An Anti-Defamation League survey determined that 26% of Americans still believe that “Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.” Sadly, there is no reason to imagine that Jews would have if the Romans had not gotten their first. If one accepts the gospels, then Jesus was a blasph[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roman Catholic’
November 4th, 2013 - 1:54 pm § in Hypocrisy
Atheists Acting Badly
I am an atheist. Why would I ever want to insult others like this? The people in this video, sadly, are behaving in a manner I can only call “Christian.” T he ugliness of evangelism is not limited to believers. Atheists, raised in this culture can be equally hateful. Readmore about athei[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 8:49 am § in Religion
The “Good” Pope shows his muscles
From THE AGE: Church dumps rebel priest Dissident priest Greg Reynolds has been both defrocked and excommunicated over his support for women priests and gays – the first person ever excommunicated in Melbourne, he believes. The order comes direct from the Vatican, not at the request of [...]
August 25th, 2013 - 4:01 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Hypocrisy Under Christ
β Award A German bishop has been living an extravagant lifestyle— flying first class (at a cost of €7000) to tour Indian slums where poor children eke out a living breaking stones. He’s also been constructing a multi-million euro mansion while the churches in his diocese crumble. Bishop Tebar[...]
August 18th, 2013 - 2:55 am § in America
Sunday Revelations: the Pope’s robes
Whenever I see the p0revious Pope in his Roman state robes, I think of Roman history and wonder how much more could this man do if all he wore was a loincloth? Maybe Pope Francis will sell off some of this carnival garb.[...]
April 30th, 2013 - 4:35 am § in Misc.
Is she a father?
. Rosemarie Smead, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky April 27, 2013. There has been no comment from Rome.[...]
December 16th, 2012 - 3:15 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: We, not the ancient Canaani, are the problem in Connecticut.
By Gary Wills, NY REVIEW OF BOOKS Few crimes are more harshly forbidden in the Old Testament than sacrifice to the god Moloch (for which see Leviticus 18.21, 20.1-5). The sacrifice referred to was of living children consumed in the fires of offering to Moloch. Ever since then, worship [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The Catholic Credo, Ryan Style
A Catholic Voice From a Red State (edited for TA .. see original here) … As I see it, Ryan has a religion problem not because he is not a good Catholic, but because he is. An individualist social vision seems to be at odds with Catholic social teaching, as the bishops have noted; it […][...]
September 23rd, 2012 - 2:10 am § in Misc.
Paris – France’s National Front Party Calls For Ban On Wearing Yarmulkes In Public
Paris – Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader of France’s National Front Party, called today for a ban on the public wearing of veils by Muslims and yarmulkes by Jews, thereby inflaming the existing religious tensions caused by the earlier publication of offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammed [...]
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 [...]