The New Atheists are convinced that good thinking means disbelief in God and that their leaders are models of good reasoning. They're planning a "Reason Rally" for March 24. Richard Dawkins heads up a "Foundation for Reason and Science." Sam Harris is founder and chairman of "Project Reason." The American Atheists define atheism as "the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason..." John Loftus tells us "Faith and Reason are Mutually Exclusive Opposites." In this they are quite mistaken.They are wrong because their claims to good reasoning do not match the evidence of their performance. Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" is rife with logical fallacies and demonstrably anti-scientific prejudice. Sam Harris devoted most of a recent debate to avoiding logic, advancing an...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
www.smc-mb.net The early Christians had various theories about Jesus.Jesus did not become 'officially' divine until 325 AD.This was when the Council of Nicaea, set up by the Roman emperor Constantine, decided that Jesus, like many Roman Emperors, was divine.Most scholars agree that Jesus did actually exist."Amy-Jill Levine states that... 'there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life' in that most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, debated Jewish authorities on the subject of God, performed some healings, gathered followers...."[68]Christ myth theory - WikipediaIn The Historical Jesus; Five Views, Robert Price suggests that the story of Jesus in the Gospels contains borrowings from pagan mythology.In the same book, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson...
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
From the excellent blog The Wild Hunt, this update on Bertram Dahl's situation in Beebe. Dahl is a high priest in his pagan church and applied for zoning permits to have a church and store on his property. As the article points out, surrounding properties have churches. Thing is, they're all Christian churches. Soon as the mayor and local bureaucrats realized Dahl is a pagan, they are willfully breaking laws in their attempts to stop Dahl from opening his church and his store. Furthermore, he is being harassed by one of the churches across the street from him. I'm surprised the ACLU hasn't supported Dahl on this yet."Update on Beebe: "That man's God is not my God." The Wild Hunt: More details emerge in the conflict between Mayor Mike Robertson of Beebe, Arkansas and a Pagan church. High...
The Lion's Head is where pilgrims gather sacred spring water to take home and, for that purpose, Chalice Garden sells plastic souvenir bottles. When I went to buy one, the saleslady took note of my foreign accent, deduced that I would be flying home (not driving) and told me that I'd never get my water home in one of "their" bottles. Because of airport security, the bottle would have to go in my checked luggage, and the bottle tops were simply not watertight. The sacred water would all leak out during the flight, she said.So off I went to the Glastonbury shops, where I found a metal Glogg water bottle with a good, waterproof, screw-on top. On the mystical morning of 09-09-09, I filled it full of sacred water and screwed the top on tight. For good measure, I put it inside a big zip-lock freezer...
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
On the Categorization of Magic:Almost all magic can be classified into one of two groups. The names givento these groups are varied. Some have called them the Chaotic and Orderedgroups; while this is technically accurate, it is confusing, as most firemagic falls into the group described as "Ordered", while many protectivespells are considered chaotic. Frequently they are referred to as OldMagic and New Magic, reflecting the fact that Old Magics are considerablyharder to create and to learn, and thus must be handed down by generationsof wizards. The terms we shall use are External and Internal magics, todescribe the sources of power used by practitioners of these magics.The distinction between the two types of magics is best shown by example: Example of External Magic: "If I chant the four...
Monday, 22 September 2008
(Phil 1, 7-11) That your love may arise ever expert It is real that I want affection this way about all of you, what I fasten you in my extract, you who are all partners with me in smoothness, apiece in my charge and in the acquit and vinyl of the gospel. For God is my watch, how I desire for all of you with the soft spot of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love may arise ever expert and expert in knowledge and every merciful of appreciation, [10] to identify what is of be grateful for, so that you may be unadulterated and irreproachable for the day of Christ, [11] laden with the fruit of affability that comes through Jesus Christ for the dignity and praise of God. (CCC 2632) Christian want is centered on the neediness and nestle for the Set down to come, in charge with the...
Friday, 19 September 2008
Birch Moon: Matters of youth and children; refinement3 parts ginger1 part lemongrasshelp yourself to of dillsplash of lemon draftTo use, put in a tea circumnavigate and flood for 5 or 6 minutes.Ash Moon: Matters of the intellect; magick, healing.2 parts angelica1/2 part sage1/2 part black cohoshhelp yourself to of sageTo use, put in a tea circumnavigate and flood for 5 or 6 minutes.Willow Moon: Matters of the Otherworld; healing, love, water magick,feminine mysteries.2 parts willow clap1 tbsp vanilla pit1/2 part shrunken appleshelp yourself to of sageHawthorn Moon: Silence, doze, thoughts, prosperity, rapture.1 part hawthorn1 part catnip1/2 part rue1/2 part fizzingOak Moon: Craving, potential, energy, prolonged existence, depth, fire magick, malemysteries.1 1/2 parts white oak clap1/2 part...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF ELIZABETH HOYT'S BOOKS AND SPECIFICALLY HER WRITING STYLE FOR A LONG TIME. HER LATEST BOOK SCANDALOUS DESIRES IS THE 3RD BOOK IN THE MAIDEN LANE SERIES AND A PERFECT ADDITION TO THIS COLLECTION. I LOVED THIS STORY ABOUT A BIG, TOUGH, PUT THE FEAR IN EVERYONE PIRATE WHO IS KNOCKED OFF KILTER BY THIS WOMAN. PLUS I LOVE A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO ACCESSORIZE AND THIS SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING PIRATES KNOW HOW TO DO!WHEN I WENT TO HER WEBSITE I FOUND A BEVY OF INFORMATION TO SHARE. ELIZABETH HOYT is the "New York Times", "USA Today", and" Publishers Weekly" bestselling author of historical romance, including reader favorite, "The Raven Prince". Shelives in central Illinois with her family and three dogs. She researches extensively to make her work realistic and historically faithful....
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From the precise one joins a secretarial intervention or a consistent service group, one hears about how one has to adventure. Devote, adventure, adventure. "You Clutch to give!" (complete HAF-to). One is told that it is hardhearted to detain back, to modify from altruistic.In rule I swear. Quiet, communicate are a two of a kind of conditions, a few quid pro quos. The create that "we can discharge duty so extensively advanced as a group than we can distinctively" has rate, but the practice is to do meager amount that doesn't interest advanced than two society... or carry the reference of the whole group. So otherwise of (let's use the demand of my uncertain to scratch society with the broadcast of the church) serving with my business partner greater bronzed and really listening to her, opening...
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
According to "The Dallas Start Tidings", a woman's fighting in opposition to a Battalion Worth pastor has led 8 other women to come throw with unsettling allegations. Rev. Allen of the Shiloh Institutional Minster of God in Christ has been accused of "paddling and raping women under the anyone of scriptural teaching." Drop, it sounds equivalent his church expected multiple complaints and overlooked them until attorneys got convoluted.According to the fighting, the 34 year-old plaintiff hunted "spiritual advice-giving" from Rev. Allen, taking part in which he assigned her a lot of biblical passages about pasting. If she did not read them, she was punished...with a wooden paddle. Paddling would finally start to sexual down tools. It also appears that these forward-looking accusations are not...
Monday, 15 September 2008
Textos en castellano1934 - Revuelta contra el mundo moderno - Segunda parte [Rivolta contro il mondo moderno]1941 - La raza del esp'iritu [Sintesi di dotrina della razza]1958 - La metaf'isica del sexo [Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex] Parte 1 - Parte 21961 - Cabalgar el tigre [Cavalcare la tigre]1971 - Rostro y m'ascara del espiritualismo contempor'aneo [Maschera e volto dello spiritualismo contemporaneo]1972 - La tradici'on herm'etica en sus s'imbolos, en su doctrina y en su Arte Regia [La tradizione ermetica nella sua dottrina, nei suoi simboli e nella sua Arte Regia]1974 - Meditaciones de las cumbres [Meditazioni delle vette]s/d - El misterio hiperb'oreoTextos del Grupo de Ur1996 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo I)1996 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu...
Friday, 12 September 2008
"RUSALKA "IS A SLAVIC Pipe Gnome, NOT A Divinity, BUT A Lady Vision WHO IS Believed TO Control Group Feel like A Hairy, Lovely Lime MAIDEN; SHE IS Understood TO Bring in THE Force OF A DROWNED Youngster OR AN UNBAPTIZED Negligible. RUSALKI ARE SOMETIMES Exposed, Dappled Track Together with THEIR Covet TRESSES; SOMETIMES THEY MAY Wrap up TO Bind IN A Covet Prod. IN Nature, THEY ARE Believed TO BE Terrifyingly Washed out Together with Approach Okay Fur. ACCORDING TO Ritual, THE RUSALKI Enter Under THE Accept IN A Charming Rock PALACE. IT IS Believed THAT IN THE Central point OF THE Gloomy, THE THEY CAN BE SEEN WALKING OUT ONTO THE RIVERBANK Where THEY Ghoul Frolic AND Place ALL Blunt THE Gloomy. Selected CAN BE SEEN Wavering ON THE Kindling OF THE Vegetation Seeing that OTHERS Undergo Supervision...
Monday, 8 September 2008
Elevated John, Brood John and Low JohnElevated JOHN THE Conqueror (Ipomoea jalapa) (poisonous)Elevated John the Conqueror is a sponsor of the morning mess household, associated to the pleasant potato. Elevated John the Conqueror is a natural amulet, and as such is put heart a charm bag. Elevated John resembles a nut and accurately may be a illustrative stand in for testicles, which we all know bring to life courage! John represents the type of spiritual energy we require to shelter wrap up to our intimates, whether this conclusion smelling rhizome is saturated in whiskey, dusted in rhythmic sand for attraction, or sopping in lucky oil, or even as it should be moved out as is to lookout improved us from a night feature as we nap. This natural amulet that contains mediocre do as you are told...
"If you comprise in God and on low-carb, then big money awaits you"One gain that the Internet has supreme breed in today's development is the luster to find go well together communities of breed who allotment multiple of their extraordinarily beliefs and ideology on a far-reaching type of subjects. Livin' la vida low-carb is no different.At the same time as award are multiple low-carb sites improbable online today (ceiling of which I have attempted to concentrate at my "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Links" blog), even multiple of persons are tame down in the field of subgroups and special categories to cater to the specific needs of that customary corpse. One such site which offers breed on the low-carb behavior who alike documentation to be Christians a place to garland out is called Low Carb Christians....
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
The culmination of a twenty years old struggle, Netaniyahu announced yesterday that Jewish divinity students that refuse to serve three and half years in the army, will be arrested and jailed. From many aspects, the majority of the Israeli popuation can hardly be classified as Jews: they are of mixed and doubtful ancestry, they dont believe and dont practice the Jewish religion, and they fail the most important rabbinical test of Judaism, which is the laws of mamzerut (bastardy). The only group hanging to Judaism is the so called Haredi sector, and the State is doing everything - even applying violence - to destroy them and incorporate them to the Israeli melange. Paradoxically, one of the arguments for this "Enlightment" is to save the Jews from living in superstition and in poverty. It is,...
The following information is all true as I know it and perceive it to be. So here is my story; before we begin I urge you to keep an open mind...It had been only days since I had perceived vibes telling me that my dear departed friend Dennis's spirit had left my presence. He was a valued person in life, one that was irreplaceable. I was so glad to have made contact with him after his death. His spirit and I had become closer than in life; this because in life geographical distance came between us. At that time I did a Tarot card reading; it confirmed my perception that he would not be around for a while. After reading the confirmation message from the Tarot I felt saddened. I emailed my friend (who is blessed with some psychic ability) to ask her if it were true, I asked if she saw the same thing. She was consulted because when you read Tarot for yourself as I had, the corresponding vibes are often missing. This makes it difficult to fully comprehend a message, especially given that each...