Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
The professor at Virginia Tech gave his life for his students. He could have let at least one be killed so he could get away.
Is there some unsimilarity to partial birth abortion?
And…was the professor pro-life or pro-choice when he died that others might live?
Waxing Reaganesque — “Mr. Bush, take down this fence!”
Happy talk aside, relations between the two neighbors have worsened since Bush last year signed a law calling for construction of fencing along the long border the two countries share. Calderón has ridiculed the fence, likening it to the Berlin Wall.
Since I’ve already posted on this subject here and here, I’ll not say anything further.
However, there’s also this:
Church groups led marches along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to protest the use of fences to stop migrants.
Nearly 100 members of churches in Arizona and Mexico marched Sunday on either side of a wall near the town of Naco, which straddles the border.
On the Mexico side, Father Guillermo Coronado of La Iglesia San Jose in Naco, Sonora, said more people need to organize similar demonstrations.
“This is a sign of what needs to be done in all the border states rather than rejecting and ignoring other human beings,” he said. “The greatest gift we have is that we are human beings with a mission to love and be happy. God has no borders.”
Señor Coronado, a question, please.
Does your church have any borders?
Also, does your church take any action to stop activity it deems immoral?
And finally, do you see any valid parallels between your answers to the previous questions and what you’re protesting against?
| Three Christian Pastors of the Church of the Nazarene in Nagpur were beaten up on February 8th by radical elements as they were screening a “Jesus� Film.
Rev. Ravi Shambhakar, Mr. Ramprakash Sahu and Mr. Satputeed were severely injured and some of their teeth were broken in the thrashing. |
| Pastor B. Anand (48yrs.) (Bakhthula) is the pastor of a church by name of ‘Bethesda Pradhana Sahavasam’ in Ambojipeta village, on the way to Medak, in Andhra Pradesh. The church consists of about 200 believers.
[…] The radicals took him to the forest area, about 6kms from the village and beat him with wooden logs on his face and his legs. Pastor Anand had seen that the RSS men had a bag filled with ropes and logs and knew that it was well planned as the ‘leader’ among the group had been a very active member in his church for the past 6 months. The pastor came to know only then that he had been a spy and was passing information and planned to harm him. The radicals run a well knit spy network to attack independent pastors. |
| Bro. Bhaskar, was saved about 20 years ago, after he was healed from severe convulsions by the ministry of a devout sister who prayed for his healing. Ever since, he has been serving the Lord by distributing tracts, which he gets from his pastor, on the streets of Bangalore. He has been beaten many times as he does this ministry. |
| On Thursday, March 8, police of Gia Ray province raided Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh�s house and “vandalized” his home and took him away to the local police station, said Cong Thanh Do, a pro-democracy advocate, who is also known as Tran Nam.
“Both Mr. Chinh and his wife were brutally beaten by the Gia Ray police. Mr. Chinh was released the next day but was continually summoned to the police station for questioning,” he added. |
What if a Christian backslides into Hinduism?
| An Anti-Conversion Law has come into force in Himachal Pradesh with Governor V S Kokje giving his assent to it.
It has become the first Congress-ruled state to adopt legislation banning illegal religious conversions. The Governor signed the legislation passed by the state assembly in its winter session in December, Raj Bhawan sources said today. During the session at Dharamsala, the BJP had obtained a commitment from Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh for a law to stop conversions in the state. Similar legislation exists in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, all ruled by the BJP. The legislation proposes a two-year prison term and a fine of Rs 25,000 or both for persons found guilty of abetting and indulging in conversion from one religion to another. In case of conversion of women and persons belonging to Dalit and tribal communities, the punishment will be three years of rigourous inmprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000. Under the legislation, anybody willing to convert from one religion to another will have to give a month’s notice to the District Magistrate, who after an inquiry, can grant permission to do so. The population of Christians in Himachal Pradesh is not more than 10,000, but the BJP and Hindu organisations have from time to time complained about conversions by missionary groups. |
This Holocaust Will Be Different:
| The Germans, along with their non-German helpers, had to round up the men, women and children from their houses and drag and beat them through the streets and mow them down in nearby woods or push and pack them into cattle cars and transport them to the camps, where “Work makes free,” separate the able-bodied from the completely useless and lure them into “shower” halls and pour in the gas and then take out, or oversee the extraction of, the bodies and prepare the “showers” for the next batch.
The second holocaust will be quite different. |
I believe Israel will survive till the end of time.
“Name the optimistic president of the past 80 years who said that and added, “We guard ourselves against all evils — spiritual as well as material — which may beset us. We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within.”
Who said that?
And more importantly, was he right about all that?
Original source: World Magazine
God wants His people to live by the Bible, not swear by it.
“But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil” (Matthew 5:34,37).
So why should Christians be in an uproar about this next matter?
Minnesota lawmaker takes hits over Quran
| Conservative bloggers were outraged when former Detroiter Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, announced he would use the Quran for his swearing-in ceremony photo, instead of the Bible. |
It’s OK.
(And when a Christian in Turkey is forced to swear by the Koran, well . . . .)