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Sistine Chapel

Watched something on 20/20 about the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and I am awed and inspired. I would LOVE to go to Rome and see it for myself, as it seems absolutely amazing.

shreckenangst

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A decade of the hypocrites and fools

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Date Line April 21, 2007

OK. The Right-wing evangelical Bushites want war whenever they can have it. They lie, deceive, engage in torture, deny all the rights and protections of the American Constitution, they support the abuse of our wounded soldiers. At least a third of the nation approves.

John McCain wants the votes of that third. With any luck (or so he believes), he can con an additional twenty-percent of the voters into making him president.

However, the nation does not want to go bankrupt, it does not want to keep the Iraq wound festering, it does not have leadership and so nothing is likely to change.

Where could we garner leadership? Obama and Clinton are raking in the primary funds; Hilary is already doing well in her quest for campaign money. Is the Whitehouse a commodity to be bought?

What of Edwards? Is that a passing thought? Edwards wife has cancer and his haircuts cost more than half America�s workers take home in a week. Any other news, or views?

Well gee, a guy needs to look good for his eventual concession speech.

The real race is between the hypocrites.

We know the Bushites have solid hypocrite backing; one need only mention a media hungry evangelical Christian to know from whence the support for his replacement will emerge.

On the other side we have Jackson, Sharpton and company. You know them, the fellows of the Imus nappy headed Ho stunt.

Who else on the Democratic side is in the hypocritical camp? Well we have Obama. He jumped into the debate, and then equated shock-jock words to physical violence, and physical violence to outsourcing jobs as a mode of violence.

As far as Imus goes, calling African-American women niggars and wholes is only improper if you are white; if you are a black rap or hip-hop start ... sh-h-h-h, we will not go there.

As a hypocrite, Obama has done even better. He has denounced fund-raising via federal lobbyists; but wait! His top fund-raisers today were federal lobbyists last year.

Gee, his federal lobbyists changed, or suspended, registration so as to raise funds for him without officially being "federal lobbyists." Now there is a con-man to beat the band.

Lest we be called biased, let us not forget Hilary. She opposes Iraq, but has made sure her Senate vote would support, or perpetuate, it.

As for the Imus thing? Hillary thought it was horribly degrading and characterized the Imus shock-jock speech as, "small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism."

Ah you must love Hillary, such a woman of conviction. When hip-hop star Timbaland calls Afro-American women niggar and whore, sh-h-h, Mrs C will not go there. Maybe because Timbaland tossed her a party and added $800,000 to her war chest.

Now, obviously, we know where Imus went wrong; he failed to do a fund raiser for these hypocritical Democrats. He only had to raise a few hundred K for their cause and all would have been fine. Instead he has raise tens of millions for Tomorrows Children's Fund, CJ Foundation for SIDS and the Imus Ranch.

Of course, we all know that you are a course bigot if you help children, and a good citizen if you fund the political campaigns of hypocrites.

Hang in there people. This is the decade of the hypocrites and fools.

Over the next few years we will see the stage set for the demise of the American democratic stereotype. We will see the rise of theocracy, and the launching of wars horrific beyond imagination.

Think of al-Qaeda and Iraq's sectarian power struggle; now remember the old adage: "What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

Hang in there people. We will see Rome, specifically the Vatican, come under attack. We will hear of deities returned and returning. We will know Buddha and Christ. We will hear of the twelfth Imam and see the blood flow like wine until all nations are drunk upon it.

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The Vatican Confronts Islam

As saintly as Pope John Paul II was, his greatest failure was to appropriately engage Mohammedanism. Apparently Pope Benedict XVI is beginning to become fed up with the intransient death-cult known to its adherents as Islam. (*I have zero respect for Islamofascism which actually follows the central tenets of its prophet Mohammed - Quran and Hadiths. It is due to this I prefer calling that religion by moniker of its founder - Mohammedanism.)

Also apparently the Roman Catholic hierarchy is beginning to lose patience with the insidious persecution of Roman Catholic adherents in Mohammedan dominated lands. The politics of the Vatican may be ending diplomatic dialogue with Mohammedans. As if Mohammedans really care, for them dialogue is merely a means to accomplish their violent aims of enforced Dar al-Islam and also the enforcement of dhimmitude - second class citizenship.

It would be a big boost in the War on Terror if the Vatican makes some tougher comments against Islamofascist terrorists. It would aid the faithful in the battle and demonstrate contempt toward the end game of terrorism.
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The Vatican Confronts Islam

by Daniel Pipes
Jerusalem Post*
July 5, 2006
*Cross-posted with permission to netwmd.com

“Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It’s our duty to protect ourselves.” Thus spoke Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican’s supreme court, referring to Muslims. Explaining his apparent rejection of Jesus’ admonition to his followers to “turn the other cheek,” De Paolis noted that “The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century … and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights.”

De Paolis is hardly alone in his thinking; indeed, the Catholic Church is undergoing a dramatic shift from a decades-old policy to protect Catholics living under Muslim rule. The old methods of quiet diplomacy and muted appeasement have clearly failed. The estimated 40 million Christians in Dar al-Islam, notes the Barnabas Fund’s Patrick Sookhdeo, increasingly find themselves an embattled minority facing economic decline, dwindling rights, and physical jeopardy. Most of them, he goes on, are despised and distrusted second-class citizens, facing discrimination in education, jobs, and the courts.

These harsh circumstances are causing Christians to flee their ancestral lands for the West’s more hospitable environment. Consequently, Christian populations of the Muslim world are in a free-fall. Two small but evocative instances of this pattern: for the first time in nearly two millennia, Nazareth and Bethlehem no longer have Christian majorities.

This reality of oppression and decline stands in dramatic contrast to the surging Muslim minority of the West. Although numbering fewer than 20 million and made up mostly of immigrants and their offspring, it is an increasingly established and vocal minority, granted extensive rights and protections even as it wins new legal, cultural, and political prerogatives.

This widening disparity has caught the attention of the Church, which for the first time is pointing to radical Islam [*Subscription required], rather than the actions of Israel, as the central problem facing Christians living with Muslims.

Rumblings of this could be heard already in John Paul II’s time. For example, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican equivalent of foreign minister, noted in late 2003 that “There are too many majority Muslim countries where non-Muslims are second-class citizens.” Tauran pushed for reciprocity: “Just as Muslims can build their houses of prayer anywhere in the world, the faithful of other religions should be able to do so as well.”

Catholic demands for reciprocity have grown, especially since the accession of Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005, for whom Islam is a central concern. In February, the pope emphasized the need to respect “the convictions and religious practices of others so that, in a reciprocal manner, the exercise of freely-chosen religion is truly assured to all.” In May, he again stressed the need for reciprocity: Christians must love immigrants and Muslims must treat well the Christians among them.

Lower-ranking clerics, as usual, are more outspoken. “Islam’s radicalization is the principal cause of the Christian exodus,” asserts Monsignor Philippe Brizard [*Subscription Required], director general of Oeuvre d’Orient, a French organization focused on Middle Eastern Christians. Bishop Rino Fisichella, rector of the Lateran University in Rome, advises the Church to drop its “diplomatic silence” and instead “put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.”

The Danish cartoons crisis offered a typical example of Catholic disillusionment. Church leaders initially criticized the publication of the Muhammad cartoons. But when Muslims responded by murdering Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria, not to speak of scores of Christians killed during five days of riots in Nigeria, the Church responded with warnings to Muslims. “If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us, ” said Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State. “We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts,” added Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, its foreign minister.

Obtaining the same rights for Christians in Islamdom that Muslims enjoy in Christendom has become the key to the Vatican’s diplomacy toward Muslims. This balanced, serious approach marks a profound improvement in understanding that could have implications well beyond the Church, given how many lay politicians heed its leadership in inter-faith matters. Should Western states also promote the principle of reciprocity, the results should indeed be interesting.

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Hi guys hi guys! Only ONE day till I leave for Europe and I though perhaps it would be a good idea to tell you guys what I shall be doing while I'm gone.

Alright. So I leave on Czech Airlines at 5:30pm tomorrow and I fly for 8 hours straight until we land in Prague, Czech Republic (??) at 7:40am the next day. We'll be there for a half day until we leave on another plane at 5:15pm for a one hour flight to Dusseldorf, Germany.

We travel to Cologne, Germany I suppose and we spend the entire week in Germany for WORLD YOUTH DAY! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I'm so excited!!

Alright, now we have a specific itinerary that we got for the remainder of the trip.

Monday, Aug 22 - Dusseldorf/Paris
Meet at Dusseldorf with tour guide and driver at 9am. Departure to Paris. Arrive in hotel, dinner and overnight in Hotel Mercure Gentilly. This morning, on our city tour, see the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre. Shop on the Champs Elysees or stroll by the Seine.

Tuesday, Aug 23 - Paris
Breakfast. Full day of sightseeing with local guide.Dinner and overnight in Hotel Mercure Gentilly.

Wednesday, Aug 24 - Paris/Lucerne
After breakfast, departure to Lucerne, Switzerland. Panoramic city tour, return to hotel. Later enjoy an orientation tour f the city, an opportunity to see the Lion Monument, cross the Chapel Bridge and shop for watches and Swiss Chocolate. Also an opportunity to cruise on stunning Lake Lucerne.Dinner and overnight at Hotel Schiffahrt. (Shhhfart?? HAHA!)

Thursday, Aug 25 - Lucerne/Venice
After breakfast, departure to Venice. Arrival into Venice hotel. Dinner and overnight at Hotel Al Pino Verde.

Friday, Aug 26 - Venice
After breakfast, transfer to Tronchetto to board private water boat to Venice Island. Leisure time. Return late afternoon to hotel. DInner and overnight at Hotel Al Pino Verde.

Saturday, Aug 27 - Venice/Assisi
After breakfast, departure to Assisi. Arrival in Assisi Hotel Abacus. Dinner and overnight.

Sunday, Aug 28 - Assisi/Rome
Breakfast. Self-guided visit of S.Francis and St.Chiara. In the afternoon, transfer to Rome. Arrival in Rome to Park Hotel dei Massimi. Dinner and Overnight.

Monday, Aug 29 - Rome

Breakfast. Full day visit of Rome city with local guide: Piazzi e Forti, Fontana di Trevi, Colosseo, Basilica e Pizza di S.Pietro. Return to Park Hotel dei Massimi. Dinner and overnight.

Tuesday, Aug 30 - Rome
Breakfast. Free Day. Dinner and overnight

Wednesday, Aug 31 - Rome
Breakfast. Free Day. Dinner and overnight

Thursday, Sept 1 - Rome/Prague/Toronto
After breakfast transfer to Fiumicino airport. Flight from Rome to Prague at 8:50am, arriving in Prague at 10:45am. Then another flight, 9 hours long, from Prague to Toronto. Departing from Prague at 12:50pm and arriving in Toronto at 4pm. That doesnt make sense if its a nine hour flight...but I'm just going with what the paper tells me.

And that's about it. :) So I suppose I will head off now. I love you all and I will pray for everyone while I'm over there! Pray for me too...I've never been SO independent before, or on a plane or overseas or without my family. So I need some prayers too.

I'll be gone for three weeks. So I wont blog until just about school starts again. University!! EEE! Alright.

So, I'll miss you guys! And I love you! Always. Forever.
I'll see ya guys laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaater!!

-Christina

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Illuminati Conspiracy, Order of the Illumined Wise Men

May 1, 1776, was the most important date in Freemasonry's Luciferic New World Order Plans. On that date an obscure Jesuit-trained professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt, founded a secret society called the Ancient and Illuminated Seers of Bavaria (AISB for short). Illuminati was founded on a mixture of Masonic secrets (Luciferic Doctrine), Islamic Mysticism (Sufism), and Jesuit mental discipline (Hatha Yoga). A unique and dangerous element was it's scientific use of the drug, hashish, to produce an "illuminated" state of mind--derived directly through the Knights Templar's association with the Order of the Assassins (circa 1050 AD).

Illumination had long been a cherished component of Masonry and other occult groups. The Masonic candidate requests, and is promised "light in Masonry." As he goes up the ladder of initiation, he receives "more light". It is because of this society's emphasis on illumination that the AISB became known by its more common title, the Illuminati.

The term Illuminati, is the plural of the Latin, Illuminatus, meaning "one who is illuminated." Thus, it means a person who has received the full extent of the initiation that is available through Freemasonry.

Masks of the Illuminati

Technically, an Illuminatus is a Master Mason who has received all the "light" Masonry can bestow. He is beyond 32° and even beyond 33°! Such people are known as the Masters of Masters of the Temple, and collectively are known by several names other than the Illuminati.