Religious News 10-18
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It’s been a busy week for the god-fearing. Mormon leader Dallin H. Oaks, said the backlash against Mormons (for their direct involvement in getting the anti-gay Proposition 8 passed in California) is similar to the treatment blacks went through after the civil rights movement. That’s right, he’s refusing rights to a group of people while using those rights himself – AND – claiming he’s being discriminated against in the process. Link: www.google.com The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC will be burning Bibles for Jesus this Halloween! Link: rawstory.com Muslims will be on the March this Halloween in an effort to force sharia law on Britain. Link: www.religionnewsblog.com A pharmacist in Australia says God doesn’t want him to sell condoms, or any other form of birth control. Link: www.dailytelegraph.com.au God’s blood is a good transmitter of Swine Flu Link: www.latimes.com Christian school expels students because parents ask too many questions. Link: www.azcentral.com And final story: Ray Comfort paid me $1 billion! (well, kinda)
Religious Repentance
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This clip entitled “Religious Repentance” is take from the sermon “John the Baptizer, Part 2″preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church as part of the ongoing series, “Luke: Investigating The Man Who Is God” For more information about this current series, visit www.marshillchurch.org and for more audio and video content visit marshillchurch.org
Religious child abuse
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A video on child abuse in religion.
Religious Indoctrination Traumatizing Children – AE #580
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TheAtheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. Every week we field live calls from atheists and believers alike, and you never know what you’re going to get! Sometimes it can get quite feisty indeed! You don’t want to miss it. Episode: #580 24 November, 2008 Topic: Religion Inspired Child Abuse. Jen explores the implications of teaching children they’re inherently evil. Atheistic Experience: www.atheist-experience.com Atheist Community of Austin: www.atheist-community.org AE Blog: atheistexperience.blogspot.com Non-Prophets Radio: www.nonprophetsradio.com
The Spanish inquisition: a horrible form of religious intolerance
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I do not own the copyrights to this video and audio file. If the content owner wishes to remove this video, I will do so immediately. I have only educational purposes. Hitler wasn ‘t the first to commit genocide on the Jews. Anti-semitism is deeply rooted in Western societies. Take the example of Spain and the Spanish Inquisition. As soon as the so-called Catholic Kings had reconquered Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain (end 15th century), they created a State-controlled Inquisition. Especially the ‘conversos’, the Jews converted to christianity, were their target. Inquisitors looked scrutinously at remains of Judaic identification within the conversos. Anti-semitism grew so bad that in the end all Jews fled Spain, which meant a heavy loss of human and cultural capital for Spain.
Religious Anti Birth Control (Vagina Full Of AIDS)
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Original Video “Why condoms don’t offer real protection from STDs” Here: www.youtube.com
Who is directing all these Mormon missionaries to go around saying all other religious people are wrong?
A question from a reader: They say the millions of Ex-Mormons in the world often have a destructive agenda, but for goodness sake, when you’re preaching you have the only true church on earth, isn’t that destructive to other people’s beliefs? Who is directing all this?
How do Roman Catholic religious beliefs differ from Southern Baptist religious beliefs?
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Religious Right
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The Decadence of American Conservatism: The Religious Right Gets it Wrong pangeaprogress.blogspot.com A modern American Christian is altogether a different creature than the original faithful in ancient Palestine. This is a rather straight point but the fact that these people who claim to know and represent this Jesus cannot even think on this is a sign of the bankruptcy and intellectual dishonesty of this unexamined movement. It lacks “metacognition” the ability to think about itself in context and instead relys on the narrow limitations of its immediate surroudings. The decadence of American conservatism is that it has traded away its internal integrity for a play at power to force a standard of living on others that it fails to uphold in its own homes and congregations. It resembles not the historical Jesus or the New Testament version but a Jesus that is somehow an english speaking American that revels in power politics and money making schemes. Charlatans and political power lead the way to the frugal and passive Nazarene? One of the ironies of the Bush political system and use of the religious right is that its master mind is an agnostic by the name of Karl Rove. The hypocrisy is there to see but there is also another injustice. The murder of wisdom for the sake of the appearance of morality. So much wisdom is censored in the cause of this puritan instinct that aims to hide from human reality and break the mirrors that reflect ugly truths. To the christianist the …
What website could I go to to find pictures Middle Age religious tapestries?
A question from a reader: What website could I go to to find pictures of religious tapestries from the middle ages (1000 – 1500)?