I Love SODASTREAM and PEACE NOW In full disclosure I am both a member of Peace Now and a user of Sodastream, I disagree with the stand here because I believe there is no viable future for Palestine that does not include exactly this sort of interaction with the Israeli business world. However, i[...]
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January 19th, 2014 - 11:44 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS” Lightning Strikes .. is it an omen for the first Argentinian Pope?
God speaks in mysterious ways. How can it be that Pope Francis is doing so many things to change the Church and no one seem to have asked what God meant by this bolt of lightning?[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The Pope and abortion
Pope Francis Calls Abortion ‘Horrific’ In ‘State Of The World’ Address Someone needs to get Francis together with an expert in his bible. As far as know the Roman bible makes no reference to abortion or to anything their deity said on the subject. Francis also needs to [...]
Sunday Revelations: from Kampala
On Backsliding Christians and their Yawning Lovers June 20, 2011 in Christianity, Ugandan Media | by James Onen | Leave a comment Eddie Ssemakula’s article yesterday, titled “When Your Lover Yawns” (from the Sunday Monitor of 19th June) was an interesting one. In it, he speculates about what [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: racism remains in Japan
The excuse of Japanese imperialism in WII was that Japan was (just) acting like a European power. But European Imperialism was about one thing .. race! Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Japan’s war shrine shows that Japanese racism is still there. Shinzo Abe’s public [...]
From HorsesAss: A commentator accuses me of believing that “my team/tribe” (Jews) have a “self-satisfied conceit that (the Jewish) team/tribe is somehow qualitatively better, somehow more pure and admiration-worthy.”
Over at HorsesAss, I go by the name “SeattleJew,” I Often Criticize Liberals for Blaming Christian Bigotry on All Religions and Especially on The Jews Liberal Scientist, self described as the “Most vile leftist on this blog!” posted a thoughtful response to my comments [...]
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 [...]
Pope Francis Has a Chance to Show That he Is More Than PR
In the 1700 years since Constantine transferred the powers of the chief priest of Rome, the Pontifex Maximus, no Bishop or Rome has shown that he can use the Church’s wealth as, I presume, a good Jesus would have done .. for charity. This Pontifex Maximus has a chance now to show that he is [...]
November 30th, 2013 - 10:23 am § in Religion
THE Ave Challenge: What is the Ashura, the Tenth Day of Muharram?
This is NOT a happy season for all! Muharram, a Muslim month. devoted to mourning. Ashura, the tenth of the month, is a day of awe in Shi’a Islam, familiar in the west as scenes of self flagellation. In Shia Islam the month marks the schism from Sunni, when the Sunni caliph killed the[...]
Seattle African American-African Diaspora Gathering w/ Ed Murray
More than ever it is vital for the Black community locally as well as nationally to establish a collective set of goals to focus our energy and resources on. Historically, religion, nation of origin, sexual preference, gender, age, class, political views have all been reasons for division. What [...]