Introduction to Khalistan Movement: The goal of the Khalistan movement is or was to create a Sikh homeland, often called Khālistān (Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ, Hindi: ख़ालिस्तान “The Land of the Pure”), in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, depending on definition. Harking back to the 18th century Sikh Empire, the envisioned Sikh state would include the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, New Delhi, parts of the Kashmir, parts of Rajasthan, and parts of Gujurat. There is also a demand for areas in Pakistan, including Punjab and Sindh.
Cults/Cult Watch
What Would Constitute Proof a Religion was One of Death? Necrophilia?
I am curious what would constitute evidence that a religion is a religion of death? Sex with dead people? Via Gateway Pundit:
Egyptian husbands will now be allowed to have sex with their dead wives up to 6 hours after their death. Gross. The Daily Mail reported, via Free Republic:
Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives – for up to six hours after their death.
The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
Take note this swath of laws brought in by the majority controlled Islamo-Nazi parliament in Egypt also wants child marriages instituted. Like their founder’s life exemplified [Muhammad]:
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).”
Sahih Bukhari 7.62.88
Mormon Views of God`s Attributes ~ Did God Sin and Why This Is Important (Serious Saturday)
This is how I put it in footnote #7 in my chapter on Mormonism:
Usually I make this point – that Heavenly Father was a mortal man – early in the conversation, and, will revisit this idea of Heavenly Father being a man born into a world of his own by stating the argument another way. I will point out that it is possible that their god owned a gas station, worked at a grocery store as a clerk, went to college, or,even like myself, could have been convicted of crimes and done jail time before becoming “exalted.”
The Reason These Guys are Still Preaching Is Because There Is No Discernment of Spirit
With thanks to Pimp Preacher and especially NYTN:
Bishop Eddy Longs 5th Accuser
Pimp Preacher asks a question in regards to this subject:
How many boys is too many before the doors of New Birth are closed for Good? Why is this man still traveling around the world like a sex tourist in the name of Jesus?
Not Your Typical Negro (NYTN) h/t:
A very interesting witnessing moment with a fundementalist Mormon
Faith Healing Cult Couple Looses Custody of Child (Cult Watch)
See Religion News Blog for More:
He Did Come (Spiritually)
When the Jehovah’s Witnesses got their many predictions wrong… they finally settled on 1914 for the invisible (spiritual) return of Christ. Same here with Harold Camping. You are actually seeing a cult similar to JWs being born. Wild.
Doomsday Tactics Good for Business (ask Al Gore)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — By now, you’ve probably heard of the religious group that’s predicting the end of the world starts this weekend.
Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second coming of Jesus, or so-called Judgment Day on Saturday, May 21, ushering in a five month period of catastrophes before the world comes to a complete end in October.
At the center of it all, Camping’s organization, Family Radio, is perfectly happy to take your money — and in fact, received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009. Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network based in Oakland, Calif. with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958.
But not even all of his own employees are convinced that the world is ending on Saturday.
In fact, many still plan on showing up at work on Monday.
“I don’t believe in any of this stuff that’s going on, and I plan on being here next week,” a receptionist at their Oakland headquarters told CNNMoney.
A program producer in Illinois told us, “We’re going to continue doing what we’re doing.”
According to their most recent IRS filings, Family Radio is almost entirely funded by donations, and brought in $18 million in contributions in 2009 alone.
What are we looking out for? (Matthew 24 tells us, deceivers #1, and be ready spiritually)
3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.” ….
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36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
A Mother Kills Her 3-Year Old Believing Her Possessed
Demon Possession and The Christian by C. Fred Dickason.Thorough treatment, offering excellent insight from a variety of sources as well as various points of view. Highly recommended. Sample chapters.
From Religion News Blog:
The woman was taken to a hospital for medical attention.
During her treatment, Pleitez said she stuck a rose down her daughter’s throat because God told her to, according to a police officer stationed at the hospital who reported overhearing a conversation between Pleitez and her translator.
She put the rose in her daughter’s throat because demons were inside the girl, according to the translation, the officer said. Pink roses and rose petals were found on the floor of the home’s living room, according to the police.
Pleitez’ son may also have been in danger.
Through the translator, Pleitez said she had “thought about fighting the demons out of both children and that at one point had a child in each arm.”
Faith In Faith Kills
In Matt 26:39 Jesus prays: “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” The word faith “health and wealth” person prays: ““My Father! I command You to take this cup of suffering be taken away. Yet I want my will to be done, not yours.” Unfortunately this twisting of wills and subjects to be prayed to (ones own faith) is no other than the lie from Genesis 3:1-6. It is not merely putting oneself in the chair central to ones life, but making a throne out of it.
From Religion News Blog:
Herbert and Catherine Schaible of Philadelphia face more than a decade in prison for the January 2009 pneumonia death of 2-year-old Kent.
“We were careful to make sure we didn’t have their religion on trial but were holding them responsible for their conduct,” jury foreman Vince Bertolini, 49, told The Associated Press. “At the least, they were guilty of gross negligence, and (therefore) of involuntary manslaughter.”
The Schaibles, who have six other children, declined to comment as they left the courthouse to await sentencing Feb. 2.
Experts say about a dozen U.S. children die in faith-healing cases each year. An Oregon couple were sentenced this year to 16 months in prison for negligent homicide in the death of their teenage son, who had an undiagnosed urinary blockage.
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Their pastor, Nelson A. Clark of the First Century Gospel Church of Juniata Park, which teaches healing through prayer and eschews medical care as evidence of a lack of faith in God, seemed crushed by the jury’s conclusion.
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The Schaibles’ 2-year-old son, Kent, died after fighting what began as a cold and progressed over two weeks to bacterial pneumonia. According to testimony, Herbert Schaible, 42, and Catherine Schaible, 41, prayed for their son and thought he might be getting better.
But on the night of Jan. 24, 2009, the Schaibles discovered that Kent was dead. They called the church’s assistant pastor, Ralph Myers, who came to the house, joined the parents in prayer, and then called a funeral director.
“We tried to fight the devil, but in the end the devil won,” Herbert Schaible told homicide detectives in a statement read to the jury during the trial, which began Tuesday.
Cultic Movements within Christianity (prosperity gospel)
The WORD on the Word of Faith h/t — this type of stuff breaks my heart.