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Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard
It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard
unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost
business.
Story from WFTV in ORANGE COUNTY, Florida, May 2008
The billboard was on Colonial Drive near Old Cheney Highway.
Although the popular Straub’s Seafood restaurant often advertises on
it, it wasn’t their billboard. The sign was taken down after Channel 9
started asking questions. The billboard came down
around 4:00 Friday afternoon and nearby business owners are relieved.
Straub’s Restaurant can replace the sign with the night’s specials.
At first glance, the sign looked like a children’s cartoon, but the
message next to the fairy princess stirred emotions.
“When you condemn all religions and say they are a fairytale, that is
wrong,” said Rich Stormes, a nearby business owner. The billboard went up a
week before Easter and business at the restaurant went down.
“Easter Sunday is usually a busy good day,” said John Russel, an
employee at Straub’s. “Easter Sunday business was down by two-thirds.”
Since the sign is so close, John Russel’s customers thought the
restaurant paid for the billboard. To clear any confusion up, Russel put up
a sign of his own and called MediaNet, the company who owns the billboard.
“It’s been causing us some problems. I think it’s causing a bit of
controversy city-wide. People have been contacting the media,” Russel added.
MediaNet said it had no idea the sign was there and someone put it up
illegally in the middle of the night. Nearby business owners said they
weren’t buying it. They should have known what was
going up on the billboard. He should proof it. He had to proof it,” Stormes
stated. The billboard rents for $1,400 a month. If
an anti-religious group paid to rent it legitimately, there is no telling
how long it would have been up. Orange County does
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Was Moses high on Sinai?
The biblical Moses may have been "high" at Mount Sinai, an
Israeli researcher posited.
www.jta.org
03/04/2008
Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, has argued that the miraculous sights and sounds in the Exodus
account of God's giving of the Torah to Moses may have been drug induced.
Shanon, who published his theory in the scholarly journal Time and Mind,
said the Mount Sinai spectacle recalled a "trip" he experienced after
drinking psychotropic drugs of a kind that can be found in some desert
plants.
"I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Ha'aretz
quoted Shanon as saying. "It seems logical that something was altered in
people's consciousness. There are other stories in the Bible that mention
the use of plants: for example, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
in the
Garden of Eden."
But he added, "I have no direct proof of this interpretation."
According to Shanon, the drug theory is more feasible than other
explanations for the Mount Sinai story -- that indeed the Israelites
communicated with God -- or that it is all just a fairy tale.
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Penn
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Note how easy it is to
start a religion:
Vanuatu cargo cult marks 50 years
One of the world's last surviving cargo cults is celebrating
its official 50th anniversary on Tanna island in Vanuatu.
BBC Online
17 Feb 2007
The John Frum Movement worships a mysterious spirit that urged them to
reject the teachings of the Church and maintain their traditional customs.
The cult was reinforced during WWII, when US forces landed with huge amounts
of cargo - weapons, food and medicine.
Villagers believe the spirit of John Frum sent the US military to their
South Pacific home to help them.
Devotees say that an apparition of John Frum first appeared before tribal
elders in the 1930s.
He urged them to rebel against the aggressive teachings of Christian
missionaries and instead said they should put their faith in their own
customs.
Stars and Stripes
World War II and the arrival of American troops on Vanuatu was a turning
point for the John Frum Movement.
Villagers believe that their messiah was responsible for sending the
generous US military and its cargo to them.
Speaking in local pidgin, the movement's head, Chief Isaac Wan, said that
John Frum was a god who would one day return. He's "our God, our Jesus," he
said.
Islanders are convinced that John Frum was an American. Every year they
parade in home-made US army uniforms beneath the Stars and Stripes.
They hope one day to entice another delivery of cargo.
This 50th anniversary marks the formal establishment of the John Frum
Movement.
It also recognises the day when villagers raised the American flag for the
first time in this isolated corner of the South Pacific.
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How to make the Bible fit your viewpoint |

Religious people are
B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!
[The banana is the perfect
shape for the
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There are ten types of filth and impurities: urine, faeces, semen, carrion,
blood of carrion, dogs, pigs, disbelievers
(Text being taught at The Hawza Ilmiyya Islamic school, Willesden, London.
From: The Times, Apr 20, 2006)
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CARTOON SHOW MAKES A FABULOUSLY FUNNY STAND FOR FREE
SPEECH - The American cartoon series South Park is
defying the increasing demands from religious groups that they should not be
mocked or ridiculed. Now, the Norwegian Society of Heathens is so outraged
that episodes of South Park featuring a satire on the Catholic Church and
one on Scientology have been banned that they have made them available
on-line. You can download them here:
http://www.hedning.no/
But even if the Catholics and the Scientologists
don't like South Park, it hasn't stopped the show winning the Peabody Award
for excellence in broadcasting. The judges praised
the series, saying it "pushes all the buttons, turns up the heat and
shatters every taboo." As one fan wrote: "South Park may be raunchy and
tasteless, but it has become the bravest voice for freedom and common sense
in modern entertainment." - Secularism.org.uk
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Read WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
with the Danish Islamic cartoons,
and who deviously and dishonestly
planned the entire debacle!
Why have the media outlets been silent
about this??
Spineless cowards! |
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Will he survive?
(right click and Save video)
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www.glumbert.com/media/rave.html
Muslim Rave Party |
www.glumbert.com/media/koran.html
It's in the Qu'ran |
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What really happened with the Danish Islamic
cartoons!
From The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, pp24-27 :
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