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Ridgewood NJ, a majority of voters agree with a Republican presidential candidate’s criticism of climate change as a “religion” that isn’t really about the climate at all.
Is Climate Change a False Religion?
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The Death of Science Has Been Faked
By Charles Stampul
For centuries people have faked their deaths to escape threats or get free of burdens and responsibilities. This is what has happened to science. Continue reading The Death of Science Has Been Faked
Reader says ,”Hateful rhetoric typical of atheists”
“Because you Bible thumpers are constantly trying to impose your superstitious – and the resulting ideology such as on abortion, blue laws, LGBTQ+, etc. – on the rest of us who actually life in the modern world.
Stay to yourself and we wouldn’t care what god you believe in such as the flying spaghetti monster. Google it. Since I’m sure you plebs don’t know what I am referring to.”
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See.
This is the type of angry hateful rhetoric typical of atheists.
Maundy (Holy) Thursday at Emmanuel
Thursday, April 06, 2017
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Ridgewood NJ, A “Simple Soup Supper” will be offered on Thursday, April 13th at 6:30pm followed by an ecumenical service at 7:30pm for Maundy (Holy) Thursday at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
The three congregations in Ridgewood that will participate in the ecumenical service are First Methodist Church, Christ Episcopal Church, and Emmanuel Baptist Church. The service will feature a joint choir, communion, and foot washing.
Emmanuel is located at 14 Hope Street, at the corner of Hope Street and East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. The building is ADA accessible and all are invited to attend.
Mother Teresa has been declared a saint in a canonization mass held by Pope Francis
September 4,2016
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Vatican City, Mother Teresa has been declared a saint in a canonization mass held by Pope Francis in the Vatican.Pope Francis delivered the formula nun’s canonization before huge crowds of Catholic pilgrims.Two miraculous cures of the sick after Mother Teresa’s death in 1997 have been attributed to her intercession.
Fr. James Martin, SJ commented on Facebook, “Just canonized this morning by Pope Francis, I believe her to be the greatest saint of modern times. Why? Because other saints have done what she did–lead a life of heroic sanctity, serve the poor and found a religious order. But all of them had the benefit of a rich prayer life. Mother Teresa, as letters published after her death, would show, did not. She suffered from a feeling of distance from God for the last 50 years of her life, after an earlier series of mystical experiences. She did what she did on an empty tank, relying on those earlier experiences. Her life, then, was a remarkable and unprecedented act of fidelity. St. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!”
Out of the Shadows: Wicca Grows in Austin and Beyond
ByQILING WANG
For Reporting Texas
Ed Fitch, a Wiccan senior high priest, prepares for a blessing ritual at a Wiccan gathering in Monkey Nest Coffee, Austin. Qiling Wang/Reporting Texas
Mary Caldwell has spiky pink hair, tattooed arms and works in customer service for a software company. She’s also the leader of a Wicca meet-up that gathers every other Monday at Monkey Nest Coffee on Burnet Road.
On a recent Monday evening, she led the group in a discussion of numerology – the belief that numbers have mystical meanings – as well as rituals and personal experiences with spirits. Recently, some members of the group had visited a local cemetery to commune with spirits.
“Some of the people in the group just see them, some just hear them and some of them just smell them,” said Caldwell, 44. “It was great fun.”
Wicca is a modern version of ancient pagan religions, created in England and brought to the United States in the 1960s. Its followers worship a goddess and a god, honor the Earth and practice ritual magic. They follow the Wiccan Rede, a statement of principles that stresses the importance of doing no harm.
“We believe that everything is part of the One,” said Ed Fitch, 80, a Wiccan senior high priest and a member of Caldwell’s meet-up group, one of several Wiccan or witches’ groups in Austin. “Everything in the universe is linked to everything else in the universe.”
https://reportingtexas.com/out-of-the-shadows-witchcraft-expands-in-austin-and-beyond/
Media Ignore Deposed UN Climate Chief: Fighting Climate Change Is ‘My Religion’
Media Ignore Deposed UN Climate Chief: Fighting Climate Change Is ‘My Religion’
By Tim Graham | February 28, 2015 | 9:57 AM EST
As Joseph Rossell noted earlier, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, the scientist leading the fight against “climate change” at the United Nations, resigned after some sexual-harassment allegations surfaced against him in his home country of India, and the networks completely ignored it.
So it’s also obvious that they also ignored the shocking admission in Dr. Pachauri’s resignation letter: fighting against global warming, he said, was “my religion.”
“For me, the protection of planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma [the path of righteousness].”
Investors’ Business Daily explored this on its editorial page on Friday:
And all this time we were supposed to believe that global warming and climate change were about rigorous science. Pachauri’s admission merely confirms what we have said for years. The zealots have concocted a warming religion .
This is an observation also made by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who told a gathering at the Cato Institute in fall 2009 that all of environmentalism, not just the climate-change belief system, “is a religion.”
University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse made a similar remark a year later. “When everything is evidence of the thing you want to believe, it might be time to stop pretending you’re all about science,” she wrote in her blog.
Pope makes strong, silent anti-abortion statement
Pope makes strong, silent anti-abortion statement
generally avoided hot-button “culture war” issues like abortion, arguing that the church’s doctrine on the sanctity of life is well-known and that he’d rather emphasize other aspects of church teaching.
But he made a strong, albeit silent anti-abortion statement Saturday during his visit to South Korea, stopping to pray at a monument for aborted babies in a community dedicated to caring for people with the sort of severe genetic disabilities that are often used to justify abortions.
Francis bowed his head in prayer before the monument — a garden strewn with simple white wooden crosses — and spoke with an anti-abortion activist with no arms and no legs.
He also spent an hour blessing dozens of disabled Koreans who live in the Kkottongnae community, founded by a priest in the 1970s to take in disabled children and adults abandoned by their families. There is still tremendous stigma and discrimination against people with disabilities in South Korea, and supporters of the Kkottongnae community argue that if it didn’t take these people in, no one would.
https://news.yahoo.com/pope-makes-strong-silent-anti-abortion-statement-091221661.html
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was too certain in the past about rising temperatures
Environmentalism has “become a religion” and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that “it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
Speaking to the Guardian for an interview ahead of a landmark UN climate science report on Monday on the impacts of climate change, Lovelock said of the warnings of climate catastrophe in his 2006 book, Revenge of Gaia: “I was a little too certain in that book. You just can’t tell what’s going to happen.”
“It [the impact from climate change] could be terrible within a few years, though that’s very unlikely, or it could be hundreds of years before the climate becomes unbearable,” he said.
Lovelock’s comments appear to be at odds with dire forecasts from a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday, which leaked versions show will warn that even small temperature rises will bring “abrupt and irreversible changes” to natural systems, including Arctic sea ice and coral reefs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/30/james-lovelock-environmentalism-religion