Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Canadian Auditor General's office pays for New Age "rebirth" for one of its employees

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Rebirthing is a New Age technique in which the subject supposedly relives her (I use the feminine pronoun because women are more likely to f...
Thursday, 5 August 2010

40 years ago: Pornography not harmful?

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On August 5, 1970 a draft report of U.S. President Richard Nixon's National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography was publicized, find...
Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Astrologers don't show up to answer a challenge in British Columbia

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According to the Vancouver Province : A group of self-styled Indian rationalists are challenging astrologers to prove their ability to make ...
Monday, 2 August 2010

I don't know what this female criminal looks like, but I suspect she's a blonde

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...and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23b Whatever she looks like, this woman is definitely a candidate for the year's...
Saturday, 31 July 2010

40 years ago: Israeli cabinet splits after vote to accept U.S. peace proposal for the Middle East

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On July 31, 1970, after a lengthy debate that precipitated a government split, Israel’s cabinet voted 17-6 to accept the Middle East peace p...

10 years ago: Moshe Katsav is elected President of Israel

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On July 31, 2000 Moshe Katsav, a member of the opposition Likud Party who had once been the youngest mayor in Israel, was elected the countr...
Friday, 30 July 2010

30 years ago: Israel declares sovereignty over all of Jerusalem

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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and aga...
Saturday, 24 July 2010

Cosmo Kramer had good reason to be afraid of clowns

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This takes the cake (or the pie in the face) as the most trivial item posted on this blog (so far!): ... and he that is glad at calamities s...
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Thursday, 22 July 2010

50 years ago: God saved Roger Woodward physically in a plunge over Niagara Falls, then saved him spiritually 20 years later

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For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot...
Sunday, 18 July 2010

20 years ago: Newfoundland's Roman Catholic Archbishop resigns in the wake of a scathing report on pedophile priests

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On July 18, 1990, Newfoundland Roman Catholic Archbishop Alphonsus Penny announced that he had offered his resignation to Pope John Paul II ...
Thursday, 15 July 2010

30 years ago: Synanon founder Charles Dederich pleads no contest in murder plot

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On July 15, 1980 Charles Dederich, the founder of the drug rehabilitation organization known as Synanon, and two members of the group’s secu...
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Monday, 12 July 2010

Are white ravens a sign of the end of the world?

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The Bible is my only reliable authority on the end times, and I don't recall anything in Bible prophecy about white ravens, but I find i...
Friday, 9 July 2010

A radio drama that links Nazism with pagan nature worship--from 1946

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Truth can be found in the strangest places. I like old radio shows, and here's an episode of The Casebook of Gregory Hood that argues ...

Monkeys escape their prison, and then don't know what to do with their freedom

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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Proverbs 26:11 ...or, as a monkey returns to his cage . A group of 15 m...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

10 years ago: Apostate American Lutheran and Episcopal churches come closer together

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On July 8, 2000, at a meeting in Denver, leaders of the apostate Episcopal Church and the apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, t...
Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Let's pray for Christopher Hitchens

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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should peri...
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Sunday, 20 June 2010

Buddhist technique of Vipassana sounds suspiciously similar to contemplative "Christianity"

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According to this article by a Buddhist: Buddha taught Vipassana for free to all who cared to practise it 2,500 years ago. Today, the Alber...
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40 years ago: The death of humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow died on June 8, 1970 at the age of 62. Dr. Maslow was one of the seminal figures in the branch of psychotherapy known as hum...
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

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And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them ...
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30 years ago: European Economic Community supports Palestinians, criticizes Israel

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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under th...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010

The prayers of saints are precious to God

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When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and gold...

Edinburgh 2010: The ecumenical movement observes its 100th anniversary

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And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is...
Monday, 14 June 2010

100 years ago: The modern ecumenical movement begins with the World Missionary Conference

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From June 14-23, 1910 the World Missionary Conference took place in Edinburgh. At the time the conference was seen as the culmination of th...
Friday, 11 June 2010

40 years ago: Faith healer and prosperity preacher A.A. Allen drinks himself to death

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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. I Corinthians 6:10 June 11, 20...
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Sunday, 6 June 2010

Not "fools for Christ's sake"--just fools

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A church from the hopelessly apostate United Church of Canada placed this item in the Edmonton Journal 's Religion Calendar for June 5...
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Thursday, 3 June 2010

40 years ago: Southern Baptist Convention delegates demand the withdrawal of a liberal SBC Bible commentary

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On June 3, 1970 delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual convention in Denver (a Convention convention?) succeeded in passi...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Pornographic perversion prevents parole for disgraced ex-pastor

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..and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23b When I see stories such as this one, it makes me wonder how someone could become...
Sunday, 30 May 2010

A new documentary film takes a skeptical look at Transcendental Meditation

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The accumulation of wealth by Eastern religious leaders shouldn't surprise anyone. Remember, they live on a spiritual plane above and b...
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Australia expels Israeli embassy official

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As reported in The Sydney Morning Herald of May 24, 2010: Australia said Monday it would expel an official from the Israeli embassy after...
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Sunday, 23 May 2010

Polish Roman Catholic priest living in Brazil is charged with running perverted dungeon of teenage boys

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Yet another one, as reported by Agence France-Presse , May 21, 2010 : RIO DE JANEIRO - A Polish priest living in Brazil has been arrested ...
Saturday, 22 May 2010

60 years ago: Calgary gives Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, "Red" Dean of Canterbury, the reception he so richly deserves

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Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966), Dean of Canterbury, was a well-known apologist for the Soviet Union in the mid-20th Century who l...

Woman gets caught cheating on her husband--and sues the phone company

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...and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23b Another example of someone refusing to take responsibility for her own sin, as...
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Floozies for Christ: Carrie Prejean

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As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. Proverbs 11:22 Carrie Prejean, for those who’v...
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