According to a new study....
Eight in 10 Americans say they depend on God for decision-making guidance.
Seven in 10 believe that when good or bad things happen, the occurrences are part of God's plan.
And six in 10 believe God has set the course of their lives.
The study, published in the March issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, is generating considerable buzz online -- much of it linked to Schieman's finding that a third of Americans agree with the rather defeatist statement: "There's no sense in planning a lot because ultimately my fate is in God's hands."
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March 15, 2010
Europe Is Always Copying Us....
Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK,
DUBLIN – It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.
Ireland was the first in Europe to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the Continent — nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI.
The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs, which nation will be touched next, and whether a tide of lawsuits will force European dioceses to declare bankruptcy like their American cousins.
Full Story Here
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK,
DUBLIN – It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.
Ireland was the first in Europe to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the Continent — nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI.
The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs, which nation will be touched next, and whether a tide of lawsuits will force European dioceses to declare bankruptcy like their American cousins.
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March 12, 2010
Finally!
Finally.....a Christian boycott I can get behind !
Onward Christian soldiers unite!!
Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they heard any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those were slogans affiliated with Nazism and Communism.
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck.
“What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show,” Mr. Wallis, who heads the antipoverty group Sojourners, wrote on his “God’s Politics” blog.
Onward Christian soldiers unite!!
Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they heard any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those were slogans affiliated with Nazism and Communism.
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck.
“What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show,” Mr. Wallis, who heads the antipoverty group Sojourners, wrote on his “God’s Politics” blog.
For Me
This is a game I would be struggling with lately.
I'm more than a little 'out of it' this week.
Too much going on at once, and some serious attention needs paid to these issues that are distracting me from being my normal sarcastic self.
Perhaps the weekend shall assist....
March 11, 2010
March 10, 2010
March 09, 2010
March 06, 2010
Monty Python - Bruces Philosophers - American Beer
One of the greatest jokes of all time. Only because it's true.
March 05, 2010
Avery Is A Douche...
.....but even as much as I detest him, I have to begrudgingly admit, this was really funny.
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