Three Republican members of Congress did not report up to $22 million in stock trades made earlier this year within 45 days of the transactions, as required by law, an elections watchdog group said in ethics complaints filed Thursday afternoon. The late disclosures by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), among the most ignorant congressional representative who …
The pastor of Mercy Culture Church[1. https://www.facebook.com/MercyCulture/ the “church” is openly political: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/] in Fort Worth, Texas has divined that he was charged by his god to warn people to make ready to live in a “bible based society”. The pastor, Landon Schott, had traveled a month after the Jan. 6 insurrection and filmed himself …
The cult-like conspiracy system and conservative Christianity are influencing one another and creating potentially violent fanatics under the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic fallout. Both movements are angry and bitter over former president Donald Trump’s election loss — which they believe was fraudulent. “Older members would ignore Black Lives Matter and …
On April 17, 2013, at the beginning of the Iowa Senate workday, the most junior Senator from Klemme, Dennis Guth, a man of the soil but without serious learning and no solid education beyond an initial degree in agriculture. He has no training in medical, psychological or psychiatric sciences, or in any of the social sciences. Guth …
People read scripture as if each story enabled them to obtain eternal life–but at what cost. A literal reading is enough to scare most people away from religion, yet pastors, priests, rabbis and others see the Old Testament as a guide for life: one filled with rape, pillage, and holocaust.
Mitt Romney has bullied males and females all of his life, his last salvo being his declaration during the Presidential Debates that he had binders of women; but before then, he bullied those he assumed to be gay at Cranbrook School (for Boys) in Michigan, and later as a Bishop in the Mormon church bullied women openly. What is behind his psychology–I argue that he was bullied at home and within the Mormon church.
Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden NC and German leader Adolf Hitler are identical. Both demanded a final solution. Both called on their God, and quoted the Bible, to help them destroy an entire people. Both had devoted followers eager to shed blood.
Charles Worley’s rant against LGBT people and his desire to establish a concentration camp where all LGBT could die has met with resistence, but not from members of the clergy. Few want to read Leviticus 18:22 as it was written and within context. Today’s evangelical clergy are identical to the evangelicals in the Third Reich.
Education in Perú exists only marginally. Various accrediting bodies rank Peru as the worse nation on the planet to obtain an education: that students have little interest or sense of responsibility, that the government denies funds for adequate buildings, teaching resources and payment for good teachers, and that neither teachers nor students have a sense of responsibility or urgency in acquiring a solid education. This is the result of the stranglehold of organized religion in Peru.
There are two verses in the Gospel of Matthew that are directed to tombs opening, dead are brought back to life waiting for Jesus. Today we call such phenomena “zombies” and there are theologians who discount their existence, but in the South Baptist group of seminaries, teachers, researchers, and students are told to accept their existence as the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus. The question is if this is an isolated case in theological history or one more plagiarism fitted into the Bible.