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No happy new year for Samy and Bernadette
2011-12-31 08:09:00 While many of us are looking forward to a long New Year weekend holiday, for people like Samy and Bernadette, there is little to celebrate. Samy, like many other private security guards, works 12-hour shifts everyday without a rest day. On New Year, he will be at his post again from 7.00am to 7.00pm. He [Read more]
By: anilnetto.com
Christianity, Karma and the Culture of Prosperity
2011-08-07 03:31:00 Jacob Riis, Children sleeping in Mulberry Street (1890) In medieval times, the knight considered himself a holy warrior fighting in the name of God. He would justify not only the means of violence and brutal slayings of the so-called infidels, he also strongly believed that God was on his side. Such belief systems that God will be on the side of the victor and punish the opponent was widely held in those times. When there was a duel or battle between knights, it was said that the one favored would gain victory by divine will and right. The outcome would often be a form of justice and restoration of order ordained by God. Constantine, for example, attributed his victory to the divine aid and interference of the Christian God and, as a result, embraced and promoted Christianity for his kingdom. Nowadays, many people tend to judge result and outcome on similar criteria. It is based on the simplified karmic belief that if you do good, you will have positive results but those who do b...
By: Arash's World
Brian Steel Exposes Sathya Sai Baba On Glaring Historical Mistakes
2011-04-27 07:19:00 Select writings from Brian Steel?s Extensive Opus. Sathya Sai Baba can be documented by any conscientious reader as having made contradictory statements and egregious historical and scientific blunders. These include his remarks on Jesus Christ and Martin Luther . For Steel?s detailed and sharply contextualized discussion, see: Sai Baba and Christianity. Some Observations (2002). Steel remarks here ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s premature death?
2011-04-21 10:01:00 One of my Indian informants just wrote:- There are very strong , but unofficial and unconfirmed reports that Sai Baba died at 3.30pm yesterday India time ( wednesday…20th April )…most tv channels are reporting Sai Baba as “extremely critical”, and as ” all organs failed” and today morning’s medical bulletin has dropped the word “stable” ...
Observations Regarding Christianity & Fantasy
2011-01-19 01:06:00 If Christians are to avoid altogether books such as “The Lord Of The Rings” and “The Chronicles Of Narnia” because these stories contain wizards and witches, by definition does that prohibition also include the Bible since it too mentions witches and the like? Like the Bible, don’t these works warn that what we categorize as magic ...
Christmas past ? Sathya Sai and Christianity
2010-12-30 22:17:00 In Sathya Sai Baba?s Christmas Discourse, 1996, he made preposterous statements about Christianity and Islam preceding the time of Christ by 350 years… and more of that sort. All the most embarrassing statements were omitted by astute editor V. K. Narasimhan from the official journal Sanathana Sarathi, nor was it printed in the official version ...
Faith Schools ? Sathya Sai Baba ?Educare?
2010-12-16 15:43:00 Sathya Sai Baba schools – his so-called ‘Educare’ institutions figure among the many ‘faith schools’ which have increasingly been adopted in many Western democracies. These ideas have even been partly included in the British educational system, despite the guru being under the shadow of many accusations of crimes and deceptions. Several of his schools have ...
Tweets to Ponder
2010-10-08 16:24:00 I haven’t share these in a while. Thought it would be a good thing to do today. I don’t know how many of my readers are on twitter but I wanted to share some of my favorite tweets from recent days. Now, there are things that I HATE about twitter, especially when people are to ...
Baby Shower Via the USPS
2010-10-04 16:38:00 Image by Premier Packaging via Flickr I am not sure about the exact details of how this all came about. But there is a lady that my hubby has conversed with while over in Afghanistan. She runs a support the troops group. Most of the ladies in her circle are from Washington State plus a ...
Institutional Sex Corruption: Plight of Roman Catholic Church and Sathya Sa
2010-09-19 01:00:00 In the face of far too powerful, worldwide exposure of endemic Roman Catholic Church corruption, Pope Benedict XVI has called for reconciliation. Only at this chronically late hour, and in the face of terrible and universal threat to his institution's survival, does he begin to treat sexual abuse as a reportable crime, and make apologies, and require his officials to take meaningful actions against the sexual abuse that the world now nows is rampant in his Church. It is the year 2010 and yet official communiques coming from the Vatican and other official sections of the Roman Catholic Church almost make it sound as though decades of sexual abuse complaints involving priests all over the world were something new. There may be contrite tears now, and official cries for reconciliation. But where were these down the decades of victims' anguish? The Sathya Sai Organization still has not come to this point. It too has lain low. It too has turned a hard heart of the cries of individua...
Priest Abuse. Long-denied Justice Catching Up In Australia
2010-05-17 22:13:00 The gradual, but terribly long-delayed victory of those activists who have spoken out about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is happening. Unfortunately, organizations which also have long histories of perpetuating cover up frequently evade scrutiny. The Sathya Sai Organization, with its immense wealth and international outreach, is but one of many. I commend this material from our national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I have excerpted this article of last night, which is accompanied by video footage. No percipient reader in the world can now doubt that the Vatican is enaged in massive efforts at damage control. It cannot now of course deny its incredibly appalling record. The notion of 'coming clean' - which in certain respects the Roman Catholic Church is beginning to do - becomes the more strange when one considers that the dirt an the hiding of the dirt have been endemic for so long. In this light, the notion that we now live in 2010 becom...
Sarah Palin To Bill O?Reilly: We Must Criminalize Working On Sundays; Women
2010-05-08 03:08:00 Sarah “Barracuda” Palin In O’reilly Interview Says All Of Our Laws Should Come Directly From Christian Bible And Ten Commandments That’s right, The Barracuda is at it again — this time telling O’Reilly our Founding Fathers had meant for all of our laws to come... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
The Trouble With Christianity (in the USA)
2010-04-27 13:07:00 “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” -Brennan Manning This quote has stuck with me since I first heard it on DC Talk’s Jesus Freak CD. Couple that with St. Francis of Assisi’s famous line, “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words,” and I think you have a pretty good explanation as to why Christianity is ...
By: Trying to Follow
SaBoy Scouts of America ? Sex Abuse Revelations. Who Next?
2010-03-30 23:31:00 Now the Boy Scouts o America is under scrutiny for its practices in dealing - and not dealing - with the sexual abuse issue. In recent articles at 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba', I have been pointing to cases in other areas which have, in many cases, taken years of persistent activism by those who have exposed appalling levels of cover up by powerful institutions. Typically found throughout all these institutions are the themes of psychological denial by the generality of followers and deliberate denial by those authorities who know the facts and go to great lengths to hide them. The amount of denigration, name-calling, distortion of what is being said, shunning, libel and defamation of those who have stood forth to reveal the facts, are also typical. They fly completely in the face of the professed ethical and spiritual teachings of those instituitions, which in many cases are unexceptionable.
Roman Catholics? Deep Concern At Pope?s Apology. But He Is Way Ahead Of Ind
2010-03-23 04:57:00 It is enormously instructive to watch the unfolding saga of papal apology for clergy sexual abuse. Large numbers of both Roman Catholics and others round the world have expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Pope's apology. They say that it goes nowhere far enough, and does not address acute issues of crime and punishment.
The concept of God and evil are incompatible
2010-03-23 01:57:00 The age old question: Is the concept of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God compatible with evil? It has been debated amongst theists and atheists for centuries. I have been participating in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The {e}Atheist
Fox News Pundit Glenn Beck Advises His FNC Viewers To Quit Going To Baptist
2010-03-13 01:55:00 Beck: Economic And Social Justice Are Anti-Christian And Godless Principles (code words for “Communism“) The God-Fearing Need To Run Away From… I’m a Glenn Beck fan — there, I said it. Not because I agree with the man’s politics, not because I’m convinced... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Handful Of G.O.P. Congressmen, World Net Daily© Staffers, Religious Right M
2010-03-05 02:16:00 WND: May Day: a Cry to God for Our Nation in Distress Event To Take Place On (Of Course) “May Day”, 2010… Here we go again — leave it to our lovable, goofy buddies over at WorldNetDaily© and Dr. James Dobson to come up with an “America Is Cursed By God” rally on... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Celtic Christianity revisited
2010-02-24 22:52:00 The second in a series of 2010 Lent blogs from Willard Roth focusing on places of particular spiritual intensity and interest across Britain and Ireland. read more
By: Ekklesia
Response to Rae
2010-02-11 20:03:00 I recently received a comment from a Christian reader named Rae. The comment was in response to my creationism refuted post. Rae's comments seem summarize a very typical response to scientist's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The {e}Atheist
Misrepresenting equality... and Christianity
2010-01-25 06:02:00 With some bishops and hardline campaigning groups up in arms about the Equality Bill, you might think that Christianity per se had some basic problem with equality and social justice. read more
By: Ekklesia
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Hearts Yearning
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According to Rich Jesus, Christianity is not a call to poverty
2009-12-01 03:11:00 My favorite part of the website for Rich Jesus is the notion that Christians believe they are supposed to be poor. Really? You don’t say…
Ireland Acts On Clergy Sexual Abuse. India Does Not Act On Sathya Sai Baba
2009-11-27 00:37:00 My readers may well have a keen sense of déjà vu as they read the piece on Ireland. Inescapably one thinks of Sathya Sai Baba, his key officials in the international Sathya Sai Organization and successive local, state and central governments in India. All have have profoundly covered up in regard to both allegations of Sai Baba's (and some of his servitors') longtime, serial sexual abuse of boys and young men, and many other gravely serious wrongdoings. Ireland's Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, appears determined to act strongly. The Guardian reports, "Ahern said there should be no hiding place for the abusers even if they wore a clerical collar. "The persons who committed these dreadful crimes ? no matter when they happened ? will continue to be pursued" "Even if they wore a clerical collar"?!
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Crackhouse walkthrough courtesy of Rationality Now!
2009-09-22 04:51:00 Rationality Now posted a 6 part thorough walkthr-ough of Ken Ham's stupid crackhouse (creation "museum") plus additional reviews of some really stupid movies and shows being put on at the crackhouse such as "Men in White [Straight Jackets]" "Micro[scum]ium" and The creationists' answer to The Passion of the Christ with all the blood and gore being fully shown explicitly in front of children despite the crackhouse claims of being "a family friendly place." Although Dan Gilbert, who is the author of the article, admits the museum is impressively clean and well built with finely detailed displays and exhibits (I don't think so!), he does acknowledged that what they show is completely all wrong and stupid. And that's exactly what all the exhibits are! Stupid. Wrong. Hypocritical. All made up to vacuum up money from the lay person's pocketbooks and pour a huge cesspool of garbage into the minds of especially children with stupid lies, false forms of Christianity, outr...
[the naked gospel] part 1: obsessive-Christianity disorder
2009-09-08 14:00:00 by Ken Leonard First of all, I’d like to thank Dan King at BibleDude.net for including me in this group writing project. Second, I’d like to make it clear that I did receive a free copy of this book for participating. The book is The Naked Gospel by Andrew Farley. This is a book about taking the ...
By: BibleDude.net
Goodbye TNIV, Hello 2011 Updated NIV
2009-09-02 19:44:00 Yesterday, Zondervan Publishing House and Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society) announced plans to revise the NIV in 2011 and discontinue the controversial TNIV. Many conservative evangelicals, and groups like the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) openly opposed the gender neutral translation choices of the TNIV. So to hear this coming from Zondervan ...
Back from punching bags
2009-08-30 03:00:00 After an all fun day of punching bags, it's great to unwind for the evening and blog about what I have in mind and what's going on in the world of the science blogosphere. Although the latest posts are part of the latest Bulletproof Harpist fanfic I'm working on, this site will still focus on debunking creationist idiocy on dinosaurs and exposing the ways creationists will do everything to push their lying idiocy down the throats of others. Take a look at this example and you'll see how it's not right to even shovel *#*% down the throats of foreign exchange students.From PZ's site - The second matter AiG brings up is something of a sore point with me. They don't like Dawkins' recent article, "Creationists, Now They're Coming for Your Children". The nonsense in the AiG article is just more of the same ol' babble, and I suspect it was written by Jason Lisle, because it simply repeats their mantra of 'same evidence, different interpretations'. They take exception to Dawkins...
Those Five New Points of Calvinism
2009-08-26 18:23:00 Almost everyone reading my blog is familiar with the acrostic TULIP as standing for the five points of Calvinism. Probably most of you know what each point stands for: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints. Then the number goes down as to who knows what each point means. I ...
Marriage and the Family Foundations: Part 2, Denmark & Spain.
2009-08-21 15:50:00 A continuation of yesterdays facebook conversation with a good Danish friend of mine. He’s a seminary student at a Lutheran Evangelical seminary in Denmark, and overall a good guy. Here is the exchange: Søren Wow. This is as long as some of the comments I made on my brothers status sometimes. I agree with you on most of ...
Marriage, Family Foundations, and De-Constructionism Exchange.
2009-08-21 06:37:00 Short facebook exchange. Thought I’d put it up here for future personal reference. If it may have the additional benefit of helping you with the important question of what is marriage, then I will consider it an additional blessing. Short discussion regarding the De-Construction of Marriage by militant feminist and homosexual ideologies. Leonard Goenaga just got out ...
Facebook e-Evangelism? Sure.
2009-08-19 20:15:00 Below is a copy of a conversation upon Shany Wong’s facebook status, involving an exchange of ideas amongst myself and two individuals. Posts were arranged to reflect the timeline of responses. Enjoy, and God’s Blessings, as well as to keep them in your prayers. All for His glory: Shany Wong Faith > Reason Steven Guarin its sayings like these ...
Parents, Teachers, Talk to your children!
2009-08-19 04:34:00 There is a strong dire need for all parents and teachers to talk to their children about what Ham and his crackhouse does to everyone's minds and how will they brainwash them into following their dogma that will delude them into never telling dinosaur from dragon, shun out historical facts that speak of atrocities committed even by Christians themselves before Darwin has ever learned how to write let alone was ever born, and calling lie, "truth" and truth, "lie." Not saying anything about it will increase their vulnerability towards this kind of dangerous dogma. I refuse to marry and have children because I would be a bad mother, a bad wife, and land in situations I would not like being in if I do choose to do these things. But I feel for families everywhere nonetheless who will have to deal with this kind of thing every time they go to church, every time they watch TV, every time they travel down the road, and every time they surf the web. Punch up words like "dinosaur," "dating ...
Part 2: Crossan on the Meaning of Christ?s Sacrifice
2009-08-06 18:16:00 The following is excerpted from John Domonic Crossan?s book, ?God and Empire?: “THE MEANING OF SACRIFICE” Apart from narrativity, let alone historicity, there is the deeper question of the theology within which Jesus’s execution is understood then and now by Christian believers. For The Passion of the Christ and millions of Christians, it was a theology of ...
By: Sharp Iron
The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John by Larry Helyer ? A Review
2009-08-06 07:28:00 Author: Larry Helyer Publisher: IVP Format: Hardcover Pages: 432 ISBN: 9780830828883 Stars: 4 of 5 My thanks go out to IVP Academic for supplying me with a review copy of this book. When I received The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John: An Exploration in Biblical Theology by Larry Helyer, I noticed the book looked like a college or seminary ...
Christianity: Made in USA
2009-07-24 01:15:00 Here we go yet again. At the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing the Christian right does it again. The moment we thought that Creationism has almost lost the war, they have a come-back. It seems that you cannot just get rid of those morons, just like we will never be able to completely eradicate bugs. read more
By: What the FAK
Bob?s Book Blurbs: Jesus 365, A Devotional ? Compiled by Ed Stewart
2009-07-23 16:08:00 In the second century after Christ, the Diatessaron was a popular Christian book which took the four Gospels and combined them into one single story of Christ. This year, I’ve been reading a fascinating devotional book based on the same principle, Jesus 365, A Devotional: Experiencing the Four Gospels as One Single Story compiled by ...
Shameful Revelation
2009-07-23 15:36:00 Thank God, I will get a view of the Battle of Armageddon from the grand stand seats of the heavens. All who are born again will see the battle of Armageddon, but it will be from the skies (Carl McIntire, 1965) What then should be the believer’s attitude to the destruction of the world by fire? ...
By: Sharp Iron
Aliens & Atheist Absurdity
2009-07-21 16:08:00 My wife and I rented Knowing, a newly released (on DVD) movie with Nicolas Cage in it. I have to admit I love end-of-the-world, science fiction movies. Some of my favorites are Deep Impact, Independence Day and Core. There is a scene in Knowing, where the professor character that Cage plays, explains two competing views of ...
The Gospels and Anti-Semitism
2009-07-21 00:15:00 In his book, ?God and Empire?, John Dominic Crossan makes a good case for the claims that the popular portrayals of Jesus’ passion is at the root of anti-Semitism: The residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have staged a Passion Play every decade on the decade and also on special anniversaries in gratitude for protection ...
By: Sharp Iron
Jesus? Radical View of Divorce
2009-07-17 19:10:00 Next to homosexuality the issue that seems to be most contentious for the Christian church is that of divorce. I?ve heard people say, when arguing for Christian tolerance of gays, that in the Bible Jesus never spoke out against homosexuality but he did specifically condemn divorce, a practice widely accepted within (if not a prime ...
By: Sharp Iron
30 Days to A Praying Life
2009-07-14 16:13:00 I just finished Paul Miller’s A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Disconnected World. I have to say it was the best book I’ve read in a long while, both from the standpoint of a well written work, and a book that hits close to home. I’ve never been more challenged, convicted and at ... |
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