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• What Simple Act Did Pope Francis Do Today That Has Everyone Buzzing?

  March 14, 2013 at 8:04pm

  It is odd that Vatican/Italian security allegedly was oblivious to the Pope (dressed as the pope) leaving Vatican City but yet there certainly were papal photographers situated to take convenient photographs. Nothing, nothing happens there that has not been studied, debated and carefully arranged in advance. I don’t question this Pope’s style but he’s simply no longer a free agent contrary to popular thought.

• Wild Video Captures the Massive Cafeteria Brawl Between Muslim and African-American Students at Minn. High School

  February 16, 2013 at 12:30pm

  Reality check: Somalia is in Africa so apparently ALL these combatants were African Americans. Also, many non-Somali African Americans are Muslims too, just ask Mr./Rev./Mullah Farrakhan. The problem here is that the Somali students actually do have connections with Africa and presumably speak at least some Somali and/or Arabic. I recall being in an elevator once in Florida with three black women. It turned out that two were Haitian and began speaking Creole to each other. The third African American woman, a total stranger, became visibly enraged and shouted that they should speak English (so she could eavesdrop?). Kids have clicks in school but the African American one here is just not cohesive.

• Gossip Site Suggests Britney Spears’ ‘Revealing Outfit’ Too Sexy for Church — Agree? Plus, What Do You Think About Worship Attire in General?

  January 29, 2013 at 1:38pm

  The word “profane” is derived from the Latin pro- before + fanum temple, i.e. before the temple or more exactly, outside the temple. Something that belongs outside the sacred precincts. The problem today is that there is a general loss of the sense of anything sacred. More and more Protestant and Roman Catholic “worship” services are nothing more than mediocre attempts to be “contemporary” with bad popular music set to religious or warm and fuzzy texts. Amazing Grace set to a Madonna or Lady Gaga melody. Yes, Jesus Christ healed the naked but they weren’t in the temple or in a synagogue at the time. Jews then and now (except for some of the Reformed) dressed out of respect for the sacred spaces they were entering. Today one sees “worshipers” going to church as if they just fell out of bed or were dropping by on their way to the beach. However they will quickly dress to the nines for other social events. Ultimately it says something about the level of or lack of faith of those involved.

• What Do You Suppose John Boehner Said to Get the First Lady to Roll Her Eyes Like This?

  January 22, 2013 at 10:24am

  Not again! Whoever writes for The Blaze: Please, PLEASE stop using the adjective “EPIC” in every other story. If Glenn sneezes it is a “epic sneeze”, if M. Obama rolls her eyes it is an “epic eye roll.” “Epic” should be rolled out once or twice a year for something actually worthy of that description..

• ‘A Step in the Right Direction’: Obama’s Gun Control Proposals Get Support From the Vatican

  January 20, 2013 at 1:19pm

  Paleeeeeeez. The popes and the Vatican have long since become irrelevant regardless of these predictable attempts to appear so. A few years ago the Captain of the Papal Swiss Guards was shot and killed by one of his own Swiss Guards in the Vatican with the pope in residence(!) not to mention John Paul II being shot there.. Like all political leaders this pope is surrounded by hordes of heavily armed security men in uniform and out. When the pope decides to go unprotected he and his curia can preach about limiting firearms for the rest of us. Tu es Petrus, and even St. Peter had a sword at Gethsemane Your Holiness.

• Evangelicals Fume Over Pastor’s Withdrawal From Obama Inauguration (Plus: Tell Us Who Should Replace Him!)

  January 12, 2013 at 12:39pm

  The Blind Shaikh Omar Abdel Rahman, oh DEFINITELY the Blind Shaikh.

• MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Quickly Laments Lack of Gun Control in Wake of School Shooting: ‘Gun Violence Has Been Epidemic in This Country’

  December 14, 2012 at 2:32pm

  Ban guns? No! Ban knives:

  8 a.m. EST, December 14, 2012

  BEIJING (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

  The man attacked the children at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency reported.

  Police arrested a 36-year-old man, identified as villager Min Yingjun, Xinhua said. It did not give further details of the extent of the injuries.

  There have been a series of attacks on schools and schoolchildren around China in recent years, some by people who have lost their jobs or felt left out of the country’s economic boom.

  The rash of violence has prompted public calls for more measures to protect the young in a country where many couples only have one child.

  In 2010, a man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China.

• See the Dramatic Reenactment of Jesus’ Birth in Mark Burnett’s Epic ‘The Bible’ History Channel Series

  December 12, 2012 at 8:41pm

  You guess wrong. The siblings of Jesus Christ were the children of the widower St. Joseph, i.e. step siblings.

• See the Dramatic Reenactment of Jesus’ Birth in Mark Burnett’s Epic ‘The Bible’ History Channel Series

  December 12, 2012 at 12:27pm

  In reply to GKS.

  I recognize that other “cohorts” have divergent opinions but this is certainly the one of ancient Christian art and the earliest patrist

• See the Dramatic Reenactment of Jesus’ Birth in Mark Burnett’s Epic ‘The Bible’ History Channel Series

  December 12, 2012 at 12:22pm

  “Burnett made it clear that the series is truly cross-denominational and that it was produced while considering the multitudes of differences that exist among and between various Christian cohorts.”

  Speaking from the Greek Orthodox “cohort” perspective:

  1) The Ever-Virgin Mary was thirteen at Christ’s birth not a mature woman.
  2) St. Joseph the Betrothed was an elderly widower with his own children who was only the guardian of Mary and later the Child. He is always painted with either grey or even white ****.
  3) The Magi were Persian (Iranian) astrologers (not multi-racial kings) who followed the star because it moved east to west (instead of the reverse), stopped and started as they journeyed and finally stopped over the place of Christ’s birth. It was no ordinary star. They are depicted riding horses in ancient Christian art, not camels.
  4) The birth of Christ was miraculous as was His conception. There was no pain and Mary remained virgin after the birth which is why She is called the “Ever-Virgin Mary.” In iconography She is depicted with a star on each shoulder and on Her forehead symbolizing that She was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Her Son Jesus Christ.
  5) Jesus is the Greek for Joshua.

  The Nativity of Christ was not a common one although it invariably is portrayed as such in these productions. I recognize that other “cohorts” have divergent opinions but this is certainly the one of ancient Christian art and the earliest patrist