http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sin/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:45:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416455/posts Thursday, March 12 PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery. Pittsfield police responded to a call shortly before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the city's Morningside neighborhood, where the assault allegedly occurred. Stephanie K. Lighten, 26, was released on personal recognizance after denying the allegations in Central Berkshire District Court Wednesday morning. Jennifer A. Lighten, 33, told police that Stephanie Lighten, her wife, was "all liquored up" when she returned to their Lincoln Street apartment, where the defendant then allegedly tried to use a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416455/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416360/posts SIN! THE ONLY REAL EVIL PHYSICAL EVIL. The world is for ever complaining and murmuring about the supposed evils that oppress it. It complains of poverty, of hard work, of pain and sickness, and of disease and death. But can such things be truly called evil? Can we rightly stigmatize as evil that which may be made an occasion of immense good? How can we truly say, for instance, that poverty is an evil, when our Divine Lord Himself, says:---"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matt, vi, 3)? Or again, are hard work... Catholic Treasures http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416360/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:26:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412633/posts A Ugandan legislator who proposed the highly contested Anti-Homosexuality Bill insists the measure is being misconstrued. "There has been a distortion in the media that we are providing death for gays. That is not true," ruling party MP David Bahati said on BBC. "When a homosexual defiles a kid of less than 18 years old, we are providing a penalty for this." The bill, which is currently being debated by a parliamentary committee, has drawn global attention from gay rights advocates and religious leaders alike, many of whom are condemning the legislation for promoting hatred and handing down severe penalties... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412633/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412631/posts Ellen Goodman is morally troubled. The liberal columnist for The Boston Globe surveys the moral landscape and laments "there's no shame in the game." Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, whose observations are predictably liberal and feminist, but also marked by a keen eye for cultural detail. I still remember a column she wrote almost thirty years ago about an abandoned church being transformed into a condominium. In "Whatever Happened to Shame?," published in the December 18 edition of the Boston paper, Goodman reports that The New York Post has hired Ashley Dupre, the prostitute at the center of the... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412631/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412368/posts There is a MEAN, VIOLENT streak to the true Christian life...But violence against WHOM or WHAT? YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412368/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411414/posts Evangelical Church Opens Doors Fully To Gays Renegade pastor in Denver finds new followers, but makes enemies too DENVER - The auditorium lights turned low, the service begins with the familiar rhythms of church: children singing, hugs and handshakes of greeting, a plea for donations to fix the boiler. Then the 55-year-old pastor with spiked gray hair and blue jeans launches into his weekly welcome, a poem-like litany that includes the line "queer or straight here, there's no hate here." The Rev. Mark Tidd initially used the word "gay." But he changed it to "queer" because it's the preferred term... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411414/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407477/posts Now the Dem libs have gone way over the line with California Senator Diane Feinstein laying out the devil’s doctrine. She focuses especially regarding abortion. allvoice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407477/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404958/posts We have seen Tiger Woods plastered all over the news lately - first for his automobile accident on Nov. 27th, and then for one alleged affair after another, multiple adulterous affairs with various women all over the country. The most recent spread count is 12. It seems like Tiger Wood's reputation will forever be tarnished, endorsement deals lost, both kids and adults alike will have lost one more sports hero they could look up to, so even though it's been just two weeks into this golfer's very public nightmare, the question that begs answering is: Can any good come of... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404958/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2402314/posts When people see us, they need to see the Christ Spirit in us. This cannot be if we separate ourselves from God as miserable sinners. That is self righteous hypocrisy. People saying they do what they want because they are miserable sinners. That is saying sin is God's fault. Jesus called us to be one in Christ. John 17:20-23. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2402314/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398676/posts VATICAN CITY — Homosexuals and transsexuals "will never enter the kingdom of heaven", a leading Roman Catholic cardinal said on Wednesday. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said that while the Church regarded homosexuality as an "insult to God", this did not justify discrimination against gay and transsexual people. "Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven and it is not me who says this, but Saint Paul," the cardinal said, in comments reported by the Ansa news agency. "People are not born homosexual, they become homosexual, for different reasons: education issues or because they did not develop their own... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398676/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399949/posts On the night Campbell elected the youngest openly gay mayor in America, hundreds rallied in Vallejo to protest their mayor following his remarks about gays and heaven. Demonstrators bearing rainbow flags and signs outside Vallejo City Hall Tuesday night directed their ire at Osby Davis for his comments in a New York Times' article about the growing political clout of Evangelicals. Davis, who narrowly (and we mean narrowly) defeated gay rival Gary Cloutier in 2007, told Scott James that those pearly, beatific gates would remain shut for gays. "... they are in fact committing sin and that sin will keep... SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399949/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:54:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399027/posts Does being totally depraved mean we're always sinning no matter what? Yes. Romans 14:23 says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin." And so you don't even need total depravity. You just need unbelief in order to say that everything a person does who is not a believer is sin. Maybe another word on that. Why is that the case? If you have a son, and you want him to do something, and he does the thing-like unbelievers don't usually kill people, OK? So they're obeying that commandment, "Don't kill," but why are they doing that? Are they doing it... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399027/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392460/posts Homosexual behavior has been successfully marketed as a "rights" issue. For instance, if you dare to oppose homosexual marriage, even though the vast majority of Americans do and have demonstrated in referendum after referendum, those in the public eye run the risk of vilification and ostracism for articulating such positions. On Friday, more than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration reaffirming their opposition to homosexual marriage on the basis of protecting religious freedom. While I agree that government's granting of special "rights" based on aberrant sexual behavior is a religious... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392460/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391941/posts The newest threat to the United States is the Oval Office’s Marxist Muslim and his shadow government/czars impregnating evil government. He is out to destroy our democracy, in that sense beheading the infidels. He has long publicly witnessed that he is Muslim, though too many have never recognized that as fact. TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391941/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2386816/posts A play depicting Jesus as a gay man played to an appreciative audience in a packed church sanctuary tonight while a handful of protesters outside called it blasphemous. It was the second showing of "Corpus Christi" in Orange County in about two years. The show sparked protests and bomb threats at its 1998 opening at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. The play depicts Jesus as a gay man living in 1950s Corpus Christi, Texas, playwright Terrence McNally's hometown. The cast of 13 portray Jesus and the 12 Apostles. The Church of the Foothills in Santa Ana received hate... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2386816/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387056/posts Marriage rates are at an all-time low, a fact that has ramifications for all of us. Most people have no clue about the differences between marriage and cohabitation, thus they are completely blasé about a trend that undermines one of the basic foundations of civil society. I developed the following chart to note the significant differences between the two relationships. The number of couples in the United States who are "living together" without marriage has increased nearly 1,000 percent since 1970. Living together has become the "normative experience," with nearly 50 percent of young adults aged twenty to forty cohabiting.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387056/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:22:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2384182/posts The second-largest Lutheran congregation in Minnesota has decided that it is not going to wait any longer to withdraw from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) over the denomination's August vote to permit gay preachers. In his November newsletter to the members of Hosanna Lutheran Church in Lakeville, the Rev. Bill Bohline said that the church is going to scrap its original plan to wait six to eight months . . . Minneapolis Star-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2384182/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383394/posts Glasgow, United Kingdom, Nov 9, 2009 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Glasgow has denounced a publicly funded play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual, saying it is a “provocative and offensive abuse” of Christian beliefs. He suggested the event is part of an agenda to “mock Christianity.”The play “Queen of Heaven” is being staged in the Tron Theatre as part of the publicly funded “Glasgay!” arts festival, which describes itself as “Scotland’s Annual celebration of queer culture,” the BBC reports. Some 300 people held a candlelight protest of the play outside the theatre.Festival producer Steven Thomson described... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383394/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375265/posts Today there are many different views and thoughts about just what the term “Sin” means. Just the word alone gives people the Hee-bee-Gee-bees. People do not like to think of themselves as “Sinners.” They say or think, “Well, I’m not that bad. I’ve never killed anyone. If you only knew the good I do...(and so on and so forth).” These statements and sentiments are expressed in attempting to justify themselves in light of the realities of their "sinful"condition. (John 3:19-21, Hebrews 6:1; 9:14). Sin, as defined in God’s Word, the Bible, is the transgression and violation of the righteousness and... The Ignorant Fishermen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375265/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371015/posts Striping away the nuance of public discourse and gazing at the underlying foundation of competing belief systems seems to reveal two general camps into which people fall. There are those who believe, for whatever reason and to varying degrees, that human beings have evolved from lower animal or social forms and are continuing to evolve toward some future perfection or apotheosis. Conversely, there are those who believe man is inherently flawed, limited, and in a very literal way retarded. I believe the latter self-evident, and wish to ask those who believe the former to present me with an answer to... Fightin Words http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371015/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:34:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2369283/posts The generations following the sin of Adam and Eve proceeded upon a path of moral degeneration. Cain, in a jealous rage, impulsively killed his brother Abel. In the next generation, Tuvel-Kain perfected the crime of Cain through manufacturing weapons. Then, Lemach boasted to his wives of committing pre-meditative murder. Idolatry flourished during the time of Enosh. Organized crime was established by a group of hoodlums called "The sons of El-ohim." Sexual perversion was rampant in Noah's generation. Torah (Biblical) tradition teaches that there are three cardinal sins that a person should choose death rather than be forced to commit. They... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2369283/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365212/posts Why We Are Going to Hell – Part 5,291 The Abomination in the Temple bythelastcrusade.org A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop has been charged with the distribution and selling of child pornography after a random search of his laptop at the Ottawa airport, a police source confirmed to the press. His Eminence Raymond Lahey, 69, was returning to Canada from the United States when Canadian Border Services Agency officials found images on his computer. Bishop Lahey resigned from governing the diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia last weekend. In his letter to his flock, the Bishop said that he needed time... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365212/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:05:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362328/posts Controversy Erupts as Catholic Bishop Asks Pro-Gay Bishop Not to Enter His Diocese By Peter J. Smith MARQUETTE, Michigan, October 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A public controversy has erupted between two bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, with one of the youngest bishops in the country publicly taking on one of his own colleagues in an effort to defend the Church's teachings on homosexuality and other issues. Marquette Bishop Alexander K. Sample, 49-years-old and one of the youngest US Catholic bishops, recently banned Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 79, a retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit and... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362328/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362469/posts He used to perform abortions. Then he returned to his Catholic faith. Now, Dr. John Bruchalski's mission is to help spread the message of Divine Mercy through his medical practice. His powerful conversion story is why planners for the upcoming North American Congress on Mercy have invited him to give his witness for the historic Nov. 14-15 event. First, he founded the Tepeyac Family Center in 1994. The obstetrical and gynecological facility in Fairfax, Va., combines the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ. Then, in 2000, he founded Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit organization performing... Fathers of Mercy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362469/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361348/posts SALISBURY, NC (WBTV)- More than 500 people packed St. Paul's Lutheran church in Salisbury Monday to discuss issues surrounding gay marriage and gay clergy. Members from Lutheran churches across North Carolina discussed the possibility of moving away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The ELCA voted last month to bless same-sex marriages and allow gay pastors to lead congregations... which left members divided. "We want to provide an avenue for them. For support and encouragement while they work through in their own congregations what they want to do," Pastor Carl haynes says. Clergy members also told us many... WBTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361348/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:42 GMT