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Be Thankful to Allah ?????? ???? ???? ? 2007-11-20 05:13:34 Remember to thank the true™ Lord of Creation on Thanksgiving! ...

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial -- now online 2007-11-20 04:43:59 This two-hour program is divided into 12 chapters. Choose any chapter below and select QuickTime or Windows Media Player to begin viewing the video. If you experience difficulty viewing, it may be due to high demand. watch chapter 1 inQuicktimeWindows Media: hi | low A TOWN DIVIDED The rural community of Dover, Pennsylvania is torn apart in the latest battle over the teaching of evolution, and parents file a lawsuit against the town's school board in federal court. running time 10:50chapter 1 transcript watch chapter 2 inQuicktimeWindows Media: hi | low WHAT IS EVOLUTION? More than 150 years ago Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution to explain how the diversity of life arose, laying the foundation for modern biological science. running time 7:04chapter 2 transcript watch chapter 3 inQuicktimeWindows Media: hi | low INTRODUCING INTELLIGENT DESIGN The Dover School Board attempts to introduce into science classro ... Design

Pastor charged with sexual abuse. Bond set at $400,000 2007-11-18 10:47:27 A 49-year-old Chicago pastor is free on bond after being charged with sexually assaulting a young male church member over several years.Jose Rolando Morales of Mount Prospect has posted ten percent of his $400,000 bond and has been released. He's charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and one count of criminal sexual assault.He is accused of abusing the church member starting in 1996 when the young man was eleven years old. The alleged victim is now 22.Morales is the founding pastor of Ashland Christian Ministries on Chicago's Northwest Side.No phone listing for Jose Morales at the address provided by authorities could be found. A listed phone number for the church has been disconnected.MORE: For half of his life, a young Chicago man feared that if he told his secret, he'd be humiliated in front of his family ??? maybe even deported.That, he says, was what his church pastor told him.And that's what he says drove the 22-year-old to tell no one that ...

Pastor charged with sexual abuse. Bond set at $400,000 2007-11-18 10:47:27 A 49-year-old Chicago pastor is free on bond after being charged with sexually assaulting a young male church member over several years.Jose Rolando Morales of Mount Prospect has posted ten percent of his $400,000 bond and has been released. He's charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and one count of criminal sexual assault.He is accused of abusing the church member starting in 1996 when the young man was eleven years old. The alleged victim is now 22.Morales is the founding pastor of Ashland Christian Ministries on Chicago's Northwest Side.No phone listing for Jose Morales at the address provided by authorities could be found. A listed phone number for the church has been disconnected.MORE: For half of his life, a young Chicago man feared that if he told his secret, he'd be humiliated in front of his family — maybe even deported.That, he says, was what his church pastor told him.And that's what he says drove the 22-year-old to tell no one that ...

My newfound freedom this Thanksgiving 2007-11-18 07:56:40 By Sharon Now that I???ve escaped the cult of Christianity and am becoming more aware of my freedom and my choices in life, I have to make a decision about Thanksgiving and what it means to me. I want to picture this Thanksgiving 2007 as separate from all the others. I want to ask myself, ???What does Thanksgiving mean to me???? Maybe if I put all the other Thanksgiving???s in a big pile and set them aside in my mind, I???ll be able to focus on this one as an Ex-Christian.All the other ones were about being thankful to God. They were about sitting around the table with loved ones and saying grace with hands clasped around the table. The person who offered the prayer would always call God ???Heavenly Father.??? Now I cringe at the thought of it. ???Heavenly Father,??? ugh! ???Heavenly Father, we bow to you and humbly thank you for all the things you provide for us, because we???re afraid you might take them all away in a terrible natural disaster if we don???t!??? That???s really what w ...

My newfound freedom this Thanksgiving 2007-11-18 07:56:40 By Sharon Now that I’ve escaped the cult of Christianity and am becoming more aware of my freedom and my choices in life, I have to make a decision about Thanksgiving and what it means to me. I want to picture this Thanksgiving 2007 as separate from all the others. I want to ask myself, “What does Thanksgiving mean to me?” Maybe if I put all the other Thanksgiving’s in a big pile and set them aside in my mind, I’ll be able to focus on this one as an Ex-Christian.All the other ones were about being thankful to God. They were about sitting around the table with loved ones and saying grace with hands clasped around the table. The person who offered the prayer would always call God “Heavenly Father.” Now I cringe at the thought of it. “Heavenly Father,” ugh! “Heavenly Father, we bow to you and humbly thank you for all the things you provide for us, because we’re afraid you might take them all away in a terrible natural disaster if we don’t!” That’s really what w ...

I am a spiritual atheist 2007-11-18 07:49:06 Sent in by Jennifer When I was three, my mom placed a brass crucifix in my room. I had no idea what it was at that time, but I was petrified by it. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life. I was forced to attended Catholic school until I was eleven. I remember being in church at the age of 6 and thinking that something just wasn???t right. I thought everyone looked as if they were in a trance when reciting the Apostle???s Creed. It was scary. I also thought that the whole drinking the blood and eating the body was so ritualistic and creepy. I knew even at this young age, that my only ???church,??? was outside. When I was a teenager I was drawn to Wicca, but eventually stopped practicing that because I just could not believe that there were invisible people in the sky. Instead, I believed in an energy that resides within us all. I never knew there was a name for what I was, but I recently found out that I have always been a Pantheist. Pantheism is a ...

I am a spiritual atheist 2007-11-18 07:49:06 Sent in by Jennifer When I was three, my mom placed a brass crucifix in my room. I had no idea what it was at that time, but I was petrified by it. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life. I was forced to attended Catholic school until I was eleven. I remember being in church at the age of 6 and thinking that something just wasn’t right. I thought everyone looked as if they were in a trance when reciting the Apostle’s Creed. It was scary. I also thought that the whole drinking the blood and eating the body was so ritualistic and creepy. I knew even at this young age, that my only “church,” was outside. When I was a teenager I was drawn to Wicca, but eventually stopped practicing that because I just could not believe that there were invisible people in the sky. Instead, I believed in an energy that resides within us all. I never knew there was a name for what I was, but I recently found out that I have always been a Pantheist. Pantheism is a ...

Lord, I was born a rambling man 2007-11-18 07:40:32 By Liniasmax Random thoughts, and I mean very random, mostly about Hell - but also about the whole deconversion process starting with the lack of luck deconverting those you love most. Now I'm no psychologist, although students have to call me Doctor (Ph.D. - 1996) - but I can see that the zeal I had as a recent deconvert got me nowhere when it came to creating doubt among those brethren and sistren with whom I shared my ... well, ...uh... reason. No matter how much "reason" one uses - "faith" (the evidence of things not seen - I know, what evidence?) wins - even worse, your reason gets brushed aside as if it is, likewise, some sort of faith... in science, or research, or your own brain - when all it is is an admission that there is no evidence for invisible spooks of any form. Why otherwise would you need faith? ... so that is a dead end...and most people of faith are people of the "got it figured out, leave me alone" type. I didn't realize as much until after I left the f ...

Lord, I was born a rambling man 2007-11-18 07:40:32 By Liniasmax Random thoughts, and I mean very random, mostly about Hell - but also about the whole deconversion process starting with the lack of luck deconverting those you love most. Now I'm no psychologist, although students have to call me Doctor (Ph.D. - 1996) - but I can see that the zeal I had as a recent deconvert got me nowhere when it came to creating doubt among those brethren and sistren with whom I shared my ... well, ...uh... reason. No matter how much "reason" one uses - "faith" (the evidence of things not seen - I know, what evidence?) wins - even worse, your reason gets brushed aside as if it is, likewise, some sort of faith... in science, or research, or your own brain - when all it is is an admission that there is no evidence for invisible spooks of any form. Why otherwise would you need faith? ... so that is a dead end...and most people of faith are people of the "got it figured out, leave me alone" type. I didn't realize as much until after I left the f ...

You need a Holy Ghost Enema! 2007-11-17 12:12:59 Televangelist Benny Hinn is threatening to sue the religious satire magazine The Door for the video clip it is distributing that shows Hinn's wife, Suzanne, preaching at their former church in Orlando, Florida. She says if you're a lifeless, blackslidden Christian, you need a "Holy Ghost enema... right up your rear end." ...

You need a Holy Ghost Enema! 2007-11-17 12:12:59 Televangelist Benny Hinn is threatening to sue the religious satire magazine The Door for the video clip it is distributing that shows Hinn's wife, Suzanne, preaching at their former church in Orlando, Florida. She says if you're a lifeless, blackslidden Christian, you need a "Holy Ghost enema... right up your rear end." ...

LIFE? 2007-11-17 08:23:05 By ScottCalling all atheists, agnostics, religious people, Christians, Hindus, Islam, Buddhists, Jewish, secular or religious, Wiccans, spiritualists, near death experiencers, philosophers, artists or poets -- what is the meaning of life? I know, I know, the most important and colossal issue of are time and throughout history. But wait before you answer, I need to throw a wrench into the works. My ten year old son Connor died from a heart attack related to leukemia. See my testimonial: Where are you, God?When we were in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital we were thrust into a chamber of horrors. Our son was unconscious, hooked up to every machine imaginable and the only thing that was more nightmarish was seeing the horror, in the face of my wife, when my son coughed up blood before he was admitted to intensive care. The Doctor told us that my son's heart rate and breathing were that of a marathon runner, running consecutive marathons. Walking through a children's intens ...

LIFE? 2007-11-17 08:23:05 By ScottCalling all atheists, agnostics, religious people, Christians, Hindus, Islam, Buddhists, Jewish, secular or religious, Wiccans, spiritualists, near death experiencers, philosophers, artists or poets -- what is the meaning of life? I know, I know, the most important and colossal issue of are time and throughout history. But wait before you answer, I need to throw a wrench into the works. My ten year old son Connor died from a heart attack related to leukemia. See my testimonial: Where are you, God?When we were in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital we were thrust into a chamber of horrors. Our son was unconscious, hooked up to every machine imaginable and the only thing that was more nightmarish was seeing the horror, in the face of my wife, when my son coughed up blood before he was admitted to intensive care. The Doctor told us that my son's heart rate and breathing were that of a marathon runner, running consecutive marathons. Walking through a children's intens ...

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