Bartholomew's Notes

The Daily Telegraph reports on claims of Satanism in Italy:

Priests are to work alongside Italian police officers to tackle a rising tide of crimes linked to devil worship.

The clerics have been seconded to the Squadra Anti Sette (SAS) anti-sect squad by the Vatican after Church officials became concerned about the number of churches being desecrated by Satanists. In recent months there have also been a string of murders that have been linked to devil worship.

One of the Vatican’s leading experts on Satanism and the occult, Don Oreste Benzi, has been brought in to liaise with police.

According to Benzi:

“We estimate that there are at least 8,000 Satanic sects across the country with more than 600,000 members and the numbers are growing…”

The evidence is mainly that a gang of teenagers called “the Beasts of Satan” murdered two of their own members back in 2004. The “Squadra Anti Sette” was announced last month – those who can tackle Italian can see a report here.

Details about Benzi in English are scare, although he was in the news back in October, on a predictable topic:

A Catholic priest known for his crusades against prostitution has blasted Halloween for being a satanic rite which undermines the principles of religion . According to Father Oreste Benzi, head of the Pope John XXII[I] community, Halloween “has been imposed by an esoteric- satanic culture which induces the community to perform rituals of witchcraft, spiritualism and satanism which can even lead to ritual sacrifices and violence” .

…”On October 31, satanic rites are performed in deconsecrated churches and in many cemeteries. Communion wafers are stolen and places of our Christian tradition are violated,” the priest continued. “I ask that the Catholic world in no way promotes or encourages this celebration of the macabre and horror. We at the Pope John XXIII community have been working for years to free the victims of occult sects,” Father Benzi said.

The “Pope John XXIII Community” (or the “Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII”) is known for its charitable work:

The history of the Association began in 1968 as a result of time spent with young people and disabled people in schools and holiday camps. This, and other experiences, led to the awareness of a need to spend time and share life with all those who are marginalised and in need. In 1973 the first ‘family homes’ were born. These are large families where single people or couples, helped by volunteers, become mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of people with disabilities, unmarried mothers, ex prisoners, alcoholics, recovering drug addicts, women/girls set free from prostitution. At present there are approximately two hundred such family homes in Italy and more throughout the world.

There is no indication, however, that the elderly Benzi is any sort of “expert” on “Satanism and the occult”, and an Italian profile here gives no further clues. However, a 2003 report mentions Benzi in relation to a “No to Satanism” campaign.

The question of how many Italian Satanists there are has been discussed on this blog before. While Benzi has 600,000 members in 8,000 sects, a Telegraph report in mid-2005 cited a “respected research institute” that had supposedly catalogued “650 sects”, and which claimed that half a million Catholics had had some kind of unspecified “contact” with such groups. In contrast, a sociological organisation, CESNUR, suggests there are about 1,000 Satanists in Italy, with 2,000 to 3,000 involved to some extent in a Satanic “sub-culture”, plus some “juvenile” Satanists.

Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

From BBC News:

Religious groups are to stage a protest calling for a halt to laws banning discrimination against gay people in the provision of goods and services.

Organisers say the Sexual Orientation Regulations would limit their right to live according to religious beliefs.

…The torch-lit rally, due to be attended by Christians, Jews and Muslims, is to be held in Old Palace Yard, opposite the St Stephen’s entrance to the House of Lords, from 1730 GMT to 2000 GMT.

…Rally organiser Ade Omooba said: “Senior lawyers have expressed the view that unless these regulations are amended, they will outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, only to replace it with discrimination on the grounds of religion.”

Omooba and his allies warn of religious printers being obliged to print flyers for gay nightclubs, and religious teachers being forced to promote homosexual civil partnerships (an interesting reversal of the notorious “Section 28“, which banned teachers from saying anything positive about homosexuality between 1986 and 2003).

The rally is just the latest stage of a campaign against the proposed legislation, which Omooba has waged mainly through an organisation named “Coherent and Cohesive Voice“. Back in July, this group produced a “briefing paper” for a rally, as quoted by gay Christian website Changing Attitude:

…The government is pandering to a minority group which is making the most noise.

The Government is guilty of Christianophobia in discriminating against 42million Christians.

…The SORs will force us to accept Civil Partnership services (gay marriage) in our churches.

The SORs will force individuals or congregations to provide services to homosexuals, thus forcing them to deny their Christianity.

The Government must add an exception to the SORs that Christians will not be breaking the law if they refuse to provide goods and services to people of different sexual orientations, if they do it because of their religious views. If the Government doesn’t do this, they will be making it illegal for them to be Christians.

Changing Attitude goes on to relate a rather melodramatic quote:

…George Hargreaves of the Hephzibah Christian Centre in Hackney has said: “I have already bought my orange jumpsuit, for no doubt prison awaits us as we fight against the tyranny of the Sexual Orientation Regulations. If opposing this law is to be counted as an act of civil disobedience, then in obedience to God we must act in loving and peaceful civil disobedience.”

Hargreaves has an interesting background, as was reported in the Times in October:

THE songwriter behind one of the most famous gay anthems has promised £50,000 to a group of firemen disciplined for refusing to hand out leaflets at a Gay Pride march.

The Rev George Hargreaves, a former music mogul who is now a Pentecostal minister, still earns an estimated £10,000 a month in royalties from the 1985 pop song So Macho.

The single was recorded by Sinitta, with an even camper B-side called Cruisin’, and became an instant hit in gay clubs across Britain, thanks to its catchy disco tune and cheesy lyrics, which included the line: “He’s gotta be big and strong, enough to turn me on.”

…In an election broadcast on behalf of his party, the Christian Party, he said: “Consider the influence of minority interests, such as the homosexual lobby, on all aspects of society, simply because they’ve made their presence felt. The ancient city of Sodom could have been saved if only righteous people could be found.”

His profile on the Christian Party website (dating from a period when he was based in Scotland) can be seen here.

July also saw a letter in the Telegraph, signed by Omooba and a long list of Pentecostal big hitters, such as Matthew Ashimolowo and Colin Dye:

Sir – We write as pastors on behalf of tens of thousands of black British Christians. Many members of our congregations in London left their home countries to come to England to experience the freedom of living according to their Christian beliefs in a Christian democratic country.

But increasingly the Labour Government is discriminating against Christians in order to appease minority groups. From the Government’s behaviour, it seems that those minority groups have disproportionate access to the ears of politicians and use that access to promote views and values that are contrary to the views and values which have been at the centre of protecting and promoting British families, schools and local communities for centuries.

…If the Government thinks that we will accept this law lying down, they are mistaken. This sort of Christianophobia from the Government is no longer acceptable.

The following November, Coherent and Cohesive Voice placed an advert in several publications; gay Christian Richard Kirker told the Pink News that he thought Hargreaves had provided the funding. The advert led to questions being raised in the House of Lords, as noted by Fisking Central. According to Lord Rooker:

The regulations are not concerned with what is taught in schools. That is rightly a matter for the Department of Education…It would be entirely within the spirit of the regulations for a printing shop run by a Christian to refuse to print fliers promoting gay sex, so long as that printer also refused to print fliers promoting heterosexual sex outside the realm of marriage.

Further, religiously-minded guesthouse owners would still be allowed to decline entry for “transsexual” couples, and firemen would not be obliged to take part in gay rights events.

The latest rally was reported a few days ago in the Daily Mail. That report adds that (link added)

Thousands of Christian lawyers are to petition for the Queen’s help to stop the Government from imposing sweeping new gay rights laws on Britain.

…The plea to the Queen is being made by the Christian Concern for Our Nation, an offshoot of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, a group which lists more than 2,000 barristers and solicitors among its members.

The petition warns the Queen the rules are a ‘serious affront’ to the Gospel.

…The Queen cannot herself bar the rules from being introduced, but could raise her concerns during her regular meetings with Tony Blair.

Any indication of concern from Buckingham Palace would increase pressure on Ministers to scrap the proposals.

The Independent notes that the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship is run by “Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former lord chancellor during the Thatcher era”.

Ade Ooomba, meanwhile, runs the Christian Victory Group in Brixton; one report in the Daily Mail states that he runs “Christian Voice” in Brixton, leading to speculation of links with Stephen Green, but I suspect this is a mistake. Christian Victory runs a school in Brixton.

Name variation: Ade Amooba

Filed under: Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Haaretz has an interview with Zev Chafets, right-wing journalist and author of A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists and one Man’s Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Christian Alliance, the latest in a long line of pro-Christian Zionist books written for a Jewish general readership (Merrill Simon’s Jerry Falwell and the Jews was probably the first, back in 1984; more recently we’ve had David Brog’s Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State, which I blogged on here). As ever, there’s a call for Jews to get along with evangelicals:

First of all, the Jewish community needs to change the way it disparages Evangelicals. You can disagree politically or culturally without ridiculing your opponents as bumpkins, bigots, anti-Semites or dunces. Jews don’t want to be defamed, and they need to be a little more careful about defaming others. Especially people who want to be their friends.

But this is not just because of Israel:

…For one thing, a lot of Orthodox Jews and Evangelicals share conservative social and political positions. Orthodox Jews, for example, are rarely troubled by church-state separation issues. They send their own kids to parochial schools; they’re glad to get government money via faith based programs; many are opposed to abortion, and they tend not to be too concerned about the good opinion of the “international community” – ie, Europeans.

This ties in with the anti-ADL rhetoric of arch-conservatives like Don Feder, who argues that Jewish criticism of Evangelicals should be avoided for just these reasons.

Chafets goes on to soft-pedal it:

Probably a majority of conservative evangelicals support the Israeli right-wing and its settlement policies. A fringe actually contributes to the settlements and has a special relationship with the settlement movement.

A “fringe”, eh? That’s not what I would call New Life Church, the massive Colorado mega-church formerly pastored Ted Haggard, the (now-disgraced) ex-head of the National Association of Evangelicals. One of New Life’s projects is an “Israel prayer group” with particular links with the West Bank settlement of Beit Haggai. “Fringe” is also not the word that comes to mind when considering William Murray’s “Religious Freedom Coalition”, which maintains a presence in the settlement of Ariel.

Further:

Then there’s the red herring of Armageddon. American Jews who claim Evangelicals support Israel to speed up End Times – in which will lead to the death or mass conversion of Jews – are missing two points.

1.       The End Times come when God is ready. This has nothing to do with human agency; there is no way, in Evangelical thinking, that people can or should try to bring about the Second Coming.

2.       Why should Jews care about the Second Coming anyway…

There’s something in this – it’s true that not even most of the “millenarian” Christians Zionists are looking to “speed up” the End Times, and that there are lots of evangelicals of the New Life variety who are Christian Zionists without necessarily being “apocalyptic” (especially, perhaps, since actually winning the “culture wars” has become a real possibility). But that doesn’t mean an “End Times” timescale plays no role in Evangelical thinking. Most obviously, for apocalyptic Christian Zionists there is no problem with pushing Israel into a situation that is unsustainable in the long term, since there is no “long term”. There is also a sense of needing to follow certain trends that tend towards the “Last Days” scenario, such as support for Jewish groups that want to build a “Third Temple” on the site of the Dome of the Rock (the alliance of Rabbi Chaim Richman and Rev Clyde Lott in effort to breed a Red Heifer needed for ritual purposes is perhaps the oddest example of this).

Chafets concludes:

The present generation of conservative Evangelical leadership – Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, John Hagee and others–are unconditional Zionists. And Falwell and Robertson, through their universities, have raised a younger generation of like minded ministers and lay leaders.

…Zionist Christians want an alliance with the Jews, but alliances work in two directions. If the American Jewish leadership wants to make enemies out of 70 million fellow citizens, attacking them publicly on every issue is a good way to start.

Those wondering whether Chafets is a man whose advice should be considered seriously might like to recall that in 2004 he argued that Donald Rumsfeld should not be fired over the scandal of ill-equipped troops because “firing Rumsfeld over this flap would only encourage the jihadis”. James Wolcott at Vanity Fair offered one response to that.

Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

WND, June 5 2006:

In the “Dunces of Doomsday,” [Paul L. Williams] writes, “At McMaster University, where the al-Qaida agents registered under fictitious names, wanted terrorist Adnan el-Shukrijumah and friends wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the creation of radiological bombs.”

…”When you hear of a nuclear spillage (missing radioactive material) … the last one – the only one – I’ve heard of was Chernobyl. That’s huge. They cannot deny it,” Williams says.

WND, January 5 2007 (as noted by ConWebWatch):

In a media release dated June 8, 2006, regarding The Dunces of Doomsday, WND Books/Cumberland House Publishing made statements, including a statement contained in The Dunces of Doomsday, referring to the theft of 180 pounds of nuclear material at McMaster University, the infiltration of McMaster University by terrorists, and consequent risk to the public.

Those statements were without basis in fact. WND Books/Cumberland House Publishing unreservedly retract the statements in the June 8, 2006 media release and apologize to McMaster University.

The original report adds:

Canadian police last Friday arrested 17 suspected Islamic terrorists, mostly in Toronto, who were allegedly planning to unleash a string of attacks in Ontario in retaliation for the country’s support of the U.S. in the War on Terror.

…”When I spoke to the Ontario police, they were investigating some of the students, and I was investigating the faculty,” [Williams] said. “You have a virulent nest of al-Qaida operatives who have been there since 1996. Several of those operatives from Toronto were mentioned in a BOLO (Be on the Lookout) report issued in 2004. In the Division of Earthquake Engineering (at McMaster University), there are 16 professors; 15 of them are from Cairo, and they all have their advanced degrees from McMaster. We’ve discovered that some of these professors have ties to Islamic Jihad in Egypt. You’re seeing the first wave of arrests.”

The 17 suspects were arrested with the help of a Muslim informant opposed to terrorism; Williams does not appear to have been involved.

A Toronto Sun column by Joe Warmington in June gives further details of the supposed university plot:

Remember the headline. AL-QAIDA SOUGHT DIRTY BOMB MATERIAL IN HAMILTON in many papers across the continent on Oct. 17, 2003.

It was a Canadian Press story quoting the Washington Times, which reported “a key al-Qaida terrorism suspect was looking for nuclear material for a ‘dirty bomb’ at McMaster University.”

It said “Adnan El Shukrijumah is being sought by the FBI and CIA in connection with a plot to detonate a dirty bomb — a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material.”

An FBI informant said “El Shukrijumah, 27, was spotted last year in Hamilton posing as a student at McMaster University, which has a five-megawatt research reactor. U.S. officials believe El Shukrijumah, whose photograph was posted on the FBI’s website in March, was in Hamilton trying to obtain radioactive material.”

Warmington also discusses the Williams book, and interviews McMaster media director Andrea Farquhar:

Farquhar calls William’s book “wild accusations” and said if he’d called, he would have learned “we have never lost our licence, never had a security breach and never had anything go missing.”

In fact, she says, the nuclear program has won safety awards.

But what of the supposed sighting of El Shukrijumah at McMaster? The absurd Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press provided photos to prove the link:

The first three photos above are FBI pictures of Adnan “Jaafaral the Pilot” G. El Shukrijumah, described by Time Magazine as “an accomplished Arab Guyanese bombmaker and commercial pilot”. (Time Magazine, August 23, 2004). The fourth photo on the right is a picture identified in the McMaster University 1998 Engineer and Physics graduating class as graduate Ciro Vitolo.

If Ciro Vitolo is not Osama bin Laden field commander Adnan El Shukrijumah, then it’s his twin.

Williams appears to have concurred:

Now, in addition to the members of the terrorist network arrested last Friday, Williams says, “We believe we found Adnan el-Shukrijimuah in the Toronto area and, if not, we’ve found his double.”

Alas! McLeod was forced to follow-up her report shortly afterwards:

Ciro Vitolo has come forward to say he is not the FBI-hunted Al Qaeda terrorist Adnan “Jafar the Pilot” El Shukrijumah, who is believed to have posed as a student at Hamilton’s McMaster University.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” said Vitolo, who said a friend had emailed him that his McMaster’s graduation photo had been posted on the CFP website alongside three FBI photos of El Shukrjumah, who has a $5 million bounty on his head. “Then I got angry.”

But that doesn’t mean it’s not all true; perhaps El Shukrijumah, realising that he resembled Vitolo, stole his identity to infiltrate the university:

When Vitolo was asked whether someone had possibly assumed his identity during the five years he spent at McMaster University, he responded, “That’s a loaded question.”

Vitolo did say, however that he may have lost some personal effects 10 years ago and said someone had stolen his wallet from his car five years ago.

Williams, meanwhile, is facing a libel action from McMaster. He has set up a legal defence fund website, where he remains bullish:

McMaster has harbored leading al Qaeda operatives, including Adnan el-Shukrijumah, Jaber A. Elbaneh, Abderraouf Jdey, and Amer el-Maati. This finding was a result of the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was taken into custody in Karachi by ISI officials on March 3, 2003…. When the operatives left McMaster, 180 pounds of nuclear material was reported missing. The story of the missing waste was first reported by John Loftus of WABC News on November 7, 2003. This story also remains on the internet. McMaster has insisted that no material was ever missing from the reactor but radiological material was reported missing from their pharmacological and medical facilities.

…For reporting these findings, Dr. Williams has been sued by McMaster University for $4 million plus punitive damages…The case, fuelled by Islamic contributions, represents the first attempt of an academic institution to limit the research of an academician, despite the fact that such research is vital for our national security. If he loses the case, the American people will be left in the dark and the American Hiroshima may become a reality.

And why else should we support Williams? He links prominently to a semi-anonymous testimonial:

Dr. Williams is such a true man of God. He is so dedicated to educate both Christians and Jews to what he knows is about to hit American soil. Paul’s dedication and passion is endless, his background is vital for the work he does to the defense of America and our people. Unfortunately, the enemy has much more funds that we can ever hope for, and this is why they are gain ground so rapidly. Besides the funds Paul needs all the prayer warriors praying for this situation. No matter how big it seems our God is in control and still answers our prayers. We want to help Paul in any way possible to continue this war on terrorism.

Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

The Orange County Register continues its series on Rick Warren, with a look at how the California evangelist fits into the political scene in Rwanda:

During the past year, Rwanda’s powerful president has embarked on an uncommon partnership with Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren and his global PEACE plan, an effort to link churches in networks of evangelism and practical good works.

…The former director of military intelligence for neighboring Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has brought stability to Rwanda but also an authoritarian style of governance that worries nongovernmental organizations and human-rights observers. By working so closely with Kagame, they say, Warren and his teams of PEACE missionaries may be unwittingly playing politics.

The report notes that the Catholic Church is still associated with the Hutu majority, and that it has chosen not to involve itself with Warren’s PEACE (=Plant churches, Equip servent leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick, and Education the next generation) plan:

“The Catholic Church still represents an alternative power base,” says a human-rights expert living in Rwanda, who requested anonymity citing a fear of government reprisal. “So by welcoming in the evangelical churches (Kagame is) simultaneously showing the West (his) openness to ideas and (he’s) weakening (his) opposition.”

Kagame rejects this interpretation, and Warren insists Kagame is a “great leader”, despite concerns over creeping authoritarianism and complaints from the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.

Warren was also impressed when Kagame introduced him to a member of Rwanda’s political opposition.

“He said, ‘I’m actually in the opposition, and I believe (Kagame) is a man of integrity, and I believe he wants what’s best for our country,'” Warren recalls.

I think there’s more than one way to draw inferences from that…

The report also features Antoine Rutayisire, who is vice-chairman of the Rwandan government’s Unity and Reconciliation Committee, and who, as an evangelist, holds “prayer breakfasts and Bible studies for Rwanda’s leaders”. Rutayisire says he wishes that Kagame were more authoritarian, in order to deal with the country’s chaotic past.

Rutayisire is affiliated with African Enterprise, an evangelical missionary organisation which claims to work for “reconciliation between the leaders of rival factions” across the continent. According to that organisation’s website, Rutayisire’s

…ministry is extensive because the Lord has opened up many opportunities, including speaking and ministering to Rwandan Parliamentarians and prisoners on a regular basis. He is a very articulate and sought after speaker. Antoine has been the keynote speaker at World Vision on Reconciliation and has spoken twice at the Annual International Reconciliation Conferences hosted by Reconciliation New Works of Our World.

One of Rutayisire’s prison visits is described here:

A Sunday service in Kigali Central Prison last December turned into a four-hour session of confession. About 1,000 people attended to pray and fast, African Enterprise said. After worship, prayer, and a short message “came a time of repentance that turned out to be longer than predicted” as men came forward all afternoon to confess their crimes, African Enterprise’s Antoine Rutayisire said.

…Men confessed to heinous crimes and expressed sorrow for the pain they caused. “I kept my eyes to the ground as I was afraid to look into the faces of those people confessing their murders, rapes, and looting,” Rutayisire said. “It was like a sacred, private moment when sinners were opening their hearts to their God. I felt as if I were listening to a conversation I shouldn’t be listening to.”

Astonished prison guards and officials watched in silence, he said. Guards summoned the prison director, his deputy, chief supervisor, and other officers to witness the event. “They came and stood first at the door, then tiptoed in as if not to disturb a sacred ceremony,” Rutayisire said.

…Rutayisire’s prison ministry is unique in Rwanda, African Enterprise’s John Beaver told Religion Today. Prisons are reluctant to let a speaker come in because it could cause disruptions. “Having large, powerful responses to the Lord’s work can be potentially upsetting in a prison,” he said. “But Antoine is blessed in this work. He has complete access to every prison. He can go places and do things that other organizations can’t.”

African Enterprise was founded in 1961 by a prominent South African evangelist, Michael Cassidy, who held multiracial Christian events during the apartheid era and who is seen as a reconciler (although he has a morbid horror of gay marriage). Cassidy has also involved himself with Rwanda, speaking at a prayer breakfast:

The Guest of Honor was His Excellency, the President, Paul Kagame. Dr. Michael Cassidy addressed this distinguished audience and spoke strongly about the necessity of national leadership that honors God. President Paul Kagame challenged the audience about how Christians should be different than everyone else. He also spoke about having purpose in our personal and corporate lives and he firmly stated that “God is good.” This incredible event was broadcasted on Rwanda National Radio.

Kagame also shared his religious thoughts at a religious rally in 2004:

The crowd grew each day with seven to ten thousand being present for the brief dedication on Sunday…The Governor addressed the assembly, praising the crusade efforts and…paving the way for the President of Rwanda, his Excellency Paul Kagame. The President congratulated the 1080 person who had come to saving faith in Christ Jesus and challenged them to continue in the faith that the message of reconciliation with God and fellow man would continue to produce fruit for the church and the nation. He exhorted all to continue the partnership of church and government in the development of the Rwandan people.

Pastor John Richardson was overwhelmed with the opportunity to participate: “The Gospel was preached. The Kingdom was advanced. To God be the Glory!”

The Orange County Register also notes that

In the reception area outside Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s offices – in the second of several reception areas patrolled by armed guards – a television entertains guests with an American drama about Jesus.

But what of the Kagame sceptics? I looked at some of the complaints against him in our first blog entry on Kagame and Warren, which can be seen here.

(Hat tip: Christianity Today Weblog)

Filed under: Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

…from Dr* Alfred Adams:

Therefore we know, without setting dates, that the Lord’s coming is near at hand, and now is the time to get right with God. The year 2007 falls 40 years after the recapture of Jerusalem, in the 1967 Six Day war. Forty years in Scripture represents the length of a generation

…The year 2007 should see the ratification of the European Constitution, fulfilling Scripture, creating the role of a EU President and Foreign Minister, or the “prince” of the people of Rome (Daniel 9:26)…Iran is expected to possess enough enriched Uranium to produce a nuclear weapon by around 2009-2010 (also here), if not by 2007, with knowledge on how to build a bomb already obtained on the black market…The European Union hopes to have its Battle Groups concept, similar to the idea of the old Roman Legions, up and running by 2007…

Etc, etc…and particularly weirdly:

EU Action Plan agreed on improving animal welfare within the European Union, for the period 2006-2010. Could the renewal of this document be the one that causes the sacrifice and oblation to cease, halfway through the Antichrist’s reign? (Daniel 9:27)

UPDATE: The AP reports on a poll which asked “people in the U.S. to contemplate what 2007 holds for the country”:

25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

****

*”Recipient of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Ministry from Cornerstone Christian College based in Lafayette, Louisiana, for the speaking [sic] and sales of the book Nearing Midnight”.

(Pic via Radosh)

Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »