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Catholic Church says true spirituality resides in the penis.

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:33:18 GMT

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Vatican 'regrets' female bishops decision

(CNN) -- The Vatican said Tuesday it regrets the decision by the Church of England's governing body to allow the ordination of women as bishops.

The move by the Anglican Church's General Synod "is a rift to the apostolic tradition" of ordaining only men as bishops, the Vatican said in a statement, and is another obstacle to reconciliation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics.

"This decision will have consequences on the dialogue which had brought good fruits," the Vatican statement said.

The General Synod passed a resolution Monday night that allows women to become bishops, acting over the objections of traditionalists who argued that Jesus only wanted men in leadership positions.

Some traditionalists have threatened to abandon the Anglican Church for the Roman Catholic Church if women become bishops. Several hundred Anglican priests made that move when women were first ordained 16 years ago.

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In Defense of the CS Lewis's Pagan Prince Caspian

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:23:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: CS Lewis professed to be a Christian, but if you really want to see how Pagan he actually was, read the chapter "The Inklings and the Gods" in the book by Ronald Hutton "Witches, Druids and King Arthur."

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When they appeared in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it was easy to look the other way in the face of the undeniable Christian imagery of Aslan dying and rising and conquering the White Witch. Bacchus and Silenus, ancient pagan gods, dance with nymphs and dryads. With Jesus so clearly figured, it was easy to ignore such things, but what to do when Bacchus and Silenus appear not once, but twice, in Prince Caspian, where such Christological imagery is not so obvious?

Is it possible that the writings of the “apostle to the atheists” actually smuggles in pantheism and Paganism? There are some who believe exactly that.

This is a stumbling block for many people, including Christians themselves. Christianity may be true but does it satisfy?

What is so appealing about heaven if it just means sitting in a pew for eternity? Many people in church are bored out of their minds right now. Who wants that experience forever? “No thanks,” many say.

Merry Excesses

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:26:24 GMT

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Christmas — pagans, Christians and mammon

Christmas is arriving with its usual sleighful of hype, indulgence and greed. And, as usual, people are deploring the consumerist excesses of the holiday and wishing for a return of the good old days and the old-time religion. They know not what they are yearning for.

Early on, bishops banned the use of evergreens and deplored the drinking, hoodlumism, fighting and looting that went on in many places in the darkness of deep December all over Europe. But the decrees made little difference.

Nobody knows when Jesus was born, but in the 4th century the church decreed it to be Dec. 25, an unlikely time for shepherds to be watching their flocks in the field.

And so, over the centuries, Dec. 25 gradually took on some of the trappings of the Christian religion, although much of the old pagan festivities continued.

Christians always start the fight

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:41:06 GMT

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Wineke: Say it again, symbols should stay in church

A week ago, I wrote a column about the creche scene controversy in Green Bay. That city allowed a plastic manger scene of Mary, Joseph and Jesus to be placed over the door to City Hall, but said other religions were welcome to put up their own holiday symbols if they wished.

After a long and testy City Council meeting, the city has decided only the manger scene will remain on City Hall, at least until the city can establish guidelines for what goes up and what stays down.

It always amazes me that, every year, there is some bizarre fight over how to observe the birth of Christ and that the bizarre fight is almost always started by Christians.

I've never once heard a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist or an atheist object when I wish that person "Merry Christmas." Not once.

But let a national chain of department stores decide to wish its patrons "Happy Holidays" and the chain is likely to face a boycott.

Is Christmas truly Christian?

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.chroniclelive.co.uk

Is Christmas truly Christian?

TO ALL those people complaining about other festivals hijacking the traditional English Christmas, I would like to enlighten you on the following point: the Christian faith is not the original faith of the British Isles, and the Christian church hijacked the Pagan festival of Yule and turned it into the celebration you know as Christmas.

Winter Solstice for pagans is a time of feasting and the exchanging of gifts and is the original holiday that the Christian religions modified into their own Christmas.

Most theologians who have spent time studying the alleged birth of Jesus admit he was born in either March or April, not the celebrated Christmas date we all know from the standard calendar. It was moved to this date to help induce Pagans to give up their old ways yet allow them their holidays during the spread of Christianity through Europe and the British Isles.

The American Taliban

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:08:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.villagevoice.com

The Jesus Landing Pad

Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move

It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists

But now we know.

"Everything that you're discussing is information you're not supposed to have," barked Pentecostal minister Robert G. Upton when asked about the off-the-record briefing his delegation received on March 25. Details of that meeting appear in a confidential memo signed by Upton and obtained by the Voice.

Three weeks after the confab, President George W. Bush reversed long-standing U.S. policy, endorsing Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank in exchange for Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

When asked whose job it is in the administration to study the Bible to discern what parts of Israel were or weren't acceptable sacrifices for peace, Jones said that his previous statements had been off-the-record.

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George & Jesus

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:17:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Georgie, Georgie, just look what you have done!

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Is George W. Bush proof that we live in a universe devoid of intelligent design? Bush, of course, is famous for asserting that Jesus was his favorite political philosopher. He has also claimed that God wanted him to be president. Perhaps the Almighty has a sense of humor,

the Bush administration’s missionary zeal to spread democracy across the Arab world, beginning in Iraq, was just part of a larger effort to export its libertarian ideology and Christian values into the heart of the Middle East. God knows, the Saddamists and Islamicists could do with a little more capitalism, but more religion?

Bush is a throwback to leaders who operate according to the discredited theory from the Dark Ages known as “the divine right of kings.” According to this deeply irrational idea the monarch is acting as God’s representative on earth and his decisions are divinely guided. Bush’s disastrous reign is a reductio ad absurdum argument against this theory.

Tags: bush, religion, kings, middle east

Jesus Box Faked

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:14:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

'Jesus box' exposed as fake

A stone box touted as the oldest archaeological evidence of Jesus is, in fact, a well-crafted fake, Israeli archaeological experts say

Carved on one side is an inscription in the ancient language of Aramaic bearing the legend: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."

Officials with Israel's Antiques Authority announced Wednesday that while the box may date from the correct era, the inscription is a forgery added at a much later date.

"The inscription appears new, written in modernity by someone attempting to reproduce ancient written characters," the officials said in the statement.

They said that a panel of archeological experts had agreed unanimously with the findings.

"The ossuary is real. But the inscription is fake," the director of Israel's Antiquities Authority, Shuka Dorfman, told Reuters.

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United States of Jesus

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:33:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A few words about America's relationship with God.

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Tags: religion, politics, america, usa, jesus, god

BIBLE FIGHT, juego Flash

Sun, 13 May 2007 02:26:13 GMT

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BIBLE FIGHT, la batalla final de los personajes bíblicos! (Super Game Online)

La gente de Adult Swin siempre pone juegos copados, pero este SE PASA.
BIBLE FIGHT es una especie de STREET FIGHTER 2, pero en el que los personajes que podrás elegir son Jesús, Noé, Eva, María, Moises y el mismísimo Satanás. MUUUUUUUUY BUEENOOO…

Tiene 2 modos de juego:
1) Tournament, donde enfrentarás uno a uno a todos los oponentes del juego.
2) Arcade, que es una pelea rápida para decidir quien es el mejor. Siempre te enfrentas al CPU y gana el primero en llevarse 2 rounds.

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What?

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:57:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So who ever said that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' mother? Of course the DNA is no match, the claim is that they were husband and wife, NOT mother and son!

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'The Lost Tomb of Jesus' finds 'DaVinci'-style controversy

A statistician is called in to calculate the odds of so many names associated with Jesus’ life being found in one place. DNA experts test two samples from the boxes – from the ossuary supposedly belonging to Mary Magdalene and from the one that allegedly contained the remains of Jesus – and find that they did not share a mother, and could not have been mother and son.

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Support Free Investigation

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:40:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fundies are about to boycott the Discovery channel because of this program. We who desire free inquiry and investigation should let the Discovery channel we support them and it's not just fundies who are viewers. Here where to make your comment to them:
http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations

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A claim that the tomb of Jesus Christ has been found has naturally upset many Christians, but others say their faith remains unshaken.

Feb. 28, 2007 - After James Cameron and fellow filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici announced this week that new evidence suggests the tomb of Jesus Christ was found and that they’ve now made a movie and written a book about it--the reaction from the Christian community was sure and swift.

On Tuesday, the Rev. Rob Schenk, president of the National Clergy Council, labeled Cameron and his project part of the “Anti-Christian Hollywood establishment.” He is urging his 90,000 constituents to boycott not only the film and the book, but also to stop watching the Discovery Channel, which will air the film this Sunday evening.

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Lighten Up People

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:59:56 GMT

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A boy's costume does not impose dogma by force

There is nothing so evil, so clearly un-American, as the imposition of a particular religious dogma by force.

Traitors always seek to undermine that principle.

It said a 10-year-old boy at a public school in Montgomery County was not allowed to wear a costume of his choice for the school's Halloween festivities — because the costume violated a policy banning the promotion of religion.

At the same Halloween shindig, however, the Willow Hill Elementary School in Glenside allowed other children to dress up in costumes representing other religions. There were witches (the Wicca religion) and devils (Demonolatry), according to a lawsuit filed, on behalf of the boy in the Jesus costume, by the Alliance Defense Fund.

A 10-year-old boy is not likely to pressure others to accept his religious dogma just because he wears a Jesus costume on Halloween. There is a difference between a boy and a Northampton County judge banging his gavel at people.

Tags: religion, government, school, halloween

The Christian Nation Myth

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:18:30 GMT

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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.

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