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Sai Baba miracles
2008-07-22 11:48:00 Are Sai Baba’s alleged miracles what they seem or not? For a start, if one’s faith depends upon believing in miracles as performed by Sathya Sai Baba, then it will waver and fall when such miracles are explained by science or especially when they exposed as fraud. Unless one’s faith is entirely blind or one’s dependency ...
The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Legalistic Abuse: Catholic Church And Sathya Sai Organization
2008-07-18 22:54:00 Many of my readers will be quick to see certain striking parallels between, respectively, core powerholders in the Roman Catholic Church and in the International Sathya Sai Organization. In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation report, I have highlighted in red some salient points. As development continues in the Australian story about the Foster family’s years’-long fight for ...
Pope: All faiths must unite against violence
2008-07-18 12:46:00 SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion’s role in “sinister and indiscriminate” violence. Without mentioning terrorism directly, the pontiff said there were those in who were using religion “as a cause of division rather than a force for unity” in a 40-minute exchange ...
By: TexasFred's
Understanding the Land Promise: Conclusion
2008-07-17 17:47:00 Continuing from part 7…. At last, this series is coming to a close. We’ve explored an understanding of the land promise informed by NT Scripture itself. All believers are Abraham’s heirs, and they inherit the promise that he would be heir of the world (Rom. 4:13-16). Gentile believers can expect to “live long ...
Self-documented Folly of India?s Would-be God
2008-07-10 09:38:00 It is sobering to consider that Sathya Sai Baba’s influence extends into powerful corners, and his marked deficiencies reveal the worthwhileness of exposing his human rather than any divine qualities. One of the benefits of Brian Steel’s extensive examination of official Sathya Sai publications is that we can see with considerable impact the extraordinary ignorance, inconsistency ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 7
2008-07-10 02:53:00 Continuing from part 6…. I hope this post concludes my arguments, responses, and all other considerations of the matter – warning: this is a lengthy post!:) I plan to follow up with a concluding post which explains the ramifications for holding my position. Conditionality of the Land (follow up) Before I begin, let me share a passage which ...
Are religion, engineering and music connected?
2008-07-08 09:32:00 On the "what did you want to be when you grew up" post a number of correspondents have linked religion, music and engineering. But the majority also drive cars, dream and eat potatoes. This doesn't make a valid link. Engineering surely is data driven. Essentially does it work. Music appears to
Pray Or Pay
2008-07-06 15:37:00 So this is what it means to be “culturally sensitive”. Forced prayer to a God you may not believe in at school. Is this were the world is going? I wonder if this school’s ever forced Muslim children to pray to Jesus Christ?
Sathya Sai Baba Bans But Permits Foot Touching
2008-07-04 23:42:00 At the Bal Vikas conference in Prashanti Nilayam in 2001, after sixty years of offering what he deems to be his Holy Feet to be touched, Sathya SaiBaba declared that he was not going to allow padnamaskaar to anyone anymore. This is reported on an official Sathya Sai Organization web page at http://www.saibaba.org.hk/step6-.htm). As is ...
The Religion of Stuff
2008-07-02 03:03:00 This is apparently a new video of Dr. James Hansen, discussing climate change, politics, energy and China. What causes climate change is not today’s emmissions, it’s today atmospheric composition, and we are primarily responsble for the excess C02 in the atmosphere, more the 3 times more then China, per capita basis, more then an order of ...
After Leaving A Cult. Or ?Moving On?
2008-07-02 01:47:00 It is a very great untruth put out by Sathya Sai Baba’s key leaders and by his proxy supporters on the Internet that former devotees are now something other than what they, for many decades, were - decent, compassionate, hardworking members of their professions and trades in their wider communities. See Sathya Sai Baba ...
A New Song for the Nations
2008-07-01 18:37:00 My pastor, John Piper, made some interesting comments on the concept of a “new song” in this week’s sermon. He made an important observation of how Ps. 96, which is a missions psalm, is also very much concerned with singing. I was encouraged as he shared how the global church is having a ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 6
2008-06-29 00:10:00 As is frequently the case, when publishing a series of posts on my blog, I encounter a lot of comments and counterpoints. This can sidetrack me and lead toward my leaving a series unfinished. Of course there are other reasons for my nack for leaving series unfinished…. I do want to interact with some of ...
Sathya Sai Baba World Cult At Odds With Itself
2008-06-28 10:01:00 One of the distinctive phenomena that independently confirm voices critical of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult is that his movement is eroding from within. Sathya Sai Cult At Odds With Itself Some of his followers have made progress in thinking their way out of this particular variety of ‘the guru trap’. They do not have to ...
Muck-rakers and The Timid Who Enable Them
2008-06-25 17:33:00 I was browsing through Pete Hammell’s book ‘Why Sinatra Matters’, and read the following. For all its nastiness, it is but a mild example of the level of mentality that would target dissidents. Not only, of course, that aimed at those who have spoken out about Sathya Sai Baba and the core leaders in the ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Excursus
2008-06-24 14:31:00 Before continuing with a couple points related more directly to the land promise, and then going on to finish this series, I thought it would be good to address an important side issue. In the comments of part 5, it was again stated that I am wrong for going backward from the New Testament ...
Reason Is A Religion?
2008-06-24 12:51:00 …with none of the defining characteristics of a religion. It is because Vox Day says so in Chapter 4, entitled “The Religion of Reason.” Aside from the humorous comparison between an atheist politician and a “toothless, illiterate, homosexual Afro-Hispanic crack whore with a peg-leg,” his opening salvo misses the point when he adds in the footnote that “it appears that telling people how evil and stupid they are may not be the best way of convincing them….” (p. 61) The reason that atheists are distrusted and, in some cases, despised is not because of intellectual elitism and snobbery—it’s because atheism has been caricatured and stigmatized as a pseudo-Satanic cult in most popular media. It is still not socially acceptable to be as open with one’s non-belief as those who believe are. Walking or driving around with merchandise that announces one’s lack of superstitious belief still draws glares or snide remarks...
?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues
2008-06-22 21:10:00 Although there is a long history of Sathya Sai Baba’s utterances which forbid promoting of himself, his official worldwide Sathya Sai Organization promotes strongly, at his, of course, secret behest. This zeal to recruit (to use the proper word) tends to take place in exceptionally prestigious venues. What does the cult need for its survival - ...
Approach to an Unknown God: Religion collapses back into Mysticism | Sanctu
2008-06-21 11:40:00 1.Eli, Eli,lama sabachthani?- Jesus Christ at the Cross at ninth hour, Matthew 27:46My God, My God, why have You veiled YourSelf (from me)?- a mystical interpretation of mysticsaint2.In the end, religion collapses back into mysticism as it recognizes that after we have said all we can say about God, we are still surrounded by an imprenetrable silence. Thomas Aquinas devoted his most rigorous thinking to trying to establish how we could speak about God based on analogies taken from human experiences.But after our minds have erected the ladder of analogy as high as possible toward God, he concludes, "we remained joined to Him as to One Unknown." Augustine, after writing endless words trying to explain the Trinity, admitted in the end, "I only write in order not to be silent."Mysticism counsels us to follow the via negativa, to honor the infinite distance that separate the finite and the infinite, to live within "the clouds of the unknowing" (Jacob Boehme), to respect the silence of th...
A Strong India Can Bless The World
2008-06-20 20:07:00 In my years in India, I saw at close hand the work of one talented and highly motivated Indian group with which I did volunteer social work, attaining that deep wish fired ever since I was 16, when I became deeply inspired by the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The founder of the work (who sought no ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 5 (Answering Objections)
2008-06-20 14:00:00 –continuing from part 4. I thought that the fifth post would be the last, but Will Dudding brought up some objections in the comments of the last post. This has caused me to dig a little deeper, and in the end has only increased my confidence in this understanding of the land promise. So ...
Can Fundamentalists fellowship with Mark Dever?
2008-06-18 13:53:00 I’ve been distracted from my current series by some blog discussions regarding Mark Dever and fundamentalism. (I plan to bring my next post in the Land series tomorrow, Lord willing). Mark Dever recently interviewed Mark Minnick, who teaches at BJU and pastors in Greenville. I haven’t listened to the interview yet, but I ...
Shirdi Sai Saint?s Fame Spirited By Puttaparthi
2008-06-17 20:15:00 Below is the image of the famous saint, Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), of the North Indian State of Maharashtra. His repute has endured untainted by the sort of scandals that have for decades beset Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi. A Saint of Great Renunciation and Humility Today, the shrine built around the humble musjid (a Muslim ...
Madonna Turns to Religion for Marriage Therapy
2008-06-16 14:17:00 Madonna has decided that the only thing that will help her and hubby Guy Ritchie solve their marriage powers is a higher power. Things between her and Guy have gotten very bad and the two aren’t even speaking. This may make it a bit difficult when Kabbalist Rav Berg comes to help them along the ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 4
2008-06-11 13:48:00 –continuing from part 3. Here is a fourth, and most definitive basis for “spiritualizing” the land promise…. 4) The connection between land and rest To start, read these verses in Hebrews 4. Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For ...
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 3
2008-06-10 13:00:00 –continuing from part 2. Justification for “Spiritualizing” the Land Promise Whenever one starts talking of “spiritualizing” a text, various wrong-headed assumptions abound. Dispensationalists often use this charge to show our disregard for the Biblical text. And sometimes, any honest effort to show metaphorical language in Scripture is met with suspicion — oh so you are ...
Mystery Of Two Nuns, Convent, Man And Pope Benedict
2008-06-10 09:42:00 A mystery is catching the attention of Romans as two nuns have chained themselves in front of the Vatican and appealed to Pope Benedict XV to grant them permission to return to a convent from which they were expelled. Dressed in Camelite habits, the two nuns say they have been thrown out of a convent ...
13 illuminati bloodlines & mind control: Part 5
2008-06-09 21:29:00 Really brilliant work!The credibility this man brings to the mainstream needs to be heard.
Baha?i Threatened In Iran
2008-06-09 09:29:00 Lost in discussions about Iran is any concern about the situation of the Baha’i sect which has many members in that nation. The Baha’i faith is viewed by Iranian officials as a heretical offshoot of the Muslim religion and since its inception during the 19th century its members have been persecuted and imprisoned. After the ...
Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (2008) [Deluxe Version]
2008-06-09 05:15:00 Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (2008) [Deluxe Version]01. 52 Seconds 00:5802. Heroes and Martyrs 01:2603. Germs of Perfection 01:2804. New Dark Ages 02:4805. Requiem for Dissent 02:0806. Before You Die 02:3507. Honest Goodbye 02:5208. Dearly Beloved 02:2009. Grains of Wrath 03:0110. Murder 01:1911. Scrutiny 02:3712. Prodigal Son 03:0813. The Grand Delusion 02:1114. Lost Pilgrim 02:2815. Submission Complete 03:4116. Fields of Mars 03:3817. Wont Somebody (Acoustic Version) 03:0818. Adams Atoms (Acoustic Version) 02:3719. Sorrow (Acoustic Version) 03:1220. God Song (Acoustic Version) 02:4021. Dearly Beloved (Acoustic Version) 02:3722. Chronophobia (Acoustic Version) 01:5623. Skyscraper (Acoustic Version) 03:00http://www.megaupload.com/-?d=8JYZ3LRXMIRRORhttp://rapidsh-are.com/files/119775282/Bad_Rel-igion--New_Maps_of_Hell-_Deluxe-_Edition_-2008-UBE.rar
RELIGION vs. SCIENCE -- a familiar story?
2008-06-08 10:59:00 By Tom CI really love this website! - many thanks to everyone here for not suffering in silence and reminding me how un-alone I am as an ex-Xtian. Having eagerly digested lots of the juicy philosophical debate on exchristian.net, I feel compelled to contribute some thoughts that may be relevant for some to a couple of the more popular topics here on site.Disclaimer: I have to admit that personally I feel quite strongly about some of these things, and my enthusiasm may come through in a slightly assertive writing style at times, but let me assure you I'm not trying to convert anyone (and if I do convert someone they've seriously missed the point!) These are just thoughts, intended to inspire thoughts, and any implications of value judgments are for the most part unintentional, but left in to keep things interesting and to preserve the original flow of said thoughts.Just see what -you- think...***I II IIII. Having only just left the relative comforts of blind faith in one thing, it ...
By: ExChristian.net
Religion, royalty, and sex - Teacher Students Jokes
2008-06-08 08:59:00 Religion, royalty, and sex A class of students were asked to write a story that would include sex, royalty and religion, i.e. all the ingredients for a best seller. One student got an A with just one sentence: "Oh my God", said the queen, "I'm pregnant again!" --- Teacher Students Jokes TEACHER: Why are you late? WEBSTER: Because of the sign. TEACHER: What sign? WEBSTER: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow." --- SILVIA: Dad, can you write in the dark? FATHER: I think so. What do you want me to write? SYLVIA: Your name on this report card. --- Teacher : What a pair of strange socks you are wearing, one is green and one is blue with red spots! Kirk : Yes it's really strange. I've got another pair of the same at home. --- Teacher: What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested? Pupil : A teacher. --- --- Love Stories from allCities and countriesAto Z ---<--{(@ Visit Sweden my be...
Attempts to Con Jewish Voters About Obama
2008-06-07 22:43:00 Although Jewish voters represent only a very small percent of the population, there certainly seems to be considerable effort to scare Jewish voters away from voting for Obama. Yesterday I noted the attempts of the Clinton campaign to use race to create a wedge with Jewish voters. There was another report yesterday from Christopher Hayes ...
By: Liberal Values
Turkey Divides Over Headscarf Decision
2008-06-07 14:39:00 The Turkish nation is still divided over the issue of should women be allowed to wear a headscarf while attending university classes. The Constitutional Court has ruled wearing a headscarf in universities violates the secular spirit of the Constitution. The ruling Justice and Development Party undoubtedly made a serious mistake by not working harder prior ...
Day 5 in the Diary Room
2008-06-07 00:23:00 A couple of weeks ago I wrote with a heavy heart. But today I am different, I have moved on: I am on day 5 of my healthy regime programme. And it’s thanks to folks like you who brought encouragement to my life by sending through your comments to me. There are days when my stomach ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Patsy?s Razor: Remember, It?s Only a Model
2008-06-06 21:17:00 When I was a young boy my father used to take me to the Smithsonian at least a couple of times a year. We always avoided the art museums and spent most our time roaming the science halls. I remember a large model of an atom hanging from one of the ceilings, just like ...
By: Sharp Iron
We must share and seek the forgiveness of the poor
2008-06-06 02:34:00 A Saint and Compassion Fatigue … There is a story told about St. Vincent de Paul. Perhaps it’s partly myth, but its challenge is real nonetheless. Vincent once gave an instruction to his religious community that sounded something like this: “When the demands of life seem unfair to you, when you are exhausted and have to pull ...
By: Templar Globe
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Preparing For The Rapture
2008-06-05 19:06:00 Wired reports on how the internet helps true believers prepare for the rapture. One offer sounds a bit silly but harmless to those willing to throw away $40 per year: For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day ...
By: Liberal Values
I?ve Converted To EVERY Religion
2008-06-05 15:49:00 I’ve converted to EVERY religion (just in case) We all know the “Pascal’s Wager” argument a lot of Christians use to convince people to believe in God. Well this dude explains the falacy in that, since, if you believe in the WRONG god, you only make the “real god” madder and madder every time you ...
By: ZA Vibes
Headscarf War Continues Raging In Turkey
2008-06-05 14:46:00 Turkey’s Constitutional Court will announce in the coming days its decision on a case regarding the right of Muslim women to wear a headscarf while attending a university. The opposition Republican People’s Partty has urged the court to rule against such a right on grounds to do so violates Turkey’s secular concept of government. The ...
Is It Illegal For A Woman Not To Be A Virgin?
2008-06-05 14:25:00 A case in which a bride had her marriage annulled on grounds that she was not a virgin on the night that she and her new husband consumated their coming together has rocked the French nation causing an explosion of anger among women. The new husband went to court to have the marriage annulled when ...
Obama Receiving Jewish Support, Along With ?Unendorsement? From Hamas
2008-06-05 03:56:00 Sometimes an unendorsement helps more than an endorsement. In April, Ahmed Yousef, an advisor to Hamas, made some favorable comments about Obama in an interview. This was spun by conservatives as meaning that Hamas had endorsed Obama. If so, today he received the unendorsement after speaking before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Reuters ...
By: Liberal Values
Sydney Uni purchases Knights Templar archive
2008-06-05 02:01:00 Sydney University has bought Australia’s only copy of reproduction manuscripts of the 14th century trials of the Knights Templar that rehabilitated the order. The University of Sydney has purchased a $10,000 reproduction of a document that rehabilitates the medieval Christian military order, the university press service reports. The Knights, recognisable by the white robes with a red ...
By: Templar Globe
?Fair and Balanced? Teaching on Evolution
2008-06-05 00:51:00 We’ve already seen the religious right turn to intelligent design when their attempts to teach creationism in the schools was shot down. With this tactic not working, The New York Times reports they have come up with a new strategy: Starting this summer, the state education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and ...
By: Liberal Values
Understanding the Land Promise: Part 2
2008-06-04 15:42:00 –continuing from yesterday’s post. The Land Promise Fulfilled? But was the actual promise fulfilled? Were the boundaries of the land promised in Gen. 15:18-21 ever completely owned by Israel? The dispensationalists say no, and they point to history and the Biblical record of what land Israel possessed. The Philistines and other groups remained in the land such ...
?Just Around The River Bend??
2008-06-04 13:20:00 I can feel it–the anticipation is in the air. Good changes are coming my way. You’ve heard the saying “it’s darkest just before the dawn?” Well, my last post was about my most recent wilderness experience, and how I’ve been wandering around confused (with this heavy, dark cloud hanging over my ...
By: Daily Provision
Sunnah Series pt 6 - Innovation in Religion Fire Misguidance Bidah
2008-06-04 03:08:00 What does it mean to abandon the Sunnah?When you introduce something new into the religion of Islam, you are losing something from the tradition authentic Sunnah.Hassan ibn 'Atiyyah, rahimahullaah, said,"A people never introduce an innovation into their Religion except that Allaah takes away its like from their Sunnah and then does not restore it to them until the Day of Resurrection." (Reported by ad-Daarimee) The Sunnah Series - Point 6 “Know that the people never introduce an innovation until they abandon its like from the Sunnah. So, beware of newly invented matters, since every newly invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is misguidance and misguidance and its people are in the Fire.” Traditional Creed Way Path of the Prophet Muhammad.(peace and blessing be upon him) This Video blog Series will go through the book of Imam Al Barbahaari.The Sunnah - Explanation of the Creed "Al-Barbaharee was a Sunni Islamic theologian from Iraq. In the midst of g...
By: Hot Conflict
Chicago cardinal asks Rev. Pfleger to step down
2008-06-04 00:51:00 CHICAGO (AP) - Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to ??reflect on his recent statements? regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House. Last week, the Rev. Michael Pfleger mocked Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama??s former church, saying the New York senator felt ...
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