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By David Edwards
Thursday, February 2, 2012 13:36 EST
President Barack Obama proved on Thursday that conservatives don’t have a monopoly on using religion to advocate for specific public policies.
Speaking to a group of mostly-conservative politicians at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, the president quoted scripture in a effort to get Republicans to support a fairer tax code and caring for the poor.
“When I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on main street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody,” Obama explained. “But I also do it because I know far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years. And I believe in God’s command to love thy neighbor as thyself.”
“And when I talk about shared responsibility, it’s because I genuinely believe at a time when folks are struggling, at a time when we have enormous deficits, it’s hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or middle class families who can barely pay the bills to shoulder the burden alone. And I think to myself, if I am willing to give something up as someone who has been extraordinarily blessed, give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy — I actually think that’s going to make economic sense.”
He added: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.”
“Treating others as you want to be treated, requiring much from those who have been given so much, living by the principle that we are our brother’s keeper, caring for the poor and those in need, these values are old and they can be found in many denominations and many faiths and among many believers and among many non-believers. They’re values that have always made this country great when we live up to them, when we just don’t just give lip service to them, and we just don’t talk about them one day a year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/02/obama-gets-biblical-on-republican-tax-critics/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 1, 2012.
"Excellent job BO, beat the Bastard Bible Thumpers with their own Bible, BRAVO!!!!"By David Edwards
Thursday, February 2, 2012 13:36 EST
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This is a great Prayer for February 2, 2012. I enjoyed it alot so I wanted to share it with the WORLD TODAY, from CROSSWALK.comThis is a great Prayer for February 2, 2012. I enjoyed it alot so I wanted to share it... more
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A 15-year-old girl called police in the middle of the night and asked to be put in a Christian children's shelter after she heard her mother and boyfriend having sex.
The teenager dialled 911 at 4am last Thursday after confronting her 35-year-old mother.
The girl told police that she felt 'disrespected'.
An officer went to the house in Panama City, Florida where the girl asked to be removed from her home.A 15-year-old girl called police in the middle of the night and asked to be put in a... more
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Leadership is such a crucial element. The world is void of leadership. There is a bankruptcy of leadership in the homes, in business and in government. Leadership decides the direction of the homes. Leadership decides the direction of the business. Leadership decides the direction of a nation. It is sad that today's leaders will put so much emphasis on delivering results than leading by an example. More info visit: http://thewisdombookstore.comLeadership is such a crucial element. The world is void of leadership. There is a... more
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In keeping with the long and ignoble tradition of plastering the Lord's Prayer on every flat surface in creation, Christians in the Indiana legislature have introduced a bill to require reciting the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of every school day.In keeping with the long and ignoble tradition of plastering the Lord's Prayer on... more
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By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 15, 2012
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney hit a roadblock Sunday in South Carolina as Christian conservative leaders coalesced behind Rick Santorum in the race for the presidential nomination.
A group of 155 Christian evangelical leaders from around the country endorsed Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, Saturday after holding a vote on a Texas ranch to agree on a single candidate before the January 21 South Carolina primary.
“It’s a big hit, let’s be honest,” Senator John McCain, who recently endorsed Romney, said on CNN. “There’s a very strong evangelical movement in South Carolina, particularly inland.”
Read More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/15/romney-takes-a-hit-from-the-christian-right/
"I knew it was just a Matter of time before the Christian Right would Freak out that Mitt is Not Christian!!!"By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Pat Buchanan on Tuesday blamed “militant gay rights groups” and former Obama administration official Van Jones for a campaign to oust him from his commentator gig at MSNBC.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin suggested last week that the former Republican presidential candidate had been indefinitely suspended from MSNBC after the publication of his book “Suicide of a Superpower,” which contains chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.”
“The reports of my suspension are highly overrated,” Buchanan chuckled to Sean Hannity Tuesday. “In November, I had a medical condition, shakes, fever, chills, and I was in the hospital for 11 days, and pretty big hit. … There’s been no formal notification of anything like that.”
“Look, for a long period of time, the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off TV and deny him speeches, get his column canceled,” Buchanan noted, speaking about himself in the third person.
“This has been done for years and years and years. And it’s the usual suspects doing the same thing again. But my view is you write what you believe to be the truth.”
In an email to supporters on Tuesday, Color of Change, an organization co-founded by Jones, credited the more than 275,000 members who signed a petition demanding MSNBC fire Buchanan.
“This is a huge victory for everyone who cares about keeping hateful, racially divisive rhetoric and misinformation out of the mainstream media,” the group wrote.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/11/buchanan-van-jones-and-militant-gays-are-out-to-get-me/
Listen to this audio from The Sean Hannity Show, broadcast Jan. 10, 2012.
"Yes Pat!!! Everyone's Out to get You, LMFAO!!!!" =)By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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By David Edwards
Friday, January 6, 2012
If Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s latest stump speech is successful, his opponents will find themselves campaigning against Christ.
Speaking to a tea party group at Windham High School in New Hampshire on Thursday, the former Pennsylvania senator actually compared himself to the Christian savior.
Santorum told the crowd that during a radio interview earlier in the week, a man had phoned in to tell him, “We don’t need a Jesus candidate; we need an economic candidate.”
“My answer to that was, we always need a Jesus candidate,” Santorum, who is a Catholic, recalled.
“I don’t mean that in saying we need a Jesus candidate, someone who’s a Christian, but we need someone who believes in something more than themselves, some higher power, some god,” he added. “When we say, ‘God bless America,’ do we mean it or do we just say it?”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/06/santorum-americans-need-a-jesus-candidate/
Watch this video from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, uploaded Jan. 6, 2012.
'Hmmm, Perhaps a Shot at Mitt Romney???' I have always asked, just how the GOP is going to get Mitt through, with all the Bitching they did about Barack Obama being a 'Christian!!!'By David Edwards
Friday, January 6, 2012
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The preachers are crazy because they teach Biblical hate as love. That's the reason they have committed the worst act of sin against their own self by equating hate with love. The god of the Bible is patently evil. Verse after verse proves it. Yet we are told the Bible is good, it was written by god (who we are told is good), and that we are to obey what it instructs. This leads to insanity, history proves that many of those who believe the Bible turn intomonsters and do horrible things. Our Biblically inspired culture is patently insane.
Prayers as Spells
Just what is a spell and how does it work? Web definition of spell: spell: a verbal formula believed to have magical force.My definition of a spell: A spell is a thoughtform that holds a human mind in bondage, a spell is cast by thought, word, or action for the purpose of controlling another. Typically a spell is cast by saying the words out loud.That is why it is called a spell, it is s p e l l e d out, often articulated with will. A spell is a willful intention cast into the energy field.This is what is being done in churches and temples all across America, theword is being read by the preacher to the imbecile flock, the spell is being cast when the words are read aloud and repeated by the congregation. They repeat the words in prayers (mantras, magic of repetition) programming their subconscious minds into a trance state of obedience.Video at link
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It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being "educated" in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps. Our children desperately need to focus on the basics such as reading, writing and math, but instead a whole host of politicians, "education officials" and teachers are constantly injecting as much propaganda as they possibly can into classroom instruction. Instead of learning how to think, our children are continually being told what to think. Not only that, our children are also being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked. Independent thought and free expression are greatly discouraged and are often cracked down upon harshly. If students get "out of line", instead of being sent to see the principal they are often handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station.It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our... more
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The problem, as a recent comment thread on this site highlighted, is that some religions are demonstrably better than others. The example given was “social Christians” vs. “evangelical Christians.” There is no Consumer Reports Best Buy for religion. Religions themselves aren’t very good at defining the metrics of “good” and “bad.” For the most part, followers of a religion define “good” as the one they belong to and “bad” as the one someone else belongs to.
It’s time to add a little science to this thing. Let’s do a little thought experiment. Let’s score the religions.The problem, as a recent comment thread on this site highlighted, is that some... more
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The internet is rank with so much controversy about the healing and deliverance ministration of pastors, their healing techniques have seem to become the subject for critics, cynics and skeptics, the healing and deliverance method of a very popular African Prophet by the Name TB Joshua of the synagogue church of all Nations, seems to have been the bone of contention for ages, as he stretches his hands and feet while healing without actual contact with the patient, the crux of the matter is that the people he ministers to jerk, shake wildly, and uncontrollably rotate at the waving of his hands and feet- this has attracted so much reaction from his foes, but then to the skeptics who raise eyebrows at the healing methods of TB Joshua involving the stretching of hands, being anchored on some ungodly spirits what do you make of this deliverance method in the picture above, this is actually a deliverance session in progress as this pastor lies on this woman, is this what we should allow in comparison to stretching and laying of hands?...continue reading: http://wp.me/p1TCRk-8DThe internet is rank with so much controversy about the healing and deliverance... more
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* Fischer makes the erroneous claim that the deity of Islam is not also the deity of Christianity (and thus, also not of Judaism).
* Fischer, a putatively devout Christian, impugns (read: blasphemes) the spirit of the deity of Islam, ergo, the deity of Christianity and thus commits the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as widely understood by Christians on the scriptural authority of Matthew 12:31. See What is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? by Tim Greenwood for an excellent analysis.* Fischer makes the erroneous claim that the deity of Islam is not also the deity of... more
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For millions of American families, there will be no Christmas this year. The sad truth is that an increasing number of families simply do not have money for Christmas presents or any other luxuries right now. The number of Americans that fell into poverty set a new all-time record last year and extreme poverty is at the highest level ever measured in the United States. This Christmas, a lot of American families will be deciding whether to spend the little money that they do have on food, heat or medicine. All over America, the poor are getting poorer and each year the economic pain seems to get even worse. But there are also many American families that will have no Christmas this year for other reasons. Some are just sick and tired of all of the materialism that is involved in Christmas. Others are trying to be "politically correct" and don't want to offend anyone. There are even a growing number of Americans that are Christians but that believe that Christians should not celebrate Christmas for spiritual reasons. Once upon a time, Christmas was pretty much considered to be a nearly universal holiday in the United States, but that just is not the case anymore. There are millions upon millions of Americans that simply will not be celebrating Christmas at all this year.For millions of American families, there will be no Christmas this year. The sad... more
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Thank goodness for seperation of church and state! I wonder if this was a taxpayer-funded event?
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As he did last year, Jacob Lew, who as director of the Office of Management and Budget is the highest-ranking Jewish official in the Obama administration, ushered in the eight-day holiday of Chanukah Tuesday night by lighting the National Menorah.
Flanked by Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, the Philadelphia-based chairman of the umbrella international organization Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and Levi Shemtov, the Washington director of American Friends of Lubavitch, Lew was hoisted to the top of the towering structure in a cherry picker. With the White House in the background and the sun going down, he lit the candelabra’s first candle.
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski also attended the celebration.Thank goodness for seperation of church and state! I wonder if this was a... more
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The Jesus-and-pony show continued unabated throughout the rest of the season, and not much happened to change my opinion of the whole charade. (Although we have since learned that, while Brandon Hantz is indeed about as stable as a weeble on a fault line, there are reasons for it. In short, had she grown up in that family, Mother Teresa would probably have wound up a crack whore.)
In last night’s season finale and the subsequent reunion show, we continued hearing terms like “faith” and “Christian man” every other sentence or so and nobody came close to poking a stick at the hypocrisy angle. I found myself wishing that I were on the jury, so that when my time came I could stand in front of the three finalists on national TV and say the following:The Jesus-and-pony show continued unabated throughout the rest of the season, and not... more
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In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with one another in ways that completely bypass the mainstream media, and this is making the elite very uncomfortable. They have decided that they better come after our free speech before it is too late. Right now, free speech in America is being chipped away at it in thousands of different ways. On the one hand, you have the disciples of "political correctness" that want to make all forms of speech that are "offensive" to anyone against the law. On the other hand, you have those that are obsessed with "national security" that want to ban all speech that is critical of the U.S. government or the U.S. military. These twin forces are constantly seeking to push the First Amendment into a smaller and smaller box. If you say the wrong thing in America today, your website might be shut down, you could be suspended from school, you may find yourself out of a job and there is now even a possibility that you could be arrested and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay without a trial.In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before.... more
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Atheists 'hijack' nativity display in Santa Monica, critics say
December 15, 2011 | 9:41 am
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Organizers of Santa Monica's well-known Christmas nativity scene at Palisades Park are accusing atheists of "hijacking" the tradition.
Atheist groups objected to use of the park by churches to espouse a religious message and applied to the city of Santa Monica for their own spaces.
Officials used a lottery to dole out spots in the prime location along Ocean Avenue. The atheists turned out to be the lucky ones: Of the 21 plots in the park open for displays, they won 18. The nativity story that once took 14 displays to tell — from the Annunciation, continuing to the manger in Bethlehem and onto infant Jesus' journey to Egypt and back to Nazareth — had to be abridged to three and crammed into two plots.
"A small group of out-of-town atheists is trying to hijack Santa Monica's nearly 60-year-long Christmas tradition," said Hunter Jameson, chairman of the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee, the group that works with more than a dozen churches and civic groups to organize the display.
Jameson said he intends to keep the nativity tradition many have enjoyed since 1953 from being displaced. Palisades Park, he said, is the "historic home where it really belongs."
"Their goal is getting rid of us, and squelching our 1st Amendment rights," said Jameson, 65, who no longer lives in Santa Monica but still worships at Lighthouse Church of Santa Monica.
Patrick Elliott, a lawyer for the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said tradition is no excuse for violating the boundaries between church and state. "Just because they're long-standing doesn't mean they're right," he said.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said December is a busy time for the organization's attorneys, who challenge the use of public spaces for religious messages.
"It's littering — literally, littering — these spaces," Gaylor said of such displays, which she said are a "territorial attempt by Christians to impose their beliefs in this season."
"That creates an atmosphere of intimidation," said Gaylor, who noted that the organization's banner was destroyed by vandals after being hung in Palisades Park. "Christians are the insiders, and everyone else is an outsider."
In Santa Monica, atheist Damon Vix called national organizations seeking help because he felt marginalized by the display, and tradition alone didn't merit saving it. Vix, a 43-year-old prop maker from Burbank, said the display "defines Santa Monica as a Christian city, and I feel very excluded by that."
Last year, he put up a display of his own: signs with quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln — quotes that his opponents say are of dubious veracity. (It's worth noting that both sides suspect the Founding Fathers would support them.)
Others have complained the atheists should at the very least come up with something more than a sign attached to a chain-link cage, and use more of the space they have been allotted. "I wish they had been more creative," one city councilman said.
The Rev. Keith Magee, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, said the atheists have deprived a coalition of Christian faiths (Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic and others) and the community (doctors, real estate agents and the Santa Monica Police Assn. are among the sponsors) of a tradition that allowed so many to come together to celebrate a belief so important to them.
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