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		<title>3 Stairways To Heaven</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought of death, or the so called &#8220;After Life&#8221;, or is it a dark, unchartered territory that you don&#8217;t want to be bothered with&#8230;
until it&#8217;s too late?  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever thought of death, or the so called &#8220;After Life&#8221;, or is it a dark, unchartered territory that you don&#8217;t want to be bothered with&#8230;</p>
<p>until it&#8217;s too late?  </p>
<p>Some people say it&#8217;s not true,&#8230; some people say there&#8217;s a purgatory where the cleansing of the soul will happen. A lot say we would just be a part of the clouds in the air and we&#8217;ll come back again and reincarnate to  maybe our favorite dog, or tree or bee in a totally different time and place .  But what if there is really a heaven and a hell?  What if on the day that you breathe your last, there&#8217;s really a place where there&#8217;s no turning back and you will only realize that bitter, bitter regret when you&#8217;re there at the judgment seat and reality dawns that you are about to face hell because you have not secured your heaven?  What shall you do?</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be wise that inasmuch as we secure our family and loved ones of insurance plans and provisions just in case the untimely happens, we also should seek our own soul on where it&#8217;s gonna go should the unexpected occurs. After all, if all I say now is baloney and we will just &#8220;fade away&#8221; when we die, like some people think, you will lose nothing. It&#8217;s as if you just wasted a teeny, tiny fraction of your time under the botherings of this fool writing this. No harm done, right?  But, what if, if for some weird reason I am right, and you only realize it when it&#8217;s too late, you will stand to lose everything. And it&#8217;s gonna be a shame, a damn shame, that you ignored this thing I tell you now.  </p>
<p>Well, it&#8217;s just simple.  So simple that even a toddler of three can understand it.  Wanna be sure of going to heaven? Here are three easy stairways to climb. Yeah, it&#8217;s even as easy as A-B-C!</p>
<p>*A*-dmit that you are a sinner and cannot save yourself. We all are sinners and we cannot go to heaven when we die unless Someone takes over and suffer for our faults.</p>
<p>*B*-elieve that Jesus died on the Cross for your sins,&#8230; and mine too! What is to be your punishment, He bore on His human body and died the  most cruel, violent death for you,&#8230; and me! What could be the grandest display of love than that of the cross of Jesus? Ever saw that famed movie PASSION OF THE CHRIST? It&#8217;s a mild version of what God went thru in great lengths just to save you. </p>
<p>*C*-onfess that JESUS IS LORD &#038; and invite Him in as Personal Lord &#038; Savior of your life. For He is the only way, the truth and the life. No one can come to heaven except through Him. {John 14:6}  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s it! 3 simple stairs to climb!</p>
<p>A sure heaven when you die! Now, you needn&#8217;t have to be afraid of death!!!</p>
<p>That easy, huh!?!</p>
<p>Yeah, because The Lord already did the hardest and most gruesome part. All you have to do is accept. Yes, accept. Much like a gift cannot be yours until you take it; the &#8220;gift&#8221; of salvation won&#8217;t be true to you unless you take it.</p>
<p>Let me lead you to a simple prayer of faith to accept Jesus into your heart. It&#8217;s just a sample, you can make your own, to suit you, if you want. What matters is the sincere words of your heart.<br />
<br />Here goes:</p>
<p>&#8220;Father in heaven,<br />
<br />    I come to you today, humbly admitting that I am a sinner saved only by grace&#8230; your grace. I believe that jesus died on the cross for my sins so I can go to heaven when I die. I confess that jesus is lord and that he is the only way for me to have an eternal life&#8230; with you. I accept you as my lord &#038; savior today. Change me and use me for your glory. In the most powerful name of Jesus I pray,<br />
<br />                                                                                                                Amen.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, congratulations!<br />
<br />I&#8217;ll see you in heaven then, okey!?<br />
<br />I hope you share it with someone you love and then let that someone share it to someone else, too&#8230;! Talk about the power of ONE. Heaven is a big, big place. The more of us will get there, the more fun it&#8217;ll be! Share the good news of salvation, friends!!!</p>
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		<title>A Growth about the Sending Church</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missional church is definitely a popular saying that is anywhere you look these days. the idea that we are required to categorize church buildings, missional, has forever been weird to me. I mean, shouldnt all places of worship be missional in their very character? it should be expected from a church, at its very nature, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.missionalpeople.com/">Missional church</a> is definitely a popular saying that is anywhere you look these days. the idea that we are required to categorize church buildings, missional, has forever been weird to me. I mean, shouldnt all places of worship be missional in their very character? it should be expected from a church, at its very nature, yearn to connect their culture and area with the message of Jesus as a missionary would in a different country? Isnt it what the bodies of Christ is instructed to do in the great commission in Matthew 28:19? Our own city needs this brand of church. <a href="http://www.northvillagechurch.com/">Churches in Austin</a> is slowly gravitating to what our Creator instructed in the Bible.</p>
<p>Christ gives the command in Acts 1:8 saying, &#8220;But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.&#8221; Acts 1:8 exemplifies this idea as, right before Jesus Christ ascends to Heaven, He directs the disciples on a story that would launch right in their personal community. He begins with their area of Jerusalem, and then enlarges the call to the many parts of the creation.</p>
<p>As disciples of Jesus, we are not moved to privacy, but to be missional persons who are actively going out and finding communities right where they are with the story of Christ. We have noticed this throughout history: God motivated Abraham on a mission to go out of his city and his people and go to the city that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God sends Moses on a journey to rescue an enslaved people and lead them to joy (Exodus 3:8-10), God urges Jesus on a mission to globe to bring back all things to Himself through the blood of Christ (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending believers on a story to engage neighborhoods, cities, people groups, and even nations with the message of Jesus (Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we resist this call and continue to treat the churches like a members only country club &#8221; encouraging that people resolve their abilities, pay their deposit, and walk to our building God will continue His journey without us.</p>
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		<title>Hostility against &#8220;Jewish Holidays&#8221; to be History!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romans 8:7-8
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Romans 8:7-8</b></p>
<p>7 <i>Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</i></p>
<p>We see some of this hostility hung over into the Millennium (the reign of the Kingdom of God)  and quickly put in check by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. <i>All</i> &#8211; Jew, Israelite, Gentile &#8211; must become converted and have the law written upon the tablets of our hearts and minds, expressed in word and in deed, in attitude and in actions, by the grace of God (Heb. 8:1).</p>
<p><b>Zechariah 14:17-18</b></p>
<p>17 <i>And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.</i></p>
<p>Thankfully, many others will have a childlike attitude and humbly be excited to learn what most were never taught by their traditional teachers:</p>
<p><b>Isaiah 2:2-4</b></p>
<p>2 <i>Now it shall come to pass in the latter days<br />
 That the mountain of the LORD&#8217;s house<br />
 Shall be established on the top of the mountains,<br />
 And shall be exalted above the hills;<br />
 And all nations shall flow to it.<br />
 3 Many people shall come and say,</p>
<p>&#8221; Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,<br />
 To the house of the God of Jacob;<br />
 He will teach us His ways,<br />
 And we shall walk in His paths.&#8221;<br />
 For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah,<br />
 And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.<br />
 4 He shall judge between the nations,<br />
 And rebuke many people;<br />
 They shall beat their swords into plowshares,<br />
 And their spears into pruning hooks;<br />
 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,<br />
 Neither shall they learn war anymore.</i></p>
<p>Yeshua&#8217;s Bride will gladly follow <i>His</i> ways and celebrate the same biblical festivals as Him and avoid unclean ways and pagan holidays like the plague! Such abominations will be history and vain traditions trashed. <b>Yeshua will not be unequally yoked.</b></p>
<p>I&#8217;m happy to <i>announce</i> the biblical Sabbath, the biblical Festivals of the LORD, the biblical ways will be kept throughout all the earth, by ALL nations, under the glorious reign of the King &#8211; Yeshua &#8211; whom some of us honestly call Lord while others take His Name in vain, holding on to their idolatrous traditions of men (1 John 2:4).</p>
<p><b>Matthew 5:17-19</b></p>
<p>17 <i>&#8220;Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19<b> Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven</b>; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</i></p>
<p><b>Revelation 22:14-15</b></p>
<p>4 <i>Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.</i></p>
<p>Plea to Diehard Catholics &#038; Protestants to Repent</p>
<p>That way such folks won&#8217;t fall for what&#8217;s soon to occur, having been forewarned:</p>
<p>Sorcerer-Pope to Bewitch Europe and Mislead the Masses!</p>
<p>Come Lord Yeshua and destroy the darkness by the light of your Word, as foretold in the Law and the Prophets.</p>
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<p><b>David Ben-Ariel</b> is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of <b>Beyond Babylon: Europe&#8217;s Rise and Fall.</b> With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve  their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the <b>Beyond Babylon blog</b>.</p>
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		<title>Plagues, Plagues and Plagues Everywhere!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He ceases his intercession in the sanctuary. His wrath is kindled against those who worshiped the beast, his image, and had his mark. Plagues are poured out on the people, some with sores all over their bodies, while others had no water to drink or to wash because the sea turned into thick blood. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He ceases his intercession in the sanctuary. His wrath is kindled against those who worshiped the beast, his image, and had his mark. Plagues are poured out on the people, some with sores all over their bodies, while others had no water to drink or to wash because the sea turned into thick blood. The rivers and fountains also flowed with blood. The sun plagued the people with its scourging heat. Darkness filled the beast&#8217;s kingdom. In fact, the plague of darkness was so thick the people gnawed their tongues in pain. The great river Euphrates dried up, Armageddon had begun.  Finally, the last plague that was poured onto the people was hailstones.  Each hailstone weighed about a hundred pounds and the people cursed God because of the hail of the plague.</p>
<p>Why are you still sleeping?</p>
<p>Did you know that angels are being commanded to pour out the vials of God&#8217;s wrath upon the earth?  The first is being commanded to pour his vials and when he pours, a foul and loathsome sore will come upon the people who have the mark of the beast and on those who worship his image. When the second angel pours his vial on the sea, the sea will turn to blood and every living creature in the sea will die. The third angel will pour out his vial on the rivers and springs of water, they too will become blood. These plagues will be more severe than those that fell upon the Egyptians, thousands of years ago. After the third plague, the angel of the waters will praise God because he will judge those who will shed the blood of saints and prophets and those people will receive their just reward!</p>
<p>Wake up!</p>
<p>The fourth angel will pour out his vial on the sun and power that was given to the sun will scorch the people. They will blaspheme the name of God. Then the fifth angel will come with his vial and pour it upon the throne of the beast and the beast&#8217;s kingdom will fill with darkness. This darkness will cause pain and people will gnaw their tongues. The God of heaven will be blasphemed because of the pain of the plagues.  However, the sixth angel will pour out his vial on the great river Euphrates its waters will dry up so that the way of the kings (rulers) from the east might be prepared. What these rulers and the world does not know, is that they are being<br />
 controlled by evil powers who are initiating to battle against God Almighty. And these rulers will be led to fight the last battle in a place called Armageddon.</p>
<p>Last Plague</p>
<p>This is how it will happen according to the word of God. The seventh angel is commanded to pour out his vial into the air and when he does, a loud voice will come out of the temple of heaven and say: &#8220;It is done!&#8221;  Then, there will be noises, thunder, lightings, and a great earthquake, which will result in the collapse of cities of all the nations and God will remember great Babylon (earth) and will give her the bitterness of his wrath. The Islands and mountains will go into oblivion, and great hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds each, will fall from heaven upon men. Again, people will blaspheme God!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let me catch you sleeping!</p>
<p>Remember I&#8217;m coming like a thief and those who watch for me are blessed because they will be doing my will, loving and caring for each other in every way possible.  To the God of mercy such act of punishment is called a strange act because he has &#8220;no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but he will by no means clear the guilty&#8221;.</p>
<p>Fearful Time Ahead</p>
<p>There will be mourning in the earth because there will be no food to eat and the seed will rot under their &#8220;clods&#8221;.  The beast groans and the cattle perplexed because they have no pasture. The rivers are dried up and fire devours the pastures. Instead of songs of praise in the temple there will be &#8220;howling&#8221; and many people will die!</p>
<p>Sounds like Fiction?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not fiction, but will be reality one day and if the plagues have not yet began to fall it will not be long now before it does.  How do I know this?  Well, because the signs of the times in our generation tell us that the earth is ripe for harvest. Also, Bible Prophecy tells us that when we see certain things taking place in our world and in quick succession, they will be indications of the end of the world.  Some of these signs are: lawlessness, children having children, disobedient to parents, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, and many more. Such things we see in our world today. Therefore, search the word of God for yourselves and give your hearts to him and he will save you not only from the dreadful plagues, but from eternal death, which means Eternal Life with him!</p>
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<p>Veronique Belmar write books on Biblical Prophecies, Health Books, Children&#8217;s Books, Poetry, and many more. At the age of fourteen she started reading the Holy Scriptures. She read the Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, death of Christ, the resurrection, Christ&#8217;s second coming, the judgment, Bible prophecies, and many more, and her writing is based on giving information that would help bring hope, joy, peace and happiness to others.<br />
 Veronique Belmar is author of Words of Life (<a href="http://www.wordsoflifegh.com)" rel="nofollow">http://www.wordsoflifegh.com)</a></p>
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		<title>Religion and Political Correctness Killing Science</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many in academia say that religion is ruining science and preventing research and development dollars from the government from going into things like stem cell research and biotech.  This may be in fact true however we also need to look at the flip side of things.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many in academia say that religion is ruining science and preventing research and development dollars from the government from going into things like stem cell research and biotech.  This may be in fact true however we also need to look at the flip side of things.</p>
<p>For instance political correctness is forcing billions of dollars of research and development monies to go into alternative energy projects, prototypes and products at an astounding rate and this fact is causing fewer dollars to go to other things. Political correctness also slows down and complicates research and eliminates free thinkers.</p>
<p>So one could say that both the religious right and the Democrat liberals are both killing science. In fact, we need some middle ground here and we need to increase the research spending and the monitor the efficiency of the money we have spent to make sure we&#8217;re getting the biggest bang for our buck in the research we do.</p>
<p>I believe that if you spend money in research and development today you&#8217;ll get back ten times the benefit in future periods.  In fact if we spend money to develop new markets for industry our government and civilization will be rewarded with more jobs and more taxable income so we can spend even more on research and development while maintaining the flows of our civilization with increased tax revenues. We should not let political correctness or religion kill science or slow down the forward progression of mankind especially the United States of America.  Please consider this in 2006.</p>
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		<title>Am I Just a Freak of Nature?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents were not much into going to church but my paternal grandparents dragged my four brothers and I into church whenever possible. I went to Sunday School and sat through countless sermons &#8211; all the while wishing I were out playing baseball or doing something fun. I had better things to do on Sunday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My parents were not much into going to church but my paternal grandparents dragged my four brothers and I into church whenever possible. I went to Sunday School and sat through countless sermons &#8211; all the while wishing I were out playing baseball or doing something fun. I had better things to do on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings then attending church services. Thinking back, I am glad I did attend. Some of it did sink in. A seed was planted.</p>
<p>I learned all the Bible stories, you know, Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah&#8217;s flood, Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus and the cross, and so on, not knowing sure what to believe. Because at the same time my school science classes were telling me something very different about who I was and how I got here. The schools pretty much had me convinced I evolved from a fish, which evolved from something even lower in a warm slimy sludge. They had me convinced I was a product of random chance events and no creator was involved or needed. I did not see much of a future beyond the grave. I did not feel good about this, but who was I to argue with scientific facts!</p>
<p>In my early 20&#8217;s (a long time ago), I began to question everything I was taught. I was torn between what I was taught in church and what I was taught in school. I decided someone had lied to me and I did not like it. I still did not fully understand the whole Christianity thing and why Jesus had to die on a cross. Nevertheless, I needed to know the truth about my existence. Was I the product of a series of random accidents, or did a Supreme Being place me on this earth for a reason? I wanted to know and had to know. I had a void inside that I could not explain. I had to know why I was here and what the future held for me. This set me on a quest for the truth.</p>
<p>The first thing I did was to go to a local bookstore and search for the &#8220;truth&#8221; in the occult section. Surely I can find all the answers to life on these shelves I thought. Believe it or not I did, or at least the answers started there. Right there, in the middle of all the astrologers, soothsayers, and modern day prophets, was a book titled &#8220;The Late Great Planet Earth&#8221; by Hal Lindsey. I bought the book, read it, and it completely changed the way I looked at life. I knew I had an exciting future &#8211; an exciting eternal future, if any of this were true.</p>
<p>After reading that book, I sat down and read Genesis. An unexplainable chill came over me as I realized that I was reading actual history and not ancient myths. It actually frightened me a bit, knowing without a shadow of a doubt the events really happened. I bought another one of Hal&#8217;s books titled &#8220;The Liberation of Planet Earth&#8221;, that went into great detail of who Jesus was and is, and why God had to become a man and die on a cross. Another chill came over me as when I knew it was a historical fact that Jesus actually rose from the dead. I finally understood God&#8217;s plan &#8211; from creation to eternity. The lights in my head suddenly came on. It all made sense.</p>
<p>I then set out on a journey to study everything I could find on atheistic evolution (the type of evolution taught in public schools in the USA), and creation. All the living things around me took on new meaning. I looked at them differently. I could look at a bird or ant and I could see incredible design and purpose. I studied, in great detail, the cardiovascular and vision systems of humans. I studied the workings of the simplest life form, the cell. I concluded the chances of atheistic evolution being the process of which life evolved on earth was absolute zero, not mention the origin of life springing up from non-life in some slimy sludge also being absolute zero.</p>
<p>No, I am not a freak of nature, but one who has an exciting destiny in eternity, and placed here for a reason by a loving Creator. Since that day in the bookstore, I have been on an incredible and exciting journey and I have never looked back.</p>
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		<title>Daddy, Why Does the Preacher Talk So Funny?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to fundamentalist preachers, there is nothing quite like the way they choose to express themselves from the pulpit.  What they say, in and of itself, can be quite amazing.  Such as the recent flap with Mrs. Benny Hinn, tryng her darndest to give a ranting good sermon for the masses [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to fundamentalist preachers, there is nothing quite like the way they choose to express themselves from the pulpit.  What they say, in and of itself, can be quite amazing.  Such as the recent flap with Mrs. Benny Hinn, tryng her darndest to give a ranting good sermon for the masses and making a complete fool out of herself. In the typical breathless rant of evangelical showmanship, she told the audience what they needed was &#8220;a Holy Ghost enema, right up their butts.&#8221;  Honest, that was what she said and she repeated it.  She then went on to tell the audience not to be &#8220;butt kissers.&#8221;  Having realized that she probably had crossed a few too many lines, she tried to recover by saying that people like her just have that kind of humor but was too late and the tape spread around the world, and not in a good way.  She then went into a pacing frenzy back and forth until she broke her shoe and told the audience they didn&#8217;t need shoes anyway, they needed to put on combat boots for Jesus.  I guess this got her out of the shoe breakage embarassment.  The end came merciful when she fell flat on her face, on stage, and everyone started clapping as if this was of God and the perfect ending to a perfect sermon.  It was pathetic and the scary part is that not one person in the audience got up and said &#8220;I&#8217;m out of here.&#8221;  They loved it.</p>
<p>The fact is that nothing she said in the &#8220;sermon&#8221; was helpful. Nothing she said was correct and practically nothing she said was anythng but an attempt to appear inspiring and ending up being absolutely foolish.  Poor Mr. Hinn was so angry that the video was playing around the world, he threatened those who showed it, from what I understand.  I don&#8217;t blame him. What a time at the &#8216;ol breakfast table next day that must have been!</p>
<p>What is it about fundamentalist preachers that some seemingly have to loose their minds and common sense in an avalanche of &#8220;techniques&#8221; that leave most educated people laughing themselves sick? Do they not realize they are being laughed at?</p>
<p>When a preacher tells the audience that the reason Bathsheba was called Bathesheba was due to the fact that as King David oggled her from the roof top, she was taking a BATH!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not kidding, I heard it with my own ears and wrote the man suggesting that had she been taking a shower, we would have known her as SHOWER-Sheba.  The man was simply ignorant and I almost drove off the road laughing.  On the other hand, it was pathetic and I often wonder if any in his congregation called him out on that little piece of ignorance.  Sometimes I wonder at the audience more than the preacher.</p>
<p>What can be said from the pulpit can be amazingly silly or incredibly harmful.  Pat Robertson tells us that hurricanes are from God punishing New Orleans or that Ariel Sharon&#8217;s stroke is from God for giving up part of the West Bank to people who also need a real place to live.  His coments are wrong, ignorant,  foolish and  dangerous in these prounouncements. He suddenly saw the light (most will do that when you challenge a particular piece of ignorance and never do when never challenged) when the State of Israel cancelled his affiliation with them and one of his pet projects in Israel, but it was too late.  Good for them to put a price on speaking foolishness from the pulpit. I guess the State of Israel was able to uninspire Pat&#8217;s inspired comments. God, I suppose, was forced to recind His inspiration and give into the current dilemma.</p>
<p>Time would fail to account for all the ignorance that comes from the pulpits of men and women not trained, not educated, not informed and not accountable for their presentations.  Sanctified ignorance is still ignorance as far as we can tell.</p>
<p>There were dinosaurs on the ark&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Earth is just 6000 years old&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Our church is the only true church on earth&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Evolution is a doctrine of Satan&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Dancin is a doctrine of Satan&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Whatever you ask in Jesus name, you will have&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>&#8220;I am God&#8217;s true representative on earth and I am compelled to say these things&#8230;&#8221;  wrong</p>
<p>If you tithe, God will bless you and pour out the windows of heaven to you&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>God is doing this&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>God is doing that&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Jesus thinks this of that&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>Jesus thinks that of this&#8230;wrong</p>
<p>&#8220;I know I am going very long on this sermon..but you need to hear this&#8230;&#8221;  wrong</p>
<p>&#8220;You need to put the Church and bible study and being here first in your life&#8230;&#8221;  wrong</p>
<p>&#8230;and on and on and on such that it would behove most preachers of this way of being to join On and On Anonymous!</p>
<p>Perhaps most irritating and pathetic of all is the WAY that many Evangelical, TV and Fundamentalist preachers present themselves.  What&#8217;s with the cadance from hell in the presentation?  What&#8217;s with the &#8220;eh&#8221; &#8220;eh&#8221; &#8220;eh&#8221; at the end of every sentence.  I realize physiologically it helps them breath or they would pass out, and while it may be &#8220;tradition&#8221; it is past useful for educated parishioners. Maybe that&#8217;s the problem too.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s with the yelling?  Always yelling and always giving the appearance that they are angry. Preachers are angry a lot as they think they can&#8217;t be a Preacher without their righteous indignation showing for every last thing on the planet they decide is evil and needs the iron rod of Jesus to smack down.</p>
<p>I listened to a preacher this morning coming in to work just to see if he would pass out and go absolutely speechless trying to yell, speak and breathe at the same time. I don&#8217;t think he missed one human foible in his presentation that he was not bashing his congregation over the head with.  Sometimes I sense &#8220;me thinks thou protesteth too much.&#8221;  I have learned that far more often than one thinks, just monitor what topics the preacher rails upon repeatedly and you might have a good hint at what troubles his own ignorant soul.  Every minister in my personal experience who was known to rail against this or that &#8220;sex problem&#8221; was wrestling with it himself.  Projection is something that most congregants of fundamentalist preachers don&#8217;t understand.</p>
<p>No one can slaughter the English language like a preacher gone berserk behind the pulpit. Imagine a meeting at IBM or the Oval Office (well there I can <img src='http://cyberspacediversion.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> , conducted in that tone and style and you will find someone being escorted off the premisis looking for a new job.</p>
<p>Sermons are full of nonsensical phrases and pronounciations. If you were to write down what was said and read it back, it would sound ridiculous. From &#8220;Jaaa..eeeeeezus says,&#8221; to &#8220;days (there is) a time a commin&#8230;&#8221; an intelligent and meaningful presentation is lost in a flurry of emotion and slobber. HOW you say something for many preachers far outweighs whether what one says is even true. Remember, in fact, science by nature of being science has to be accurate and admit mistakes. At this moment, we have some very embarassed and angry South Korean scientists who have found out and admitted that their recent cloaning projects were bogus. Sorry about that, but good for them.</p>
<p>Preachers not only rarely admit to mistakes, but seem to have a need to perpetuate the error. Since God is never wrong, they never are not wrong either, since they think they both speak and are inspired by this outside force called &#8220;God.&#8221; Simply ask yourself how many times you have ever heard a preacher or church say it was wrong when it said this or that and you will understand what I mean. Because of this, many fundamentalist sermons are delivered in angry, emotional, threatening and self righteous tones. I can only imagine what some of the kids are thinking as they watch the show. Often they will tell you years later how nuts the church the grew up in was.</p>
<p>Every scientific fact that the church has ever made fun of as being contradicted by the Bible, they have eventually had to admit to being correct. Of course, many do not, and never will, Praise Jesus for my ignorance because &#8220;the wisdom of man is foolishness with God,&#8221; and &#8220;my ways are not YOUR ways..saith the Lord.&#8221; Preachers hid a lot of ignorance behind those two quotes.</p>
<p>It just took the Pope 350 years to apologize for almost burning Galileo at the stake for thinking earth was not the center of the solar system and the sun circled it. He didn&#8217;t apologize for actually doing it to nameless others.   Science has yet to acknowledge one Biblical allegory as being literally true in their actual findings. Eventually, the &#8220;facts&#8221; the church promotes in areas where they don&#8217;t know what they are talking about, falls to the real facts. More so now in these days of easy access to the internet for information not formerly available to the average person.</p>
<p>And so sometimes we have to ask ourselves, &#8220;what is our chillins learning in Church from such preachers?&#8221;</p>
<p>For starters, they are learning:</p>
<p>Yelling trumps teaching.</p>
<p>Good grammar doesn&#8217;t count in church.</p>
<p>God is a consuming fire if you question the preacher.</p>
<p>Emotions trump good information.</p>
<p>One can be ill-programmed for life and not realize it.</p>
<p>Brains and YOUR intelligence and common sense indeed can be checked at the door when you go to your church.</p>
<p>Preachers are never wrong.</p>
<p>YOU are seldom right.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jaaaaaaheeeezus&#8221; loves the sinner but hates the sin, but it sure sounds like he hates the sinner too.</p>
<p>Mom or Dad never seem to think what I think the preacher says and does is stupid..something must be wrong with me.</p>
<p>God and Jesus must be raving lunatics if this man or woman is his personal representative on earth to me.</p>
<p>Narcissism must be a spiritual gift.</p>
<p>Take some time and just listen to the words of those that fit these ways of speaking for God.  Watch the antics they feel they have to use to convince. If your head says &#8220;it must be so&#8221; while your tummy says &#8220;no no no&#8221;, go with the tummy. It will tell you the truth of what you are feeling more accurately and you won&#8217;t feel like something is wrong with you for observing that, while sincere, this man is really not qualified to teach me who and what God is and what he is or isn&#8217;t doing on good &#8216;ol planet earth.  You&#8217;ll also be able to more genuinely answer the question your kids are asking themselves, whether  you know it or not.  &#8220;Dad, why is the preacher yelling, and why does he talk so funny?&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Feb. 8, 2,006, French President Jacques Chirac accused newspapers printing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad of &#8220;provocation&#8221;, after yet another French publication put the contentious caricature on its pages. President Chirac said, &#8220;Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, Feb. 8, 2,006, French President Jacques Chirac accused newspapers printing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad of &#8220;provocation&#8221;, after yet another French publication put the contentious caricature on its pages. President Chirac said, &#8220;Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility.&#8221; A conviction is a strong belief in the truth of their religion, a strong belief that their Holy Bible is the absolute truth, the Word of God Himself.</p>
<p>The Old Testament is the Holy Bible of Judaism. The Old Testament plus the New Testament is the Holy Bible of Christianity. The Old Testament plus the New Testament plus the Koran is the Holy Bible of Islam. To blaspheme is to say that the Holy Bible is wrong, false, untrue, not the Word of God. Galileo was a blasphemer. Galileo had a telescope. Galileo said that the Earth was moving even though the Holy Bible says three times that the Earth does not move and it never will. For his blasphemy Galileo was imprisoned for years by the infallible incapable of error Pope. The Pope would have executed Galileo for his blasphemy which was a capital offense but the two men were friends. The biggest blasphemer is your God, right in your Holy Bibles. As you can see with Galileo, blasphemy is often true.</p>
<p>To listen to the Televangelists, it would seem that there is a complete consensus that every word in the Holy Bible is true, the absolute truth word from God. Our telescopes to see what is going on here is our Bible scholars. The Bible scholars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam will all tell you the same thing. God of Mount Sinai, aka God the Father, The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Allah, Elohim and Adonai carved the 10 commandments in stone Himself and gave them to Moses in 1200 BC. Moses died in 1200 BC. The first book of the Old Testament, Genesis was begun in 800 BC and the first 5 books of the Old Testament were edited, added to and deleted from and finally completed in 400 BC. The New Testament was begun in 100 AD, 70 years after the death of Jesus. It was edited, added to and deleted from for 225 years until its completion in 325 AD, where the Church Fathers elected Jesus God, because in the New Testament Jesus says that he is God and he is not God. The Prophet Muhammad could not read or write. The Koran was begun decades after his death. The Koran was an attempt to correct, straighten out the Old and the New Testament. We know that the Old Testament was written by the Priests and the Prophets of the time. We even know their names. They wrote laws and stories and dialogues and commandments and they signed them &#8220;said God&#8221;, &#8220;said Moses&#8221;, &#8220;said Abraham&#8221;, &#8220;said Adam&#8221;, &#8220;said Eve&#8221;, &#8220;said the snake&#8221;, etc.</p>
<p>Other Biblical Prophets watched as the Bible Writers took the name of God in vain for their own commandments and they railed against this sin right in your Holy Bible endlessly. God said of the Bible writing Priests and Prophets, &#8220;They say, &#8216;Says the Lord&#8217;, when the Lord has not sent them.&#8221; Your God of Mount Sinai called your Holy Bible writers forgers of His will. (Ezekiel 13:1-22). God said of the Bible writing Priests and Prophets, &#8220;You Prophesy by Baal, Beelzebub, Satan!&#8221; (Jeremiah 2:8). According to the accurate translation of the Hebrew Tanach, the Old Testament, God said of the scribes, the bible writers: &#8220;They reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet are confused with wine, they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. All tables (God&#8217;s 2 stone tablets) are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.&#8221; God accused your bible writers of being ignorant drunks leading you all into disaster by covering His Word, his 2 stone tables, with their filthy vomit, your Holy Bible. (Isaiah 28:7-15). God of Mount Sinai said in the Tanach that your Holy Bible writers wrote &#8220;commandment upon commandment, line upon line, here a little, there a little; in order that we all may go and fall backwards and be broken and ensnared and taken.&#8221; (Isaiah 28:13). God called the Old Testament other than the 2 tablets, &#8220;feces&#8221;. God cursed the bible writers and their offspring and vowed to spread the feces on their faces! (Malachi 2:1-3). God called his covenant with Moses, Levi, the 10 commandments the &#8220;Truth&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ was the Jewish born Rabbi, the Messiah of Christianity and Islam. His job was to purify the 613 commandments in the Old Testament down to God&#8217;s 10. Jesus said that when he returned he would command his angels to bring God&#8217;s 2 tablets into God&#8217;s Temple and gather up the Holy Bibles and throw them into the fire and burn them. (Matt. 13:24-30 KJV). Jesus Christ said that the Prophet Isaiah was right when God said through Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 29:13, &#8220;Full well you reject the commandments of God, that you may keep your own traditions. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.&#8221; (Mark 7:6-9 K.J.V.). Jesus called the extra 603 commandments forgeries of men signed &#8220;God&#8221;, and &#8220;heavy burdens grievous to be borne placed on men&#8217;s shoulders by the scribes (bible writers) and Pharisees.&#8221; (Matthew 23:1-4). In Matthew 23 Jesus launches into an absolute diatribe, calling the bible writers venomous snakes spewing their deadly poison into your bibles which poison would lead you all into the fire.</p>
<p>Have you heard of 911? Why did it happen? Well, the Muslim men who flew the 2 airplanes into the two twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, honestly believed that they did it on the orders of your God of Mount Sinai, who commands them in the Koran to &#8220;Make War on the Jews and the Christians.&#8221; Furthermore, these Muslim men also honestly believed to the depths of their souls that the moment they hit the towers, they would wake up in Heavenly Eternal Paradise with God of Mount Sinai, 72 Virgins, and Wine with no side effects because they read this in a book &#8211; that this would be their reward from God of Mount Sinai for Making War on the Christians and Jews. (Koran, Chapter, Sura, 9:29-30, and Chapter 56, Mecca). The Old and the New Testament also have countless such commandments, like in Psalm 2, where God tells the Messiah to break the Heathen (King James Version), the Non Believers, like pottery with a rod of iron into millions of pieces. Unfortunately Psalm 2 and the entire Old Testament has now been adopted by all 3 religions who now believe that all non group members, every man, woman, and child, are the Heathen who God of Mount Sinai wants pulverized, who God wants them to pulverize, for great eternal rewards.</p>
<p>In retaliation for 911, the President of the United States publicly announced to the World that he was launching a Crusade. As every Muslim person knows, the Crusades were a thousand years ago when the Pope led his Christian army across Europe, massacring every Jew in their way, reclaiming the Holy Land, until the Christian soldiers stood knee deep in Muslim blood in Jerusalem. So far the President of the United States has conquered Afghanistan and Iraq, and he is now threatening Syria and Iran. According to the scribes, the bible Writers, Jesus said that when he returned he would command his Christian Angels to throw every last Non-Christian man, woman, and child into the fire and massacre every last one of them because they all were Devils, all 4 billion of them on Earth today. (Matthew 13:36-43).</p>
<p>The Christian and Muslim and Jewish children of God of Mount Sinai following these scripts, these bibles, are presently engaged in the beginning of Nuclear World War III against each other. Every nuclear scientist knows that nuclear world war III will have no survivors. Albert Einstein, Dwight David Eisenhower and John Fitzgerald Kennedy all said, &#8220;The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.&#8221; This statement is infinitely more true today. Our only hope of survival is to make World Peace. As long as there is Christianity, Islam and Judaism there will never be peace on Earth. The Temple of Love is the only solution for World Peace. Only The Temple of Love makes peace among and unites Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Everyone else. The Temple of Love works because we follow your own God&#8217;s map to Peace on Earth forever.</p>
<p>Today, Feb. 8, 2,006, French President Jacques Chirac accused newspapers printing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad of &#8220;provocation&#8221;, after yet another French publication put the contentious caricature on its pages. President Chirac said, &#8220;Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility.&#8221; A conviction is a strong belief in the truth of their religion, a strong belief that their Holy Bible is the absolute truth, the Word of God Himself. The burying your head in the sand approach so that people cannot see you may work for ostriches but it will never work for human beings. Only the truth will set you free. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are now leading us all into the Apocalypse and extinction, and even their God is a non believer in these 3 religions, as He says endlessly right in your holy bibles over and over again. If your own God does not believe in your religion then why do you? The Religion that your God does believe in that will prevent your extinction in the near future is The Temple of Love, The World Peace Religion of your God of Mount Sinai. See you there.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion is so many things. From what we can see nowadays, it is a business, society
And a whole lot more ways humans operate religion. As a learner I&#8217;m not saying what I&#8217;m stating now is the ultimate truth. It&#8217;s a mere catalyst to further navigate this &#8220;rabbit hole&#8221;.
What is this religion word means? Beside countless [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Religion is so many things. From what we can see nowadays, it is a business, society<br />
And a whole lot more ways humans operate religion. As a learner I&#8217;m not saying what I&#8217;m stating now is the ultimate truth. It&#8217;s a mere catalyst to further navigate this &#8220;rabbit hole&#8221;.</p>
<p>What is this religion word means? Beside countless description of the word, there are many parts that make up a religion, and we are not going to dwell in the matter here. Generally, one could conclude that religion will guide its followers to heaven, right? I don&#8217;t think so. For some, their religion guide them to heaven, some to achieve nirvana and some to just die and that&#8217;s that no heaven no hell nothing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Heaven&#8221;, &#8220;nirvana&#8221; is described as a nice and trouble free place, thus can be labeled as positive outcome. Now there&#8217;s hell, fire et cetera that is prepared for those who don&#8217;t &#8220;do well&#8221; in their religion, having reputation as a place of eternal if not prolonged misery to its inhabitants, thus a negative outcome. Now not all religion promises heaven for devotees. For some religions, heaven is not in their holy/guide book.</p>
<p>And yet they too have rituals and beliefs and even followers. Thus we can conclude that, religions guide its followers to the truth. It&#8217;s the truth that entice people to have a religion or not, it is what we cling to, be it positive or negative. Truth is a variable to mankind and will always cause a positive result.</p>
<p>(Negative outcome in religion) NEGATIVE AND (truth will be) POSITIVE = POSITVE, (positive outcome in a religion) POSITIVE AND (truth will be) POSITIVE = POSITIVE.</p>
<p>Both of the equations prove that humans will only embrace truth, even the atheist (atheism is a religion too!).</p>
<p>What is ultimate truth? . If there were such a thing, to agree that there is an ultimate truth would be saying there is truth that is not so true. Finally it leads us to the fact that there can only be one truth, because no matter what and how we look at it, it points to one conclusion (POSITIVE) and that is what truth is.</p>
<p>So what is truth? Where does it lie? Are we being true to ourselves? What is the purpose of knowing this truth? This is an invitation to knowledge.</p>
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<p>Mohd Radzee</p>
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		<title>Reiki&#8230;So What is it and Where Does it Come From?</title>
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Or is it some kind of esoteric, &#8216;out there with the fairies&#8217;, new age way to enlightenment?
Well, to be honest, it&#8217;s a little bit of both&#8230;
&#8230;only it&#8217;s not really new age, and it&#8217;s definitely not &#8216;out there with the fairies&#8217;&#8230;
&#8230;though it can certainly lead [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it a powerful hands on healing art, as many people say?</p>
<p>Or is it some kind of esoteric, &#8216;out there with the fairies&#8217;, new age way to enlightenment?</p>
<p>Well, to be honest, it&#8217;s a little bit of both&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;only it&#8217;s not really new age, and it&#8217;s definitely not &#8216;out there with the fairies&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;though it can certainly lead you to a degree of enlightenment.</p>
<p>But, to better understand what Reiki is, we&#8217;ll have to do a little bit of historical digging &#8211; no, no, no&#8230; don&#8217;t go all glassy eyed &#8211; it&#8217;ll only take a moment or two, honest.</p>
<p>So, come on, let&#8217;s dig.</p>
<p>Reiki was discovered, some say rediscovered, in Japan by a man called Mikao Usui.</p>
<p>Why and how he made this discovery is quite hazy but the story goes that after experiencing business failure and great debt, he did what many of us do at times like this.</p>
<p>He went off on his own to have a long hard think&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and ended up at one of his favorite thinking places on mount Kurama.</p>
<p>Here, whilst meditating &#8211; possibly under a waterfall &#8211; he experienced a satori, or sudden understanding, and sometime later formulated his natural healing system which he called Reiki.</p>
<p>There you are, history lesson over, told you it&#8217;d only take a moment.</p>
<p>So, what does this tell us about Reiki?</p>
<p>Well, it tells us that whatever it was that Usui discovered on the mountain&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;he discovered it inside himself.</p>
<p>For he was meditating &#8211; or going within &#8211; when he made his discovery&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and, somewhat interestingly, he was also quite alone.</p>
<p>Is this important?</p>
<p>Well, yes it is if you want to fully understand the origins of Reiki &#8211; because it quite clearly shows that whatever it was Usui discovered, it was not something given to him by someone else.</p>
<p>It was something he found which was wholly within himself!</p>
<p>Meaning it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s already inside of you too.</p>
<p>Which ties in completely with what every Enlightened Master, Sage and Guru has been saying since time began&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;There is nothing you have to seek outside of yourself, everything lies within&#8217;.</p>
<p>Of course, all of the above goes completely against the grain of many of today&#8217;s Reiki purists. They prefer to believe that the energy of Reiki is something that exists somewhere &#8216;out there&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>And that it has to be drawn down by someone else, who then gives it to you&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;completely ignoring the personal experience of the founder himself.</p>
<p>But not to worry &#8211; that&#8217;s the only anomaly worth bothering about in the story of Reiki and, considering the wisdom of Usui, may well have been done deliberately anyway.</p>
<p>All that&#8217;s really important to know is that Reiki works&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an aspect of your own divine consciousness, and it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you choose to access it by attuning yourself to the energy, as Usui did, or have it done for you by someone else.</p>
<p>The outcome is exactly the same.</p>
<p>You become a powerful healer who can make a real difference in this wonderful world we all call home&#8230;</p>
<p>And you never know &#8211; along the way, you may very well become a little more enlightened too.</p>
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