Archive for the 'Religion' Category

“Ultra-traditionalist” is the phrase used in the Washington Post article.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

I’m against the DH, the excessive use of relief pitchers, tv interviews of managers during a Major League game and sloppy uniform appearance. That probably makes me a traditionalist.
If I were to deny the Holocaust, I would not be an ultra-traditionalist;
I’d be an anti-semitic jackass.

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Pope Voices Support for Jews, Rejects Holocaust Denial
By Michelle […]

Colo(rado) Boy Fights Off Attacking Coyote With Snowboard–Yahoo headline, Dec. 8, 1:22 pm

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of fine, Corinthian leather!”–W. J. Bryan, 1896

Monday, December 8th, 2008

I believe autoworkers should find the name of the god to whom
Nardelli, Wagoner and Mulally pray.
It is obvious that god knows how to shower followers with good fortune.

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Detroit Churches Pray for ‘God’s Bailout’
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PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE
S.U.V.’s sat on the altar of Greater Grace Temple, a Pentecostal church in Detroit, as congregants prayed to […]

Vincenzo Kolchak ponders the infinite.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]

Someone must have said ‘Mook’ instead of ‘Monk.’

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Monks Brawl At Christian Holy Site In Jerusalem
MATTI FRIEDMAN | November 9, 2008 12:06 PM EST | AP
JERUSALEM — Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity’s holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus’ tomb.
The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox […]

Sears: ORTHO-Ride

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

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Clergy may say what they want from the pulpit; churches should pay taxes!

Friday, September 26th, 2008

 But…I’m beginning to smell a big, fat Republican rat.
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September 26, 2008
New York Times
Ministers to Defy I.R.S. by Endorsing Candidates
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Defying a federal tax law they consider unjust, 33 ministers across the country will take to their pulpits this Sunday and publicly endorse a candidate for president.
They plan to then send copies of their sermons […]

Church, State & the Assembly of God…

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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You’ve read the papers, now see the tape

Pakistani Women Buried Alive ‘For Choosing Husbands’–London Daily Telegraph headline

Monday, September 1st, 2008

It seems as if they make it up as they go.

If being a sinner means I won’t share paradise with these guys,
I’ll take my chances.

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Pakistani women buried alive ‘for choosing husbands’
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A Pakistani politician has defended a decision to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands.
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: […]

NASCAR Finds Magnets Under Pedals On 2 Gibbs Cars–AP headline

Monday, August 18th, 2008

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The field begins racing on the first lap during the NASCAR 3M Performance 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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By MIKE HARRIS, AP Auto Racing Writer
Sun Aug 17, 10:37 PM ET
BROOKLYN, Mich. - The two Joe Gibbs Racing cars that have dominated the Nationwide Series […]

They’ve proven it was not a reproduction from the Middle Ages…

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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Ellen Jaskol / For The Times

From the Los Angeles Times
Shroud of Turin stirs new controversy
A Colorado couple researching the shroud dispute radiocarbon dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus, and Oxford has agreed to help them reexamine the findings.
By DeeDee Correll
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 17, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — The tie that binds […]