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Offline Yada  
#151 Posted : Monday, November 3, 2008 12:38:01 AM(UTC)
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November 2, 2008 -- Updated 0132 GMT (0932 HKT)

Indonesians appease mountain gods with sacrifices

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Thousands of pilgrims flock to Mount Bromo on East Java annually to make offerings
Pilgrims offer the spirits food, live animals, money and ask for prosperity and health
Ritual started in the 15th century in the final days of the Majapahit Hindu empire
Legend says ruling couple agreed sacrifice their last child if gods made them fertile

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#152 Posted : Tuesday, November 4, 2008 10:22:57 PM(UTC)
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Pope urged to admit common ground

When 138 senior Muslim scholars and clergy tried to establish the common ground between Islam and Christianity last year, they said the very peace of the world hung on the outcome.

On Tuesday, a high-ranking delegation is beginning a rare visit to Rome in an effort to persuade the Pope to endorse what they say are the shared origins and values of the world's two biggest religions.

Their letter, A Common Word, cited passages from the Koran which the scholars said showed that Christianity and Islam worship the same God, and require their respective followers to show each other particular friendship.

The document examined fundamental doctrine and stressed what it said were key similarities - such as the belief in one God and the requirement for believers to "love their neighbours as themselves".

Significantly the letter acknowledged that the Prophet Muhammad was told only the same truths that had already been revealed to Jewish and Christian prophets, including Jesus himself.


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Offline bitnet  
#153 Posted : Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:48:57 PM(UTC)
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Lies, lies, and more lies. They do not even worship the same supreme being... even the name is different. How stupid do they hope people shall become? Accept lies in the name of a false peace? For how long? No, righteous-minded people should behave rightly and firmly put Truth before religion.
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Offline Yada  
#154 Posted : Sunday, November 9, 2008 4:09:42 AM(UTC)
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From CNN:

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Monks brawl before religious ceremony

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Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks punch and kick each other
Police called to break up fight at Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
The site is believed to be where Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection occurred

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Offline Yada  
#155 Posted : Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:14:25 AM(UTC)
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Holocaust survivors to Mormons: Stop baptisms of dead Jews

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Holocaust survivors say they are through trying to negotiate with Mormon church
Church elder: Ending practice outright would be asking Mormons to alter their beliefs
Baptism by proxy allows faithful Mormons to have ancestors baptized into church
Using genealogy records, church also baptizes the dead of other religions

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Offline Yada  
#156 Posted : Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48:38 AM(UTC)
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Group's new Christmas message: Be good, not godly

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* Ads on D.C. buses say: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake"
* American Family Association reaction: "It's a stupid ad"
* Pew poll from earlier this year finds 92 percent of Americans believe in God
* Humanist spokesman says agnostics, atheists feel isolated during holidays

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Offline Yada  
#157 Posted : Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:18:19 AM(UTC)
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I sent the above article to Yada. This was his response:

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And who defines what is "good?" What if I think it is good to do something you think is bad? Who is the judge and what standard does he, she, or it deploy?

Of course, "the enlightened" are judge and jury and secular humanism is the code. Adam Wieshaupt would have it no other way.

DC is a Wieshaupt city. Always has been. Always will be.

The sad part of this is that the 92% who say there is a God don't know Him.

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Offline Yada  
#158 Posted : Friday, November 14, 2008 1:29:07 PM(UTC)
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This is an interesting headline:

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#159 Posted : Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:06:03 AM(UTC)
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WINTER RELIGION Rev. John Henry of St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Cleveland, center, reads the benediction during the Great Blessing of the Waters service on the beach at Edgewater Park in Cleveland. At right is the Rev. Vladimir Ivanov.

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#160 Posted : Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:52:07 PM(UTC)
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India arrests 2 priests, nun in 1992 killing

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* Body of nun was found in a well in southern India in 1992
* Defense counsel insists that his clients are innocent
* Arrests follow 12 previous attempts to crack the case
* Federal police took over case from state police in 1994

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#161 Posted : Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:15:12 PM(UTC)
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Pope Had `Prophecy' of Market Collapse in 1985, Tremonti Says
By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Lorenzo Totaro



Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system, a ``prophecy'' dating to a paper he wrote when he was a cardinal, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.

``The prediction that an undisciplined economy would collapse by its own rules can be found'' in an article written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became pope in April 2005, Tremonti said yesterday at Milan's Cattolica University.

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#162 Posted : Friday, November 21, 2008 10:22:55 AM(UTC)
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Sainthood probe starts for `Rosary Priest’
By Sarah Brumfield / AP

The man known as the "Rosary Priest" for his penchant to use rosary beads to say Roman Catholic prayers for even activities like riding in a car, Father Patrick Peyton is being considered for sainthood.

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#163 Posted : Friday, November 21, 2008 10:52:56 AM(UTC)
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November 20, 2008
Archaeologists sketch out Herod’s desert palace
By Michele Chabin

JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists who have analyzed artifacts discovered at Herodium, an ancient Judean palace built by King Herod, are more convinced than ever that the famed monarch was buried high atop the complex outside Jerusalem.
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Offline Yada  
#164 Posted : Sunday, November 23, 2008 4:13:36 AM(UTC)
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Here`s an interesting headline from CNN:

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Offline Yada  
#165 Posted : Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:36:47 PM(UTC)
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This is a sad story from the Religion News Service:

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Report suggests CIA covered up role in missionary death
By Steve Gunn

MUSKEGON, Mich. -- A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru that killed an American missionary and her infant child.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said the attack that killed Veronica and Charity Bowers can be traced to a reckless CIA-sponsored drug interception program that had already downed numerous other planes.

Hoekstra also said the CIA may be responsible for a widespread cover-up designed to hide embarrassing details about the Bowers' deaths and similar incidents in the skies over Peru between 1995 and 2001.

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Offline Yada  
#166 Posted : Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:58:23 PM(UTC)
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From CNN:



And, also from CNN:

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The Vatican and the Beatles 2:12
The Vatican responds to controversial comments made by John Lennon. CNN's Alessio Vinci reports.
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#167 Posted : Friday, November 28, 2008 6:57:31 PM(UTC)
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U.S.-Vatican relationship to shift under Obama White House
By Francis X. Rocca

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VATICAN CITY -- In the 24 years since the U.S. and the Holy See established full diplomatic ties, relations have never been closer or warmer than during the administration of President George W. Bush.

The two sides broke over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but Bush's personal esteem for Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and his agreement with Catholic teaching on such controversial issues as abortion, embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage, have fostered a special rapport. Bush has met a total of six times with the leader of the Catholic Church, more often than any other American president.

That relationship is bound to change in January with the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, whose support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research has drawn denunciations from a number of church leaders. Yet informed observers agree that both the Vatican and the White House have strong incentives and opportunities to avoid conflict and build on the recent history of collaboration.

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Offline Yada  
#168 Posted : Friday, November 28, 2008 7:05:05 PM(UTC)
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From The Religion News Service:

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November 26, 2008

COMMENTARY: Now thank we all our God …
By Cathleen Falsani


Whether you believe in God or not, Thanksgiving is a wonderful opportunity to hit the cosmic pause button and take stock of your blessings, or graces, or plenty. And it's also a time to build bridges, if only for the span of a dinner party.

(Cathleen Falsani is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and author of the new book "Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace.")
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#169 Posted : Friday, November 28, 2008 7:09:19 PM(UTC)
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Frpm RNS:

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Ready for Armageddon, Church Retails to the Masses
By Matthew Brown / AP

Scrambling to stay current as it reaches its 50th anniversary, the Church Universal and Triumphant has transformed itself into a New Age publishing enterprise and spiritual university. But still in the background is its "insurance" against the end _ the shelter buried beneath a hillside on the sect's 7,500 acre Royal Teton Ranch.
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#170 Posted : Friday, November 28, 2008 7:15:57 PM(UTC)
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From RNS:

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Sheng Yen
By Daniel Burke

Chinese Buddhist Master Sheng Yen has hardly led a charmed life.

As he recounts in his new memoir "Footprints in the Snow," he grew up poor in rural China, was conscripted to fight communists in the nationalist army, and lived homeless on the streets of the Bronx, N.Y.

Nonetheless, Sheng Yen, a master of Chan Buddhism (more commonly known in the West by its Japanese name "Zen") has become one of the most influential contemporary Buddhist masters, with luminaries like the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh singing his praises.

Sheng Yen answered questions by e-mail about Buddhism, meditation and politics. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity.


Q: How is meditation separate from faith?

A: When we use religious faith, we pray, and prayer has an object, such as God, who answers to our prayer. When one meditates, one collects the scattered mind and subdues it by focusing it.


Q: How did you get through the difficult times in your life?

A: There is no problem that cannot be overcome. To use our heart means to understand how we should go about carrying on. To persevere means to try again and again, and do not be worried and afraid. When I was in mountain, living alone, (I) never thought I was alone. I felt that there are many sentient beings and many bodhisattvas (enlightened beings) to help me.


Q: Is it possible to attain enlightenment without meditation?

A: It is possible. In Chinese Chan history, there are records of people who meditated for decades and did not experience enlightenment. There are also records of individuals who experienced enlightenment after hearing a few words of Chan teaching without meditation. For individuals who got enlightened without meditation, their mind is very quiet and stable in regular daily life. Some people need meditation.


Q: Is study necessary, or only meditation?

A: Thinking about intellectual matters can help us analyze issues, but it does not allow us to attain direct realization and thus cannot give rise to wisdom. Doing scholarship and engaging in diligent Chan practice should be understood as two separate things. To do scholarship is to investigate questions in books by researching and intellectual thinking. To use (meditation) is not to use the mind, but to shatter all wandering thoughts so that we can experience enlightenment. If it is just for oneself, doing scholarship is not important. To spread and explain method of Chan practice to people, scholarship is still necessary.


Q: Why do you believe that Chan could have a good influence on the West?

A: If one does not accept the method and concepts of Chan, one would have missed out on something important. It's like an essential skill in life. It is the potential of enlightenment. It's the light of wisdom manifested from our mind.


Q: Why is it better for Buddhists to not get involved in politics?

A: This has something to do with Buddhist tradition. The Buddha was a prince who left home and did not want to get involved in politics any more. Politics is necessary for worldly people. But as soon as one is involved in politics, there will be a lot of problems regarding who is right and who is wrong. As a monastic or a practitioner, one should know what one needs to know about politics, but one should not get involved. As soon as one gets involved, one will immediately be sucked into the worldly, secular environment and be tangled up with it. This will obstruct one's cultivation in the practice.


Q: You recently decided to refuse a kidney transplant. Why?

A: Since I am already 80 years old, if a kidney is transplanted to my body, at most it will be used for 20 more years. If it is transplanted to a younger person the function to be fulfilled by the kidney will be greater. Therefore I think it is wasteful to transplant a perfectly functioning kidney into my body.

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Offline bitnet  
#171 Posted : Friday, November 28, 2008 10:39:39 PM(UTC)
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Shabbat Shalom,

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(Cathleen Falsani is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and author of the new book "Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace.")


Just noticed that little blurb beneath a post on Thanksgiving. I wonder what that book really teaches... certainly a provocative title. If anyone has read it or has access to it care to post a comment, I'd appreciate it.
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#172 Posted : Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:49:54 AM(UTC)
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Shalom Bitnet,

This a book review that I found. I haven't read the book.

"Ranging from Chicago to Kenya, New Orleans to Maine, Big Sky to Graceland, [Cathleen] Falsani dons her investigative cap and scouts for grace. This religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times is a charming guide to places and people who reveal "grace when and where it happens." Eschewing technical theological definitions, Falsani opts instead to tell how she has experienced grace. And we are vicarious travelers, seeing grace -- "audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited" -- through Falsani's eyes. She marvels at the devotion of young people who crowd to the pope's funeral and at the astoundingly independent women of Asembo Bay in Kenya. She wrestles with anger at a misogynist Tanzanian tour guide and anger at God when her mother and beloved cat face cancer. We traipse along with the author and eavesdrop on her conversations, both external and internal. The result is a pastiche of images meant collectively to reveal God's grace. Though some may find the premise contrived, only a fierce cynic could fail to be drawn into Falsani's tales and candid reflections." — Publishers Weekly

Endorsements for Sin Boldly:

Here’s an utterly original, unflinchingly honest, heart-expanding treatment of my favorite topic: the grace of God. I was so captivated that I missed church while reading it—and Cathleen’s lyrical insights refreshed my soul more than any sermon could have. I won’t be the same having read it. — Lee Strobel, Author, The Case for the Real Jesus

Cathleen Falsani is an excellent writer and a wonderful storyteller. Sin Boldly combines these two gifts in inspiring and entertaining stories that remind us that grace is often as unexpected as it is undeserved. This is a book that should be read by anyone who knows they need the grace of God. — Jim Wallis, President of Sojourners and author of The Great Awakening

What makes this book about grace so different and special is that it reads like a novel. It gets the reader to FEEL grace rather than just getting a theological handle on it. — Tony Campolo, Author, Red Letter Christians
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#173 Posted : Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:49:08 PM(UTC)
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From CNN:

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Cuban President Raul Castro attends the first Catholic beatification on Cuban soil. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports
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#174 Posted : Monday, December 1, 2008 9:55:14 AM(UTC)
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bitnet wrote:
Just noticed that little blurb beneath a post on Thanksgiving. I wonder what that book really teaches... certainly a provocative title. If anyone has read it or has access to it care to post a comment, I'd appreciate it.

While I haven't read that book I did read another Christian book about grace not so long ago by Philip Yancey called What's So Amazing About Grace? It was given to me by my brother (which was a suprise because I didn't know he believed, crazy isn't it?!), I read most of the book, I ended up finding it more of a chore than a pleasure to read. It's a typical evangekical Christian mindset, which is not bad but in one spot he did mention the Law but obviously in a negative manner. It's a collection of real stories with running commentary. At the heart it is good, makes you realise the type of love, mercy and grace Yahshua showed us sinners in the face of our rebellion.

However, what I'm really trying to say is there are a lot of Christian books on the market with the word grace on the cover.

Yada, that link (First beatification in Cuba) shows the making of Obama statues in Italy.
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#175 Posted : Tuesday, December 2, 2008 6:12:53 AM(UTC)
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From the Religion News Service:

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Religion shaped 2008 in big, dramatic ways
By Kevin Eckstrom

UNDATED) Barack Obama may have chosen Joe Biden, and John McCain may have turned to Sarah Palin, but in the end the most sought-after running mate in the 2008 campaign never appeared on a single ballot.

God, it seems, couldn't be entirely wooed by either party...

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#176 Posted : Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:15:12 PM(UTC)
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#177 Posted : Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:41:31 PM(UTC)
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Shalom,

Bridget, are you speechless? ;-)
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#178 Posted : Friday, December 5, 2008 9:41:16 AM(UTC)
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#179 Posted : Friday, December 5, 2008 12:29:39 PM(UTC)
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Although, I haven't read through all 5 pages here....
it troubles me.

Do you think that, because of a religion that people cannot still know Yahweh?

I have a few 'religious' people in my life....I believe that they do know.

Maybe I should spend more time thinking before posting.....

but...couldn't it be possible that some of the people in the clergy, perhaps even a pope now n then..
does know, and is doing right by Yahweh?

or do you all condemn anybody that is...well, basically, part of an organized religion?? Is it impossible for one
of their 'sheep' to know and still carry out the 'traditions' of a church?

I wonder, because, had it not been for clerics in the Church, to begin with, I would probably have a different level of trust or hunger to scrutinize scripture.

Oh, I hope this makes sense. I realize that I'm not half as intelligent as the authors of these books, nor the commenters I've seen...so do forgive me.
ha ha...Think of me as a resting place. where work is easy.~
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#180 Posted : Friday, December 5, 2008 2:14:30 PM(UTC)
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I can't claim to speak for everybody, Bridget, but I find "religion" a mixed bag---part blessing, part curse, depending on how it's used. In the latest chapter posted in The Owner's Manual (under Precept #894) I bemoaned this duality:

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...Religion is another example: it can serve as a matrix in which like minded believers can congregate to separate themselves from the influences of the world—acting as a medium through which holiness (becoming set-apart and consecrated to Yahweh, being called out of the world) is worked out in practical terms. But it can all too easily become a substitute for the very God it is designed to honor. I recently reread John Bunyan’s classic allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. I realize it’s merely semantic nitpicking on my part, but Bunyan constantly refers to “religion” as if it’s the sum total of the Christian experience in this world. It is nothing of the sort. Rather, it is a loaded gun—an inherently dangerous but potentially useful implement that can be used to either bring home dinner or kill it’s owner. It must be handled with great care.


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#181 Posted : Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:01:17 AM(UTC)
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Shalom,

Bridget, the duality of religion -- bringing people to the knowledge of the Creator and itself being the dispenser of information, grace, forgiveness and instruction -- causes a lot of problems for people as a whole. Do religions really bring people to the Creator? Or do the proponents of religion assume the mantle of authority of the Creator? Be that as it may, many of us are fortunate to find Yahweh through religion at first. However, the very first thing that is common to all on this path is that we started to seek Him. And that also not of our own accord. We have been moved to seek Him and we began seeking Him earnestly and eventually followed this path to Him. I dare say that many have also ignored His calling. Despite all our imperfections (I know I have many) He seems to want us to come to Him and turn away from the ways of this world, the world with its many religions that purport to bring us to Him. I knew all the pieces of the puzzle could fit together in a sensible, logical way and it was after only reading KP's and Yada's books on the YY site that I was convinced of the measure of Truth contained therein as it expounded what I had learnt over the past 20 years. And like Sherlock Holmes would deduce, if it fits this one way then all others are wrong. This might seem like a sweeping statement of a bigoted individual, but really, at the end of the day it is just Him and each person. Today we are not compelled to force faith and belief upon anyone, but we are taught to reveal Truth and expose falseness. What each person does is up to them. We do not blame them nor judge them but the yardstick that we use is Scripture as is written. Traditions that conflict with Scripture have to bow out. I shall not comment on other religions but many Christians and Jews fail to understand Scripture properly and their clerics yoke its followers with unScriptural traditions, mostly in ignorance but always in "bad" faith". This is clearly the case of the blind leading the blind. And then there are those pied pipers of destruction who happily serve their master and use religion to send people to their doom. We who were called out of religion happily left it as His yoke is truly light and there is much to rejoice about no matter what our circumstance. Are the masters of religion doomed for spreading error? The Creator said that He will deal with them and both authors here have clearly warned that it is futile to go against the Creator and that the penalty is severe.
The reverence of Yahweh is the beginning of Wisdom.
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#182 Posted : Sunday, December 7, 2008 4:26:19 AM(UTC)
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From CNN:

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Employees at a Michigan music store think the face of Jesus can be seen in the wood grain of one of their guitars.
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#183 Posted : Monday, December 8, 2008 4:38:35 PM(UTC)
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By Julie O'Connor

HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. -- Waiting on the desks of about 20 freshmen enrolled in a new class at Centenary College were paper cups filled with fruit punch.

Already, a test.

Would they "drink the Kool-Aid?"

Read entire story
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#184 Posted : Tuesday, December 9, 2008 2:50:21 PM(UTC)
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From CNN:

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A funeral ceremony is held for the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.


Apparently, throughout his life, he was responsible for a lot of the tension with the RCC. Does anoyone know more about this relationship?
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#185 Posted : Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:31:42 PM(UTC)
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The caption on the photo below reads:

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FASTGROWTH CHURCH The Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Ala., which has an average attendance of more than 8,000, was named the fastest-growing church in the nation by Outreach magazine.

Religion News Service photo courtesy Church of the Highlands.
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#186 Posted : Monday, December 22, 2008 5:24:07 AM(UTC)
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From `Religion News Stories:`

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Keeping St. Nick, the man not myth, alive
By Kim Lawton

‘Tis the season of Christmas and Santa Claus, it seems, is everywhere. Children anxiously await his gift-bearing arrival, but some Christians are worried that most of those children -- and their parents -- don't know who "jolly old Saint Nicholas" really was.

"St. Nicholas was a real person. Not a fairy, not someone who's flying through the sky with reindeer, but an actual person who lived and worked and died and had a full life," said Canon Jim Rosenthal. "He had a Christian life because he was actually a bishop, a pastor."

Rosenthal, director of communications for the worldwide Anglican Communion office, is founder of the St. Nicholas Society UK/USA, an international movement urging churches to reclaim St. Nicholas...

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#187 Posted : Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:20:20 PM(UTC)
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Pope: Church must protect gender roles

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* Pope says the order of creation must be be respected
* Church's mission is to "protect the human beings against self-destruction"
* Comments were made in annual speech to church leaders


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Gay bible - Queen James Version (QJV)
http://queenjamesbible.com/
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#189 Posted : Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:39:42 AM(UTC)
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Interesting article here:
http://www.greatsite.com...-history/king-james.html

Repugnant:
King James was quoted as saying, "Monarchy is the greatest thing on earth. Kings are rightly called gods since just like God they have power of life and death over all their subjects in all things. They are accountable to God only ... so it is a crime for anyone to argue about what a king can do."
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"few modern historians cast any doubt on the King's bisexuality"......You are either straight, or gay. There's no in between...From the above quote I guess being King you can be what ever you want to be.
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An interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins on whether religion is a force for good or evil.

http://www.aljazeera.com...2012121791038231381.html
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Does the first amendment of the US give Muslims the Right to jahad or to kill the infidel ?      Freedom or Religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/...ited_States_Constitution
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#193 Posted : Friday, January 4, 2013 5:54:28 AM(UTC)
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Does the first amendment of the US give Muslims the Right to jahad or to kill the infidel ?      Freedom or Religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/...ited_States_Constitution


I'm not a big Lincoln fan but I like the way he put it. Paraphrase because I don't remember the exact wording. Your rights are like your arms you are free to extend them as far as you like until they make contact with someone else face.
Don't take my word for it, Look it up.

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#194 Posted : Friday, January 4, 2013 6:03:40 AM(UTC)
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James wrote:
I'm not a big Lincoln fan but I like the way he put it. Paraphrase because I don't remember the exact wording. Your rights are like your arms you are free to extend them as far as you like until they make contact with someone else face.


Or your neck. :)
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