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Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:44 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: The Pope, leading the way of torture, and the history of Christianity. Will people ever get a clue?

Clip Source: www.jesusneverexisted.com

Torture Chambers

' For 1500 hundred years, the Christian Church systematically operated torture chambers throughout Europe. Torture was the rule, not the exception. Next to the Bible, the most influential and venerated book in Christian history was the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), which was a step-by-step tutorial in how to torture "witches' and "sorcerers".

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

--Pope Alexander IV (1254-61)
(Directory for the Inquisitors p. 135)

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Tags: bible, christianity, faith, god, moral values, religion, superstition, theology, torture

Doomsday cult calls credit cards satanic

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:06:42 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.

Around 30 followers, including four children, from across Russia and neighboring Belarus met last October and barricaded themselves into a hillside to escape an apocalypse their preacher says is looming in either April or May.

"They have burned their passports and say that all plastic (credit) cards and strip codes on food packaging are the work of Satan," he told reporters.

He said progress was slow but local authorities were negotiating with the group to leave their refuge.

Local residents said the bunker was a pre-revolutionary convent, with a well, a kitchen and areas for sleeping and praying.

Tags: religion, faith, cult, russia, satan, belief

Freedom under attack- rest of the story

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:51:01 GMT

clipped by: rvnurse2b
clipper's remarks: Aceslucky and anyone who wanted more info on this case- hopefully this is it.

Clip Source: www.aclj.org

Gina maintains a 3.9 overall GPA and did very well on the first few philosophy class assignments, her grades in the philosophy course dropped significantly after the question of God’s existence and attributes became the focus of class discussion. Gina read the assigned materials and participated in class discussions, presenting traditional philosophical arguments on whether God exists and whether He possesses certain characteristics such as being all-knowing or all-good. However, Gina was unwilling to state that she would reconsider her personal religious beliefs on God’s nature and existence, and her grades suffered as a result.

Gina was posed with the difficult choice of either violating her religious beliefs by publicly declaring, “I am Gina. I am not free because I am determined” or being penalized by failing to receive extra points like her classmates.

Gina chose to adhere to her faith because she could not, in good conscience, make that statement.

may not grade

religious faith

Tags: church, state, law, religion, reedom, christian, god, education

What Good Is A God

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:02:26 GMT

clipped by: y_qadash
clipper's remarks: Without a Plan To Stop Hatred and Wars?

Clip Source: www.yahweh.com

What Good Is A God Without A Plan To Stop Sin,
Sickness, Disease, Hatred And Wars?

The world today is full of sickness and disease epidemics that can wipe out all flesh. Now we are facing nuclear proliferation and nuclear war, which scientists say will darken the sun. Given time, it makes one wonder just how many ways mankind could find in the name of their religion and under the pretext of righteousness to destroy the entire population. Your gods, lords, elohim and adonais have no power to inform you of what you are bringing upon yourselves by the path you are following. What good is a god that can't show you what your evil ways will bring you? If he or his preachers can't warn you before disaster comes, what benefit is he?...

09-2007 House of Yahweh Newsletter

Tags: god, atheist, bible, hypocrisy, news

Texas Appellant Court ruling appalling

Sat, 24 May 2008 02:29:28 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: In the world of the FLDS, "spiritual marriage" between older men and underage girls — what the law defines as rape — is given the stamp of religious approval. Of 53 girls believed to be between 14 and 17, more than 30 have children or are pregnant, including one who gave birth to her second child in custody. Among the boys, too, there is suspicion of widespread physical abuse. Indeed, many teenage boys are routinely banished to preserve the odds of polygamy.

Nevertheless, what do we make of an entire sect that has sexual abuse at its very heart? That believes plural "marriages" between older men and underage women are not an aberration but a pathway to heaven?

Nobody can prosecute the FLDS for what they believe, says Marci Hamilton, author of God vs. the Gavel. "They can stay together and believe what they want into eternity. What they can't do is illegal action."

In the end, what we have on that ranch in Eldorado is not a lifestyle. It's a pedophile ring.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Morning Edition, May 23, 2008 · A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that the state had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch. The court conceded that some underage teens may have been sexually abused, but that the state did not prove that all the removals of children from their parents were justified.

Child welfare officials said they were mystified by the appeals court's ruling, saying that the department had "removed children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch after finding a pervasive pattern of sexual abuse."

Child welfare officials who visited the ranch "revealed a pattern of underage girls being 'spiritually united' with older men and having children with the men," the agency said.

Tags: flds, pedophilia, child abuse, sex, sexual abuse, texas, religion, sects, cults

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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:56:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Alan, I really miss your clips (and face)

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Another Story of Religious Child Abuse

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:01:23 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: More bone headed tales of misguided cult followers believing muttering pleas to their invisible friend will magically cure disease. Unfortunately, in this case, the recipient of the "prayer treatment" died for no reason. And because of religious brainwashing the 16 year old agreed to this non-treatment. Sad indeed.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Teenager from faith-healing family dies in Oregon

GLADSTONE, Ore. - Authorities say a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal charges.

Tuesday's death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley, however, may not be a crime because Oregon law allows minors 14 and older to decide for themselves whether to accept medical treatment.

Nelson said a catheter would have saved the boy's life. If the condition had been dealt with earlier, a urologist could easily have removed the blockage and avoided the kidney damage that came with the repeated illnesses, Nelson said.

Benton said a board member of the Followers of Christ church contacted the authorities after Beagley died at his family's home. The teen had been sick about a week, and church members and his family had gathered to pray Sunday when his condition worsened, Benton said.

Tags: religion, prayer, cult, science, superstition

Villagers burn accused witch

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:30:45 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: in.news.yahoo.com

Fri, May 30 12:49 PM

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - An Indian woman accused of witchcraft was beaten, gagged and burnt to death in a remote eastern village, police said on Friday.

The woman was dragged out of her home, her hands and legs tied and taken to a crematorium where she was set on fire in front of the village which ignored her screams for help.

The incident took place in a tribal village in Orissa and occurred last week, but came to light on Thursday with the arrest of three villagers.

The victim was murdered by the husband and relatives of a neighbour whose death was blamed on her witchcraft.

Dozens of women are killed every year on suspicion of being witches or witch doctors in India, where superstition is widespread, especially in rural areas that lack an effective schooling system.

Tags: india, weird, murder, religion

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:03:56 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Daniel Dennett and Lord Winston -- public debate.

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Prof Daniel Dennett and Lord Winston present their arguments ahead of tonight's public debate

Yes, says Prof Daniel Dennett

No, says Lord Winston

If religion isn't the greatest threat to rationality and scientific progress, what is? Perhaps alcohol, or television, or addictive video games.

People are revered for their capacity to live in a dream world, to shield their minds from factual knowledge and make the major decisions of their lives by consulting voices in their heads that they call forth by rituals designed to intoxicate them.

"You cannot lose by professing belief in God - if He does not exist you lose nothing, and if He does exist, you will be rewarded in the afterlife." Dennett argues that it is better to live as if there is no God, attempting to make the world a rational and better place.

The debate on religion versus science will take place tonight at the British Council.

Tags: bible, christian, church, faith, religion, daniel dennett, lord winston

Shhh....it's room 8.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:32:44 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: Wha? I thought it was funny.

Clip Source: eigentaste.berkeley.edu

A man arrives at the gates of heaven. St. Peter asks, "Religion?" The man says, "Methodist." St. Peter looks down his list, and says, "Go to room 24, but be very quiet as you pass room 8."

Another man arrives at the gates of heaven. "Religion?" "Baptist." "Go to room 18, but be very quiet as you pass room 8."

A third man arrives at the gates. "Religion?" "Jewish." "Go to room 11, but be very quiet as you pass room 8." The man says, "I can understand there being different rooms for different religions, but why must I be quiet when I pass room 8?" St. Peter tells him, "Well, the Catholics are in room 8, and they think they're the only ones here."

Tags: humour, funny, jokes, religion

Science and technology will not redeem mankind, Pope insists

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:35:33 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: "In order, then, to 'educate for hope' - as we propose in this congress and during the coming pastoral year - it is necessary, in the first place, to open our hearts, our intellects and all our lives to God, in order to be His credible witnesses among our fellow man," the Pope said.

Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI opened the congress for the Diocese of Rome on the theme, “Jesus has risen. Educating for hope in prayer, in action and in suffering.” He told the Romans that they should not look to science and technology for hope and redemption, but to instead open their lives to God.

"Moreover," the Holy Father added, "hopes for great novelties and improvements are concentrated on science and technology." Yet, "it is not science and technology that can give meaning to our lives and teach us to distinguish good from evil,” he said.

Benedict XVI emphasized that, “it is not science that redeems man: man is redeemed by love, and this applies even in terms of the present world." However, modern civilization and culture “too often tend to place God in parenthesis, to organize personal and social life without Him, to maintain that nothing can be known of God, even to deny His existence. But when God is laid aside, ... all our hopes, great and small, rest on nothing.”

Tags: jesus, pope, rome, science, technology, hope, good, evil

Crazy Phelps Rants On

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:28:47 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Be warned. This is not pretty. This demented hater of the ages spews his venom. And he backs it up with scripture so it must be true!

Clip Source: atheistmedia.blogspot.com

Fred Phelps: George Carlin is now in Hell

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Tags: hate, christianity, religion, phelps, bigotry

Would you kill your own son -- to save others?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:43:39 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Would you save your own son if it meant killing others?

Clip Source: video.stumbleupon.com

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Tags: religion, faith, bible, nick gisburne, atonement, jesus

Backwards Bush Countdown Clock

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:58:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Counts down, to the second, how much sooner we are getting to seeing George W. Bush out of the White House... forever!

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Tags: bush, humor, president

A Radicalist View of Conservative Mindset

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:17:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For entertainment purposes only

Clip Source: dailykos.com

The conservative mind

It must be really scary to be a conservative. To be one, you must live in constant fear of terrorists nuking the United States, of gay people on the verge of convincing you that you really enjoy sodomy, of Spanish becoming the official language of the United States next week, of every African-American voting seven or eight times in the next election, of radical Islam suddenly becoming the latest hip thing among kids across the country, of perpetual lesbian orgies in girls bathrooms in high schools across America, of liberals forcing everyone to become a vegan, of Christians being rounded up into concentration camps, and of Democrats outlawing private property if they were to ever take power again.

They do live in a state of fear, and what's more, they want everyone else to join them hiding under their bed, in their pool of urine.

Oh, they'll talk tough. They'll bluster and pound their chests like the neanderthals they are.

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Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

Iron Spider: The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Doomsday cult calls credit cards satanic

Freedom under attack- rest of the story

What Good Is A God

Texas Appellant Court ruling appalling

Number 2 clipper stops clipping

alanocu

Another Story of Religious Child Abuse

Teenager from faith-healing family dies in Oregon

Villagers burn accused witch

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Shhh....it's room 8.

Science and technology will not redeem mankind, Pope insists

Crazy Phelps Rants On

Fred Phelps: George Carlin is now in Hell

Would you kill your own son -- to save others?

Backwards Bush Countdown Clock

A Radicalist View of Conservative Mindset

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.