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Shots Fired In Northern Ireland Riots

Local politicians describe Belfast violence as the worst of its kind in the area for a... more

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Does Your Religion Influence Your Income Level?

Religious affiliation and economic standing are intertwined, according to data... more

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The Antichrist Unmasked

The contemporary Christian church is a front for all of the activities proscribed in... more

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Many Americans Know Little About Religion -- Even Their Own -- Poll Finds

How much does it matter that most Americans don't know that Maimonides was... more

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82 Police are Injured in Belfast Ireland Riots

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Six great religious truths

1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God's chosen people. 2. Jews do not... more

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Vatican Lures Anglicans Back into Fold

Story Highlights * Vatican opens door to disillusioned Anglicans wanting to join... more

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Coffee stained glass with an image of the Virgin Mary? - a set on Flickr

August 15 marks the end of the Blessed Virgin Mary's earthly life and the... more

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Pope sanctions the death of thousands of Irish Catholics!

We can reveal today the shocking truth regarding the real political agenda of the vatican.

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Paddy was a brit!

So the argument can stop now..... He was not french, welsh or scottish.... or even... more

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All Protestant denominations are branches of the Catholic church

It started already in the first century AC when the assemblies became divided...

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Religion and Spirituality Go Open Source

What if you had the opportunity to make changes in your own church? Would that make... more

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Catholic Church selling Indulgences.....AGAIN

The indulgence is among the less noticed and less disputed traditions to be restored.... more

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The Minister of Death

In a bizarre macabre account of divine intervention, Erik Larson amazingly encounters... more

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The Great Change : Winter Weather Sends Arctic Lows East, South

The acceleration of the Great Change into the new age has already begun....

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Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?

Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?
Faith makes people want to kill each other--but it's the best thing we've got.
Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other by the hundreds in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Hindus and Muslims are slaughtering each other in India, herding neighbors into house or trains then setting them afire. Catholics and Protestants continue to kill each other in Northern Ireland. Sunnis and Shias have their arms wrapped around each other's throats throughout the Islamic world. And of course, on Sept. 11, 19 Muslims were so determined to murder helpless Christians and Jews that they were willing to die to shed the blood of other religions.

Not a terribly good reflection on faith, is it? If religion makes people want to murder each other, maybe religion is bad for the world.

Religion has certainly been bad for history. In recent decades alone, Hindus and Sikhs have been slaughtering each other, blowing up airliners and firing artillery shells into temples. In the fighting over Sri Lanka, Tamil Hindus have fired machine guns at school buses full of Sinhalese Buddhist children, and the Buddhists in turn have firebombed Hindu schools. Thousands of Chinese grew up as orphans because their Buddhist parents were murdered during World War II at the urging of Shinto priests.

Looking further back, huge numbers of Eastern Orthodox Armenians were murdered by Muslims at the turn of the century. Much of Europe's history has been a nightmare of Christian-on-Christian killing, including the 30 Years' War, in which an estimated 7.5 million people--one-third of the European population at the time--died owing to Catholic-versus-Protestant slaughter. England's history is full of Protestants murdering Catholics; France's history is full of Catholics murdering Protestants; Spain's history is full of Christians murdering Jews. Pretty much all of Europe is to blame for the Crusades, in which Christians murdered Muslims. This inventory could go on at considerable length. King Olaf Tryggvason's declaration from about the year 1000--"all Norway will be Christian or die!"--sums it up.

So is faith bad? The fact that religions preach love, but often generate violence, cannot be dismissed as a minor imperfection.
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Despite your individual religion, do you believe religion in general has done more harm than good or the other way around? I think both points could be argued for, but, ultimately, either religion does more good or more bad to the world.Would the World Be Safer Without Religion? Faith makes people want to kill each... more

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Sorry God We Will Remember You In Times Of Trouble Only

During this troubled times when people are finding themselves homeless, moneyless,... more

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Protestants celebrate Calvin in Geneva

Switzerland's Protestant churches on Sunday began celebrating the 500th... more

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Oct.31-Birthday Celebration Protestant Church

The western world knows October 31 is Halloween, but what is seldom mentioned is that it is also the day the Protestant Reformation began. In the Protestant world the day should be a celebrated because the birth of all the Protestant/Sabbath keeping/Sacred Name/Messianic, etc. churches was made possible by the unfolding events beginning on this day in 1517.

Think about it, what does the term “Protestant” Christian mean? Most do not even know that October 31, is their holiday. It’s really a shame because so much blood was spilt to break the chains of religious dictatorship, give the world the Bible, and give most of the western world religious freedom. America was founded as a Protestant nation, and it was a very important step in government, but watch the news today; you will not hear anything regarding the great Reformation movement – not even from the pulpits of the American Christian churches! In my humble opinion, at the very least this day should be called Religious Freedom Day! Unfortunately, the only thing you will hear a lot about is Halloween, and that’s pitiful. (The stories of the Bible translators and Protestant reformers are heartbreaking, read through chapters 9-20 of Fox’s Book of Martyrs for the complete story.)

Most know of the story of Martin Luther the lawyer/scholar turned Catholic monk, who in 1517 C.E. sounded the call to religious change in an unchanging world by calling for a debate on his 95 theses of church reform. To make his theses public, he daringly posted them on the castle church door in Wittenburg, Germany, and by his act he unknowingly ignited a religious explosion called the Protestant Reformation. His 95 points of reform rebukes various traditions added on to God’s Law by the feudalistic Roman Catholic Church. As always, challenging the Roman status quo was done at your own peril. Luther would have been branded a heretic and swept away to a dark jail cell like many before him, but paper making and moveable type were invented in his time, and his open letters of debate appearing in print for all to see helped fuel the protesting movement against the dogmatic Roman Catholic rule.

Martin Luther began the Protestant revolution and America was founded as a Protestant nation that honored our CREATOR instead of an earthly king, our founders boldly answered the GOD question for all the world to hear, but few today even know what the word Protestant means or represents. Generally, the religious powers to be do not like any talk of a protesting laity, being lovers of their own words the religious scholars, over time, covered up and smothered the original meaning of the Reformation movement. The pure Protestant beliefs or concepts are a philosophy not a religion, and the Protestant philosophy still causes some hand ringing amongst the traditional Jews, Catholics, and other religious leaders who want to control people via dogmatic purity and mute obedience.

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Football on a Sunday? Ulster says MAYBE!

As a football league match was played on a Sunday in Northern Ireland for the first... more

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