Jul
31
Oprah is pissing christians off by not believing correctly.
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I found all sorts of quotes in this story amazing. Apparently there is a new book out by Eckhart Tolle titled A New Earth, and it has gained the fancy of the big O.
Oprah Winfrey has become a catalyst for a new journalistic project and increasing news coverage by conservative Christians questioning and criticizing her spiritual beliefs.
Some evangelical Christians have voiced alarm that Winfrey is introducing the 46 million viewers who watch her each week to nontraditional spirituality they don’t condone.
And then later in the article..
“Our point is we want our readers to be aware that what she is teaching does not represent traditional, historical Christianity, according to the Scriptures,” said Keener, who also is president of the Evangelical Press Association.
Jul
28
Religion kills again.
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This man’s belief is what killed him, and he could be alive today by not being saved.
Man Feared Drowned During Baptism In Delta
RIO VISTA (CBS13) ― Rescuers have called off the search for a 22-year-old man feared drowned during a baptism in the San Joaquin Delta.
The Hispanic man disappeared under the water late Sunday afternoon near the Brannan Island State Recreation Area, northeast of the San Francisco Bay, according to Coast Guard officials.
Jul
26
God: The by-product of an infantile mind
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Infants are hard-wired to believe in God, and atheism has to be learned, according to an Oxford University psychologist.
I’ve also established that children’s natural concepts of God aren’t purely anthropomorphic. They certainly acquire a conception of God-as-man through their religious education, but no child actually links the representation of, for example, God-as-Jesus with the creator of the world. Rather, their images of God the creator correspond to abstract notions like gas, air, and person without a body. When you press them, they of course fall back on what they’ve been told, saying things like, “I know he’s a man because I saw him on the telly,” or “He’s just like my daddy.” These are very rational responses, but they’re not natural conceptions formed by children. Rather they’re imposed by the culture in which the children live.
I don’t find this the least bit surprising. I think at some point most all of us believed in some metaphysical being, whether it be the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or so on. Only after becoming a teenager where my mind was more capable of analyzing what was being presented was I able to make the conclusion that it’s all a bunch of hooey.
Jul
25
What to do with Fido after the Rapture?
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If you’ve worried about what will happen to Bob the Dog or Mrs. Meowmeow when Jesus raptures your soul to Heaven, worry no more. A Kansas City atheist has a solution for your left behind pets. In this Craigslist ad, an unnamed atheist promises to feed, water and shelter Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball II until they go to the big kennel in the sky after Jesus and the angels have carried you skyward.
All this for just a $50 deposit.
Jul
24
You don’t say.. How come God’s messengers never tell anyone to attend a monster truck rally?
Durban brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter, who made a brief court appearance on Wednesday charged with the murder of their parents, had been part of a religious sect and had been influenced by Nicolette’s boyfriend and co-accused, Mathew Naidoo, who had claimed he was “God’s messenger”, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
Hardus, who is 20 and a second-year IT student at Varsity College, his sister Nicolette, 26, a waitress, and Naidoo, 21, of Phoenix, were arrested soon after police were summoned to the Lotters’ Thames Drive, Westville, home on Saturday night.
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