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One of the many gods and goddesses the ancient Aztecs of Mexico worshipped was Cihuacoatl. Her temple was dedicated to soldiers and mothers who died in childbirth, which makes sense — both are warriors, in their own way. While the world’s most common religions tend to get most of the media’s attention (often for political or even violent reasons), the diversity and creativity of human spirituality is incredibly challenging to suppress. Our beliefs form our identities; therefore, we hang on tenaciously.

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Minister Farrakhan Addresses President Obama’s Stance for “Same Sex Marriage”
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The CEO's Blog And it’s about time a righteous man of God addressed this issue. I was waiting and waiting for those “so-called men of God” with national platforms to denounce and condemn the President’s unrighteous stance on “same-sex marriage” and not one of them did until now. The honorable minister Louis Farrakhan made some very strong points when he said the following three facts: 1. Why do politicians take the oath of office on a Bible but then don’t uphold its principles. 2. God did not put lust in a man’s heart for another man that he’s suppose to have for a woman. and 3…This might be a new day and new time but God change not!!!! “I am the LORD, I change not.” Malachi 3:6. God is unchangeable. God’s word is unchangeable too. Hot diggadie dog that man know he preached!!! Minister Farrakhan used the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah as recorded in Genesis chapters 18-19. Genesis chapter 18 records the Lord and two

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Another snake handler goes home to Jesus
Why Evolution Is True

This lunacy is still going on in America! According to yesterday’s Washington Post, yet another snake-handler has bit the dust—or rather gone back to dust via a bite: Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a “homecoming like the old days,” full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a “great time.” But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw. Instead, Wolford, who turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he owned for years. He died late Sunday. Here’s a photo from the accompanying slideshow of snake handlers and Pentecostal worship: Pastor Randy “Mack” Wolford handles a rattlesnake during a service at the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, W.Va. Each Labor Day weekend, the church has hosted a well-documented “homecomin

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Christians Teaching Bigotry, Hatred, and Murder To Children in Public Schools–Your Children
Grumpy Lion

In after-school ‘religious clubs’ Christian evangelists are teaching children how to be good little killers of unbelievers. Literally. No metaphor, no figurative intent. From an article in Daily Kos: Paraphrasing the Old Testament scripture I Samuel 15:2-3, the Child Evangelism Fellowship’s new lesson plan teaches, "You are to go and completely destroy the Amalekites (AM-uh-leck-ites) – people, animals, every living thing. Nothing shall be left." The manual then instructs the teacher to tell students, "That was pretty clear, wasn’t it?" Stewart continues, "Even more important, the Good News Club wants the children to know, the Amalakites were targeted for destruction on account of their religion, or lack of it. The instruction manual reads: "The Amalekites had heard about Israel’s true and living God many years before, but they refused to believe in him. The Amalekites refused to believe in God and God had promised punishment." The i

Pacifism in rural Hertfordshire
Symon Hill

Rural Hertfordshire is not known as a hotbed of radicalism. I was surprised – but pleased – to be asked to give a talk about pacifism in the village of Ayot St Lawrence this week. As I arrived there, I encountered a village that looked both affluent and physically remote. I instinctively started to make assumptions about the likely political views of its inhabitants. But of course, I was wrong to make guesses before I’d met them. As it turned out, the views expressed at the event were fairly varied. Amazingly, Ayot St Lawrence – despite having only about 100 houses – has a regular “tricky issues” group that discusses ethical questions. This is great. More villages should take it up. They’ve looked at topics including euthanasia and religious experience. This week, it was pacifism versus “just war”. I put the pacifist case, while the argument for “just war” was made by Chris Pines, head of religious studies at a school in St Albans. I have to admit th

Clarity 2
Authentic Catholicism

It would seem I got a bit of a buzz over my Clarity article, for all the wrong reasons, but you must roll with what comes.  So here’s the question that I don’t think I could even begin to answer with any real experience, so perhaps those who are reverts could shed some light.  My salvation Journey was far from sacramental.  It was an ask-Jesus-in-my-heart sort of deal at the ripe age of 5 or 6.  I had an affection for Him, but by the time I hit my teens I was knee deep in a flood of depravity.  At twenty, the prodigal returned to the loving Father, and ten years later I made my way to Rome. I fail to understand the nature of being in the fullness of the faith–receiving sacramental Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation–are these sacraments effectual or not?  Was not even a mustard seed of faith present during all the graces received?  Many consumed the Lamb countless times before making the break. You were born again in baptism, and I hardly believe that mortal sin was pres

Stuff Mexicans Like #16: 20 en la Casa; 10 en el Carro; 5 en la Cama
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The First Time I Accepted Who I Was
Wingeyes Between Worlds
Science and Theology
Theologians, Inc.
Faith (something from 2 years ago that is still relevant to me now)
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Notes from a Boy @ The Window
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Speaking the Truth in Hate
The Parallax Perspective

Two videos have gone viral showing Christians directing some shockingly hateful language towards the homosexual community. The first emerged about a week ago. On May 13, 2012, Pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church (Maiden, NC) joked in a sermon that gays and lesbians should die in what sounds like concentration camps. Seriously, this is his Mother’s Day message! Thank you mothers for bringing children into the world, and speaking of motherhood, it would be really funny if we put all the gays and lesbians behind an electric fence so they would die out because they can’t reproduce. Such talk is horrifyingly inappropriate anytime, but to preach such venom on Mother’s Day marks a ministry terribly imbalanced against one particular sin. A more recent video has surfaced of a very young boy singing a shocking anti-gay rant at a Pentecostal church in Greensburg, Indiana. “I know that the Bible’s right, somebody’s wrong, Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo gonna m

Religion
another room

one thing I often hear when I’m talking about faith in God is “I’m not religious”. I usually answer that with “well good. neither is God.” religion is a set of rules and requirements imposed externally on one’s life to govern the way one lives. that puts the one in question in charge of his or her own righteousness.  that is, like, categorically opposite to faith in God. that’s faith in self. that is the fundamental difference between choosing religion and being born again. every religion out there from the new age and pagan world views, wicca, eastern philosophies, and cults to the pseudo christian denominational organizations, are all a works based system in one form or another. that is, they are all dependent on how you live your life to achieve the goal of godhood, sainthood, righteousness, perfection. they all have some kind of account balance for countering bad with good, whether its paying for it with some sort of penance, or neutralizing it with good deeds. the bottom line

Sermon Sketch | “Marks of Pure Worship”
The Reformed Wesleyan

I preached this sermon on a couple of occasions, but this particular version I preach at Merrywood Baptist Church in Statesboro, Georgia. ——————————————————– Marks of Pure Worship Luke 7:36-50 36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.” Pure Wor

Verse of the day
montanasouthernbelle

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

What Do You Want?
The Purpose Class
Why is Brian Not God ~ Here’s a few Examples
Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall ~ Holy Conspiracy!

LisaMarie Golightly Marshall what is this about the 144000 being the chosen women of muslium faith? Martha Marshall 19 stones remain on the pyramid the rest of the 143, 981 stones were stolen and are missing…Yahweh came to the conclusion since the world is so stupid and deceived it could only mean that the 144,000 completion has to be future and has to be from his own seed still in the realm of no time and he has go get them to the earth…since Adam could not do it…Adam failed…so God has to come to the earth to bring forth the righteous through the meek and chaste, the purest among women raised to bring forth the children of God…think of it as the Mary and Joseph story x thousands of women, the mothers of the children of God from his seed…..through the modern technology of AI, …he has reached that conclusion after suffering the decadence and depravity of all the nations of the earth, the only nation not to have fallen for the Zionist beast Weste

Battle continues over historic Va. church
WTVR.com – Richmond News & Weather from WTVR Television CBS 6

[ooyala code="5uajd4NDquz9BEwNtZnLb65GzP5QGPui"] FALLS CHURCH, Va. (WTVR) – The congregation of a historic church where George Washington once worshiped is asking the Virginia Supreme Court to give them their chapel back. The Falls Church Anglican filed a petition for appeal Friday, asking the high court to overturn the recent decision of a circuit court judge. The judge had ruled the historic building, which dates back some 278 years, must be returned to the Episcopal diocese. Members of the church broke away from the diocese in a dispute over theology and homosexuality.

A Review of Searching for God Knows What
hankrules2011

Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m not a fan of Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. I think it’s an immature book written by an immature writer. This book — Searching for God Knows What — seems a vast improvement to me, albeit still with the same scatter shot, rambling topical approach to the book. I’ve got to admit to being annoyed with Miller’s writing style. It’s certainly not linear, and perhaps I like linear a bit too much, but Miller jumps all over the place. Sometimes I think each chapter of his could stand on its own, as they don’t seem to have all that much in common with each other. However, I wanted to like this book. I was disappointed, then, to feel like it started out like Blue Like Jazz. At some point, though, Miller seemed to tighten things up a bit. A more lucid, more mature style of writing emerged that I occasionally found gripping. The final pages I found to be quite good, actually. Fo

Quote of the Day: Volnaiksra on Trying to Smooth Over the Bible’s Hard Passages
James' Ramblings

On his blog, The Dubious Disciple, Lee Harmon has a book review of Paul Copan’s book, Is God a Moral Monster?  Lee was not particularly convinced by Copan’s attempt to smooth over some of the troubling passages of the Bible, such as the Israelite conquest of Canaan, which entailed (in some parts of the Bible) Israel being commanded by God to kill every man, woman, and child among the Canaanites. Volnaiksra left the following comment under Lee’s post (and you can read Volnaiksra’s blog here): “It’s always a little bit heartbreaking when apologists try to take the super-positive message of modern of Christianity (God is love; you’re his treasured creature; the Christian God is above all human pettiness and can be trusted to give us peace and justice; Christianity is all good news, etc.) and transpose it back onto the Bible. “The backpeddling and philosophical gymnastics they need to employ to twist the Bible’s assorted nastiness into