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...experience in battle.” Judges 3:1-2 ( NLT) B eginning on January 1, 2006, my church began the Bible in 90 Days reading challenge. I’ve read through th... ...is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this wor... ...gelo, Vaughan, and even Shakespeare, all spoke unashamedly of God. Painting, sculpture, visual art, theatre, explored His virtues and praised His holy... ...are driving a message toward the green of a person’s heart. Some of us write romance. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through le... ...in folders and boxes believing they were not eloquent. I was amazed when our church published a book of my Advent devotionals for mothers in the 1970s... ...worthy. Oh, Paul has written some letters which he tells me are read by the churches he has started.” Love, Dad, John. My story, “My Best Friend,” wo... ...od of those who love him, who have been called according to his purposes.” Romans 8.28 (NIV) I n a cartoon, an aspiring author, holding his manuscri... ... Raul Escobar. He told the woman of the house in Argentina, “I…I think I’m a Catholic.” She replied, “That is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. You d... ...eorgia. Kate Dolan, after coming east from Chicago to attend college at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, grew 171 attached to t...

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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...has murdered, or exiled his political rivals throughout his career. He confiscated church funds and imposed onerous taxes on the populace. Conseque... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...thodox continued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of leap years ever... ...tion was initiated by blacks. The freedmen lobbied hard and long for separate black churches and educational facilities. Nor was lynching confined t... ...and "All Hallows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also ... ... it gave birth to him - and remained a virgin in perpetuity. This is the official (Catholic) doctrine. But Jesus had brothers and sisters - plent... ...10328.htm http://www.trosch.org/the/brothers.html http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/catholic.htm Jesus, Year of Birth Was Jesus born 2002 years ago?...

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...y little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do just as well as any other woman.” ‘Not a very romantic acceptance, Uncle, which is hardly surpris... ...d. Gavin is not exactly the ardent suitor. He is merely doing his duty by marrying me. Not a very romantic proposal.’ Rosita seemed suddenly anxious... ...married again. Gavin was the son of this second marriage. Helen, herself, had firmly quelled that romantic dream of her adolescence and plunged hers... ...is head in unruly curls. She suddenly thought of the head of Michelangelo’s David, the impressive sculpture she had so admired when she visited Aud... ... shawl around her shoulders. ‘Gavin has already gone out. He said not to keep him waiting at the church tomorrow and he has left this letter and gif... ...iful dress from the night before and she remembered that she would not see Gavin again until the church ceremony. Agnes Cameron had insisted, before... ...fference to the poor was feigned, because the beautiful Creole devoted a great deal of time to a Catholic orphanage on the outskirts of the city. ‘... ...ot wanting them around. You should respect his wishes, Helen,’ said a shocked Rosita, her strict Catholic upbringing unable to accept the hedonisti... ...sticism. To-morrow I will visit my friend, the Senora Hernandez, and ask her to let us borrow her Catholic chaplain, Father Carlos. He will exorcise...

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...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...its own cell divisions. Secondly, this cynicism that a woman, spellbound in romance, robbed a man of his sperm to produce a baby by which to devote h... ...t dressed. She turned on the television but realizing it was Sunday and that church programming had usurped her exorcise regimen she felt disappointed... ... fenced in nice. You know that. You will be happy there. The house is near a Catholic school. You will go there each day with those monkeys of hers. M... ...to not go that far. She drove on and on and soon she could see the roof of a church. In an hour, she thought, there would be the culmination of activi... ...ause one to be as steady and seemingly everlasting as those very walls. The church would shelter the convictions of the myth reinforcers who actively... ...hurch?" Gabriele thought of the Wicca services. They always reminded her of Catholic masses but without the Eucharist. However, they tapped into a m... ...he walls any more than usual." Following the service the boys were sent to a Catholic version of Sunday school and she was paraded in front of a bunch...

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...mised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics say) or completely (as the Protestants say) corrupted by origin... ...ovie, says to Ben-Hur: “You have Messala inside yourself”. Messala is the Roman horseman dressed in black. We have to look at life not as a race ag... ...aken over their consciences. Who was damned and who was chosen? Was it the Church of Rome who decided, or did each person decide for themselves? Lut... ... experiences. I was raised for more than thirty years in a religion, the Catholic religion, that preached love and terror at the same time. The l... ...was not the master of his own life, because God, my mother, the State, the Church etc., are the masters of my life and I am just a tool in their han... ...y invent their gods, they also created immortal masterpieces of beauty, in sculpture, architecture and poetry. The Greek gods symbolically represent... ...e created. Life as a work of art is not intended here like Neitzsche or the Romantics intended it. It is the creation of a unified and unifying field...

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... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ...ossibilities and explain them in their decisions. A medical ethicist at a Catholic hospital will often have a quite different decision on what is et... ...ondoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the rising number of Catholics in Latin America who say they are warning Pope Benedict XVI: tha... ...Latin America who say they are warning Pope Benedict XVI: that unless the Church changes course, it may commit suicide. There is a growing gulf betw... ...anges course, it may commit suicide. There is a growing gulf between many churchgoers who are joined by their grass-roots priests, and the ruling ca... ...atican dogma but in my parish I hold strongly to the official rules of the Church. I wouldn‘t doubt that some of my parishioners use contraception an... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p...

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...ike philosophy, religion, literature, music, the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture and, of course, war. I want to leave the cruelt... ...changed. Just look at your Constitutional requirement for a separation of church and state, then look as how many political candidates have to contin... ... education in Europe, the U.S. or Russia. But Americans are following the Catholic idea which is still officially pushing for more births. Pope Paul... ...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ...e. ―I know that Eastern Europe is reducing its population. Even the Catholic countries, like Hungary, are following the trend. Statisticians e... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...nds the predominant religions fight this need. Islam, Catholicism and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints frown on family planning, ... ... twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have been burned. And, of course, there has b... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the...

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...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e mistakes and crucial errors of perception and judgment: both Newton and the church had already swindled people into believing that there was such ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... .... By it; he destroyed the Right of Kings. He destroyed the Aristocracy, the Church… They were all up in arms against him because of it. Because ... ...ient texts left over from the hated and despised Roman Empire. But then… the Church began preserving these ancient texts and copying them down. Not... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...d sodomy charges today… then what does this say of the one thousand years of Catholic Priests before today…? When such child-protection laws never ...

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...ybe you have to make an appointment or something. Perhaps I have to go to church or do a good deed to get in.” Oh God, Ali’s going religious on me. ... ...nd ticking over. “He once said he’d rather go to hell than be seen dead in church. Do you remember that woman he tried to chat up at the hotel, the o... ...th. The dear Reverend gave me his blessing, but not the type you’d get in church and sped off when the lights turned green. I notice the driver grin... ... a few days of peace. I have to admit, it’s a rather unique poster of the Roman Catholic Church, conveniently stuck to the toilet door. The fridge i... ... days of peace. I have to admit, it’s a rather unique poster of the Roman Catholic Church, conveniently stuck to the toilet door. The fridge is cove... ...m part of me is my hand nestled in his. All right, this is it; this is the romance bit. Let’s see if I can better Jack and Rose’s car romp on the Tit... ...ael enquires with a smile. “Crutching sheep, they’re really daggy.” I’m so romantic; it’s ugly. I might as well drown myself in the toilet and be don... ...kins on our table than in Asia and Steven has arranged the cutlery into a sculpture. Finally, I set eyes on Mr. Late, whose guts I’ll have for dinne...

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... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...orfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing of the fi... ... In the idol temples of Yucatan -- A battle with the natives -- Conversions to Catholicism -- A terrible slaughter of Indians -- Indian maidens distri... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...ot only mis-shapen, but of such enormous size that from their bones and ribs a church had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish ... ..., which they brought into their service and placed as sentinels to guard their churches and grave-yards, and cattle, and other possessions. He asserts... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...a son of Erik, returned to Norway in 999, and finding his country converted to Catholicism, he also embraced the faith, after which he took a priest w... ...en many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Catholics had sent priests to instruct the early Norse settlers of that...

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...e parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was written on parchment (and later printed) and i... ...r. The monopoly of the big publishing houses on everything written - from romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is iro... ... publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ultimately decided by consumer preferences. Multimedia was bor... ...ant of content packaging was labeled as "dangerous" at its inception. The Church (formerly the largest publisher of bibles and other religious and "e... ...dapt by doing the entire public domain, including graphics, music, movies, sculpture, paintings, photographs, etc. . . . Q. PG makes obscure and ina... ... no downloadable compressed files. By far the best among the three is the Catholic Encyclopedia. The 1904 edition of this magnificent work of refere... ...and the CD contain reams of additional material: from the writings of the Church Fathers to numerous foundational texts in the history of Catholicis... ...gs of the Church Fathers to numerous foundational texts in the history of Catholicism. The Web site itself is rich, easy to navigate, expertly done ... ...e against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could act according to heuristic, probabil...

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...hts as well as brilliant news re- porting, avant-garde theater, and shocking sculpture. You can see a role for highbrow, state-supported media or publ... ...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house....Therefore that one covetous and insati... ...known at the time as the only metropolitan newspaper owned by the Unification Church, familiarly referred to as the Moonies. This hardly counted as a d... ...harles re- worded the gospel tune ‘Jesus Is All the World to Me’ adding deep church inflections to the secular rhythms of the nightclubs, and the world... ...coat hanger, the mouse- trap, or long division. One cannot even copyright a “sculpture” if the main function of its design is to serve as a bicycle ra... ...sible today, though there are some relatively prominent counterexamples. The Catholic Church is also a purportedly idealistic institution. It is based...