Time Christianity corrected itself and followed Christ.
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We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.
Being such aggressive proponents for the Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Information as we are, we have hitherto allowed you to continue preaching your benighted gospel of hatred and your theatrical exhibitions of, not only your fascist views, but your utter lack of Christ-like attributes. You have condemned the men and women who serve, fight, and perish in the armed forces of your nation; you have prayed for and celebrated the deaths of young children, who are without fault; you have stood outside the United States National Holocaust Museum, condemning the men, women, and children who, despite their innocence, were annihilated by a tyrannical embodiment of fascism and unsubstantiated repugnance. Rather than allowing the deceased some degree of peace and respect, you instead choose to torment, harass, and assault those who grieve.
Your demonstrations and your unrelenting cascade of disparaging slurs, unfounded judgments, and prejudicial innuendos, which apparently apply to every individual numbered amongst the race of Man – except for yourselves – has frequently crossed the line which separates Freedom of Speech from deliberately utilizing the same tactics and methods of intimidation and mental & emotional abuse that have been previously exploited and employed by tyrants and dictators, fascists and terrorist organizations throughout history.
ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action. Thus, we give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.
Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites, and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover. It is in your best interest to comply now, while the option to do so is still being offered, because we will not relent until you cease the conduction & promotion of all your bigoted operations & doctrines.
The warning has been given. What happens from here shall be determined by you.
WE ARE ANONYMOUS.
WE ARE LEGION.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE.
WE DO NOT FORGET.
EXPECT US.
If CBI were not to name any group or individual, you would again dub it a traud?
If enquiries by police are to be questioned because its findings are not to your liking,then please tell the Government that you want such and such individual/organisation is to be punished.
You would save a lot of time and money for the Government.
Yes, Christianity does not proselytize right from St.Thomas.
It does not encourage people to convert.
It does social service to tribes urging them to remain in Hinduism./Islam.
Funds do not flow to Churches from abroad.
( read my blog on Missionaries fund to India).
Indian Media is not controlled by Christian organizations( read my blog Media-who owns it in India?)
US does not encourage conversions.( read my blog US pressured Egypt on conversionsWikiLeaks)
Pope does not set target for conversions nor calls a decade as a Decade of Harvest( Asia).
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Nearly a week after the Justice Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry submitted its report on attacks on churches in Karnataka, representatives of the Christian community demanded the state government reject the report and hand over the inquiry to the CBI.
“We, the entire Christian community, unanimously reject this commission’s report totally since it has failed to address its terms of reference and caused injustice to the community,” Rev Bernard Moras, Archbishop of Bangalore, and president, Karnataka Region Catholic Bishop’s Council, told reporters here on Saturday.
Pointing out that it was only during the past three years that the state had seen a high number of attacks on churches and its personnel, the archbishop said the final report absolves persons and organizations responsible for the attacks as mentioned in its interim report. “Though the commission found some attacks to be deliberate, well-planned, communal, with fundamentalism brewing since several years, it failed to identify people or groups behind them,” he added.
Condemning the report’s recommendation that Christian places of worship be brought under some legislation to check conversion, Rev. Moras said: “It creates an impression that churches are anti-social institutions. Despite being a mere 2.1% of the population, Christians were accused of mass conversion”
Rubbishing reports about New Life, a Christian denomination reportedly publishing derogatory literature about other religions, Moras said: “If some individual is involved in it, why don’t you identify him instead of generalising?”
Objecting to the commission’s finding on foreign funds, the bishop of Church of South India Rev. Vasanth Kumar said: “All funds coming from foreign countries are closely monitored by the Union home ministry.
The second part of Washington’s “battle cry” is from a Christian convert from Islam he heard on the radio expressing this sentiment: “America must use its military to go to every Muslim nation in the world and convert them to Christianity; it is the only way to end the Muslim jihad against the West, against Christianity and against civilization.”
Washington also wants to combine “Coulter’s battle cry together with the Newtonian principle that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction” and send the U.S. military on “an international comprehensive Christian conversion campaign.” “A conversion policy will obviate the need for perpetual nation building,” he says.
But Washington does Coulter one better: “My one revision of Coulter is not that we should invade their countries: ‘We must invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.’” He wants the U.S. military to “join Christ’s battle cry” and honor the Marine Corps hymn.
Washington’s comments are so ludicrous and so contrary to sound Christian doctrine that every armchair Christian warrior, Christian Coalition moralist, Religious Right warvangelical, Reich-wing Christian nationalist, theocon Values Voter, Red-State Christian fascist, and God and country Christian bumpkin that I have ever criticized for supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should be ashamed and embarrassed at his comments.
Washington’s mention of America’s conflict with the Barbary Pirates over two hundred years ago – as if it has anything to do with the current “war on terror” – is ludicrous. But because other apologists for the “war on terror” have also brought it up, I will address that subject in a future article.
It’s not often that I am rendered speechless. I have but seven brief comments to make.
One, how can WorldNetDaily continue to publish Washington?
Two, the attacks of 9/11 were political acts that were not undertaken because of our freedoms, way of life, culture, or religion. The reason why any Muslims hate us or are trying to kill us is because of our wretched foreign policy and occupation of their countries.
Three, the aberrant Christianity advocated by Washington will turn away multitudes of unbelievers from real Christianity.
Four, the U.S. military is not God’s army. The Lord never sanctioned any crusade of Christians against any religion. The God of the Bible never called, commanded, or encouraged any Christian to kill, make apologies for the killing of, or excuse the killing of any adherent to a false religion.
Five, what kind of genuine conversion to Christianity can be obtained at the point of a gun?
Six, what Washington proposes – forced conversion – is something Muslims have been criticized for. How can he advocate that U.S. soldiers – many of whom are not even Christians – “convert” our “enemies” to Christianity?
This, from the followers of the Savior who sacrificed His Life for others!
Pope Benedict has a soft spot in his heart for organ donations but his body parts can’t be donated to save lives after he dies, the Vatican says.
A doctor in Germany had been using the fact that the pope possessed an organ donors’ card from a medical association to advocate the practice. The Vatican asked him to stop but he did not.
To settle the matter, the pope’s secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, sent a letter to the doctor and the missive was reported in the German program of Vatican Radio.
“It’s true that the pope owns an organ donor card … but contrary to public opinion, the card issued back in the 1970s became de facto invalid with Cardinal Ratzinger’s election to the papacy,” Vatican Radio quoted from the letter.
In 1999, six years before he was elected to the papacy, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger disclosed that he always carried an organ donor’s card with him and encouraged the practice as “an act of love.”
Vatican officials say that after a pope dies, his body belongs to the entire Church and must be buried intact. Furthermore, if papal organs were donated, they would become relics in other bodies if he were eventually made a saint.
Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America’s military would probably be the biggest of his career……..
Speaking at a campus operated by Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Hersh said he was working on a new book that details “how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government.”
“It’s not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it — how Congress disappeared, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced,” he continued, according to the published quotes.
Hersh also lamented President Obama’s continuance of the Bush administration’s worst abuses.
“Just when we needed an angry black man, we didn’t get one,” he reportedly said.
The Foreign Policy report added that in 2003, those “in the Cheney shop” were not concerned about the havoc the invasion of Iraq was destined to cause.
“[The] attitude was, ‘What’s this? What are they all worried about, the politicians and the press, they’re all worried about some looting?” Hersh was quoted as saying. “Don’t they get it? We’re gonna change moseques into cathedrals. And when we get all the oil, nobody’s gonna give a damn.’ That’s the attitude. We’re gonna chance mosques into cathedrals. That’s an attitude that pervades, I’m here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command [JSOC].”
He further claimed that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven and others in the JSOC were members of the “Knights of Malta” and “Opus Dei,” two little known Catholic orders.
“They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally,” Hersh reportedly continued. “They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”
He added that members of these societies have developed a secret set of insignias that represent “the whole notion that this is a culture war” between religions.
It was President George W. Bush who first invoked images of a holy war in the Middle East, when he suggested soon after Sept. 11, 2001 that the US was on a “crusade” in the region.
The “Knights of Malta” were a Catholic order founded in 1085 as a group of monks who cared for the wounded. It evolved into a military order that safeguarded Christian pilgrims from Muslims during the nine “Crusades,” where Europe’s Christian states laid siege to Muslims for control of Jerusalem.
“Opus Dei,” popularly depicted in the Hollywood film “The DaVinci Code,” was founded in 1928 and officially accepted as part of the Catholic church in 1947. The group’s website claimed their principle calling was to bring about a “Christian renewal” around the world.
Doubts, denials and a distinctive trend
Raw Story reached out to Hersh and The New Yorker to confirm the accuracy of his quotes, placing this report on hold until they responded. Both declined to make any further statement, neither confirming nor denying the quotes.
However, one source close to Hersh who spoke to Raw Story off the record, suggested that Foreign Policy’s report was indeed correct.
Raw Story followed-up on the quotes due to a widely-reported false claim attributed to Hersh in May 2009, where he’d allegedly said former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The report, which appeared to have originated in Pakistan, was picked up by The Wall Street Journal and the conservative-leaning American Spectator, but both removed the links after Raw Story published a denial from Hersh. A link to Raw Story’s original report was unavailable due to a database malfunction.
Hersh, a Pulitzer-winning author and reporter, has previously reported that the JSOC was set up by former Vice President Cheney as something of an “executive assassination squad” that operated outside of congressional authority.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who resigned after Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings quoted him mocking the US civilian command, led JSOC before taking command of America’s war effort in Afghanistan.
In an email to the military’s Stars and Stripes publication, McChrystal’s spokesman, David Bolger, panned Hersh’s claim.
“The allegations recently made by Seymour Hersh relating to General McChrystal’s involvement with an organization called The Knights of Malta are completely false and without basis in fact,” he reportedly wrote. “General McChrystal is not and has never been a member of that organization.”
The religious indoctrination of US soldiers has been in headlines in recent weeks as soldiers who “failed” the “spiritual fitness” portion of the “comprehensive soldier fitness” test claimed they were forced to attend Christian ceremonies and become “born again” by professing love for the Christian deity.
Similarly, GQ magazine uncovered last year a series of top-secret military briefings prepared by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that included passages from the Bible.
Trijicon Inc., a defense contractor, was also discovered last Janurary to have been for years placing scriptural references on gun sights used by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their actions revealed, Trijicon was forced to provide the Pentagon with kits to remove the codes.
McChrystal denies Seymour Hersh’s claim of secret military crusade against Islam
Surely Seymour Hersh was joking — wasn’t he? This is such a ridiculous charge, it seems inconceivable that the “acclaimed journalist” wasn’t speaking with tongue firmly in cheek. Maybe he had a snootful and thought he’d poke a little mischievous indirect fun at Islamic conspiracy paranoia and Crusade fantasies by retailing a conspiracy fantasy of his own for his Qatari audience.
In any case, with the Christian population of Iraq reduced by over 50% since Saddam Hussein was toppled, it is laughable that any segment of the “special operations community” sees itself as “the protectors of the Christians…protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century.” The U.S. military in Iraq hasn’t lifted a finger to protect the Christians there, even as that population has faced ferocious jihadist persecution. And I expect that even a Leftist journalistic propagandist like Seymour Hersh knows that.
“McChrystal denies claims of secret military crusade against Islam,” by Jeff Schogol for Stars and Stripes, January 21:
WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he is not part of a religious order waging war on Islam despite recent assertions by acclaimed journalist [sic!] Seymour Hersh.
Speaking in Qatar earlier this week, Hersh claimed that McChrystal and current members of the special operations community are members of the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei, both Catholic organizations, according to the blog Foreign Policy.
“They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally,” Foreign Policy quoted Hersh as saying. “They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”
Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the subsequent military coverup.
But McChrystal’s spokesman, David Bolger, said Hersh was way off base in this case.
Children when taught sex, may not be able to discriminate between acceptable and deviant behavior.
It all depends on the teacher and the syllabus.
At the same time keeping eyes closed to changing values will do more harm than good.
Best course is for parents to set example and teach children the subject.
I have done it successfully to my children, despite ridicule from the relatives and community and I find my children well-adjusted in their married life.
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The pope’s comments follow a heated row between the Roman Catholic Church and Spain’s socialist government over civic education, after compulsory citizenship education classes were introduced in 2007.
Thousands of parents in Spain have since complained about the course, which openly addresses topics such as homosexuality, divorce and abortion, and has been condemned by critics as being “anti-Christian“.
In Monday’s address, the pope said Catholic education was being “compromised or hampered by legislative proposals which risk creating a sort of state monopoly” in schools, particularly in Latin America.
Sex and civic education in schools in Europe is an “attack” on religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday, following a Vatican row with Spain over a new course promoting liberal values.
“I cannot remain silent about another attack on the religious freedom of families in certain European countries which mandate obligatory participation in courses of sexual or civic education,” the pope said.
In his traditional New Year‘s address to ambassadors to the Vatican, the pope said such courses “convey a neutral concept of the person and of life, yet in fact reflect an anthropology opposed to faith and to right reason”.
Benedict said this was an example of the “threats” against “the cultural roots which nourish the profound identity and social cohesion of many nations”.
In a collection of interviews published in November 2010, Benedict said for the first time that he approved of condom use to reduce the risk of disease, leading some to wonder whether his attitude to sex education was changing.
But the Vatican later insisted that the pope’s comments referred only to sex workers who were HIV positive and could not be applied more widely.
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