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Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 04:29:43 PM EST
Examiner.com:  A few years ago, Talk to Action exposed the convert or die ideology of the video game based on Tim LaHaye's Left Behind novels.  Turns out that there is a new eliminationist video -- which has nine million views on You Tube -- zeroing in on Islam, and is produced by the Catholic right Thomas Moore Law Center.

Gloria Feldt analyzes "possibly the most idiotic 'Common Ground' discussion I have ever heard."

Charisma:  Operation Rescue is training a new generation of activists.

Hosted by Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, an organization that mobilizes pro-life youth activism, the Southern California Rally for Life beings at 7 p.m. at New Beginnings Community Church in Norco, Calif., and is part of Survivors' weeklong training camp for young pro-lifers.

"The Survivors are taking an active stand on behalf of those who have already been lost, and for those who are scheduled to die through abortion," the group said on its Web site. "We are empowered by the truth, enabled by extensive training, and unafraid of condemning the death of innocents."

The California-based organization considers those born after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973 "survivors."


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Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust??????? (5.00 / 2)
Do those idiots realize how offensive this is to those whose people have been through a REAL holocaust????

It's belittling and disgusting.  They aren't "survivors"- they wouldn't know  a real survivor if they bit them on the a*.

Indeed, I'd bet that most of them have never gone without food (NOT by choice) or been homeless or threatened with death because of who they are, or anything like that.  It sounds like the shallow posturing of well-fed wannabe's.

I hope that the Jewish community gets wind of this- and I must say I'm pi*ed at the denigration of what my ancestors were put through.  (Never mind the discrimination and harassment I've experienced- almost always from "Good Christians" like them!)


by ArchaeoBob on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 04:55:34 PM EST

The idea of abortion as holocaust (5.00 / 2)
has been a standard, albeit outrageous claim, made by antiabortion leaders for many years. It has been discussed on this site, and frequently by me in relation to Rick Warren's claim last year during the presidential candidates event he hosted at his church.  It is part of the climate of hate and violence for which these leaders bear some significant responsibility, although they deny it.

So yes, the Jewish community is well aware of this, has often objected and has been ignored.

by Frederick Clarkson on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 12:02:29 PM EST
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Yes (5.00 / 2)
But this is the first time that I've caught on that they're claiming to be SURVIVORS of a holocaust- which is pure BS.  I now remember reading that before and it bothered me greatly, and I know that they equate abortion with the holocaust, which is offensive.

I admit that I don't catch on to things sometimes, and that ideas sometimes take a while to sink in.

I guess the "brain" picked up on their words in the past, but it was only lately that the heart caught on as well.

by ArchaeoBob on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 01:49:38 PM EST
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Ignorant about demographics (5.00 / 2)
The Thomas Moore video is a laugh and a half.  For an good article refuting it, see here.  Europe does face significant, but not insurmountable, problem in integrating its Muslim populations into its society as a whole.

On a less funny note, one is left wondering what the Thomas Moore Center would like to happen with all these "extra" Muslims...

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"I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair" - JFK, Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
by hardindr on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 01:57:40 PM EST


Inspired Media... (5.00 / 2)
is creating a new online game portal (like Valve's Steam) for its games.

http://kotaku.com/5303617/religious-video-games-get-their-own-chu rch+centric-website-from-left-behind

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"I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair" - JFK, Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
by hardindr on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 03:32:52 PM EST


probably of topic (5.00 / 2)
David T. Rowlands: El Salvador: Evangelical fundamentalism and the right - http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/800/41216

by Entdinglichung on Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 07:30:46 AM EST

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