The God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister. It's funny how the sheep lap this stuff up. Can't think for themselves, look to best selling authors for talking points that their church elders haven't thought of yet. _
I prefer to get my science from scientists, not radio hosts - here's what a real scientist has to say about the claims of Metaxas: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/astrobiology-made-case-god The last paragraph: "In the meantime, both believers and non-believers are done a huge disservice when people promulgate biased and disingenuous claims that distort what current science implies and can imply about the universe. In a society in which the understanding of science is already marginal—and where, at the same time, the continued health of modern society as it meets the challenges of the twenty-first century depends, in some sense, on our ability to utilize our scientific knowledge, both to create new technologies and to help guide rational public policies—this is the last thing we need."
hey Mr. Metaxas let's keep that money machine rolling baby!! yeah hes got the truth alright. his bank account backs it up.
Now this guy is truly doing God's work. http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/us/monsignor-william-lynn-appeal/ Prosecutor moves to keep Monsignor William Lynn jailed (CNN)The Philadelphia District Attorney said Monday his office will use every resource to ensure that Monsignor William Lynn remains in prison for his involvement in a sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in Philadelphia. Seth Williams, the city's district attorney, said his office filed a petition asking a state appellate court to reconsider its December 22 decision to overturn Lynn's conviction. Lynn, once a high-ranking Roman Catholic Church official, was convicted on child endangerment charges in 2012. Lynn is in Waymart prison in northeast Pennsylvania, where he has served 25 months on and off. A three-judge panel of the Superior Court reversed the verdict, which had marked the first time U.S. prosecutors charged a senior church official for failing to stop priests who committed abuses against children. It was the second time the conviction was overturned by the Superior Court. Williams is seeking a decision on the appeal by the full Superior Court. The panel ruled the court that convicted Lynn used a high volume of "unfairly prejudiced" evidence related to other acts committed by priests that did not involve or have anything to do with Lynn or his position as secretary of the clergy. The. Rev. Edward Beck, a religion commentator for CNN, said that as secretary of the clergy, Lynn was the liaison between the archbishop and other priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and was responsible for looking into sex-abuse complaints made against priests. "He had a senior office in the archdiocese, which is why he was seen as liable," he said. Lynn's lawyer, Thomas A. Bergstrom, said the evidence about other abuse cases presented in the 2012 trial did not relate to Lynn. "Some of that stuff occurred before Lynn was born or before he was even a priest, and all of it occurred before he was secretary to the clergy," Bergstrom said. Bergstrom said 26 days of the 33-day trial were devoted to misdeeds of priests in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, long before Lynn was able to stop them. "You talk about a classic scapegoat, he is it," Bergstrom said. The prosecutor says the 2012 evidenceproved "a pattern and practice of concealment and protection of child-sexual-predator priests by Monsignor Lynn." Lynn, who became secretary of the clergy in 1992, was convicted in 2012 for not removing the Rev. Edward Avery from active ministry after learning he had sexually molested a boy in 1978. When reports of Avery's abuse surfaced, Lynn sent him to be treated and hospitalized at the St. John Vianney Center, where he spent nine months. The center's website says it is "the premier facility for behavioral health and addictive disease treatment." Avery was later reassigned to a different parish, where he reportedly abused another boy in 1998. Beck said that within the Catholic Church there was a common perception that abusive priests could be rehabilitated or sent for treatment and that this behavior could be contained or monitored. Health experts, according to Beck, now say that is no longer the case and it has been proven untrue. Avery pleaded guilty in 2012 to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and conspiracy to endanger the welfare of a child after admitting that he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old altar boy during the 1998-1999 school year. Lynn's attorney said he would respond to the latest appeal and continue to move forward. "At some point it seems to me that if we have to win this case a third time we will do it." Lynn was convicted in July 2012 of one count of child endangerment and sentenced to three to six years. His legal team filed an appeal in April 2013 and Lynn's conviction was reversed by the Superior Court in September of the same year. Lynn was released from prison in December 2013 after serving 18 months in prison. The District Attorney's Office successfully appealed the 2013 reversal, and Lynn was sent back to prison in April 2013. _
Here's some stuff from Afghanistan http://graphics8.nytimes.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000004108808
Shouldn't this be in one of the "Muslims have changed and are no longer stuck 1000 years ago" threads? Those people look pretty progressive, have evolved as a religion and willing to listen to reason. _
holy hell all you see is men by the way. telling. I watched this documentary on ISIS, it was pretty fascinating. They actually gave permission to this British reporter to come and see what life is like under ISIS rule. Surprisingly they didn't kill or kidnap him. I guess their reasoning was to show the outside world how warm and fuzzy things can be under ISIS rule . so obviously they put their best asshole feet forward. It was pretty eye opening stuff though. They try and run it like a real govt, they issue parking tickets if you park on the wrong side of the road, they collect taxes, etc. They run schools which was particularly fucked up because as a part of their regular studies they show the school children videos of their beheadings and shit and train them how to use weapons and fight to kill.. were talking fucking elementary school kids, it was in the documentary. fucked up shit. What was most interesting though is that while they let this reporter in and let him film that shit and interview random people, it was all under the strict stipulation that he never talk to, or show any women. But the reporter said that even if he wanted to break their rule it would've been hard because there are never any women around, they are all inside the homes. So you'll see camera shots of a busy street without a single woman. The reporter said its obvious they desperately want the U.S. to start a ground war in their cities, thats all they talk about. He also said he noticed that the common person did not appear to enjoy living like that (go figure!) and that the biggest threat to their existence might even be internal. They are recruiting all over the world and growing in size but its all men. Women aren't signing up to cover everything but their eyes, be treated like slaves, stuck in their homes, and beaten to death for burning the garbage because it may or may not contain the quran. Men, particularly the loser fringe across the world, join because they offer them 3 things: a job, a purpose and a woman. Something most of them didnt have. But how long can these extremist fucks possibly continue without women? You can't just make every woman a slave. And as they grow in their recruitment bringing in more and more men not only will they run out of women but there going to have to enslave other common men's (that live under ISIS) wives/daughters/sisters. Don't you think eventually that's going to piss them off? idk.. just thinking about these fucks
Nagle, a group so morally decrepit and embedded in the stone age will never flourish, it just seems that way with all the media coverage. theyre fuckin' cavemen, at best, i think they'll be done not too long from now. sure theyre a problem alright, but theyve pissed off the whole world. theyre toast. eventually. you cant survive in this modern age thinking like they do. theyve made waves, and some big ones at that, but thats all they will ever do.
"I probably don't know of any extended family that doesn't have rifts within it, some of long standing. Sometimes these things start out small, and then become like the Grand Canyon, separating parents and children, brothers and sisters, in-laws, cousins. It's a great tragedy, but a tragedy that can be undone. I put myself on the line every time I say in the Lord's Prayer: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." It contradicts everything to say about some people "I'll never forgive them" ... and then to pray "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Forgiveness is how God treats me. That's why it's so difficult (but also so satisfying) to forgive - it's acting as God would. Forgiving someone is a good way to start a new year. And God will help me to forgive." ~"The Little Blue Book, Advent and Christmas Seasons, 2015-1016, Diocese of Saginaw
Cold, cold suicide winds From the misty mountains Eternally trapped in this frozen hell In this grim black forest Cold winds, cruel winter Heathen earth, black blood A guest from a haunting wind From the lands of phantoms The order of the elder ones Who travel with death Root of evil from the past Timeless memories becomes dust Black eternal fucking sin Ancient Devil worshipping Cold sleeping bottomless lakes Waiting to be discovered All paths lead to certain death The spirit of malignant glory Silent watcher, evil eye Silent watcher in the cold... ...unholy black demon soil Awakes the animal inside Made strong by the sacrifice Blood of holy, blood of Christ !!! Black eternal fucking sin Ancient Devil worshipping...
Revilers Tools of satan tearing down the work that God has made full of pride and haughtiness, your "new personality" fades Protecting men who kill a child's worth is what you do verbally abusing the innocent in order to hide what's true Your thoughts are not Jehovah's thoughts, and yet you have no shame If you don't change your thinking, no blessings will you gain Your appointment and position are the most important thing keep up your theocratic facade, while to your lies you cling You can fool the minds of men but Jehovah reads your heart You think that yours is fine, while others you rip apart The bible says, as for reviling, it is not okay to treat your fellow in an unkind and hateful way For true christians who are sincere, the identifying mark is love You see, it's not an option, but a commandment from above You act like you're so righteous and everything is fine but the traits you dare to show, for the last days are a sign Self-assuming, haughty, fierce and all puffed up with pride you keep revealing to me who you really are inside Unfounded accusations you go on the attack so easy to betray your friends and stab them in the back You take the side of criminals, what a hypocrite no empathy for victims, not the slightest little bit For those who think they know you, you wear a christian mask how about some common decency, is that too much to ask? Reviling is a form of slander God does not condone one day you'll have to pay the price, just you and you alone You will be held accountable for hateful things you say I wonder, how will you survive the final Judgement Day?
