Corruption is everywhere in the Roman Catholic Church: from pedophile priests to castrating young males, raping young girls and older women, to open money laundering at the Vatican Bank. Benedict XVI has been knowledgeable about the crimes against humanity by his priests, bishops and cardinals, and has tried to cover each instance, as seen with letters in this essay and full documentation.
Gannett publisher pushed through an endorsement by the Des Moines, Iowa, Register that followed the decree for all other papers: to support Mitt Romney despite his being the least qualified candidate ever for the US presidency. Lies, subtefuge and distortions were thinly veiled in the endorsement as exposed here.
Contemporary Christianity is more hate-filled than ancient or medieval Christianity, with clergy playing the roll of god and damning those who do not agree with their judgment based on bad translations of bibles that never existed in the early years when Christianity began when the Emperor Constantine created his national church. This has led to Black pastors damning entire groups of people, and congregations organizing lynching mobs and beating to death those they do not agree with.
Over one million suicides occur each year. While many are the exit strategy of those suffering an incurable and painful disease, there is a growing number of suicides among preteens and teenagers–especially in the USA and in the Sixth Congress District of Minnesota that is represented by Michele Bachmann. No state is exempt, but a new thread is appearing: bullying those weaker than their opponents, and in the name of religion or “freedom” to express an opinion even if it compells children to end their lives. The greatest damage comes from evangelical Christians and the notion of a “holy life” style–or face the threat of going to hell. Why do people believe in this concept and when does one reach the breaking point and stop contemplating suicide and take action?
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) argues that the Bible defines marriage as a religious act between one man and one woman. Is that true? It is not the case in the Koran or any other holy book. What did Jesus really say about marriage?
Marcus and Michele Bachmann suffer from acute xenophobia and other forms of mental illness as defined by the American Psychiatric Association and American Psychological Association. They are defended by self-ordained minister Bradlee Dean who supports a tattoo in defiance of Levitucus prohibition, and ministers who becomes billionaires at the expense of labor, citing the Gospel of Matthew as justification for outlawing unions. The USA evangelicals love the Bachmanns–and here is why.
The GNP in the USA has consistently gone down while wages became stagnant and unemployment shot up–a trend begun by Ronald Reagan and reached its greatest extreme under George W. Bush. How great of a president was Ronald Reagan?
Education has become essential–to get a job–but learning a subject or gaining knowledge is of little interest to most people–because of bad teachers, bad books, and lazy students. Here is how to correct the problems.
Robert Vander Plaats of Iowa, with the support of pseudo-scientist Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute, seeks to destroy education in Iowa and follows the diktat of Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler in denying human rights and civil liberties. Evangelical extremists throughout Iowa have flocked to his cause to enshrine the Bible as the source of wisdom, to subordinate women in obedience to men, and has merged tactics with the Denver, IA KKK and neo-Nazis throughout the State of Iowa.
Keith Ratliff, Sr., of Des Moines, Iowa, has called for the limiting of freedom in the USA, and argues that civil rights are only the rights of Black people because of their skin color. His message of hate is pounded out while he slaps his bible against whatever podium he is near yet his words prove that he is ignorant of the bible he is misquoting.