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In what has to be one of the most brilliant marketing moves, former prostitutes are now preaching the word of God.

The hookers are using their knowledge and experience performing rusty trombones, Cleavland steamers, blumpkins, and dirty sanchezes, to convert non believers to put their love in Jesus Christ.

While many call them dirty vag whores whose recently stained lips should never mention the Lords name, others call them to have sex for money.

The controversy will continue but one thing will remain the same, women can sell anything as long as they have working vaginas.

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And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our "You're not getting any fucking presents!"

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via Eric Lodwick

How come I'm not suprised that this "find" comes from guys from Texas, and if you follow the links on their site, clearly Right Wing guys from Texas.  It's not a good sign when your "Scientific team" has a mission of "validat(ing) to the world that the Bible is ture, and that it represents an accurate, non-fictional account of God's will to bring the people of this world into relationship with Him."  Shouldn't your mission be...ummm, more...I don't know -- scientific?  Kind of like the anti-global warming "scientists" saying up front, "Our mission is to prove to the world that Global Warming was made up by Al Gore to help the terrorists take over America and make white people slaves to minorities."  I tend to trust less agenda-driven, and less Exxon funded science.  Or in this case, less "George Bush is our King David" driven "science."

I'm prepared for another "Piltdown Man."  Somehow, I doubt an ark the size of a small aircraft carrier could carry two of every animal in the world.  We need to call in the Daily Show "Wood Specialist," because I also don't think any wood, even the mythical "Gopher Wood," as the Bible calls the ark's material, could survive for tens of thousands of years.  Of course, if they are right, I'm fully prepared to count every word of the Bible as scientifically accurate and instructive, including: Living in a whale's stomach, a 5,000 year old earth, the "sun standing still" (wait, doesn't it always stand still, guess not...silly Copernicus), not shaving, and stoning adulterers.

Oh, wow. These Christians keep getting stranger and stranger. I wish they had one of these in my church.

read Six Flags Over Jesus

Holy frickin' crap!  And I was kinda starting to like Rick Warren.  Read the whole thing; it's unbelievable...ye' of little faith.
Talk To Action | The Purpose Driven Life Takers

Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.

SoMA whips it out once again with "For the Love of Agape," a fabulous look at what an evangelical sex shop might provide. My favorite excerpt:

New Agape-Approved Sex Books:

• “The Illustrated Song of Solomon.”
• “The Complete Story of Adam and Eve,” with glossy photographs; comes in fig-leaf or no-fig-leaf versions, depending on your inhibitions.
• “Love Stories From the Bible”: Includes: Abraham and Sarah and Pharaoh; Isaac and Rebecca and Leah; King Solomon and Seven Hundred Wives and Three Hundred Concubines (diagrams included).
• “Loving with Authority” (for men only) by Rev. Richard Land.
• “The Women’s Sex Guide: Complete Submission for Complete Satisfaction,” by James Dobson.
• “Celibacy is Not a Hands-On Job: Or Play with Yourself, Play with Fire,” by Cardinal Ratzinger.

For the last 10 years I've always gone to church on Maundy Thursday. Last night I missed the service because of work so I went kind of late at night, during a full moon, and hung out in the chapel for the vigil. (Episcopal churches strip the altar of all communion stuff, then some churches have an all-night vigil -- representing staying up to pray with Jesus in the garden of G as he asked). Anyway, it's the first time that I've ever done a real DIY church service -- when I got there the chapel had about 15 other people in it, and when I left it was down to about 5.

Fun things first: there was a guy in the front row with a big head cold who kept sniffing, which didn't bother me, and would occasionally say some two-word phrase out loud, which also didn't bother me. My favorite: "Oy Vey". I was momentarily distracted by that to laugh.

2nd fun thing: my eyes were closed most of the time because I meditate better that way, but one of the times they were open a very yummy and friendly and straight-looking guy came into the chapel. I was momentarily distracted by the shock of a hot, seemingly straight, dude, at an Episcopal church for a tiny little ritual. I'm still intrigued. I didn't see if he had a wedding ring on.

Anyway, I was able to get past the distraction and decided to structure meditation in the old "how to pray" way -- Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition -- ie God is great, thank God, I messed up, pray for others, pray for myself.

I've been hearing more and more of this "revisionist" history of Judas lately.  In fact, I even heard mention of it at a Holy Thursday service a few years ago.  The question remains: Was Judas simply fulfilling the plan for his life and helping Jesus fulfill God's plan for salvation? 

Regardless, I like that this text and others remind us that tradition and church leadership has been an important factor in shaping the modern Bible.  To many people see the Bible as similar to the Islamic belief on the Koran--a book handed down directly from God to man--rather than a set of documents that came together over hundreds of years guided by the Holy Spirit.  There's some of my Catholic theology coming at you!

New Twist on Judas in Ancient Text

Made in 300 A.D. in Coptic script on 13 sheets of papyrus, both front and back, the document is believed to be a translation of the original Gospel of Judas, written in Greek the century before.

Presented on Thursday by the National Geographic Society at a news conference in Washington, D.C., the Gospel of Judas was discovered in the Egyptian desert near Beni Masar in the 1970s.

I praise my Lord and Savior that someone (Rick Scarborough) is finally bringing attention to the plight of persecuted Christians. He could have joined with the popular crowd and stood up for persecuted Christians in China, North Korea, or those being massacred in Sudan, but come on, enough is being done for them. Besides, is it really that bad? Thank God that Scarborough and "Christians" across America are defending their persecuted brethren, like Tom Delay.

The persecution of St. Hammer so reminds me of the fate suffered by Perpetua and Felicitas. Just read this description and you'll find some eerie similarities to Delay's sufferings. Won't this type of persecution ever end!

At the demand of the pagan mob they were first scourged; then a boar, a bear, and a leopard, were set at the men, and a wild cow at the women. Wounded by the wild animals, they gave each other the kiss of peace and were then put to the sword.

The stoning of Stephen, the boiling of John, Nero using Christians as human torches, or those secular bullies using the "politics of personal destruction," it's all the same, and it must STOP!

Just like St. Hammer, the martyrs would rather die than renounce their relationship with a misunderstood and disgraced man, Jesus (Jack Abramoff).