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Latest Articles: Religion
Wal-Mart goes Wicca
Post Date: 2005-10-21 11:09:17 by Indrid Cold
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The five and dime department store of the past is where your mother treated you to balloons and lollipops. Now you can buy books at the five and dime that teach you how to cast a spell on mother. Wal-Mart, the company that put Dead Peasant Life Insurance on the map, is going Wicca. Dead Peasant Life Insurance is the loathsome practice of taking life insurance on people without their knowledge and callously cashing in on the policy at the time of their death. Wal-Mart was defendant in five putative class-action lawsuits because of its Dead Peasant Life Insurance policies on unwitting employees. Three of the lawsuits were pending in Texas as recently as last April. It’s not as much ...
No Beatrice, the New Testament does not "flow from the Old"
Post Date: 2005-10-21 10:07:59 by christine
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WE Hold These Truths Strait Gate Ministries PO Box 14491 Scottsdale AZ 85267 480 947 3329 Dear Beatrice: Thanks for the several letters you have sent over the last few weeks. I read to the bottom of one of them and found some things I may not have already explained in our many Pharisee Watch papers. A few of these are footnoted to help you and others who read this. YOU WRITE: "I cant concede in any way your theological views. Though your views are traditional in Christian Thinking, they divorce the Old Testament from the so-called New Testament. The New Testament flows very much from the Old Testament, and without a firm foundation in the true meaning of the Torah, the New ...
CONSERVATIVE GROUP DENOUNCES ANN COULTER!: Documentary in Production
Post Date: 2005-10-20 23:17:21 by Zipporah
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<br>Anti-Coulter Documentary in Production, Release to Coincide with Rightwing Gadfly's Next Book! ALSO: PowerPoint Presentation Exposing Coulter's Religious Hypocrisy, Opportunism, Flip-Flops Released Exclusively to BRAD BLOG! While the recent nomination of Hariet Miers for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush may have revealed more than a few cracks in the usually lockstepped Conservative Movement in... While the recent nomination of Hariet Miers for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush may have revealed more than a few cracks in the usually lockstepped Conservative Movement in America, Daniel Borchers has been calling out "fake Conservativism" -- as we refer here at The ...
Fred Plans To Devolve
Post Date: 2005-10-19 15:29:26 by Phaedrus
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Bacteria More Respectable I read with what would be despair if I cared enough that the courts, this time in Pennsylvania, are again getting their knickers in a knot over Evolution. Oh help. There must be another planet somewhere upon which to hide. Oprah, Rush Limbaugh, singing commercials, delayed flights, and Evolution. Anyway: Why, oh why, are the curricula of the schools the business of the courts? If Pennsylvania wants to mention Creationism, or to require three years of French for graduation, it seems mightily to me that these things are the business of parents in Pennslyvania. Yes, I know: In practice, both freedom of expression and local government are regarded as ideals greatly to ...
ADL to Outlaw Parts of Gospel as Hate
Post Date: 2005-10-19 08:42:47 by Zoroaster
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ADL to Outlaw Parts of Gospel as Hate Senate High Priests Want Bible Reciters Indicted Decision Next Week The proposed law enforces nationwide the ADL definition of "hate" as "bias" against federally protected groups such as homosexuals. This makes the Bible "hate literature" and preaching from it becomes "hate speech." Bible-believing Christians become hate criminals. Last October, ADL board member Lynne Abraham, D.A. of Philadelphia, arrested 11 Christians as "hate criminals" because they recited Bible verses against homosexuals. Under this bill, Christian pastors would be indicted if they recited verses of the New Testament that ...
Rabbis teach Catholics about church's persecution (WWWTP?)
Post Date: 2005-10-19 01:39:16 by bluegrass
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When the rabbi told the roomful of teenage Catholic boys that he'd never eaten a McDonald's cheeseburger because his religion forbids it, they stared at him in awe. Two of the boys raised their hands when Rabbi Alvin Berkun asked how many of them thought Jews and Catholics had been friendly toward each other in the past 2,000 years. "You guys are wrong," he told them. The whole idea behind Rabbi Berkun's recent lecture at Central Catholic High School was to help ease the lingering effects of historical tensions between Catholics and Jews and to recognize the special duty the Catholic Church has to teach its young about the awful legacy of Jews being persecuted by Catholics. ...
Ayatollahs of the Apocalypse
Post Date: 2005-10-16 10:12:09 by Zoroaster
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CounterPunch Diary Ayatollahs of the Apocalypse By ALEXANDER COCKBURN These are triumphant hours for Pat Robertson. His standing as America's senior ayatollah is becoming firmer as Billy Graham and even Jerry Falwell yield the prime-time pulpit to the smooth-tongued maestro of the Christian Coalition. A decade ago CNN would sooner have given half an hour's air time to the leader of North Korea, but last week Wolf Blitzer poked a stick through the bars, and nodded respectfully as Robertson raved on about the End Time: Welcome to "LATE EDITION," Reverend... REV. PAT ROBERTSON: Thanks, Wolf. BLITZER: ... thanks very much for joining us. I want to get to Harriet Miers in a ...
Killing Democracy The Straussian Way Shadia B. Drury's Leo Strauss and the American Right
Post Date: 2005-10-16 07:53:55 by Kamala
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Killing Democracy The Straussian Way Shadia B. Drury's Leo Strauss and the American Right by Michael Doliner Book Review Drury, Shadia B.: Leo Strauss and the American Right, Palgrave Macmillan, February 1999, ISBN 0-31221-783-8, 256 pages, $29.95 (hardcover) (Swans - October 10, 2005) Will the backlash from Katrina's destruction and the Bush Administration's woeful response to it finally do in the neocons? If you think so you don't know whom you are dealing with. Many have connected the name of Leo Strauss with the Neoconservatives, but almost nowhere do I find the actual content of this connection. Strauss was a professor. What did he profess? It is not ...
Unavoidable and Unpopular Truths that are a key to our Freedom
Post Date: 2005-10-15 12:27:54 by christine
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We Hold These Truths has always tried to be an evidence builder, rather than a maker of unsupported declarations. We like to see each read what we have to say and decide what conclusions they should draw. But time is getting shorter for both of us, so we offer some blunt statements that we find to be self-evident. Our forefathers, in writing the Declaration of Independence, were forced to draw some conclusions they did not have time or space to prove. They called these unsupported claims "self evident truths," meaning they are so obviously true that they do not need to be proved, and cannot be proved anyway. Without a faith in God, their truths were meaningless statements of ...
President Bush Studies Jewish Talmud
Post Date: 2005-10-13 15:20:09 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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President Bush waves to reporters on the way to his new Daf Yom Shiur with his former spokesman and recently ordained Rabbi, Ari Fleischer. President Bush, and Tzvi Felzenberg watch as the Kol Zimra choir sing after lighting the Menorah in the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Originally from here http://www.shmais.com/picofdayall.cfm
The quintessential false dichotomy
Post Date: 2005-10-11 23:48:49 by Zoroaster
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The quintessential false dichotomy By John Kaminski – October 11, 2005 skylax@comcast.net Although I am not a practitioner of Islam, I defend Muslims because they are constantly and unfairly slandered by a vicious media spin machine attempting to create an enemy where none exists — with inflammatory prejudices from the untrustworthy lips of slithering hypocrites trying to promote the bogus authenticity of their own creed at the expense of innocent strangers who live far away and possess precious commodities coveted by others. Although I am not a practitioner of Judaism, I defend Jews who are unfairly criticized for slyly undermining the moral character of Christian nations, ...
The quintessential false dichotomy
Post Date: 2005-10-11 12:26:35 by christine
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Criticism of religion is only fair when the critic isn't saying 'my god is better than your god' Although I am not a practitioner of Islam, I defend Muslims because they are constantly and unfairly slandered by a vicious media spin machine attempting to create an enemy where none exists — with inflammatory prejudices from the untrustworthy lips of slithering hypocrites trying to promote the bogus authenticity of their own creed at the expense of innocent strangers who live far away and possess precious commodities coveted by others. Although I am not a practitioner of Judaism, I defend Jews who are unfairly criticized for slyly undermining the moral character of Christian nations, ...
Their God Is Bigger Than Our God
Post Date: 2005-10-06 02:43:22 by Zoroaster
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Published on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 by http://CommonDreams.org Their God Is Bigger Than Our God by David Michael Green Gosh, we haven't heard much from God lately, have we? I'm wondering why that is. His mouthpieces in America - who always seem so sure of themselves, so sure that they alone hear God speaking, and so willing to share His wisdom with the rest of us - have gone strangely quiet of late. Remember when 9/11 happened and Jerry Falwell put it all into perspective for us? There we were thinking it had something to do with Islamic fundamentalism or US imperialism or something, but Falwell set us all straight, saying to Pat Robertson, "I really believe that the pagans, ...
The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland no longer swear by truth of the Bible (edited title)
Post Date: 2005-10-04 23:33:44 by robin
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The Times October 05, 2005 Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the BibleBy Ruth Gledhill, Religion CorrespondentTHE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible. “We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture. The document is timely, coming as it does amid the ...
The God Spot: Is the human mind touched by God? Or is God a construct of the human mind?
Post Date: 2005-10-04 12:57:10 by siagiah
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Is the human mind touched by God? Or is God a construct of the human mind? The God Spot by D. Trull Enigma Editor dtrull@parascope.com Scientists, philosophers and atheists have long argued that God and spirituality are constructs of the human mind, although that opinion generally hasn't been a popular one. After centuries of bloody holy wars and fierce theological dispute, the controversy of the Creator's existence has taken a strange new turn: humanity may finally have uncovered tangible evidence that the phenomenon of religious faith is all in our heads. Literally. A group of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Diego has identified a region of the human brain ...
Satan has cast a dark shadow over America
Post Date: 2005-10-03 15:33:03 by Red Jones
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"The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves." —Isaiah 3:9 Texe Marrs Satan has cast a dark shadow over America. The end-times are upon us and that is why insanity seems to reign on every front. America has turned itself into a crazy house, an obscene and vulgar place, void of God's spirit and empty of civility and common sense. Case in point: Our President, George W. Bush. President Bush's standing has sunk to an all-time low in public opinion polls. Obviously, this has angered the nation's Chief Executive and he is responding like an ...
ISRP JOURNAL (Why do Christians still support Bush?)
Post Date: 2005-10-02 20:47:28 by Red Jones
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ISRP JOURNAL By Sean Mayfield October 1, 2005 Looking back over the past few months it is sometimes amazing to consider just how solid George Bush’s support still is among American Christians. During this time Iraq has gone from bad to worse, torture allegations have surfaced and resurfaced (along with photos), the economy has continued to stagnate, fuel prices have skyrocketed, and his administration’s response to the Gulf Coast hurricanes has been severely criticized on many fronts. Throughout the general population there has been a backlash to Bush’s presidency and his approval rating is actually lower than at any other point… but his core constituents… ...
The Christian Paradox [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-09-28 23:36:45 by crack monkey
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The Christian Paradox How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005. What it means to be Christian in America. An excerpt from this report appeared in August 2005. The complete text appears below. Originally from August 2005. By Bill McKibben. SourcesOnly 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. This failure to recall the specifics of our Christian heritage may be further evidence of our nation’s educational decline, but it probably doesn’t matter all that much in spiritual or political terms. ...
Zionism - The Occult Guild Of Antichrist
Post Date: 2005-09-27 01:52:28 by Zoroaster
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Zionism - The Occult Guild Of Antichrist A Christian Perspective By Alton Raines 9-25-5 Right now, across the globe, born-again, fundamentalist, bible-believing, evangelical Christians are being led down a path to destruction through a Satanically calculated deception, the roots of which were cultivated in ages past set forth for the final conflict between good and evil on earth. They haven't a clue they are deceived, in fact, they have filled themselves with the cancer of religious pride so as to become perfectly deluded, thinking themselves the correctors of the foolish and those in error. While wrapped up in useless controversies over denominational dogma or mesmerized by modern ...
FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN
Post Date: 2005-09-25 14:06:38 by Red Jones
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FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN [Blowback and the "Beginning of Sorrows"] September 20, 2005 by: S.R. Shearer "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and FEARFUL SIGHTS and GREAT SIGNS shall there be from heaven." (Luke 21:11) "All these are the BEGINNING OF SORROWS." (Matthew 24:8) INTRODUCTION "He ... [was] cool [to the touch] ... and unresponsive. Pupils were fixed and ... insensitive to light. No cardiac activity was present. I determined at that time he was deceased. The patient was unfamiliar to me." Statement made on 12/09/2003 by b7c-4, bb-4 [From the Death of Prisoner #58 by Sean ...
Catholics and Jews Use Anniversary to Reflect on Relations
Post Date: 2005-09-22 11:20:21 by Bayonne
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As the 40th anniversary nears for a landmark Vatican document that declared that Jews as a people were not responsible for the death of Jesus, American Roman Catholics and Jews are taking stock of how far the religions have come in healing nearly 2,000 years of enmity — and the challenges ahead. "Nostra Aetate" (In Our Time), issued by the historic Second Vatican Council in October 1965, said not only that all Jews in the past and present could not be blamed for Jesus' crucifixion, but that they remained "most dear to God." The document deplores anti-Semitism and affirms that Jesus and most of his early followers were Jews. The pronouncement also paid respect to ...
Living as Jews in Christian America (Beyond Excellent) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-09-22 09:32:22 by Jhoffa_
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Living as Jews in Christian America As a boy I hungrily absorbed the eye-opening Torah teaching of my father, the late Avraham Chayim Lapin z”tzl, along with his terrifying tales of the viciousness of Lithuanian and Polish “goyim” that he endured while a student at Telshe Yeshiva in pre-World War II Europe. I quickly came to understand. “Goyim” hate Jews and try to hurt them. That is all there was to it. Later, as a student at that famed yeshiva located amidst some of the worst slums of northern England, I learned the rough-and-ready science of self defense on the streets of Gateshead. Lurking in the dark alleys that lay between the Beit Midrash and our lodgings, ...
U.S. State Department Says New Testament Is `Anti-Semetic'?
Post Date: 2005-09-20 17:28:44 by Zoroaster
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U.S. State Department Says New Testament Is 'Anti-Semitic'? By Rev. Ted Pike 9-13-5 Evangelical lovers of Israel would never believe that our government could consider them anti-Semitic. Yet the U.S. State Department's new "Department of Global Anti-Semitism" now defines anti-Semitism in a way that makes Bible-believing Christians into anti-Semites. Here's how: The State Department's 40-page Report on Global Anti-Semitism cites a recent example of "anti-Semitism" in Poland. "...the pastor of St. Brigid Church in Gdansk told parishioners during services that Jews killed Jesus and the prophets." (p.22) What's wrong with that? According to Jewish ...
The Trial of the Apostles
Post Date: 2005-09-18 16:17:55 by Elliott Jackalope
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The aim of the previous Chapters was to defend the reputation of "The Father". This Chapter will render equal protection for the "Son". Throughout the Ages every religion offered its believers the same reward, to "live on after death". In ancient Egypt priests initiated "Mummification" as a passport to the "Afterlife". Hindu prelates promised "Nirvana" as a way for piety to escape the tedium of re-incarnation. In short, each faith pledges to cheat death by giving the faithful the prize of living on forever, and Christianity is no exception. This premise has become one of the most tenacious and unsettling concepts ever invented by ...
Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel Ahead of Upcoming Disasters
Post Date: 2005-09-14 20:44:15 by Brian S
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Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel Ahead of Upcoming Disasters 22:02 Sep 14, '05 / 10 Elul 5765By Baruch GordonIsrael's leading known Kabbalistic Elder, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri called upon worldwide Jewry Tuesday night to return to Israel due to natural disasters which threaten to strike the world.In a class between the Mincha (afternoon) and Maariv (evening) prayers at his Jerusalem yeshiva seminary, Rabbi Kaduri issued the following call: ”This declaration I find fitting to issue for all of the Jews of the world to hear. It is incumbent upon them to return to the Land of Israel due to terrible natural disasters which threaten the world.In the future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will bring ...
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