Latest decision: Cross can stay

Strange, no one in Brazil is trying to tear this cross down: Christ the Redeemer... ;)

(Your spaghetti monster doesn't offend us, so build your own statues, and leave ours alone!)

Yes, but not everyone has learned God's lessons of tolerance.

Qur'an 3:185
Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception.

Out with the old, in with the new... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text

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they found five lines of text written in black ink on a shard of pottery

I'm guessing that it doesn't say 'Made In China'... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

they found five lines of text written in black ink on a shard of pottery

I'm guessing that it doesn't say 'Made In China'... ;)

Scientific analysis shows the pottery is free of melamine.

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The Messiah cometh

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me@rescam.org

The Messiah cometh

I saw that too. :-O

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Catholic clergy to confront Obama on abortion rights

ASSOCIATED PRESS

November 12, 2008

BALTIMORE – The nation's Roman Catholic bishops vowed yesterday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration.

In an impassioned discussion on Catholics in public life, several bishops said they would accept no compromise on abortion policy. Many condemned Catholics who had argued that it was morally acceptable to back President-elect Barack Obama because he pledged to reduce abortion rates.

And several prelates promised to call out Catholic policymakers on their failures to follow church teaching. Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, Pa., singled out Vice President-elect Joe Biden, a Catholic native of Scranton who supports abortion rights.

“I cannot have a vice president-elect coming to Scranton to say he's learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church,” Martino said. The Obama-Biden press office did not respond to a request for comment.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas said politicians “can't check your principles at the door of the legislature.”

Naumann has said repeatedly that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic Democrat who supports abortion rights, should stop taking Holy Communion until she changes her stance.

“They cannot call themselves Catholic when they violate such a core belief as the dignity of the unborn,” Naumann said yesterday.

Along with their theological opposition to the procedure, church leaders say they worry that any expansion in abortion rights could require Catholic hospitals to perform abortions or lose federal funding. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago said the hospitals would close rather than comply.

During the campaign, many prelates told Catholic politicians and voters that the abortion issue should be the most important consideration in setting policy and deciding which candidate to back.

Yet, according to exit polls, 54 percent of Catholics chose Obama, who is Protestant.

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Humanists' ads take the 'Christ' out of Christmas

By Eric Gorski
ASSOCIATED PRESS

November 12, 2008

You'd better watch out. There's a new combatant in the Christmas wars.

Ads proclaiming: “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative, $40,000 holiday ad campaign yesterday.

In lifting lyrics from “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.

“We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you,” said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. “Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of nontheists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion.”

Edwords said the purpose isn't to argue that God doesn't exist or change minds about a deity, although “we are trying to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people's minds.”

The group defines humanism as “a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity.”

Last month, the British Humanist Association caused a ruckus by announcing a similar campaign on London buses with the message: “There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

In Washington, the humanists' campaign comes as conservative Christian groups gear up their efforts to keep Christ in Christmas. In the past five years, groups such as the American Family Association and the Catholic League have criticized or threatened boycotts of retailers who use generic “holiday” greetings.

In mid-October, the American Family Association started selling buttons that read, “It's OK to Say Merry Christmas.” The humanists' entry into the marketplace of ideas didn't impress AFA president Tim Wildmon.

“It's a stupid ad,” he said. “How do we define 'good' if we don't believe in God? God in his word, the Bible, tells us what's good and bad and right and wrong. If we are each ourselves defining what's good, it's going to be a crazy world.”

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me@rescam.org

I'm just wondering where Jeffrey is...
He seems to be missing along with other good people..

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I'm just wondering where Jeffrey is...
He seems to be missing along with other good people..

I think he got banned.

As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

His choice.

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Cordially,
Rush

elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com
Remove the obvious...

As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

Like being splashed with unholy water.

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As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

Like being splashed with unholy water.

Or maybe the contrary, like being splashed with holy water?

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

Like being splashed with unholy water.

Or maybe the contrary, like being splashed with holy water?

No because for him holy water would be refreshing. Bottled holy water straight from the Vatican is his drink of choice.

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me@rescam.org

As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

Like being splashed with unholy water.

Or maybe the contrary, like being splashed with holy water?

No because for him holy water would be refreshing. Bottled holy water straight from the Vatican is his drink of choice.

The Vatican? But isn't he more close to Mecca these days?

Or is it so that you stick to what you have been raised in, even you can have some detours through your life?

Just curious.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Using other clueless men and women as guides to extra planetary and time continuum being(s) who may or may not have a say in your potential afterlife is not a sign of great intelligence. I comfortable that if there is a great beyond in the company of the WhoWho in the Sky, he/she/it will have a warm place in his/her/its heart for me. And the place is big enough for Drats and Lucas and all our cats and dogs.

Any religion that doesn't allow for cats and dogs and other critters in heaven is misinformed. And ET.

As far as I know, he takes that like a stake through the heart.

Like being splashed with unholy water.

Or maybe the contrary, like being splashed with holy water?

No because for him holy water would be refreshing. Bottled holy water straight from the Vatican is his drink of choice.

The Vatican? But isn't he more close to Mecca these days?

::splashes Fuzzy with holy water::

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as you would notice, he is not anymore, hasn´t been couple of days,
but he is capable to speak and comment by himself, if he wants to, so let
your opinions about his beliefs be still in your head, not here.

as you would notice, he is not anymore, hasn´t been couple of days,
but he is capable to speak and comment by himself, if he wants to, so let
your opinions about his beliefs be still in your head, not here.

Agreed!

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::splashes Fuzzy with holy water::

Ohhhhhhhhhhh

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me