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Wednesday, July 6, 2005

MEGACHURCH!!! or Triumph Of The Wills

Behold a phenomenon three decades in the making. The newest addition to this phenomenon, a 10,000-seat auditorium with two massive television projection screens and three basketball courts for a floor opened up this past week on the South Side of Chicago. With a neon sign blazing "It's Time To... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 4, 2005

Well, They Went And Done It, Allowing Gays To Marry

The national synod in Atlanta today voted overwhelmingly (80 %) to allow same-sex unions within their the member churches of the United Church of Christ. Traditionally more liberal than most churches, the UCC has added one more first to their list (see previous post) of firsts, although the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 3, 2005

United Church Of Christ Considers Allowing Gay Marriages

The United Church of Christ will begin its national synod Friday in Atlanta, where they will discuss and consider three resolutions. One is whether or not to allow same-sex marriages. A second one is to allow only marriages between a man and a woman. And the third resolution will table the topic for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 24, 2005

Sex Cult In The House Of God (Repost From "What Country Am I In?")

Nine people have been arrested and charged with various crimes committed and related to an alleged sex cult operated by former congregationists of the Hosana Church of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, a once thriving Christian church of over a thousand members. A sex cult? In a church, you ask? Back in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 19, 2005

Eighty Years Of Moaning And Bitching About Darwin And Monkeys

It has been 80 years since the Scopes "monkey trial" became a sensationalized phenomenon across the United States and around the world, where Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant verbally slugged it out over whether or not evolution should be taught in the classroom. Well, evolution won the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

The Continuing Quest For God On The Internet

Since there is no god.com, I decided to see if a couple of other prefixes might work. If you go to www.god.net you will land of a website that calls itself seekgod.org. Go ahead; I'm not kidding. Apparently it is a relay, because the address changes to www.seekgod.org. This happens to be a Christian... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 5, 2005

Wondering If God Has A Website?

Knowing how the human race can be, how arrogant we tend to get, I wondered if there was someone or an organization of someones who had decided to employ the name of god as their address. Sure enough, I simply had to type in www.God.com and there it was. But the first line on the page is priceless.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Religious Intolerance At The Air Force Academy

The United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, has come under attack in recent months that it is flagrantly violating the separation of church and state rules within the instituion and quietly condoning intolerance of non-Christian cadets at the hands of evangelicals. This... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 15, 2005

Jesus Day

I was watching the news last night and a story appeared, accompanied by video of people marching. The newsman told me that there had been a march to commemorate national Jesus Day, a day set aside for revering Jesus, to show a cross-denominational and multi-racial love for our communities and for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

It's The End Of The World... Again

Ever heard of St. Malachy? It seems that this venerated saint had a vision on his way to Rome that there would be 112 more popes (this was in 1139 A.D.) before the coming of the lord and Judgment Day. The new Pope, Benedict XVI, is number 111. The next pope will be the final pope, known in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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