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POPSBrawling Monks Another example of the peace and unity (not) attributed to organized religion.
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POPSIs Proposition 8 Behind the 8 Ball? It should be!
When I read the questions on my Fl. ballot, I thought, “Why is Prop 8 there in all it's intolerance?” This election should be about issues not the same old worn out divisions, propagandized by the religious right for far too long. The GUNS, GAYS AND GOD mantra Karl Rove and his like, peddled, until the United States did not resemble anything UNITED, more like The Divided States of Amer. How naive of me, believing their divisive plan didn’t work and was therefore, over. With Separation of church & state a survivor. But here it was a religious question written into a civil ballot. Then, I thought, PROP 8 WILL SURELY BE DEFEATED... Wrong again. What will it take to keep religion out of the lives of people who do not wish to buy into it? What will it take to keep the prying eyes of the law out of our sexual orientation? It probably will never end but when the blind faith of religion wishes to erase that separation, we who are in possession of common sense must always fight back.
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POPSBanned Halloween Costume this is so stupid. If a person comes dressed as a witch, they have been banned too, because it might offend a wiccan- this is equally unfair. Although, if someone came dressed as a KKK member, they would be told to go home because they were glorifying them... will it never end?
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POPSDeath to death "The technological singularity has been called the Geek Rapture or Rapture of the Nerds, referring to the belief held by some Christians that they will be taken up bodily into heaven to be with Jesus before the Day of Judgment." is it so? "Even for those who believe that they don't believe in life after death, it seems impossible to stop imagining technological solutions to the problem." Though written very simple, it does point to an interesting riddle.
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POPSPraying for Wall St. And hoping no one notices the total hypocrisy of the situation. "Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, Herod's Temple, at which the courtyard is described as being filled with livestock and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian money, which were the only coinage that could be used in Temple ceremonies. According to the Gospels, Jesus took offense to this (extorting profit from the exchange of monies), and so, creating a whip from some cords, drives out the livestock, scatters the coins of the money changers, and turns over their tables, and those of the people selling doves."
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POPSEx-Muslim Tells Pope Islam Is The Religion Of War
the general interest of Christianity and of Western civilization itself” that the Pope make a pronouncement in “a clear and binding way” on the question of whether Islam is a valid religion. The Catholic Church’s dialogue with Islam is based on the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (”Nostra Aetate”), which urged esteem for Muslims because “they adore the one God,” strive to follow his will, recognize Jesus as a prophet, honor his mother, Mary, “value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.” The council called on Catholics and Muslims “to work sincerely for mutual understanding” and for social justice, moral values, peace and freedom. Allam told Pope Benedict he specifically objected to Cardinal Tauran telling a conference in August that Islam itself promotes peace but that “’some believers’ have ‘betrayed their faith,’” using it as a pretext for violence.
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POPSJesus Gets A Makeover WWD reports that a Swedish marketing guru has redesigned the New and Old Testaments, just in time for holiday gift giving. Wow.
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POPSJohn McCain rally in Iowa marked by partisan prayer Yep, because Heaven is exactly like those fake wrestling shows. All the different Gods have to throw down to protect their rep and "street cred". WTF? And they need Rev. Arnold Conrad to ring the bell to start the match...Right.
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POPSSanteria followers fight for religious freedom Pichardo thought Santeria needed to be more organized to enjoy its full legal rights. He put those rights to the test in the late 1980s, when he tried to open a worship hall in Hialeah. Many of his fellow Cuban-Americans howled in protest. Some said it was Satanic or anti-Christian. They also protested the slaying of animals on the property, and in 1987, the city council passed a law banning "public ritualistic animal sacrifices." The church argued that its constitutional religious rights had been violated, and six years later, the law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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POPSJesus Horses and Sarah Palin Sarah "Speaking in Tongues" Palin explains how she believes that dinosaurs and man lived together. This is precisely why the taboo of not discussing one's religion is wrong. This woman's viewpoint needs to be brought out and examined in the light of day. She holds ideas that have consequences in an increasingly technological world. By her own statements, she clearly doesn't have a clue what's going on.
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POPSObama/Jesus - Palin/Pilate This meme is all over Democrat talking points lately. Isn't this the party that spews spittle whenever religion is even mentioned? And now their candidate who has been figuatively compared to the Messiah is literally compared with Him? Of course, this will backfire on them as their attempted use of religion always does. People who are actually religious seem to have somehow missed that passage in the Book of Community how Jesus went around registering people to vote and organizing protest marches against the Romans and shaking down corporations for money. And truly religious Christians would immediately denounce and distance themselves from anyone so arrogant as to even imply that they personally were like Christ.
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POPSThe Bible vs. The Book of Mormon Documentary using archaeological evidence pertaining to Jesus and the Bible. Then compare it to the Book of Mormon which has no archaeological evidence pertaining to the Book of Mormon, which states that Jesus appeared to an ancient people who later became the Mormons.
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POPSHawaii Church Looks at Obama and McCain The National Council of Churches urges churches to look at politicians, government policies and civic leaders through a wider lens and to ask how they measure up to biblical teaching about peace, justice, protection of the weak and the poor, and stewardship of Creation. A Kailua church will use the National Council of Churches' "Christian Principles in an Election Year" for an eight-week course of study that will bring Scripture to bear on speeches and platforms of presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain."