Promoted - standingup

Rajan Zed, the internationally acclaimed Hindu chaplain, has been denied the request of reading opening prayer in the Australia House of Representatives.

In a reply to Zed’s request, Bernard Wright, Deputy Clerk of the House, wrote,

…standing orders as they are worded would not allow a chaplain of any faith to say a prayer or similar invocation: this is because they specify that it is the Speaker who reads the prayer, and also because they specify the prayer…

Hindu groups contacted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today urging intervention in the matter of the upcoming Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" saying "it will hurt the religious sentiments of millions of Hindus worldwide".

When the infamous Rev. Wright sound bites began to dominate world news, I like many Americans really cringed. It was not only that his remarks were jarring--"Could he really believe that killing two thousand innocent Americans was just retribution for......... for anything?" I asked myself. And so on, and on and on and on as the news media relentlessly repeated the same story line.

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Give me that old time religion*

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life just released the results of an indepth survey on Americans and their religion.

Did you know that religion is considered a "vibrant marketplace"? Yes, America, your religion is just another commodity. The faithful are just another kind of consumer shopping around for the religion that best suits his/her individual needs.

Fascinating ... but, the results of the study would seem to indicate that this "commerce" model is failing.

This ought to really raise the ire of condemnation within the Fundamentalist Christian Community,
especially as practiced in the U.S..

Dialog already started

at site of this report, Story of Jesus Through Iranian Eyes

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