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They All Love Running Up on Black Folks Talking About Jesus but Leave White Folks Alone

2018-12-06T16:49:00.001-05:00

By Xavier James

Black Christians rarely run up on white folks talking that Jesus Christ loves you nonsense. But at the store, parking lot, gas station, etc., it's black folks they're always harassing about Jesus. White folks shooting brothers down in the street, white female school teachers having sex with their students, white men committing mass shootings regularly, mass incarcerating black teens, and fixed elections, but yet they don't run up in white folks faces with that b*llsh*t. You'd think witnessing to white folks would be a priority wouldn't you? But they're scared of them.

Meanwhile, white folks are doing basically the same thing. No matter what denomination they represent, they stay up in black folks faces spreading the gospel of bullsh*t! The half white missionary who went to that tiny island bypassed millions of evil white folks to get to a handful of black folks who were doing just fine on their own. And he looked like a nut-job, too. Religiosity fried his brain and he snapped. Yeah, religious programming made him crazy. He was willing to die for those Snow White, Cinderella Bible stories.

You can look at the stupid look on his face and see there was something wrong with his ass. Them people warned him to leave them alone but he was determined to push his gay, Christian, Capitalistic propaganda down their throats. And his diseased body was a weapon that could have destroyed them all. He ran up on them folks yelling "Jesus Loves You, Jesus loves you." Well Jesus sure as hell didn't save him from them long ass arrows. And the only thing Jesus would've done on that island was establish mineral rights for the devil.

Is this the guy who told missionary John Allen Chau

to undertake a suicide mission?

Trump Obsessed Pastor Shot a woman Dead and Sodomized Two Others

2018-11-24T14:23:00.001-05:00

Remember when I talked about those buzzwords Trump and Republicans use to get people to commit acts of violence? Well, here's more Charles Manson style mind control murder and mayhem:

Another gun totting, NRA loving, Christian, Republican Male has lashed out at women. This time it was at a Catholic Supply store in Ballwin, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. A former pastor has been arrested after allegedly attempting to coerce three women into having sex with him at gunpoint. When one of them resisted, he shot 53-year-old Jamie Schmidt in the head and forced the other two to submit to his “deviant” demands.

The shooter, 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, has a reputation for right-wing tirades on social media and has ranted against gun-free zones in the past. He was a huge fan of President Trump, attended his rallies, and regularly tweeted about Republican politics. His feed was full of retweets from white nationalist FOX anchor Laura Ingraham.

This Murdering sex deviant entered the store in question, saw the women, decided they were vulnerable, retrieved his gun, and herded three women into one of the back rooms. Once he had them cornered, police say he exposed his genitals and directed the women to “perform deviant sexual acts on him.”

When one woman refused, Bruce allegedly shot her in the head, killing her. Frightened by the murder, the other two women gave in to his sexual assault demands. Bruce fled the store sometime after. Authorities captured him on Wednesday, charging him with murder, sodomy, and kidnapping and other offenses. He could face the death penalty.

Police Chief Jon Belmar, who has served in law enforcement for more than thirty years said in a statement online that the crime was “one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever had occasion to investigate.”

Thomas Bruce formerly served in the Navy and founded an Evangelical Christian church in 2003 and oversaw a small congregation until 2007. He was associated with numerous ministries and churches in the past.

His Idol Trump made no comment.

Religious Leaders Fear Armed Guards Must Now Become the Norm After the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

2018-10-30T21:58:00.000-04:00

By Katie Reilly

For the past four years, the New Reform Temple in Kansas City, Mo., hasn’t hosted a Shabbat service or other religious event without an armed off-duty police officer present — a standard that Rabbi Alan Londy felt was necessary after a 2014 shooting in the city, where a white supremacist killed three people outside a Jewish community center and assisted living facility.

“Tragedies don’t come at predictable times, so you have to be vigilant all the time unfortunately,” Londy tells TIME. “That’s just part of what it means to be a congregation at this moment in history.”

The New Reform Temple is just one of many places of worship where armed security has become the norm, as a rise in anti-Semitic attacks and other hate crimes has forced religious leaders to take more drastic precautionary measures.

The deadly shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday heightened a longstanding debate over how best to handle a growing number of security threats against religious institutions otherwise defined by inclusivity and openness. While there wasn’t an armed guard stationed at Tree of Life on Saturday, the synagogue often hired security on holidays and had recently installed new doors to allow congregants to escape the building more quickly, based on advice from homeland security officials.

But President Donald Trump immediately directed attention to the lack of an armed guard at the synagogue, claiming the shooting “has little to do with” the country’s gun laws — comments that drew criticism from some community members who said Trump was blaming the synagogue for a shooting that left 11 of its members dead.

“If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better,” Trump told reporters on Saturday. “This is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect. But if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn’t. And he was able to do things that, unfortunately, he shouldn’t have been able to do.”

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto refuted that argument, saying, “I don’t think that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques and churches filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed guards.”

But some synagogues, mosques and churches have already resorted to that in recent years. The Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Charlottesville, Virginia hired a security guard ahead of the white nationalist rally in the city last year. And an armed guard has since become “a fixture at our synagogue for the past 15 months,” synagogue president Alan Zimmerman wrote in a column for USA Today on Sunday.

After a gunman killed 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas last year, some church and state leaders proposed the regular use of professional security personnel or armed parishioners at church services.

And some mosques have also hired armed guards in response to anti-Muslim threats and attacks.

Leaders at the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) are currently struggling with an internal debate over whether to formally recommend that mosques and Islamic community centers across the country hire armed guards for Friday prayers. “It’s a double-edged kind of thing where you don’t want to frighten people into not exercising their religious rights, but you want people to be safe,” CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper tells TIME. “We’re looking at reaching out to mosque officials around the country to urge that they step up security measures — up to and including armed security personnel — but each mosque is different.”

There was a 57% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. from 2016 to 2017, according to the most recent annual report by the Anti-Defamation League, which characterized the change as “the largest single-year increase on record.” There was also an overall increase in hate crimes from 2015 to 2016, according to FBI data, which shows that more than half of hate crimes motivated by religious bias in 2016 were anti-Jewish, and nearly 25% were anti-Muslim.

Jason Friedman — executive director of the Community Security Service, a nonprofit that trains volunteers from the Jewish community to provide security at synagogues — says the nonprofit started with 10 volunteers in 2007 and has now trained 4,000 people to search buildings for dangerous objects, control access to synagogues, and monitor their surroundings for suspicious behavior. He was inundated with “nonstop” email inquiries after the shooting on Saturday.

Fake Spiritual Healer Raped Two Women in Brooklyn

2018-10-22T22:33:00.000-04:00

A self-proclaimed spiritual healer has been accused of luring two women to his home, knocking them out with alcohol and raping them. On two separate occasions, Nigel Kennedy allegedly held religious ceremonies for the victims. According to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, Kennedy caused the women to lose consciousness and then had intercourse without their consent.

Kennedy used to own a religious goods store called Psychic Kaballah, and calls himself a religious and spiritual leader.

When she eventually woke up at 5 a.m. the next day, naked on a bed, Kennedy claimed he didn’t know what happened to her clothes, prosecutors said.

The woman left the apartment and suffered from nausea, vomiting and dizziness throughout the day.

Both victims went to hospitals after the rapes and DNA recovered from both women matched to Kennedy, prosecutors said.

Kennedy was arrested Sept. 7 after arriving at Kennedy Airport from Trinidad.

“We allege that this defendant is a sexual predator who used his religious stature to lure women, then drugged and raped them,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “We will now seek to hold him accountable for these despicable alleged acts.”

Gonzalez encouraged other possible victims to contact the DA’s Action Center at 718-250-2340.

During the arraignment Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Gwen Barnes said Kennedy met both of his alleged victims at a religious store he owned in the neighborhood.

Barnes asked that Kennedy’s bail be increased to $150,000.

Defense attorney Christopher Perks argued Kennedy was not a flight risk.

“He never missed a court date. He dropped everything he had to do today to respect his commitment,” Perks said.

Judge William Miller kept Kennedy’s bail at $35,000, which Kennedy previously posted.

“These are obviously very serious allegations. Very, very serious cases,” Miller said. “Stay away from complainants, but today I’m not going to increase your bail.”

Kennedy left the courtroom after the hearing and declined to speak with the Daily News.

He allegedly met the victims at the store, which was located at 4714 Church Avenue in Brooklyn.

The first incident occurred on August 30, 2016, around 10pm, when a 42-year-old woman went to Kennedy's apartment on East 52nd Street in East Flatbush for a church ceremony, according to the district attorney.

Kennedy allegedly started chanting and poured a clear liquid that tasted like alcohol into the victim's mouth.

The victim then lost consciousness, but when she regained consciousness, she told authorities that she felt a person on top of her. However, she was unable to move.She lost consciousness again and woke up at 5am the next day, naked on a bed.

women to lose consciousness and then had intercourse without their consent.

Kennedy used to own a religious goods store called Psychic Kaballah, and calls himself a religious and spiritual leader.

He allegedly met the victims at the store, which was located at 4714 Church Avenue in Brooklyn.

Christian Lawmaker Ralph Shortey Sentenced To 15 Years For Child Sex Trafficking

2018-10-02T10:06:00.001-04:00

After being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy while serving as an Oklahoma State Senator, Christian conservative Ralph Shortey is sentenced to 15 years for child sex trafficking.

KJRH Tulsa reports:

A former Republican state senator in Oklahoma has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on a child sex trafficking charge.

Ralph Shortey was sentenced Monday in federal court in Oklahoma City. He had faced a sentence of up to life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Shortey pleaded guilty in November in exchange for prosecutors dropping three child pornography charges against him.

Last year Shortey was charged with engaging in child prostitution and other felonies after being caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.

At the time of his arrest police body cam footage shows Shortey wearing an obnoxious and misogynistic T-shirt saying “make me a sandwich” with a reference to the Biblical quote from Ephesians 5:22:

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Shortey is married with four children.

Before his arrest, Shortey was a prominent Christian conservative in Oklahoma politics, known for being a birther, and a Trump supporter.
In fact, Shortey was the Oklahoma state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 primary elections.

Also, before being busted with an underage boy in his hotel room, the anti-abortion, Christian conservative, Republican state senator made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.

(“.. a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.” Wow!)

According to reports, Shortey “attended Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City in preparation for mission work in Uganda,” before beginning his political career.

Bottom line: Nothing says “conservative Christian Republican family values” like a state senator caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.

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2018-09-18T10:53:00.000-04:00

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Pastor Made Congregation Drink Bleach in Church

2018-09-16T23:49:00.001-04:00

Pastors Gone Wild

Pastor Ruffus Phala made his members in the congregation drink 'Jik' bleach in the church which left 6 members dead and 4 hospitalized. Six people died on Sunday after drinking Jik in church. It is also reported that four more are in critical condition and are currently in a hospital, the Limpopo Herald reports. The police in Limpopo are investigating an incident where people in Pastor Ruffus Phala’s church were made to drink Jik as a sign of having faith. It is said that the pastor randomly chose ten people from the congregation to demonstrate with. Unfortunately, out of the ten, six died after suffering stomach pains, four survived but are in a hospital. Police are still trying to locate the pastor who went missing on Sunday night. Sounds similar to Jim Jones in Guyana to me.

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2018-08-24T22:09:00.000-04:00

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Jesus got Millions of People Killed. Don't Let'em Get You!

2016-10-10T14:00:00.000-04:00

Christians...Any Questions?

2016-10-07T14:00:00.000-04:00

Holy Ghost and Negroes

2016-10-03T12:07:00.000-04:00

White Supremacist Murders Black Man in Church While Jesus Stood by and Watched

2016-08-22T19:58:00.000-04:00

By Xavier James

During a heated dispute over a seat, a card carrying NRA member pulled out his gun and shot a young, black man because he refused to give up his seat and go to the back of the church. The black man, armed only with his Bible, the killer knew the man didn’t stand a chance against his 9MM.

The murderer, Mark Storms, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment (instead of first or second degree murder because he was white) in the fatal April 24 shooting of a fellow churchgoer, Robert Braxton III, at Keystone Fellowship Church in North Wales, Pa. The killer brought his own wife and child to church so that they could watch him kill if necessary. There have been over 625 violent deaths in American churches since 1999. During the entire incident, all witnesses conceded that Jesus Christ in typical fashion, just stood by and did nothing.

Black Christians are quick to say it’s all

About Jesus and white Christians love them to death.

But it was white Christians lynching black
folks on Sunday after church service.

Pastor said his Sperm was from God and Coons believed Him

2015-09-03T15:55:00.002-04:00

Do You Remember This From 2013? Those Jesus Freaks were Headed straight to JONESTOWN! (Jonestown...DUH...Jim Jones...Remember?)

Criminal pastor claimed that the Holy Spirit would secrete from his “member” in the form of “sacred milk”. This pastor said that his “member” was blessed and that “the Lord had consecrated him with divine milk of the Holy Spirit” and, of course, he had to release it in order to “evangelize”.

According to various reports, Evangelical Pastor Valdeci Sobrino Picanto, of Brazil, convinced his followers that they could drink the ‘holy milk’ by heartily suckling from his loins.
One member of Sobrino’s church reports: “He has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth- and that’s why he would do what he did. Often, after worship, Pastor Valdeci would take us to where the funds were kept at the back of the Church and asked us to have oral s*x with him until the Holy Spirit would come through ej***lation.”

And obviously they believed him. This pastor recently had his image scrubbed from the internet, but if you search hard you can find it.

Black Homosexual Christians get High off Jesus on BET's Sunday Best

2015-09-01T18:45:00.000-04:00

By Xavier James

So I’m channel surfing, right. And I stopped pass BET in time to see Kirk Franklin’s over-sized head with his little boy pants on, and I thought ‘dam are these coons for real?’ Most of the contestants are more than likely sodomized as soon as they walk off stage. Oh don’t act like I said something wrong and you have no clue what the hell I’m talking about.

Donnie McClurkin even said he was gay before Jesus saved him. And since Jesus never existed, guess what? He’s still gay! In the spirit of the great sodomizer himself, Rev. James Cleveland, I’m sure this generation of black Christians are carrying out his old gay traditions.

Will Jesus Save Kirk Franklin from getting yeast
infections from wearing tight pants?

Is this guy next on Donnie and Kirk’s
to do list?

2015-03-08T23:13:00.001-04:00

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Pastor Spreading A.I.D.S. and Jesus to His Followers

2014-12-17T12:58:00.001-05:00

HERE'S ANOTHER ONE! WHEN WILL THE BLACK NEGRO MIND UNDERSTAND THAT THE CHURCH HAS BECOME BLACK AMERICA'S DOWNFALL

The church leaders, including the now former pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Juan Demetrius McFarland himself, that McFarland confessed from the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he had full blown AIDS and had slept with church members.

ASSOCIATED PRESS:

Shocked and stunned, church members contacted the 12 NEWS DEFENDERS and reaction is coming in from the congregation that is still in disbelief.
McFarland didn’t hold back when he revealed to worshipers at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church on Sept. 14, that he contracted HIV in 2003 and discovered in 2008 he had AIDS.
“The church was very accepting of Reverend McFarland and was willing to help him in any way possible,” a church member, who wanted to remain unnamed, explained.
Once the pastor, with 23 years of leadership, started revealing more and more on the following Sundays, members and leaders say they realized he had crossed the line.
In a resolution read aloud at the church, leaders shared, and Pastor McFarland confirmed to WSFA 12 News, that he admitted to drug use and mishandling of church funds. And there was what members say was the ultimate shocker, described by church deacon Nathan Williams Jr.
“He concealed from the church that he had knowingly engaged in adultery in the church building with female members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church while knowingly having AIDS,” Williams said.
McFarland was removed as church pastor on Oct. 5. Still, church members say some congregation members are afraid to come forward and many others are concerned.
“Who does this to people, and you are the leader? Who does this?” another unnamed church member asked.
“I know a young lady who is a member of the church who says she has slept with him and that she didn’t want this to go public, and she running out now trying to find out if there is anything wrong with her,” the member explained. “And my heart goes out to her because she’s been a wonderful church member, and then for something like this to happen. The fact that he didn’t tell them at all. That’s a crime in itself.”
The unnamed church member went on, “And I’m hoping by doing this interview that she will see that she can come and talk to someone and her name or whatever will not be revealed. And maybe she can have some peace by coming forward and not the shame that goes along with it.”
Deacon Williams says he’s been a member of the church for 70 years, and this is the biggest scandal the church has ever experienced.
“He confessed to the entire membership and then to the City of Montgomery, because as soon as he got done confessing, it went all over Montgomery anyway,” Williams said. “So it’s nothing we [are] making up. It’s coming out of his mouth.”
Williams says leaders have obtained legal counsel, and are now focused on moving the church forward.
“Our moves are going to come directly from counsel. We want peace and we want to do things right, legally,” Williams said. “We are not looking to hurt him. We are looking to get the church back. That’s our theme: Get the church back. We want the church back. That’s it.”
But some members say they want justice.
“I believe that he should be put on trial,” another unnamed church member said. “Go to court and let the judge decide if he should go to jail or not. We tend to sweep things under the rug, especially if they’re the leader. It’s like oh, no, please let’s not get this out but I think after this that they will have more discussions on HIV and AIDS.”

Assisted Suicide Debate Back in the Spotlight

2014-11-09T16:30:00.000-05:00

By Diane Coleman

A beautiful 29-year-old woman with a rare brain tumor, Brittany Maynard and her tragic death have sparked the on-again, off-again debate about whether assisted suicide should be legalized in this country.The media frenzy over the Maynard story has made it almost impossible for a legitimate opposing view to be heard, and many people believe that any opposition has to come from religious extremists or right-wing busybodies.

I am neither. As a disability rights advocate for over 40 years as well as a person living with a disability, I am deeply troubled about the Maynard media swarm. Assisted suicide legalization isn't about Brittany Maynard. It's about the thousands of vulnerable ill, elderly and disabled people who will be harmed if assisted suicide is legalized.

A recent report from the Institute of Medicine calls the country's system of caring for terminally ill people "largely broken," "poorly designed to meet the needs of patients" and refers to Medicare and Medicaid, health care systems designed to meet the needs of the poorest among us, "in need of major reorientation and restructuring."

The idea of mixing a cost-cutting "treatment" such as assisted suicide into a broken, cost-conscious health care system that's poorly designed to meet dying patient's needs is dangerous to the thousands of people whose health care costs the most -- mainly people living with a disability, the elderly and chronically ill.

Assisted suicide drugs cost less than $300. Compare that with the cost of treating a terminal illness.

This is one of the many reasons every major disability rights organization in the country that has taken a position on assisted suicide is opposed to legalization, along with the American Medical Association, palliative care specialists and hospice workers who know better than anyone that advancements in palliative care have eliminated pain as an issue for patients who receive appropriate care.

Anyone dying in discomfort may legally today, in all 50 states, receive palliative sedation, wherein the patient is sedated and discomfort is relieved while the dying process takes place peacefully. This legal solution does not raise the very serious difficulties that legalizing assisted suicide poses.

Assisted suicide ultimately affects everyone's health care. In Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal and where Maynard moved to be prescribed the lethal dose, patients have been harmed.

In 2008, cancer patient Barbara Wagner was prescribed a chemotherapy treatment by her doctor, but Oregon's state-run health plan sent a letter which denied coverage of this chemo, yet offered to cover other "treatments," including assisted suicide.

The same scenario happened to another Oregon resident, Randy Stroup. The Oregon assisted suicide reports tell us that over 95% of those who supposedly received lethal prescriptions in Oregon had insurance, but how many got a denial like the one sent to Wagner and Stroup?

When assisted suicide is encouraged, it becomes a covered "treatment" and ultimately removes choices from patients. Assisted suicide's supposed "safeguards" are hollow. Nothing in the Oregon, Washington and Vermont laws prevents an heir or caregiver from suggesting assisted suicide as an option, taking the person to the doctor to sign up and witnessing the consent form. Once the prescription is obtained, with no further witness required, nothing in the law ensures the person's consent or self-administration at the time of death.

Why Did Obama And Dems Lose the Election?

2014-11-09T11:00:00.000-05:00

Associated Press- Back in 1994, when Newt Gingrich led the GOP to take over the House, it was historic. A sea change. An earthquake. Why? Because Democrats had held control of the House for the previous 40 years. As in four decades. Imagine that.

Hard to believe it ever worked that way. Now voters demand change elections more often than they don't. Consider this: Republicans win the Senate in 2002, then lose it in 2006. The Democrats hold the Senate until losing control of it last night -- predictions are that they might be in a good position to take it back in two years. At some point, someone might start listening: Voters are steaming.

They're anxious. They're also not expecting Democrats and Republicans to suddenly write poetry together. But here's one thing they do expect: competency. As in: figure out a way to do your job without continually kicking the proverbial cans down the road. In a pre-election interview with CNN earlier this week, Vice President Joe Biden told me that the "President and I have to figure out how to better communicate." That may be true, but what happened last night is not a communications problem. It's a governing problem.

Almost 8 out of 10 voters who voted yesterday don't trust the government to do the right thing -- and the president runs the White House and his party controlled the Senate. So the voters, done with hope, voted change.

The reason these races went down to the wire -- until the tidal wave became obvious when Democrats couldn't elect governors in blue states -- is that the voters didn't like either the Democrats or the Republicans. But, as it turns out, when given the chance to express a preference, they decided they disliked President Obama the most, and sent the message loud and clear.

Sure, the larger issues of the economy and health care loomed large. Two thirds of the country thinks the nation is headed down the wrong track. But the signal was loud and clear to Washington: Figure out a way to get us going in the right direction.

Oddly enough, for a midterm election, the turning point came on a foreign policy matter. Sources in campaigns for both Democrats and Republicans tell me they agree on this: When the President said he didn't have a strategy for ISIS in Syria in late summer -- and then followed up by saying the administration had underestimated the strength of ISIS -- polls started to shift.

Then came Ebola, and the shift continued. "After he said that stuff, we all began to look at it very hard," said one GOP strategist with a couple of wins under his belt today. "It was about refusing to take bold steps on big problems. It wasn't a fluke, and that's what we drove home."

It worked. With one Republican strategist describing the disastrous Obamacare website rollout as "The Number One driver" of the competency issue, the narrative was set. Obama seemed afloat, the world out of control. And a Democratic strategist confirms their numbers starting going south at that time too. "It was like defying gravity," he told me. And that's exactly why Democrats separated from Obama. Only it didn't work.

The question for Democrats now is whether the Obama coalition survives without Obama. Right now, the party looks like a group of managers who have sliced up the electorate into gettable constituencies: women, minorities, young voters.

But in this election, the Republicans had a fresher playbook -- talking to suburban women worried about health care, with a good pack of candidates, and an improved political operation.

Here's the rub: For a midterm election, it works to be the party simply against the incumbent. But there wasn't any Republican game plan for the future. And there sure doesn't seem to be a Democratic one, either.

At some point, the voters have to start believing the government -- and the people who are supposed to be running it -- works. Or they will hold their noses and vote for change. Again.

Mega-Church Pastor Mark Driscoll Resigns

2014-11-08T23:59:00.000-05:00

Associated Press-Less than a year ago, Mark Driscoll, an evangelical pastor, was flying high.
His hometown Seattle Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, and the brash pastor scored a big, faith-fueled interview with five of the team's top players, including quarterback Russell Wilson.
But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.
In a statement, Mars Hills' board of overseers said Driscoll hadn't committed any acts of "immorality, illegality or heresy" - sins that have felled many a powerful pastor.
Instead, the board said, Driscoll is guilty of "arrogance, responding to conflict with a quick temper and harsh speech, and leading the staff and elders in a domineering manner."
Driscoll was not asked to leave, the board added, saying they were "surprised" to receive his resignation letter.

Childhood MentalHealth Disabilities on the Rise

2014-11-08T00:10:00.000-05:00

Associated Press- Over the past half century, the prevalence of childhood disabilities in the United States has been on the rise, possibly due to an increased awareness about these issues. Now a study published in this week’s online issue of Pediatrics suggests the nature of those newly diagnosed disabilities is changing.

The report, “Changing Trends of Childhood Disability, 2001-2011" found the number of American children with disabilities rose 16% over a 10-year period. While there was a noted decline in physical problems, there was a large increase in disabilities classified as neurodevelopmental conditions or mental health issues, such as ADHD and autism.

“We found that that physical disability health conditions in children were down 12%, but the disabilities related to mental and neurodevelopmental health went up 21%,” said lead study author Dr. Amy Houtrow, chief of the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

The Oldest Picture of a Human Being in Existence

2014-11-07T23:43:00.000-05:00

Associated Press- At first glance, it doesn't seem that remarkable: An old black-and-white scene of a strangely deserted city, smudged in places by some primitive photographic process.

But this image, taken in Paris, France, in 1838, is believed to be the earliest known photograph featuring a person.

Look in the photo's lower left corner and you'll see a man getting his boots cleaned on the sidewalk. The boot-cleaner is there too, although he is harder to spot. The image has been posted online before, but it gained a higher profile after news site Mashable published a full-page version on Wednesday in partnership with Retronaut, a website that archives photos from the past.

It was taken by Louis Daguerre, the French photographer famous for pioneering the daguerreotype, an early type of photo produced on a silver plate or a silver-covered copper plate. According to Retronaut's Amanda Uren, the exposure time for the image was around seven minutes. The street appears deserted because while the two human figures were relatively still, other pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages were moving too fast to register on the plate.

The photo shows the Boulevard du Temple, a then-fashionable area of shops, cafés and theaters.

The two people on the sidewalk are the most recognizable human figures in the photo, although Uren points out that a detailed examination reveals other possible people on a bench and in a window of the building in the foreground.

The image is not close to being the earliest known surviving photograph, though. That distinction belongs to a photo by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, one of Daguerre's partners, who used a crude camera to capture the view from a window at his French estate in 1826 or 1827.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John are European Names in a book of so called Hebrews

2014-06-04T19:46:00.000-04:00

By Xavier James

As I expose more facts about the (un)authenticity of the bible, I'm dropping another jewel on you.

The so called Gospels of the bible, which contains the story of Jesus are an outright easily, proven hoax. But the gullibility of Christians continues to amaze me.

I asked a pastor how it 's possible for everybody else in the bible to have names that are common to that region and era, but the gospels have English names? He had no answer. Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John are nowhere in the bible except Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John. In fact, they're not translated because Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John only translates to Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John.

Well, when King James had Shakespeare and his fellow homosexuals put the New Testament together, that's the first mistake they made. Now, let's put that in context. Matthew, Mark, Luke, James and John are the books that supposedly chronicle the life of Jesus. But in fact, there is zero evidence that those characters ever existed. So, if they never existed, neither can their testament's of Jesus Christ stories.

The Bible was Written by Homosexuals: Prove Me Wrong!

2014-06-02T19:23:00.001-04:00

By Xavier James

I was the first person in the world to tell you a few years ago that homosexuals wrote the bible; every dam word of it! PROVE ME WRONG!

The good book that you love-The Holy Bible itself was written, produced, translated, marketed, distributed, engineered and constructed by all homosexuals. Therefore, if the Bible is really God’s word, then God truly has a credibility problem. Of course there’s the alternative; the Bible really isn’t Gods word and we’ve all been seriously misled, lied to, abused, conned and tricked. Well here are the facts:

It all started with the Jews (or the Europeans commonly referred to as Jews) trying to make a name for themselves. They stole information they had acquired in Egypt before they and their kin folks, the Hyksos, were driven out by Pharaoh Amenhotep 2. Remember, there was no exodus or Moses parting of the Red Sea, they were simply told to get the hell out of the country. Why? Because of their treachery, corruption, greed and betrayal of the Africans that had taken them in. The African-Egyptians had fed, clothed and allowed the Jews to settle on the outskirts of Egypt. But when the Hyksos came the Jews turned on the Africans and joined the 'Sheppard Kings' in trying to destroy the Africa-Egyptians. With no history of building or great kings or monuments or accomplishments of their own they had to manufacture a past.

What better legacy to claim then to be God's chosen people? That's when they came up with the "my god is better then your god" approach to history via the Bible and Torah; except at the time the Jews were morally bankrupt. You see, while you had some Jews who were trying to string together holy, "god said, god inspired" writings, the rest were literally playing with little boys and girls; and yes I'm talking about sexually. That's right, which was conveniently removed from your Bible.

When they were with the Greeks they Practiced Homosexuality-Pedophilia-and Bestiality just like the GREEK FREAKS. That's why so much of the Bible sounds like Greek Mythology.

And I'm talking about 3, 4 and 5 year old children here. I bet you didn't know that? That's why the Biblical prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah are always talking about how wicked, trifling and scandalous the Jews were back then. In fact, if you read the Talmud or Treatise Sanhedrin, and Jewish Encyclopidia you'll understand the rationalizations the Biblical writers made for racism, pedophilia, homosexuality and bestiality (they absolutely loved having sex with sheep and other animals). And you believe they are God's chosen people?

The books and passages left out of the Bible would have revealed far more then the Christians/Jews wanted their followers to know. I'm not even talking about the Gnostic Gospels. The book of Numbers 21:14 talks about missing books. The book of Joshua 10:13 talks about missing books. Where are they at? What important information was in those books "they" didn't want us to see?

Enter the Greeks, who translated as best they could, the Bibles most of you are reading today. If I was to say that the so called 'Ancient Greeks' were the most perverted people on the planet could anyone argue that fact-(okay maybe tied with the Romans). Anything that could be done to a man's anus the Greeks did it! Let's be clear; the idea of a man putting his hand and arm up another man's anus came from this group of Bible translators. This practice called 'fisting' still goes on among 75% of male homosexuals today. So, this was Gods plan...really? He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for far less yet couldn't find no body else to translate his word. You'd think God would come down here from heaven before he let the Greeks touch his holy words.

Enter King James, who should have been called Queen James. He's what they call today a "flaming” homosexual, complete with broken wrist and bitchy attitude. And he loved young boys. Why him? I mean, this guy shouldn't have been anywhere near a Bible. Yet we are to believe God wanted him to produce and distribute his "holy” word; yeah right.

Enter William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon, two lovers who was among a group of rich, upper-class, European homosexuals King James paid to write, re-write, plagiarize, steal, falsify and outright demigod the "little book." The word Bible was taken from the Latin meaning 'little book.' There wasn't anything holy about it at the time.

Baptized Christians are never able to answer my questions and refuse to enter in public debate about this so called holy book. They stand against homosexuality but read, love, and endorse a book put together by all homosexual males; and there weren't any women involved period. They actually hated women. So, if God hated homosexuality as it says throughout the Bible, why did he get homosexuals to write it? I'm personally against homosexuality; it’s simply sex without responsibility or procreative value. But can someone tell me where God stands on the matter?

Or once again we're finding out God didn't have anything at all to do with the Bible; period. Because that would make God a hypocrite who actually condones rape and sodomy wouldn't it? If you looked at the facts everybody who had something to do with the Bible were homicidal, homosexual murderers and rapists. Kind of like the guys who wrote the Declaration of Independence....ooops! We'll talk about them later. In the meantime, we're told Jews are the "holy race" that should not be polluted (Ezra 9:2).

JEWISH ENCYCLOPIDIA WRITTEN AT THE SAME TIME AS OLD TESTIMENT VERSES:

The same Jews said "having sex with a three year old girl was like a poke in the eye; her womb will close back up. "And the same Jews who said having "sex with little boys wasn't a homosexual sin because they weren't grown up yet. " Dude, how gay is that?

Biblical Jews loved and admired Greek art; especially Greek Pedophile Art. When Greeks and Jews
were hanging out together back in the day, what do you think they were doing and talking about?
Those little boys dressed like angels flying around.

Google and Study Geeks and Jews during the Hellenistic Period