|
|
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General
revealing the truth that was hidden from us for many centuries. the
truth that people died for and others are willing to kill for. the
truth about God's existence and where he actuall resides and the
farce of Jesus Christ.
This report was compiled by the U.S. Department of State for 2012.
The study found that the government increased its targeting and
surveillance of members of faith groups it deemed a "threat,"
including members of the country's Sunni majority. This occurred
concurrently with the escalation of the civil conflict that
resulted in the regime killing 35,000 civilians between the start
of the uprising in 2011 and year's end. Such targeting included
killing, detention, and harassment. There were credible reports
that the regime targeted citizens based on religious affiliation in
mixed neighborhoods in Homs and rural Aleppo. The government
outlawed groups it claimed were "Muslim extremist groups," as well
as Jehovah's Witnesses. It continued to monitor the activities of
all religious groups and to discourage proselytizing, which it
deemed a threat to relations among and within different faiths.
Bernard Piffy, private detective, was hired by the boys at Joe's
Bar and Grille and Gun Club to track down the notorious Dallas
cabdriver, Yaser Abdel Said, who had murdered his daughers, Sarah
and Amina Said, in a fit of Islamic rage and had then fled the
country for parts unknown. Piffy was not a hard-boiled private eye;
no one would mistake him for Mike Hammer or Shell Scott but he had
been a three-time Junior Calf-Roping Champion, had won dozens of
Skeet-Shooting Championships before he was twelve years old and had
been a close-combat instructor in the Marine Corps. He had wrestled
alligators and had once beat Mike Hammer in arm-wrestling. He went
to Dallas and on a dark and stormy night he met Ka'b bin al-Ashraf
who told Piffy he could take him to the soul of Yaser Abdel Said.
It was the beginning of an incredible adventure. Ka'b had been dead
for 1,400 years, murdered by Mohammad bin Muslama on orders from
the Prophet (Bukhari 5-369). The trail would lead to England--to
the Birmingham Central Mosque; to Abu Hamza al-Masri; to Archbishop
Rowan Williams; to Inspector Jean-Jacques Rousseau; to assorted
jinns, Jihadists, monsters and leprechauns and to a ten-year-old
Muslim girl that would become the apple of a ten-year-old Junior
Calf-Roping Champion's eye.
A book written to promote thought in God. There are many who would
say that their religion is correct. while simply ignoring the
violence of the past. Why can they simply state that they are right
based on one book. More Over how can they make god so small. These
are my travels through faith. This is my memoirs and how I dealt
with my faith in God over that of religion. For those who would
just read the superficial they will only get a very small view of
what tis actually being stated in this book. In the broadest sense
of this book I am promoting women's civil rights. For the greatest
offenders in the world of women's rights are religious based. There
will be those who want to state that this is an Atheist book. It is
not plain and simple.
This book begins with a description of what it was like to grow up
Catholic in the middle part of the 20th century. It then follows
the author's journey as a teacher in Catholic Education and
describes the different way that modern Catholic children are being
educated. It traces her growth into a personal spirituality, which
leads her to question many of the Catholic Church's teachings,
especially those to do with sexual and reproductive matters.
Finally, it asks Catholic women to take on the responsibility of
changing the Catholic Church themselves. It is a nostalgic,
educational, stimulating and challenging read by a wife, a mother,
a teacher and somebody who has thought deeply about spirituality.
From the bestselling authors of The Rise of Babylon and The ISIS
Crisis, the essential guide for Christians about what Bible
prophecy foretells concerning current events in the Middle
East-especially the rise of ISIS and the resurgence of Russia-while
providing a way to find peace and hope in the face of end times
concerns. ISIS, Russia, and Iran are daily atop headlines and are
among chief sources of intensifying unease among Americans about
how current world conflicts will unfold. Using the Old Testament
texts of prophets Ezekiel and Daniel as foundational passages,
Bible experts Charles Dyer and Mark Tobey explain the connection
between Bible prophecy and real-time events such as the growing
alliance between Russia and Iran; the unsettling of the region as
ISIS ravages countries and redraws boundaries; and the pull of
Turkey and Saudi Arabia into the fray by Russian encroachment,
Iranian meddling, and the United States' inability to create and
lead a coalition. Simultaneously, Dyer and Tobey provide practical
encouragement and spiritual principles for finding comfort,
strength, and perspective in an unsettling time while laying out a
strategy for responding out of faith rather than fear in the face
of end times concerns.
Its publication now in pamphlet form is due to its delivery at
Harper's Ferry, W. Va., on Decoration day, 1881, and to the fact
that the proceeds from the sale of it are to be used toward the
endowment of a John Brown Professorship in Storer College, Harper's
Ferry-an institution mainly devoted to the education of colored
youth. That such an address could be delivered at such a place, at
such a time, is strikingly significant, and illustrates the rapid,
vast and wonderful changes through which the American people have
been passing since 1859. Twenty years ago Frederick Douglass and
others were mobbed in the city of Boston, and. driven from Tremont
Temple for uttering sentiments concerning. John Brown similar to
those contained in this address. Yet now he goes freely to the very
spot where John Brown committed the offense which caused all
Virginia to clamor for his life, and without reserve or
qualification, commends him as a hero and martyr in the cause of
liberty.
The belief that a supreme power guides and embraces humanity has
existed since primeval times. How that power is seen has been one
of the greatest divisions between peoples and nations. Whether
called God or by any other name, how that power is perceived is the
theme that makes this work memorable.
|
You may like...
Fractal Noise
Christopher Paolini
Paperback
R340
R308
Discovery Miles 3 080
|