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Story:
Cancer Scamster Stilley
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey woman scammed relatives and others out of cash, meals and even a wedding by falsely claiming she had bladder cancer.
Officials say in February 2011, Stilley told those close to her and posted on Facebook that she had been diagnosed with cancer. In April, she said her condition had worsened.
Authorities say supporters raised more than $10,000.
Supporters became suspicious in November 2011 when she posted that she was feeling better and believed a miracle was coming.
Her lawyer, Adam Malamut, tells the Burlington County Times that authorities have not presented him with any evidence that Stilley did anything wrong.
J’ai souvent soutenu que si Jésus Christ étaient à renaître, il ne serait pas en mesure de trouver la religion qu’il a fondée !
Tel est le comportement du professé les chrétiens, catholiques, je m’empresse d’ajouter de peur que je peut provoquer d’autres sectes(dans une religion qui affirme qu’il n’existe aucune division entre eux !). Où est l’Allemagne né le Pape? Fournir des messages de paix et de réconciliation entre les religions?
St‑Peter‑s‑Basilica_Dome‑of‑St‑Peter’s.
Histoire :
En Allemagne l’Église catholique va priver les fidèles le droità la Sainte Communion et enterrements religieux si les gens ne paient pas un impôt d’Eglise.
UN nouvellement appliquée épiscopale allemande décret dit que quiconque un défaut de paiement de l’impôt – une hausse de 8 % de leur impôt sur le revenu – ne sera plus considéré comme un catholique. Tous les habitants de l’Allemagne doit payer cette taxe si elles veulent de culte en soit catholique ou protestante, églises ou synagogues juives. La dernière année, des millions de fichiers sur des décennies ont été remis aux enquêteurs par l’ensemble des 27 diocèses de la hiérarchie ecclésiastique catholique en Allemagne dans une soumission pour aller au coeur des abus sexuels d’enfants par des prêtres. Il a été vu comme une tentative d’endiguer le flux des élèves qui a clairement indiqué le scandale, et l’incapacité ou le refus de traiter avec elle, était la raison de leur départ. En 2010, 181 000 personnes, soit une augmentation de 50 % par rapport à l’année précédente. Dernière année 126 000 gauche.
Au cours des vingt dernières années, le nombre de membres de l’Allemagne l’Eglise catholique a diminué, passant de 28,3 millions à 24,6 millions de dollars ou 30,2 pour cent de la population du pays. L’Église catholique a vu des chiffres au cours de ces dernières années, en particulier en Allemagne de nombreux paroissiens ont dit qu’ils étaient dégoûtés que récidive clergé étaient souvent simplement déplacé dans le nouveau jons où ils étaient libres de commettre plus de crimes. Maintenant vient la nouvelle ligne dure de l’eglise, qui est aussi en partie en réponse à un cas de test qui a été griding par les tribunaux et en raison d’une décision d’un tribunal de Leipzig le vendredi.
I have often maintained that if Jesus Christ were to be reborn, he would not be able to find the Religion he founded!
Such is the behaviour of the professed Christians, Catholics, let me hasten to add lest I may provoke other sects(In a Religion which states that there is no division among them!)
Where is the Germany born Pope?
Delivering message of peace and reconciliation among the Faiths?
Story:
St.Peter’s Basilica
Germany‘s Catholic Church will deny worshippers the right to Holy Communion and religious burials if people do not pay a special church tax.
A newly-enforced German bishops’ decree says anyone failing to pay the tax – an extra 8% of their income tax bill – will no longer be considered a Catholic.
All people in Germany must pay this tax if they want to worship in either Catholic or protestant churches, or Jewish synagogues.
Last year millions of files spanning decades were handed over to criminal investigators by all 27 dioceses of the Catholic Church hierarchy in Germany in a bid to get to the heart of child sex abuse by priests.
It was seen as an attempt to staunch the flow of leavers who made it plain the scandal, and the inability or unwillingness to deal with it, was the reason for their departure.
In 2010, 181,000 people left, an increase of 50 percent on the previous year. Last year 126,000 left.
Over the past twenty years, the number of members of Germany’s Roman Catholic Church has fallen from 28.3 million to 24.6 million or 30.2 percent of the country’s population.
The Catholic Church has seen numbers fall in recent years, particularly in Germany
Many parishioners said they were sickened that offending clergy were often simply moved to new jons where they were free to commit more crimes.
Now comes the new hardline from the church which is also partly in response to a test case that has been griding through the courts and due for a decision by a court in Leipzig on Friday.
A DAREDEVIL photographer stands just 30metres above a 1,150°C lava lake.
Geoff Mackley had spent 15 years trying to get so close to the hell-like heart of Vanuatu’s Marum volcano.
After camping with his team for 38 days and a 400metre descent, the Kiwi spent 45 minutes in a heat-proof suit above the smouldering South Pacific abyss.
Geoff, 46 — who spends his life snapping nature at its wildest — said: “It like the surface of the sun. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever done.
There are some in REDDIT who think they are the smartest guys around,know it all,patronising and down right boorish.
One got more than what he bargained for.
REDDIT comment on Sikh Woman
A Reddit user going by the handle “european_douchebag” posted a surreptitious photo of a Sikh woman with the caption “i’m not sure what to conclude from this.” The user’s apparent confusion stems from the fact that the woman—bound by her religion not to cut her hair or alter her body—has an abundance of dark, untrimmed facial hair. The mind of european_douchebag was SO INCREDIBLY BLOWN by the fact that women have hair on their bodies—and, yes, faces—and that some women are bold, self-assured, and pious enough not to cave to western beauty standards (and gender expectations), there was nothing for him to do but post her photo online and wait for the abuse to flood in.
But then something totally lovely and unexpected happened. The woman in the photo responded:
“Hey, guys. This is Balpreet Kaur, the girl from the picture. I actually didn’t know about this until one of my friends told on facebook. If the OP wanted a picture, they could have just asked and I could have smiled 🙂 However, I’m not embarrased or even humiliated by the attention [negative and positve] that this picture is getting because, it’s who I am. Yes, I’m a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body – it is a gift that has been given to us by the Divine Being [which is genderless, actually] and, must keep it intact as a submission to the divine will. Just as a child doesn’t reject the gift of his/her parents, Sikhs do not reject the body that has been given to us. By crying ‘mine, mine’ and changing this body-tool, we are essentially living in ego and creating a seperateness between ourselves and the divinity within us. By transcending societal views of beauty, I believe that I can focus more on my actions. My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it? When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. So, to me, my face isn’t important but the smile and the happiness that lie behind the face are. 🙂 So, if anyone sees me at OSU, please come up and say hello. I appreciate all of the comments here, both positive and less positive because I’ve gotten a better understanding of myself and others from this. Also, the yoga pants are quite comfortable and the Better Together tshirt is actually from Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that focuses on storytelling and engagement between different faiths. 🙂 I hope this explains everything a bit more, and I apologize for causing such confusion and uttering anything that hurt anyone.”
Original poster apologised.
“I know that this post ISN’T a funny post but I felt the need to apologize to the Sikhs, Balpreet, and anyone else I offended when I posted that picture. Put simply it was stupid. Making fun of people is funny to some but incredibly degrading to the people you’re making fun of. It was an incredibly rude, judgmental, and ignorant thing to post.
/r/Funny wasn’t the proper place to post this. Maybe /r/racism or /r/douchebagsofreddit or /r/intolerance would have been more appropriate. Reddit shouldn’t be about putting people down, but a group of people sending cool, interesting, or funny things. Reddit’s been in the news alot lately about a lot of cool things we’ve done, like a freaking AMA by the president. I’m sorry for being the part of reddit that is intolerant and douchebaggy. This isn’t 4chan, or 9gag, or some other stupid website where people post things like I did. It’s fucking reddit. Where some pretty amazing stuff has happened.
I’ve read more about the Sikh faith and it was actually really interesting. It makes a whole lot of sense to work on having a legacy and not worrying about what you look like. I made that post for stupid internet points and I was ignorant.
So reddit I’m sorry for being an asshole and for giving you negative publicity.
Balpreet, I’m sorry for being a closed minded individual. You are a much better person than I am
Sikhs, I’m sorry for insulting your culture and way of life.
Balpreet’s faith in what she believes is astounding.”
Some more comments in this thread.
Also, wearing turbans for women is a sign of inner strength and empowerment because we too are equal to Sikh men. Sikhism advocates total equality for both genders [the only difference between them are the last names] and therefore, it is okay, however rare the occurrence, for a woman to adorn herself with the turban just like her male counterparts. I encourage everyone to go and google and expand their knowledge of the sheer diversity in this nation – as will I; and gain a better understanding of each other
You are an amazing person. Thank you for posting[–]ShadowOnABubble 147 points 1 day ago
Also, a little known fact is that you would hardly find a Sikh begging anywhere. Statistically, Sikhs contribute 33% of the total income tax in India, 67% of total charities, comprise 45% of the Indian army. Their Gurudwaras (places of worship) serve food, free of charge, to the poor – regardless of age, religion, gender – everyday. This, inspite of Sikhs forming less than 2% of the Indian population and being picked up for butt of many jokes. A non-Sikh non-resident Indian from Kerala, in NYC.
Balpreet Kaur happens to be one such person whose attitude and courage depict what Sikh believe to be everyday normalcy. For that, any amount of praise is insufficient. It is people like these who make me feel ashamed of myself, and rightly so.
The more I learn about Sikhs, the more I suspect that:
a) I would be a better person if I behaved like they do
and
b) I could never qualify to be a Sikh because I am just not that good of a person.
Rock on, Sikhs. Keep humbly making the world a better place
Don’t worry, regardless of whether you’re a better person, it’s the act of attempting to better the world that makes a difference. Take it from an asshat (me), the world doesn’t care who you are, just whether you care at all.
Humanity will however viciously mock each other to assure our innate sense of human entitlement gets shoved way to the bottom of things you should think about. Thus…you’re surrounded by assholes, from first class to
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