Crop Circles explained!  A least in Tasmania.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_wallabies_odd

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How does the Orthodox Church view mental illness and does it attribute the cause to biological problems or spiritual attacks.  Mother Melania of St. Barbara's Monastery has done research in the writings of the spiritual warriors of the church and has come to some enlightening conclusions on a issue that the secular world knows little about.  Follow this link and click unto the Insanity or Demonic Possession pod cast. http://ancientfaith.com/pod...

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Read it for yourself news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_ob ama_dead_fly

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Here is an interesting article.  A Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church argues against the secular faith attempts to impose its beliefs on everyone.  His point is that instead of imposing one belief system on everybody [ which the communist tried in the Soviet Union and failed miserably with the cost of millions of human lives and the destruction of the environment ] human relations should take a different path of mutual respect and dialog between the different belief systems.

Russian Orthodox Church opposed the secular monopoly
Posted on Thu Jun 11 2009

Moscow, June 10, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate believes that the secular humanistic society model should not be imposed on the world as the only correct and forward-looking.

"In my view, the secular project has been exhausted. It gives people no vigor, it fails to inspire them in emergency, and it is unable to teach them self-denial and self-control," head of the Synodal Church and Society Department Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at a Moscow conference dedicated to relationships between religion and the state.

According to him, demographic data, psychological tests and sociological research "convincingly show that secular ideology deprives the society of many benefits inherent to a society with a strong religious motivation."

"Today, there are many examples when a society with a strong religious motivation proves to be no less, and even much more efficient than a society based on its secular identity," Father Vsevolod said.

"In fact, today we can see that the pursuit of "civil religion" and "universal human values", and the priority of material life over the end purpose of existence proved to be a failure for many people, in particular, in the West."
Father Vsevolod stated that "the existence of groups with different attitudes which put the main emphasis on their worldview, different models of society, family, and local communities based on different attitudes is a real fact."

He thinks that this trend in society development should be given a special focus and "it would be reckless for both politicians and intellectuals to ignore this phenomenon."

Fr. Vsevolod believes that today we need "to proceed from attempting to unify the humanity", impose a single model of state and society and the relations of the state, society and religion as the only correct, we need to proceed from all the above to the situation where different models of society, family and local communities "are considered equal".

"Both in Russia and in the world, there are communities which live under the Islam law which they consider the supreme law. Orthodox believers treat the religious law as supreme which they cannot deny even under death threat. This is evidenced by the lives of Russia's New Martyrs and Confessors and the history of the early Christian years. This kind of law is also supreme for the followers of Judaism," Fr. Vsevolod said.

At the same time, "only a minor part of the world's population treats as the most important the priorities of material life and worldly comfort which form the basis of humanist ideology."

"The secular humanistic model of social structure is just one model, one system of law, and its followers can no longer explain why it should become universal," the priest said. According to him, the current economic crisis has raised serious doubts about the last argument of secularism adepts, i.e., its eternal economic efficiency.

In closing, Fr. Vsevolod said that none of the social models, neither Orthodox, nor Islamic, should become a ground for dialogues.

"Today's ground for dialog is the willingness of different models representatives to discuss future without any precedent conditions and claiming progressiveness," the priest said.

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Mercator Net which is a on line magazine that takes a honest and thoughtful look at contempory society, has posted it's list of the top intellectuals that have done much work to defend human dignity. www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/our_public_inte llectual_a_list/

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Real change starts at home.  Please excuse some of the language.  Hopefully educating people so they can express themselves with out profanity will be one of the items on Obama's to do list.

http://www.theonion.com/con...

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What does it mean when God doesn't answer your prayer?  This question happens to everyone.  Dr.  Jerry Sittser lost three people of his immediate family in a fiery car crash in spite of the fact that he was a devout church going Christian who prayed regularly for their good.  How did this affect his relationship with a God and his prayer life?  Listen for yourself.  Follow this link and click onto the pod cast Why God Doesn't Answer My Prayer ancientfaith.com/podcasts/illuminedheart

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Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation

THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY!
 
 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.  We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.  We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.  We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.  We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

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Today is World Environment Day.  A time for each of us to examain our lives and ask are we good stewards of the creation that God gave us and our fellow brothers and sisters.  Or are we mere worms only concerned with filling ourselves and pursuing are appetites.  For myself I pray you forgive me a mere worm. 

http://www.ec-patr.org/docd...

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Today is the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.  Let us remember the victims on both sides.  Those whose blood was spilled and those whose hands were stained and pray for forgiveness and healing of all.  May we also remember that although we may distract ourselves with debates about politics and ideologies.  The final line is always the cost our actions have on a single human life.

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        & nbsp; Jacob, age 92, and Rebecca, age 89, living in Florida ,
        & nbsp; are all excited about their decision to get married. They
        & nbsp; Go for a stroll to discuss the wedding, and on the way they
        & nbsp; Pass a
        & nbsp; Drugstore. Jacob suggests they go in.

        & nbsp; Jacob addresses the man behind the counter: "Are you the owner?"
        & nbsp; The pharmacist answers, "Yes."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "We're about to get married. Do you sell heart
        & nbsp; Medication?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "Of course we do."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "How about medicine for circulation?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "All kinds "

        & nbsp; Jacob: "
        & nbsp; Medicine for rheumatism?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "Definitely."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "How about suppositories?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "You bet!"

        & nbsp; Jacob: "Medicine for memory problems, arthritis and
        & nbsp; Alzheimer's?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "Yes, a large variety. The works."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "What about vitamins, sleeping pills, Geritol, antidotes for
        & nbsp; Parkinson's disease?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "Absolutely."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "Everything for heartburn and indigestion?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "We sure do."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "You sell wheelchairs and walkers and canes?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "All speeds and
        & nbsp; Sizes."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "Adult diapers?"
        & nbsp; Pharmacist: "Sure."

        & nbsp; Jacob: "We'd like to use this store as our Bridal Registry.."

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The tragedy that occurred with the ironic murder of Tiller was quickly twisted into a hammer and used to bash those human beings who risk their lively hoods and lives fighting for those who can't defend themselves.  But rather than drink the haters kool aid let's take a step back and take a more rational, humane look at the impact of these sad events.

www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060301.html

www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060210.html 

www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_killing_of_ george_tiller/

www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060203.html

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The murder of an abortionist is being used to fuel a regular orgy of hate on these blogs.  It seems from out of the wood work comes a swarm of blogs and comments from people trying to use a human tragedy to twist things around and attack others.  They are trying to demonize all Pro Life advocate as terrorists and make heroes out of people who make a living killing kids.  Reading this blogs we see lie piled on lie and ignorance piled on ignorance as some people drag their fears into the light and dust them off once more and try to cover their nakedness.  For example we see some bring up the old "shrum and the right wing conspiracy fairy tale.' and of course we have to drag Sarah Palin through the mud some more.  Grumpies bringing back the 'fundies rant' and PoundNines managed to take an article by Frank Schaffer Jr which was decrying the creation of an atmosphere of hate completely out of context and used it as a basis for his own blog pushing hate.  What else can I say ,but lament how the devil can use fears to fill more peoples hearts with hate instead of love.

+Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners+