Lets get this straight.. Saucy Wrap. B7bHL.png (540×361) IuavE.jpg (565×424) O7CuM.jpg (480×384) 6fs6A.png (556×412) This might be a repost I'm not sure, but I really like this quote. Ly7Jm.jpg (595×300) My friend's response to this picture was epic... thought it belonged here. ErVXL.jpg (794×871) 532255_10151052952191368_1238083376_n.jpg (611×396) LxL8f.jpg (1719×1518) Christian Logic. qPAAe.png (640×480) "We are a sorry lot indeed" Z2Icb.png (1280×575) The Ideal Government. wIDcw.jpg (1280×800) 334q104.jpg (320×265) 978BH.png (512×290) 9CpHZ.jpg (454×279) _m2rod5LoTF1qhesppo1_500.jpg (500×646) SzVmi.jpg (900×1200) ASo3v.jpg (518×400) hCwck.jpg (604×418) What I am posting next time I see that "Atheism... Makes perfect sense" paragraph of BS. Just made it, comments? Lemjn.jpg (400×240) 7iPwE.png (498×1127) Found on my Facebook feed. Done by highschool students. XqviU.jpg (1485×988) 42OgJ.jpg (500×390) UW5jz.jpg (1280×1024) WqnxV.gif (980×3667)
Deradius comments on I aint even mad. Ude96.jpg (712×252) pCb9b.jpg (960×603) UnlCG.jpg (500×800) s162n.png (912×549) Pope Benedict IX. Pope Benedict IX (Latin: Benedictus IX; c. 1012 – c. 1056), born Theophylactus of Tusculum in Rome, was Pope on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048.[1] Aged approximately 20 at his first election, he is one of the youngest popes in history. He is the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy. Biography[edit] Benedict was the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX. His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia[2] and other sources, Benedict IX was when made pontiff, around 11 or 12.[3] He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and allegedly had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family.
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6lpph.jpg (580×709) Going Godless: Does Secularism Make People More Ethical? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Barry Kosmin is a different kind of market researcher. His data focuses on consumers targeted by companies like Lifechurch.tv or World Overcomers Christian Church TM. The sociologist analyzes church-affiliated commercial entities, from souvenir shops to television channels and worship services.
But the most significant target of Kosmin's research is the consumer group most likely to shy away from such commercial products: secularists. "The non-religious, or Nones, hold the fastest-growing world view in the market," says Kosmin. The director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in the US state of Connecticut, Kosmin is among the few researchers focused on the study of non-believers. Secularists make up some 15 percent of the global population, or about 1 billion people.
"Sometimes I feel like Christopher Columbus on an expedition to an unknown continent," says Kosmin. US Churches Losing Millions of Members Germany Serves as Case Study. Dutch rethink Christianity for a doubtful world. 5 August 2011Last updated at 11:18 By Robert Pigott Religious affairs correspondent, Amsterdam The Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he's not the sort of man to sugar the pill. The Exodus Church is part of the mainstream Protestant Church in the Netherlands An imposing figure in black robes and white clerical collar, Mr Hendrikse presides over the Sunday service at the Exodus Church in Gorinchem, central Holland. It is part of the mainstream Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), and the service is conventional enough, with hymns, readings from the Bible, and the Lord's Prayer.
But the message from Mr Hendrikse's sermon seems bleak - "Make the most of life on earth, because it will probably be the only one you get". "Personally I have no talent for believing in life after death," Mr Hendrikse says. Nor does Klaas Hendrikse believe that God exists at all as a supernatural thing. "I think 'Son of God' is a kind of title," she says. JSaRu.jpg (450×337) Ch4oe.png (580×322) w67JK.jpg (1024×683) Ezekiel 23:19-21 - Passage Lookup - New International Version, ©2011 - BibleGateway.com. Our Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians. "It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points.
The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others. " James Madison, "James Madison on Religious Liberty", edited by Robert S. Alley, ISBN 0-8975-298-X. pp. 237-238 . "What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Abraham Lincoln's Humanistic Religious Beliefs.