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...

Per CNN Bishop Richard Williamson has been removed from his position as head of a seminary in Argentina. ”Mr. Williamson is impossible and irresponsible,” Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, said Saturday, according to Spiegel Online. “I now see no room for him in the Catholic church.” This after the report that Williamson saying he will not recant and that he would need more evidence to believe the Holocaust really happened. 
In his blog Saturday, Williamson, referring to himself, posted a note, saying, “His Excellency is neither dead, dying, nor retired.”
Oh the drama. Il Pappa put his foot in his mouth, asked this guy to recant and this guy is showing his boss that he has balls, he refuses to take his statement back. Who is at fault? Il Pappa. He should have done his homework. Now he has all the Jewish leaders pissed off at him, and with reason.
What is very interesting to me is that this Bishop is known to criticize the Holy See, not only of deceit, but of being under the power of Satan. He believes the Society of St. Pius X is composed of true Catholics who are keeping the “complete Roman Catholic apostolic faith”. He disagrees with the Roman Catholic church trying to be open and ‘tolerant’ to other religions. 
He denis being anti-semetic, although he called jews “enemies of Christ”. In regards to the attacks of 9/11 he believes that our very own government (the U.S.) committed the horrific crime.
I just wonder, if I can find all this information, how did Il Pappa miss it?

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?

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.
The Motto was ...

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?

It seems like support for the LGBT community is considered a radical change to America. When they mentioned the 80 year old grandmother, I did a search. All the Christian blogs had articles on this 80 year old grandmother. This is what I found on the CBN News site:
73-year-old Arlene Elshinnawy was amongst 11 Christians that were arrested and charged under Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law (the Ethnic Intimidation Act), for “preaching the Gospel”. The arrests took place at a homosexual event. Keep in mind, the “homosexual events” are events that are City permitted ($). These people decided that they were going to enter the event and hold up their signs of condemnation and have a guy preaching through a loud bullhorn. To many, this is preaching, to those of us on the other side of the coin, WE DON’T WANT TO HEAR THAT AT AN EVENT THAT WE PAY MONEY TO GET IN. I looked for the incident on youtube and found a “re-creation” video from an organization called “Repent America”, which is the same organization that this grandmother was involved with.

Now, according to the CBN News site, Outfest organizers said that the Repent America protesters were trying to disrupt their event, were name-calling, and were trying to cause a riot. They also stated on this site that the answer of the Outfest organizers as to why the Christians were arrested and not the homosexuals holding the pink angels was: “Because we were given a direct order by the Philly Police Dept. to break our human chain. We obeyed. When they were given a direct order by the Police Dept. to move north on 13th Street, they decided not to.” Which, as you can see on the re-creation video, the Christians chose not to obey the authorities.
I don’t understand why the Christians always dramatize incidents and choose to lie when they state they are followers ...

I have to hand it to Focus on the Family, they sure are demonstrating to ‘forgive and forget’.  They have named Tim Goeglein as their top lobbyist for Washington D.C. Let’s look back at his previous 5 minutes to fame:

In 2001, Goeglien headed the Office of Public Liaison, one of four White House political departments run by Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.  Since 1985, Goeglein wrote guest columns that appeared on the editorial page of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, a home town newspaper. On February 28, 2008 someone notifed the paper that she had found a piece written by Goeglien that was almost word for word in a 1998 article. The paper then did a search on his work and found that at least 20 of the 38 pieces written by Goeglein between 2000 and 2008 had instances of plagiarism.
Boy, it is good to have friends in the right places. Now he gets to go back into the White House and lobby for the Christians, you know, those that should stand for truth.

Here we go again. Dobson is on Beck’s show and they are saying what was being said on the internet is B.S. If that is the case, Beck, your religion is full of LIARS, because the MORMON TIMES was the first that broke the news.
Dobson, you are calling the Underground Apologetics liars too. The statement prepared by your people was as follows:
When contacted Friday, a Focus on the Family worker at the ministry in Colorado Springs, Colo. confirmed that the article had been pulled and read a prepared statement for callers who had called about the Beck article:
“You are correct to note that Mr. Beck is a member of the Mormon church, and that we did not make mention of this fact in our interview with him. We do recognize the deep theological difference between evangelical theology and Mormon theology, and it would have been prudent for us at least to have pointed out these differences. Because of the confusion, we have removed the interview from Citizenlink.”
A-huh, sure. Beck you are being used again. Dobson is just making sure you guys are united against the Atheists. Then when he gets his way, you are going to get kicked to the curb like last time.
Dobson, again, why don’t you follow the bible on mixing yourself with what you are against? Just proving how hypocrisy leads Focus on the Family.
2 Corinthians 6:14 14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
 

Church officials had announced in 2004 that nearly one-fifth of the parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston would be closed.  This had to do with a convulsive restructuring caused partly by declining attendance and increased financial problems that were worsened by the sexual abuse crisis among clergy members. This caused thousands of Catholics to find parishes in other neighborhoods and in some cases other towns.
Parishioners have gone as far as taking this to the courts in hopes of blocking the sales of the church, but the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled the First Amendment prevents them from interfering in the case, which it said involved principles of canon law and the spiritual authority of clergy members.
It makes me wonder… is the Catholic church that low on cash or is it more of people seeing the light and actually leaving the church?

Glenn Beck calling atheists “the fringes” of America. This is funny coming from an ex drug addict that recently had bigotry demonstrated against him. That is right, Focus on the Family was stated to have ties with Glenn Beck and Glenn Beck got dumped. They pretty much said his Mormon religion is a false religion and they didn’t want to be affiliated with him. Glenn, your religion is considered a “fringe” within christian circles, you figure you would be tolerant.
This blog followed the whole drama over his affiliation with Focus on the Family.
On another note: His show SUCKS.

He rejected as “false the choice between our safety and our ideals”, in a clear criticism of the Bush administration’s policies in pursuing the war on terror. 
“On this day,” he said, “we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. 
“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. “ 
“We have chosen hope over fear.” It seems like many worn out dogmas use fear as a way of leading people. The fear of hell, the fear of wrath of a vengeful God. The fear of sticking to a set of rules found in the bible and disregard is given to those that do not have the same beliefs.
I have hope, hope that this administration will have a balanced view. One that will take into consideration everyone.
Romans 13:1-6 1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of p...

I agree, this is history, but is it really a “major step forward in U.S. race relations”? I don’t know, I see race relations strong on both sides. During elections “race” was a BIG issue. People were not voting for him, because of his race. This whole “messiah” term, has to do with just that,  people that are racist are not confident in him because of his race and have given him that term. People are getting ready for a racial war, and security has been stepped up a notch this past weekend and especially for tomorrow.
I thought he was the best candidate to choose. It wasn’t a matter of color. It was what he had to say. After these past 8 years of a theocratic nation and the slumber that that left us, I am ready for change and hope, of course, realistically speaking, it will take more than the 4 years, but I am just glad that it seems we are heading in a positive direction. 
I just think that this “racial” issue will take more than the fact that we are going to have a Bi-racial president.