Religious Insanity
Thursday December 15, 2011
FLDS • Polygamy • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog:
It appears that imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs is using his life sentence to sharpen his creative writing skills. For the fourth time this year he has issued a set of revelations which he represents as coming directly from Jesus Christ.
Tuesday December 6, 2011
FLDS • Polygamy • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog: Imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs is once again sharing his messages from God.
One revelation promises “a storm of great destructive power” in the US that will “paralyze many parts of thy nation for a time” and calls for the release of the release of both Jeffs and the his other followers in prison.
One revelation promises “a storm of great destructive power” in the US that will “paralyze many parts of thy nation for a time” and calls for the release of the release of both Jeffs and the his other followers in prison.
Saturday May 21, 2011
Harold Camping • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog:
According to cult leader Harold Camping earthquakes would today already have obliterated various locations at the international date line, with the destruction rolling east time zone by time zone. None of that has happened. The false prophet had earlier scheduled the earth’s destruction in 1994.
Monday May 16, 2011
Divine Truth • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog:
A couple who claim they are Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene have set up base in Queensland’s Bible Belt and are drawing in disciples from across Australia. The pair, real names Alan John Miller and Mary Suzanne Luck, operate from rural Wilkesdale, near Kingaroy, where they claim to have been joined by 30-40 followers.
Thursday January 20, 2011
Dove World Outreach Center • Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • Religious Intolerance • RNB's Religion News Blog • Terry Jones: Florida Pastor Terry Jones, whose threat to burn Islam’s holy book on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks last year provoked widespread condemnation, has been banned from visiting Britain, Reuters reports.
Sunday November 14, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: The radical Westboro Baptist Church, famous both for their virulent homophobia and for picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers, had indicated on their website they planned to rally outside a play in Old Strathcona, Canada on Saturday night.
The hate group — which masquerades as a Baptist Christian church, but is neither Baptist nor Christian –failed to show up. Instead, hundreds of gay rights supporters met outside the play, a production of The Laramie Project, to wave signs and speak out against the American church.
The hate group — which masquerades as a Baptist Christian church, but is neither Baptist nor Christian –failed to show up. Instead, hundreds of gay rights supporters met outside the play, a production of The Laramie Project, to wave signs and speak out against the American church.
Thursday October 7, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • Westboro Baptist Church:
The US Supreme Court weighed whether the Westboro Baptist Church — anti-gay religious group that pickets military funerals with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers” — is exercising its right to free speech or invading a grieving family’s privacy. The Supreme Court seemed to have trouble putting aside the ugliness of the message to focus on the rights of the messenger Wednesday, as justices tried to balance free speech against the privacy owed a grieving family burying a son.
Friday August 27, 2010
Islam • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog: Saudi Arabia’s most senior religious leader has ordered a conservative cleric to stop giving unauthorized edicts after his call for boycotting a supermarket chain that employs women as cashiers.
Sheik Youssef al-Ahmed had urged people not to shop at Panda Supermarket because women there work in jobs that allow for the mingling of the sexes. Al-Ahmed says this is a violation of Islamic law.
RNB: Can you believe that story is datelined August, 2010…?
Sheik Youssef al-Ahmed had urged people not to shop at Panda Supermarket because women there work in jobs that allow for the mingling of the sexes. Al-Ahmed says this is a violation of Islamic law.
RNB: Can you believe that story is datelined August, 2010…?
Wednesday August 25, 2010
Dove World Outreach Center • Islam • Religious Insanity • Religious Intolerance • RNB's Religion News Blog • Terry Jones: From our Religious Insanity file: An armed Christian organization, Right Wing Extreme, will protect a church that is planning to host an “International Burn a Quran Day” on the ninth anniversary of September 11, the church’s pastor said on Tuesday.
The Dove World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Florida, says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and to take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, the nondenominational church invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book.
Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones has accepted the support of Right Wing Extreme, which he said offered to come to the church with between 500 and 2,000 men on September 11. He described the organization as an armed civilian militia group.
“There is a need for this protection. It is absolutely necessary in light of the death and terror threats we have received,” Jones said in an e-mail to CNN.
Muslims and many other Christians, including some evangelicals, are fighting the church’s plan to burn the Quran.
We can be sure of this: ‘Pastor’ Terry Jones might as well burn his Bible — since he either has not read it or does not intent to obey its teachings.
The Dove World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Florida, says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and to take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, the nondenominational church invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book.
Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones has accepted the support of Right Wing Extreme, which he said offered to come to the church with between 500 and 2,000 men on September 11. He described the organization as an armed civilian militia group.
“There is a need for this protection. It is absolutely necessary in light of the death and terror threats we have received,” Jones said in an e-mail to CNN.
Muslims and many other Christians, including some evangelicals, are fighting the church’s plan to burn the Quran.
We can be sure of this: ‘Pastor’ Terry Jones might as well burn his Bible — since he either has not read it or does not intent to obey its teachings.
Friday August 20, 2010
Dove World Outreach Center • Islam • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog • Terry Jones: A Florida church says it will go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite the city refusing to issue a burn permit, Orlando’s Fox35 TV reports.We think this kind of behavior is so ill-advised that we feel comfortable slapping this news item with the ‘religious insanity‘ tag.
Tuesday August 17, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • Westboro Baptist Church:
Missouri’s tight restrictions on protests and picketing outside military funerals were tossed out by a federal judge Monday, over free speech concerns. A small Kansas church had brought suit over its claimed right to loudly march outside the burials and memorial services of those killed in overseas conflicts. The state legislature had passed a law to keep members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church from demonstrating within 300 feet of such private services.
Sunday August 15, 2010
Islam • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog: Parents of a Muslim girl have been charged with beating and imprisoning their 19-year-old daughter after they discovered she had been in an alleged secret relationship with a man she met on Facebook.
Husband and wife Abdul Aziz and Parveen Akhtar, of Bordesley Green, Birmingham, are in police custody after they were arrested by West Midlands Police.
Mr Aziz, 47, has been charged with false imprisonment, two counts of making threats to kill, and assault. Mrs Akhtar, 44, is charged with false imprisonment and two assault charges.
Husband and wife Abdul Aziz and Parveen Akhtar, of Bordesley Green, Birmingham, are in police custody after they were arrested by West Midlands Police.
Mr Aziz, 47, has been charged with false imprisonment, two counts of making threats to kill, and assault. Mrs Akhtar, 44, is charged with false imprisonment and two assault charges.
Friday July 9, 2010
Islam • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog: Here’s one for our ‘Religious Insanity‘ files: Chechnya’s kremlin-backed President, Ramzan Kadyrov, has endorsed the growing practice of shooting at women in the street with paintball guns if they are not wearing traditional Muslim clothing.
Monday July 5, 2010
Hate Groups • Islam • Religious Insanity:
In a horrific instance of Talibanism, Muslim fanatics in Kerala on Sunday chopped off the right hand of a college lecturer, accusing him of setting a question paper with a derogatory reference to Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Two men, said to be activists of the Popular Front, a new incarnation of the hardline National Democratic Front, have been taken into custody.
Friday July 2, 2010
Islam • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog: A Harry Potter star’s dad and brother have been charged with threatening to kill her after an alleged bust-up over her new boyfriend.
Afshan Azad, who has appeared in four of the films as one of the wizard’s screen girlfriends Padma Patil, hails from a strict Muslim family.
Afshan Azad, who has appeared in four of the films as one of the wizard’s screen girlfriends Padma Patil, hails from a strict Muslim family.
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