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Autistic boy banned from church

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:28:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mk 5:1 (GW) They arrived in the territory of the Gerasenes on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. 2 As Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man came out of the tombs and met him. The man was controlled by an evil spirit 3 and lived among the tombs. No one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain. 4 He had often been chained hand and foot. However, he snapped the chains off his hands and broke the chains from his feet. No one could control him. Mark 5:1-4 (GW)

Mk 5:15 (GW) They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. The man was sitting there dressed and in his right mind.

A church that one time practiced exorcism now can not deal with an autistic boy. When the church house looses its power to save those afflicted then it has become worthless only to be turned into a social club.

Only the best dressed and socially acceptable may enter.

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge has upheld a restraining order barring an autistic boy from attending a northern Minnesota church. His mother said she would continue the legal fight. Todd County District Judge Sally Ireland Robertson said the behavior of 13-year-old Adam Race during services at the Church of St. Joseph was "repeated, unwanted and intrusive," and said the Bertha church was justified in keeping him out.

In requesting the restraining order, Walz said Adam has become disruptive and dangerous to parishioners as he's grown older. The boy is more than 6 feet tall and weighs more than 225 pounds, and has nearly knocked over people, Walz wrote. The complaint said Adam makes nonverbal noises, urinates because of incontinence, and needs to be restrained by having his hands or feet bound together with fleece ties.

Marrin said the church requested the restraining order solely for the safety of its members.

Tags: autism. demons, church, exorcism, catholic

Newt's 3 point plan for energy independence

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:55:05 GMT

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Tags: energy, oil, gas, environment

Salad Bar Christianity

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:33:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is just another example of a man-made god. Taking the parts we like from all religious practices and mixing them together to form a hodgepodge of beliefs that Jesus warned against. Jesus declared unashamedly that he was the way the truth and the life not just one of many.

Man loves to remake God into their own image, changing the absolute rightness of God for a rightness that suits each individual. The salad bar analogy works good here because the tendency of people is to take what they like and leave what they do not like. Most times it is the food that is best for us that we leave on the salad bar.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Religion today in the USA is a salad bar where people heap on upbeat beliefs they like and often leave the veggies — like strict doctrines — behind.

There are so many ways of seeing God, public policy expert Barry Kosmin says, that "the highest authority is now the lowest common denominator."

"Americans believe in everything. It's a spiritual salad bar," says Rice University sociologist Michael Lindsay. Rather than religious leaders setting the cultural agenda, today, it's Oprah Winfrey, he says.

"The impact of Oprah is seen throughout this survey. She uses the language of Bible and Christian traditions and yet includes other traditions to create a hodgepodge personalized faith. Exclusivism (one religion has the absolute and exclusive truth) has gotten a bad name in America today," he says.

Tags: religion. oprah, christianity

Wanted: inner-city supermarkets

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:14:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Before the WalMart Supercenter era, community markets where the norm, now with sprawling shopping centers moving out into the burbs, the hometown markets where forced to close up shop.

And yet despite all the 'change' things still remain the same. This story shows once again that the small business owner working in his or her own community has the most positive effect on that local economy.

Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

A fresh idea brings healthy food to low-income neighborhoods.

Grocer Jeff Brown put a lot of sweat into his ShopRite supermarket in inner-city Philadelphia: He built a pork-free meat room for Muslim customers, stocked the aisles with the Jamaican and African cuisine that neighbors requested, and taught job skills to the hires new to the workforce.

Brown’s ShopRite opened alongside several large stores, creating 900 jobs just in that one neighborhood, he says. “Which means 900 families can buy food and get off of welfare,” Brown says. (Most of his employees live in the local community.)

Tags: inner-city, economy

Could McCain be a victim of McCain Feingold?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:03:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: First it was Obama refusing "public funds" which allows him to raise as much money from as many people as he wants without limitations, and now the Supes have ruled that a multi-billionaire can in effect purchase a political office.

It would appear from this 'casual observer' McCain Feingold was an attempt to 'fix' elections by controlling which candidate actually has enough money to let their voice be heard while drowning out anyone else.

This is the adverse to what the intent of the law was meant to do, but in all reality I believe it is exactly what the laws sponsors actually intended.

McCain therefore may fall victim to his own sponsored bill.

Clip Source: www.csmonitor.com

WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the so-called "millionaire's amendment" of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, saying it violated free-speech protections.

In a 5-to-4 ruling, the high court said Congress cannot use federal election laws to disadvantage candidates who choose to use their own money to run for a seat in Congress.

The idea behind the law was to prevent a wealthy candidate from using massive personal spending in a campaign to drown out the voices of other candidates. It was also intended to counter the impression that seats in Congress can be purchased.

Tags: campaign, finance, reform, mccain-feingold, mccain, election

Prophet Muhammad Pediophile?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:16:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You form your own conclusions from this but I think I am going to file this under the Cuckoo's nest.

Clip Source: www.memritv.org

Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008:

Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for the first time – is another thing. There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight.

In Yemen, girls are married off at nine, ten, eleven, eight, or thirteen, while in other countries, they are married off at 16. Some countries have legislated laws forbidding having sex before the girl is eighteen.

The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took 'Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine.

He married her at the age of six, and he consummated the marriage, by having sex with her for the first time, when she was nine.

Tags: muhammad, islam, marriage

Presbyterians General Assembly Pushing gay agenda

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:52:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Guidelines for Leaders in the Church
1 This is a statement that can be trusted: If anyone sets his heart on being a bishop, he desires something excellent. 2 A bishop must have a good reputation. He must have only one wife, be sober, use good judgment, be respectable, be hospitable, and be able to teach. 3 He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but he must be gentle. He must not be quarrelsome or love money. 4 He must manage his own family well. His children should respectfully obey him. 5 (If a man doesn't know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?) 6 He must not be a new Christian, or he might become arrogant like the devil and be condemned. 7 People who are not Christians must speak well of him, or he might become the victim of disgraceful insults that the devil sets as traps for him.
1 Tim 3:1-7 (GW)

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) moved forward Tuesday with proposals that would allow for practicing gay clergy while rejecting one that would have redefined the definition of marriage.

In a 41-11 vote Tuesday night, the Committee on Church Orders and Ministry recommended to the 218th General Assembly – the denomination's highest governing body – that it delete wording in the ordination standard that requires "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness."

McColl expressed hope that congregations that could not tolerate another debate over ordination standards be allowed to "graciously leave" the denomination, as reported by the news service. A motion urging a gracious and pastoral response to congregations seeking to leave the PC(USA) was approved.

Tags: gay, church, pcusa, apostasy, homosexuality, gay rights, marriage

Blame a Liberal for rising gas prices

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:56:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sphere.com

Skyrocketing gas prices are rapidly changing Americans’ priorities. Voters routinely identify energy costs as either the second or third most important issue.

Just last week liberals in Congress rejected a proposal to allow drilling for oil 50 miles of the U.S. coast. The U.S. Minerals Management Service estimates that 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas can be found along the U.S. outer continental shelf.

And there is also plenty of energy currently banned from production onshore, too. The Department of Interior estimates onshore energy in the West and Alaska contains 31 billion carrels of oil and 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Then there is the granddaddy of them all: the oil shale in Green River Formation

there are 1.5 trillion to 1.8 trillion barrels worth of oil shale in the Green River Formation.

That is more than triple the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia

Are liberals in Congress anxious to see this oil help American consumers? No.

Tags: gas, economy, liberalism, democrats, domestic oil production

Gays Yeah, God Nea,

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:31:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These two stands as beacons to the trend in our society to normalize that which is abnormal and demonize that which is holy. Or in other words, blaspheme that which is good and right and uphold as honorable that which is unholy and perverse.

Obviously there is an "AGENDA" to promote homosexual causes across our land via the US congress while at the same time there is another "AGENDA" to oppose any movement of God across this nation.

If your Gay we say YEAH if your Christian we say Nea. And then we wonder why our country is in a mess?

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

Homosexuality takes Congress by storm

Fifty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives have joined together to create the House Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus. Their objective? To promote the homosexual agenda in Congress.

Library shuts out Christians -- and everybody else

An Ohio county public library has closed its meeting rooms to the public rather than allow them to be used by a Christian group.

Tags: homosexuality, christianity, congress. government. caucus, transgender. bisexual, lesbian, gay

Circus goes Prime Time: See the pregnant man

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:49:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another freak show hits TV. Oprah has normalized the Jerry Springer show. And I thought Freaks and Geeks was canceled from prime time TV. I guess I was wrong. This poor woman, man, trans gender, transsexual, mentally disturbed person needs help not applause. Our society has lots its moorings if this abnormal behavior is considered the new norm. God help us all.

I really feel badly for Tracy, who was born a girl and apparently lost her way somewhere in her formative years. We need to pray for this lost soul who apparently hates herself so much that she was willing to mutilate herself in an attempt to find love she so desperately craves.

What does society do? They exploit these poor souls for personal gain and aggrandizement. And to think that millions of people watch the "O" show. "O MY" might be more appropriate.

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

The media seems bizarrely obsessed with the story of "Thomas Beatie," aka Tracy Lagondino. Beatie, a woman who legally changed her sex to "male," retained all of her internal female organs at the same time she took testosterone, grew a beard and had breast removal surgery. She then "married" her lesbian partner, Nancy. Nancy proceeded to artificially inseminate her "husband." And so the press has announced that Thomas/Tracy (Thracy, let's call her) is the world's first "pregnant man."

If Thracy is a man, then so is Rosie O'Donnell. Thracy has two X chromosomes, a fully functioning set of female genitalia, and a uterus

Though Thracy's decision to artificially inseminate herself is the height of narcissism, it is hardly a medical anomaly.

Testosterone doesn't make a woman a man. And a bearded pregnant woman doesn't make wrong right, no matter what the media says.

Tags: lesbian, immorality, transexuality, transgender, mutilation, perversion

Could this be the reason for higher gas prices?

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:50:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If this is actually the true voting record of these ELECTED officials who are supposed to be doing the peoples work then I have to wonder how many people of the governed actually support the majority opposing views?

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

Keep electing Democrats!

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Tags: gas, oil, gasoline, price, inflation, oil exploration, refineries, democrats, liberals, republicans

Top 10 Make-over tips for Today's Church

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:37:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I just wish I would have said it first. Kudos to Doug Giles

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

1. Get men who dig being rowdy back in the pulpit.

2. Could we have some sound doctrine, por favor?

3. Preach scary sermons (at least every fourth one).

4. Get rid of 99.9% of “Christian” TV.

5. Quit trying to be relevant and instead become prophetic contrarians, I’m talking contra mundus, mama!

6. Put a 10-year moratorium on “God wants you rich” sermons (yeah, that’s what we need to hear nowadays, you morons, more sermons about money, money, money!).

7. Embrace apologetics and shun shallow faith.

8. Evangelize like it’s 1999.

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9. Push lazy Christians to get a life or join a Satanic Church.

10. Demand that if a Christian gets involved in the arts that their “craft” must scream excellence and not excrement.

As much as it is a believer’s duty to become all things to all people and not be removed freakish monks stuck in an ecclesiastical time warp, it is first and foremost the Christian’s duty to stand for God

Tags: church, culture, gospel, evangelism, truth, prophet, prophecy, change

The More you Weigh the More you Pay to Fly this Airline

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:05:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Smile you have just been punk'd

Clip Source: www.time.com

In light blue banners throughout the papers — as well as on their Web site, Philly.com — Derrie-Air cheerily trumpets its policy: The more you weigh, the more you pay. The ads direct readers to the Web site http://www.flyderrie-air.com.

Visitors to the airline site learn that Derrie-Air is the world's only carbon-neutral luxury airline, and it justifies its fare policy by saying that it takes more fuel to move heavier objects. The carrier pledges to plant trees to offset every pound of carbon its planes release into the atmosphere.

Derrie-Air's sample rates range from $1.40 per pound to fly from Philadelphia to Chicago to $2.25 per pound to fly from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.

A disclaimer labels the ad campaign "fictitious" and says it is designed "to test the results of advertising in our print and online products and to stimulate discussion on a timely environmental topic of interest to all citizens."

"In other words," it says, "smile, we're pulling your leg."

Tags: overweight, airline, travel, fares, global warming, cost offsets

Caspian Worth Watching

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:03:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

On Friday, Walden Media and Disney released The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the sequel to the wildly successful 2005 film The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The filmmakers faced the challenge of turning a beloved book with a slow plot into a modern film, but also one that retains the story's spiritual messages.

"The underlying messages are so important, and so vital to the story," says Douglas Gresham, Lewis' stepson and co-producer of the new film.

"Which are the return to faith, truth, justice, honesty, honor, glory, personal commitment, personal responsibility. Also the message (that) no matter how far away we stray, there's only one way back."

In Prince Caspian, the children return to Narnia (this time through a tube station near London's Trafalgar Square). Although they are only a year older, 1,300 years have passed in their former kingdom. The evil interloper Miraz has stolen the throne from Prince Caspian and forced the true Narnians into hiding.

Tags: narnia, c.s. lewis, chronicles of narnia, prince caspian, movie, theater, the lion, the witch, the wardrobe

Naughty Bits of the Good Book just released to stores

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:53:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Their new book, The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book, in stores Monday, raises such questions as "Which 'bone' was Eve made from?"

Or whether, in the Book of Judges, a king's assassin escapes through a latrine in a tale laden with euphemisms for feces.

Because the Bible addresses humanity body and soul, there's nothing sacrilegious about examining every aspect of human nature under heaven, say scholars Steven McKenzie, professor of Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College, a liberal arts college in Memphis affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA, and John Kaltner, an associate professor of religious studies at Rhodes.

The trio delve into 23 well-known Bible tales. They start with a sassy retelling of a familiar story, then take academic hair-splitting to Olympian levels as they examine some outrageous interpretations posed by scholars from around the world, and conclude by assessing whether the new "spin" succeeds.

Tags: bible, sex, parody, scholars, bible scholars