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Old July 5th, 2014 #1001
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Thanks, Sam.

I was thinking it may have stood for hellbound, as the Talmud informs its readers that the fucker's there at this very moment, and up to his armpits in boiling semen. And what awaits his followers, according the the 'Mud? Why, they're going to wind up right alongside him; only they'll be screaming their asses off in boiling excrement rather than boiling semen. That's what's in store for them!
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An alternative to Jesus Christ. The H is added due to numerous reasons. Some say it stood for Holy, some say it stood for Harold because of, "Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name".
Tell me your joking

The Lord's Prayer

Hallowed be thy Name.

http://www.lords-prayer-words.com/lo...ing_james.html
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Tell me your joking

The Lord's Prayer

Hallowed be thy Name.

http://www.lords-prayer-words.com/lo...ing_james.html
 
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Tell me your joking

The Lord's Prayer

Hallowed be thy Name.

http://www.lords-prayer-words.com/lo...ing_james.html
Can you give me a hand with the Hail Mary?

Why does it say blessed art thou, a monk swimmin'?
 
Old July 5th, 2014 #1005
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Ok... I missed the urban dictionary sarcasm. My mistake Sam.
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Old July 10th, 2014 #1006
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Matt Parrot attacking secularists again.

Identity and Spiritual Warfare

Brett Stevens of Amerika.org argued in a recent article that “our” arguments ought to remain secular. After all, broadly religious arguments are lost on the irreligious, and specifically religious arguments are lost on everybody who doesn’t share that specific religion. It’s fine to be religious, he insists, but keep it in the closet and pitch “conservatism” in the secular and universal language of positivism, logic, and reason.

There’s some utility to presenting identitarian and traditionalist arguments in terms secular materialists can digest, if only as a gateway. Somebody ought to be doing that, and who better than a talented polemicist like Brett? But while there’s merit in this angle, it’s ultimately insufficient. Failure to anchor our ideals in the transcendent guarantees that both the ideals themselves and the men possessing them will interminably slide back into the abyss of degeneration.

Transcendence, the existence of an objective locus of truth above and beyond the self, is the cardinal difference between the traditionalist and materialist mind. There are other elements of religiosity which are valuable for our identities and which inform our politics, …elements which often differ from one religion to another. But transcendence is the keystone securing the artifice, fixing those with a transcendent worldview to immutable, singular, and objective Virtue and Truth.

Even when arguments from within the material worldview are convincing, they’re only convincing within a rather limited context. Without the capacity to transcend self-interest, the individual’s possession of the truths about our collective right to exist almost always remain toothless in a society designed from the top-down to guarantee that pursuing our identitarian group interests remains in conflict with our individual interests.

So where are the Christian William Pierces or Kevin MacDonalds? With the hundreds of millions of White Christians there should be a few selfless martyrs. Is there any Christian denomination with more than a few thousand members that's pro-white? Matt's own church has sold out and told him to shut up. Has any Orthodox authority other than the priest who posts on Tradyouth come to his defense?

We need martyrs. There are some notable and noble exceptions, but atheists and secularized adherents don’t generally make good martyrs.

Non-Christians have Hitler, Goebbels and Rockwell. What have Christians got? I mean in the last 100 years, not in the middle ages when Jews were much weaker and Christians could oppose Jewry with little risk.

Still waiting for Matt to square his refusal to obey the church's gag order with his traditionalism.


But what use are these secular and material minds when they’re profoundly incapable of sacrificing on behalf of the Truths and Virtues transcending themselves?

What use are Christians when they not only do no better than atheists these days, but their ideology demands they treat niggers as creations in God's image?
 
Old July 10th, 2014 #1007
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If transcendent values are the key to win why do Christians always lose to secular Jews?
 
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After protesters shouting “Go home” turned back busloads of immigrant mothers and children in Murrieta, Calif., a furious Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, sat down at his notepad and drafted a blog post detailing his shame at the episode, writing, “It was un-American; it was unbiblical; it was inhumane.”

When the governor of Iowa, Terry E. Branstad, said he did not want the migrants in his state, declaring, “We can’t accept every child in the world who has problems,” clergy members in Des Moines held a prayer vigil at a United Methodist Church to demonstrate their desire to make room for the refugees.

The United States’ response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrant children, many of them fleeing violence and exploitation in Central America, has been symbolized by an angry pushback from citizens and local officials who have channeled their outrage over illegal immigration into opposition to proposed shelter sites. But around the nation, an array of religious leaders are trying to mobilize support for the children, saying the nation can and should welcome them.

“We’re talking about whether we’re going to stand at the border and tell children who are fleeing a burning building to go back inside,” said Rabbi Asher Knight of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, who said leaders of more than 100 faith organizations in his city had met last week to discuss how to help. He said that in his own congregation, some were comparing the flow of immigrant children to the Kindertransport, a rescue mission in the late 1930s that sent Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Britain for safekeeping.

“The question for us is: How do we want to be remembered, as yelling and screaming to go back, or as using the teachings of our traditions to have compassion and love and grace for the lives of God’s children?” Rabbi Knight said.

The backlash to the backlash is broad, from Unitarian Universalists and Quakers to evangelical Protestants. Among the most agitated are Catholic bishops, who have long allied with Republican politicians against abortion and same-sex marriage, and leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, whose adherents tend to lean right.

“This is a crisis, and not simply a political crisis, but a moral one,” said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. On Tuesday, Mr. Moore led a delegation of Southern Baptist officials to visit refugee children at detention centers in San Antonio and McAllen, Tex. In an interview after the visit, Mr. Moore said that “the anger directed toward vulnerable children is deplorable and disgusting” and added: “The first thing is to make sure we understand these are not issues, these are persons. These children are made in the image of God, and we ought to respond to them with compassion, not with fear.”

Also on Tuesday, a coalition of evangelical organizations sent a letter to members of Congress, opposing proposals for expedited deportation of the migrants. A similar letter is being prepared by a wide range of mainline denominations, including the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. Earlier this month, 20 national Jewish groups issued their own statement.

The Catholic Church also opposes any effort to make it easier to deport children; last week, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis E. George, said he had offered facilities in his diocese to house some of the children, and on Monday, bishops in Dallas and Fort Worth called for lawyers to volunteer to represent the children at immigration proceedings.

“We have to put our money where our mouth is in this country,” said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “We tell other countries to protect human rights and accept refugees, but when we get a crisis on our border, we don’t know how to respond.”

Republicans have rejected calls by Democrats for $2.7 billion in funds to respond to the crisis, demanding changes in immigration law to make it easier to send children back to Central America. And while President Obama says he is open to some changes, many Democrats have opposed them, and Congress is now deadlocked.

Various religious groups are trying to assist the migrants directly by offering food, shelter and legal services. The Episcopal Church is providing hygiene and nutrition packets; the United Methodist Church is offering showers and clothing; the United Church of Christ has started a nationwide fund-raising appeal. Catholic Charities U.S.A. has opened seven “welcome centers” along the border.

“As a Christian organization, we feel like we have no choice — we are clearly called by Scripture to respond to all children in need,” said Jesse Eaves, the senior adviser for child protection at World Vision, a large evangelical charity.

Attitudes among evangelicals are changing, particularly at the leadership level, according to the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

“I remember when my fellow evangelicals said, ‘Deport them all, they’re here illegally, end of story,’ but the leadership now supports immigration reform,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “There’s still angst in the pews, but if they listen more to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John than to Rush Limbaugh, they’ll act with compassion towards these children.”
 
Old July 26th, 2014 #1009
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An alternative to Jesus Christ. The H is added due to numerous reasons. Some say it stood for Holy, some say it stood for Harold because of, "Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name.
ROFL! How the hell did I miss this, I wonder? Hilarious!
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Old July 26th, 2014 #1010
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Read this quote from Malcolm X about his trip to Mecca:

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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white -- but the "white" attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespecitve of their color.
Before his trip to Mecca, he was a full-on black nationalist who publicly opposed racial segregation and intermarriage. As with the Christian, this universalistic creed gave him a reason to put aside natural frontiers in favour of dysgenics, deracination and mixing. Moving from racialism to egalitarian racelessness was the logical thing for him to do, just as it is the logical thing for all Christians to do.

Greg Johnson was right when he wrote: "if a Black man is worthy of sharing heaven with you, through accepting Jesus Christ as his savior, then why should he not be worthy of sharing the same neighborhood with you, the same public transportation, the same church, the same water fountain—or holy wedlock with your sister?"

Honest, consistent Christians have no answer except to conform to their God's demand for racial transcendence. I'm not counting CI because they are irrelevant in number and wholly at odds with all other churches on matters of race, with a heavily contrived interpretation of the Bible based on little more than wishful thinking.

From a racialist point of view, there is no essential difference between Christianity and Islam. Anyone can convert to either of these religions, which explains the ease with which shitheads from Pakistan and Turkey can travel to Syria, Chechnya or Bosnia to fight alongside their "brothers" in the global Ummah. It is funny to see how Islam can have the same racially pacifying effect on nogs as it does on whites. Kohnservative Christians care more about the persecution of Christians in Iraq and Egypt than they do about the flooding of Europe with African Christians or America with Cathospics - and that is just how their religion wants them to prioritise things.

They are insane, but at least they are consistent about it, which beats the cognitive dissonance of Orthodox nationalist jokers.
 
Old July 31st, 2014 #1011
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“Conservatives” Silent on the Genocide of Christians in the Middle East

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Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the House floor yesterday to condemn the silence in Washington – in both the White House and Congress — regarding the massacres of Christians in Iraq (especially) and the rest of the Middle East.

Why is Washington silent, he asks?

Here’s why.

Christian leaders in Iraq have put the blame for these atrocities squarely on George W. Bush and his invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Half a million Christians have fled Mosul. Any who remain will be slaughtered.

Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic Church, says that the invasion did what Moslems couldn’t do in 1500 years: destroy Christianity in Iraq.

Thus, Republicans are afraid. If they acknowledge the genocide, they fear that people will remember that it was their war that led to it. So they are silent.

Democrats are too busy attacking Christianity in the U.S.

So both parties, corrupt to the core, are silent on this holocaust.

Bush cowers, silent and sullen, behind his compound walls. When questioned about his own involvement, Cheney snarls like a trapped animal. “Blame Obama!” he sneers.

National Review’s paymasters insist that any comments mentioning the Christian holocaust be immediately deleted (just try it, here.). Apparently, there’s no money in defending Christians. And this comes from the once-respected journal that valiantly defended the rights of Christians put behind the Iron Curtain by FDR.

Pope John Paul II warned Bush before the invasion that it would cause chaos in the Middle East. Bush blew him off, and a cadre of fawning Catholics cheered — some of them my friends (Michael Novak, George Weigel, Deal Hudson, among others). William McGurn, a former Bush speechwriter who then went to work for Rupert Murdoch, actually tried to sell the story that Pope Benedict recognized that Pope John Paul’s opposition was a mistake (McGurn now edits Murdoch’s New York Post).

As this writer has repeatedly, and sadly, observed on these pages for the last decade and more, the neocons never admit their mistakes, and they never, **ever** apologize.
 
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Miguel Pajares, 75, a Spanish missionary priest working at a hospital in the West African country, will be taken to Spain by a military jet.

On hearing that he would be repatriated, the Spanish priest told Spain’s ABC newspaper by telephone: "This news has lifted my spirits, it is great. I am very happy. It is worth fighting on.”

It will be the first time a confirmed case of Ebola is to be treated on European soil.

Brother Pajares and his two fellow workers, Chantal Pascaline Mutwamene of Congo and Paciencia Melgar from Equatorial Guinea, belong to the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, a Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world, and had been helping to treat patients infected with the virus.

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Old August 19th, 2014 #1014
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Pope Francis has lifted a ban on the beatification of murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.

For years, the Roman Catholic Church blocked the process because of concerns that he had Marxist ideas.

An outspoken critic of the military regime during El Salvador's bloody civil war, Archbishop Romero was shot dead while celebrating Mass in 1980.

Beatification, or declaring a person "blessed", is the necessary prelude to full sainthood.

The bishop was one of the main proponents of Liberation Theology - an interpretation of Christian faith through the perspective of the poor.

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On Monday, the Pope said he was hoping for a swift beatification process.

"For me Romero is a man of God," the pontiff told journalists on the plane bringing him back from a trip to South Korea.

"There are no doctrinal problems and it is very important that [the beatification] is done quickly."

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Archbishop admits ‘rampant’ child abuse at UK church

Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:19AM GMT

The archbishop of Canterbury has admitted that child abuse has been “rampant” in the Church of England’s institutions, describing the church’s inaction as “inexcusable.”

In a private letter to a woman, whose three sons were allegedly abused by a church headmaster, Justin Welby noted there is a “very significant legacy of unacknowledged cases” in the Church of England.

Welby said the church’s failure to face the misdeeds of those in its service has been inexcusable, adding he has previously stated that he expects more cases of child abuse to surface in connection with the church.

Child abuse allegations against the Church of England came to light in 2007, following claims that the church had covered up abuse cases dating back decades.

A Wednesday report compiled by Judge Sally Cahill QC exposed “systemic failures” in the Church of England’s handling of sexual abuse complaints.

Shortcomings during the tenure of former Archbishop of York, Lord Hope of Thornes, helped former dean of Manchester Robert Waddington escape prosecution for sexual abuse during his lifetime, the report said.

The UK has witnessed a surge in child molestation and sexual abuse cases, some of which go back to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

In August, a report by Professor Alexis Jay revealed that at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham.

In some cases, children as young as 11 were “raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated,” the report added.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10...h-child-abuse/
 
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The New Testament states explicitly that nationality, race, ethnicity, sex, and class don’t matter and don’t exist in the Christian church:

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on him;
– Romans 10:12

For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one spirit.
– 1 Corinthians 12:13

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
– Galatians 3:28

a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
– Colossians 3:11
 
Old November 9th, 2014 #1018
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Can you give us the correct views on abortion?
Wouldn't it be more pro-white to be against abortions for whites, and FOR abortions for non-whites?
 
Old November 23rd, 2014 #1019
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A Public Response to Metropolitan Savas Zembillas

His Eminence, Metropolitan Savas Zembillas has seen it necessary and appropriate to speak on behalf of the Church in political matters against Matthew Heimbach, rewarding the virulently anti-Christian (of all denominations) SPLC political organization with a quote for its latest smear piece on our work in general and our comrade Matthew Heimbach in particular, East of Eden.

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Metropolitan Savas Zembillas, chairman of the Committee for Church and Society of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America, says that they just don’t understand Orthodoxy. According to Savas, it’s not unusual to encounter “converts to Orthodoxy who came in carrying baggage from other jurisdictions, just barely Orthodox, still wet from their chrismations [the ceremony through which one becomes a member of the Orthodox Church]. But they came to Orthodoxy because they imagined it reinforced their deepest held convictions, which were on the spectrum that would lead to Nazism, although not yet there.”
Perhaps to Father’s surprise, the journalist couched his quote in an article essentially accusing the Eastern Orthodox of being guilty of facilitating Nazism, racism, sexism, and all manner of frightful -isms.

When SPLC says jump, Christian poobahs ask "How high?" What's it going to be, Matt? Team White or Team Jesus? You must choose.
 
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Pope, in France, Urges Europe to Open Its Arms to Refugees
By ANDREW HIGGINSNOV. 25, 2014



Pope Francis addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.

STRASBOURG, France — Pope Francis on Tuesday told the European Parliament, an elected assembly with many anti-immigration, nationalist members, that Europe had become too “fearful and self-absorbed,” and that it needed to recover its confidence and give “acceptance and assistance” to people fleeing war and poverty.

But the pope also embraced one of the favorite themes of populist politicians who are hostile to the European Union. He warned that the 28-nation bloc faced “growing mistrust on the part of citizens toward institutions considered to be aloof, engaged in laying down rules perceived as insensitive to individual peoples, if not downright harmful.”

Public discontent with the European Union’s bureaucracy, widely seen as wasteful, elitist and self-serving, helped propel France’s far-right National Front party and several other once-fringe nationalist groups to strong gains in May elections for the European Parliament. In France, the National Front came ahead of all other parties.

Complaining that Europe had lost its vitality and often seemed “elderly and haggard,” the pope took a swipe at technocrats who seek to draw together Europe through rigid rules and regulations, warning that “the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions.”

The European Parliament, which meets both here in this city near the German border and in the Belgian capital, Brussels, has become an emblem of the waste and detachment from ordinary people’s concerns. Those worries have drained support from the so-called European project, a half-century-long push for greater integration.

Francis, an Argentine who last year became the first non-European pope in more than a millennium, spent less than four hours in Strasbourg, the shortest foreign trip by a modern pope. After addressing the European Parliament, he spoke to the Council of Europe, a second European assembly based in Strasbourg with a palatial building, little authority and virtually no resonance with the general public.

The last time a pope addressed the European Parliament was in 1988, when Pope John Paul II faced heckling from Ian Paisley, a Protestant pastor and member of the assembly from Northern Ireland. Mr. Paisley accused the pope of being “the Antichrist,” and secularists denounced him over his insistent warnings that Europe faced ruin if it did not recover its Christian roots.

Francis, by contrast, faced no such disruptions and instead stirred repeated rounds of applause from members of Parliament. He referred to Europe’s Christian past and the dangers of losing it but focused instead on current issues such as poverty, immigration and joblessness.

John Thavis, an American writer on the Roman Catholic Church and author of “The Vatican Diaries,” said Francis had a very different take on Europe than his two immediate predecessors, a Pole and a German, for whom “Europe was the center of the universe.”

Francis, he said, shared their concern about declining Christian faith among Europeans, but “his priorities do not include picking an ideological battle with secularists” as “he is more focused on the here and now.”

In his speech to the European Parliament, Francis received particularly loud applause for remarks that seemed to challenge a largely German-scripted economic policy rooted in austerity as the cure to Europe’s economic ills.

“The time has come to promote policies which create employment, but above all, there is a need to restore dignity to labor by ensuring proper working conditions,” the pope said.

After his selection as pope last year, Francis signaled his interest in the plight of the dispossessed by making his first trip outside Rome to the Italian island of Lampedusa, near where scores of immigrants have drowned while trying to reach Europe from Africa in flimsy boats. He denounced what he called the “globalization of indifference” to the suffering of immigrants, and he returned to the theme in Strasbourg.

“We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery,” he said. “The boats landing daily on the shores of Europe are filled with men and women who need acceptance and assistance.”

He added that the European Union’s failure to find a common solution had led individual countries to adopt their own measures, “which fail to take into account the human dignity of immigrants and thus contribute to slave labor and continuing social tensions.”

While generally welcomed, the pope still hit a few discordant notes. A lone activist from the feminist group Femen took off her shirt in the Strasbourg cathedral to protest his visit, and a left-wing French member of the Parliament, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, complained that the European Parliament had violated “the rule of secularism” by inviting Francis to speak.

The European Parliament, like other European institutions, has no ban on religion but has generally shunned issues of faith, seeing them as divisive and disruptive to the goal of “ever closer union” laid down in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament and Francis’ host on Tuesday, helped lead a successful campaign in 2004 to block an Italian nominee to the union’s executive arm because he had voiced personal support for the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion and homosexuality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/wo...arliament.html
 
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