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February 12th, 2013 by Joel

Logic in the Cult of Little Honey Tee Tee

Here is an example: Your original language point. Since we do not have the original mss. we do not know what language God had His authors use to pen His words. Thus your restriction to the Hebrew language is only a guess at best, based upon assumption. For all we know Moses used Egyptian, given that he was educated by the Pharaoh and that the original people he was writing to understood Egyptian and didn’t die off until after Sinai.

Then since you cannot construct the original context for biblical books but subscribe to the idea that the OT was written in the 4-6th centuries BC by a bunch of ‘elites’ who had hopes of making a free people captive again you really have no argument since the OT and NT change lives outside of that original context throughout the world.

In a discussion about science and creation, etc… a follower and apologist for the latest cult guru, Little Honey Tee Tee, who also said “God didn’t use science to create” said the above.

This was in response to my discussion on his proposed use of Hebrews 11.3 to promote creationism. I suggest that the word was more like ages (aeons). This was his response.

I know I’m supposed to be nice, but this is just stupid.

The logical conclusion to his summation of why to only use the KJV is because the British King was more inspired than the original authors/editors/redactors/compilers. So, since we have no real clue as to what Scripture says, we should all be British or worse, Ussherites.

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February 12th, 2013 by Joel

Jesus Is My N**ga Rap – Or, how to fail at being relevant

I kid you not.

“Christian swag” “proud to be an American” “cap in your butt”

A homie.

Oh dear GOD.

February 11th, 2013 by Joel

Wait for it… Petrus Romanus

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Português: Cerimônia de canonização do frade brasileiro Frei Galvão celebrada pelo papa Bento XVI no Campo de Marte em São Paulo, Brasil. (fragment) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Because you know it will be said, or has been said… oh wait… it’s already said.

Peter the Roman is supposedly the last pope, the final one. What? You haven’t heard of this prophecy/conspiracy theory?

Yeah, it ends like this:

“In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [i.e., as bishop].
Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations:
and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed,
and the terrible judge will judge his people.
The End.”

This was a huge thing when Pope Benedict was elected pope.

This is a bunk. But I wanted to be the first to put this out there. This is just another conspiracy theory like drones in the sky spying for your government. No, seriously, unlike drones, this is a nutty this is a nutty little thing providing a backdoor for Rome = Antichrist motif.

By the way, Rome is not the Beast, False Prophet, or so-called antichrist.

And then, I look and find I am not…

I am not firing on all 13 cylinders this morning…

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February 10th, 2013 by Joel

is Louisiana College the next Cedarville?

Looks like some funny stuff is going on at the Southern Baptist controlled Louisiana College,

In light of recent events at Louisiana College, including:

  1. The latest non-reappointment of professors Jason Hiles, Kevin McFadden, and Ryan Lister.
  2. The potential for other non-reappointments in like fashion.
  3. The college’s recent lack of support for theological diversity within the limits of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
  4. The possibility that these issues will cause a split between faculty and students of the college.
  5. The potential threat these issues pose for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

http://lcstudents.org/

Number 3 is the most interesting. As we’ve seen in the last few years, the idea of Christian liberty is a shrinking one… like a dying tulip… if you catch my drift.

 

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February 8th, 2013 by Joel

Opening up Scientology

You need to watch The Master, but until then, Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of the cult leader is holding open press on the subject

“If you do become pregnant when you’re there, you get kicked out,” she said. “Or many of my friends were actually coerced into having abortions.”

Hill also described tales of forced labor and abusive teachers, and said she knew she had to leave the church after being exposed to the outside world on a mission trip abroad.

“When we went back to LA after that mission, it was like, everything was in plain view,” she said. “Back to fifteen minute meals, you can’t go to bed before 1:00 AM, you have to stay up all night even though you did yesterday…It put a lot of things in plain sight. There was no denying it. They started taking away your phones, your internet access…that was a big turning point for me.”

What’s really nice is that all cults are the same, regardless of supposed higher power. Well, maybe not the exact same, but the issue of control is always prevalent.

February 6th, 2013 by Joel

Another Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church – Different one from this morning

If they keep this up, either the church will be empty or we can just wait until the old folks die off.

Her departure has hurt them already—she knew it would—yet there was no way she could stay. “My doubts started with a conversation I had with David Abitbol,” she says. Megan met David, an Israeli web developer who’s part of the team behind the blog Jewlicious, on Twitter. “I would ask him questions about Judaism, and he would ask me questions about church doctrine. One day, he asked a specific question about one of our signs—‘Death Penalty for Fags’—and I was arguing for the church’s position, that it was a Levitical punishment and as completely appropriate now as it was then. He said, ‘But Jesus said’—and I thought it was funny he was quoting Jesus—‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ And then he connected it to another member of the church who had done something that, according to the Old Testament, was also punishable by death. I realized that if the death penalty was instituted for any sin, you completely cut off the opportunity to repent. And that’s what Jesus was talking about.”

Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church — Reporter’s Notebook — Medium.

What’s great about this is that, first, those of who have left similar churches do not feel so alone when we describe our tears. Second, guess what folks… God doesn’t have to fit in that tiny box and when you find out he doesn’t, you can still believe in God.

I realize that people don’t like to be challenged, even though who are just as fundamentalist atheist as they were fundamentalist christian, but stories like these two must challenge us. You can still believe in God when you realize you have no clue about God.

February 6th, 2013 by Joel

Yeah, I sorta know how Libby Phelps feels

I have to say sorta because I wasn’t in her shoes. We didn’t have enough guts to go an stand on the street corner and “share” our beliefs. Instead, we set in our pews and preached to each other about them:

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More sites are carrying her story as well. This is a great one here.

January 10th, 2013 by Joel

@pastormark blogs about the evil of blogging #driscolling

Why, he starts to blog (because twitter is a miniblog platform) about how wasteful bloggers are:.

 

Mark Driscoll anti-blog

I guess theologians/authors/bloggers like Rachel Held Evans must really be getting to him….

Here’s the thing… We are told to use our talents for the Kingdom. Guess Mark doesn’t believe that…

And you know know… nothing I say will matter anyway. This is one of the more ignorant statements made by Mark… and all one has to do is to post a picture of it to see just how stupid it is…

January 6th, 2013 by Stuart James

Patriarch Kirill urges Christian Orthodox bloggers to stop insulting each other

Aren’t you glad this is only an Orthodox phenomenon:

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said that the diversity of ideas inherent in church circles sometimes assumes absurd forms in the Internet environment.

“In the web space groups of church liberals and conservatives are appearing that are not looking for the truth, divine truth but a means of finding fault, stinging each other. This is a very sad tendency,” he said at a diocesan assembly in Moscow ahead of New Year.

He said that divisions and feuds within the church “are evidence of infantility, childishness in faith which sometimes assumes ruffian forms.”

SOURCE

Hat-tip: Fr Stephen

January 1st, 2013 by Joel

Jason, you aren’t Jesus, and Jesus wasn’t a crackpot Young Earth Creationist either

It is clear that Jason’s reading comprehension nor ability to discourse via the internet has not improved over the past year. He has no issue asking me questions on twitter, or asking questions of others of “my kind” but how dare any of us suggest that his positions are heretical at best.

Now, he goes further than this – and lies.

They Called Jesus A Blasphemer, Too. | Pastoral Musings

So many things wrong in just one paragraph, it’d take me a week to show just how bad Jason has lied.

Jason, you aren’t Jesus. Jesus wasn’t a Young Earth Creationist either. Nor did I deny Jesus as anything. That makes you a liar. Yes, there is proof.

Good luck with your small god. See you next year, heretic.

December 27th, 2012 by Stuart James

Legally recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

White House Petition set up on the 14th December, the same day as the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, has become the most popular petition of all time, and currently stands at 262,708 signatures.

The petition reads thus:

Legally recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

This group has been recognized as a hate group by organizations, such as The Southern Poverty Law Center, and has repeatedly displayed the actions typical of hate groups.

Their actions have been directed at many groups, including homosexuals, military, Jewish people and even other Christians. They pose a threat to the welfare and treatment of others and will not improve without some form of imposed regulation.

I must admit, if I were an US citizen, I’d sign it…..

UPDATE: It appears that following the success of the above petition somebody thought it a great idea to create a similar one pertaining to the Catholic Church:

Officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group.

In his annual Christmas address to the College of Cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI, the global leader of the Roman Catholic Church, demeaned and belittled homosexual people around the world. Using hateful language and discriminatory remarks, the Pope painted a portrait in which gay people are second-class global citizens. Pope Benedict said that gay people starting families are threatening to society, and that gay parents objectify and take away the dignity of children. The Pope also implied that gay families are sub-human, as they are not dignified in the eyes of God.

Upon these remarks, the Roman Catholic Church fits the definition of a hate group as defined by both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.

This has garnered a whopping 93 signatures…..