[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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August 18, 293 B.C.*: The first known temple to the Roman goddess Venus was inaugurated. The Romans worship a pagan goddess to this day, although they have renamed her Mary.

And speaking of Catholics...

August 18, 1634: Romanist priest Urbain Grandier was burned at the stake for witchcraft, after having been acquitted, subjected to a new trial, denied appeal, and tortured. The papists had it right for once, obeying what Scripture has to say about witches, without all of that namby-pamby liberal nonsense about "due process of law" and "double jeopardy."

*Not "BCE," thank you very much.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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September 6, 1651: Obadiah Holmes, who had been arrested for preaching Baptist doctrine, is given 30 lashes with a three-corded whip in Boston Commons. During the beating, he was so filled with divine joy that he told the magistrates, "You have struck me with roses." His punishment occasioned the conversion of Henry Dunster, president of Harvard, to the Baptists, and led to the founding of Boston's first Baptist church.

Praise Jesus for this brave early True Christian™. Imagine the guts it took to bring the TRUE Word of God to that liebral state, even back then. I have it on good authority that the man who laid on those 30 lashes was a limp-wristed Pilgrim.

Brother Obadiah's decendants are still leading members of God's favorite church, Platinum Tithers every one.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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September 10, 1869: A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan.

I don't like to brag, but that Baptist was my great-great grandfather, Exodus Flint. He was quite the generous man. Family lore has it that he suffered from horrible flatulence all of his life (he lived to be 104 years old!), and the chinks over there in Yokohama he was trying to convert to Christianity all complained about the unGodly gases coming out of him when they had to carry him around town. Out of the pure love of Jesus he invented the rickshaw for the little yellow monkeys to make it easier to haul him around and be upwind at the same time. And do you think they ever thanked him?

Those slants owe the white man so much it isn't even funny. And all we ever get in return is sneaky attacks and cat meat chop suey.

[lord warrior]

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August 18, 293 B.C.*: The first known temple to the Roman goddess Venus was inaugurated. The Romans worship a pagan goddess to this day, although they have renamed her Mary.

And speaking of Catholics...


This is how the catolics have preached the gospel for centuries. That take the pagan gods and make them into christian saints. And making Jesus's word into just another form of pagan worship. What will those piast popist due when they are flung to the pits of hell for there blastfamy.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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August 18, 293 B.C.*: The first known temple to the Roman goddess Venus was inaugurated. The Romans worship a pagan goddess to this day, although they have renamed her Mary.

And speaking of Catholics...


This is how the catolics have preached the gospel for centuries. That take the pagan gods and make them into christian saints. And making Jesus's word into just another form of pagan worship. What will those piast popist due when they are flung to the pits of hell for there blastfamy.

Son, you're about a month too late on that one. Try and keep up.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Praise Jesus! It's been 50 years of glory and praising God's Holy name on the blessed currency of America. Halelluah, Jesus wouldn't have it any other way!

...Long before the words were printed on paper money, they first
appeared on coins after a Pennsylvania minister wrote to the secretary
of the treasury in 1861, suggesting God's name should be featured on
U.S. coins.

"This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism," wrote the
Rev. M.R. Watkinson to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase in 1861,
according to the Web site of the U.S. Treasury Department.

Three years later, U.S. coins began to bear the words "In God We
Trust."

It wasn't until 1956 that Congress declared those words to be the
national motto. On Oct. 1, 1957, they began appearing on the back of
dollar bills under the words "The United States of America."...

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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October 16, 1925: The Texas State Text Book Board bans evolutionary theory from all its textbooks.

Glory!! Once GWB is installed as president for life, this will be true in every state in Jesusland.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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October 29, 1562: George Abbot, translator of the Gospels, Acts and Revelation for the King James Bible, is born. He became head of the Church of England in 1611, but his popularity (and his health) declined sharply after he killed a man in a hunting accident in 1621.

Praise God! Brother Abbot was an invaluable tool of the Lord, taking down perfect dictation in Divine Transmission of the ONE TRUE BIBLE.

In a side note, we see that even the best True Christians™ like Brother Abbot and our Godly vice President Dick Cheney can be mercilessly and unfairly persecuted for pusuring a harmless hobby.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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November 1, 1950: Pope Pius XII releases his "Munificentissimus Deus," proclaiming the "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary." The doctrine teaches that Mary was taken in body and soul into heaven at the end of her life. The belief was first propounded in Christian circles by Gregory of Tours in the late 500s.

And the antichrist roman pope STILL can't back any of that up in the Holy Bible.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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November 3, 1966: John Lennon tells reporters that his band, the Beatles, is "more popular than Jesus," touching off a firestorm of controversy.

And where is the God mocker now? Roasting in hellfire, gargling satan's scalding hot spunk, playing rock and roll on his own intestines for satan's enjoyment. There is even testimony from eyewitnesses that this feeble-minded brit is screaming in hell. Take a look at THIS!

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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And the antichrist roman pope STILL can't back any of that up in the Holy Bible.

If it was defined as teaching necessary for salvation only in 1950, how were the bead-counting Mary-hailers saved before then? I'd like to hear one of our resident dress-wearing "fathers" answer that.

Then again, we True Christians™ know the real answer. People who worshiped the pagan goddess "Blessed Virgin Mary" instead of Christ were hellbound then, and they're hellbound now.

[Brother Temperance]

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And where is the God mocker now? Roasting in hellfire, gargling satan's scalding hot spunk, playing rock and roll on his own intestines for satan's enjoyment. There is even testimony from eyewitnesses that this feeble-minded brit is screaming in hell. Take a look at THIS!

Praise Jesus! I've never been able to understand that demon John Lenin. I mean, he married a she-nip - what sort of a twisted sicko would want to do that?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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It was 50 years ago today that THIS terrorist died in Federal custody. All you need to know: He was a crazy joo doctor who was trying to harness the power of orgasms for peaceful purposes. Right up until Jesus sent him to hell. Glory!

50 years later, supporters promote discredited scientist's work

RANGELEY, Maine --It was 50 years ago that physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his discovery of a purported cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, his books burned and his equipment destroyed by the government.

Ridiculed at the time, the European-born psychiatrist is today largely forgotten and his work on what he called orgone energy remains outside the scientific mainstream.

But a small number of scientists and other believers are working to advance his studies -- and resurrect his reputation.

"Personally, I think it's going to be a long time before all of his work is understood and recognized," said Reich's granddaughter, Renata Reich Moise, a nurse-midwife and artist in the coastal town of Hancock.

Reich died on Nov. 3, 1957, in a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., where he was sent for ignoring an injunction obtained by the Food and Drug Administration that outlawed his orgone energy accumulator.

The 50th anniversary of his death is being marked by a major exhibition on Reich and his work that opens Nov. 15 at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, the city where he attended medical school, began his psychiatric practice and studied under Sigmund Freud.

In New Jersey, the American College of Orgonomy, which provides training and research support for physicians and others interested in Reich and his legacy, scheduled a conference and dinner to coincide with the anniversary.

Also this month, archives comprised of nearly 300 boxes of Reich's unpublished papers that were placed in storage at the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School will become available to researchers for the first time.

Before going to prison, Reich directed in his will that the scientific papers, journals and diaries only be opened 50 years after his death.

He also specified that his laboratory at the 175-acre site he dubbed Orgonon that overlooks Rangeley Lake be converted to a museum.

In Rangeley, where Reich spent his latter years, scientists and doctors from the U.S. and Europe gathered this summer for a conference that explored the prospects of seeking FDA approval for clinical trials of orgone accumulator blankets to treat burn victims.

Reich is described by the American Psychoanalytic Association as "one of the most brilliant, creative and controversial of the pioneering analysts." He was the first to focus on character analysis rather than neurotic symptoms. He linked a healthy sex life, which he called "orgastic potency," to emotional wellness, believing that failure to discharge sexual energy resulted in neurotic disorders.

His more controversial work came after he veered away from psychotherapy into laboratory experiments in Norway that led to the discovery of what he called "bions" -- basic life forms that gave off orgone energy.

After moving to the U.S. just before the start of World War II, he focused on isolating and collecting that energy and went on to test its effect on cancer.

His orgone accumulators eventually caught the attention of the FDA.

After an investigation, the agency branded the devices consisting of alternating metallic and nonmetallic materials a fraud and in 1954 sought an injunction in U.S. District Court in Portland. Reich refused to appear in court, triggering a default judgment and order that his books and accumulators be destroyed.

He was sentenced to two years in prison for contempt of court. He served only eight months before he died of a heart attack. In accordance with his wishes, Reich was entombed above ground at Orgonon, with a bronze bust of him perched above the tomb.

The Wilhelm Reich Museum, located in a modernistic fieldstone building atop a hill, has on display an orgone accumulator, which Reich believed could charge the body with essential life energy, heightening vitality and potentially helping to heal disease.

There is also a cloudbuster, a futuristic-looking device he designed to try to change the weather by altering concentrations of orgone energy in the atmosphere.

Critics seize on some of his more unconventional ideas in deriding him as a quack. But supporters say he was a brilliant man whose ideas warrant further exploration.

The FDA's injunction, supporters say, had a chilling effect on his work that persists even today. That's a shame, Moise said, because she believes there's merit in the orgone accumulator blanket, which her mother used in her medical practice.

Moise has tried it herself to heal burns.

"It's not crazy. It actually works," she said.

Even as the anniversary-related events rekindle memories of Reich and his theories, some of his supporters worry that they are in a race against time.

The challenge, they say, is to keep his work alive and advance it through new studies and experimentation at a time when Reich is not being taught in either medical schools or physics classes.

Kevin Hinchey, who is writing a book about Reich's work in the U.S., said most of the doctors and scientists who've taken an interest in Reich's life are baby boomers.

"If something dramatic isn't done to bring his work before the medical and scientific community, I really wonder what's going to happen when the baby boomers die. There's not a lot of younger people who are reading Reich."

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On the Net:

Reich Museum: http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org

American College of Orgonomy: http://orgonomy.org

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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November 7, 1837: Almighty God, manifesting His wrath through a mob, dispatched "minister" and journalist Elijah Parish Lovejoy to hell for being an abolitionist and thus rewriting Scripture on the subject of slavery.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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November 11, 1215: The Fourth Lateran Council opens. It officially confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation—that the substance of Eucharistic bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, with only the accidents (appearances of bread and wine) remaining. The council also prescribed annual confession for all Christians.

And thus another layer of unspeakable sin was added to the steaming heap already piled on top of the largest cult in the world.

"Transubatantation" is a lie, pure and simple.