Tag: religion

Episcopal Church Hosts Muslim Prayer

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The Episcopal Church in America has mastered the ABC of pop theology–Anything But Christ.

As reported yesterday in my town’s “community announcements” paper, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church “will sponsor a one-hour presentation by a Sufi Dervish who ‘whirls’… This particular ’embodied’ form of prayer, the physical act of moving in a circle, is not well known in the West… The program is connected to [St. Luke’s] current exhibit, ‘Spirituality of the Mandala’…”

Whirling dervishes are Muslim mystics who spin themselves around and around until it puts them in a kind of trance. A Mandala is some kind of Buddhist or Hindu thingamajig. And “spirituality” is bunk.

When the Son of man returns, will he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8) I guess it’ll depend on where He looks.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, Jesus said (Matthew 6:7). I think that would apply to mindlessly whirling around the floor before you wander off to stare at the mandala.

If it were my church, I would not like the Lord to find whirling dervishes and mandalas there when He returns.

Shock! Justice Scalia Believes in the Devil!

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On Free Republic this morning we read that a CNN reporter was flummoxed recently when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia revealed, just in passing, that he believes in the existence of Satan.

You could’ve knocked her over with a feather. Imagine that–a grown man believing in the Devil! Why, no one in the CNN newsroom does! Shouldn’t he be impeached or something? I’ll bet he believes in God, too! Does Justice Ginsburg know about this? Oh, the scandal!

I would like to ask what left-wing noozie Beltway cocktail party-goers believe in. What do they hold sacred? What would they defend as fiercely as a mother bear defends her cubs?

Let’s see… (Examines check list) Abortion. Homosexuality. Evolution. Atheism. Gun control. Islam, for some strange reason. Alternative families, whatever they’re supposed to be. The public schools. Attack any one of them, and see what happens. If you were to defend the Christian religion with the same maniacal zeal with which a prog will defend any one of these, you would be termed a religious fanatic: a real nut case.

Believing in Satan is nowhere near as silly as believing that high taxes will stop Global Warming, Big Government can and should enforce “income equality,” life on earth just sort of created itself by chance, the human race should be ruled by an elite class of Experts, or any of the other childish absurdities unquestioningly embraced by Leftist chowderheads.

But the funniest part of it all is that although they say they don’t believe in Satan, they live and breathe to serve him.

 

British TV’s War on Christians

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I’ve been watching a lot of British TV on youtube lately. In fact, it’s the only TV I get.

More and more, I’ve been seeing an awful lot of anti-Christian bigotry in British cop shows. The actors, speaking the lines written for them by the screenwriters, routinely mock Christians and their faith. The “Christian” characters are uniformly depicted as liars, hypocrites, perverts, criminals, and idiots. I read of (but didn’t see) a show in which a Christian minister was a murderer, a child abuser, and even drowned his son’s poor dog. I’ll bet he didn’t recycle, either.

It has given me a taste of what Jewish people have had to put up with; and I don’t like it.

But for the analogy to be exact, we have to imagine a country where Jews are the great majority of the population–say, Israel–and where all the TV productions wallow every day in antisemitism. No such country exists.

Most people in Britain still call themselves Christians. So why do the BBC and ITV treat them as a despised minority? Queen Elizabeth’s job description includes the title, “Defender of the Faith.” Has anyone seen her defending it? And there sits the Church of England like an empty can of floor wax–not a peep out of Canterbury.

If it’s hateful and racist and wrong to vilify minorities, why is it just hunky-dory to spit on the majority?

And we might also ask when the majority in Britain is going to start acting like a majority.

 

Has Britain Really Turned Against Christianity?

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Patty and I have been watching Midsomer Murders, a long-running British cop show that’s one of the most popular TV shows in the world. I was enjoying it tremendously–until last night.

An episode from 2004, “The Straw Woman,” featured one of the most offensive, anti-Christian screenplays that I’ve ever seen. In it, all Christians without exceptions are perverts, hypocrites, criminals, ignoramuses, or fools–or some unhappy combination thereof–in contrast to the saintly pornographer and the kindly, caring atheists. The top of my head almost flew off when the mean-spirited, adulterous churchwarden, asked if she objected to a pair of unrepentant sodomites running her church, replied that “I am a Christian” and that “homophobia” is a sin which God will punish.

What Bible did they get that out of?

Britain, birthplace of St. Patrick, cradle of saints, home of King Arthur–is this what has become of you?

Granted, it’s only a screenplay, which means the writers put into it whatever they please, no matter how fantastic. But I’ve encountered rampant Christian-bashing in other British TV dramas, too–and I have to wonder to what degree this reflects the British people’s real-life attitude. I’m here in America, so I don’t know.

But I do know that the media in my country are not far behind yours when it comes to spewing hate at Christians.

I would very much appreciate hearing about this from readers in the UK. Clue me in, my friends: is the nation that gave us C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien truly come to this?

Buy This Pope a Bible

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What’s with the new pope? Today (in The Drudge Report) he’s saying you don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven. All you gotta do to gain salvation, says Pope Francis, is obey your conscience. So I guess sincere Nazis, who honestly believed they were doing the right thing by running death camps, are now sitting at the Lord’s table with the saints.

Salvation by the individual conscience–where did he get that idea? Depending on who you are and what you are inclined to do, your conscience will let you get away with worshiping false gods or no god at all, idolatry, blasphemy, abusing the sabbath, abusing your parents, committing murder, adultery, or theft, bearing false witness against your neighbor, or coveting your neighbor’s goods. I mean, look at what people do! Their consciences can’t be giving them that much grief over it, can they?

Not one of the Ten Commandments is safe from the human conscience.

Your conscience is part of you. When you get saved by faith in Jesus Christ, your conscience gets saved, too. Only then can it become a reliable guide.

This is Christianity 101.

God only knows what Pope Francis is trying to do by teaching otherwise.