Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Vatican: Contraceptive Pills Pollute Environment, Harm Male Fertility

a woman taking contraceptive pills

Vatican, the central authority of the Roman Catholic Church which is strongly against birth control, renewed its attack on contraceptive pill:

VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.

The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report.

"We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill," he said, without elaborating further.

Vatican's claim was immediately refused by some Italian pharmacological associations:

"Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones," said Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-president of a contraceptive research association, quoted by the ANSA news agency.

The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen "are present everywhere... in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat," added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology.

Interestingly, A Tel Aviv University study in 2008 found that for women who do want a baby but are finding it difficult to conceive, the contraceptive may help them to get pregnant.

Virgin Mary Gives Birth to Jesus!

After more than 2000 years, Jesus was "re-born", in South America's Peru!

Virgen Maria Huarcaya, aka Virgin Mary, and son Jesus
Virgin Mary and son Jesus

Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru's state news agency said on Friday.

"Two thousand years later the story of Bethlehem is relived," read the headline about the birth in El Comercio, the main newspaper in Peru, a predominantly Catholic country.

The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital.

The baby's father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians compared him to Joseph the Carpenter in the Bible. [Reuters]

Thoughts?

Katie Holmes Hands Darkened: Scientology's Purification Rundown Ritual Makes Katie Holmes Dark

Katie Holmes hands were dark these days, got surprised! Thanks to our favorite celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, he uncovered the reason behind Katie Holmes's discolored hands. The wife of Scientologist/actor Tom Cruise has supposedly underwent Scientology's Purification Rundown (Purif) ritual which turned her hands dark/purple.

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Scientology's Purification Rundown Ritual Makes Katie Holmes's hands become dark. (Image credit: Fame Pictures/Perezhilton.com)

Katie Holmes is well on track to be Tom Cruise's fellow scientologist. She even defied the risk that the extreme high dosages of multiple vitamins premix used in the ritual to extract 'toxins' out from her body may bring to her health.

Peeps going through the process take 'vitamin bombs' to get 'toxins' out of their bodies.

A source says that in almost every single case, Scientology founder Hubbard recommends dosages in his teachings that are well above the safe limits, in some cases as much as 142 times more than the toxic level. The side effects of such huge overdoses range from liver damage, hair loss, brain swelling and nausea up to fatal heart and respiratory failure.

The cleanse also prescribes huge doses of something called niacin. A report says large doses of niacin can cause liver damage, peptic ulcers, and skin rashes. Even normal doses can be associated with skin flushing.

Hope the mother of adorable Suri stay well! Source: Perezhilton.com

Islam Overtakes Roman Catholicism As the World's Largest Religion

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Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, Reuters cited Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano as reporting.

Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.

"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.

He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.

The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.

Formenti said that while the number of Catholics as a proportion of the world's population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates.

Source: Retuers via DrudgeReport

Chihuahua Conan Is a Japanese Dog's Prayer (Pictures)

Praying Dog Chihuahua Conan picture

Chihuahua Conan is a pet dog raised by chief priest Joei Yoshikuni at the Japanese Zen temple Shuri-Kannondo in Okinawa islands. Conan has now become a celebrity in Japan because this unique canine can 'pray' before the altar by mimicing its master!

The path to inner peace is long and arduous. But sitting on his hind legs, paws raised in reverence before the altar, this enlightened canine may just have discovered the key.

Against a backdrop of swirling incense and solemn chanting, the one-and-a-half-year-old, black-and-white Chihuahua cuts a cheerfully unlikely figure, as he loyally mimics his proud master during morning prayers at the Shuri Kannondo temple in southern Japan.

Joei Yoshikuni and Praying Dog Chihuahua Conan picture

The devoted animal, known as Conan, hasn't just secured inner harmony for himself, either. His presence at daily prayers has also made headlines across Japan, helping to swell visitor numbers to the Zen Buddhist temple by more than 30 per cent – thereby putting worshippers on their own path to enlightenment.

Conan, originally a temple pet, rises without prompting before his morning and evening meals to go through his prayer routine at the temple in Naha, capital of Okinawa. When his master chants his prayers, known as "sutras", Conan raises his paws and joins them at the tip of his nose.

"It's so funny that he does it," says Kazuko Oshiro, 71, who has frequented the temple for more than 25 years. "He gets angry when somebody else sits on his favourite spot. He must be thinking that it's his special place."

When asked the secret of the dog's devotion, Yoshikuni reveals: "Clasping hands is a basic action of Buddhist prayer to show appreciation. He may be showing his thanks for treats and walks."

Source: Chinadaily & Independent

Mohammed al-Rashidi, 11, Marries 10-year-old Cousin in Saubi Arab

11-year-old  Mohammed al-Rashidi  marries 10-year-old cousin picture

The child marriage is probably banned by most of countries on the plantet, but apparently not in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mohammed al-Rashidi, an 11-year-old Saudi boy, has just married 10-year-old cousin! #_#

Mohammed al-Rashidi and his unidentified cousin will seal the marriage they contracted under the sharia laws of Islam and move in together after a ceremony to take place in the summer, Al-Shams newspaper said.

"I am ready for this marriage. It will help me study better," Mohammed, who goes to primary school in the northern province of Hail, was quoted as saying by Al-Shams.

"I invite all my classmates to do like me," the boy said, adding that he wanted to "crown a love story through marriage".

The schoolboy's father, Muraizak al-Rashidi, told the newspaper he was busy sending out invitations for a summer celebration to seal the marriage.

Dahim al-Jaber, the headmaster at Mohammed's school, said marriage at such a young age was "inappropriate" but wished the couple a happy life together.

Not to blame the little couple as they are so young and illerate, their parents should definitely know what the INBREEDING is!

Inbreeding is breeding between close relatives, whether plant or animal. If practiced repeatedly, it often leads to a reduction in genetic diversity. A concomitant increase in homozygousity of recessive traits can, over time, result in inbreeding depression. This may result in inbred individuals exhibiting reduced health and fitness and lower levels of fertility.


Notes: The image above collected from the internet is for illustration only. It has no any way associated with the child marriage story posted here.

Obama Pastor Jeremiah Wright "God Damn America" Sermon Video

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," the video here is ABC News' report on Pastor Jeremiah Wright's controversial "God Damn America" sermon which was made in 2003. Link

Jeremiah Wright "Hillary Clinton Ain't...N..ger" Sermon Video

During a Christmas sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's spiritual advisor describes how a black Jesus was oppressed by white people and he goes on to say that, "Hillary ain't never been called a ni99er." Sigh! Link

Vatican's 14 Deadly Sins

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Vatican City Photo (via Romaviva.com)

Polluting, Genetic engineering, Obscene riches, Taking drugs, Abortion, Pedophilia,  Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Wrath and Sloth.

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Single Pen Stroke Jesus

One Pen Stroke Jesus

This picture of Jesus Christ was done with one pen stroke. It starts on tip of the nose and ends on the bottom.

Incredible!

Gordon B. Hinckley, President of Mormon Church, Passed Away

Gordon B. Hinckley, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), died of 'senior age' last night at his home in Salt Lake City of Utah. He was 97. Seen him as a prophet of God by Mormon Church fellowers, Gordon B. Hinckley has become the church President since 1995 after many years in leadership posts. During the church's 178 years history, President Hinckley is the 15th and also eldest person to hold that post. Read the full AFP report of Gordon B. Hinckley death below:
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Big Butter Jesus (Photo & Song)

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Photo credit: Griff69/Flickr

Big Butter Jesus is a giant Jesus statue built for Monroe's Solid Rock Church in Ohio. The 62-foot high and16,000 lb sculpture finished in 2004 cost $250,000. The statute is so large that it can be visible from the nearby interstate highways and usually attracts a lot of traffic jams. The otherwise fameless sculpture gained instant popularity when the Bob & Tom show broadcast Heywood Banks' song (video and lyrics below) with the same name in 2006.

Big Butter Jesus song lyrics:

In southern Ohio, just north of Cincinnati
I beheld a vision, next to the expressway.
Was a 60 foot jesus, with his hands in the air
looks like he’s carved out of butter,
just like at the state fair.

Big butter Jesus
Sweet cream Jesus
Oh country fresh Jesus
Unsalted Jesus
Oh Promise Jesus
Imperial Jesus
Can’t believe it’s not Jesus
Oleo Lord.

Well you see him from the chest up
like he’s about to do a back flip,
like he scored a touchdown
or maybe melting or about to drown.
Well I’ve been to the state fair
seen a cow made out of corn cobs
Garth Brooks made of string cheese
and the virgin out of olives.

Big butter Jesus
Sweet cream Jesus
Oh country fresh Jesus
Unsalted Jesus
Oh Promise Jesus
Imperial Jesus
Can’t believe it’s not Jesus
Oleo Lord.

Shipped in pieces on a flatbed
staring backwards was his big head
Driver stuck in traffic backups
desperately avoiding eye contact
Well don’t make no graven images.
That’s one of the 10 commandments
I hope the grading curve is kindly
You get to heaven with a 90

Big butter Jesus
Sweet cream Jesus
Oh country fresh Jesus
Unsalted Jesus
Oh Promise Jesus
Imperial Jesus
Can’t believe it’s not Jesus
Oleo Lord.

Can’t believe it’s not Jesus,
Oh spread the word.

Source: Brett Anderson's The Way I See IT Blog

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Heath Ledger Funeral

fred phelps, westboro baptist church picketing heath ledger funeral annoucement

Not long after Brokeback Mountain actor Heath Ledger succumbed to his overdose of drug, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a (non-acknowdged) Baptist church that condemns lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, announced they will picket Ledger's funeral, for him doing 'vile' gay things with Jack Gyllenhaal.

"Brokeback Mountain star--Heath Ledger--is dead. WBC will picket his funeral." Fred Phelps' controversial organization proclaimed in the news releas. "Heath Ledger is now in Hell and has begun serving his eternal sentence - beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential." Source: Holy Moly

Anonymous' Message to Scientology Video

Transcript:

Hello, Scientology. We are Anonymous [an internet group fighting against the Church of Scientology and its parent company Religious Technology Center].

Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you, who call you leader, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind--for the laughs--we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.

You cannot hide; we are everywhere.

We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.

Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.

Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "Church", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No--they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.

Knowledge is free.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

WE DO NOT FORGET.

Tom Cruise's Scientology Video (Craig Ferguson Version)

Just forget about the dispute on Tom Cruise Scientology video! By watching CBS's The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson's reenacted version of such scary movie, you will totally be entertained!

Jesus on the Cross in Granite Slab

Jesus on the Cross in Granite Slab picture

Jesus on the Cross in Granite Slab (picture above). A granite distributor in Pinellas County of Florida has this 400-pound piece of granite which, many believed, bears an image of Jesus Christ pinned to the cross. The stone was bought by the man the piece two years ago near the Brazilian town of Espirito Santo, or "Holy City."   Now possibly inspired by the success that a grilled cheese sandwich, which purportedly bore an image of the Virgin Mary, sold on eBay for $28,000 in 2004, the man also wants to sell it via the most popular auction site. We wish he can bag in big bucks! Source: Fox13

Tom Cruise KSW Scientology Video

KSW Scientology Tom Cruise Video

Click here to watch Tom Cruise KSW (Keeping Scientology Working) Scientology video. Would Will Smith be his follower?! Backgrounds about this footage:

The videos bear out, at the very least, that Cruise is central to the organization's marketing efforts. In this amazing clip, to a background track of theme from Mission Impossible, Cruise explains how Scientologists are "the authorities on the mind", the only people who can bring peace and unite cultures.


The full transcript of video (via Times Online)

"I think it's a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist and it's something you have to earn. And because a Scientologist does, he or she has the ability to create new and better realities, and improve conditions.

"Being a Scientologist you look at someone and you know absolutely that you can help them.so for me it really is KSW [Keeping Scientology Working] and it's just, like, it's something that I don't mince words with that, you know with anything. But that Policy [doctrine of founder, L.Ron Hubbard] with me has really gone, 'Boy'.

"There was a time I went through it, I said, you know what, when I read it, I just though 'Wooh' : this is it. This exactly it.

"Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else, it's, you drive past, you know you have to do something about it. You know you are the only one who can really help. That's what drives me.

"I know that we have an opportunity and, er, to really help for the first time and effectively change people's lives, and I'm dedicated to that. I'm gonna, I'm absolutely, uncomprimisingly dedicated to that.

"Orgs [Scientology organisations, divided into complicated hierarchy of classes] are there to help, OK. But we, also as the public, we have a responsibility. It's not just the orgs. It's not just Dave Miscavige [church leader]. It's not just me. It's you. It's everybody out there. Re-reading KSW, and looking to see what needs to be done, saying Ok, am I going to do it, or am I not going to do it? Period. And am I going to look at that guy, or am I too afraid because I have my own ethics to put on someone else's ethics, because that is all it comes down to. I won't hesitate to putting ethics into someone else, because I put ethics ruthlessly in myself.

"And I think that I respect that in others, and, you know, I am there to help. We're here to help. My opinion is, look, you're either on board or you're not on board, OK? Which is it? If you're on board, you're on board, just like the rest of us. Period.

"We are the authorities on getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind. We are the authorities on improving conditions. Criminon [sic]. We can rehabilitate criminals. We can bring peace and unite cultures. That once you know these tools and you know that they work, it's not good enough that I'm just doing Ok.

"Travelling the world and meeting the people that I've met, you know, talking with these leaders in various fields, [pause]they want help, and they are depending on people who know and who can be effective, and do it, and that's us. That is our responsibility to do that. It is the time now. Now is the time. It is being a Scientologist, people are turning to you, and you better know it, and if you don't, you know, go and learn it. [Laughs] but don't pretend you know it, or whatever.

"It's like, we're here to help. If you're a Scientologist, you see life, things, the way they are, in all it's glory, in all of it's perplexity, and the more you know as a Scientologist, the more you become overwhelmed by it. [Laughs again, clapping his hands]

"And [mumbling], they said, so 'Have you met an SP?' [Laughter]

"And I looked at them and I thought, what a beautiful thing, because, maybe, one day, it will be like that.

"Wow. SPs, they'll just read about them in the history books. I just go through that tech [technique], literally. It's not how to run from an SP. It's PTSP [potential trouble source person] - how to shatter or confront oppression. You apply it, then boom.

"Because they wouldn't do that to me, not to my face, or anywhere in my vicinity where they feel they could be confronted. I wish the world was a different place, I'd like to go on vacation, play, and just do that. Know what I mean? I mean that's how I want it to be. There's times I'd like to do that, but I can't because I know, I know, so, you know, I have to do something about it.

"It's not, you know, you can't sit here and wish it was different, and then, you look at it. And at that moment, I have to do something, don't I? Because I cannot live with myself if, and that [mumbles] I don't care whether someone thinks it's hard or it's easy. Because you're either helping and contributing everything you can, or you're not, ok?

Because you're carrying my load, all right, and as much as you're carrying, I still have got to do more. There's still a thing of 'let's go.'

"You can see the look in their eyes. You know the ones who are doing it, and you know the spectators, the ones who are going , 'Well, it's easy for you. That thing, I've cancelled that in my area. [Laughs] It's like, man, you're either in or you're out. That spectatorism, I've no time for it. That is something we have no time for now.

"So it's our responsibility to educate, create the new reality. We have that responsibility to say, hey, THIS is the way it should be done. We do it this way and people are actually getting better. Let's get it done. Let's get it really done

"Have enough love, compassion and toughness, that you're going to do it, and do it right.

"I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast...it's a blast. It really is fun, because damit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see.

"I want to know that I've done everything I could every day I think of all those people out there who are depending on us. I think about it. It does make me feel we need more work, more help. Get those spectators on the playing field, or out of the arena. Really, that is how I feel about it. I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything... there's nothing part of the way for me.

Nano Bible

smallest bible picture To increase young people's interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology, Israeli scientists at the Haifa Institute of Technology  have successfully used a device called Focused Ion Beam (Fib)to inscribe a 300,000 worded Hubrew Bible on a nano chip, setting a record of the smallest Bible ever created.

The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bible on the chip smaller than a pinhead was written on a silicon surface covered with a thin layer of gold (20nanometres thick - 0.0002mm). Source: BBC #Tags: , , ,

Tony Blair Converted To Catholicism

Tony Blair and  Pope Benedict XVI picture

Officially! Tony Blair now is a Catholic! The former British prime time was converted from the Anglican to the Catholic faith in a Mass last night at a chapel in London presided by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor who is the head of Catholics in England and Wales. Blair, formerly a member of the Church of England, had avoided talking about his religious views while in office for about 10 years for fear of being labeled "a nutter." Source: CNN #Tags: , , , ,