There is a growing movement in America that equates godliness with hatred of our government in fact hatred of our country as fallen and evil because we allow women choice, gays to marry, have a social safety net, and allow immigration from other cultures and non-white races.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the killer wrote:
“Today’s Protestant church is a joke,” he wrote in an onl
ine post in 2009. “Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres.
I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic.”
It seems Anders Behring Breivik longed for a “pure” and ultra conservative religion. He was a man of religious conviction, no liberals with their jeans need apply!
Liberals beware.
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As always Frank Schaeffer is perceptive.
The trick is to eat small quantities of nuts in their more natural state – this means without salt or sugar – and preparing them properly.
5 Benefits of Nuts and Seeds:
1. Best plant sources of protein.
The American Cancer Association is recommending a plant-based diet for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
An ounce of nuts provides 6 g of protein on average.
2. Filled with heart healthy fat. They contain healthful mono- and polyunsaturated fats which are essential in managing inflammation and maintaining the normal structure of every body cell. People who consumed nuts five times a week had a 35 percent reduction in heart disease risk according to a British Medical Journal study in 1998.
3. High energy foods. They are filled with lots of calories; for example 1 ounce of almonds contain about 165 calories; 1 ounce of brazil nuts contain about 190 calories.
So do not eat too many or you will gain weight.
4. Powerful minerals. They contain many minerals such as magnesium, zinc, calcium and phosphorus needed for bone development, immunity and energy production.
In a study of almost 400 men (age from 45-92) published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition they found a correlation between low dietary intake of zinc, low blood levels of the trace mineral and osteoporosis at the hip and spine.
5. Needed vitamins. They are great sources of B Vitamins and Vitamin E.
Seems th at resver
atrol — a compound found in red grapes, red w
ine, and grape juice — starts a helpful chain reaction that could keep metabolic syndrome in check.
And that’ s a very good thing, becau
se metabolic syndrome significantly increases the likelihood of heart disease.
There are many kinds of cancers of the immune system, but one, Activated B-Cell Diffuse Large
B-Cell Lymphoma, or ABC-DLBCL, is particularly common and pernicious.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine have shown for the first time that dogs that develop this disease spontaneously share the same aberrant activation of a critical intracellular pathway with humans.
They also found that a drug designed to disrupt this pathway helps to kill tumor cells in the dogs’ cancerous lymph nodes.
Massage isn’t likely to replace lifestyle changes or medications when it comes to managing blood pressure, but what a nice little add-on!
Meanwhile, keep your blood pressure healthy with these proven habits:
* Lighten up on salt.
Check out these three easy ways to quit salty foods.
* Do a walkabout.
Exercise helps your BP.
Use this tool to track your walking progress.
* Breathe easy. Find out why breathing correctly can make a big dent in your blood pressure.
Funny song about loving cats.
Watch video. The cat song video is #6. Cat video #2 is bizarre, kinda funny and kinda d
isturbing.
You’d think with the springs going out on our fainting couch that we were a nation whose bedsprings got no wear and tear, but you’d be wrong.
Americans have sex on average 2.3 times a week, and 19 out of 20 Americans have had premarital sex.
Americans like to have sex for pleasure, as indicated by the universal use of contraception.
Americans like to mix it up, too, as the rapid rise in Americans adm
itting to anal sex demonstrates. Needless to say, Americans also love porn, and conservatives who denounce other people’s sexual choices are even more avid consumers of porn than people who take a
more live-and-let-live attitude.
Americans reconcile our desire for the fainting couch and our desires
for the sex swing through refusing to reconcile it. Instead, we treat sex like
we treat church and drug use, with old-fashioned hypocrisy.
Ninety-five percent of Americans have had premarital sex, but 36 percent of us believe premarital sex is morally wrong Even if you allow that the 5 percent abstainers are all disapprovers, that still means nearly 1 in 3 Americans disapprove when others make the same sexual choices they do.
What if, looking down at your palms and the five digits attached to them, you could discover early signs of dangerous diseases you didn’ t ye
t know you had
? “It used to be common for doctors to look at the hands for important clues to overall health,” says endocrinologist Kenneth Blanchard of Newton, Massachusetts.
“We need to get back to that, because hands can tell you a great deal about circulation, hormones, and thyroid function.”
Here are seven important clues your hands can reveal about your overall health
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.