral person." "What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God?" he said during the movement's national assembly in Houston, which runs through Sunday. The audience of 5,000 responded ...
Does Holiness Lie?
Post Date: 2005-11-19 15:35:36 by NOLAJBS
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.:. Music .:.AlleluiaWith verses before the reading of the Gospel on the divine liturgy. S. Mokranjac (1865-1914)Archbishop Blenk High School Honored Gretna and Jefferson Parish Public Safety Workers and the Military.Depicted in the image above, is "Father Bernie Terrebonne," priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans ordained in 1977, pastor of St. Frances Cabrini, and 6th year with Archbishop Blenk High School.Government-Sanctioned Establishment of ReligionTheocratic StatsiReverend Bill ShanksPastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New OrleansShanks claims that Katrina was God's punishmentfor the rampant sin present in that city. Many fundamentalists Christians have rushed to echo ...
Vatican Official Refutes Intelligent Design [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-18 16:58:22 by Zipporah
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VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States. The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges. "Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent ...
American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls For Global War [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-17 14:22:49 by Splitends
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If Christian fundamentalists are to be believed, America's invasion of Iraq and the consequent brutal slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in that country are all part of a grand divine plan that will finally culminate in the 'second coming' of Jesus Christ. Establishing an empire that will extend all over the globe, Christ will rule like a powerful monarch, saving those who believe in him and dispatching non-believers, all non-Christians and non-conformist Christians, to everlasting perdition in hell. This is no childish nonsense for millions of Christian fundamentalists, who sincerely believe this to be predicted in the Bible. Not surprisingly, American Christian fundamentalists ...
How did all the different ‘races’ arise (from Noah’s family)? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-14 20:15:38 by A K A Stone
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What is a ‘race’? How did different skin colors come about? Are black people the result of a curse on Ham? Recommended Resources: * The Revised and Expanded Answers Book * Why Won't They Listen? * The Lie: Evolution * Refuting Evolution * Refuting Evolution 2 According to the Bible, all humans on earth today are descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, and before that from Adam and Eve (Genesis 1-11). But today we have many different groups, often called ‘races,’ with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Many see this as a reason to doubt the Bible’s record of history. They believe that the ...
It ain't necessarily so
Post Date: 2005-11-14 11:41:13 by Steppenwolf
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It ain't necessarily so - Porgy & Bess It ain't necessarily so, It ain't necessarily so, De t'ings dat yo' li'ble To read in de Bible, It ain't necessarily so. Li'I David was small, but oh my! Li'I David was small but oh my! He fought big Goliath Who lay down an' dieth, Li'I David was small, but oh my! Wa-doo - Zim bam boodle-oo, Hoodle ah da wa da - Scatty wah. Yeah! Oh, Jonah, he lived in a whale, Oh, Jonah, he lived in a whale, Fo' he made his home in Dat fish's abdomen. Oh, Jonah, he lived in a whale. Li'I Moses was found in a stream, Li'I Moses was found in a stream, He floated on water Till ol' Pharaoh's daughter Fished him, she said from dat stream. Wa-doo - Zim bam ...
Dinosaurs and the Bible [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-13 20:48:25 by A K A Stone
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An aura of mystery surrounds the dinosaurs. Where did they come from? Did they evolve? Did they really live millions of years ago? What happened to them? Are there any living today? Has any human being ever seen a live dinosaur? Children and adults alike are absolutely fascinated by these mysterious monsters. Numerous books and movies have been produced to satisfy a seemingly insatiable hunger for information on these puzzling creatures. The truth of the matter, however, is that there are no real mysteries at all, once you have key information that is not generally known and is withheld from the public. Come with me as we take a walk through history and uncover some amazing facts that ...
ADL Urges Joint Effort Against Right: Blasts Campaign To 'Christianize' American Life
Post Date: 2005-11-12 12:53:59 by Zipporah
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Warning of a growing campaign to "Christianize America," the national director of the Anti-Defamation League is calling on Jewish organizations to join him in coordinating a communal strategy for confronting the political and cultural initiatives of religious conservative groups. In a speech last week at the ADL's national conference in New York, Abraham Foxman blasted several conservative organizations, including Focus on the Family, The American Family Association and the Family Research Council. He declared that such groups "had built infrastructures throughout the country... intend[ing] to 'Christianize' all aspects of American life, from the halls of government to the ...
Washington School Rescinds Ban on Rosary Beads
Post Date: 2005-11-11 23:30:24 by Dakmar
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CHELAN, Wash. (AP) - A high school has rescinded a rule that prohibited students from wearing rosary beads a week after administrators prohibited them as symbols of potential gang involvement. Officials at Chelan High School said they acted too hastily when they imposed the ban after a training session with a police officer, who warned rosary beads worn around the neck can be a sign of gang activity, particularly among Latinos. But several students challenged the new dress code, sparking debate among school officials, parents and members of the clergy. "We need to do a better job of communicating when we make changes," Principal Tim Berndt said. "I didn't go through all ...
Vatican restricts gay priests: paper
Post Date: 2005-11-11 22:45:09 by Zipporah
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A new Vatican document will bar from the priesthood practicing homosexuals, men whose gay tendencies are "deeply rooted," or who openly espouse a gay culture, a leading Italian newspaper reported on Friday. Il Giornale of Milan printed what it said were excerpts from the eagerly awaited document, expected to be issued at the end of this month. "The Church cannot admit to the priesthood those who practice homosexuality, have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or those who support the so-called 'gay culture,"' the newspaper quoted the document as saying. In recent months there have been numerous leaks about the contents of the document but Il ...
Finding Said to Boost Proof of Goliath
Post Date: 2005-11-11 16:20:25 by mehitable
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists digging at the purported biblical home of Goliath have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription of the Philistine's name, a find they claimed lends historical credence to the Bible's tale of David's battle with the giant. While the discovery is not definitive evidence of Goliath's existence, it does support the Bible's depiction of life at the time the battle was supposed to have occurred, said Dr. Aren Maeir, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and director of the excavation. ``What this means is that at the time there were people there named Goliath,'' he said. ``It shows us that David and Goliath's story reflects the cultural reality of the ...
Televangelist Robertson warns town of God's wrath
Post Date: 2005-11-10 18:28:04 by Jethro Tull
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By Alan Elsner 1 hour, 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them on Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck. Robertson, a former Republican presidential candidate and founder of the influential conservative Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Coalition, has a long record of similar apocalyptic warnings and provocative statements. Last summer, he hit the headlines by calling for the assassination of leftist Venezuelan Present Hugo Chavez, one of President ...
Jewish porn's on the rise
Post Date: 2005-11-10 00:25:57 by NOLAJBS
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Jewish pornography questions the limits of assimilation. A man gets drunk and lays down with his two virgin daughters. A man secures permission from his two wives to lay down with his two slave girls. A woman disguises herself as a whore and lays down with her father-in-law. This is the original Jewish pornography, as found in the book of Genesis. But is it really Jewish Pornography? In typical Jewish fashion, the answer is yet another question: Would you masturbate to it?Probably not. Why? The Tanakh—the Old Testament and the Jewish Scriptures—is full of incest and the taking of virgins. In a literature where the idea of "barely legal" has absolutely no meaning, ...
(Against the War?) Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning
Post Date: 2005-11-09 17:23:49 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena risks losing its tax-exempt status because of a former rector's remarks in 2004. By Patricia Ward Biederman and Jason Felch, Times Staff Writers The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election. Rector J. Edwin Bacon of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena told many congregants during morning services Sunday that a guest sermon by the church's former rector, the Rev. George F. Regas, on Oct. 31, 2004, had prompted a letter from the ...
The Secret Connections between Christianity, Hinduism and Islam
Post Date: 2005-11-09 06:41:56 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.meaus.com/secretconnections.htm The Secret Connections between Christianity, Hinduism and Islam By Consul B. John Zavrel A book review of the new publication by Swami Veda Bharati. The genius of ordinary people - religious hierarchy against the spiritual teachers - sacred places remain over the centuries - learn the truth about other faiths - peace and progress that religions brought to mankind - teach the children the peace within first - a universal meditation method for all 'In which inter-religious council of the world was it agreed that Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians of all denominations would join the hands before the heart in worship? Who decreed that people of ...
Israel as an Extension of American Empire
Post Date: 2005-11-08 06:05:01 by Zoroaster
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November 7, 2005 "What are You Doing? What Have You Become?" Israel as an Extension of American Empire By JEFF HALPER There are many tragic and self-destructive features of the Occupation for Israel itself. Although the country was founded on the "original sin" of exclusivity and the expulsion of the refugees, it nevertheless had (has?) the potential to develop into a normal, even progressive society. Many of the socialist principles that accompanied the Zionist program led in those directions. Israel always talked of democracy, even extending citizenship to its Arab population in 1948, even though the underlying concept of a "Jewish democracy," coupled ...
Those looking for proof of who did 911 then look no further than here
Post Date: 2005-11-07 09:41:12 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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United Methodists join the growing ranks of Christians demanding peace
Post Date: 2005-11-06 18:05:19 by Red Jones
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United Methodists join the growing ranks of Christians demanding peace By Mark Schoeff Jr. Nov 04, 2005 Board of Church and Society calls for withdrawal from Iraq By Mark Schoeff Jr. Oct. 19, 2005 WASHINGTON (UMNS) - On a day when officials at the State Department were monitoring the results of a constitutional referendum in Iraq, a couple of miles away in a local hotel the United Methodist Board of Church and Society passed a resolution calling on the United States to withdraw its troops from the country. "As people of faith, we raise our voice in protest against the tragedy of the unjust war in Iraq," the resolution stated. "We urge the United States government to ...
Making Money
Post Date: 2005-11-06 15:05:00 by Steppenwolf
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Ancient Church Found In Israel JERUSALEM, Nov. 6, 2005 (AP) Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries and include references to Jesus and images of fish, an ancient Christian symbol. "This is a very ancient structure, maybe the oldest in our area," said Yotam Tepper, the head archaeologist on the dig. The dig took place over the past 18 months at the Megiddo prison in Israel's northern Galilee region, with the most significant discoveries ...
ADL's Foxman Warns Of Efforts To 'Christianize America'
Post Date: 2005-11-05 21:37:42 by Brian S
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NEW YORK - Institutionalized Christianity in the U.S. has grown so extremist that it poses a tangible danger to the principle of separation of church and state and threatens to undermine the religious tolerance that characterizes the country, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, warned in his address to the League's national commission, meeting in New York City over the weekend. "Today we face a better financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before. Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize ...
Madonna's Kabbala guru accused of extorting money
Post Date: 2005-10-31 12:16:56 by Zipporah
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Shaul Youdkevitch, the Kabbala guru who drew Madonna to Israel a year ago, has been placed under house arrest by a court in Tel Aviv court on suspicion of extorting more than £28,000 from a terminally ill cancer patient. Police claim Mr Youdkevitch and rabbis running the Israel Kabbala Centre persuaded Leah Zonis and her husband, Boris, to make what they called "a significant and painful donation" if she wanted to recover. They were also alleged to have sold her bottles of "holy water" at inflated prices under the Kabbala label. Mr Zonis's lawyer, Haim Cohen, told Haaretz newspaper: "The woman's condition continued to deteriorate and instead of telling the ...
Some Good Things about New Orleans...NOW!
Post Date: 2005-10-29 11:12:02 by BTP Holdings
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Some Good Things about New Orleans...NOW! By Peter J. Peters 1. No aborted babies in New Orleans August 31, in the year of our LORD, 2005. 2. There are no sodomites orally copulating, in broad daylight, as they did in years past. 3. Bare breasted women are not seen on Bourbon Street, on this first day of the 34th annual SOUTHERN DECADENCE, that is due to parade and party until September 5th. 4. Little if any dope being sold in the French Quarter. 5. Prostitutes have left New Orleans, some in body bags, and on their way to judgment. 6. The theme this year for 'Southern Decadence' 2005, Jazz and Jezebels", is not being heard anywhere in New Orleans. 7. Pimps have moved north and ...
The Essene New Testament
Post Date: 2005-10-27 23:03:21 by gengis gandhi
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Essenes The Gospel Of The Holy Twelve Lections Introduction 01 Thru 10 11 Thru 20 21 Thru 30 31 Thru 40 41 Thru 50 51 Thru 60 61 Thru 70 71 Thru 80 81 Thru 89 90 Thru 96 Complete Index Click here for The Reluctant Messenger (Host Site) The Gospel of the Holy Twelve Also Known as The Gospel of the Perfect Life TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL ARAMAIC AND EDITED BY THE REV. GIDEON JASPER RICHARD OUSELEY Lection XXXI The Bread of Life And The Living Vine Jesus Teacheth The Thoughtless Driver 1. AGAIN Jesus said, I am the true Bread and the living Vine. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the food of God which cometh down from heaven, that whosoever eat ...
Damning report into child abuse in Irish diocese
Post Date: 2005-10-25 23:13:26 by robin
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Damning report into child abuse in Irish diocese By Simon Freeman and agencies The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland was today reeling from a report which unmasks, in harrowing detail, four decades of institutionalised sexual abuse of children by priests. Church leaders, police and state agencies in County Wexford, southeast Ireland, were all criticised for failing to acknowledge or act upon dozens of reports of molestation and rape. Eamonn Walsh, the Bishop of Ferns, apologised unreservedly following the publication of the Ferns Inquiry Report today: "Even though I have been dealing with this for years, reading a litany of such horrible, horrible gross abuse and rape all condensed ...
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