Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Feds mine Facebook for info

Feds mine Facebook for info

Federal investigators in Detroit have taken the rare step of obtaining search warrants that give them access to Facebook accounts of suspected criminals. Click link for full article.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Site: No stigma in abortion - BostonHerald.com

Site: No stigma in abortion

Critics blast state-funded sex-ed Web site

This is really terrible!

These boys and girls need to see the "Priests for Life" website and READ and SEE the Truth about the baby in the womb growing...instead of not be told the truth and being told "it's much easier than it sounds.." from some site they may trust in their youthful ignorance while looking for the truth. Adults getting their pro-abortion agenda on the ignorant youth looking for answers is so wrong! That's my 2 cents on it.....what do you think?

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Paul Simon Has Been 'Thinking about (God) More', Christian News, The Christian Post

Paul Simon’s last album was entitled Surprise, but it’s his newest album that is quite surprising.

It’s all about God, Jesus, angels, and the afterlife. And the album cover looks like a multi-colored DNA helix, causing speculation that this album is really about a search for the meaning of life.

The lyrics of the album’s first cut, "Getting Ready for Christmas Day," are taken directly from a 1941 sermon by famed Atlanta preacher Rev. J.M. Gates.

“I took a big chunk of this guy’s sermon, which was recorded in 1941,” said singer/Songwriter Simon. “It was like it was meant to be there.”

The catchy, African-inspired and bluesy rhythm of that first track underscores the chorus:

Getting ready for the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas Day.

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Those aren’t the only religious lyrics in Simon’s new album, So Beautiful or So What.

In the song "Afterlife," Simon imagines meeting his Maker this way:

After you climb,
up the ladder of time,
the Lord God is here.

Face to face,
in the vastness of space,
your words disappear.

And you feel like swimming
in an ocean of love,
and the current is strong.

But all that remains
when you try to explain
is a fragment of song…

Lord is it,
Be Bop A Lu La or
Ooh Poppa Do
Lord,
Be Bop A Lu La or
Ooh Poppa Do
Be Bop A Lu La

Ben Witherington, seminary professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, reflects on the song, “It reminds me of John Donne’s poem ‘A Hymn to God, my God, in My Sickness’. In that poem Donne talks about tuning up here below to get ready to sing in the heavenly choir. In fact he talks about preparing to be made God’s music, and thinking here how to tune his instrument. I think Paul is being made God’s music even now, he just isn’t fully aware of it.”

Simon has said about So Beautiful or So What, “I thought right away, this is a really special album.”

Witherington goes on to remark that singer Paul McCartney, upon hearing some of the new album, said to Simon, “Aren’t you a Jew? How come you’re singing about Christmas and Jesus, and that sort of stuff?"

Simon was born to Jewish Hungarian parent in Newark, N.J. He has included other Christian-themed lyrics in previous songs, such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" with Art Garfunkel and various songs in the album Graceland.

But in Simon’s previous album before this one, he spoke harshly about religious belief:

How can you be a Christian?
How can you be a Jew?
How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?
How can you?
Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth.
Names and religion come just after date of birth.

Simon even included a song called “I Don’t Believe,” in the album.

But the new album seems to show a change of heart.

In an interview with NPR on Tuesday, interviewer Steve Inskeep asked Simon about the religious references in the new album.

“The fact that there is so much reference to religion in this album makes me wonder if you're thinking about religion more, or thinking about God more.”

Simon responded, “I don’t think it's really so much about religion. There are quite a few references to God or in a spiritual sense. And I guess I would have to say from the evidence of this album that I am thinking about it more.

The album also include the lyrics,

God and his only Son
paid a courtesy call
on Earth one Sunday morning.
Orange blossoms opened
their fragrant lips,
Songbirds sang
from the tips of Cottonwoods,
Old folks wept for his love in these hard times.

Rolling Stone magazine has called Simon’s new album “the best since Graceland.”

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'Church Sucks' But Come Anyway?, Christian News, The Christian Post