Clipmarks | arifsali's 'christianity' clips

10 Glorious Lost Cities.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:43:00 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: Pretty cool! more info on the website.

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]

Tags: ancient, lost, cities

History of Religion in 90 seconds - Geographical Evolution (Flash)

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:35:27 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: similar to the "Map of War" in the Middle East

Clip Source: mapsofwar.com

How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!

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Tags: history, religion, flash, geography, map, evolution, faith, christianity, islam, buddhism, hinduism, judaism, visualization

Pope Feared Bush Is The Anti-Christ

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:02:39 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

The Pope, who grew up facing the evils of Hitler and Stalin, knows evil when he sees it.

An old article from 2003, but very thought-provoking! Now, I'm no Catholic, but if Pope John Paul ll (rest in peace) had such concerns about the "goodness" of Mr George W. Bush, then I sit up and listen. Are there any Catholics out there who know what the Church's or the current Pope's stand on this issue is now?

Clip Source: www.counterpunch.org

Bush's "Christian" Blood Cult

Concerns Raised by the Vatican

Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations - the anti-Christ. People close to the Pope claim that amid these concerns, the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations.

John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil

the Pope and his closest advisers are also concerned that the ultimate acts of evil - the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - were known in advance by senior Bush administration officials.

Bush represents a dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult

the Pope should know

Tags: pope, john paul ll, catholicism, good, evil, christianity, anti-christ, religion., gwb, bush

Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:55:20 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Clip Source: bsalert.com

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarassment.

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, intelligent design, religion, superstition, theology, science

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

Clip Source: www.dvorak.org

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

Atheists Need to Chill

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:05:26 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Michael Shermer makes a point that needs to be made. Atheists need to remember what they stand for, not merely what they are against. Ridicule and contempt have no place in science, and haters should not tarnish its reputation by association.

In the words of the greatest consciousness raiser of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr., in his epic "I Have a Dream" speech: "In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline."

If atheists do not want theists to prejudge them in a negative light, then they must not do unto theists the same.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Anti-something movements by themselves will fail.

Atheists cannot simply define themselves by what they do not believe.

Positive assertions are necessary.

Champion science and reason, as Charles Darwin suggested: “It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public

Rational is as rational does.

It is irrational to take a hostile or condescending attitude toward religion because by doing so we virtually guarantee that religious people will respond in kind.

The golden rule is symmetrical.

If atheists do not want theists to prejudge them in a negative light, then they must not do unto theists the same.

Promote freedom of belief and disbelief.

As long as religion does not threaten science and freedom, we should be respectful and tolerant because our freedom to disbelieve is inextricably bound to the freedom of others to believe.

Tags: atheists, atheism, secular, humanism, science, religion, civility, extremism, freedom, belief

We can agree on one thing: WE HATE HOMOSEXUALS

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:44:29 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus
clipper's remarks: It's amazing how groups of people that would otherwise be mortal enemies seem to be able to come together when it comes to declaring their hate for homosexuals. And most of the people that are protesting the loudest are doing so because they're trying to suppress their own secret urges.

Clip Source: www.queerty.com

Ken Hutcherson has officially lost his mind.

Controversial and virulently anti-gay Hutcherson - pictured above getting down with the Klan - wants to wage an unholy war against Microsoft. The former footballer and FBI suspect reportedly asked his Evangelical peers and Jewish colleagues to buy up Microsoft stock and force the technology giant to abandon its gay rights advocacy.

Apparently Hutcherson told Microsoft that he’ll be their “worst nightmare” if they don’t concede. He also said that he refuses to be intimidated by Microsoft’s size, wealth and power:

I consider myself a warrior for Christ. Microsoft don’t scare me. I got God with me. I told them that you need to work with me or we will put a firestorm on you like you have never seen in you life because I am your worst nightmare. I am a black man with a righteous cause with a whole host of powerful white people behind me.

Tags: kkk, anti-gay, alliance, microsoft, crusade, hate, religion, christianity

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:04:45 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: "She said her family believed in the Bible and that healing came from God. But she insisted that they were not "crazy religious people"

"Even after her death, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, who did not belong to any organised faith, prayed over her body in the hope that she might be resurrected."

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

An 11-year-old girl died from diabetes after her parents prayed for her recovery rather than calling for medical assistance.

Madeline Neumann died on Sunday in Wisconsin, from an undiagnosed but treatable ailment.

Dan Vergin, the local police chief, said she had been ill for a month, suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

"She just got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.

Police are now preparing a report for prosecutors. However, legal action against the parents may be prevented by a Wisconsin state statute against failing to act to protect children from bodily harm.

The statute contains an exemption for what it refers to as "treatment through prayer". Mrs Neumann, whose husband is a former policeman, said they had never expected her daughter to die. She suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin.

Tags: faith, faith healing, prayer, bible, christianity, christian, religion

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:52 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Simon Jenkins on threats to peace and democracy.

This defeatism led the American Congress to allow its president to authorise torture and detention without trial in what Senator Robert Byrd called “the slow unravelling of the people’s liberties”. It enabled a British Home Office to curb free speech and habeas corpus. It arms police, fortifies buildings and impedes the free movement of citizens. It makes every Christian suspicious of every Muslim.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

The chief threat to world security at present lies in the capacity of tiny groups of political Islamists to goad the West into a rolling military retaliation.

Extremists on each side feed off the others’ frenzied scenarios so as to garner money and political support for their respective armies of the night. Each sees the other as a cosmic menace and abandons communal tolerance and peaceful diplomacy to counter it.

To portray Islam as a whole as a concerted threat to western security, and to imply that the West’s democratic institutions and freedoms are not proof against that threat, is absurd and close to treason. Then to demand that western freedoms be dismantled and stored away for the duration of a “war on terror” is to wave the flag of surrender.

I believe in the robustness of the democracies created in the West over the past half-century. I am not sure that our leaders do.

Tags: terrorism, islam, christianity, religion, freedom, war, peace, democracy, west, torture

Amazing - Largest freely on online - "Sacred Text"

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:20:58 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet.
There is more in the sight

Clip Source: www.sacred-texts.com

Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.

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The Christian Nation Myth

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:18:30 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.infidels.org

Whenever the Supreme Court makes a decision that in any way restricts the intrusion of religion into the affairs of government, a flood of editorials, articles, and letters protesting the ruling is sure to appear in the newspapers. Many protesters decry these decisions on the grounds that they conflict with the wishes and intents of the "founding fathers."

Such a view of American history is completely contrary to known facts. The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible.

Tags: christian, christianity, christian nation, myth, deist, founding fathers, united states

A Hamas leader's son converted to Christianity & seeks refuge in USA

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:13:49 GMT

clipped by: syncopath

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Haaretz's Avi Issacharaoff traveled to California to tell the unique tale of Masad Yousef, the 30-year-old son of Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, who has converted to Christianity and is seeking refuge in the United States.

In an extended interview, Yousef, who now calls himself Joseph, castigates Hamas as morally and politically bankrupt.

"They are blind and ignorant," Yousef says in the interview. "It's true, there are good and bad people everywhere, but Hamas supporters don't understand that they are led by a wicked and cruel group that brainwashes the children and gets them to believe that if they carry out a suicide attack they'll get to Paradise."

Yousef says that his father is part of the pragmatic wing of Hamas leaders that quietly opposed suicide bombings and seeks compromise with Israel.

Quotes by Founding Fathers on religion

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:40:51 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: You be the judge.

Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

“…Of all the nonsense and delusion which had ever passed through the mind of man, none had ever been more extravagant than the notions of absolutions, indelible characters, uninterrupted successions, and the rest of those fantastical ideas derived from the canon law; which has thrown a glare of mystery, sanctity, reverence, and right reverend eminence and holiness around the idea of a priest such that no mortal could deserve.”...John Adams

“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our superstition, Christianity, one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded upon fables and myths.”...Thomas Jefferson

“The purpose of the separation of Church and State is to keep forever from these shores, the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.”...James Madison

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”...Abraham Lincoln

“I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.”...James Buchanan

“I know that human prejudice, especially growing out of religion, is cruelly inveterate and lasting.”...Grover Cleveland

“I suggest the taxation of Church property.”...Ulysses S. Grant.

“I believe in evolution…To this day, it surprises me that such a question can be raised.”...Woodrow Wilson

Tags: america, free speech, religion, quotes

Why Can't I Own a Canadian?

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:12:36 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Good questions!

Clip Source: www.humanistsofutah.org

Why Can't I Own a Canadian?

Dear Dr. Laura:

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law.

When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:

I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

Tags: god, religion, christianity, bible, humour

Great quote about Christianity and hatred

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:40:12 GMT

clipped by: Ravenlock
clipper's remarks: So many Christians just don't get this.

Clip Source: reddit.com

As Anne Lamott wrote, "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Tags: religion, politics

Clipmarks | arifsali's 'christianity' clips

10 Glorious Lost Cities.

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas [Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument [Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks [Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert [Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities [Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires [Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity [Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments [Wiki]

History of Religion in 90 seconds - Geographical Evolution (Flash)

Pope Feared Bush Is The Anti-Christ

Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

Atheists Need to Chill

We can agree on one thing: WE HATE HOMOSEXUALS

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

Amazing - Largest freely on online - "Sacred Text"

The Christian Nation Myth

A Hamas leader's son converted to Christianity & seeks refuge in USA

Quotes by Founding Fathers on religion

Why Can't I Own a Canadian?

Why Can't I Own a Canadian?

Great quote about Christianity and hatred

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]