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POPSNewt Grigrich; Smartest Republican. And that is just so sad! The media likes to claim that current-15-minutes-of-famer, Newt Gingrich is "the smartest man in the room" when compared to the other Republican Clown College Candidates. The fact that he makes such absurd mistakes, even in his own self-professed specialty of History shows us that accepting that he is the smartest of those losers; he's still no more intelligent, nor informed than a typical 10 year old. These are the people that Republicans want to run the nation with the biggest Murder Machine (Military) in the world? At the very least, the right choice for president must be smarter than the typical voter, because otherwise, how do you expect him to deal with the very complex job of running America and dominating the world? If you're going to say an intellectually-retarded person, like Perry or Bachmann should be president, then that's the same as saying you want America to be represented by idiots.
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POPSSr. Jacinta hopes to evangelize 'pagan' Britain “We are certainly heckled more in Britain, than in the U.S., and laughed at on the street,” said the head of St. Clare's convent, who spent her years of formation in New York before returning to her native country. “It's not that unusual to be laughed at, out loud. It's mostly the teenagers and young adults that would be most openly aggressive. It feels like they're just very insecure.” “Anything that approaches them that they don't understand, or that they think is threatening their understanding of life and who they are – they have to react to it. And they unfortunately experience us as threatening.” “We just smile at them, love them, and pray for them. And we hope that we can enter into some kind of dialogue with them, to show them that actually we're really concerned about them and can offer them something.”
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POPSThe Arab Spring’s Forgotten Freedom "But in the end, non-Muslims can’t resolve Islam’s religious liberty challenge. Only theologically educated, historically informed and believing Muslims can do that. In the meantime, those reading the Arab Spring as a uniformly-positive event might like to consider that it appears to be doing little to secure the freedom, if not the very existence, of ancient Christian churches, many of which were founded by people who in all likelihood knew Christ or his first disciples. The loss of such a civilizational and religious heritage would be immeasurable — and not just for Christianity, but for the future of liberty within the Islamic world itself."
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POPSAtheist Brokeback Mountain Movie Bombs! Chapman did interviews with all sorts of atheist websites and groups and the result was…drumroll please…$5,176. No I didn’t leave off any zeros. The movie made $5,176. And IMDB reported it had a $10 million budget. Ouch! This is all the so-called “brights” came up with? I think one of the things that went wrong with this movie isn’t just that it was an atheist movie. It’s that it was anti-Christian. Instead of showing atheists dealing with dramatic situations which they do, the director chose to have the atheist in a battle with a crazy Christian caricature. And guess what, people in a mainly Christian country decided not to see it. Now that’s the kind of natural selection I can get behind.
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POPSObama To Israel: "DROP DEAD" Muslim attacks on Egypt’s besieged Coptic Christians continue. Mass demonstrations by the secular (but often hard-leftist or Nasserist) Facebook revolutionists have sought to quell anti-Christian feeling by turning anger against Israel instead. This continues even today. (The Facebook revolution was supposedly not anti-American or anti-Israeli, but any serious study of the revolutionists background would have shown that hope to be false.) The Syrian government, under siege from its own people, is permitting civilian attacks on Israel as a way of diverting attention, and to warn the West away from further pressure. Israel’s foes have united and seem primed to provoke a war designed to tilt the Middle East’s playing field toward Iran, and perhaps even draw in a post-election “democratic” Egypt ruled by Nasserite nationalists and Islamists against Israel. Our incoherent Libyan misadventure is bogged down in a . . . more... By Stanley Kurtz http://bit.ly/ivNgjU
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POPSFreemasons Secrets and FreeMason Conspiracy Masonic conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories involving Freemasonry; hundreds of such conspiracy theories have been described since the late 18th century. Generally, these theories fall into three distinct categories: political (usually involving allegations of control of government, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom), religious (usually involving allegations of anti-Christian or Satanic beliefs or practices), and cultural (usually involving popular entertainment).
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POPSThe Turmoil in the Middle East An excellent quick history of the Muslim Brotherhood and it's involvement in the uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere. FTA: "George W. Bush pressured the Palestinians to have free and fair elections. Hamas won the election and took power. And the moment they came to power, they began to kill their opponents so that another election would not take place until they were finally pushed out of the West Bank into the Palestinian territory of Gaza." He explains that as Gaza is today, that is their goal for Egypt; plus establishing their power there and continuing their militant take-over of other moderate Islamic Countries. We can sympathize with the injustice and corruption but things could be worse for these people .... as they are being used as media puppets by militant jihadists to advance their own agenda.
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POPSA Christian priest faces grim New Year in Iraq He gathered 20 people and they entered the yellow brick church with its cross standing out among the neighborhood's Islamic flags. Dako, 38, is used to living with death. He had become accustomed to danger even before an Oct. 31 siege by Islamic militants at another Baghdad church that left 58 people dead and ushered in a new campaign of attacks against Iraq's Christian minority. In 2007, he had played a cat-and-mouse game as he hid from would-be kidnappers who surrounded his church; that same year he narrowly escaped a bomb apparently meant for him. He had watched too many Christians leave the city for safety elsewhere. But he was not going to let himself fall into depression. He would scowl and shout from the pulpit and jab the air with his finger. He would smile and indulge in ghoulish humor. Or he would sing.
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POPSEgypt holds seven for questioning after church blast President Hosni Mubarak, 82, has pledged to track down the culprits and called for national unity, saying the attack was directed at all Egyptians, not just Christians. Dozens of Christians gathered inside a cathedral compound on Sunday to demand the state and church do more to help them.
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POPS38 Killed in Nigeria Christmas Weekend Attacks We support an indigenous pastor, his family, ministry, and orphanage in Jos. They are so faithful to give the Gospel and hope to those in the surrounding villages and to the children who have been abandoned by their Muslim families for looking into the message of Christianity. I acknowledge that Christians have had their own times of sectarian violence and murder. But wherever it might be, when peaceful people are living peaceful and helpful lives, this is so horrible. I think all Christians need to be aware that a new day has arrived and the murderous Horde is coming.
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POPSWar on Christmas: am I missing something?
fta Some might even (whisper it...) confess that they quite enjoy hearing the odd carol, and find the local nativity scene (yes they still exist) quite endearing. Sure, there are Season's Greetings cards and the like, but I guarantee that your local card shop will have plenty of religious ones too. It's called catering to a diverse market – Christmas is a Christian festival, yes, but it's also a mid-winter celebration (whose history stretches back to pagan times) that means lots of different things to lots of different people. But one thing we can all agree on is that it's an enjoyable time of year, whether you include the baby Jesus or not. Banning it would be a really bad (and quite frankly bizarre) thing to do. In fact, can you all please just take a moment to vote in this poll. Would you like to ban the Christian version of Christmas? The result will be about as objective or convincing as any of the evidence Lord Carey, Eric Pickles and Christian Concern like to present for t
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POPS"Muslims reject French culture and its values." As France watches its Muslim population surpass the FIVE MILLION mark, it must too now grapple with a host of unforeseen problems. I don't think any of the bozos who brought all these fabulous folks in are having to deal with the problem though, are they----that is left to the poor french teachers to try and deal with. Fun times ahead..........
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POPSTexas Textbook Massacre: State Board Suggests Books 'Tainted' With 'Pro-Islamic Distortions" The Huffington Post reported at the time on the drastic revisions, including the following: * The board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum's world history standards on Enlightenment thinking, "replacing him with religious-right icon John Calvin." * "Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state." * Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.
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POPSThe Left are using the Pope's visit to attack a Church which gives me strength
One contributor to a blog on the Guardian newspaper's website wrote of how the Catholic Church 'expects its followers to mumble incantations in front of large statues of a mostly naked European bloke nailed to a Roman torture implement and includes an act of ritual cannibalism in its rites'. Claire Rayner, the veteran author and Left-wing campaigner, went even further, revealing: 'I have never felt such animus against any individual as I do against this creature. 'His views are so disgusting, so repellent and so hugely damaging to the rest of us that the only thing to do is to get rid of him.' The fact is that Catholicism is completely out of tune with the progressive, politically correct spirit of our age, with its fashionable emphasis on moral relativism, multi-culturalism and self-gratification. The leaders of our civic culture cannot bear the thought that there is an alternative to their state-dominated, anti-family, diversity-fixated vision of the world.