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Praying To God for Help with Satan's Work Sudhama Ranganathan 2013-01-16 7:17 AM
There are all kinds of reasons that people call upon their God for help. Often the best are for those inner reasons that are needed to help us with personal matters like work, our children, our loved ones, our health and the many basic decent things in life that from time to time can benefit from a little blind faith. We don't all believe in a God or a higher power and more and more of us believe this is about it, feeling you're born, you die - that's a that. Though many believe it's just an “opiate for the masses,” I feel that just because I don't believe in another's view, there is no harm, and in fact I've personally seen how it can be very helpful to people struggling with things like addictions, etc, though I never had that issue myself. (text/plain)

Atheist Census is back online! Paul King 2012-12-16 7:17 PM
We are pleased to let you know that Atheist Census is back online at URL below. PLEASE SIGN UP (text/plain)

The Demonization of Dissent in the United States William Wraithwrite 2012-10-25 3:32 PM
On Oct. 3rd, 2012 Wired.Com’s (or Wired Magazine’s) Danger Room came out with Spencer Ackerman’s story of a leaked although unclassified U.S. Army “chart” that lists indicators and behaviors for identifying people who are supposedly becoming radicalized to terrorist potential. But what is so startling about this Army’s presumptively rational analysis (more like propagandic analysis) is its broad categorization of symptoms for identifying those thought alienated enough to become potential terrorist material. (text/plain + 9 comments)

Director of Public Relations Jeanette Belle 2012-08-03 11:39 AM
Let your spirits soar with Loving the Silent Tears, a brilliant new musical coming to the prestigious Shrine Auditorium on Oct. 27. The star-studded company of Oscar/Grammy/Tony and Emmy winners take the audience on a spiritual journey in a quest for inner peace, travelling through the song and dance of 16 different countries. The lyrics for Loving the Silent Tears are based on the poetic works of Supreme Master Ching Hai, world renowned humanitarian, artist, and spiritual teacher. For a preview, please visit: http://youtu.be/hTCzfL6gUYQ (1.47 min) (text/plain)

Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution Kyle 2012-08-01 4:49 PM
The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good. (text/html + 1 comment)

Where's OUR Religious Liberty? Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine 2012-03-01 4:47 PM
The recent controversy over whether institutions owned by the Roman Catholic Church should be required to include birth control coverage in the health insurance they offer employees, the attempt in Virginia to require women seeking abortions to submit to medical rape, and the radical Right's reaction to the 9th Circuit appeals court ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional raises the question: why does it seem as if only bigoted Right-wing churches have "religious liberty" in this country? Why are America's officially tolerated spiritual belief systems seemingly limited to those of the Roman Catholics, Mormons and Southern Baptist Convention? (text/plain)

Mary's Revolt for Life Peter Buerger 2011-12-25 7:02 AM
The civilization made and guided by men seriously threatens survival on the earth. The song of Christmas is not a sweet lullaby but a feminine rebellion against the world of death worshipers. The gifts of this earth do not belong to us. (text/plain)

Faith Heals Reason Dorothee Soelle 2011-12-24 8:51 AM
"There is a beautiful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen where the devil builds a mirror that distorts everything beautiful and good into nothing. The most glorious countrysides appear like boiled spinach, the best persons are repulsive or without torsos.." (text/plain)

Epilogue to a Life: Dorothee Soelle Fulbert Steffensky 2011-12-22 6:44 AM
Dorothee Soelle combined political activism and mysticism, unconventional thinking and passion for life. This epilogue written by her partner, the theologian and former Benedictine monk Fulbert Steffensky, reveals the feistyness and childlikeness of the liberation theologian. (text/plain)

Occupy the Library Red Raven 2011-12-11 3:47 PM
America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. (text/plain)

Christianty vs. Science Fred Snider 2011-09-14 6:39 PM
I found the top quote on Christianity, & decided to post my comments on it here. (text/plain + 1 comment)

The Social Contract and the Kingdom of God Urs Eigenmann 2011-07-23 1:34 PM
When the social contract disappears, we become wolves to each other. The tradition of prophetic socialism emphasizes the reign of God as the imperative for peace, justice and preservation of nature. Utopia is not a different world but a better world (Christoph Blumhardt). (text/plain)

July 4th, 1776 Was Deeply Symbolic Choice to USA's Masonic Founders Seven Star Hand 2011-06-29 9:40 PM
Key founders of the USA expertly and redundantly encoded hidden symbolic messages throughout our national symbols, including the purposeful choice of July 4th, 1776 for the absolutely stunning details this very unique date encapsulates. (text/html)

New Zealanders must ?speak out? about omitted human rights or be reduced to mere ?numbers? Anthony Ravlich 2011-05-18 10:59 PM
NZ has been taken over by an anti-human rights philosophy, 'discriminatory collectivism, which aims to destroy individual and collective potential yet human rights regards the individual as a person (and spiritually has a 'name'). (text/plain)

Money and Justice Markus Vogt 2011-04-26 7:14 AM
We live on credit, shift costs and risks into the future and make possible a prosperity with the help of a policy of cheap money that is paid for by others. An interest-free money system would be a counter model to the growth pressure inherent in the present system. (text/plain)

Jesus' Nonviolence Fernando Enns 2011-04-24 5:06 AM
Jesus' way is a third way, not the warrior cult or indifference but nonviolent resistance. Jesus himself is the auto-basileia and auto-aletheia of God, the fulfillment of the land promise to Israel. Jesus did not stop at words but drove out the moneychangers and traders. (text/plain)

"Jewish" Sam Miller lie exposed Paul King 2011-04-18 12:45 AM
Almost every Catholic publication, blog and comment board has carried a story about a "Jewish" businessman defending the Catholic Church. The whole story is based on total lies and deceptions but still is circulated by the faithful. (text/plain + 8 comments)

"Only the one who cries for the Jews may sing Gregorian" Franz Segbers 2011-04-03 7:39 AM
Crying and singing, ethical engagement and praising God belong together. The great events of world history should be seen from below, from the perspective of the dismissed, suspicious, mistreated, powerless, oppressed and mocked. God's honor is the person who lives. (text/plain)

The Prophet and the Professor Leonardo Boff 2011-03-16 9:11 AM
Liberation theology insists the poor are our teachers and the church is not an end-in-itself. The church that serves itself is different than the church that serves the world. The church that wants to return to the 19th century with little interest in social issues is a caricature. (text/plain)

POPE BENTO XVI AND HIS CONSERVATIVE CHRIST Fábio de IOliveira Ribeiro 2011-03-12 6:47 AM
Theological conservatism of Bento XVI is almost heretical. (text/plain)

USA Founding Fathers Encrypted Time-Capsule Decoded Seven Star Hand 2011-03-03 4:04 AM
The founders of the USA left deeply encrypted and time-encoded messages for future citizens and lawmakers. More astounding is where and how they were hidden, what they were designed to prove, and why they are being revealed now. (text/html)

Elijah, Amos and Jeremiah: Prophets as Uncomfortable Critics Dieter Potzel 2011-02-20 7:14 AM
The Old Testament prophets condemned war and accumulating riches as attacks on society and the poor, as forms of idolatry and blindness where fellow persons are degraded into non-persons. False prophets are described as broken cisterns that can hold no water. (text/plain)

Meditations on God, Faith and the Enlightenment Heinz Zahrnt and Walter Dietz 2010-12-25 6:59 AM
Christmas should be a time for the poor, for restructuring the economy so it does not only benefit a few and so public necessities like education, health care and housing are rights and not privileges. We are living in a dark age when financiers deny their responsibility. (text/plain + 1 comment)

The Dangerous Doctrine of Justification Dieter Potzel 2010-12-23 5:25 AM
While religion can make people happier by giving connection to a larger whole, it can also make them blind and neurotic. Self-righteousness is the grand delusion distorting life in the church and outside the church (cf. Eberhard Juengel). (text/plain + 1 comment)

The Changing Spring Melitta Muller-Hansen 2010-12-04 6:42 AM
In the parables, the itinerant preacher Jesus meets us as an ingenious storyteller. He brings God near people. This is an entirely undogmatic way of speaking of God. Where speaking is impossible, one must tell stories. Parables focus on the earthly and point to the divine. (text/plain)

food for your mind anastasia 2010-10-23 4:53 AM
Man1 has still not invented anything that is not already in Nature. The technology behind television is but a poor imitation of the possibilities of this ray.” (text/plain)

Coming Back to Earth for the Healing of Humanity Jean Victoria Norloch 2010-10-17 9:45 PM
Someday I know you will see their name in lights, unitl then hold their light in your hearts and allow the faith and hope they shared to guide you out of the dark. (text/plain)

Kickstart Your Consciousness Edwin Harkness Spina 2010-10-14 3:34 PM
We polluted and poisoned our bodies, minds, spirits, and environment, almost to the point of no return. Then again we all have free will to accept or reject the mind programs (text/plain + 1 comment)

Science Is A Religion Fred Snider 2010-10-09 6:01 PM
This is a very serious challenge to all scientists, atheists, humanists, & skeptics, based on very careful research of the evidence that I offer in support of my contention. If you are going to post a rebuttal, please research the evidence first, & be polite. You can contact all of the people mentioned in this article, & ask them why they behaved so unprofessionally. (text/plain)

CALLING ALL INTERNATIONAL WORLD DIPLOMATS 2 THE RESCUE OF AMERICA & IRANS CIVILITY !!! LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS 2010-10-09 2:37 PM
BOTH IRANS CITIZENS & U.S. CITIZENS DESERVE BETTER THEN OUR POLITICAL LEADERS ARE CURRENTLY OFFERING 4 PEACE ! (text/plain)

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