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Imagine that you meet someone who offered you a magic pony, a bag of candy, and to be your best friend forever. The generous stranger promised thirty times they would do these things for you within your lifetime, and then disappeared. They never came back in your life, or the lives of your children, or your children’s children, or any of your descendants for over two thousand years. Would it make sense to keep waiting for the generous stranger who made such amazing promises, or would you admit that he told a nice story but didn’t deliver the goods? Jesus said thirty times that He would establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth within the lifetime of those who saw Him speak. Two thousand years later, Christians are still making excuses for their lying Messiah.

• The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. – Zephaniah 1:14
• For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. – Haggai 2:6-8
• But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I [Jesus] say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. – Matthew 10:23
• Verily I [Jesus] say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. – Matthew 16:28
• Verily I [Jesus] say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. – Matthew 23:36
• And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. – Matthew 24:14 [Romans 10:18 states: But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.]
• Verily I [Jesus] say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. – Matthew 24:34
• Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. – Matthew 26:64
• And he [Jesus] said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. – Mark 9:1
• Verily I [Jesus] say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. – Mark 13:30
• And Jesus said, I am: and ye [“the high priest”] shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. – Mark 14:62
• But I [Jesus] tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God. – Luke 9:27
• Verily, verily, I [Jesus] say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. – John 5:25
• And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. – Romans 13:11-12
• But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none. -  1 Corinthians 7:29
• Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. – 1 Corinthians 10:11
• Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. – Philippians 4:5
• For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. [...] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. -  1 Thessalonians 4:15, 17
• That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. -  2 Thessalonians 2:2
• God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. – Hebrews 1:1,2
• For then must he [Jesus] often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. – Hebrews 9:26
• For yet a little while, and he [Jesus] that shall come will come, and will not tarry. – Hebrews 10:37
• Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. – James 5:8
• Who [Jesus] verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. – 1 Peter 1:20
• But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. – 1 Peter 4:7
• Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. – 1 John 2:18
• Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. – 1 John 3:2
• The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John [...] Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. – Revelation 1:1, 3
• Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown [...] Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. – Revelation 3:11, 22:7, 12
• And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. – Revelation 22:12

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

The Bible sure likes the number twelve: twelve sons of Jacob, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve golden dishes for the dedication of the alter, twelve baskets of bread, twelve Apostles, twelve stars on the woman’s head, twelve gates and foundations of new Jerusalem, the tree of life bears twelve manner of fruit, and the twelve apostles of the Lamb. What an amazing coincidence that the ancients also held that there were twelve signs of the zodiac. The Bible states clearly that there were more than twelve apostles, but echoes of the twelve houses of astrology are what people remember when counting the apostles. The Bible supports astrology: God made the stars “for signs” (Genesis 1:14), a star was the sign of Jesus’ birth (Matthew 2:1-2), and Jesus condones the use of stars for divination (Luke 21:25).

Who Were the Twelve Apostles?

• Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. – Matthew 10:2-4
• And He [Jesus] ordained twelve, that they should be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: and Simon He surnamed Peter; and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and He surnamed them Boanerges, which is, the sons of thunder: and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed Him: and they went into an house. – Mark 3:14-19

No, Really, Who Were the Twelve Apostles?

• And when it was day, he called unto Him His disciples: and of them He chose twelve, whom also He named apostles; Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. – Luke 6:13-16

Wait, Say That Again, Who Were the Twelve Apostles?

• And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. – Act 1:13

Were there maybe Thirteen Apostles?

• Am I [Paul] not an apostle? – 1 Corinthians 9:1

How About Fourteen Apostles?

• Other of the apostles I saw none, save James the Lord’s brother. – Galatians 1:19

Do I Hear Fifteen?

• He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures: and that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. – 1 Corinthians 15:4-5

Could There Be Seventeen Apostles, Including a Woman?

• Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. – Romans 16:7

Should We Count Judas’ Replacement? Make it Eighteen, Then.

• And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. – Acts 1:26

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Christianity often presents itself as “Jew 2.0” – a yummy chosen people treat with a Messiah in every bite. But what does the Bible have to say about its parent superstition, Judaism? Kind of makes those ‘Hitler was an atheist’ arguments fall flat.

• [Jesus said:] But the children of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. – Matthew 8:12
• [Jesus said:] Wherefore ye [the Jews] be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. – Mathew 23:31
• Then answered all the people, and said, His [Jesus'] blood be on us [the Jews], and on our children. – Mathew 27:25
• And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. [...]
• Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. – John 5:16,18

• After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. – John 7:1
• Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews. – John 7:13
• [Jesus said: ]Ye [the Jews] are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. – John 8:44
• His [Jesus'] disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? – John 11:8
• The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he [Jesus] ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. [...] And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. [...] And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.- John 19:7, 12, 14-15
• Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. – John 20:19
• But ye [the Jews] denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. – Acts 3:14-15
• The God of our fathers [the Jews] raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. – Acts 5:30
• Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye [the Jews]. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers. – Acts 7:51-52
• But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
• And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him. – Acts 9:22-23

• And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree. – Acts 10:39
• Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. – Acts 12:1-3
• But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. [...] But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. – Acts 13: 45-46, 50
• But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. – Acts 14:2
• But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. [...] But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. – Acts 17:5, 13

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Ask your preacher about the Secret Gospel of Mark this Sunday, won’t you?

Mark 10:46 states: “Then they came to Jericho. As He was leaving Jericho with His disciples…” This verse is puzzling: why mention that Jesus and His disciples went to Jericho and then left Jericho? Did something happen in Jericho that isn’t mentioned in the modern Bible? A discovery made in 1958 may provide the answer.

In 1958, Morton Smith (a theology graduate student from Columbia University) went to the Mar Saba Monastery near Jerusalem to catalog their library. While he was there, Smith discovered a transcription of a letter written by Clement of Alexandria to “Theodore” laid into the back of the 1646 edition of a book called Epistolae genuinae S. Ignatii Martyris. The letter claims that in earlier editions of Mark there was a passage that described what Jesus and His disciples did in Jericho. Here is the missing passage:

[Then they came to Jericho.] And they came into Bethany. And a certain woman whose brother had died was there. And, coming, she prostrated herself before Jesus and said to Him, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me.’ But the disciples rebuked her. And Jesus, being angered, went off with her into the garden where the tomb was, and straightway a great cry was heard from the tomb. And going near, Jesus rolled away the stone from the door of the tomb. And straightaway, going in where the youth was, He stretched forth His hand and raised him, seizing his hand. But the youth, looking upon Him, loved Him and began to beseech Him that he might be with Him. And going out of the tomb, they came into the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days Jesus told him what to do, and in the evening the youth came to Him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with Him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan. [As He was leaving Jericho with His disciples...]

The Secret Gospel of Mark is missing from all modern versions of the Bible although it is as credible as any other work to be found there. But other accounts of God-sanctioned nudity remain. A naked young man was with Jesus and the disciples when Jesus was arrested (Mark 14:51-52). Saul prophecies naked (1 Samuel 19:24), as does Isaiah (Isaiah 20:25) and Micah (Micah 1:8).

Early Christianity clearly included a nude ritual of initiation; this is what Jesus means when He says we must be ‘born again’ (we are born naked). The world might be a different place indeed if Christians still considered observing the naked body sacred rather than a sin.

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

No way, no way, nowhere in the Bible does it say that God demands human sacrifice. That’s utterly false. You’re just making stuff up because you’re mad at God for not existing. What a lie! Nobody can take you seriously when you publish nonsense like that. Have you ever even read the Bible? Prove it, show me where it says God demands human sacrifice – you can’t! Go on! Show me, show me where it says that!

• And He [God] said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. – Genesis 22:2
• Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me [God]. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me. – Exodus 22:29-30
• No devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast… shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. – Leviticus 27:28-29
• And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD. – Numbers 31:25-29
• And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Moreover He will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. – Deuteronomy 28:53-62
• Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah… And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands… And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child… And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth… And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. – Judges 11:29-40
• Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites… The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul… And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD… And after that God was intreated for the land. – 2 Samuel 21:1,8-9,14
• And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee. – 1 Kings 13:2
• And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them. – 2 Kings 23:20
• Wherefore I [God] gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. – Ezekiel 20:25-26

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Christians consider “The Ten Commandments” a moral guide, one that should be displayed at tax-payer expense in public places. But do the thing no Christian ever does – read the Bible – and you will see that following the Ten Commandments is not only immoral but impossible. Not even Jesus could do it!

Many people, Christian or not, know the story of the Ten Commandments. God gives Moses the Ten Commandments on tables of stone, Moses brings the tables to his people but is shocked to find them worshiping a golden calf, Moses destroys the tables but God gives Moses another copy. Many people are familiar with this story, but that is not the story to be found in the Bible. The main difference between what many people know and what the Bible says is that the first table of the Ten Commandments is not at all the same as the second table of the Ten Commandments.

The difference between the two is problematic because the Bible does not say they are different, but the same. Exodus 20 lists the contents of the first table (called here the ‘first Ten Commandments’). Exodus 34 lists the contents of the second table (called here the ‘second Ten Commandments’). Compare these two ‘Ten Commandments’ – are they the same? According to the Bible, they should be. Exodus 34:1 claims the second ‘Ten Commandments’ contains “the words that were on the first.” The first and second ‘Ten Commandments’ are quoted here at length. Commandments are indicated with numbers in brackets (for example, [#1]).

The First ‘Ten Commandments’

And God spake all these words, saying, [#1] I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. [#2] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. [#3] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. [#4] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. [#5] Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. [#6] Thou shalt not kill. [#7] Thou shalt not commit adultery. [#8] Thou shalt not steal. [#9] Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. [#10] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. – Exodus 20:1-17

The Second ‘Ten Commandments’

[#1] For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. [#2] Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. [#3] The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. [#4] All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. [#5] Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. [#6] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. [#7] Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; [#8] neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. [#9] The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. [#10] Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. – Exodus 34:14-27

What is a Christian to do? Should they petition for schools and courthouses to post the divine admonishment against seething a kid in his mother’s milk? Should they claim that the United States was founded on the principle of not leaving the sacrifice of the feast of the passover until the next morning? The Bible claims the (second) ‘Ten Commandments’ are the tables that served as God’s final word, the tables that Moses actually gave to the Israelites. Christians seem to know better than God, and they prefer the first ‘Ten Commandments’ to the second. Christians never talk about the real (second) ‘Ten Commandments.’

Christians also never talk about what the penalties are for violating the (first) ‘Ten Commandments.’ But the Bible is not silent on the issue. The penalty for violating much of the (first) ‘Ten Commandments’ is death. Not eventual death, which we all get, but death at the hands of Christians. The ‘Ten Commandments’ are immoral.

[#1 & #2] He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. – Exodus 22:20. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is of thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God. – Deuteronomy 14:6-10. And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heavens, which I have not commanded. Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. – Deuteronomy 17:1-5.
[#3] And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death. -  Leviticus 24:16
[#4] Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Exodus 31:15. And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day…And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 15:32.
[#5] And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. Exodus 21:15. For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. Leviticus 20:9.
[#6] He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. – Exodus 21:12
[#7] And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. – Leviticus 20:10
[#8] If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die. – Deuteronomy 24:7.

What did Jesus Christ say about the ‘Ten Commandments?’ In Matthew 19:17, Jesus says: “But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” Upon hearing this, someone asked Jesus which of the commandments were to be kept. Jesus replied: “[#6] Thou shalt do no murder, [#7] Thou shalt not commit adultery, [#8] Thou shalt not steal, [#9] Thou shalt not bear false witness, [#5] Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Note that the commandment to love one’s neighbor as oneself does not appear in either of the two ‘Ten Commandments.’ The account given in Mark 10 is largely the same: Jesus gives five out of the ten ‘Ten Commandments’ and adds one new commandment. Jesus is said to have created this new commandment in John 13:34. But creating a new commandment is in direct violation of the commandments to not add to or take from God’s commandments (Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:34; Revelations 22:19). And so Jesus both tells others to keep the commandments and does not keep them Himself. Jesus sins against God.

This is not the only time Jesus sins against God. Luke 6:1-4 describes Jesus and His disciples stealing corn on the Sabbath, thus violating two commandments at once. John 7:8-10 describes Jesus telling a lie, saying He is not going to a feast and then going anyway. Jesus accuses God of forsaking Him (Jesus) in Matthew 27:46 – is this blasphemy from lips of the Son of God? Jesus dishonors His Own Mother by saying “Woman, what have I to do with thee?” (John 2:4).

Perhaps Jesus was only following the example of His Father in violating the ‘Ten Commandments.’ God orders Moses to kill the faithful of another religion in Numbers 25:4,5 and Moses does just that. God also covets the cities of the Midianites and the Canaanites, so He orders Moses to kill all the men and take their land (Exodus 31:1-54, 33:50-52), and again Moses does as he is told. God leads Moses to the murder of women and children in Deuteronomy 2:34. God doesn’t mind when Moses commits adultery in Exodus 2:21-22. All this occurs after God gives Moses the ‘Ten Commandments.’

There are many other commandments found in the Bible, indicated as divine by the phrase “so sayeth the LORD.” The Bible commands Christians to take slaves (Leviticus 25:44-46), not eat shellfish (Leviticus 11:10-12), sacrifice animals (Numbers 15:3, 14-15, 24), drink poison (Mark 16:17-18), sell everything they own and use the money to buy a sword (Luke 12:33, 22:36), and how many more examples does one need before it all starts to look a little foolish?

Problems with the ‘Ten Commandments’ seem unending. Were they given to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 31:18, 34:4, 34:32; Leviticus 26:46, 27:34: Nehemiah 9:13) or Mount Horeb (1 Kings 8:9; 2 Chronicles 5:10; Malachi 4:4)? God commands us to not make graven images AND to make graven images (Exodus 25:18; Numbers 21:8). God commands us to keep the Sabbath AND to not keep the Sabbath (Isaiah 1:13; Matthew 12:2; John 5:16; Romans 14:5; Colossians 2:16). God commands us to not commit adultery AND to commit adultery (Numbers 31:18; Hosea 1:2, 3:1). God commands us not to steal AND to steal (Exodus 3:22, 12:35-36; Ezekiel 39:10).God commands us not to lie AND to lie (Joshuah 2:4-6; James 2:25; Exodus 1:18-20; 1 Kings 22:21-22; 2 Kings 8:10; 2 Corinthians 12:16). God commands us not to covet AND to covet (1 Corinthians 12:31, 14:39).

To follow the (first) ‘Ten Commandments’ is to violate the (second) ‘Ten Commandments.’ To follow either ‘Ten Commandments’ is to go against Jesus, who commands us to keep the commandments while also going against the commandments Himself. Neither Jesus nor God’s chosen nor God Himself follow the ‘Ten Commandments,’ but death in this world at Christian hands and eternal damnation in the next is guaranteed for those who do not follow the ‘Ten Commandments.’ It simply isn’t possible or desirable to use the ‘Ten Commandments’ as a guide for ethics or law.

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

The venus fly trap closes around its prey only when two of its triggers are touched; one trigger alone does not close the trap. In a sense, this plant can count. Some dogs and birds can be taught how to count. Children are able to count at a very early age. It seems that everyone can count except God, at least as far as the Bible is concerned. If the Bible is irredeemably incorrect in these relatively trivial matters, can the perfect Christian God really exist? And is the Bible a worthy guide for more complex issues such as morals and history when the authors clearly cannot even count the number of names in a list they just wrote? If these examples of Biblical innumeracy are as wrong as they appear to be, why aren’t they corrected?

36 ≠ 29
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, and Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, and Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet, and Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah, Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages. – Joshua 15:21-32

15 ≠ 14
And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah, and Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam, Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, and Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages. – Joshua 15:33-36

14 ≠ 13
And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, and Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah, and Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages. – Joshua 19:2-6

31.4 ≠ 30
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. – 1 Kings 7:23

5 ≠ 6
And the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. – 1 Chronicles 3:22

8 ≠ 5
And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister: and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five. – 1 Chronicles 3:19-20

5 ≠ 6
Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. – 1 Chronicles 25:3

31.4 ≠ 30
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. – 2 Chronicles 4:2

2,499 ≠ 5,400
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. – Ezra 1:9-11

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

As much as the Metropolitan Community Church and other apologists want to disagree, Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church is correct when he claims God hates fags. The Bible is clear enough that with the exception of David and Johnathan (1 and 2 Samuel), all homosexuals are to be killed. Not by God, not by the death that comes to us all, but by the hands of Christians. If you are a Christian, you are personally required by the Bible to kill homosexuals. If you are a Christian homosexual, you need to understand that your religion wants you “taken out.” God said it, Jesus confirmed it, and that settles it.  When you abandon Christianity, this is the sort of cruel nonsense you leave behind.

• Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. – Leviticus 18:22
• If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. – Leviticus 20:13
• The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. – Deuteronomy 22:5
• There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. – Deuteronomy 23:17
• And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. – 1 Kings 14:24
• And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. – 1 Kings 15:11-12
• And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. – 1 Kings 22:46
• And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. – 2 Kings 23:7
• The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. – Isaiah 3:9
• For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. [...] who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. – Romans 1:26-32
• Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
• Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. – Jude 1:7
• [Jesus said] Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:18,19
• [Jesus said] It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. – Luke 16:17

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

A question for the ladies in the audience… suppose you were asked if you would like to live in a country in which you could be bought, sold, traded and owned, where you would be required to be submissive to the wishes of any man, where the word “woman” was itself an insult, and where guilt in a rape case was based on whether or not the woman who was raped yelled loud enough. Would you like to live in a country like that? If not, then you should be equally horrified with the thought of being a Christian. The imaginary country described in this introduction is the world that the Bible wants women to live in everywhere. And don’t think that Jesus wasn’t aware of and in support of these rules – see what He had to say Himself.

Do Christians view women as slaves to be bought, sold, traded and owned?

• And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldst have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. – Deuteronomy 21:11-13
• If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. – Deuteronomy 22:28-29
• So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley. – Hosea 3:2
• See also: Genesis 19:8, 29:24, 29 / Exodus 20:17, 21:7, 8 / Deuteronomy 5:21, 25:5 / Judges 1:12-13, 5:30, 14:1-3, 15:2, 19:22-30, 21:7, 10-12, 14, 20-21, 23 / Ruth 4:10 / 1 Samuel 25:44 / 2 Samuel 12:11, 13:1-22, 20:3 / Esther 1:7-22, 2:2-4 / Jeremiah 6:12, 8:10

Do Christians believe women must be submissive to men?

• Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. -  1 Corinthians 14:34-35
• Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. – Ephesians 5:22-24
• In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. – 1 Timothy 2:9-15
• But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. – 1 Corinthians 11:3
• But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for asmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. -  1 Corinthians 11:5-10
• Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. – Colossians 3:18
• Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. – 1 Peter 3:1-7
• See also: Numbers 30:3-16 / Deuteronomy 22:5

Do Christians consider it an insult to be called a woman?

• See: Isaiah 19:16 / Jeremiah 50:37 / Nahum 3:13

Do Christians say if a woman doesn’t yell enough when being raped she should be killed?

• If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. – Deuteronomy 22:23-24

Does Jesus Support the Laws of the Old Testament?

• Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. – Mark 5:18-19
• It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. -  Luke 16:17

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

It never fails. Point out a contradiction, an atrocity or an absurdity in the Bible to a Christian and you will be told that you shouldn’t be so literal, so legalistic; that the Bible is to be taken metaphorically; or through ‘feelings;’ or understood ‘spiritually;’ or you should remember to take the Bible ‘in context’ of the time it was written. They will even quote the Bible to prove one should not quote from the Bible. But what does the Bible itself has to say on the subject? Does the Bible claim it is the occasionally true word of a sometimes correct God that applies when we feel like it? Or does the Bible claim that it is the perfect and eternal word of an unchanging, all-knowing God who is the same as (and makes the same demands as) Jesus?

The Law of God is Eternal

• God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of a man that he should repent. – Numbers 23:19
• The Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. – 1 Samuel 15:29
• I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent. – Ezekial 24:14
• For I am the Lord, I change not. – Malachi 3:6
• With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. – James 1:17
• It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. – Leviticus 23:14,21,31
• Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. – Psalms 119:151-2
• Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. – Psalms 119:160
• Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:18-19
• It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. – Luke 16:17
• Now are we sure that thou knowest all things. – John 16:30
• Lord, thou knowest all things. – John 21:17
• Of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. – Colossians 2:2-3
• We ought to obey God rather than men. – Acts 5:29

God’s Law (Old Testament) is Jesus’ Law (New Testament)

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – John 1:1
• And the Word was made flesh [Jesus], and dwelt among us. – John 1:14
• Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. – John 8:58
• I [Jesus] and my Father are one. – John 10:30
• The Father is in me, and I [Jesus] in him. – John 10:38
• And Thomas answered and said unto Him [Jesus], My Lord and my God. – John 20:28
• For in Him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. – Colossians 2:9
• Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. – Titus 2:13
• Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. – Philippians 2:6
• Fear not; I am the first and the last. – Revelation 1:17
• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. – Revelation 22:13

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Christians hold that the Bible contains factual information about the natural world. But while the Bible says nothing at all about germs (an insight that would have proven the existence of some advanced thinker, maybe even God, and would have saved billions of lives), the Bible does go on about unicorns, dragons and other imaginary monsters.

• Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. – Deuteronomy 32:33
• Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. – Job 40:15-24
• Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. By his sneezings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or cauldron. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. – Job 41:1-34
• Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. -  Psalms 22:21
• He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. – Psalms 29:6
• And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. Isaiah 11:8
• Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. -  Isaiah 14:29
• The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. – Isaiah 30:6
• And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. -  Isaiah 34:7
• And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. – Isaiah 34:13
• The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. -  Isaiah 43:20
• They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. – Isaiah 59:5

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Leviticus 27:6 and Numbers 3:15-16 make it clear that God has no problem with the death of a fetus if the fetus is less than one month old. Hosea 13:16 even has God ordering pregnant women to be “ripped up.” The Bible has some wiggle room when it comes to abortion, yet somehow the religion of the Bible, Christianity, holds that abortion is forbidden. Maybe the problem is Exodus 21:22-23, when God contradicts Himself and says if an unborn fetus is accidentally killed then the offending party should be punished. Jonathan and David have a homosexual relationship in 1 and 2 Samuel, and David is favored by God. The Bible weighs in favorably when it comes to homosexuality, yet somehow the religion of the Bible, Christianity, holds that homosexuality is forbidden. Maybe the problem is Leviticus 20:13, when God contradicts Himself and says homosexuals are to be murdered. Fortunately, there are no contradictions in the Bible when it comes to slavery. The Bible is always and only in favor of slavery – no where in the Bible is slavery spoken against, outlawed, forbidden, condemned, or otherwise presented in a negative light. Christians should concede that God contradicts Himself regarding abortion and homosexuality. They should fight for their clearly stated, God-given right to own slaves.

• Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. – Romans 13:1
• Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God. – Colossians 3:22
• Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme: or unto governors… – 1 Peter 2:13
• … Then said the Lord to me, Go ye, love a woman, beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress… so I bought her… – Hosea 3:1-2
• The Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses seat; all, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do. – Matthew 23:2-3
• I council thee to keep the king’s commandment… whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. – Ecclesiastes 8:5
• Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall be unto his bretheren. – Genesis 9:25
• I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people afar off; for the Lord hath spoken it. – Joel 3:8
• He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised. [...] And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money … and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin. [...] And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised. – Genesis 17:12-13, 23, 27
• Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward. – 1 Peter 2:18
• Let as many servants as are under your yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. – 1 Timothy 6:1
• Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. – Ephesians 6:5
• Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloining, but showing good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. – Titus 2:9
• If the priest buy any soul with his money… – Leviticus 22:11
• And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee… – Leviticus 25:39
• And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. – Exodus 21:20-21
• But every man’s servant that is bought for money… – Exodus 12:44
• If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. – Exodus 21:2-6
• And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake. – Exodus 21:26-27
• If a thief [...] have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. – Exodus 22:2-3
• And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. – Exodus 21:7
• Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s… – Matthew 22:21
• For everyone that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. – Leviticus 20:9
• Both thy bondsmen, and thy bondsmaids, which thou shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondsmen and bondsmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession… – Leviticus 25:44-45
• Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman. – Number 12:1
• When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. – Deuteronomy 21:10-13

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Do Christians believe that the Earth is flat, that it does not move and that it rests on stone pillars? Do Christians believe that the flat Earth is somehow both shaped like a circle and has four corners? Do Christians believe that the sun and the moon orbit around the Earth, and that the sun can be stopped in its tracks – even made to go backwards? All of these claims are found in the Bible; do Christians believe in the Bible? If the Earth is roughly a sphere, as the evidence suggests, then it is not possible to observe all of its surface at the same time. Since the Earth is not transparent, it is also not possible for all those on its surface to directly observe the same sight at the same time. But if the Earth is flat, as claimed by the Bible, then everyone on its surface can be observed from a single vantage point and everyone on its surface can directly observe the same sight at the same time. The Bible claims all the Earth can be seen at once, a condition that could only occur if the Earth were flat. Modern science demonstrates that all claims of a flat, motionless Earth are false. But it doesn’t take modern science to reach this conclusion. Eratosthenes reached the same conclusion by observing the shadow cast down two wells at noon in two locations – over two thousand years ago. The Bible is not worth the paper it is printed on when it comes to describing the real world we all live in.

The Flat Earth Rests on a Foundation of Stone Pillars

• He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them. 1 Samuel 2:8
• Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. [...] And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. 2 Samuel 22:8,16
• Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. 1 Chronicles 16:30
• Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Job 9:6
• The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. Job 26:11
• Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof. Job 38:4-6
• Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. Psalms 18:15
• The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. Psalms 75:3
• They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. Psalms 82:5
• The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved. Psalms 93:1
• Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. Psalms 96:10
• Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. Psalms 104:5
• Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 31:37
• Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. Micah 6:2
• And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Hebrews 1:10

The Flat Earth is a Disc with Four Corners

• And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:12
• Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. Ezekiel 7:2
• And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. Revelation 7:1
• It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22
• Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Daniel 2:35
• The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth [...] The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth. Daniel 4:11, 20
• Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. Matthew 4:8
• And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Luke 4:5
• Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Revelation 1:7

The Sun and Moon Orbit Around the Flat Earth, and Can be Stopped and Reversed in their Orbits

• Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. Joshuah 10:12-13
• And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. 2 Kings 20:11
• Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Isaiah 38:8
• The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Habakkuk 3:11

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. It is also the symbol for the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the diameter of a circle. Diameter is the distance from one side of a circle to the other side of a circle. Circumference is the distance around the outside of a circle. If you multiply the diameter of a circle by the square of pi, you get the circumference. And if you divide the circumference of a circle by the square of pi, you get the diameter. This formula is called Archimedes’ Constant, named after Archimedes (who lived from circa 287 BCE to 212 BCE). Archimedes’ Constant is a simple equation, but there is a catch; pi is not a finite number such as 23 or 127. The first sixty four digits of pi are 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 592… and it just keeps going from there. So far, no one has demonstrated that there is a limit to how large a number pi is or that there is a pattern to the numbers in pi. Pi may be infinite.

You can ‘see infinity’ any time you want by measuring a circle’s diameter and then its circumference. Get a round plate and some string (the plate must be round and the string should not stretch when pulled). Lay the string across the plate from one side to the other, so that the string crosses over the middle of the plate. Mark the string at the point where it is the same diameter of the plate. Now take that length of string, multiply it by three, and wrap it around the outside of the plate. Three times the diameter will be pretty close to the circumference, but not exactly. You have just used simple tools to explore the relationship between diameter and circumference. Try it with any circle of any size; it always works. Maybe you don’t need to measure pi to sixty four (or a billion) digits, but you should now feel confident in stating that pi is not a finite, single-digit number. You should feel confident saying that because common sense, the evidence of your senses, and as many tests as you want to perform will confirm it every time. It works whether you measure in inches, centimeters, or even if you make up your own ‘plate units.’

Oddly enough, there are some people in the world who do not believe pi is 3.14159 26535… (and so on). They believe that pi equals three. Who believes that? Christians believe pi equals three. The Christians use a book named the Bible as the foundation for their beliefs, and the Bible says pi equals three. Not all Christians have the same interpretation of the Bible, and some of them disagree quite strongly about how it should be interpreted. But all of them, every one, use the Bible.

Long ago, the Christian Bible says, a man named King Solomon built a temple. He hired a man named Hiram to work on the temple. Hiram made all sorts of additions to the temple, including a sculpture described as a ‘molten sea.’ The molten sea was apparently some sort of large, round container of liquid. It was measured in cubits, which is believed to be the distance between the elbow and the middle finger of an adult male. The construction work of King Solomon and the work Hiram did for King Solomon are described twice in the Bible. The first time in a section of the Bible called 1 Kings (written about 586 BCE) and the second time in a section called 2 Chronicles (written about 450 – 400 BCE). Both times the Bible uses the same words to describe the molten sea. Here’s what the Christian Bible has to say about pi…

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 1 Kings 7:23

Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 2 Chronicles 4:2

The Bible says that a circle ten cubits in diameter measured thirty cubits in circumference. The Bible does not say that the molten sea was close to a circle, but that it was a circle. It does not say that it was close to ten cubits from brim to brim, or that it was close to thirty cubits round about, but that it was ten cubits from brim to brim and it was thirty cubits round about. The Bible gives these measurements once and then gives them again, using the same measurements both times. There is no way to say the Bible meant something other than pi equals three. Christians have been presented with these measurements for thousands of years, and Christians have known about Archimedes’ Constant for thousands of years. Even if you give Christians a few hundred years between when Kings and Chronicles were written and the discovery of Archimedes’ Constant, the Christians have known for thousands of years that the measurements of the molten sea are mistaken. Knowing that pi does not equal three doesn’t require modern complex mathematics or equipment: a piece of string will do. At any point over the past two thousand years, Christians could have decided to follow common sense, the evidence of their senses, and simple tests to change the Bible to make it match real life. But they never have. Why don’t the Christians change the Bible?

Because Christians believe that the Bible is not wrong. Christians believe the Bible is right. Not just close to right, or only right sometimes, but right all the time and in every way. Right in a way that no human can be right, right in a supernatural, divine way. Christians believe that God inspired the people who wrote the Bible; since God cannot make mistakes and since God knows everything, everything in the Bible is correct. The Bible is correct about the past, the present and the future: it is eternally true. How do they know the Bible is inspired by God and eternally true? Because the Bible tells them so! Read for yourself where the Bible tells Christians that it is a book authored by God and eternally true: Numbers 23:19; 1 Samuel.15:29; Ezekiel 24:14; Malachi 3:6; James 1:17; Exodus 12:14, 17, 24; Leviticus 23:14,21,31; Psalms 119:151-2, 160; John 1:1,14, 8:58, 10:30-31, 10:38-39, 16:30, 20:28, 21:17; Colossians 2:2-3, 2:8-9; Acts 5:29; Titus 2:13; Philippians 2:6; Hebrews 1:8; Revelations 1:17, 22:13. And there are other verses, many others, that say the same.

Some Christians believe that one of the characters in the Bible, Jesus Christ, made changes to one part (the Old Testament, where Kings and Chronicles are found) by his appearance in another part (the New Testament). But here’s what Jesus himself had to say about that…

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:18-19

It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke 16:17

Jesus said that every part of the Old Testament was just as true and eternal as the New Testament. So there you have it. The Bible says, and Jesus confirms, that pi equals three. It doesn’t matter if you measured something different with your plate and string; pi equals three. What a silly, stubborn thing for Christians to keep in their Bible when common sense, the evidence of our senses, and simple tests will demonstrate that it is not true. Why do Christians keep this easily-corrected falsehood in the Bible? Would it really change the ethics, morals and values of the Bible to make this small change? Why don’t they come clean in this least important of ways? Because for a Christian to admit that there is even one error in the Bible would mean that the Bible is not the eternally true work of God. And since all Christians, every one, use the Bible, it would mean that their religion is based on falsehoods.

The little Christian mistakes such as pi equals three don’t matter much in the day-to-day world; Christianity would not collapse if that one small change was made. But if that one small change was made, then it would be an admission that the Bible is not the eternally true work of God. And that would lead to the collapse of Christianity. That is why Christians believe pi equals three. Because to admit otherwise would be to admit much, much more. It would be to admit that perhaps the ethics, morals and values of the Bible are not what they’re cracked up to be. It would be to admit that it’s not right to oppress women (Colossians 3:18), to own slaves (Hosea 3:2), to kill people just because they follow a different religion (Deuteronomy 6:15, 13:6-10), to kill homosexuals (Romans 1:31-32), to kill children (Exodus 21:15, 17), to kill (Mark 7:9-13) and kill (Romans 5:9) and kill (Hebrews 10:28-29). Christianity has to preserve its little mistakes, such as pi equals three, so that it can perpetuate its bigger, uglier “mistakes.”

(from OVO 16 ANTICHRIST January 2006)

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I was in my late twenties when I stopped identifying myself as a liberal. When evidence started mounting that shot machine-gun holes through the block of liberal cheese I’d purchased at the local liberal co-op, I concluded that liberalism was not a logically consistent belief system.

But it wasn’t only liberal illogic that caused me to dump the whole program – much of it had to do with gradual changes in liberal attitudes and behavior. I’m old enough to remember when liberals were free-speech absolutists and conservatives tended to be the book-burners. But historical forces can blur, erase, and often invert party lines.

Over the years, I watched as liberals slowly became the group most likely to flat-out refuse discussing certain topics and answering certain questions, their purportedly “open” minds snapping shut like a giant clam. They became the group most likely to try and silence their opponents by shouting them down, defaming them, assaulting them, and even urging legislation to ban the use and expression of certain terms and sentiments. They became the group most disposed toward emotional appeals, double standards, wishful thinking, and wretchedly malodorous sanctimony.

Up through my teens and twenties, I had considered liberals to be the most open-minded and free-thinking group in America, only to watch them morph into the most ideologically rigid pack of true believers I’d ever seen. With modern American liberalism, it’s as if their cute, multicolored, and sincerely curious little 1960s caterpillar had blossomed into a hardened grey butterfly fossil. Liberalism had become an emotion-driven folk religion that somehow had convinced itself science and logic were on its side.

These days, I suppose I’d rather hang out with conservatives than liberals, if only for the fact that I offend conservatives less, and it’s a drag to hang out with people who are always getting offended.

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AlterNet: Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You

This story is about a radical right wing movement in charismatic Christianity that claims to fight demons but, leaving demonology aside, is demonstrably close to seizing the reigns of power in entire US states.

BBC: Canadian Priest Sorry for Giving Dog Holy Communion

Reverend Marguerite Rea of St Peter’s Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross named Trapper.

BBC: Chile President Rules Out Pardon for Military Abuses

President Sebastian Pinera of Chile has rejected a plea by the Roman Catholic Church that he pardon members of the armed forces over human rights abuses committed during military rule.

Mario Boone: Vandal Urinates in Holy Water at Local Church

Investigators say the brazen act committed in broad daylight is definitely a hate crime. “It’s the wording that they used in the graffiti toward the church and a group. They made a reference to the gays in the church,” said A. R. Massengill with Oak Ridge police.

Mail Online: Gay Priest Sex Scandal as Undercover Berlusconi Reporter ‘Films Clerics at Gay Clubs’

Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine – owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi – filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex.

New York Times: Indulgences Return, and Heaven Moves a Step Closer for Catholics

Like the Latin Mass and meatless Fridays, the indulgence was one of the traditions decoupled from mainstream Catholic practice in the 1960s by the Second Vatican Council, the gathering of bishops that set a new tone of simplicity and informality for the church. Its revival has been viewed as part of a conservative resurgence that has brought some quiet changes and some highly controversial ones, like Pope Benedict XVI’s recent decision to lift the excommunications of four schismatic bishops who reject the council’s reforms.

Guardian: Vatican Makes Attempted Ordination of Women a Grave Crime

Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Dutch Nun Wanted for Killing of Fellow Sister

Mother Theresa Brenninkmeijer, is accused of having tied a demented elderly nun to a chair. Another nun was sent outside thinly dressed into the freezing cold for disturbing mass, only to be found dead in the convent garden half an hour later. Mother Theresa was head of the convent in Sostrup at the time, and has since moved on to similar positions in the Cistercian Order in Germany and the Czech Republic. Witnesses of the acts of aggression were ordered by Mother Theresa Brenninkmeijer to lie to police and say that the nun had died in bed. Danish bishop Czeslav Kozon was told about the events at the convent by one nun, but he refused to go to the police and only reported to the Vatican, which swept the report under the carpet.

Der Spiegel: The Vatican Closes Ranks, Pope Benedict XVI Lashes Out at Secular Justice

The scandal-ridden Catholic Church can no longer expect leniency – neither in Belgium nor in the US, where a week ago Monday the Supreme Court ruled that the Vatican enjoys no immunity in cases of alleged molestation by priests. The ruling means that, in theory, even Pope Benedict XVI could be taken to court.

New York Daily News: Catholic Priest Kevin Gray Stole $1M and Spent it on Male Escorts

A disgruntled Catholic priest was charged Tuesday with raiding church coffers to finance a double life befitting a mogul – and to pay for male escorts. The Rev. Kevin Gray, former pastor at Sacred Heart in Waterbury, Conn., was charged with first-degree larceny, which carries up to 20 years in prison.

BBC: Vatican Taken by Surprise over Belgium Police Raids

The police took away their mobile telephones to prevent them communicating with their staff, or with the Vatican. They also seized files from the headquarters of the Catholic church in Brussels including a laptop belonging to the former head of the church in Belgium, Cardinal Godefried Daneels.

Orlando Sentinel: Former Orlando Priests Gave Boys Alcohol

Accounts of plying boys with alcohol, showing them pornography and then molesting them are among the allegations detailed in the lawsuits against two former priests and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando. A third priest actively preaching in an Ocala parish also is accused of raping a boy nearly 35 years ago in Lakeland.

IOL: Family Held After Fatal Attack on Soccer Fan

The family of a 61-year-old Limpopo man have appeared in court for allegedly beating him to death when he wanted to watch the World Cup game between Germany and Australia. They had apparently wanted to watch a gospel show on television, while David Makweya had wanted to watch the soccer on Sunday night.

Mail Online: Baby Girl Died After Religious Fanatic Mother Stuffed Bible in Her Mouth and Sat on Her

Julia Lovemore, 41, had torn out pages of the Bible and stuffed them into baby Faith’s mouth before smothering her.

USA Today: L.A. Cardinal Didn’t Tell Police of Out-of-Parish Abuse Victims

Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn’t call police in 1986 after a priest admitted to molesting two boys, and he didn’t warn parishioners because the priest told him the children were illegal immigrants who had returned to Mexico, according to court documents released Tuesday.

KRON: District Attorney Releases Sandra Cantu Investigative Report After Melissa Huckaby Sentencing

A Sunday school teacher who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering a neighbor girl in Northern California made a tearful apology to the victim’s family Monday as she was sentenced to prison for the rest of her life. The punishment came after Melissa Huckaby, 29, reached a plea deal with prosecutors that took the death penalty and the possibility of parole off the table in the killing of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu of Tracy, whose body was found in a suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond.

Courthouse News Service: Exorcism Isn’t Covered, Insurer Insists

An insurance company insists it has no obligation to cover injuries suffered during an “exorcism” by members of the City Church for all Nations. Cincinnati Insurance claims an autistic church member was restrained and assaulted until he vomited blood during the “exorcism.” The City Church for all Nations fka Cherry Hill Church (CHC) “operated a college ministry, which it called a ‘school of theology,’” near Indiana University in 2007, according to the federal complaint.

San Francisco Gate: Spanish Order Investigated for Alleged Sex Abuse

The case involved possible sexual abuse and mistreatment of patients at a home for the disabled run by the Franciscan Brothers of the White Cross in Cordoba.

True Crime Report: Tina Anderson, 15, Punished by Baptists for Being Raped

Today’s What Wouldn’t Jesus Do? brings you the tale of Tina Anderson, who was raped and impregnated at the age of 15 by a member of her church. After reporting the crime to her pastor, however, it was Anderson who was punished.

al.com: Preacher Says Seeing Stepdaughter in ‘Chocolate Negligee’ Was Too Much Temptation

Preacher Anthony Hopkins’ stepdaughter has said she was sexually abused by Hopkins starting when she was 11, but Hopkins testified today that they did not have their first sexual encounter until March 2008. It was then, Hopkins testified in his rape and murder case, that his eldest stepdaughter, who was 19 at the time, approached him in the living room wearing a “chocolate negligee.”

Mary Ellen Synon: Belgian Prelate Perverts and their Catechism Kiddie Porn [WARNING: CATHOLIC PEDOPHILIA TEXT AND IMAGES]

The Vatican and the Belgian Catholic hierarchy are squealing like stuck pigs over the police raid last week on the home of the former head of Belgium’s eight million Catholics.

Part of a series that never ends [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] and etc.  These are some the stories that one man gathered from English-language news sources in his spare time over a short duration.  Imagine what you aren’t reading here.

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The faith-healing parents of Alayna May Wyland are fighting to get custody of their daughter back, even as they face criminal charges for their neglect of her medical needs. [...] Their daughter was taken into custody by the state in early July and sent for immediate medical treatment. At that time, neither the name of their daughter nor her condition were available. The image above was taken by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. In it, Rebecca Wyland is holding Alayna, who has a massive growth completely covering her left eye. The growth, a hemangioma, is a mass of blood vessels. Some infants are born with them, and they are typically corrected while very small. In this case, the Wylands chose not to take their daughter to a doctor. Instead, Rebecca Wyland anointed her daughter with oil and wiped off the discharge from Alayna’s eye each time she changed the child’s diaper. At this point, the growth has begun to erode Alayna’s eye socket, and may have caused permanent damage to her eye. Both parents have been charged with first-degree criminal mistreatment, a Class C felony which may earn them each five years in prison.

Article continues.  See my previous essay Child Sacrifice in Oregon to learn more about the Followers of Christ Church in Oregon City, Oregon.  Of course every good Christian knows Christianity doesn’t say that you should pray for sick people and put oil on them instead of offer them medical care. Of course every good Christian knows that Psalms 103:2-3, Matthew 10:1, Matthew 10:8, Matthew 19:26, Mark 6:13, Mark 10:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27, Acts 28:8-9, and James 5:14-15 don’t exist.  Because if those verses did exist, it might turn out that the parents of Alayna May Wyland were the real ‘good Christians’ and the rest were just picking up the bits they liked from the Jesus salad bar and leaving the rest.

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