Church and State

Bush 43 Dedicates His Library As Boston Terrorists Reflect His Legacy

N4CM — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:46:01 PDT

We need a world wide commitment to reducing human numbers as humanely are possible. I am not an optimist on this possibility, but hopeful that the obvious failure of our empire building will foster changes in attitude both here and among leaders elsewhere.

Democrat Says Boston Shows Madness Of Gang Of Eight’s Amnesty/Immigration Surge

N4CM — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:02:57 PDT

Source: Vdare.com. If you like the growing likelihood of more aberrant behavior by the growing numbers of new arrivals piled on top of our dangerously overrun country, then you will agree with the Gang of Eight and their self-interested backers in the cheap labor crowd and the ethnic and religious lobbies. But most Americans have long said they wanted fewer immigrants.

The New Pope – What to Expect from Francis I Based on His Life and Pronouncements - The Catholic Church has broken centuries of tradition by electing a non-European as Pope, however the core papacy of Francis I will be intrinsic traditionalism with strict adherence to papal infallibility

N4CM — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:50:39 PDT

Source: TomsViewPoint. There is compelling evidence that his stand against the reign of the terror during the regimes and the “Dirty War” of former Argentine junta government’s that tortured, murdered and disappeared 22,000 citizens was low key at best. His stated excuse is: speaking out forcefully against the extreme abuse of the “Dirty War” regimes was seen as imprudent by the Church leaders of the time. TVP reviewed Bergoglio’s 4-hour official testimony (in Spanish) when forced to testify

Was Pope John Paul I murdered? - A sealed bed chamber. An archbishop with links to the Mafia. An embalming carried out with indecent-improper-haste...

N4CM — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:20:28 PDT

Source: Mail Online. On 26 August 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected Pope on only the fourth ballot, taking the name of John Paul I. He came from near Belluno, some 80 miles north of Venice, his father passing much of his working life as a seasonal worker – bricklayer and electrician – in Switzerland. Luciani had been Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, and subsequently for nine years Patriarch of Venice; he was however little known outside Italy, and it was a matter of considerable surprise that the 111 voting cardinals – of whom only 27 were Italian – should have chosen him so quickly.

Why We Want to Keep Church and State as Far Away from Each Other as Possible - Sixties icon and essayist Paul Krassner's definition of religion is "a cult that’s exempt from paying taxes."

N4CM — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:34:38 PDT

Source: AlterNet. I’m an absurdist as well as an atheist, and what could be more absurd than my practice of having continuous dialogues with the deity I don’t believe exists? In my capacity as a stand-up satirist, before I go onstage, I always say, “Please, God, let me do a good show tonight.” And then I hear the voice of God boom out from the clouds above,“SHUT UP, YOU SUPERSTITIOUS FOOL.”

The Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Scandal

N4CM — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:18:13 PDT

Source: Z Magazine. While the scope of the problem is huge, so too has been the Church-sanctioned cover-up, its refusal to cooperate with civil authorities, and the rampant reassignment of priests accused of sexual misconduct. “The vast majority of the priests who committed acts of sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults have faced no punishment or criminal sanction for their actions; many continue to work, and have privileged access to future victims because of their status as a member of the Catholic clergy,” the report noted.

Rosary v. Ovary: Papal Politics And Women - A landmark report by the first woman admitted as an undergraduate to the University of Notre Dame. From: On The Issues Magazine, Fall 1998

N4CM — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:47:11 PDT

Source: On The Issues. Swiss theologian Hans Kung has written: “After the fall of Soviet Communism, the Roman Catholic Church represents the only dictatorial system in the Western world today . . . one which confers a monopoly of power and truth to one man.” In caving in to this man’s dictates, the Ladies of Notre Dame are paying a high moral price, denying aid to some of the world’s poorest children: $4,000 might fund a great many immunizations.

Stephen Hawking: Big Bang Didn’t Need God

N4CM — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:11:53 PDT

Source: SPACE.com. Our universe didn't need any divine help to burst into being, famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking told a packed house at the California Institute of Technology. After outlining the historical theological debate about how the universe was created, Hawking gave a quick review of more scientific cosmological explanations, including Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold’s steady-state theory. This idea hypothesizes that there is no beginning and no end and that galaxies continue to form from spontaneously created matter.

6 Sneaky Ways the Christian Right Foists Its Biblical Agenda on America - Occasionally, the Religious Right has to come up with secular justifications for its agenda.

N4CM — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:03:27 PDT

Source: AlterNet. Since the beginning, the Christian right has been aware that the First Amendment makes it impossible for them to use “God said so” to justify legislation. They’ve spent decades grafting secular reasons onto what are fundamentally attempts to foist their views on the rest of the country, often going out of their way to conceal the religious origins of their policy ideas.

Object Lesson: Bad Clinic Care Proves The Horrible Sickness Of Some Abortion Laws

N4CM — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:10:58 PDT

The real murderers in this story are sadly conflicted zealots such as Americans United For Life (AUL), who truly are people united to force situations such as the above upon the quivering vaginas of the poorest, weakest, least educated women among us. Go to AUL’s web site (www.aul.org) you will find its arguments feature the right of religious conscience. Ok, no one has asked its founder, Charmaine Yoest, to have an abortion. But she and anyone against abortions for such reasons are, unlike those poor women in Philadelphia, free to choose not to have one!