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A 40-day fast. 
I want to know who are the tens of thousands of people that follow this man? Seriously, look at his body language, something is mentally wrong with this man. Lou Engle.
Fasting means starvation which equals HALLUCINATIONS…not God talking to you.

How ironic. The wife was decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes. This type of “honor killing” is native in their land of Pakistan. What animals.
He did the honerable thing and turned himself in.
How disgusting.

According to Christian Today, Jade Goody has revealed she wants to christen her sons Bobby, five, and Freddy, four, so that they know their mummy is looking down on them from Heaven and wants this done before she dies after receiving the devastating news last week that her cancer is terminal. 
They also report her saying the following:
I want to ask God why he couldn’t have given me more time with my boys. Just a bit—just enough to hear them laugh a few more times, to see that they’re happy, to write them long letters so I can tell them who I was and how much I loved them and remind them about all the things we did together. Because they might forget me. And I can’t bear the thought of that.
Sometimes that is a question many face when they are soon near the end: Why God?  
Very sad situation.

From Politico:  
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.” 
In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.” 
Ok, let’s talk about the past 8 years that were VERY religious:
1. Unlimited government spending for war. (killing people, very Christ like)
2. Unlimited tax breaks for the rich.
3. Deregulation: turning the financial system into a Ponzi scheme.
Our national debt doubled and now we are living, not in a recession, but a depression.  
Why is it that every time a Christian Right Winger feels that their religious views are being infringed upon, in what is called “separation of church & state” they go calling someone “anti-religious” or liberal? It isn’t about religion, get that through your thick head.
Our Bill of Rights was established to keep Congress from establishing a religion, basically we have freedom from religion. Heck, isn’t that the reason that the Pilgrims left Europe in the first place? Look at the taliban and their religious fist, is that what the Christian Right Wingers want for our Nation?
Rumor has it that Huckabee wants to run in 2012. I hope that people have sense enough to realize that a religious person has no place in the White House, look at the past 8 years. There is no balance with a religious zealot. 
Freedom means everyone has a right to make a choice of what they believe in. Without this choice, without this freedom, then it goes against our forefathers ideals.
Obviously, Huckabee hasn’t been following President Obama closely. President Obama is making every effort in being inclusive towards everyone, in regards to religion. 
How about trying to stop making this Nation a Theocratic one?

When asked (6.00) by Katie if he prayed, his response, “I’m sure someone else was”. I don’t know what his beliefs are, but I found this response very interesting. 
His expertise and the way that he was calm and was rationalizing the whole situation saved 155 lives. He is humble and I seriously do think, a Hero.

Tony Perkins recently gave an interview with God & Country. The person that interviewed him made this statement: 
I was surprised by how critical he has become of the Republican Party and that he extended qualified compliments to the Obama administration. I’m used to hearing such talk from moderate evangelicals like Rev. Joel Hunter, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference’s Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, or former National Association of Evangelicals lobbyist Richard Cizik, but not from a proud right winger like Perkins.
When asked what he believed was the change in the GOP this was Perkins answer:
 
It is something that happened after 2004, when there was a great emphasis by the Republicans and the president on the need to protect marriage. It was used to secure a second term for President Bush and to expand Republican control of Congress. And after the election, the issue was basically dropped.
That, combined with corruption that distracted the Republican Party, Mark Foley—it all added up to where people began to scratch their heads and say, “This is not the party that is really reflecting our values.”
Within the same site, Mark Silk at Spiritual Politics sums up the reasons for doubt: 
I wouldn’t rush to take this at face value. It’s pretty much SOP for religious right leaders to rattle the Republican cage whenever they’re feeling a bit unloved, and with the election of Michael Steele as head of the RNC, that’s just how they’re feeling. I’ll believe there’s something going on when I see signs of it on the relevant websites. And if you take a look at the FRC’s, all you’ll find is anti-Obamaism, not a peep of anti-Republicanism.
I’m just wondering if this doesn’t have to do with something else? Like maybe the color of Michael Steele? Let’s see:
In 1996, Perkins paid the Grand Wizard of the KKK $82,000 for use of his mailing list. 
In 2001, Perkins addressed the Council of Conservative Citizens (s...

It all started with the atheists starting a campaign on the side of the buses with the message:
THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD. NOW STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT AND ENJOY LIFE.
The Trinitarian Bible Society has paid $50,000 to display posters on 125 of London’s red double-decker buses that quote Psalm 53: “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” The Christian Party, a right-wing political party whose policies mostly focus on moral issues, is joining the advert battle by displaying posters on at least 50 buses, though they are not working directly with Larlham’s group. “There definitely is a God,” their message reads. “So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life.”
Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church is going to place the message “There is God. Don’t Worry. Enjoy your life!” on at least 25 buses from March. “We’re living in a difficult time, when crisis is being extensively promoted, and people need some life-asserting message,” he told London’s Daily Telegraph.
Since its January 6 launch, the London scheme has been credited with inspiring atheist bus campaigns in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Italy, where next month posters in Genoa will read: “The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is that we do not need him.” 
British advertising authority responsible for screening ads, received more than 150 complaints about the atheist campaign during January, and at least one bus driver walked off the job. “This is a public attack on people’s faiths,” Ron Heather, a 62-year old bus driver and evangelical Christian said. “I have a lot of passengers who are over 90 or are seriously ill, and to tell them there is no God seems a bit insensitive, when God is probably all they have left in the world.”
The atheist bus organizers say that they are regrouping and will launch another campaign in April, knowing that Christian groups are likely to respond in tur...

“I was not raised in a particularly religious household,” the president said. “I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion.”
“But no matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenet is hate,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Christian Post is reporting that the christian right is challenging his pick for top justice positions. One critic, Patrick Trueman, had this to say:
David Ogden has been an activist in the support of a right to pornography, a right of abortion and the rights of homosexuals
Meanwhile, Tom Minnery, a vice president at Focus on the Family, says, ”This is left-wing politicization of the Justice Department. This is not a Justice Department that looks like America.” Looks, like which America? The theocratic America? 
The challenge to Obama’s Justice picks come as conservative evangelicals seek to limit the power of the new Democratic administration and maintain their own within the Republican Party. They are looking for their best interest and want the government to keep footing the bill on ideals that they promote. The article itself stated this: 
Some Republicans believe a tight embrace of social conservative values turns off independents and moderates, but many Christian right leaders resist compromise and contend that, if anything, the GOP has strayed too far from its principles.
President Obama’s message is loud and clear. He doesn’t believe one view is better than the other. He is willing to work with everyone, no matter what the ideal is, but if he wants this to work then the christian leaders are going to have to teach their flock what tolerance is. For eight years our government was ran like a theocratic government. He professed to follow Christ, yet we went to war, murdering and torturing people and the christian right supported him. 
It is amazi

Jim D. Adkisson,  an out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire on July 27, 2008, at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee will plead guilty to killing two people and wounding six others, his attorney said Wednesday. Police say Adkisson targeted the church because of its liberal open-door policies, including acceptance of gays, and fully expected to keep shooting until responding officers killed him. The Unitarian Universalist church promotes progressive social work, including advocacy of women and gay rights. A four-page letter found in Adkisson’s small SUV suggested he targeted the church, which his former wife once attended, because he hated liberals and gays.
Looking for a video about this, I found this from Fox news:

I guess to Fox news gays and liberals are ok to go after and even kill, because it is not considered a ‘hate crime’.

It seems like Sally didn’t catch any flack from what she said last year. The Okgazette.com is reporting that Sally found the GAY AGENDA!
She said that she found the GAY AGENDA in a book, “After the Ball”, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. Apparently, according to the article, the GAY AGENDA is that gays would like to be accepted by society to the point of becoming a superior lifestyle. She then called for a “Great Awkening”, a spirtual revival. 
I was wondering why this woman is so ANTI-homosexuals and this “gay agenda” she keeps referring to. So, looking around the internet I found this: Jesse Kern is her son that attended Oklahoma Baptist University, rumor is, he is gay. I also found this: Jesse Kern denise he is gay, but states he is celibate. He kinda sounds like Ted Haggard.
Well, there is something that is pushing this woman to really hate the gays, and I don’t think it is the bible that she is hiding behind.
What I find ironic is that this morning, someone left me a comment: “Christians are not your enemy. Heterosexuals are not your enemy”, in another post. Now, I have never stated the case for either, but don’t you find it hard to believe the opposite when rehtoric like this is spewed?

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!
The grandmother of the octuplets born in Southern California says her daughter conceived all 14 of her children in vitro, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager. Angela Suleman told The Associated Press she is taking care of her daughter’s first six children, ages 2 through 7, while her 33-year-old daughter recovers from giving birth on Monday in nearby Bellflower.
8+6=14, 14! Can you imagine the expense this is? The economy is down the tubes and this woman has 8 children that are under a month old and then 6 children from 2 years through 7. Now, think about it, the dad is saying she wanted 1 more and her current “baby” was about a year old, does anyone else agree with me that something is wrong with this woman? At what point do the parents put the SMACK down?
The worst part is that as tax payers here in California, we are the ones footing with her expense. She won’t have to work and the state will have to “help” her.
Listening to that Dr. I didn’t realize how easy it is to get pregnant now-a-days without a male. I wonder why organizations like Focus on the Family aren’t crying about this mess?

The Christian Post is promoting a national televised program that airs today to “expose how God and religion” are missing from the Capitol Visitor Center. The program, which will air on “The Coral Ridge Hour,” takes viewers on a tour of the CVC as it argues how important religious references – such as the nation’s motto “In God We Trust” – had been omitted in a deliberate cover up of America’s Christian history and “censorship” of God.

Senator Jim DeMint the first critic to notice ‘God’ missing,  received his education from Christ Church Episcopal School, of course he is going to think that our nation was founded on christianity. He has been very critical and changes have been made, based on his persistance, but he is still not happy. Perhaps he thinks our nation is a theocracy? Haven’t we learned by now that those that have had religious schooling tend to get their facts mixed? They tend to be biased. Richard Dawkins has good footage on just that.
“We have built no NATIONAL temples but the Capitol; 
we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.” 
—Rufus Choate, R/Whig- MA (Rep. and Sen.)
The point being made was that our government is intended neither to be, nor to replace, a religion. It’s a good thing to emphasize to visitors the fact that the Capitol Building is not a church, and Members of Congress are neither preachers nor prophets no matter how badly some of them long to be or actually think they are.
Senator Jim DeMint apparently just doesn’t know U.S. history very well. “E Pluribus Unum” was the original Motto of the United States. It was included on the Great Seal of the United States. It was adopted by congress in 1782, and included an eagle with a heart-shaped shield, holding arrows and an olive branch in its claws. The motto “E Pluribus Unum” appeared on a scroll held in its beak. The seal was first used on 1782-SEP-16. It was first used on some federal coins in 1795.
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