There’s a religious war, of sorts, going on in the Episcopal church and, here in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, it has created a parting of the ways between the Fort Worth Diocese and the Dallas Diocese.
The first shot in this war came back in 1976 when the Episcopal Church officially allowed women in the ministry. […]

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Ten atheism-promoting billboards will go up in Denver over the holidays and one in Colorado Springs; the message is simple: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” in white letters over background that shows a mostly-cloudy blue sky. These billboards are, reportedly being paid for by a Colorado atheist group but, since the […]

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Two women activists, Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, remain jailed in a Bulawayo jail after a peaceful protest two weeks ago.
The women, members of WOZA, were part of a group demonstrating to pressure the government about aid going to destitute farmers. LINK
The KubatanaBlog describes the peaceful protest:
On arrival at the Government Complex, the group of […]

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This election season, the Republican party seems to have found a specialty; it goes like this: “Look who my opponent has associated with in the past.”
Now that IS a valid question . . . AND a valid test of character! A person does choose his/her friends and associates among those who reflect the qualities that […]

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Angelina Jolie is known primarily for two things: being the eye candy in action films and owning the pair of lips for which lipstick was truly invented.  In the Clint Eastwood directed drama Changeling she proves she’s a decent actress as well.
Based on a true story Changeling follows the plight of Christine Collins (Jolie), whose […]

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M.I.T. graduate Will Bradshaw is co-founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises, using innovative procedures to rebuild New Orleans homes devastated by Katrina. He is pro-life. He is voting for Barack Obama.
When Bradshaw describes himself as “pro-life,” he is speaking about an issue that goes beyond the simplistic code word that usually refers only […]

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Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled (see the trailer and other movie clips HERE) is basically about the war going on in scientific circles between pure evolutionists (Darwinians) and those scientists that feel that Intelligent Design (ID) should be considered a valid area for scientific study.
Stein’s movie uses the Berlin Wall as a symbol that represents […]

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This September 11, everyone waited with baited breath for the yearly “nyah nyah nyah” video rant from Al Qaeda.
More worrisome was that there might be a pep talk to coordinate a pre election attack in the US.
But something happened with the Alqaeda websites that usually deliver the videos: They went off line.
It was assumed that […]

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Yesterday, I reported that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, a charity run by the Catholic Bishops, reported that they would not be giving any more funding to ACORN.
I attributed it to the possibility that the bishops had become aware of the links of ACORN to the Obama campaign, and worried about Conservative Catholic backlash […]

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If you steal a million bucks, and don’t tell anyone, is it a crime?
Well, maybe, say the Catholic bishops, especially if it might be some of our antipoverty money.
It seems that the Catholic Bishop’s “poverty” charity, the “Catholic Campaign for Human Development”, has been giving a million bucks or so each year to ACORN.
No big […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
UPDATE: Brought to you by George Soros
The Convention for the Common Good, an alliance of several major Catholic social justice organizations, has at long last graced the American electorate with its “Platform for the Common Good” to enlighten those who may have been on the verge of voting incorrectly. 
“We must set aside […]

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Ah, the great Tina Brown, finding she is passe in the “old media”, has decided to imitate the social climbing Huffington in the “new Media” by getting her own group blog.
It will probably be a hit.
But I have a long standing dislike of Tina Brown, because she is a bigot.
Years ago, she moved to Washington […]

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I live in a democracy where there is a high degree of freedom of speech and so long as I obey the law I can pretty much say what I want wherever I want. So if I happened to believe that the earth was flat I could erect a soapbox in Hyde Park, or anywhere […]

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On September 4 in Hamburg, Germany, an unusual event occured: Germany’s Department of Interior Affairs’ Ursala Caberta held a 3-hour seminar on the dangers of Scientology while members of the Church were told to “stay away”.
Caberta has been head of the “Working Group on Scientology” since 1992. The 3-hour seminar, titled, “That is Scientology! Reports […]

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Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year:  
In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights barrier […]

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Yes, the latest victims of political correctness are those lovable kids from South Park.
After insulting everyone from Mohamed to Jesus to Steve Erwin to Brittany Spears, someone in Russia noticed that those lovable tykes have been insulting Christians. And Russian Christians are not amused…
According to the South Park website:
We are not sure how it […]

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Ms. Steinem: That chromosome AK Gov. Sarah Palin and NY Sen. Hilary Clinton share is the same one that you and Palin - and all women - share as well. But it is Palin – whom Cindy McCain described as a “reform-minded … hockey-mommin’ …  basketball shootin’ … moose huntin’ … fly-fishin’ … pistol-packing … […]

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How often do you read the story of ordinary people who go out of their way helping other ordinary folks in need?
Nope, better to repeat the latest rumor and vilify anyone not in our own group, whether it be right wingnuts or leftwing moonbats.
Yet these stories happen all the time, and perhaps in these days […]

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Sometimes making peace just makes things worse, as can be seen in the Philippines.
President Arroyo has been under a lot of pressure by Muslim countries and the United States to make peace with the remaining Moro (Muslim ethnic) group in Mindanao. The MNLF made peace years ago, but the MILF only had a tentative […]

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It premiered at Sundance and was given a rave review by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh. Anything with that varied of a resume just might be worth checking out.
Don’t be scared off by either the word “Sundance” or “Limbaugh”. The film features no gay cowboys or strip-teasing eight-year-olds in a beauty pageant. Nor does the […]

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Well, Nancy Pelosi put her foot into it. When asked on “Meet the Press” about abortion, she quoted St. Augustine out of context to prove Catholics once did not consider the fetus a full human, implying that her support of abortion on demand up until the fetus was partially born was moral, and the bishops […]

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In a brilliant move clearly aimed at appeasing the Christian Far Right, John McCain stunned the political world by announcing that Bigfoot will be his vice presidential choice. The surprise announcement brought unified praise from Bush/Cheney Republicans, Pavlovian evangelical extremists, and knuckle-dragging pundits in what is being dubbed a bold political stroke.
Rush Limbaugh expressed mild […]

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One thing about being around for awhile is that I am old enough to remember when Joe Biden, (and John Kerry, and Al Gore and Daschle) were prolife.
Most people tend to be prolife, you know, at least in most cases.
They oppose abortion except in three cases: That of incest, rape and deformity. (My more cynical […]

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Some would argue that journalism died in 2007 when “fake news” anchor Jon Stewart was ranked among the most trusted TV news anchors in the U.S. - along with that other fake news purveyor, Dan Rather (second item) in a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. But “citizen journalist” Rick […]

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I always felt that a German exhibition of plasticized defleshed humans was an example of decadence.
At least, the German show originator claimed the bodies had been donated to science.
But now, there are several copycat versions of “The Body Show” touring the US, and there are very real questions where this company obtained their bodies.
Harry […]

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Book publisher Random House decided not to publish a novel about the prophet Muhammad’s wife. The book titled The Jewel Of Medina gives a fictional account of the prophet Mohammad’s wife Aiesha.
After public condemnation by UT professor Denise Spellberg and some Islamic scholars, Random House decided not to publish the book. Spellberg called the book […]

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Today’s NYTimes has an article on the epidemic of HIV among African Americans in the US.
I almost skipped it, figuring it was just another politicized “Ain’t it awful” article blaming the problem on racism and the lack of universal health care.
However, it is a fairly good article about the world wide fight against the HIV […]

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In his whirlwind tour of the world, the hope of nations, Obama, spent some time in Jerusalem.
Like others who visit there, he left a note in the wall of the Temple, AKA the Wailing wall.
Yes, the deity doesn’t need notes or photos, but it’s a human thing to do such things, and similar customs are […]

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Interfaith dialogs Madrid: A Thinking man’s Observation
Welcome with Assalamualaikum,(Peace be upon You)
The Interfaith dialogue entered into the second phase with a gathering of prominent Muslims and Non Muslim scholars across the globe upon the invitation of King Abdullah in Madrid, Spain, from 16 July to 18 July.
It was my first opportunity to see an ocean […]

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A lot of talk and venom has been spit against Muslim women wearing headscarves.
It makes one wonder if these “christians” have ever read the Bible admonition for women to cover their heads. No one follows the rule nowadays, but it is there, because in pagan societies, the veil was a symbol of a modest married […]

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