Religion Class Causes Stir in Secular School

By sarajean on 8/24/10 4:25am
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How would you feel if your child went to his third grade, secular classroom one day and was instructed that he was going to attend a religious class without your permission? A class that, rather than demonstrating different viewpoints and allowing constructive discussion, serves to only indoctrinate children in one religion—a class that taught your child that only the Muslim faith is the way to live (and die)?

This very thing happened—only, instead of a Muslim class, it was a Christian one. If it were a Muslim class, do you think this behavior would’ve even been allowed in any secular school district? If it were a Wiccan, Buddhist, or even Jewish “little church on wheels,” as this program was described, not only would the whole situation have probably been avoided entirely—but entire communities be outraged, too.

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Franklin Graham: The gospel of hate

By dfunzy on 8/20/10 7:51pm
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Franklin Graham is out spreading his hate again. He claims to be a Christian pastor. He seems to have a very poor understanding of the Gospel of Jesus. Every other word out of his mouth is about hating someone. His favorite targets nowadays are Islam and President Obama.

Item in USA Today --"Evangelist leads 'disinformation campaign' on Obama: Religion professor"

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Friday the 13th

By sarajean on 8/15/10 9:51am
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This past Friday, I kept hearing complaints about the date and how awful it would be. “Friday the 13th!” people wailed. “I know it’s going to be a bad day. I should just stay home!”

Really? I don’t put much stock into Friday the 13th. People who know me often wonder why, since I’m a “mystical woo woo woman” or whatever joke they like to use to describe my use of sage bundles, crystals on our windows, and mandalas. Me, I say I’m a pagan, even though—as loose as that term is—that doesn’t really fit altogether, either. Do we really need these labels?

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Anne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His Followers

By becksta on 7/31/10 2:14pm
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Anne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His FollowersAnne Rice Will Follow Christ but Not His Followers

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Your Cross May Be in Vain

By sarajean on 7/29/10 6:10am
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What if I told you that the cross that many Christians like to wear around their necks—as well as bumper stickers, tattoos, wall art, and whatnot—may have nothing to do with Christ’s death? A scholar has controversially declared just that.

Gunnar Samuelsson, of Gothensburg University, says that there’s no evidence to support that Romans crucified anyone on a cross—and instead of being based on fact, the story of Jesus dying on a cross came from Christian traditions instead, as well as historical illustrations. The Bible itself, he maintains, makes no reference to a cross, either, but only to a “staurus,” which could also mean “pole.” None of the bloody nails or other equipment we learned to sing about so gruesomely in Sunday school are mentioned, either.

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You know it's true

By studio7manga on 7/22/10 4:57pm
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Gay catholic larcenyGay catholic larceny

God Bless Sarah Palin!

By becksta on 7/19/10 11:14pm
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Sarah PalinSarah PalinGod Bless Sarah Palin!

NOT!

The new queen of social media has taken it upon herself to announce to the world that the next threat to humanity as a whole is a planned mosque near Ground Zero. On her Twitter account, Sarah Palin encourages her multitudes of followers to "reject it in interest of healing" because the Mosque is "UNNECESSARY".


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Anti-Choice logic 101

By studio7manga on 6/30/10 11:25pm
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The Three Christs Study: Strange, but True

By becksta on 6/23/10 11:28pm
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The Three Christs of YpsilantiThe Three Christs of YpsilantiWhat happens when three Jesus’ (or men who believe themselves to be Jesus) meet in a mental hospital? It sounds like a bad joke, but in the 1960, one exceedingly curious and interesting psychologist actually performed an experiment in which three mental patients who all believed that they were Jesus Christ were forced to live together in the Ypsilanti State Hospital. The intention was to see if their beliefs about their identities would hold up after time.


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All the Asians and Africans in Hell

By selecter on 6/16/10 10:24pm
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Everyone before this moment went to Hell.Everyone before this moment went to Hell.So I had another enlightening conversation with a follower of the Lord (Jesus). He's a good friend of mine and we often engage in healthy theological debate. So I had a nagging question (several hundred actually). I asked him if he believes that only those who believe in Jesus and God go to Heaven. He quickly said yes. So I asked another setup question: if a man, let's say a Buddhist, coincidentally lived his life within the moral rules of Christianity, obeyed the Ten Commandments, all that good stuff, would he go to Heaven? The answer quickly came back, No. He did not accept Jesus as his lord and savior. Alright, at least he understands his rule set.  So I asked the nagging question:

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