tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12669850402902426632024-03-17T04:00:32.397-04:00ExChristian.NetEncouraging doubting, de-converting, deconstructing and former ChristiansDave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-83486233665977126062019-04-12T12:46:00.003-04:002019-07-09T12:24:03.350-04:00Praise the Lord for Black Holes! <i>By Webmdave ~ </i><br />
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<span class="dropcap">I</span>f you've been watching the news, you know that astronomers have revealed the first-ever "image" of the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light-years away.<br />
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Thinking this image and the ensuing conversations about the age of universe, etc. might've thrown a monkey wrench into the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201504/what-is-confirmation-bias">confirmation bias</a> of some Christians, I decided to trawl the Internet for evidence of initial Christian reaction to this tremendous scientific revelation. Below are a few examples of what I found: <br />
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A black hole is a perfect example of something we’ve believed in even though we cannot see it or touch it. -- <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2019/04/10/can-you-find-god-black-hole">The Jesuit Review</a></blockquote>
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It is a reminder of the amazing complexity of the universe that God created. The fact that black holes exist and that we cannot see inside them because no light escapes, reminds us there will always be mystery in God’s creation – and in God himself. -- <a href="https://www.eternitynews.com.au/world/world-first-image-of-black-hole-revealed/">Eternity News</a></blockquote>
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I was fascinated by the first photograph of a black hole. No, I don't understand the physics but it spoke to me about the grandeur of the universe and in doing so strengthened my belief that the universe is made and governed by an almighty God. -- <a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/the-black-hole-and-the-cross/132200.htm">Christian Today</a></blockquote>
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Heavenly Father, Your creation is wonderful to behold. Thank You for letting us see a portion of Your work in the heavenlies. -- <a href="https://www.ifapray.org/blog/">Intercessors for America</a></blockquote>
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I was reminded that a recent (2017) <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx">Gallup poll</a> showed a marked decline in the number of Americans still clinging to anti-scientific beliefs:<br />
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<li>38% say God created man in present form, lowest in 35 years</li>
<li>Same percentage say humans evolved, but God guided the process</li>
<li>Less-educated Americans more likely to believe in creationism</li>
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It appears to me that although there is some small decline in faith based anti-intellectualism, there is still a sadly high level of superstition held by the American population. <br />
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With so many unable to differentiate scientific reality from religious fantasy in their thought processes, it's no wonder we experience so many social ills and so much societal chaos. It makes me wonder if we should mistrust the logical abilities of those who faithfully cling to Christian, or any religion's, mythology.<br />
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What's your opinion?Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-16796648181606199492019-04-12T11:08:00.001-04:002019-04-12T11:10:42.127-04:00School officials disciplined a 14-year-old after she posted Bible verses at schoolExcerpted from Cincinnati.Com. <br />
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You might know the story by now. It made <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/ohio-student-suspended-after-posting-bible-verses-around-school-i-wanted-to-spread-the-word-of-god" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration-line: none;">Fox News</a> and <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/high-schooler-posted-bible-verses-response-pride-flags-suspended-targeting-gay-straight-alliance-club-221144568.html" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration-line: none;">Yahoo</a>, dividing people across the country. </div>
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School officials disciplined a 14-year-old Lebanon High School student in March after she posted Bible verses at school. She did so because she saw rainbow flags there, and she said she was trying to help students who were confused.</div>
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“I seen that there was people in my school that needed help, and they don’t need to be living in the confusion of wondering if they should gay, bi, lesbian, trans – anything like that," Helsinger said in a video her mom posted to Facebook. "God is the only way that they can be healed by that." </div>
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School officials have disputed the student's version of events, without going into detail because of student privacy laws, they say. Her video has been viewed more than 121,000 times.</div>
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A few days after the video, on March 13, there were protesters at Lebanon High School. There were high-fives and signs and a bullhorn and police. As students walked to their cars in the parking lot, authorities escorted a local politician’s brother away and charged him with trespassing. </div>
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A few days after this, a resident started raising funds for an LGBTQ-friendly club at the school because, the woman said, being different is already hard enough. At the same time, officials are asking residents to vote for a tax hike in May. </div>
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<a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-pastor-rides-bulls-inside-church-attract-believers/story?id=31156025" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration-line: none;">Lawrence Bishop II</a> is a pastor at <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="http://www.solidrockchurch.org/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration-line: none;">Solid Rock Church</a> in Warren County. You know, the one with a towering statue of Jesus outside. The one you can see from Interstate 75. The one that has <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local/solid-rock-pastors-strong-stances-stir-scorn-adoration/mVM5ywSwRb4z6vsR8GILMO/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration-line: none;">sparked controversy</a> for uncompromising views opposing gay marriage and other churches that support it.</div>
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This is where 14-year-old Gabby Helsinger goes to church.<br />
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Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-8045173347200837482019-04-11T11:59:00.002-04:002019-04-15T14:54:04.666-04:00Previously unknown human species found in Asia raises questions about early hominin dispersals from Africa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;">Homo sapiens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">is the only living species of a diverse group called hominins (members of the human family tree who are more closely related to each other than they are to chimpanzees and bonobos). Most extinct hominin species are not our direct ancestors, but instead are close relatives with evolutionary histories that took a slightly different path from ours.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a data-label="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1067-9" data-track-category="body text link" data-track="click" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1067-9" style="color: #006699; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing in <i>Nature</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">, Détroit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;">et al</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.75px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01019-7#ref-CR1" style="background-color: transparent; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">report the remarkable discovery of one such human relative that will no doubt ignite plenty of scientific debate over the coming weeks, months and years. This newly identified species was found in the Philippines and named</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;">Homo luzonensis</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">after Luzon, the island where bones and teeth from individuals of this species were excavated from Callao Cave. Specimens of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;">H. luzonensis</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">were dated to minimum ages of 50,000 and 67,000 years old, which suggests that the species was alive at the same time as several other hominins belonging to the genus</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;"> Homo</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">, including</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;">Homo sapiens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">, Neanderthals, Denisovans and</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lora, Palatino, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px;"> Homo floresiensis</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "lora" , "palatino" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">.</span><br />
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Read the entire article here: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01019-7">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01019-7</a>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-34014458124887114822019-04-06T06:37:00.000-04:002019-04-15T14:53:33.252-04:00Investigation Unearths Hundreds Of Abuse Allegations In Independent Baptist Churches<span class="dropcap">A</span>n <a href="https://www.star-telegram.com/living/religion/article222576310.html">investigation</a> has uncovered hundreds of abuse allegations against leaders of a conservative, loosely affiliated network of evangelical Christian churches. <br />
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The <a href="https://www.star-telegram.com/living/religion/article222576310.html">report</a>, identified 412 abuse allegations in 187 independent fundamental Baptist (IFB) churches and institutions across 40 states and Canada, with some cases reaching as far back as the 1970s. <br />
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About 2.5 percent of American adults identify as independent fundamental Baptists, according to the a higher percentage than those who identify as Episcopalians, Presbyterians or members of the Assemblies of God.<br />
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The most well-known independent fundamental Baptists are likely the Duggars, who starred on TLC’s reality show “<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Kids_and_Counting">19 Kids and Counting</a>.” The show was canceled in 2015 after had been accused of sexually abusing girls, including four of his sisters, and that his parents had kept the abuse hidden.<br />
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America’s estimated 6,000 IFB churches can be part of loosely tied fellowships or pastors’ networks. There are also shared children’s camps, conferences and church-affiliated colleges. However, IFB churches don’t have the that unite more mainstream evangelical groups, like the Southern Baptist Convention. <br />
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style="color: #18a1cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Get the data</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-18931301076250529892014-01-23T18:28:00.000-05:002020-04-08T09:46:49.638-04:009-Pound Boy Born To A Nun !<i>By summerbreeze ~ </i><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKW1Dao2ed-7dJKMMHvG3UAXJFSEbW8vIs5GY4Ds5giNNFgTmqxpQ-nGLk7B1j-kkhIiOj7yJfwoY63Kuhwnz8PxXCtzlGb3CmZUrErRr3mW8oBYVgC51UzmTssgW0vOQOZ3LuTBSSXEU/s1600/babynun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKW1Dao2ed-7dJKMMHvG3UAXJFSEbW8vIs5GY4Ds5giNNFgTmqxpQ-nGLk7B1j-kkhIiOj7yJfwoY63Kuhwnz8PxXCtzlGb3CmZUrErRr3mW8oBYVgC51UzmTssgW0vOQOZ3LuTBSSXEU/s1600/babynun.jpg" height="199" width="320"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption">Roxana Rodriguez, circled, <br />
on the day she joined the order of <br />
the Little Disciples of Jesus</span> <span class="credit"></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="dropcap">I</span>'m sure that you've heard the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/10582607/Nun-from-El-Salvador-who-gave-birth-to-baby-Francesco-He-is-a-gift-from-God.html">recent news about the Nun from the 'Little Disciples of Jesus'</a> convent, near Rieti Italy, who gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. ( I'm glad that her convent wasn't named 'Little Disciples of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocenti" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Innocenti">Innocenti</a>')... now THAT would be embarrassing!<br />
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She was another one of those women who said " I didn't even know that I was pregnant "....OH NO !...could this be another gift to the world from God ? His last gift, 2000 years ago, helped to screw things up big time, for rational people that is.<br />
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The local Pastor in the town said "I guess she's telling the truth when she says she arrived at the Hospital unaware of the pregnancy"....totally ignoring the question of how a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Nun">Nun</a> could get pregnant in the 1st place.<br />
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This is just more proof of how the Catholic Church pig-headedly clings to the archaic belief that male and female clergy from the Pope on down, must remain celibate.<br />
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They condemn sexual relations, then condemn masturbation. Then they overlook child molestation, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Child sexual abuse">child rape</a>, and merely move the offender to a new Parrish.<br />
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Methinks that the Catholic philosophy is a bit evil.<br />
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Bottling up normal, sexual yearnings is dangerous, and unnatural too.<br />
I grew up on the outskirts of a large city. When I was a teenager, they tore down a very old <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Convent">Nunnery</a> to make way for a new one. In one of the walls, they found the skeletons of 3 fetuses. It was in the local paper, and the Catholic Church was having a stroke saying that it was all lies. A friend of my Mom & Dad's was a police officer, and was one that was on the scene, and he confirmed that it was 100% true. ( and he was a Catholic ).<br />
The church suppressing sexual urges is not a new thing, and has left a multitude of victims in its wake for a long long time.....both men and women.<br />
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I know that my little rant won't change the course of things, but if just one Catholic out there reads this, and it causes those wheels & gears to start grinding...then I'm happy. <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="https://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=dd523380-bb9a-4a71-98bf-06bc72a0c261" style="border: none; float: right;"></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-164677595275412932013-12-24T07:59:00.001-05:002015-06-06T10:25:08.171-04:00 "D" is for Duck Dynasty…and Double Standard: Why Conservatives are Freaking Out and Why LGBTQIA is Rightfully Upset<div style="text-align: right;"></div><i>By xxkindofboredxx ~ </i><br />
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<b><span class="dropcap">W</span>hy Everyone Is Freaking Out In The First Place</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdM1iHqT87ru2X98MBbbyVZA5XMhdQYTxF_eJwd-vr7EHD1vOCprvixk_e1CWZDVbFY4bgkebLRRnksKcLU3JDr5tk8PYAnLQLWEviZvfTKibc0iRficP6DOZyUPHNnK51HQ_83CINLHc/s1600/Duck-Commander.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdM1iHqT87ru2X98MBbbyVZA5XMhdQYTxF_eJwd-vr7EHD1vOCprvixk_e1CWZDVbFY4bgkebLRRnksKcLU3JDr5tk8PYAnLQLWEviZvfTKibc0iRficP6DOZyUPHNnK51HQ_83CINLHc/s320/Duck-Commander.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Excerpt from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="GQ">GQ Magazine</a>’s interview with Phil Robertson:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">“It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”<br />
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“We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television,” he tells me. “You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let’s get on with it, and everything will turn around.”</blockquote><br />
What does repentance entail? Well, in Robertson’s worldview, America was a country founded upon Christian values (Thou shalt not kill, etc.), and he believes that the gradual removal of Christian symbolism from public spaces has diluted those founding principles. (He and Si take turns going on about why the Ten Commandments ought to be displayed outside courthouses.) He sees the popularity of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Dynasty" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Duck Dynasty">Duck Dynasty</a> as a small corrective to all that we have lost.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">“Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong,” he says. “Sin becomes fine.”</blockquote><br />
What, in your mind, is sinful?<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”</blockquote><br />
During Phil’s darkest days, in the early 1970s, he had to flee the state of Arkansas after he badly beat up a bar owner and the guy’s wife. Kay Robertson persuaded the bar owner not to press charges in exchange for most of the Robertsons’ life savings. (“A hefty price,” he notes in his memoir.) I ask Phil if he ever repented for that, as he wants America to repent—if he ever tracked down the bar owner and his wife to apologize for the assault. He shakes his head.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">“I didn’t dredge anything back up. I just put it behind me.”</blockquote><br />
As far as Phil is concerned, he was literally born again. Old Phil—the guy with the booze and the pills—died a long time ago, and New Phil sees no need to apologize for him: “We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”<br />
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Robertsons’s comments have (unsurprisingly) gained serious attention within the past few days on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The conservative right has put in their own two cents, including former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin (R):<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"Free speech is an endangered species. Those ‘intolerants’ hatin’ and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us,”</blockquote><br />
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Louisiana" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="List of Governors of Louisiana">Louisiana Governor</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bobby Jindal">Bobby Jindal</a> (R) says:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Louisiana">State of Louisiana</a>. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with. I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV," said Jindal, who began serving as governor in 2008. "In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive. But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/miley_cyrus" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley Cyrus</a> gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended."</blockquote><br />
And of course, many ordinary citizens have taken to Facebook as well to show their support for Mr. Robertson. In fact, a page on FB called “Boycott A&E Until Phil Robertson is Put Back on Duck Dynasty” has - as of 2:00 PM on Friday, December 20 - gained 1.5 million likes.<br />
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And according many, his suspension from A&E is a free speech issue.<br />
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<b>Free Speech Infringed Upon?<br />
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The problem with this argument is that (no offense) it doesn’t make any sense. Robertson has not faced jail time or been told by the United States Government that he was not allowed to make those comments. <br />
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What has happened is that his private employer, A&E, has suspended him because they saw his comments as contradictory to their own beliefs as to how they run their business. A&E responded with this statement:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty. His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="LGBT community">LGBT community</a>. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely.”</blockquote><br />
When the controversial comments were made by Robertson, he was doing an interview for GQ Magazine about the show he is in on the channel A&E. This interview dealt with his private employer, which reserves the right to suspend him for misrepresenting their company. What he said might have been his own personal views, but from a business perspective, he was on record, in a business situation, making these comments while also talking about a show that his private employer owns the rights to. Although his views didn’t deal with the show directly, he is in the public eye because of Duck Dynasty; while he is still working for A&E, he knows that there is a certain image that he - and the rest of his family - are expected to portray. <br />
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<b>"But He Has a Right To His Own Opinion!!!"</b><br />
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This has been the consensus around social media for the past few days. And it’s completely correct. He has the right to his opinion, and he stated it. As stated before, his <i><b>private employer</b></i> suspended them and they had every right to. Now every one is angry at A&E. <br />
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<b>Why Robertson’s Remarks Were Offensive</b><br />
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Robertson grouped gay people with “drunks” and “terrorists” in the latter part of his interview. While he did say that he and his family “loves them,” it was inappropriate to group these people with the likes of terrorists, who have been responsible for thousands of deaths all over the world. He paraphrases the Biblical book of Corinthians and says that “homosexual offenders” will not “inherit the kingdom of God,” aka, they will burn forever. Gay people have heard this kind of stuff their whole lives in many cases, and it is insulting to think someone casually assumes you will burn for the rest of an eternity because you love another human being. <br />
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He says that being gay leads to having rampant sex with many people and eventually having sexual relations with animals. As I said before, this is insulting to gay people on a ridiculous level. If straight Christians were told by a gay person on national television that their “sinful” lives would lead to eventually shamelessly having sex with anyone they see and then having sex with animals, everyone would be up in arms, because a statement like that is ridiculous and insulting.<br />
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<b>What It’s Really About: Many Christians and Religious People Feel Threatened by the Growing Acceptance of the LGBTQIA Community</b><br />
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Yes, I said it, and everyone (even Christians) know it’s true. It really boils down to the fact that most American Christians (not all of them, but most) who are fairly conservative disapprove of LGBTQIA and feel that our country’s moral fabric is being threatened by this “sinful” behavior. They are afraid that acceptance will become so widespread that their impressionable children will be raised in a society that accepts the fact that human sexuality is wide and diverse. They are afraid this will cause their children to be influenced by these “demonic powers” of Satan and therefore “decide” to become gay. And then God, who loves everyone, will burn them forever in fiery torture lest they repent. Well, some people don’t believe that sends you to hell. Depends on who you ask.<br />
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Okay, minus the sarcasm, I feel that this is what this whole Phil Robertson thing is really about. For those of you who don’t know, the Bible teaches that God laid down a set of rigorous rules for the ancient Jews to follow. This included not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics, not eating shellfish or pork, and complicated rules regarding animal sacrifices which were required for forgiveness of sins. It was stated in these rules that if two men had sex, they were to be stoned to death. Many Christians refer to the Bible to state that homosexuality is wrong and should not be accepted as normal behavior. <br />
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The problem with this is that they are getting their morals from a book that requires those who pick up sticks on the Sabbath be stoned to death. That the throats of calves be slit, that their blood be sprinkled on the altar; cut into pieces and given to God as a burnt offering. The Bible says this was a pleasing aroma to God. <br />
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God said that if a man and a woman have sex while the woman is on her period, that both of them should be “cut off from among their people.” That if a betrothed virgin is raped within a city, and doesn’t cry out loud enough, that the men of the city were to stone her to death. <br />
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God’s champion, Joshua, killed thousands upon thousands in the name of his Lord, and by his command. The armies of Israels were to take the virgin women for themselves in many instances. Slavery was okay, and you weren’t in trouble if your slave got up within three days of beating him/her.<br />
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No, I am not making any of this up. This is only the tip of the iceberg regarding these types of things that can be found within the Bible.<br />
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So why do Christians insist on ignoring these other rules? Why do they insist on deriving their morals from a book that obviously has some rather hideous demands?<br />
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<b>"But That Was The Old Testament."</b><br />
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Honestly, why should that matter? It was still something that God supposedly ordained. I’m not trying to attack the Christian faith: I’m trying to illustrate that deriving your moral standard from this book is probably not a good idea. <br />
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<b>Why the LGBT Community Gets Upset When Stuff Like This Happens</b><br />
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Christians wonder why the LGBT community gets angry with people like Phil Robertson- he says that gay people are going to hell, and that they are under some kind of spell from “sin” and that this spell leads you to have rampant sex with many people and also start having relations with animals. This is insulting to LGBTQIA people, who do not exactly see it the same way that you do.<br />
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Actually, being gay, etc. isn’t exactly something you can help. Christians and people of other religious persuasions do not believe this statement. They feel that it is some excuse that the Community has made up in order to make themselves feel better about their “sin”. In fact, human sexuality (while fluid in many cases) is not something that can be chosen. Do you really think that someone would choose to make it difficult on themselves? To have strife between themselves and their parents? To be laughed at and bullied at school? Christians say, “that is the power of sin. Gay people have no shame. They are proud of their sin and don’t care what anyone thinks.” No. No, gay people are born the way they are. They have deal with the shit they do because of people who think their God’s rules trump human rights and acceptance. They are tired of being put down for how they were born. And since when was it bad to be proud of who you are? <br />
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This is why the LGBTQIA Community gets upset. For years and years they have simply wanted to be treated as equals. They aren’t out to make you gay, they aren’t mad at you because you are straight or Christian. They are mad because you push the bronze-age rules of your religion on the rest of society. These rules do not make sense to them and many other people. And if these rules came from any other religion other than Christianity, Christians would also see them as abhorrent and vile. <br />
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The Community gets upset because every time someone like Robertson gets up and says this kind of stuff, a hoard of people flood the social media to show their support of this outdated mentality that being gay is sinful. It perpetuates the hate and the judgment from other people, no matter how much you aren’t judging them.<br />
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You can’t help who you love. End the hate and judgement.<br />
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#NoH8<br />
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<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=15ad4db1-2237-4100-8917-67ce7cd50779" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-47055680122331825722013-12-09T20:22:00.000-05:002013-12-22T04:10:55.290-05:00Hobby Lobby v. ACA and Contraceptives<i>By David Rosman ~ </i><br />
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<span class="dropcap">A</span>t issue: Whether the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Religious Freedom Restoration Act">Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993</a> (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb et seq., which provides that the government “shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” unless that burden is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmental interest, allows a for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives to which the employees are otherwise entitled by federal law, based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners.<br />
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We are well aware of the coming <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> arguments concerning <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hobby Lobby">Hobby Lobby</a> and the Affordable Care Act. The question is seemingly simple in its statement but complicated in its answer. Can an owner of a company enforce his or her religious beliefs on its employees by denying benefits required by statute?<br />
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We know the owners of Hobby Lobby are Christians. They run advertisements on Easter reminding us to “know” Jesus of Nazareth. They are closed on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Liturgical year">Christian holidays</a> while other stares remain open. I have no argument over the owner’s beliefs or business practices. I do argue that the ACA is not meant to protect a business, but to provide <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Health insurance">health insurance</a> for the individual and not all employees of Hobby Lobby agree with its owners as it concerns birth control.<br />
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I cannot claim to understand the intricacies of the anti-birth control issue. I can see the argument for the anti-abortion stance, though I am still out to find anyone believing in Freedom of Choice who is “pro-abortion.” I can understand where the use of the “morning after” contraceptives would be contrary to one’s religious beliefs, but to force that same belief on others is, or at least should be part of the discussion.<br />
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The deeper question is whether a corporation has the same rights as an individual as it concerns religious beliefs? <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission">Citizens United</a> laid the ground work here by declaring that corporations “are people” and 1) can claim <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment rights</a> concerning political free speech and 2) monetary donations are a form of speech. Citizens United really concerned the regulatory oversight of the government and a corporation’s interest in these regulations.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/conestoga-wood-specialties-corp-v-sebelius/" target="_blank">Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius</a> are taking a similar stance. The difference here is that the companies are denying health benefits mandated by law to those who may not share the same religious opinions. Should a privately held corporation be considered a “person” and have the same rights as an individual under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act?<br />
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The greater question is can a corporation have a religion? This is different than a 501(c)(3) church, synagogue or temple that is devoted to a religious dogma. Here we are speaking of a for-profit organization that does not lend itself to just religious materials as a Christian book store would. Even then the book stare cannot discriminate because of one’s faith - or lack thereof.<br />
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It is difficult to tell where the Court will come down on these cases. Siding with the corporation will anger a portion of the population, the pro-choicers, the atheists and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Secular humanism">secular Humanists</a> and other secular groups. Siding against the company will light the ire of the conservative Christian movement. Who they piss-off should be of no concern to the Court. It must make its decision based on law, not popular sentiment.<br />
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In both cases, the corporations are privately held. Would there be a difference if the corporation were public, sold stock and has shareholders? What if were a majority of the shareholders who call decide that they will not comply with certain portions of the law because of religious beliefs of the majority?<br />
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I believe that both Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood are wrong, that the law was written to be all inclusive, that the ACA, deemed constitutional by the same Court, was meant for the individual person and in this case personhood and a dogma cannot be bestowed on a corporation.<br />
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Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-70696915418480180952013-11-28T09:26:00.002-05:002015-06-06T10:25:08.348-04:00A Fall of Flowers<i>By Glebealyth ~ </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD31Rz0F2f9fXD8Y_FVIeV8LuFXeEQd9JpwHJ1X5MWuS56EqCbq2Uoo6kZpfEAZhSnclgV2M6YXF2e3GLekrjU7MV2RQ_RS_V77ycfFkAaiZttRVJJYyobgY3MIJGiGrpb8XaE0RtuVug/s1600/daily-mirror-front-page-1-329x437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD31Rz0F2f9fXD8Y_FVIeV8LuFXeEQd9JpwHJ1X5MWuS56EqCbq2Uoo6kZpfEAZhSnclgV2M6YXF2e3GLekrjU7MV2RQ_RS_V77ycfFkAaiZttRVJJYyobgY3MIJGiGrpb8XaE0RtuVug/s320/daily-mirror-front-page-1-329x437.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">O</span>ne newspaper called him the “Crystal Methodist” - he is now suspended from his position as a Methodist minister of 40 years’ standing - after having been found to be purchasing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Methamphetamine">crystal meth</a> and cocaine.<br />
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When he resigned as a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_council" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="City council">City Councillor</a> in Bradford, UK, citing "increasing and competing demands on his time", the leader of the council reportedly paid tribute to his “significant and lasting contribution”. No mention was made of the fact that he had resigned when “inappropriate, adult content” was discovered on the council’s laptop which had been issued to him for work, and which he had taken in to be serviced.<br />
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He is no longer the Chairman of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_banking" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cooperative banking">Cooperative Bank</a>.<br />
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One assumes that this man of the cloth, Paul Flowers, who apparently used his work email address for the task of soliciting “rent boys”, is a believing Christian, though it is not something he is currently boasting about. If he is, where did the renewing of the old through the bold of Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit disappear to? Was he born again, or merely regurgitated, slightly pre-digested?<br />
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Whilst his ordination might be called a “ministry”, I fail to recall any mention of meth addiction or pornography collection among the many “<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_Holy_Spirit" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Fruit of the Holy Spirit">fruits of the Spirit</a>“ by which it is claimed that the world will know Jesus’ followers.<br />
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Mr Flowers, to his credit, has apologized saying, "This year has been incredibly difficult with a death in the family and the pressures of my role with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_Bank" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Co-operative Bank">the Co-operative Bank</a>. At the lowest point in this terrible period, I did things that were stupid and wrong. I am sorry for this, and I am seeking professional help, and apologise to all I have hurt or failed by my actions."<br />
I am at a loss to know what happened to “not being tested beyond what you can bear” that we hear so often from believers. Where is the strength that fellowshipping with Jesus is supposed to provide to help face trials which life tends to throw at us?. A death in the family is a stressful event – sad and painful - but everyone, except those who die very young, experiences this and the world seems to be turning, still, and, after all the generations of its existence, humanity is still around, dealing with it.<br />
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This is not schadenfreude. I am not saying, “Look, how the mighty are fallen!”.<br />
I am asking believers to consider serious questions here:<br />
<ul><li>We are all capable of doing these things. Not one of us is immune from falling prey to what you, a believer, might call sin; but what I want to know is not why Mr (Rev) Flowers failed Jesus, but why Jesus failed Mr Flowers.</li>
<li>Mr Flowers will have regularly asked Jesus, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”. He will have prayed this for himself and for his congregation, so where was Jesus?</li>
<li>When Mr Flowers led the singing of “Standing on the Promises”, “Victory in Jesus” and other favourite Methodist hymns, where was Jesus? He seems not to have been interested in making the words of those hymns come true.</li>
<li>Why did Jesus let Paul Flowers down?</li>
<li>Should you not start to question whether the promises in the Bible will ever be kept?</li>
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The greatest shame here is that Mr Flowers will now be prosecuted for drugs offences, having been caught on video, committing them. Why is that the greatest shame? Because there will be no action taken against those who lied to Mr Flowers about the divine help he could expect to receive once he entered a life of service to Jesus as a disciple, ordained or otherwise. No, they will not be brought to justice for their frauds; and, of course, neither Jesus, nor his Dad will be made to pay for the breach of contract which their broken promises constitute.<br />
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Mr Flowers should be pitied, because he was conned. Despite the promises, Jesus was nowhere to be seen offering assistance, comfort and succour in any of Paul Flowers’ hours of need, and it is Paul Flowers who will pay the price. The Lord has certainly been Paul Flowers’ shepherd, and Paul is now the lamb about to be slain.<br />
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<i>Sourced from<br />
The Guardian, BBC News</i><br />
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<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8652944e-aee4-4beb-aead-897f3f4ada59" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-48388425852584646372012-05-13T08:03:00.000-04:002019-07-09T12:24:03.187-04:00Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL6WFW6xMoc3ZXDRRx3XbehkEeQSFEqRTXDhfRTcOQd9D2U93CK1wJn_hsfDBj6kWJjw3SPA6lde1K499pMmnNqGmrTCP1ALlMwr-Bo67kR2W27-ryQYVdDNH_9LNnXBZzk29v2rcPgW2/s1600/HandReaching.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL6WFW6xMoc3ZXDRRx3XbehkEeQSFEqRTXDhfRTcOQd9D2U93CK1wJn_hsfDBj6kWJjw3SPA6lde1K499pMmnNqGmrTCP1ALlMwr-Bo67kR2W27-ryQYVdDNH_9LNnXBZzk29v2rcPgW2/s320/HandReaching.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">E</span>mpathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.<br />
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<blockquote>If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity … and a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.” (Frans de Waal)</blockquote><br />
Dr. <a class="zem_slink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Frans de Waal">Frans B. M. de Waal</a> is a biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chimpanzee-Politics-Power-among-Apes/dp/0801863368" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff2b06; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chimpanzee Politics">Chimpanzee Politics</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1982), compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Ever since, de Waal has drawn parallels between primate and human behavior, from peacemaking and morality to culture. His scientific work has been published in hundreds of technical articles in journals such as Science, Nature, Scientific American, and outlets specialized in animal behavior. His popular books – translated into fifteen languages – have made him one of the world’s most visible primatologists. His latest books are <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-Inner-Ape-Frans-Waal/dp/1573223123" target="_blank" title="Our Inner Ape">Our Inner Ape</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(2005, Riverhead) and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Age-Empathy-Natures-Lessons-Society/dp/0307407764" target="_blank" title="The Age of Empathy">The Age of Empathy</a></i> (2009, Harmony).<br />
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De Waal is C. H. Candler Professor in the Psychology Department of <a class="zem_slink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Emory University">Emory University</a> and Director of the <a href="https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff2b06; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Living Links Center">Living Links Center</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.yerkes.emory.edu/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff2b06; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Yerkes National Primate Center">Yerkes National Primate Center</a>, in Atlanta. He has been elected to the <a class="zem_slink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> (US), the <a class="zem_slink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, and the <a class="zem_slink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences">Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences</a>. In 2007, he was selected by <i>Time</i> as one of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1595326_1595329_1616472,00.html" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff2b06; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World's 100 Most Influential People Today">The Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today</a>, and in 2011 by <i>Discover</i> as among 47 (all time) Great Minds of Science.<br />
Read <a href="https://tedxpeachtree.com/speaker-q-a-frans-b-m-de-waal-ph-d/" target="_blank">TEDxPeachtree's Q&A with Frans de Waal >></a> <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNS8qyHej1w2fq9Tv5FusRexEpPIPITvObWfXAI0LAnZ_yD-u4_krl7Z2bkd1VA_IiRbkJP01z1Tw_uxLDD4l1zteb4etUIztRkzD6coc3bcNwVXVGWWrctdoud35yKyK607fEAG_DZwF/s1600/JesusRaptor.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNS8qyHej1w2fq9Tv5FusRexEpPIPITvObWfXAI0LAnZ_yD-u4_krl7Z2bkd1VA_IiRbkJP01z1Tw_uxLDD4l1zteb4etUIztRkzD6coc3bcNwVXVGWWrctdoud35yKyK607fEAG_DZwF/s320/JesusRaptor.png" width="209" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">T</span>he argument concerning the teaching of evolution and creationist ideologies in schools is one that has long swept the floors of our school boards and state legislatures. It is so teeming with personal convictions of educators and legislators that one may find it quite difficult to wade through the ridiculous and come up with a viable decision on the matter. According to the article that I have selected,"On eve of Darwin’s birthday, states take steps to limit evolution" by Kimberly Winston (Washington Post), the schools of certain states are attempting once again to remove theory repeatedly proven by exact and methodical scientific testing, and replace it with fantasy.<br />
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I find my atheism very apparent from that last statement, but I will attempt to remain as non-biased as possible concerning the subject matter; which I assure you is very biased even so. Whatever side of the spectrum you find yourself on, it is very difficult and almost certainly naive to deny the validity of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Darwinism">Darwin's Theory of Evolution</a>. There are very few laws in science, and even fewer in the field of biology, Darwin's theory not included; but rest assured that Darwin's theory is hardly arguable subject matter. Which brings me to my next point.<br />
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With all of this overwhelming evidence supporting something that is the basis for our existence, why would one consider combating this theory with something so preposterous as the idea that we are the absent minded side project of an ever present being within the expanse of our unimaginable universe? Now lets be clear here, I'm not arguing the existence of God, I'm arguing the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Creation and evolution in public education">teaching of Creationism</a>. As these lawmakers would have it, the earth is 6000 years old, carbon dating is always wrong, and <a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/most-popular/1236-scientists-prove-jesus-walked-with-dinosaurs.html" target="_blank">Jesus rode a velociraptor</a><a class="l" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVelociraptor&ei=gkdHT5z_AoKJtwe4o_WyDg&usg=AFQjCNEcEK-JFsEzYXtLWvBFmJFLl03eXg&sig2=5Inkxjywjs5zQMeGVxEOYw"><i></i></a>. If that is what you want to believe, please be my guest, but keep it out of our public schools. The idea of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of Church and State</a> works both ways, not only to protect the minds and freedoms of those who do not subscribe to faith, but also to protect those of faith from very "unreasonable" men like myself. By instituting faith-based logic on our public school children, you send an open invitation for doomed souls to break down your "logic". (Please be away that by stating "you", I am not implying "You" the reader, only those applicable concerning the article.")<br />
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I find it so difficult to accept the fact that they wish to outlaw the atheists, to paint them as evil men and women of no moral value. The idea of atheism is so deeply in tune with the moral views of man, that it would even seem that our counterparts are threatened. They are threatened by the idea that we, of no faith, can be humans of great value. They find it so difficult to believe the someone could walk within the bounds of righteousness with no means of support, that they lash out at the very idea of one without faith. The atheist needs no guiding light, he finds that light within himself, and will stand as a light for those around him.<br />
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One quote from the article especially caught my attention. “I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented,” Bergevin told the Concord Monitor. “It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: They don’t respect human rights.” They almost make it too easy for anybody with sense to see through the fallacy. If we are to explore the extent of Atheism, which we do in History every day, then we must also explore the extent of Christianity. And I assure you, it is a history riddled with inconsistencies as well as atrocities. So I find it almost amusing that this man would attempt to put his faith on the chopping block, when I know with the upmost certainty that it will not withstand the flood of logic and reason that we of little or no faith find so handy within ourselves. We breath logic with every breath, and with each passing day we find new reasons to see light beyond the darkness that religion has cast. So if this man wishes to stack his faith up against the truth of this world, he can rest assured that am I but the lowliest of the great minds that I stand with. It will take more than that simple invitation to silence the free thinkers.<br />
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But what about intelligent design? We don't need to teach the kids about Adam and Eve, but certainly that the Universe is the framework of something set in place by a very impressive being. To most, this being would be considered God, and to many; God would be exactly who they are implying. Though I can't argue with the idea that children should be left to make up their own minds concerning creation, I can argue that this cloak of Creationist deception is completely unnecessary in their upbringing. We don't need to waste taxpayer's money concerning our kids with the even more confusing idea that, "There is a God, but we can't tell you anything about him".<br />
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So what do we do, teach them nothing? If we can't find common ground on the creation of man, should we just ignore it completely? The ludicrousness of it all can be answered simply; teach them fact. Teach them proven ideas, and allow them to make own decisions based on their upbringing and their life ahead. If we aren't teaching them fact, then we aren't telling them the truth. If we aren't telling them the truth, then why are we teaching them at all? <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=f4ab05dd-c775-462b-b57d-55c77c812591" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-84614056064173229362012-02-19T15:41:00.000-05:002012-02-25T05:59:20.024-05:00The Reason Rally<i>By dealdoctor ~ </i><br />
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<a href="http://reasonrally.org/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA93SvbVRWDl79PyOVa0uy5q6uq4CyuFGDsYOF13_DlHfMnsZnSyWpA9GXbagFURcSEvYRyddaiCmxzonxJ6V9pWwXjRn2RKR7itlDvtFnKGQdtPvLAIAy9J0X-6zveIjkgmMYjgrtkFEu/s320/ReasonLogo300.jpg" /></a><span class="dropcap">M</span>ass movements are on the rise worldwide. People are hitting the streets to call for a more humane and better world in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a> and OWS. People are even hitting the street to spit out brain dead <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingnut_%28politics%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Wingnut (politics)">right wing nut</a> babble. It is hit the streets season everywhere so where are the secular humanist folks. Wait. It is about to happen.<br />
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There is to be a massive "Reason Rally" March 24, 2021 in Washington DC on the national mall. This is your invitation. Yes, you.<br />
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It is being billed as the largest gathering of secularists, humanists, reason lovers in the history of the world.<br />
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Our numbers are growing as I am sure you know. When asked what there religion is those who mark "none" is the fastest growing segment of the American population. We are about to have a big coming out party March 24th, 2012. Bring balloons.<br />
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This rally will demonstrate to the American public that the portion of the American population that does not believe in God is no insignificant minority. Our numbers are huge. Larger in number than Muslims, or Methodists, or Mormons in America.<br />
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All <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brights_movement" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Brights movement">Brights</a>, Keeners, Agnostics, Atheists, Freethinkers, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Humanism">Humanists</a>, ExChristians, Unbelievers, Infidels, Scientists, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Secularism">Secularists</a>, Humanists are expressly invited! The list of speakers is awesome. Game on!<br />
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Note: For any church folk who may stumble into this Reason Rally be advised as you enter the "congregation" it is not required that you check your brain at the door bring. Just go ahead and bring your brain right on into the "service". I promise you will not be harmed. It will be safe and non violent and all minorities are encouraged to attend. Come see what it feels like to be in the minority. It will enlighten you. We invite you to the Enlightenment Event now known as the Reason Rally March 24th, 2012.<br />
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Ya'll come now, ya hear! See videos and website below.<br />
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<b>Overview:</b><br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/7esrq33">http://tinyurl.com/7esrq33</a><br />
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<b>Website:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.reasonrally.com/">www.reasonrally.com</a><br />
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<b>What the Atheist Evangelist says about this Goddamn Reason Rally:</b><br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/8xsu8u4%20" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/8xsu8u4 </a> <br />
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<span class="dropcap">F</span>or all the world to see: a moving, timeless Christmas message by several christian leaders in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a>, the place where Jesus was said to have been born, during the celebration of his birth! Christians doing what they do best: acting like Christians!<br />
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In this news video christian leaders (trained priests and monks) at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Church of the Nativity">Church of the Nativity</a> in Bethlehem go at each other in a melee that rivals some of the best hockey fights that I've seen in recent years.<br />
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Each of these guys should receive a medal for going balls-out to put on what can rightly be called, a Christmas "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_play" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Passion play">Passion Play</a>," by hurling sticks, brooms, bottles, rocks and just about anything within arms reach --at each other-- all for their jesus-turf.<br />
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Hats off to these christian leaders who are doing their dead-level best to demonstrate how christian faith actually works and how to emulate their leader --who had legitimate anger management issues himself.<br />
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(Remember that time in the gospels (the christian "Good news" part of their bible) when he went ape shit in the town's business center? How about when he said that his purpose was not to bring peace on earth, but a sword? Or several times where he made mortal threats against anyone who loved their family more than they loved him?) In this video, he's definitely keeping his promise.'Nuf said.<br />
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So, naturally, it begs the question: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_would_Jesus_do%3F" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="What would Jesus do?">WWJD?</a><br />
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I've got five dollars (CDN) that says he would have definitely joined in. In fact, if he and I were there together, I would have lent him my hockey stick and asked for an autograph.<br />
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After all, didn't the bible writers say that he said, "Whenever two or more are gathered in my name there will be a fight"?<br />
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He and his posse can really kick-ass, can't they!<br />
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Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-15776372809458064242011-12-20T04:47:00.000-05:002011-12-25T03:34:42.125-05:00Jesus appears in melted crayons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggo_Uxn0rFYsS4upOYFI6gKT3bRHgJ_XkM-wucaAVRbAAzwbqCV5dBA5-jQzt6dJ-bmB3SptsRwlYQ2WXFJLm7pqI1GpDkXNWHZ0bgEjwgV3THDfwZHe7uua65SAe9eiCBY_Dl6QV7nPCc/s1600/jesusCRAYONS_20111219061301_640_480.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggo_Uxn0rFYsS4upOYFI6gKT3bRHgJ_XkM-wucaAVRbAAzwbqCV5dBA5-jQzt6dJ-bmB3SptsRwlYQ2WXFJLm7pqI1GpDkXNWHZ0bgEjwgV3THDfwZHe7uua65SAe9eiCBY_Dl6QV7nPCc/s200/jesusCRAYONS_20111219061301_640_480.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">A</span> Blue Springs, Missouri woman said she wanted her family to remember the reason for the Christmas season but was surprised to get a divine reminder through Crayola crayons.<br />
The woman said her child's crayons led her to an encounter with Jesus.<br />
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<object data="http://www.wcpo.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=null" height="415" id="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500"><param value="http://www.wcpo.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=null" name="movie"/><param value="&skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&embed=true&adSizeArray=1x1000,320x40,3x1000&adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fpfadx%2Fssp%2Ewcpo%2Fnews%2Flocal%5Fnews%2Fwater%5Fcooler%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bsz%3D%25size%25%3Bpos%3D%25pos%25%3Bloc%3D%25loc%25%3Bcomp%3D%25adid%25%3Btile%3D3%3Bfname%3DWoman%2Dsays%2DJesus%2Dappears%2Din%2Dson%2Ds%2Dmelted%2Dcrayons%3Bord%3D452187919057905660%3Frand%3D%25rand%25&flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewcpo%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D188603294&img=http%3A%2F%2Fsharing%2Ewcpo%2Ecom%2Fsharekshb%2F%2Fphoto%2F2011%2F12%2F18%2FJesus%5Fappears%5Fin%5Fcrayof6fc4b2d%2D90d4%2D4593%2Db11c%2Dae65be056eb50000%5F20111218225759%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewcpo%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%5Fnews%2Fwater%5Fcooler%2FWoman%2Dsays%2DJesus%2Dappears%2Din%2Dson%2Ds%2Dmelted%2Dcrayons&category=local%5Fnews&title=Jesus%20appears%20in%20crayon&oacct=&ovns=" name="FlashVars"/><param value="all" name="allowNetworking"/><param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/></object>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-17029105929307898352011-09-03T15:08:00.000-04:002012-03-10T09:59:09.161-05:009/11 Memorial: Which God to Pray To?<i>By John Shores ~ </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93O48fR2d14sDdVLw5fqmPi8zjdIdvrZOaBRQZEbwgesHDisPo-KU-RMjHk33v9MFh7Eg-X9NyDcH0dvSJArTAt0qxBTsY06Evn0bYGNiUe2qZtcPyor6OkCLygPgKdmIaUv_kp_5QL0a/s1600/the-gods-of-olympus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93O48fR2d14sDdVLw5fqmPi8zjdIdvrZOaBRQZEbwgesHDisPo-KU-RMjHk33v9MFh7Eg-X9NyDcH0dvSJArTAt0qxBTsY06Evn0bYGNiUe2qZtcPyor6OkCLygPgKdmIaUv_kp_5QL0a/s320/the-gods-of-olympus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">M</span>y sister is torqued about a civic ceremony to pay homage to the victims of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="September 11 attacks">9/11 attacks</a>. It's not just that only the families of the dead were invited and that the first-responders were not (to be honored in a separate ceremony later) but she is outraged that no religious leaders were invited to offer up prayers. For this she and my father have commented about about the shallowness of the souls of the event organizers.<br />
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Aside from such attitudes being contrary to anything Christ ever taught, what flummoxes me is this; what kind of lunatic would pray to any <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="God">God</a> who didn't show up on 9/11? Let's take a look at a wee bit of religious history:<br />
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<ul><li>- <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Noah">Noah</a>: God committed genocide by flooding the Earth</li>
<li>- Sodom and G: God wiped out a couple cities without any assistance</li>
<li>- <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>: God plagued a nation into submission</li>
<li>- Jericho: God leveled a city with sound waves produced by his devoted followers</li>
<li>- <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Elijah">Elijah</a>: God heaved fire onto an altar and the prophets of the opposing team were summarily executed as a consequence</li>
<li>- Luke 13 - The Tower of Siloam fell and killed 18 people; an act attributed to God</li>
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One could make the argument that the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Judeo-Christian">Judeo-Christian</a> God brought down the twin towers except that the devout followers who affected this travesty worshiped <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Allah">Allah</a> who, apparently, is sort-of but not really the same chap.<br />
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So, we are left with a quandary; do we invite the religious leaders of the Judeo-Christian God to offer prayers at a memorial service? Well, why would you? If he was responsible for the deaths, what kind of comfort could he offer? And if not, what's the good of asking for comfort from a God who was bested that day? If God could anesthetize Adam enough that Adam didn't wake while a rib was being extracted, how hard would it have been to put the terrorists to sleep before they worked their nefarious scheme? I mean, really!<br />
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It seems to me that, logically, the only deity that has a right to be prayed to at any ceremony referencing 9/11 is Allah. To be consistent with Biblical teaching, one must admit that Allah was smiting mightily that day (even Elijah would have shrugged a couple shoulders and called this a fair cop) and was with his devoted followers. But, offering up a prayer of thanksgiving for the deaths of the infidels at a ceremony in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="New York">New York</a> probably wouldn't be very politically expedient, would it?<br />
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<img alt="To Train Up A Child" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1892112000&tag=exchrisnetenc-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1892112000" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Gary Tuchman reports on an author who says you must <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Spanking">spank</a> your child and a couple who killed their daughter doing it.<br />
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We hope this is the definitive take down of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam_cosmological_argument">Kalam Cosmological Argument</a>. <div class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_bang.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Big bang" height="148" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Big_bang.jpg/300px-Big_bang.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_bang.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></div>We show how it is contradictory and that the physics being used to support it doesn't do so. We also had this video reviewed by Marcus, one of the Cosmology Advisers on <a href="http://www.physicsforums.com/">Physics Forums</a> to make sure there were no errors. His words:<br />
<blockquote>"I think it is excellent.Your narrator comes across as really smart and personable....I don't see any glaring errors, really amazingly good. It's charming, intelligent, visually engaging, sporadically really beautiful like the brief cut of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble telescope</a> and the volcano etc. Well-made!"</blockquote><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The general nature of religious worldviews: Why religious believers are not science-friendly.</b></span><br />
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<span class="dropcap">T</span>he debate between science and religion is a complex one, but I don’t want to focus on all the details. I want to explore the underlying reason why many religious believers have difficulty relating to scientific facts and explanations than religious ones. It is not mere stupidity, although many religious believers have displayed ignorance, but something deep. I am not saying that those deep reasons for being uncomfortable with scientific facts are a good reason to reject science (I think it is a bad reason to deny scientific facts), but rather I am trying to provide an insightful explanation to this problem.<br />
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<div class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40861420@N00/3978414091" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Science, religion and perceptions of reality" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3978414091_a12244faff_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40861420@N00/3978414091" target="_blank">Noel A. Tanner</a> via Flickr</span></div>Many times, either religious people try to reconcile science with religion or they assert that science and religion are not reconcilable. The problem with this is that it is not really science as a whole that religions are having problem with, but specific theories and descriptions of the world that disturbs them. It is not only evolutionary theory and big bang theory that many religious have problems with, but other scientific understanding of the world such as the fact that neurobiology has no evidence for the “soul” or that the earth is more than 6000 years old. Many other scientific facts and theories contradict religious tenants about the cosmos which brings discomfort to many religious adherents. Despite this, there are many scientists in the United States that are religious, and accept scientific explanations. Other religious believers in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mainline Protestant">Mainline Protestantism</a> also accept scientific explanations since they interpret the bible allegorically.<br />
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The relation between science and religion become more complex not only in regards to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_science" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Natural science">natural science</a> but also history and other social sciences. History, including modern biblical criticism, has shown that the bible is not necessarily a coherent text but a compilation of books written in different times, which inevitably lead each text to contradict each other. I will not go deep into biblical criticism, but I will say that the results of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a> in history and the archeology have not received favorable reception among religious conservatives. Even though the scientific method of history and archeology has successfully found evidence for other historical events, which religious believers are either indifferent to or receptive to, whenever it comes to finding contrary evidence against biblical “accounts” believers react with discomfort and disapproval.<br />
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Theologians have insisted in the separation between science and religion, but the separation is not always clear. Religion certainly deals with distinct norms, rituals, holidays, communities, etc. These aspects of religions do not really have much to do with explanations of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Nature">natural world</a>, which is not necessarily in dispute with science. But the underpinning or foundational of religions are usually some kind of explanation of reality which human beings inhabit. Somehow these explanations are very much tied into justifying or rationalizing distinct customs, habits, norms, worship, etc than a sophisticated investigation of understanding the natural world. In this respect, religions do not necessarily investigate what the natural world is but have preconceptions about the world that are frameworks for human behavior, attitude, conventions, communities, etc; religious explanations are meant to regulate attitude and behavior of human beings.<br />
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While some religions are more metaphysical than others (by metaphysical I meant focusing on the fundamentals quality of reality), many of the metaphysical beliefs always have some relation to human behavior and attitudes. Religion, then, defines the world not only for its own sake but also to delineate the purpose of human actions. I am not saying that religion seeks to control people’s behavior in a totalitarian matter (although that does occur), but rather religions display a common human feat: that is to impose intelligible purpose on actions to justify them. We do this many times, in which we formulate or impose a purpose to meaningfully elucidate our behavior. The purpose is not always imposed by rationality but also by desires and motivation. In this sense religion tries to relate human actions to reality, by providing a belief system about reality that can prescribe a general way to impose a purpose to many <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_behavior" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Human behavior">human behaviors</a>.<br />
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An example of this is that in Buddhism there is a metaphysical belief in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Karma">Karma</a>/Rebirth. The belief in Karma basically states that there is a causal law about our actions in that consistent negative actions lead us to be reborn in the worse life, while positive actions will lead us to be reborn in a better life. But in the overall scheme any kind of existence leads to suffering, which we all need to transcend. The four noble truth and he eightfold path is prescribed unto human behaviors to achieve a certain state of mind in order to transcend karma. The metaphysical belief about the world (karma) is deeply connected to the prescription of the eightfold path and four noble truths. Likewise in Christianity, the world we inhabit is infested with sin and suffering, and our human nature is incapable of relating to the supreme ruler. The narrative of the fall, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Existence of God">existence of God</a> (including Jesus) is beliefs about the history of reality that relates to the human condition to the extent that it meaningfully prescribes certain norms and behavior. When the norms, behaviors, rituals, and customs that are prescribed are followed it becomes an identity for the believers; basically, you are what you do.<br />
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Science on the other hand describes the world for its own sake, but provides evidence to prove the description. The description is merely a hypothesis until there is sufficient evidence to support it. The description does not merely describe but also predicts the behavior of nature. In this sense science is impersonal and objective, indifferent to human behaviors. It does not seek to justify human behavior other than the act of scientific investigation and curiosity. Applied science, on the other hand, is not indifferent to the natural world but manipulates the principles of nature in order to develop technologies that maximize the efficiency of human actions. But this application does not seek to describe the natural world but uses the principles already described to benefit human actions.<br />
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With this basic difference between science and religion (and I say basic because the difference maybe more complex than it is) it seems that science has the kind of intellectual integrity to understand the world even if reality goes against human preconceptions. Religions on the other hand holds unto the preconceptions not just because it is believed to be true, but those preconceptions are the essence of the believer’s identity that normatively regulates behaviors and communal values. To simply introduce the scientific explanation of the world that is supported with overwhelming evidence cannot always appeal to the religious believer, because the mind of the religious believer is primarily focused on the narrative values of their identity which science by its very nature does not appeal to. That doesn’t mean that the believer is correct, but it is difficult for the believer to relate to scientific explanations since science only seeks to explain nature for its own sake rather than providing some kind of social-regulating values that religious myths and rituals can provide. That doesn’t mean that science can never convince religious believers to accept scientific facts, but it does explain why it is difficult for people to accept scientific facts because their minds are still in the pre-modern and pre-scientific era that emphasizes on explaining the world intelligibly to the extent that it also prescribes human values. Human beings have the tendency to look at nature through human eyes, and this means that the view of the world is anthropocentric in that nature is understood as justifying prescribed values through deities or other supernatural forces. Justifying prescribed values leads to justifying certain sense of identity important to the religious believes. In the world we inhabit, religions express the need to interpret the world meaningfully to the believers such that they can existentially inhabit the world. Science doesn’t seem to do that since it seeks to understand the world objectively, not in terms of existential and subjective terms. This isn’t necessarily bad for science, since it displays intellectual integrity to understand the world with an open and self-critical mind.<br />
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I am not defending religion, but rather explaining why it is difficult for religious believers in general to relate to scientific facts into their worldview. What I explained is that worldviews cannot be merely descriptive but must also be existentially prescriptive (e.g. “What should I do? What is the purpose of what I do?”), and this is something that religions emphasize. I am not saying that this is all what religion is, since religions are more complex to be explained that way. But I do believe that this is the fundamental and underlying reason why religions are attractive to religious believers. I do believe that we all need to try to understand the world in its own terms, not in human terms, to be intellectually honest. I do not think that by doing this we are destroying our motives to do anything in this world, because it’s quite obvious that our motives are not always related to impersonal facts about the world. Religions have consistently emphasized the notion that the way world is must justify prescribed human values that many religious people are under the false impression that they cannot live life if they find out that the world they believe they inhabit does not really exist but rather they live in a world indifferent to their actions. <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=0128b77d-452f-4299-b604-5b3cea01e940" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-26920303616814270162011-06-19T07:33:00.001-04:002011-06-27T17:46:07.663-04:00"The Ledge" Moves the Focus on Religious Violence from the Epic to the Personal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEolHuOG9k3Nfm3yHAQ1EZZqtJIuB1Cc_rdl9m5-rBkOokto1qVl9-PSD2RHTooTpGAB6LBudApfU3SjnMYdBpz4HdvNL4Zl35bxbVYSQ0hccESr6fHRP_bBlpzjGFq9E4henyPP8rJn0O/s1600/shot13-cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEolHuOG9k3Nfm3yHAQ1EZZqtJIuB1Cc_rdl9m5-rBkOokto1qVl9-PSD2RHTooTpGAB6LBudApfU3SjnMYdBpz4HdvNL4Zl35bxbVYSQ0hccESr6fHRP_bBlpzjGFq9E4henyPP8rJn0O/s320/shot13-cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>New York (NY) (May 16, 2011) - Nominated for Best US Drama at the 2011 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Film_Festival" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sundance Film Festival">Sundance Film Festival</a>, <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ledge_%28film%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Ledge (film)">The Ledge</a></i> is the first film in Hollywood history that puts an atheist hero into a production with A-list talent. The film stars <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hunnam" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Charlie Hunnam">Charlie Hunnam</a> (<i>Sons of Anarchy</i>), <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Tyler" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Liv Tyler">Liv Tyler</a> (<i>The Lord of the Rings</i>), Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominee Patrick Wilson (<i>Watchmen</i>), and Oscar nominee <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Howard" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Terrence Howard">Terrence Howard</a> (<i>Crash, Iron Man</i>)<br />
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On the rooftop of a city skyscraper, Detective Hollis (Terrence Howard) pleads with Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) not to jump. What he does not know is that Gavin, an atheist, is involved in a deadly feud with Joe (Patrick Wilson), a Christian extremist. Joe's wife, Shana, (Liv Tyler) is caught in the middle as Joe seeks to test Gavin's faith or lack of it. Cutting between the present and the past, tension escalates as verbal shots give way to deadly threats in a race against time that neither God nor the police can stop. Along the way, the film provocatively explores the intellectual and emotional conflicts between religion and atheism.<br />
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<span class="pullquote"><a href="http://www.sundancenow.com/film/the-ledge/673?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20ledge%20movie&utm_campaign=the%20ledge">The Ledge</a> could be the Brokeback Mountain moment for atheists, drawing blockbuster attention to our cause. But, if the film doesn't do well on <a href="http://www.sundancenow.com/film/the-ledge/673?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20ledge%20movie&utm_campaign=the%20ledge">video-on-demand</a> and through its "test run" in New York and LA theatres starting July 8th, it could fail to go nationwide, scaring studios away from atheist films for years. Christians rose up for Passion Of The Christ, and more faith-based films followed. Do we have that kind of fight?</span>The great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, writer and director <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Chapman_%28author%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Matthew Chapman (author)">Matthew Chapman</a> has engaged with atheist issues his entire life. For <a href="http://www.sundancenow.com/film/the-ledge/673?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20ledge%20movie&utm_campaign=the%20ledge"><i>The Ledge</i></a>, he says, "I liked the idea of combining a romantic love triangle with religion, because though everyone is outraged by religious violence when it involves people of other faiths flying airplanes into buildings, there are other kinds of cruelty in religion that are broadly accepted. For example, almost all religions, including Judaism and Christianity, put down women and gays. So while you can look at religion from above and see how it tries to control society, the pain it causes is ultimately personal. Film is an ideal medium to show these smaller emotional tragedies." <br />
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While <i>The Ledge</i> does not provide answers to the questions it raises, its willingness to question religion has sparked controversy, thrusting the film into the center of the debate on secularism and society. Says Chapman, "I want Christians and other believers to watch <i>The Ledge</i> and see that atheists are people with a valid point of view and a right to be heard. And I want agnostics, atheists, and non-believers of all types to see the film and think, 'I am not alone. One day humans will give up superstition for good, and find more rational and compassionate ways of dealing with life.' For the first time, many of us can see this day coming."<br />
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<i>The Ledge</i> is now available through <a href="http://www.sundancenow.com/film/the-ledge/673?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20ledge%20movie&utm_campaign=the%20ledge">video-on-demand</a>, and it hits theatres July 8, 2011. To see the trailer, or get the official movie script, visit <a href="http://ledgemovie.com/" target="_blank">www.LedgeMovie.com</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/theledgemovie/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/theledgemovie/</a>. <br />
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<b>About Matthew Chapman</b><br />
Writer-Director Matthew Chapman is the critically acclaimed author of two non-fiction books, <i>Trials of the Monkey - An Accidental Memoir </i>and <i>40 Days and 40 Nights</i>. Critics and newspapers from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a> to The Wall Street Journal have praised his books as brilliant, highly personal accounts of the battle between faith and reason. His screenplay credits include <i>Consenting Adults</i>, directed by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_J._Pakula" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Alan J. Pakula">Alan J. Pakula</a>, <i>Color of Night</i>, directed by Richard Rush, and <i>Runaway Jury</i>, directed by Gary Fleder. He is grateful to have been given the opportunity with <i>The Ledge</i> to marry his love of the thriller to his fascination with religious extremism.<br />
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For more information or to arrange an interview with Matthew Chapman, contact Lauren Schwartz at lmschwartz@ifcfilms.com or 646-384-4694.<br />
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<span class="dropcap">O</span>n September 7, 1994, Harold Camping and his followers sat dressed in their Sunday best, holding their Bibles open-faced towards Heaven as they waited for the return of Christ. Their wait was in vain, as the sun rose on September 8 with no Rapture having occurred. Camping chalked this up to a mathematical error, and moved the date of the Rapture to May 21, 2011; another day that has come and gone without major incident.<br />
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<div class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/0aPs7Wp6U7caA?utm_source=zemanta&utm_medium=p&utm_content=0aPs7Wp6U7caA&utm_campaign=z1" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: Julie Baker walks the ..." height="100" src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0aPs7Wp6U7caA/150x100.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="150" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;">Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images" target="_blank">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/" target="_blank">@daylife</a></span></div>As the media storm surrounding Camping’s prediction was beginning to stir, I noticed many of the comments being left on articles were from Christians, ridiculing and chastising Camping’s followers. One article I read mentioned an individual who had been listening to—and believing in—Camping’s Family Radio since before the failed 1994 prediction. While some laughed, some rolled their eyes, and some scolded, the Christian community could not wrap their minds around why someone would continue to follow someone whose prophecies were clearly false.<br />
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Personally, my faith began to unravel when I studied Bible verses in which Jesus pointed to the imminence of his return, repeatedly addressing the generation before him and even suggesting that some of the apostles would be alive to witness the Second Coming. No amount of mental gymnastics by apologists could delude me into taking his statements at anything other than face value. Aside from its skewed morals and continuity errors, the Bible itself effectively quoted Jesus as a false prophet. Well over a thousand years have passed; the Apostles, the generation to which he spoke, and many subsequent generations have all come and gone without Jesus’ return. Yet, much like Camping’s follower who remained with him since 1994, millions of Christians all over the globe are able to push aside these clearly erroneous predictions in favor of something more appealing.<br />
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One of Camping’s selling points in his May 21 doomsday prophecy was that the Bible guaranteed its veracity. A friend and I sat on Youtube on May 22, watching a pre-Rapture interview with a Camping follower who insists that the May 21 message is written clearly in the Bible. I believe that this man will continue to follow Camping through October, the date on which he claims the world will end, if not beyond that. Not only has he invested time and probably money into raising awareness, he may have left a job, a relationship, his home, or otherwise jeopardized his life’s circumstances for the sake of this prophecy. Many of them will have been so convinced that May 21 was so clearly written into the Bible, giving up on Camping will mean giving up on their faith--something that I doubt any of them are ready for. This, I believe, is also why many Christians ignore the clear false prophecies given by Jesus in the New Testament: if the Bible is untrue, then their entire faith is a lie.<br />
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<div class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/011B36x2ltgWE?utm_source=zemanta&utm_medium=p&utm_content=011B36x2ltgWE&utm_campaign=z1" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: Participants in a movem..." height="100" src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/011B36x2ltgWE/150x100.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="150" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;">Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images" target="_blank">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/" target="_blank">@daylife</a></span></div>As someone’s who’s been through that, I know that it is a hard thing to accept. I sat with my Bible open, tears splattering onto the pages as I desperately sought a deeper meaning in Jesus’ words. I prayed for the Holy Spirit to guide me to its proper interpretation. I scoured texts and an array of websites and even wrote to one, but none offered satisfactory answers. It just wasn’t true. I was able to let go, eventually, but I know many Christians wouldn’t.<br />
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So the Christians, of all people, should be understanding of the followers that have stayed with Camping since 1994, and those who will persist past October 21. They have more in common than they think. <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=212b7ae4-732f-4083-ae19-c19428c17ca1" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-28682051556700233162011-06-01T20:01:00.003-04:002015-06-06T10:26:31.059-04:00David Barton's Pants Are On Fire... For Jesus<i>By Sgt Justin Griffith, organizer of <a href="http://rockbeyondbelief.com/">Rock Beyond Belief</a> ~ </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21jYw0VaRiZvP6B-ILEUt9zTLjyy-fPNRc0v9qWXR6dzDzrPJZZyjG_-g26v0W0ETU_Q-grKzDhAiYpZzdcj7IgRakCBGBrs5ic59dwqQmjluoVNFnGoJ-bGsyZZvK7FE98M0Tff55kj3/s1600/David+Barton+Liar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21jYw0VaRiZvP6B-ILEUt9zTLjyy-fPNRc0v9qWXR6dzDzrPJZZyjG_-g26v0W0ETU_Q-grKzDhAiYpZzdcj7IgRakCBGBrs5ic59dwqQmjluoVNFnGoJ-bGsyZZvK7FE98M0Tff55kj3/s1600/David+Barton+Liar.jpg" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">L</span>ong time ally of <a href="http://rockbeyondbelief.com/">Rock Beyond Belief</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda">Chris Rodda</a>, is in the middle of a press storm again. She is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Jesus-Religious-Alternate-American/dp/1419644386?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Liars For Jesus</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1419644386" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, which explains the relatively recent phenomenon of history revisionism in the name of Christianity. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barton_%28author%29">David Barton</a> is the worst offender, and bears the brunt of the majority of her assault.<br />
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He is guilty of quote-mining and using out of context historical references, or shockingly just outright lies about our nation’s history. He wants Americans to ‘know’ that the nation was founded on Christianity. He is able to find several obscure and often second-hand references to the founder’s private letters, sometimes with single sentences that suit his needs. This is of course while he leads his readers along in Olympic-level mental gymnastics, overlooking the mountain of documentation contrary to his version of history.<br />
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<b>The Emperor Had New Clothes -- But They Caught Fire</b><br />
<b>(Which of course explains their invisibility)</b><br />
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Last week, an admittedly uneducated ‘historian’, David Barton was on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Show_with_Jon_Stewart">Daily Show with Jon Stewart</a>. Weeks ago, prominent Christian right-winger <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee">Mike Huckabee</a> joked about forcing Americans at gun point to learn from him. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_beck">Glenn</a> “Too crazy for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_news">Fox News</a>” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_beck">Beck</a> has placed Barton in a prominent spot in his ‘university’. Sadly, my home state of Texas has used him as an expert for re-writing the text-books. It will take years, possibly decades to undo the damage done to public education.<br />
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David Barton wants your kids to believe that America was founded on Christianity.<br />
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<b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Treaty of Tripoli">Treaty of Tripoli</a> anyone?</b><br />
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<blockquote>“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”</blockquote><br />
It was submitted to the Senate by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John Adams">President John Adams</a>, receiving ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797.<br />
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In addition to writing books, and articles on Talk2Action and Huffington Post, she works at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Religious_Freedom_Foundation" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Military Religious Freedom Foundation">Military Religious Freedom Foundation</a> (MRFF), as Head of Research. MRFF is representing me and hundreds of other Soldiers in upcoming litigation partially stemming from the story I broke about the *mandatory* Spiritual Fitness testing and remedial training for all US Soldiers. So, I’ve had about 6 months to grow a pretty close friendship with her. I know her to be sharp-witted and possessing an unreal ability to pay attention to detail. I’m not surprised to see her book about the situation jumping back onto the radar. It is spot on.<br />
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The inexplicably successful disinformation tactics Barton employs are put to shame in Rodda’s book, Liars For Jesus. But with this particular round of resurgent publicity, Chris Rodda had an epiphany.<br />
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You can now download her book, <a href="http://www.liarsforjesus.com/downloads/LFJ_FINAL.pdf">Liars for Jesus (PDF)</a>, for free.<br />
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She writes on <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/05/do_well_by_doing_good.php">Ed Brayton’s ScienceBlog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars</a>:<br />
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<blockquote>A few hours ago, I was about to sit down at my computer to do my usual thing — write about the Daily Show interview, and debunk the specific lies that Barton was able to get in. But instead I found myself staring at the big Ben Franklin poster on my wall, and changed my mind. Sure, I could write about the particular snippets of disinformation and dishonesty that spewed forth from Barton during this particular interview, but what good would that do? Been there; done that. Then, staring up at the face of Ben Franklin, it was his words, “Do well by doing good,” that suddenly popped into my head.<br />
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“Do well by doing good” — the words of a man who could have become outrageously wealthy by patenting his inventions, but decided to just let everybody have them for the public good — have now been stuck in my head for hours, and aren’t going to leave until I do what I’m about to do — give my book away for free.<br />
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Can I afford to do this? No. Do I need to do this? Yes! Will lots of people download it and read it? I have no freakin’ idea. It’s just what I need to do to bee able to look Ben Franklin in the eye on that poster on my wall. </blockquote><br />
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<i>Book by</i><i> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_J._Stenger" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Victor J. Stenger">Victor J. Stenger</a> ~ </i><br />
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<i>This article by Cheryl Krajna ~ </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Fine-Tuning-Why-Universe-Designed/dp/1616144432?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1616144432&tag=exchrisnetenc-20" /></a><span class="dropcap"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1616144432" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />A</span> number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this “fine-tuning” of the universe also suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually emerge? Some influential scientists, such as National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, think so. Others go even further, asserting that science “has found God.”<br />
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In this in-depth, lucid discussion of this fascinating and controversial topic, physicist Victor J. Stenger looks at the same evidence and comes to the opposite conclusion. He states at the outset that as a physicist he will go wherever the data takes him, even if it leads him to God. But after many years of research in particle physics and thinking about its implications, he finds that the observations of science and our naked senses not only show no evidence for God, they provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that God does not exist.<br />
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Stenger argues that many of the claims by theists are based on their misunderstanding of the science. He looks at the specific parameters and shows that plausible reasons can be found for the values they have within the existing standard models of physics and cosmology. These models are introduced in detail so that the reader has the background needed to understand the role of the parameters claimed to be fine-tuned and judge the veracity of the arguments.<br />
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Although Stenger has touched on the subject of fine-tuning in other books, this is his most thorough exploration of a topic that continues to intrigue scientists and the lay public alike.<br />
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About the author: Victor J. Stenger is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado and emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The New York Times Best Seller list">New York Times bestseller</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Failed-Hypothesis-Science-Shows/dp/1591024811%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1591024811" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist">God: The Failed Hypothesis</a>, and many other books, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Latest-Results-Purpose-Universe/dp/1591020182?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Atheism-Taking-Science-Reason/dp/1591027519?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The New Atheism</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1591027519" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1591020182" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Gods-Jeff-Love/dp/0877284768%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0877284768" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Quantum Gods">Quantum Gods</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Quantum-Metaphysics-Physics-Cosmology/dp/1573920223%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1573920223" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology">The Unconscious Quantum</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Latest-Results-Purpose-Universe/dp/1591020182?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Has Science Found God?</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1591020182" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensible-Cosmos-Where-Laws-Physics/dp/1591024242%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1591024242" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?">The Comprehensible Cosmos</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Reality-Symmetry-Simplicity-Universes/dp/1573928593%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1573928593" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Timeless Reality : Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes">Timeless Reality</a>, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Psychics-Search-Beyond-Senses/dp/087975575X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dexchrisnetenc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D087975575X" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses">Physics and Psychics</a>. <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=4c0ae424-1db8-47a5-9c44-ee3bc60ef308" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-57189083974673225482011-05-10T11:47:00.001-04:002011-05-18T15:44:09.763-04:00Homophobia-Planting in Uganda: A Tough Seed with Poisonous Fruit<i>By Valerie Tarico ~ </i><br />
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<span class="dropcap">C</span>hristian extremists in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda" rel="wikipedia" title="Uganda">Uganda</a>’s parliament are hoping that hunger and high gas prices will provide the cover they need to finally subject gay men to punishment of biblical proportions. They have <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jum2-ZWIsTlL8KH49gRqsfgaDWPg?docId=a895e13b197f4cc292672393f39ac730">introduced a bill</a>, up for vote on May 11, that seeks life imprisonment for gay sex and, for repeat offenders, the death penalty. Last year, similar legislation was averted by international outrage. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoweri_Museveni" rel="wikipedia" title="Yoweri Museveni">President Museveni</a> was afraid of losing valuable aid dollars, and after outcry arose across the West, with Barack Obama calling the law “odious,” Museveni prevented the bill from coming to a vote. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/xyTU9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i.imgur.com/xyTU9.jpg" /></a></div>Stopping the bill was insufficient to save the life of one Ugandan, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/africa/28uganda.html?_r=1">David Kato</a>, who was beaten to death with a hammer in January. Kato was Uganda’s most outspoken gay rights advocate and had received many death threats before he was killed. In the winter months before his death, one newspaper ran a front page photo of Kato with an anti-gay rant and a banner urging “Hang them.” Last spring I traveled in Mozambique, where a full-page article in a local paper interspersed Bible verses, exhortations to spiritual living, and similar anti-gay vitriol. Although leading fundamentalists like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mohler" rel="wikipedia" title="Albert Mohler">Albert Mohler</a> appear increasingly <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-need-to-prepare-for-normalization-of-gay-marriage-49195/">resigned</a> to “tolerance” here at home, across Africa the marriage of Christianity and homophobia appears to be thriving—thanks in part to an American tendency to take our outdated wares and social movements overseas. <br />
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<span class="pullquote">Many evangelicals, find it difficult to imagine that the Bible itself could be responsible for inciting violence.</span>Two years ago, I wrote an article that asked, “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/if-the-bible-were-law-wou_b_190028.html">If the Bible Were Law, Would You Qualify for the Death Penalty?</a>” It described some of the thirty six causes for capital punishment listed in the Good Book, including cursing parents, witchcraft, being raped (only within the city limits), adultery, and of course, homosexual sex. Mercifully, even the most old school American Christians seem to ignore the Bible on these points. But one of the unfortunate consequences of Americans exporting biblical literalism to developing countries is that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/ugandan-atrocity-perversi_b_416749.html">people in those countries take the Bible literally</a> – including the parts we all, missionaries included, wish they wouldn’t. In Nigeria, American Pentecostalism has fused with local animism and resulted in children being beaten and burned as witches, just like the Bible prescribes.<br />
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In Uganda, American evangelism may be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html">similarly responsible</a> for Kato’s death and the proposed law. In March 2009, frustrated by their inability to block the gradual inclusion of gays in the universal human rights umbrella at home, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism" rel="wikipedia" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a> leaders traveled to Uganda and led incendiary workshops seeking to increase Ugandan fear that gay men are a threat to straight marriages and children. It would appear that Uganda’s already fractured and restive society is reaping what the American missionaries have sown: further contention and violence. <br />
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“I don’t want anyone killed,” said Mr. Schmierer, one of the Evangelical leaders who traveled to Uganda two years ago. “But I don’t feel I had anything to do with that [Kato’s death].” Many evangelicals, those who see the Bible as literally perfect, find it almost impossible to imagine that the Bible itself could be responsible for inciting violence or that those who preach biblical inerrancy could be complicit in that violence. And yet other Christians, those who see the Bible as the imperfect record of the imperfect struggle of our spiritual ancestors, find this causal chain quite plausible. According to theologian Thom Stark (<i><a href="http://humanfacesofgod.com/">The Human Faces of God</a>), </i>the biblical record attributes divine sanction in places to some of the worst of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age" rel="wikipedia" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> impulses, including human sacrifice. Unless we understand those writings in their human context we are bound to glorify passages that instead should teach us about the darkness in the human spirit. And glorifying human darkness puts us at risk of enacting it. <br />
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It is troubling that of the many offerings that might have been carried by American Christians to Africa in the service of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Commandment">Great Commandment</a>, what has been carried instead are the seeds of homophobia that bear fruit in fear, hatred, and death. It will take many voices raised together to reverse the damage done. I hope those voices will be raised this week <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition/?vl">(petition here)</a> and again next year, and for as many years as are needed until Uganda’s gay community can live in love and peace. <br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=5092affd-1feb-49e9-9796-9c51849ebe23" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></div>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-80314667059381800872011-05-08T06:17:00.006-04:002011-05-16T18:12:09.605-04:00The Rapture After-Party!<i>By Geri Weaver, President of <a href="http://www.cncah.org/">Central NC Atheists & Humanists</a> ~ </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cncatheists.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/After-Party.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="http://www.cncatheists.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/After-Party.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">I</span> am the President of the Central NC Atheists & Humanists, a Charter Chapter of the American Humanist Association. Please help us spread the word about two exciting events we have coming up during the "Rapture" weekend. Both are open to the public. We hope to make an impact in the heart of the bible belt with a huge representation of the secular community. These events are just the beginning; our organization is planning several community service projects in the near future, with the goal of removing the negative stereotype from the word "Atheist". The Rapture events are:<br />
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<img border="0" height="0" src="http://www.reverbnation.com/widgets/trk/40/artist_540523//t.gif" style="height: 0px; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;" width="0" /></span><b>The Rapture After Party: May 21, 6pm at the Rainbow Room in Historic Downtown Fayetteville</b><br />
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This is essentially our "coming out" party where we will be celebrating our continued existence on earth. There will be a presentation on the history of the rapture and various prophecies, and a silent auction of items donated by our members and sponsors. We will also have a special guest appearance by Greydon Square, who is known in the secular community as "The Atheist Rapper". Advance tickets can be obtained on our website for a donation of $20 ($25 at the door). Admittance to the Rapture After Party will include a free ticket to...<br />
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<b>The RAPture RAP-Up: May 22, 3 pm at the Rock Shop Music Hall</b><br />
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Greydon Square will be performing. Tickets are $12 ($15 for those under 21). Greydon has graciously donated his talent for this event, which is co-hosted by the Humanists & Freethinkers of Cape Fear. Our organizations are funding his travel from California and his expenses while he is in Fayetteville through personal (tax deductible) donations.<br />
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We have two podcasts posted on our website (<a href="http://www.cncah.org/">www.cncah.org</a>), including one interview with <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/greydonsquare">Greydon Square</a>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/greydonsquare" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://www.cncatheists.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bottomgreydonevent.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Please help us get the word out. Collaborating with other secular organizations is a tremendous help. Anything we can do in return to promote your organization, we would be happy to oblige.<br />
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We are also seeking donations (monetary or material), volunteers and sponsors, but most importantly we need people to come to these events so that other non-believers will know there is an entire community for the unchurched who are not afraid to proclaim we are not part of the religious flock.<br />
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Thank you for your time.Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-14674641383211611462011-05-07T20:29:00.002-04:002011-05-16T17:56:28.913-04:00Author Interview: Breaking their Will<i>By Valerie Tarico ~ </i><br />
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</tbody></table><b><span class="dropcap">V</span>alerie Tarico interviews <a href="http://religiouschildmaltreatment.com/">Janet Heimlich</a>, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161614405X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=161614405X">Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=161614405X&camp=217145&creative=399349" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>. During eight years working for NPR, Heimlich never shied away from controversial topics. She won nine journalism awards, in part by doggedly exposing injustices in the death penalty and prison systems. Most recently she made her way behind another set of locked doors, into the inner sanctums of authoritarian religious communities.</b><br />
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<b>Tarico: What got you focused on such a hot potato of a topic?</b><br />
Heimlich: I came upon the idea rather gradually. As a first-time mother at the age of 41, I first simply became focused on children’s issues, such as compassionate parenting. I then started to notice high-profile stories in the news, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. One week in 2008 was particularly poignant: The pope came to the U.S. and spoke publicly about the scandal for the first time; meanwhile, authorities raided a polygamous fundamentalist Mormon group in west Texas, based on concerns that members were conducting marriages between men and underage girls. So, in some ways, my discovering the issue of religious child maltreatment was a personal venture, but, in other ways, it was very similar to how I come upon any story as a journalist. <b></b><br />
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<b>Tarico: Some people would say that religion prevents child abuse – that a supportive spiritual community or a personal relationship with a higher power, or a strong moral core is the antidote to maltreatment.</b><br />
Heimlich: As I state in the book, families generally benefit from participating in religious activities. Still, we are only beginning to understand how children are harmed in certain religious communities. In my research, I found that, in these problematic cultures, the good of the faith community as a whole takes priority over members’ individual needs, and this is particularly true with how those communities view children. I should also point out that, while many people of faith point to scriptural passages that appear to glorify children, those passages are few and far between. The Bible actually says very little about children being important people—for example, children are basically ignored in the Ten Commandments—and when children are discussed in the Bible, they are often portrayed as victims of violence. <b></b><br />
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<b>Tarico: How did you go about your research?</b><br />
Heimlich: Basically, I read everything I could get my hands on regarding the mistreatment of children in religious environments. I plowed through hundreds of news articles and studies. I also interviewed dozens of adults who had been victims, as well as the few experts who have studied and written about the issue. I’m still trying to keep abreast of it all. I’d like to believe that religious child maltreatment is not as bad today as it was years ago—and to some extent, I feel that that’s true—yet new cases continue to shock me on a weekly basis.<br />
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<b>Tarico: What was the most heartbreaking story you encountered?</b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/ysXTb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://i.imgur.com/ysXTb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Heimlich: When I was still mulling over the idea of writing this book, I kept playing devil’s advocate with myself, questioning whether religious child maltreatment was, in fact, a serious problem today. One day, I noticed a brief news blurb in the New York Times that settled the matter for me. The article explained that a little boy, a toddler, had been starved to death by a small cult inBaltimore for failing to say “amen” at mealtimes. What was particularly shocking to me was that this was not just the work of one deranged person—four adults were implicated in the crime, including the boy’s mother. Later, I would learn just how persuasive cult thinking can be; I’ve since gotten to know the dead boy’s grandmother who has gone through much heartache.<br />
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The other case involved a man named David Yoder who grew up in a conservative Amish community and today works to try to reduce child abuse in Amish communities. The first time we spoke, David told me how, when they were boys, he and a friend were mercilessly beaten by their fathers at the same time for being disobedient. The “crime” was fighting, although the boys had done no more than toss a piece of wood at each other. (This was reported by their teacher, and David’s father never got his son’s side of the story.) Again, the violence these boys endured was not delivered by a sadistic or mentally ill individual—both adults colluded to whip the boys until they apparently were close to death. But it’s not only important to call attention to child abuse in religious communities. In each case, my book examines how the belief system of those communities leads to the abuse.<br />
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<b>Tarico: At this point, how would you describe the relationship between child abuse and religion?<br />
</b>Heimlich: I think the most important message of my book is this: Religion can provide children with a wonderful upbringing, but it is naïve and irresponsible to see religion only as a force for good. We’ve all seen how religion can lead people to go to war and wage terror on others. In the same way, religion can be a source for child abuse and neglect. As I often say, religion can bring children great comfort, but it can also turn their lives into a living hell. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we can hope to reduce child suffering.<br />
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<span class="pullquote">Religion can bring children great comfort, but it can also turn their lives into a living hell.</span><b>Tarico: Are some kinds of religious communities more prone to maltreatment than others? What are the patterns?</b><br />
Heimlich: In writing <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Their-Will-Religious-Maltreatment/dp/161614405X?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Breaking Their Will</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=161614405X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>, I felt it was imperative not to simply expose problems but answer the question: What makes religious experiences healthy and unhealthy for children? I came to the conclusion that children are more vulnerable to abuse and neglect if they live in religious authoritarian cultures. There are three perfect-storm factors that identify a religious culture or community as authoritarian: one, the culture has a strict, social hierarchy. Two, the culture is fearful. And three, the culture is separatist. The more intense these three factors are—the more authoritarian the culture is—the more likely children will be harmed. It’s important to note that it doesn’t matter whether the community is Christian, Jewish, or Muslim; whether people worship a deity called “God,” “Allah,” or “Jehovah”; or whether they read from the Bible, the Qur’an, or the Book of Mormon. Any religious culture has the potential to subscribe, and be subjected, to authoritarian “rule.”<br />
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<b>Tarico: Is child maltreatment one of those areas where faith has “gotten a free pass?” – Can people can do things in the name of faith that would be considered unacceptable otherwise?<br />
</b>Heimlich: I can name many examples where child abuse in religious communities is more or less accepted, while the same maltreatment would never be tolerated in secular communities. Often, apologists for this abuse—even though these individuals would never call what is going on <i>abuse</i>—defend the actions of the faithful in the name of religious freedom. In other words, they claim that critics who advocate that children should be treated better are really attacking people’s right to practice their faith. A perfect example is faith-healing-related child deaths, where adults believe that they have a right not to take a sick child to the doctor based on their religious beliefs.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Their-Will-Religious-Maltreatment/dp/161614405X?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=161614405X&tag=exchrisnetenc-20" /></a><a href="http://i.imgur.com/hXW9J.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=161614405X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><b>Tarico: What can people of faith do to address these problems?</b><br />
Heimlich: In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Their-Will-Religious-Maltreatment/dp/161614405X?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Breaking Their Will</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=161614405X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>, I discuss a number of solutions that could help reduce religious child maltreatment. Real change is only going to come when faith communities face some truths that, traditionally, they have not faced. And it starts with recognizing that faith can both help and hurt children. I compare religion to cars, guns, and fire: They all have the potential to greatly help people, but they can also be extremely dangerous when precautions are not met. All that said, some religious leaders and other members of faith communities have taken bold stands against child maltreatment, including that which is motivated by religious belief. For example, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have traditionally opposed the corporal punishment of children; some religious leaders have turned in to authorities adults who have been accused of abusing children; and many others try to educate their communities about the need to take the problem of child abuse seriously.<br />
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<b>Tarico: Should secular authorities engage as well – or will that only result in “circling the wagons?”</b><br />
Heimlich: Children in religious authoritarian cultures greatly need the help that is offered by secular agencies, such as law enforcement and child protective services. But, for a host of reasons, adults living in those cultures are unlikely to reach out to those agencies. Many mistrust anything related to government. Some even believe such agencies work for the devil. Therefore, it is imperative for police, social workers, and government officials to reach out to faith communities that they suspect are abusing children to try to bridge what has been a very big gap of mistrust and miscommunication. I interviewed two state attorneys general who are doing just that, and they have seen improvement. One is Utah’s Mark Shurtleff who decided that fundamentalist Mormon groups would no longer be prosecuted just for practicing polygamy, unless they stand accused of abusing children. Shurtleff has also offered these groups psychological counseling. One of the counselors told me that there have been reports of child abuse, whereas before, no one would have reported abuse. Also, Oregon’s John Foote has tried to make inroads with a sect that was allowing children to get very sick and die because of members’ zealous beliefs in faith healing. Foote told me how one member of the group, a father, even called Foote to get advice on what he should do if his children got sick. Of course, Foote told the man, who did not give his name, that he should call a doctor.<br />
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<b>Tarico: Has your book aroused detractors?</b><br />
Heimlich: It’s too early to tell, since the book has <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Their-Will-Religious-Maltreatment/dp/161614405X?ie=UTF8&tag=exchrisnetenc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">just become available</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=exchrisnetenc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=161614405X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />. (The release date is June 1.) But as I was doing my research and telling people about the subject of the book, I found that liberal believers strongly agreed that religious child maltreatment is real and a serious problem. I can’t tell you how many people have expressed relief that I wrote this book. On the other hand, conservative believers have tended to reject the notion that anything bad could come from religion. Rather, they want to only blame individuals rather than seeing the systemic problems that plague communities, generation after generation. Many apologists say that people who abuse children in a religious context are not “true” believers, so we should ignore religion as an influencing factor. My feeling is, many of those naysayers are rather ignorant about what is contained in religious texts and doctrines, as some seem to condone authoritarian parenting if not abuse. But, more importantly, is anyone truly qualified to determine what makes a “true” Christian, a “real” Jew, or a perfectly devout Muslim? I think we’d be a lot better off if we focused less on judging people’s religiosity and focused more on whether children’s needs are being met in religious environments.<br />
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<i>Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/exchrisnetenc-20/detail/0977392937">Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light</a> and the founder of <a href="http://www.wisdomcommons.org/">www.WisdomCommons.org</a>. Her articles can be found at <a href="http://awaypoint.wordpress.com/">Awaypoint.Wordpress.com</a>. </i>Dave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1266985040290242663.post-36853294737819530912011-05-01T05:58:00.003-04:002011-05-07T20:30:17.998-04:00Secret Pregnancy, Forced Confession<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4au0Ecgigd7h8YEUZtiTJoQYu3NLuGrHjkWl3zgatZWfqlRIsbggYL_FvzzgrFUR0TXz7QSKCD1xXw09oD6uaYrABheeLEoRtWN_33m7aHZRjWjEhLxx5jGUsl5YpJAS11-u3PjbTn7Xp/s1600/tina_with_baby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4au0Ecgigd7h8YEUZtiTJoQYu3NLuGrHjkWl3zgatZWfqlRIsbggYL_FvzzgrFUR0TXz7QSKCD1xXw09oD6uaYrABheeLEoRtWN_33m7aHZRjWjEhLxx5jGUsl5YpJAS11-u3PjbTn7Xp/s320/tina_with_baby.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="dropcap">T</span>ry to imagine the pain and humiliation of a teenage girl, just 16 years old, who says she was forced to stand in front of a New Hampshire church congregation and confess her "sin" of being pregnant. She says not only was she forced to confess her pregnancy, but also to ask for their forgiveness – with no mention of the man she says <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse" rel="wikipedia" title="Sexual abuse">sexually abused</a> her. After all, she says, the pastor told her it's better than being stoned to death as the bible describes. That is what Tina Anderson alleged happened to her at her ultra conservative <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Baptist" rel="wikipedia" title="Independent Baptist">Independent Fundamental Baptist</a>, or IFB, Church. The IFB has thousands of congregations across the country, but many people have never heard of it. That was, until another woman, Jocelyn Zichterman, began a public campaign – armed with nothing but a computer and memories of her own alleged abuse that she says church beliefs can foster. And survivors are now coming out of the woodwork, to say she's not alone.<br />
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Watch the story below and read the entire article as posted on <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/teen-rape-victim-forced-confess-church/story?id=13299135">ABCNews.Com.</a><br />
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Also see <a href="http://www.tinaandersonfoundation.org/">http://www.tinaandersonfoundation.org/</a> and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35429320847">Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) Cult Survivors (and their Supporters) Facebook Page</a><br />
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