3 Zimbabwean women charged for raping men, collecting sperm for ritual Submitted by Jamie Williamson TopNews, India. Washington, Nov 29 : Three women in Zimbabwe have been charged for raping at least four men to get their sperm for traditional rituals. The women, who have been charged with 17 counts[...]
Archive for the ‘Christianity’ Category
January 6th, 2013 - 4:47 pm § in Christianity, Misc.
A Search For The Messiah
So far, the earliest Jewish reference to the Messiah that I’ve found reads “The Messiah exalted by the First Isaiah (c. 740-700 BCE) had been specifically the young king of Judah of that time, Hezekiah (727-698 BCE).” As this was well before Plato [428-348 BCE], who briefly specu[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: EASTER: Seeing Art in Death
Pornography is only part of the story of these two pictures. Blake Gopnik To my Christian-trained eyes, there’s huge pathos in these images, regardless of the monster they show. Since the Middle Ages at least, Western image-making has had the sight of greatness, cast down and bloodied, right at it[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Turkey holds Bible hostage.
An early copy of the Bible seized in Gaziantep, Turkey. from Today’s Zaman. The book could be a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas — a controversial text which Muslims claim shows that Jesus predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad. The Vatican reportedly placed an official request to [...]
December 25th, 2011 - 11:12 am § in Christianity, Misc.
Christmas in North Korea
from The Atlantic Before Kim Jong-il’s death, the last big story out of North Korea had to do with Christmas lights. “North Korea has warned South Korea of ‘unexpected consequences’ if it lights up a Christmas tree-shaped tower near their tense border,” the BBC reported[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 11:58 am § in America, Christianity
Baylor opens its board to ALL Christians!
Baylor University has announced that it wll open 25% of its Regents board member positions to Chrsitians who are NOT Southern Baptitsts. from Inside Higher Ed, excerpted. Baylor’s statement announcing the change made clear that the university is well aware of the sensitivity around the issue. [...]
April 10th, 2011 - 7:34 am § in America, Christianity
Sunday Revelations: Most Americans don’t blame God for natural disasters
God: (guest editor) I am relieved and grateful for the forgiveness. By Nicole Neroulias, Religious News Service (RNS) We may never know why bad things happen to good people, but most Americans—except evangelicals—reject the idea that natural disasters are divine punishment, a test of faith or so[...]
OF BLASPHEMY AND BLAME II
A week ago, I posted a comment on the Pope’s recent assertion that only a few Jews of Jesus time were guilty of deicide. My main argument was that the Pope, in the tradition of his predecessors, avoided the real issue … blaming Rome for its brutality toward the Jews.1700 years [...]
Florida’s Repricans* have come to the defense of the Bill of Rights!
Sen. Alan Hays of Florida :“I filed a bill that says in the courts of Florida the laws of no other country can be used to influence the decisions of Florida,. If it’s Sharia law or any other law — I don’t care what law it is — if it’s not a Florida law and [&helli[...]
Zealot .. a book about Jesus, called the Christ
I INTRODUCING “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” The new book from Reza Aslan From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about [...]