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Annual Pew Forum Survey on Religion in America-The Results Are In

February 29, 2008May 7, 2016 B. John 215 Views 0 Comments Catholic, Megachurches, Pew forum, Protestant

TThe Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released annual survey results that indicate nearly half of American adults leave the “faith tradition they were raised in to either join another religion or drop out of organized religion altogether. Ths year though, the unaffiliated people who say they are religious but don’t claim allegiance to any particular institution or tradition are now the fourth largest religious group in America.

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Ellen DeGeneres Remembers Murdered Gay Teen

February 29, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 134 Views 0 Comments Ellen DeGeneres, Murder, YouTube

All these religious right wingnuts think they absolve themselves of any responsibility for the violence purpetrated against gay people when they say, “Oh we don’t hate gays, we just hate the sin.” Bullshit. This is what you have wrought, and you will stand in judgement for it. These wingnuts love to invoke the Old Testament wrath of God when it comes to homosexuality. I’d remind them the prophets of the Old Testament were usually warning of God’s wrath in the context of how corrupt the religious leaders’ of that time had become. Micah summed it well: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

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Every Christmas, The Same Stupid Gripe

December 30, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 142 Views 0 Comments Christmas, CNN, happy holidays, Roland Martin, Seasons Greetings

I had planned on a slow work week leading up to the holiday, and had attempted to be somewhat ahead of the game when it came to preparing for the holidays, but it didn’t work out that way. For that reason, I never got around to really writing anything about the holiday, but I could not let pass without comment this whole “war on Christmas bullshit” that seems to crank up every year. An example is a commentary on CNN by some guy named Roland Martin. Obviously, he perceives this concerted attack on Christmas by…well, he’s never clear about that other than categorizing the enemies of Christmas as “politically correct idiots”.

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News For The Week Ending Dec. 27, 2007

December 28, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 262 Views 1 Comment Bluetooth headset, cell phone, Christmas Eve, Columbus, Fred Phelps, Ohio, physics, Robbery, San Francisco Zoo, scents, scientist, Septic Tank, string theory, Tiger, Time, Vodafone, Wendy-039s, Westboro Baptist Church

Here’s our last installment of the weekly tid bits for 2007. We’ve got a guy stuck in his septic tank on Christmas Eve. And leave it to Fred Phelps to end the year on some wing-nuttery as he blames the tiger attack in San Francisco on gay people. A wyoming woman stabbed her husband for opening presents early, and a bluetooth headset and cell phone foiled a robbery in Columbus, Ohio. We also have some Spanish scientists postulating that time might be slowing down.

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Hunger In America

December 10, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 212 Views 0 Comments Appalachia, Christian Science Monitor, food insecure, Hunger

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

November 27, 2007 B. John 158 Views 1 Comment Paula White, Paula White Ministries, Randy White, Without Walls International Church

I’m not sure if Joshua played a role, but it seems the pastors of America’s fastest growing megachurch, Without Walls International Church, is having a bit of a crisis of leadership. Married pastors Randy and Paula White announced at last Thursday night’s service that they were getting a divorce.

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Hotels Now Offering Sex Kits Instead of Bibles?

November 18, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 285 Views 0 Comments AFA, American Family Association, Bible, Don Wildmon, Gideons, Goldfish, hotels, iPods, sex

This must be from the “are you shitting me” category. Krazy Kristian Kook, Don Wildmon, of the American Family Association is now warning that hotels are taking out the Gideon Bibles in favor so “intimacy kits.” I never really expected to write a post that included Goldfish, sex and iPods as tags. Leave it to good old Don to come through though.

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James Holsinger Preparing for Recess Appointment?

November 14, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 185 Views 0 Comments James Holsinger, methodist, United States Surgeon General

Box Turtle Bulletin and other blogs are reporting that James Holsinger has resigned from the Board of Directors at Asbury Seminary, and is telling his pals that Bush will give him a recess appointment as United State Surgeon General.

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N.C. Baptist State Convention Boots Myers Park Baptist

November 14, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 185 Views 0 Comments Charlotte, Myers Park Baptist Church, North Carolina, North Carolina Baptist State Convention

The North Carolina State Baptist Convention claims that it allows for autonomy for their local churches, and has only a few requirements for membership in state convetion…mainly that you send money and hate homosexuals. Well, the members of Myers Park Baptist Church had decided to be Christian rather than Southern Baptist in their thinking, so today the Executive Committee found this church is not “in friendly cooperation with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina” and today the membership as a whole gave Myers Park Baptist the boot. The decided to not go without comment…

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Finally Some Good News-Westboro Baptist Found Liable

October 31, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 138 Views 0 Comments Civil Lawsuit, Fred Phelps, Marines, Westboro Baptist Church

A Reuters report by John Hurdle reports that the Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church has been ordered to pay $2.9 million in compensatory damages to the family of a gay marine killed in Iraq. They had cheered and protested at his funeral, as they have done at many of the funerals for soldiers killed in the war, claiming it to be God’s vengeance on America for the way it treats them, and for letting gay people live here.

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Phelps off to Minnesota

August 10, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 240 Views 1 Comment Fred Phelps, Minnesota, Shirley Phelps Roper, Westboro Baptist Church

This guy just never stops. “Rev.” Fred Phelps and his flock will be going to Minnesota to protest at the funerals of the victims of the bridge collapse. Phelps has decided that God made the bridge collapse he hates America and he especially hates Minnesota because of it’s tolerance for gay people.