Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

Gays, God & The End of War

2011-05-12T11:04:30Z

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent-Isaac Asimov
It's almost unbelievable but the end is near for the U.S. military and quite possibly, the end of war. The gravity of the President's recent decision to allow gays to openly serve in the military is beginning to sink in and most of those speaking out say that they will take early retirement or quit and they will advise their sons and daughters or grandchildren not to join the military. Some say that for every gay that joins up, (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Discriminations-Minorit., Religions-Beliefs, USA

How do I leave the church?

2011-01-21T21:38:12Z

How do I leave the church? Count me out! Take a stand for church-state separation
How?
In order to formally leave the church you need to complete a "Declaration of Defection" form. We have automated this process so that, in 3 steps and with only simple details, we can produce all the required documentation. We also generate an accompanying cover letter that you are free to alter as you see fit. Alternatively, you can download a blank PDF (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs

Can You Imagine? Double Standards and Doublethink

2011-01-12T21:04:08Z

Can You Imagine? Double Standards and Doublethink
1/12/11
By June Terpstra, Ph.D.
As Sarah Palin whines about liberals blaming her for the recent Arizona tragedies, thus focusing those tragedies on her rather than the victims and their families, I ask you to imagine pundits and politicians saying what she has said about so called terrorist tragedies. In a recent video Palin says, "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to (…)

- contributions / Media-Network, Religions-Beliefs, USA

Christian Arabs' Plight: Foreign ‘Protection' Counterproductive

2011-01-12T12:23:11Z

By Nicola Nasser*
Suddenly, the U. S. - European alliance is acting to protect the “existence” of the Christian Arab minority against the Muslim Arab majority whose very existence is besieged and threatened by this same alliance, drawing on a wide spread Islamophobia while at the same time exacerbating Islamophobia among western audiences whom the international financial crisis is now crushing to the extent that it does not spare them time or resources to question the real political (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs, Europe

U.S. Soldiers Punished For Not Attending Christian Concert

2010-08-22T17:27:36Z

For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General's Spiritual Fitness Concerts. As I've written in a number of other posts, "spiritual fitness" is just the military's new term for promoting religion, particularly evangelical Christianity. And this concert series is no different. Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 11:32:23 AM EST
"Those of us that chose not to attend (about 80, or a little less that (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs, USA

Video: Antigua, Guatemala: Easter (Father Stanley Rother, RIP)

2010-04-07T03:29:47Z

Video: Antigua, Guatemala: Easter (Father Stanley Rother, RIP)
On Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010, the Iglesia de Hermano Pedro staged its annual Easter Procession, in Antigua, Guatemala. Antigua is an ancient town, once the capital of the country during the heyday of Spanish colonial rule in Central America.
This video is dedicated to the memory of Father Stanley Rother. He was killed on July 28, 1981, at age 46, by the “Death Squads,” in the rectory of the St. James the Apostle Church, (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs, South/Latin America

Pope & Christian Churches ignore Muslim Holocaust but "Rosanna Madonna" says Mother & Child Sacred

2010-04-06T22:12:10Z

While the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury ignored awful clerical paedophiles in their Easter messages, they also ignored the racist Zionist and US Alliance Muslim Holocaust and the worsening First World-imposed Climate Genocide that are part of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that is killing about 10 million children annually. However my huge “Rosanna Madonna” painting (see: ) bears witness to the Beauty and Sanctity of Mother and Child and that "thou shalt not kill (…)

- contributions / International, Religions-Beliefs

Easter, Betrayal, Holocaust Denial & Aboriginal, Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim and Climate Genocide

2010-04-04T03:15:37Z

For Christians Easter celebrates the death and resurrection of Christ. However for agnostics and atheists the Passion is a moral story about denial, courage and sacrifice.
I am an agnostic, humanist scientist and concerned about extraordinary Western holocaust commission and genocide commission coupled with holocaust denial and genocidal denial.
This extraordinary contemporary denial in the Western Murdochracies has enabled the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (see: ), Iraqi Genocide (see: (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Religions-Beliefs

From Frankenstein to Temple Mount PROMETHEAN MADNESS

2010-03-28T17:16:56Z

From Frankenstein to the Temple Mount Promethean Madness
‘Frankenstein' subtitled ‘The Modern Prometheus' by Mary Shelley, published by the Oxford press, contains the name of Lewis Awad; an Egyptian Promethean scholar, in its sources. Awad was associated with the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al Ahram. They celebrated the tenth anniversary of Awad's death by holding a summit for sixty Arab scholars on the last week of Sept. 2001. Each received a copy of Awad's work ‘Prometheus Unbound‘. (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs, Books-Literature, Africa

Book review: "Inside Muslim Minds" by Riaz Hassan - a major study for understanding and modernity

2010-01-19T05:39:15Z

Islam has 1.6 billion adherents and about 50 countries have a Muslim majority (see “List of countries by Muslim population”: ). It is accordingly important for both non-Muslims and Muslims to understand the attitudes of Muslims around the world as assessed by expert scholars.
"Inside Muslim Minds” by Riaz Hassan (Melbourne University Press, 2008) is a very important book written by an eminent and highly-honored Australian academic, Professor Riaz Hassan of the Department of Sociology, (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Religions-Beliefs