http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/religiousintolerance/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:55:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420239/posts You guys, whose fault is this? Seriously, who built these 19 hideous nativity scenes? Hmmm? No one is going to step forward? Babes and dude-babes, this is soooo not cool. We here at Urlesque have been bringing you nothing but nonstop kick-ass ultra good holiday coverage and now you go and do this. Did we do something to hurt your feelings? Talk to us! Someone please explain the 19 depressing, crazy and downright awful nativity scenes below! Urlesque http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420239/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:55:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413838/posts SAN FRANCISCO — It was the week before Christmas when Irv Sutley, a former warehouse worker, first saw the offending ornament in a government building in Sonoma County, just north of here. “I was turning around in the lobby, and I noticed the tree,” Mr. Sutley said. “And then, I noticed the angel.” Mr. Sutley, an atheist, said he then went to the office of the county Board of Supervisors. “And there was a star,” he said. Technically, neither stars nor angels belong to any particular religion. But to the mind of Mr. Sutley, 65, a veteran who has fought... El Paso Inc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413838/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384173/posts Whoops, sorry -- this isn't backlash against the poor, innocent Muslims being terrorized and victimized by the thousands after the Fort Hood Nothing-To-Do-With-Islam attack. This is just the familiar Muslim backlash against non-Muslims, which will increasingly be a feature of American life in the coming years. Nothing to see here. Move along. "Man arrested for 'anti-Christian' mall disturbance: Kiosk employee allegedly tore a crucifix from someone's neck," by Emily West for the Danville Express, November 10 (thanks to Bob): Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix... jihadwatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384173/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383117/posts The FBI is investigating terrorism threats posted on a homosexual blog that appear to be aimed at Christians. Pro-family activists have drawn attention to a disturbing exchange on a homosexual blog run by Joe Jervis of New York. The exchange takes place between individuals named Fritz and Tex in the comment section of a blog discussing the Maine homosexual marriage defeat and pro-family activists Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. LaBarbera says the two commentators discussed carrying out acts of terrorism against Christians. "One guy [Fritz] sort of raises [the concept] and... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383117/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2378699/posts Malaysia Withholds 'Allah Bibles' By Robert Pigott BBC News, Religious affairs correspondent About two-thirds of Malaysia's population is Muslim The Malaysian government has refused to release 10,000 Bibles which it seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God. The government, which is dominated by Muslim Malays, claims that the word Allah is Islamic and that its use in Bibles could upset Muslims. The Roman Catholic Church is challenging the ban in court. Religion has become highly sensitive in Malaysia, where about two-thirds of the population is Muslim. Religious minorities have accused the government of undermining their rights.... BBCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2378699/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:02:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377724/posts Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012. The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro because he is "against organised religion", he was fearful of the Islamic religious decree for a sequence that was planned but not shot. The 53-year-old wanted to demolish the Kaaba, which is a cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca and is... digital spy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377724/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372975/posts Love Can Mess You Up: Before Arthur David Horn met his future bride Lynette (a "metaphysical healer") in 1988, he was a tenured professor at Colorado State, with a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale, teaching a mainstream course in human evolution. With Lynette's guidance (after a revelatory week with her in California's Trinity Mountains, searching for Bigfoot), Horn evolved, himself, resigning from Colorado State and seeking to remedy his inadequate Ivy League education. At a conference in Denver in September, Horn said he now realizes that humans come from an alien race of shape-shifting reptilians that continue to control civilization... News of the Weird via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372975/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372070/posts The calendar has been produced by the Madrid Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual collective COGAM Controversy in Madrid with the launch of a 2010 lay calendar which shows images of ‘transsexual virgins’ recreating religious scenes decorated with crowns, condoms and phallic symbols. The lay calendar takes the religion out of the dates of the year, so Christmas Day becomes the day you eat the traditional Spanish turron to mark International Democracy Day, for example. The images are all based on famous Catholic images and iconography. The Venezuelan photographer who assembled the calendar, Juan Antinoo, had been commissioned by COGAM, the... Typically Spanish http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372070/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371222/posts After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the council to complain that the event had been allowed to go ahead. But instead of a simple acknowledgement, she received a letter warning her she might be guilty of a hate crime and that the matter had been passed to police. Two officers later turned up at the frightened grandmother's home and lectured her about her choice of words before telling her she would not be prosecuted Mrs Howe, 67, whose husband Peter is understood to be a Baptist minister, yesterday spoke of her shock at the... Mail Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371222/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:28:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363283/posts A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night as it launched a massive campaign to impose sharia law on Britain. The fanatical group Islam4UK has ­announced plans to hold a potentially ­incendiary rally in London later this month. And it is calling for a complete upheaval of the British legal system, its officials and ­legislation. Members have urged Muslims from all over Britain to converge on the capital on October 31 for a procession to demand the full implementation of sharia law. The procession – dubbed March 4 Shari’ah – will start at the House of Commons, which the group’s... Freedom's Cost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363283/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:15:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361359/posts Islamic Groups Shut Down Worship of Church in Indonesia The Rev. Bedali Hulu (photo: Compass) Under pressure from Islamists, local officials order halt to services in home. JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 5 (CDN) — Several Islamic organizations have pressed officials in a sub-district near Indonesia’s capital city to forbid Jakarta Christian Baptist Church to worship in a house, resulting in an order to cease services. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the Betawi Forum Group, and political party Hizbut Tahrir have told officials in Sepatan sub-district, Tangerang district, near Jakarta that worship activities cannot be conducted in a residence. The house belongs... Compass Direct http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361359/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357570/posts The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practise Islam, a landmark study has claimed. Britain has a total of 1,647,000 Muslims - just 2.7 per cent of the British population, and 0.1 per cent of the global Muslim population, the report claimed. The Pew Forum report also revealed that Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon - or North and South America combined. It claimed that about five per cent of Europe's population practises Islam - and that there are more Muslims living in Asia than in the Middle East.... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357570/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:02:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352491/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fbYKD7xcQ&feature=related America under Barack Obama in 2010 Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352491/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:47:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2336451/posts A homosexual man is suing a third national Bible publisher for "mental anguish" after he says the company published Bibles with a negative connotation toward homosexuals. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Mich., alleges Tyndale House Publishers manipulated Scripture when it published Tyndale's New Living Translation Holy Bible and the New Life Application Study Bible by using the term "homosexuals" in a New Testament passage, 1 Corinthians 6:9. "One Bible dictates homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom of God, while the other is completely void on the issue altogether," Fowler wrote in a statement on his blog. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2336451/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335562/posts Agnostic attorney Clarence Darrow once said, "I don‘t believe in God, because I don’t believe in Mother Goose." Now those controversial words and others are being used in part of a new push to promote the thinking of atheists and agnostics. Dozens of new ads will target the people of San Francisco. The campaign is the brainchild of the Midwest-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, which represents some 14,000 nonbelievers across the country. The association has been working since 1978 to keep church and state separate. The ads are already popping up on city buses. The group ordered 75 exterior signs... NBC Bay Area http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335562/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331361/posts LOS ANGELES, CA, September 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In all of his 16 years defending the rights of Catholics, the President of the Catholic League has "never seen a more defamatory, obscene and vicious show on TV."  League President Bill Donohue was referring to the August 27 edition of the CBS/Showtime program Penn & Teller.  The half-hour show libeled the Catholic Church with impunity, blaming the Church for, as Donohue put it, "every evil in history." Show host Jillette said the "intolerance, greed, paranoia, hypocrisy and callous disregard for human suffering" was the hallmark of the Catholic Church. Others on... LifeSite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331361/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323506/posts Imagine that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world — for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. That’s a big undertaking and it takes time, concentration, dedication. Yet you find your precious time continually preyed upon, and your class’s attention distracted, by a baying pack of ignoramuses (as a Latin scholar... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323506/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:41:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321360/posts Lonewolf Diaries: Brad Pitt Leading the Anti-Christian Charge Posted By Steven Crowder On August 18, 2009 @ 5:40 pm In Celebrity News, Featured Story, Lone Wolf Diaries, Religion | 235 Comments I should say right off the bat that I can’t just blame Brad Pitt. The plague of closed-mindedness permeates every corner of Hollywood… Brad Pitt just happens to be the one who’s most recently crystallized it so perfectly. Much like the time Megan Fox tipped Tinseltown’s hand when she said that if given the chance, she’d urge Megatron to only murder the “white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321360/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313612/posts The so-called New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. Others in the science community question the value of confrontation.This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book, "The Greatest Show on Earth," will inform and regale us with the stunning "evidence for evolution," as the subtitle says. It will surely be an impressive display, as Dawkins excels at making the case for evolution. But it's also fair to ask: Who in the United... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313612/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313552/posts Very few people in the West know what is going on inside the Muslim world and what it portends for them. The fact is that through the dominant media, such as CNN, Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world. The result is that Americans are in the dark attempting to formulate their strategy of how to defend themselves against the threat of terror, domestic jihad and Sharia. While Americans get ridiculed for being “Islamophobes,” the Muslim world itself is undergoing a huge and painful awakening. FPM.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313552/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:17:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304840/posts The leader of an Islamic sect blamed for days of deadly violence in Nigeria has been killed in police custody, police officials say.The news came just hours after security forces said they had captured Mohammed Yusuf in the city of Maiduguri. Mr Yusuf led Boko Haram, which wants to overthrow the government and impose a strict version of Islamic law.Hundreds of people have died in five days of clashes between his followers and security forces."He has been killed. You can come and see his body at the state police command headquarters," Isa Azare, spokesman for the Maiduguri police command, told... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304840/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302738/posts A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school's principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam. Gerald Marsazalek has coached wrestling for 35 years at Dearborn Public Schools, amassing more than 450 wins and, in addition to being added to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, was named "Sportsman of the Year" by the All-American Athletic Association. Despite Marsazalek's success, however, Principal Imad Fadlallah of Dearborn's Fordson High School... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302738/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276740/posts Do you believe in God? Really? And you're willing to admit it in public? Oops. Sorry, for a moment I slipped back into the arrogant Atheism of my youth. Before my parents had children, they decided to raise their kids in a secular home. We had gifts at Christmas time and chocolate covered matzoh during Passover, but there was no religion and certainly no God. When I was in grade school, God was just a kind of nondescript character who popped up in Little House on the Prairie books from time to time. He seemed like a decent enough fellow,... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276740/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:33:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276745/posts It seems one man’s religious freedom is another man’s “ridiculous prejudice.” One government official fumed that Catholic doctors were refusing to perform abortions-abortions that were perfectly legal. He wrote in a memo: “After all, these scruples are in most cases nothing but ridiculous prejudices . . . One is tempted to ask: where does state authority come in these cases, or else, is the state, perhaps, not anxious to assert its authority in this particular instance?” Well, Nazi Germany was seldom hesitant to assert its authority, even over religion and individual conscience. As described in the June/July issue of First... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276745/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:45:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262881/posts The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often happens in real life, right?). The Trust has backed an earlier BBC ruling that there is "no reason why viewers would have been given the impression that the fanatics in the programme were evangelical Christians or that the programme gave an offensive portrayal of such people". We are deep into the realms of BBC bias and ignorance here. Only a BBC drama series would, to quote the complainant,... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262881/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:46:37 GMT