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28790. robertjayb - 11/7/2006 4:19:46 PM I guess her belief wasn't strong enough...
A London woman is dead after being bitten by a snake during a Sunday church service, the Laurel County (KY) Sheriff's Office said yesterday.
Neighbors near East London Holiness Church on Smith Brewer Road, which officials said the 48-year-old attended, said the church practices serpent handling.
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Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible, in the Gospel of Mark, that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
It is illegal in Kentucky to handle reptiles as part of religious services. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50-$100 fine.
Or death...
The scary thing to me is not what these folks do in their church but that they probably vote.
28791. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:04:12 PM
"The Watcher" by Thomas Blackshear, which adorns Haggard's New Life Church.
Pastor Ted's "Confession" 28792. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:08:05 PM I consider myself 40 percent Catholic and 60 percent Baptist. but I'm in favor of every religion, with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
28793. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:17:15 PM Holding Islam to Account,
by Amil Imani (Iranian)
Here are the few favorite cards:
* "There is no compulsion in religion," says the Koran. (But the full context is never shown.)
* Islam means "peace," so Islam is a religion of peace.
* "For you, your religion, and for me, my religion," Muhammad reportedly said.
The Muslims and their apologists quickly run out of their few cards, and the rest of the Islamic deck is all about intolerance, hatred and violence toward the infidels, toward all others who are not true Muslims, and even toward those who consider themselves Muslims. Shiites, for instance, judge the Sunnis as traitors to Islam, and Sunnis condemn the Shiites as heretics. Each side deems the other worthy of death and hellfire.
and..
There is no need to belabor the point that Islam is not, and has never been, a religion of peace. The word Islam is derived from taslim, which means "submission," while the term for "peace" is solh. Another derivation of the word taslim is salamat, which means "good health" and so on.
...just to clear that Islam is 'peace' bullshit up, once and for all.
28794. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:24:19 PM What did you think of "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" TD? 28795. alistairconnor - 11/7/2006 5:28:43 PM Glad you cleared that up : so "salam" doesn't mean peace, like we always thought?
Then neither does its Hebrew form, "shalom"?
You "learn" something every day. 28796. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:33:59 PM AC -
Better get your glasses checked. The word is 'taslim,, not 'salam'. Two totally different words.
Get it? 28797. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:35:17 PM 28795 is completely beside the point I made. 28798. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:48:34 PM Islam does mean submission
Submission to Allah
Good God what an idiot 28799. wonkers2 - 11/7/2006 6:48:49 PM How do you like them apples? A Woman Installed as Presiding Episcopal Bishop 28800. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:49:34 PM Guess he missed Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet 28801. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:52:24 PM 28799
Mt 24
15“So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), 16then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; 17the one on the housetop must not go down to take what is in the house; 18the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat. 19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! 20Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. 21For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Not for nuthin Richard Perle calls jexie "the Delphic Oracle"
BEWARE28802. Ronski - 11/7/2006 6:54:31 PM After the fall: Will the Haggard scandal usher in a new age of Christian tolerance or increase the religious right's homophobia? 28803. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:58:40 PM I would think the latter now that our conversion sapper units have penetrated (puns reserved) the Holy of Holies (puns reserved) 28804. jexster - 11/7/2006 7:02:37 PM I highly recommend the PBS show. Islam for Dummies. History and religious teaching of the Prophet combined with comments from American muslims, black, white, dune coon, historians etc
Learned something kewl myself..when he returned to Mecca with his followers to perform the Hajj, Muhmmad had a nigra slave mount the Kaba to give the call to prayer.
Seems the Meccans were not only pagans but also bigots.
Drove em crazy 28805. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/12/2006 12:55:14 AM Terminator-Jesus . . .
28806. wonkers2 - 11/12/2006 3:50:41 AM Pretty good! Prepared by the Committee to Elect Arnold no doubt. 28807. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/12/2006 6:10:07 AM I always wondered if Jesus was a Girly-Man. 28808. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/12/2006 6:15:38 AM And then again . . .
 28809. jexster - 11/12/2006 8:37:34 PM Available November 14
JUST IN TIME FOR CRIMMUS!!!
My parish choir's first CD....
Palestrina for Eight Voices , the first CD by Schola Adventus, our own resident professional choir, will be released by the Four Winds label on November 14th. It is the world premier recording of this work! Recorded at St. Stephen’s, Belvedere in July last year, it features the music of the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The centerpiece of the CD is his great Missa Confitebor tibi, which is based on his own motet of the same name (also heard on this recording), of which it is a parody. It was published in 1585, and is a remarkable work, capturing brilliantly all the contrasting “affects” of the mass text, from the reverential intimacy of Et incarnatus est and Benedictus qui venit to the climactic breathlessness of Et vitam venturi and dance-like ebullience of Hosanna in excelsis! Palestrina’s consummate mastery of scoring and antiphonal contrast for eight voices is shown to great advantage here, as he reveals himself to be the equal of the Venetian polychoral masters, Gabrieli and Monteverdi. Also included are several eight-part motets and his eight-part settings of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Some of you may remember the last time it was heard here — in the context for which it was written — at our Corpus Christi High Mass in 2005, and also in concert in June that year.
On sale at Amazon and other venues!
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