WorldNetDaily: View homosexual film, or school faces lawsuit

WorldNetDaily: View homosexual film, or school faces lawsuit: "View homosexual film,
or school faces lawsuit
ACLU tells district: Force students
to watch 'tolerance training' video"

Marilyn Manson teaches art for a day - Temple News - News

Marilyn Manson teaches art for a day - Temple News - News: "Marilyn Manson teaches art for a day
The rocker spoke about art, politics, himself and self-expression.
"
>And people pay how many tens-of-thousands for this mis-education?

Racism, Democrat-style

Racism, Democrat-style: "Racism, Democrat-style

Ruben Navarrette Jr., Dallas Morning News

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Dallas -- A LATINO attorney general? A black woman as secretary of state?

Who would have imagined it 50 years ago -- or even, more recently, say, during the Clinton administration? Give President Bush credit for breaking barriers that his Democratic predecessor never got around to.

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Marine sacrifices his life for others in grenade blast

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Marine sacrifices his life for others in grenade blast: "Marine sacrifices his life for others in grenade blast

By Gordon Trowbridge
The Army Times"

News 14 Carolina | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES | Church cleans up graffiti in time for worship services

News Satanic Vandalism: Church cleans up graffiti in time for worship services

The New York Times > New York Region > Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.

The New York Times > New York Region > Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.: "Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I."

>Gee, I thought is was only Southerners who could be racist...

Will 2000 fund-raiser scam bite Hillary?

WorldNetDaily: Will 2000 fund-raiser scam bite Hillary?: "Will 2000 fund-raiser scam bite Hillary?
Promoter of star-studded event who's now serving time tells all"

>>Dont let Hillary's move to the right fool you. To many she will be a wolf in sheeps' clothing.

Don Make Massah Mad

By now we should all know what Democrats think about us niggers. They promote the use of the word in their version of “pop” culture. White liberal screenwriters in Hollywood add the word to “keep it real” in movies, television programs and music videos. They get all bent out of shape when a conservative has a mild Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb or Trent Lott moment, but the sentiment that blacks truly are niggers has always been reserved for liberals.

JunkYardBlog: November 14, 2004 - November 20, 2004 Archives

JunkYardBlog: November 14, 2004 - November 20, 2004 Archives: "THE PRESS IS HIDING THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF FALLUJAH

In the age of mass media and instant news, if we don't see images of something how long will our memories of it last? Our troops fighting in Fallujah have reportedly discovered several slaughterhouses--places where terrorists killed innocent civilians in brutal, disgusting fashion--around the city. But have you seen any pictures of those slaughterhouses? I haven't, and I think it's important that we do. We need to see what our enemy has been doing that led to the fighting there. We need to see why the Marines needed to be sent into that hellhole. The terrorist butcheries are part of why we're fighting there.

Let's take a walk around the media, in vain search of pictures of the Fallujah slaughterhouses. Here's a story about them, but what picture accompanies it? An unflattering shot of Iraqi PM Allawi.

Here's another story, no picture.

Chicago Tribune story, no pictures.

UK Times story, no pics.

The Australian runs a story, no photos.

The Independent runs a story about the discovery of a hostage chained to a wall in a slaughterhouse, no photos.

KC Star reports on the slaughterhouses, no photos.

Most of these stories are based on wire reports, either AP, AFP, UPI or Reuters. We've seen AP insert its photographers in terrorist units--how else does it get shots like this one? But the wires seem to have had no time to get a camera into any of these slaughterhouses that our troops have taken from the terrorists. We know these places exist, due to the fact that the terrorists had to have killed their victims somewhere. But all we have are brief descriptions. No photos.

Here are some Marines in a non-slaughterhouse in Fallujah, courtesy the Canadian Press. Here are some Marines in a house in which they found some IEDs, courtesy AP. On Yahoo's news photo search there are hundreds of photos from the battle of Fallujah, but none of them--not one--that I have found so far depict any of the slaughterhouses.

Why?"

"Main theme of jihad is the murdering of Christians and Jews"

Paradise Post - Local News: "Former Muslim warns Ridge Baptists about Islam

By Valerie Lum - Staff Writer

A former Muslim spoke at the Ridge Southern Baptist Church on Sunday evening to explain the 'True Under-standing of Islam.'
Pastor Mujahid el-Masih had been Muslim for 14 years before he converted to Christianity in his native country of Pakistan.
Armed with a power-point presentation and a slew of quotes, he now travels around the United States as a part of The Voices of Martyrs.
'I came from a country where there is no freedom of speech and no freedom of religion,' el-Masih said."

The death of Bradley McGee

Michelle Malkin: The death of Bradley McGee

Bradley Gene McGee was tortured and beaten to death 15 years ago. Thanks to our senseless courts, one of his callous killers is free to strike again.

Bradley died at the age of 2. It’s the age when a happy boy’s life is preoccupied with Teletubbies, choo-choo trains, Cheerios, sippy cups, and Velcro-strap sneakers with tiny red lights that blink when you stomp your feet. It is also the age for potty-training, when a little boy needs loving parents or guardians with patience, devotion and good humor.

Bradley’s murderers possessed none of these traits. On a summer day in 1989, they punished him for soiling his pants by plunging him headfirst in a toilet. Again and again and again. The man who rammed Bradley’s head repeatedly into the ceramic fixture was his stepfather, Thomas Coe. The woman who covered Bradley’s mouth to stop him from screaming -- the woman who then sat by the bathtub, lit a cigarette and watched the little boy’s torment -- was the woman who gave birth to Bradley, Sheryl Hardy.

Parents who abuse children should never be allowed to get their children back.

Boulder man accused of giving dirty DVDs to trick-or-treaters

DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS: "Boulder man accused of giving dirty DVDs to trick-or-treaters

By The Associated Press

Boulder - A Boulder man who children said put pornographic DVDs in their Halloween sacks last month has been arrested on suspicion of felony obscenity, police said."

Texas school district nixes 'cross-dressing day'

HoustonChronicle.com - Texas school district nixes 'cross-dressing day': "Texas school district nixes 'cross-dressing day'
By BOBBY ROSS JR.
Associated Press

Note to boys in the tiny Spurger, Texas, school district: Put away those high heels and pleated skirts. Instead, wear black boots and Army camouflage to school Wednesday."



>>>WHY WAS IT EVEN CONSIDERED???

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I also want to see the female body that had her face disfigured along with the removal of her arms and legs, and she was also disemboweled. They won't show these things on television, but they love to show a Marine trying to protect himself from a possible booby trap. "

WorldNetDaily: Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote

WorldNetDaily: Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote: "Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote
Popular radio host says Christians' citizenship is really in heaven"

Dearest Elite and Most Enlightened Maureen Dowd

Dearest Elite and Most Enlightened Maureen Dowd

We Red-Staters are fearful! We’re under attack! Hate speech fills the airwaves and print-press. Intolerance rules the day, and bigoted, mean-spirited Christophopia threatens to demean--to cause irreparable injury to Red-Stater self-esteem across this great (very red) God-blessed Nation. It appears that, as the tide shifts in America’s culture war, you and your ilk are prepared to escalate the conflict--to declare civil war--to take up arms…(well, maybe not that…you would have to touch a gun and betray your pacifists creed to war against our “Christian Jihad.” In so doing, you would be no better than our evil President, who so enjoys killing those peace-loving Muslim fundamentalists). But nonetheless…where’s the open-mindedness Maureen?--The love? Where, oh where have all the Liberal warm-fuzzies gone?

israelinsider: diplomacy: Hospital concealment strengthens suspicion: Arafat died of AIDS

israelinsider: diplomacy: Hospital concealment strengthens suspicion: Arafat died of AIDS: "Hospital concealment strengthens suspicion: Arafat died of AIDS"

WorldNetDaily: Shut up and leave already

WorldNetDaily: Shut up and leave already!

German Radical Christians Look to US

German Radical Christians Look to US | Germany | Deutsche Welle |

LILEKS (James) The Bleat

LILEKS (James) The Bleat: "Arafat did not go to Hell. He boards the ferry, yes; he makes it halfway across the River Styx, yes. Then the ferry blows up. Ten times a day for eternity. For a start. "

stood to be counted with the enemy?

Issues of morality
have been heralded as one of the many reasons the Republicans made substantial
gains in the November 2004 elections. In response to this, many
Democrats who also claim to be Christians became indignant claiming that they
are just as "moral" as any Republican and that the "right" doesn't
have a monopoly on "values". That we all agree on the same things,
just differ on how to get there.



Just as in most things in the liberal democrat world, reality doesn't jibe
with what they believe.



First let's work on some definitions. The terms "morals" and "values" these
days are thought of as somewhat fluid. We've all heard the phrase "What's
true for you may not be true for me" etc.. Before Neitche and the psychologists
got ahold of this subject we referred to them as "right and wrong".
A Christian should KNOW (not feel!) that there are things that are right and
there are things that are wrong. That these things have been established by
God and that God has not now nor has he ever changed his mind on these matters.
God
has established the morals, values, whatever you want to call them and given
them to us as guardrails for our lives.



A Christian is someone who has confessed to God his sins, is sorry for them and
wants to turn from them. Has acknowledged that Jesus is the Son of God, that
He died for all our sins and rose again after three days in the grave to conquer
death for all that love Him. And finally after these confessions has had the
Holy Spirit of God dwell in them as a comforter and guide as they walk in the
ways of God.



Notice, I didn't say someone who has gone to church all their lives because
their momma and daddy went there. Nor did I mention someone who claims to be
a christian
because they keep the ten commandments and go to church now and then.

Now as far as
the Republican Party is concerned, this is where Christians have a home and
a voice- for the moment. I do not consider myself a Republican. I am a
Christian. I vote for the Christian (when an obvious one is available). The
majority of Christians (real ones, that is) travel in the Republican party.
The moment the RNC shows Christianity the door, I'll be the first out.



With these definitions in mind, let us move on.



In the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" there is a scene
where Indy meets up with the femme fatale to retrieve his father's diary. They
are in Berlin and the Nazis are burning books. A massive pile of flaming tomes
is the backdrop when Dr. Jones angrily grabs the diary .

Dr. Elsa Schneider : You came back for the book?

Indiana Jones : My father didn't want it incinerated.

Dr. Elsa Schneider : I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika.

Indiana Jones : You stood up to be counted with the enemies of everything
the Grail stands for. Who gives a d**n what you believe?



Those that claim to be Christian and Democrats have chosen to stand with
their party and everything it stands for. Let's examine what these things
are.



Attitudes toward African-Americans and minorities:

It was Democratic politicians who fanned the flames of the draft
riots in the
New England states by agitating the Irish immigrants against the newly arriving
blacks who were portrayed as a threat to their jobs. Black men where
hung from the lampposts for nothing more than being negro.

It was democratic politicians who opposed emancipation. Where it not for Abolitionist
Republicans applying steady pressure on Lincoln and his administration, it would
not have happened.

It was the Democratic party that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. One of their
current party leaders, Senator
Robert Byrd from West Virginia, is an ex Klan
recruiter and leader. He has never denounced his affiliation.

The Civil Rights Amendment was stonewalled by southern democrats. Senator Al
Gore Sr. was one of many against it. Were it not for the Republican minority
voting for it, it would not have passed.

Since LBJ's war
on poverty, promises made by Democrats (who by the way were in the majority
in the Congress as well as held the presidency a sizable portion of the time)
have shown to be hollow. With each new generation the same promises are made
and the same demons vilified. If the problems of minorities were to actually
be solved, then Democrats would lose their power. It is in their best interest
to keep the problems alive.

Remember which
president rounded up and interred Japanese Americans simply because of their
ethnicity? Democrat FDR.

Death to the innocent:

If you are pro-life,
you will never be heard in the Democratic party. The angry, hate-filled,
abortion-is-the-ONLY-choice feminists and NOW members are wholly in whose
camp?

NARAL endorsed
Senator John Kerry, who said he believed that life started at conception,
but didn't want to impede a "woman's right to choose".

Which party members
have defended the abominable procedure known as "partial birth
abortion"? Which party has been trying to outlaw it?

It is the Democratic
party that has given ear and a home to the euthanasia movement. Giving grandma
a lethal dose once she becomes a "useless eater" is not a new concept certainly,
but if you'll notice, it is liberal Democrat politicians that are arguing
the case.

Removal
of God and Christianity from every aspect of government and everyday life:

The ACLU is not
a Republican organization. Read the roster of their supporters and you'll
notice a parallel with Democratic supporters.

Did you know Atheists
endorsed Kerry?

The approval
and promotion of sexual perversity:

Even though the
Republican party has its "log cabin" homosexuals, but they are not a significant
factor. Whereas homosexuals, pedophiles,
bi-sexuals, tri-sexual, necrophiliacs, S&M , you name it are 99.9% registered
Democrats. It is the Republican party
that has been pushing the defense of marriage and the marriage amendment
to preserve the institution. Ask most Bush hating Democrats why they hate
Bush, they'll say because he is against marriage for gays, against abortion
(a woman's right to choose).'The "adult
entertainment industry" (pornographers)
endorsed John Kerry. The
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force endorsed Kerry.

Common ground
with the Communist and socialist parties USA:

Although the Communist
Party USA does not endorse a candidate, as they state on their website, they
are totally against President Bush and the "Republican stranglehold on government".
They also did not run their own candidate so as not to "distract from the
main effort of defeating Bush". If it walks like an endorsement and quacks
like an endorsement...

The Socialist
Party USA endorsed Kerry.

Fidel Castro endorsed
Kerry. Kim
Jong-il, North Korean dictator endorsed Kerry. Vietnamese
Communists endorsed Kerry.

Would
like to see America die:

Terrorists and Anarchists: For Kerry. Against Bush.

Hypocricy:

If Jesus lashed
out at anyone the most, it would be hypocrites. Don't get me started on the
huge list of liberal Democrat hypocricy.

Democrats
cause violence and destruction before and after election.

Groups around
the country broke into and trashed Republican headquarters. Thousands of
Republican vehicles have been vandalized. People who had Bush/Cheney signs
in their yards had their houses vandalised.

(This list isn't
in any way exhaustive. Just what came to mind while ranting. I could go on
and on and on.)

I hope I don't
need to explain to you why these things are bad, and you
may not support racism, the killing of the innocent, unbridled sexual perversion,
the removal of God and Christianity from public life, Communism, Socialism,
Terrorism, anarchists or violence...

...But you have
stood to be counted with the enemies of everything that Christianity stands
for.

You
are known by the company you keep.

Choose
Ye this day....

HughHewitt.com

HughHewitt.com: "Michael Barone sums up the MSM, 2004: Bush 'has been the target all year of vicious and biased coverage from old media, many if not most of whose personnel saw their job as removing this scourge from the presidency. The 60 Minutes story about Bush's Air National Guard service, which was based on obviously forged documents, is only the most egregious example. Old media have headlined violence in Iraq and reported almost nothing about positive developments there; they highlighted the charges of self-promoter Joseph Wilson and spoke nary a word when they were proved bogus; they have given good economic news far less positive coverage, studies show, than they did when Bill Clinton was in office.'

I doubt the MSM will ever regain their position of respect. It is now understood as an extension of the Democratic Party, and a not-very-ethical annex at that."

The Childish left

The lastest whining by the blue-state liberals includes the chatter of succession from the eeeeevil red-Bush states. In yet another childish tantrum, these children in adult bodies are threatening the equivalent of running away.

To sum up these no responsibility; I want to be as bad as I want to be fruitcakes would be to say that they have indeed adopted the Peter Pan philosphy of "I don't want to grow up".

I have been blessed with four children, and through them have been taught much on the nature of God and Man. As I watch liberals call names and pitch hissy fits when they don't get their way I realise that they have never matured. They are eternally stuck at 4 years old.

I am so thankful that the Adults remain in the Whitehouse.

Dan Rather and 60 Mins staff rooting for Kerry? Wow!

"Players involved in the notorious 60 Minutes II story, reported by Dan Rather, which employed dubious documents regarding President Bush’s National Guard service, may have been rooting for a John Kerry victory."
Sweating Bush II at CBS
Broadcasting and Cable

-Really! You don't mean it!

Incredible "Incredibles"

Saw Pixar's Incredibles Saturday night. Let me say that it is yet another fantastic family movie!

As a family we usually wait and rent a DVD from cleanfilms to avoid the corporate hollywood mandated garbage. Therefore, we may see a movie in the theaters maybe 2-3 times a year. We joined with another family and took a total of 4 adults and 5 kids.

The action and humor is worthy of any "mainstream" hi-dollar flick. There is no offensive language or sexual situations or even inuendo that I recall. It even has an intact family! Wow!

I give this one 7 stones. :)

Vandals Hit GOP Headquarters in N.Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Vandals spray painted vulgar messages on the walls of the North Carolina Republican Party headquarters and left a burned effigy depicting President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, police said.

Authorities detained several suspects early Saturday, hours after the attacks took place Friday night, but had not filed any charges, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.

A police officer reported Friday that about 100 people wearing masks and gloves were walking down a street near the headquarters, authorities said.

The Republican president won re-election Tuesday after a challenge by Kerry, a Democrat. John Edwards, who was Kerry's running mate, is a senator from North Carolina.

``This is not a political statement,'' Sughrue said. ``A political statement is what we made Tuesday. This is a crime.''

Police said at least two windows were broken and it appeared that the vandals tried to put incendiary devices inside of the building.

Investigators also found a partially burned, two-headed effigy in military fatigues. One head had the face of Bush and the other the face of Kerry.

``The people who did this are sick,'' said Kevin Howell, communications director for the state Republican Party. ``People don't understand that debate and elections are part of the process. This isn't how you act.''

Stereotypes of Bush voters absurd

Whole article is good. read it.

Stereotypes of Bush voters absurd
Millions of Americans just may have had it up to their eyebrows with those who disdain their intelligence and mock their religion.
By Jay Ambrose

I take particular umbrage at the caricature some paint of the religious. When you listen to someone like the TV comedian Bill Maher ridicule Christianity, for instance, you wonder whether he has any notion at all of tenets residing at the heart of the faith: that we can experience forgiveness if we ourselves first forgive, that we can find redemption even when our lives are in tatters, that nothing less is demanded of us in our dealings with others than sacrificial love. This is the stuff of satire?

Another proposition of the faith is that confession is good for the soul, and I have to confess that I am not in a very forgiving mood. It delights me to suppose that Bush-despising Hollywood lefties may actually have aided his cause in their excessive rhetoric (check out Richard Dreyfus's speeches someday) or their middle class-alienating vulgarities (see Whoopi Goldberg's jokes about the president).

I get special joy -- I must get over this -- in contemplating the hell Michael Moore might go through if he dwelled on the possibility that he contributed to the Bush victory by so unmistakably signaling his elitist attitudes.

Tantrums from the childish left.

(Buffalo, NY, November 4, 2004) - - Political leaders say anger prompted vandals to target two locations in Western New York, including GOP headquarters in downtown Buffalo.

Republican leaders say someone threw big rocks through the windows of the headquarters at the Statler Towers sometime during the early morning hours.

The Armed Forces Recruiting Center on Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda was also vandalized.

News 4 received a letter from a group early Thursday morning claiming it committed the vandalism in retaliation against the GOP agenda.

Zell tried to tell the Dems,but they're too far gone now.

In 1980, the South had 20 Democrats and just six Republicans in the Senate. As recently as 1994, the Senate had 17 Democrats and nine Republicans from the South.

A decade later, the number had reversed to 17 Republicans and nine Democrats. With this election, it is 22 Republicans and just four Democrats from the South.

When will national Democrats sober up and admit that that dog won't hunt? Secular socialism, heavy taxes, big spending, weak defense, limitless lawsuits and heavy regulation — that pack of beagles hasn't caught a rabbit in the South or Midwest in years.

Home trashed by angry leftists

tan Stafford of North Park didn't want to risk any more trouble. So on Saturday, three days before the presidential election, he took down the big Bush/Cheney yard signs that had dominated his North Park front yard.

It didn't matter.

Vandals trashed his house sometime early yesterday morning, splashing red paint on his sidewalks, plants, garage and house.

-Sleazeballs

Spirited away: why the end is nigh for religion

Spirited away: why the end is nigh for religion
Carol Midgley
Christianity will be eclipsed by spirituality in 30 years, startling new research predicts. Our correspondent reports on the collapse of traditional religion and the rise of mysticism


IN THE beginning there was the Church. And people liked to dress up in their best clothes and go there on Sundays and they praised the Lord and it was good. But it came to pass that people grew tired of the Church and they stopped going, and began to be uplifted by new things such as yoga and t’ai chi instead. And, lo, a spiritual revolution was born.

It is unlikely that you, the average punter going to your aromatherapy or meditation group this evening, imagine that you are revolutionising the sacred landscape of Britain. But, little by little, you are.

Study after study appears to prove that people are increasingly losing faith in the Church and the Bible and turning instead to mysticism in guises ranging from astrology to reiki and holistic healing. The Government, significantly, said this week that older people should be offered t’ai chi classes on the NHS to promote their physical and mental wellbeing.

More and more people describe themselves as “spiritual”, fewer as “religious” and, as they do so, they are turning away from the Christian Church, with its rules and “self last” philosophy, and looking inwards for the meaning of life.

Twice as many people believe in a “spirit force” within than they do an Almighty God without, while a recent survey hailed a revival of the Age of Aquarius after finding that two thirds of 18 to 24-year-olds had more belief in their horoscopes than in the Bible.

-This is the great gulf between the USA and Europe. We haven't abandoned God...yet.

Moral issues drove voters;Christian advocates, media pundits agree on believers' impact

Moral issues drove voters
Christian advocates, media pundits agree on believers' impact

In what one pastor is calling a "moral mandate" from the voters, millions of Americans made choices in the election yesterday based on traditional social issues.

Both Christian activists and media analysts agree that many voters put moral issues high on their priority lists, ushering President Bush into another four-year term, approving same-sex marriage bans and giving Republicans boosts both on Capitol Hill and throughout the nation.

-Gee folks, wonder what other horrid things we could have avoided if we all showed up in previous elections and protests at the capitals? Like Abortion? The removal of God,Prayer and reading of the Bible from schools?

Time for the snoopy dance

Did anyone else notice...

When Kerry was up 1% the networks went ahead and called the state, but when GW was up 1% they had to be cautious.

Media bias?


Nooooooooooooo!

Pagan rituals on Web site rile Episcopalians

Pagan rituals on Web site rile Episcopalians


By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A druidic "women's eucharist" and a "divorce rite," both posted on the Episcopal Church's official Web site, have outraged Episcopal conservatives.
The "eucharist," subtitled "A Celebration of the Divine Feminine," was posted Oct. 8 on the denomination's Office of Women's Ministries page at www.dfms.org. It invoked "Mother God" and used a lighted candle, a vase of flowers, a chalice of sweet red wine, a cup of milk and money and a plate of raisin cakes to invoke images of sexuality, fertility and birth.

--I do believe that Jesus has removed the lampstand from the Episcopalian church. Without His light, they've chosen to fill themselves with artificial light.

Flynt: 'I'll flee if Bush wins'

Flynt: 'I'll flee if Bush wins


Paris - American porn mogul Larry Flynt said he may decide to go into exile if George W Bush is re-elected president of the United States. "If Bush is re-elected - but I don't want to even consider the thought for one second - I really have to think about living somewhere else," Flynt said early Monday in a strip club on the Champs Elysees in Paris where he was celebrating his 62nd birthday.

-I really do wish someone would hold these bozos to their threats. Good riddence I say. -ME

The Left's been hard at work trying to steal another election

Before voting even began in Philladelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout downtown... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... Developing...

Phantom Pain

The subject of last Sundays' sermon was the "body of Christ". In my mind I combined this concept with a video I had seen earlier in the week and was given an insight into something I've been dealing with.

I've had some difficulty trying to keep a postive attitiude concerning those who've left the church for whatever reason. It's been a mixture of anger and sadness. These were people I enjoyed seeing and in my own feeble way attempted to be involved with their lives.

The video I watched last week, in part, dealt with a soldier whose arms were blown off in an accident and how he was dealing with "phantom pain". It seems that although a part of your body is missing, in your mind the limb is still wounded and sever pain is felt where the part once existed.

I suppose the pain many of us feel is phantom pain for missing members of The body.