[Pim Pendergast]

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This makes me sick. There's a nudist church in Virginia making a mockery of worship.

SOUTHAMPTON, VA (WWBT) -
About an hour's drive south of Richmond, there's a small congregation that doesn't care about "material" things. They worship the same way we were all brought into this world, naked.

Even in February, when temperatures can average in the 20s, members show up in various forms: some fully clothed, others topless, many still completely nude.

Pastor Allen Parker says it's not about the clothes, or lack thereof. He says it's about baring his soul to Christ and leading his flock down that path of righteousness, no matter what they're wearing.

Every Sunday in the front few rows of White Tail Chapel, you'll find Katie and Robert Church. Katie wasn't a nudist when they first met, but quickly fell in love with both Robert and the resort. They married at White Tail Chapel and say the church has given them a sense of Christian community with none of the pretense of a traditional church.

"Once we were married, and we were here, this whole place became our family," said Katie Church. "I feel like I can turn to anyone in this church, or even in this park, and they will be there to help me."

"People are more open as far as hearing the word of God, and speaking the word of God," agreed Robert Church.

If you think anyone here finds church attendance titillating, you'd be wrong. They're here to find inner peace and Pastor Parker believes that starts with accepting themselves.

"There's not a feeling that you have to be better than one another, physically," Pastor Parker said. "We're humans, we have scars, we have what we have…it's learning to love and accept that."

Coming before God naked was a capital offence in ancient Israel. The Priests even had to wear underwear beneath their robes.

Ex 28:42-43 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.

Pastor Allen Parker believes in "baring his soul to Christ and leading his flock down that path of righteousness, no matter what they’re wearing.” But he could do that fully clothed. Everything is naked before God.

Heb 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

[Godfly]

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How could anyone make a film that portrayed God, and his representative on earth at the time, Noah, as environmentalists?

God and Noah were intent on destroying the environment. It was supporting he people at that time. These people were sinners. God/Noah saw the environment as the "enabler" of Satan.

God had all kinds of choices. He could have sent a disease that wipped out the population, except for Noah and his family, and left the environment in place. Obviously, He thought the environment had to go.

If the True Story of Noah says anything it says the environment is evil. God destroyed the environment with a flood very quickly. As humans it takes us much longer. We should be looking for ways to destroy the environment faster to save God the work on judgment day.

[Pim Pendergast]

Six-month-old corpse gives birth!

An Alaskan woman who has had her existence artificially prolonged on "life support" has given birth.

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — A baby has been born to an Alaska woman in a coma and listed as clinically brain dead for most of the pregnancy.

KTVA reports (http://is.gd/n85V3Z) that baby Faith was delivered by cesarean section Tuesday.

Her mother, Jessie Ayagalria of Bethel, suffered cardiac arrest in January. Doctors discovered she was 12 weeks pregnant.

She was transferred to an Anchorage hospital, where doctors said she had no brain wave activity. However, a neurologist said it was possible for her to carry the baby.

Ayagalria's mother, Shirley Jerry, says family members agreed to try, and had her daughter put on life support.

Jerry says it was amazing to hold her granddaughter, who was born at 35 weeks. But the birth comes with mixed emotions since Ayagalria has returned to hospice care.

Jerry will care for Faith.

It's against nature, like homosexuality. These "medical miracles" can't hold a candle to the Holy Spirit's work.

[ExGay Alex]

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I agree. If Jesus wanted her to give birth, He wouldn't have put her into that coma.

[Pim Pendergast]

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Stephen Hawking has had the software in his retard mobile upgraded so that it can now supposedly read his mind. Here's what he said in a recent interview

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Stephen Hawking: "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded"

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence.

He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

. . .

Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very useful, but he fears the consequences of creating something that can match or surpass humans.

Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 and its murderous computer HAL encapsulate many people's fears of how AI could pose a threat to human life.

"It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he said.

"Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."

There's no such thing as AI. First of all, Stephen Hawking's computer cannot predict what he's going to say next. Other people write his books and speeches. He's just a vegetable, a puppet. He's "had" ALS -- a disease that kills within 3 to 4 years -- for 50 years now.

Second, AI never will be developed. God is the source of all knowledge and wisdom. All the knowledge man has comes from God. A computer will never have intelligence of its own unless God gives it intelligence.

Prov 2:6 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Is 28:24-26
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Dan 2:21b He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

Col 2:2-3 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Third, the world will not end in a robot apocalypse. How paranoid can unbelievers be? It will end in fire.

2 Pet 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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Stephen Hawking has had the software in his retard mobile upgraded so that it can now supposedly read his mind. Here's what he said in a recent interview

But surely everyone knows that is just what the software said, or was programed to say?

There's no such thing as AI. First of all, Stephen Hawking's computer cannot predict what he's going to say next. Other people write his books and speeches. He's just a vegetable, a puppet.

Exactly. Just as what he said was not said by him, but by software programed by other people!!!!

He's "had" ALS -- a disease that kills within 3 to 4 years -- for 50 years now.

A clear case of misdiagnosis by the socialist British medical system, which doesn't recognize simple-mindedness when it sees it.

Second, AI never will be developed. God is the source of all knowledge and wisdom. All the knowledge man has comes from God.

I often wonder what God's purpose is here, allowing people to "work" on this AI business. Human reproduction is perfectly adequate as it is, and barrenness can be cured by prayer.

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Our Beloved Lord is constantly testing our faith in Him. I rejoice in these trials.

James 1:2-4
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.


Yours in Faith,
Joanna

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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Scientists claim they're close to creating life: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articl...Enzyme-Design/

Over the past several years, researchers have begun making synthetic genetic polymers they called XNAs, which incorporate alternative molecules in place the ribose or deoxyribose portions of RNA and DNA, and a couple of years ago, Philipp Holliger of the U.K.’s MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and his team showed that these nucleic acids can replicate and evolve just like the real thing. Now, the group has used XNAs to encode and produce artificial enzymes that, once again, function just as well as natural molecules, capable of constructing and breaking down other compounds, according to research published this week (December 1) in Nature.

“Our work suggests that, in principle, there are a number of possible alternatives to nature’s molecules that will support the catalytic processes required for life,” Holliger told BBC News. “Life’s ‘choice’ of RNA and DNA may just be an accident of prehistoric chemistry.”

What with this and the "Artificial Intelligence" that the gimp Hawkins talks about, I can see that we'll end up with a planet filled with gimps with huge brains in wheelchairs.

[Pim Pendergast]

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White people in Tanzania are being slaughtered for body parts, and the murderers mostly go unpunished.

A new campaign launched in Tanzania aims to protect albino people after a rise in the number of them being murdered.

In the last three years over 70 albinos have been killed, but only ten convictions have been made.

There is a belief among some in Tanzania that the body parts of someone with albinism bring wealth.

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It is indeed my dear lady. Natural selection and evolution is an ongoing and immutable process.

Human reproduction is perfectly adequate as it is, and barrenness can be cured by prayer.

[Des]

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It is indeed my dear lady. Natural selection and evolution is an ongoing and immutable process.

The notion of evil lotion is as outdated as the rotary phone. More and more scientists are admitting that the universe could only be the product of Intelligent Design, and the only possible designer would have to be the Biblical God.

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White people in Tanzania are being slaughtered for body parts, and the murderers mostly go unpunished.

And that's what will happen here if the niggros get too uppity. They all want to be white and think that by stealing white body parts, they may become white. Until they start stealing white brains, that will never be the case.

[Des]

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And that's what will happen here if the niggros get too uppity. They all want to be white and think that by stealing white body parts, they may become white. Until they start stealing white brains, that will never be the case.

Tens of thousands of them have been turning out in the streets of New York, obstructing traffic and making decent respectable people uncomfortable with their liberal commie chanting and whining protests demanding blacks be exempt from the judicial system because some of them were sold by others of their kind into slavery several hundred years ago.

[Jim Farmer]

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Tens of thousands of them have been turning out in the streets of New York, obstructing traffic and making decent respectable people uncomfortable with their liberal commie chanting and whining protests demanding blacks be exempt from the judicial system because some of them were sold by others of their kind into slavery several hundred years ago.

They should be grateful they were sold into slavery. If they weren't, they'd still be hunting in the African jungles and deserts and being killed by lions and speared by other savages.

[Pim Pendergast]

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The Texas Senate has passed a law to protect pastors' rights to refuse to marry homosexuals. Glory!

The Texas Senate passed a bill on Tuesday which would protect the rights of certain religious organizations and pastors to refuse participation in marriage ceremonies which violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs. The Governor said he will sign a bill that offers such protection to pastors and ministers.

Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) authored Senate Bill 2065, entitled “Freedom of Religion with Respect to Recognizing or Performing Certain Marriages.”

“Pastors’ First Amendment rights are very important, and they should not be caused to do something that violates their sincerely held beliefs,” Senator Estes told Breitbart Texas.

The Senate bill amends Texas Family Code to provide that a religious organization, an institution supervised or controlled by a religious organization, an individual employed by one of these organizations, a member of the clergy, or a minister “may not be required to solemnize any marriage, or provide services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges for a purpose related to the solemnization, formation, or celebration of any marriage if the action would cause the organization or individual to violate a sincerely held religious belief.”

It also prohibits discrimination against religious organizations which decline participation in marriage ceremonies under these conditions:

A refusal to provide services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges [under this law] is not the basis for a civil or criminal cause of action or any other action by this state or a political subdivision of this state to penalize or withhold benefits or privileges, including tax exemptions or governmental contracts, grants, or licenses, from any protected organization or individual.

During debates on Monday, the Texas Senate defeated two amendments proposed by Senator Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio).

The first was an amendment to insert “acting in that capacity” after the word “minister” and before the word “may.”

Sen. Menendez’ second amendment would, if passed, have required an organization or individual described by this law to “post notice of that fact in all places of business of the organization or individual, including an Internet website. The notice may refer to the religious beliefs of the organization or individual. The notice must specifically state the persons to whom, and the marriages in connection with which, the organization or individual refuses to provide services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges”.

Both amendments were tabled by a vote after motion of Senator Estes.

In a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas, Rev. Dave Welch, President of Texas Pastor Council Action said this about debate over the bill:

The questions raised by Democrat Senators Rodriguez, Hinojosa, Garcia and Whitmire were the same given by LGBT supporters in the State Affairs Committee. However, bill author Senator Craig Estes addressed each very effectively and kept it focused on what the bill is intended to do. That, simply, is to protect Texas pastors who stand strong on the Biblical view of God’s design of male, female, marriage and family from being forced by threat of criminal or civil punishment by declining to “solemnize” weddings that violate those convictions.

Liberal senators like John Whitmire attempted to minimize the threat by arrogantly declaring that he had, ‘spoken to a fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, a personal friend, and assured him there is no problem.’ He also declared that he knew of no person from the LGBT community who would want a clergy led wedding and they ‘just wanted to be left alone.’

Senator Whitmire apparently lives in a parallel universe that does not have the Human Rights Campaign, President Barack Obama and Mayors like Annise Parker in Houston who are willing and committed to using police powers to force acceptance of the LGBTQIA agenda.

Co-Authors of the bill include Senators Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels), Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), Bob Hall (R-Edgewood), Kelly Hancock (R-North Richmond Hills), Don Huffines (R-Dallas), Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), Charles Perry (R-Lubbock), Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood), and Van Taylor (R-Plano).

The Senate Bill passed by a vote of 21-10.

Only one Democrat Senator voted for the bill, Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. (D-Brownsville).

On April 22nd, Breitbart Texas reported that pastors descended to the Texas Capitol to support House Bill 3567. The House bill, like S.B. 2065, protects the rights of certain religious organizations and individuals who refuse to perform or recognize a gay marriage.

Pastors and others were in Austin to testify in the Senate Affairs Committee on May 4th.

The House Bill has been calendared for the House floor.

Senator Estes predicted that either the House or Senate version would ultimately be passed along to Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott, through his personal Twitter account, said he hoped to see the legislation on his desk soon.

“It’s always a good sign when the Governor tweets out support for your bill,” Estes replied cheerfully. “The State clearly needed to make a statement this year. The Legislature needed to speak out on this issue.”

[mgreigns]

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The Texas Senate has passed a law to protect pastors' rights to refuse to marry homosexuals. Glory!

Thank you Sweet Jesus!