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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (651464)	4/14/2012 2:00:57 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1580506

>> He's a family man, owns a very nice home, and AFAIK doesn't brag about shagging pregnant ladies at laundromats. I don't know about any of that but I'm quite sure it has nothing to do with prior substance abuse...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (651464)	4/15/2012 1:31:51 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1580506

Samaritans: Wiped Away by History and Biblical Rewrites HOW THE JEWS TRIUMPHED AGAINST A MAJORITY RELIGION By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Apr 14, 2012 3:15 PM CDT (NEWSER) – Looks like the Jews were once the other worshipers of Yahweh. According to archeological evidence, Samaritans had a dazzling shrine about 2,500 years ago and the Jews only a so-so Temple of Jerusalem, Der Spiegel reports. What's more, the Bible once described Moses as telling his people to travel to Mount Gerizim—where the Samaritan shrine once stood. So many centuries later, however, the Samaritans are largely edited out and struggling in a tiny religious community in Israel. How did they fall so far? Invaded by Assyrians in 732 BC, Israel grew more powerful, eventually empowering Jews to destroy the Samaritan shrine and depict them as villains in a revised Old Testament, experts say. Samaritans also hurt their own cause by banning mixed marriages and settlements "outside the promised land." "Today we are doing better," says the Samaritans' leader, because they have 751 people, up from 146 at the end of World War I. But they once had the upper hand with over a million followers in ancient Judea.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (651464)	4/15/2012 2:09:40 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580506

First up is a look back, now that the race for Republican presidential nomination is over, at all the candidates who seemed rather certain that their campaigns were the result of divine inspiration. Herman Cain, for example, said a year ago that God told him in 2006, "I've got something else for you to do." He was referring, of course, to running for president. Similarly, Rick Santorum said of his campaign, "We believe with all our hearts that this is what God wants." Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry made similar comments. It led Dan Amira to make an amusing observation. (thanks to reader R.P. for the tip) The end -- sorry, um, suspension -- of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign is a major milestone in the primary race, clearing the way, as it does, for Mitt Romney to cruise here on out to the nomination essentially unchallenged. But Santorum's withdrawal is also a major milestone for God, the beloved all-powerful deity whose personal endorsement somehow failed to secure the nomination for any of the numerous Republicans -- Santorum, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry -- whom he reportedly encouraged to run for president. It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election. For the record, Mitt Romney was one of the only competitive Republican candidates who didn't say God inspired and/or motivated his campaign, and he won by a wide margin.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (651464)	4/15/2012 2:11:03 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580506

* In the wake of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) assertion that his right-wing budget plan was shaped by his Catholic faith, nearly 60 prominent theologians, priests, nuns, and national Catholic social justice leaders released a statement yesterday rejecting the claim. "If Rep. Ryan thinks a budget that takes food and healthcare away from millions of vulnerable people upholds Catholic values, then he also probably believes Jesus was a Tea Partier who lectured the poor to stop being so lazy and work harder," said John Gehring, Catholic Outreach Coordinator at Faith in Public Life. "This budget turns centuries of Catholic social teaching on its head. These Catholic leaders and many Catholics in the pews are tired of faith being misused to bless an immoral agenda."