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Halloween 'devil' claim overstated, says Bishop of Leicester
More on the Leicestershire Halloween controversy. Saving this one for some good quotations.
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Add Sticky NoteToday, the Reverend Barry Hill, the diocese of Leicester's head of mission, said: "I think Halloween is an unhelpful time, for religious, spiritual and practical reasons. A lot of churches are organising light parties instead. They would prefer to celebrate something that comes from goodness. The problem people have with Halloween is its roots and origins."
- sounds very evangelical in tone, to me - on 2009-11-03
Children 'will go to hell if they celebrate Halloween', says church leaflet - Telegraph
I don't have a good feel for what things are like in the UK, but if this were a US news story -- and I can easily imagine that it would be -- I would think that the subtext was a developing split between evangelicals and traditionalists in this particular community (part of the Church of England, I assume). Some evangelical-leaning activists put together an article condemning Halloween, it gets into the local church newsletter, and traditionalists are more or less blindsided by the controversy that results.
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Add Sticky NoteChristians do not celebrate Halloween - an American festival - because it has
links to witchcraft and ghosts.- Really, now! - on 2009-11-03
Breitbart.tv » Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure
A remarkable story -- the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic evidently undergoes a kind of conversion experience and joins a local anti-abortion organization. In this two-minute interview, she explains her decision in religious terms. Planned Parenthood, fearing the disclosure of confidential information, has initiated some kind of legal action against her, including (I think) a restraining order.
Christian registrar should not be disciplined over same-sex marriage refusal - Telegraph
From the UK: a clerk who refused to solemnize a same-sex marriage is claiming that her refusal to do so -- which she says stems from her religious beliefs -- is protected under freedom-of-conscience laws. She is suing her employer, the Islington Council, for religious discrimination, and she "claims she suffered ridicule and bullying as a result of her stance and said she had been harassed ... by the council."
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James Dingemans QC, representing her, told a panel of three appeal judges that
Ms Ladele had never wanted to undermine the human rights or respect due to
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities.
But human rights laws must also be there to protect people with committed
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'Modern human rights jurisprudence was not intended to obliterate religious
beliefs held for millennia.''
Mr Dingemans said she could not go against her faith and take an active part
to enable same-sex unions. - 1 more annotations...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Leicestershire | Row over Halloween devil article
A C.o.E.-sponsored publication in Leicestershire criticized participants in Halloween festivities as "siding with the devil" and using "fear" and "blackmail" to "extort" sweets from neighbors. The publication was sent to several hundred parishioners, some of whom are now understandably upset.
Stephen Colbert interviews Fr. Randall Balmer on the papal appeal to Anglicans, Oct. 27, 2009
"Manipulation is witchcraft!" (from John Hagee's Daily Devotional, Sept. 11, 2009)
Seen on @almightygod 's Twitter stream.
Kimberly Daniels, "The Danger of Celebrating Halloween: Spiritual Life in God," Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN.com), undated (Oct. 2009?)
There was a press release from Americans United on this (http://j.mp/rC2Dya ). Originally published in Charisma magazine.
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During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.
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Mother earth is highly celebrated during the fall demonic harvest. Witches praise mother earth by bringing her fruits, nuts and herbs. Demons are loosed during these acts of worship. When nice church folk lay out their pumpkins on the church lawn, fill their baskets with nuts and herbs, and fire up their bonfires, the demons get busy. They have no respect for the church grounds. They respect only the sacrifice and do not care if it comes from believers or non-believers.
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Browsable Greek New Testament
Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online. It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good references built in.
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
"Students Urged To 'Set The Standard' At 3rd Annual BP Journalism Conference," Evangelical News (Oct. 13, 2003)
Originally a press release, credited to Baptist Press News (http://bpnews.net). I clipped this because of the quotation from Barbara Bradley Hagerty, the journalist who recently wrote a story for NPR describing a so-called "bitter rift" between "new" and "old" atheists, with the former meaning Dawkins, Hitchens, et sim. (http://j.mp/4yTNmB). Turns out Hagerty is an evangelical Christian and the story has been decried by atheist bloggers.
Book Burning (event announcement for Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV in North Carolina, Halloween 2009)
They plan to burn, apparently, three classes of items: first, bibles that are not the KJV; second, music that is not Christian; and third, books by "heretics," mainly meaning Christians who espouse theological positions different from those of this church. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?vqeuf
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » “Simply Unprecedented” — President Obama and the Gay Rights Movement
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Add Sticky NoteYou will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
- Notice that he did NOT say that he would press for legal recognition of same-sex marriage. He seemed to be pretty careful about that. - on 2009-10-12
Journal of Religion & Film: Dancer in the Dark Film Review by S. Brent Plate
Plate is one smart cookie.
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