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Alternative EnergySource: David Apperson
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When asked by FRANKLIN GRAHAM whether Barack believed Jesus is the only way to salvation, Barack eloquently stated, ‘Jesus is the only way for me. I’m not in a position to judge other people.
It is the duty for every believer to help reconcile this nation and this world. To do this we must first reconcile ourselves as children of the Eternal Spirit, and reconcile ourselves as brothers and sisters in faith.
Ancient Tribal Belief - NATIVE SPIRITUALITY
Rather than going to religious services, we attend a sweat lodge; rather than accepting bread from the priest, we smoke a ceremonial pipe to come into communion with the Eternal Spirit; and rather than kneeling with our hands placed together in prayer, we have sweet grass feathered over our entire being for spiritual cleansing and allow the smoke to carry our prayers into the heavens. - Mi'kmaq
And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the Dead Sea and half of them toward the Mediterranean Sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be - The Lord is one, and His name one. - Zechariah
Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To know, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray for you in Christ's stead, you be reconciled to God. For He has made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. - Paul
O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn not to blaspheme. - Muhammad
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The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the path of all mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all mankind. - Kahlil Gibran [ submitted by Susan Slotter ]
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"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
RSVP MIDNIGHT PRAYER AND CELEBRATION - 31 DEC 2008
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS OUR NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
We invite everyone breathing, or not, the opportunity to show global unity and dedicate three [ 3 ] minutes of time on News Years Eve to thank God for President Obama and ask the Creator of All Things for a GLOBAL BLESSING for ALL NATIONS, PEOPLES, AND TONGUES.
May we agree that 2009 can be a year of healing for the nation and the world as we celebrate this historic election. All faiths are encouraged to join the festivities. LET US GO DOWN TO THE RIVER AND PRAY.
Text translations of the readings supplied by GOOGLE TRANSLATE through GLOBAL BIBLE STUDY.
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, OF BARACK, of Samson, of Jephthah; and David also, Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had test of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of chains and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were cut in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered around in goatskins and sheepskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; Of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise:God having provided something better for us, that without us they would not be made perfect.
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UPDATE: 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and THE GOVERNMENT OF CHANGE
You would remember that I have been writing about the profanity of Hannity – profHannity, and here I continue about his latest contribution. I am so discouraged that this media person gets the right to perpetuate his kind of corruptness and to think that he is a practicing Catholic Christian. I can’t understand why he continues this 20 years stay of Obama. What about the many members of the Father Pfleger’s congregation at his church, have they been sitting down for many years, exposed to incendiary comments too or is it that this priest only adopts this questionable rant when he enters the doors of the Trinity Church? People might say things that once said may seem dumb and out of place. If they retract them, then they are being human but when we continue to fuel them, then we are the evils, remember “ forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.”
The ProfHannity
There is dubiousness in his deliberate exposure
Hannity discrediting Obama for Father Michael Pfleger
Even though the Priest is a Roman Catholic
Postulating he only preaches racism and sexism in the Pulpit
Rhetoric for which he apologized immediately
Obama was disappointed and expressed this promptly
Featuring priests at the pulpit on your select word
Has an intrusion of privacy and is not preferred
And if taken out of context most of us will appear
Narcissistic, racist, sexist and full of despair
None of us are immune from microscopic analysis
Investigation of our every word is nobody’s business
To take these snip bits and perpetuate a bigotry
You are more dangerous than your subject and more guilty
An interesting and insightful article by Cenk Uygur (via The Huffington Post) regarding the Rev Wright controversy.
Different Standards for Black and White Preachers
Cenk Uygur
Posted March 19, 2008 | 11:50 AM (EST)
Rudy Giuliani's priest has been accused in grand jury proceedings of molesting several children and covering up the molestation of others. Giuliani would not disavow him on the campaign trail and still works with him.
Mitt Romney was part of a church that did not view black Americans as equals and actively discriminated against them. He stayed with that church all the way into his early thirties, until they were finally forced to change their policies to come into compliance with civil rights legislation. Romney never disavowed his church back then or now. He said he was proud of the faith of his fathers.
Jerry Falwell said America had 9/11 coming because we tolerated gays, feminists and liberals. It was our fault. Our chickens had come home to roost, if you will. John McCain proudly received his support and even spoke at his university's commencement.
Reverend John Hagee has called the Catholic Church the "Great Whore." He has said that the Anti-Christ will rise out of the European Union (of course, the Anti-Christ will also be Jewish). He has said all Muslims are trained to kill and will be part of the devil's army when Armageddon comes (which he hopes is soon). John McCain continues to say he is proud of Reverend Hagee's endorsement.
Reverend Rod Parsley believes America was founded to destroy Islam. Since this is such an outlandish claim, I have to add for the record, that he is not kidding. Reverend Parsley says Islam is an "anti-Christ religion" brought down from a "demon spirit." Of course, we are in a war against all Muslims, including presumably Muslim-Americans. Buts since Parsley believes this is a Christian nation and that it should be run as a theocracy, he is not very concerned what Muslim-Americans think.
John McCain says Reverend Rod Parsley is his "spiritual guide."
What separates all of these outrageous preachers from Barack Obama's? You guessed it. They're white and Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not. If it's not racism that's causing the disparity in media treatment of these preachers, then what is it?I'm willing to listen to other possible explanations. And I am inclined to believe that the people these preachers go after are more important than the race of the preacher. It's one thing to go after gays, liberals and Muslims -- that seems to be perfectly acceptable in America -- it's another to accuse white folks of not living up to their ideals.
I think there is another factor at play as well. The media is deathly afraid of calling out preachers of any stripe for insane propaganda from the pulpits for fear that they will be labeled as anti-Christian. But criticism of Rev. Wright falls into their comfort zone. It's easy to blame him for being anti-American because he criticizes American foreign and domestic policy.
If Rev. Wright had preached about discriminating against gay Americans or Muslims, there probably would not have been any outcry at all. That falls into the category of "respect their hateful opinions because they cloak themselves in the church."
But one thing is indisputable -- the enormous disparity in how the media has covered these white preachers as opposed to Rev. Wright. Have you ever even heard of Rod Parsley? As you can see from what I listed above, all of these white preachers have said and done the most outlandish and offensive things you can imagine -- and hardly a peep.
If the disparity in coverage isn't racist, then what is it?
This was written by Father Lowell Grisham, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This is what Senator Obama is saying!
Be Not Afraid What if we chose faith and hope over fear? by Lowell Grisham printed in the Northwest Arkansas Times, Fayetteville, Arkansas August 20, 2007 I'm told that the messages "Fear not," "Do not be afraid," "Be not afraid," appear 365 times in the Bible -- a reminder for every day of the year. When the resurrected Jesus appeared to his disciples, his customary greeting was "Do not be afraid." It is what the angels said when they visited in the stories of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: Gabriel to Mary; the angel appearing to Hagar and to Elijah. It is the message of the prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is what God says to Abraham and Moses and Jacob. "Do not be afraid." There are few commands as central and repeated in the Biblical tradition as "Fear not." In fact, every enduring religious tradition offers to its followers an invitation to faith rather than fear. Religious language is characteristically the language of faith and hope, not fear. A foundation of the Christian testament is that "God is love" and "perfect love casts out fear." I've wondered how different this decade might have turned out had our leaders been grounded in a fearless faith which could stand up in love and hope rather than succumbing to the temptation of fear that raises an anxious desperation which sets the stage to the compromise of freedom and the promotion of violence. How different might our response to the attack of September 11 have been if we had been led with words of faith and hope rather than words of fear and violence. Fear exaggerated the threat of a small cult of organized crime into a worldwide army that must be met by a war. Terror is a tactic. It is the resort of the powerless and small when they don't have the power to come out into the open to challenge an enemy. Terror's only weapon is fear. If we become fearful, the terrorists succeed. Terrorists want to increase violence. If we become violent, the terrorists succeed. We know how to deal with groups of organized crime who use terror as a tactic because they don't have any other strengths. We've dealt successfully with the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia. What is called for is police action, not war. Skilled intelligence officers can convert disillusioned members by appealing to a higher good or offering them something better, a way out of the darkness. They infiltrate the group and uncover it to the light of day. It is the light that casts out darkness. Ultimately the KKK eventually lost most of its energy when acceptance of people of other races replaced fear of them, when love overcame fear. That's not the strategy our leaders used when faced with an isolated terrorist event from a small, little-known organized crime cult. Our leaders dignified their attack as though they were an army, declaring war on them as though they had the standing of a recognized nation. They credited Al Qadea with a presence and power in Iraq that it didn't have. Our leaders made us more fearful, as if these fugitives could attack everyone-everywhere-anytime. Our leaders made us more and more afraid. They used that manufactured fear to justify an unjustified war, to compromise our traditions of freedom from unwarranted search, to create a culture that invited torture, and to violate our treasured tradition of habeas corpus. There was a more faithful way available. What if we had responded with hope instead of fear? What if we had used the world's sympathy after September 11 to create a generous and hopeful global response to the ills and conflicts that create the hopelessness which breeds terrorists: What if we had become the leader of a world-wide effort to overcome poverty, disease, and human degradation? What if we had used our influence to broker a just settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which inflames extremist passions? What if we had joined in common effort with the moderate expressions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism to challenge the legitimacy of the radical and violent forms of those good faiths? How different might our present be had our leaders acted out of faith and hope rather than fear and violence. As it is, our violence has simply escalated the violence. There is more hatred and mistrust directed toward our nation and people than ever in our history. The number and depth of our enemies has grown. Our own army and economy has been drained. That's the product of decisions motivated by fear. "Fear not. Do not be afraid. Be not afraid." There are voices of hope and faith out there. Maybe it's time we listened to them.
