This can’t possibly end well.
Wax on, wax off never sounded so terrifying.
In a move that humanity will surely regret, the engineers at a Google division have developed a robot that can imitate the famous “crane” stance from the 1980s classic movie “The Karate Kid.”
According to the Daily Mail, which shows the robot building up to a “crane kick,” the machine was designed by engineers at Google subsidiary Boston Dynamics…Read More
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Kentucky Baptists yesterday voted to expel a Louisville church which is open to performing and holding same-sex marriage ceremonies.
During the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s annual meeting on Tuesday, church leaders from around the state decided to sever ties with Crescent Hill Baptist Church. Executive director of the convention Paul Chitwood said: “We’re all sinners and we recognize that, but for a church to say ‘we’re going to endorse the sin, we’re going to call what the Bible calls wrong, [and] call it right’, that becomes the issue.”
Crescent Hill’s website states that the church believes “God loves all people without condition” and says it is “a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views.”
“In 2013 the church clarified its relationship with LGBTQ individuals. The congregation overwhelmingly voted to be open to grant ordination, hire, or perform wedding ceremonies for LGBTQ individuals,” the site explains…Read More
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A historic church in Syria dedicated to the one and a half million Armenians murdered by the Turks in 1915 has reportedly been reduced to rubble by Islamists.
According to The Independent, the destruction of the Armenian church in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour appears to have been committed by Jabhat al-Nusra rebels.
Irreplaceable archives dating back to 1841 – shortly before the church’s 1846 construction – and which included documents on the Armenian genocide have been reduced to ashes.
In a further act of insult, the bones of hundreds of genocide victims have reportedly been removed from the crypt and strewn on the street outside.
Overseer of the Armenian church in the Deir el-Zour district, Monsignor Antranik Ayvazian, told The Independent’s Robert Fisk that the militants tried to use the church as leverage, promising not to destroy the priceless archive if he in return acknowledged them as the legislative authority in the area.
He refused and they set about destroying the church…Read More
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The black and white ISIS flag has come to symbolise terror and inhumanity across the Middle East but churches in Australia are putting their own spin on it to use it for good.
That’s thanks to a new poster by Outreach Media based on the challenging command from Jesus to love our enemies, even when that enemy is an outfit as brutal and merciless as ISIS.
On first sight, the poster looks like the ISIS flag but look a little closer and you’ll see it replaces the Arabic text of the original with the words of Jesus telling his followers to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” – Matthew 5.44.
The original ISIS flag declares: “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Outreach Media has made this its November poster in the hopes that it will “contrast the love of Christ with the … cruel behaviour of ISIS”.
The ministry said the poster had been created in response to requests from churches for a poster that would capture their solidarity with Christians suffering persecution at the hands of the Islamic State… Read More
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Christian groups in North Korea are vowing to carry on their missionary work despite mounting risks since Korean-American activist Kenneth Bae was imprisoned two years ago.
North Korea and neighbouring China have clamped down on the groups’ activities recently, and the organisations say that has forced them to become more secretive. Bae’s unexpected release has not changed that.
“We are getting more nervous,” said Kim Seung-eun, a missionary for the Caleb Mission, which is based in South Korea’s South Chungcheong Province but frequently travels to North Korea. “We have to come up with a strategy to avoid another case like Kenneth Bae’s.”
The North Korean government arrested Bae in November 2012 at a border crossing with a tour group of Christian students, saying he was plotting to bring down the government through “religious activities” by setting up a base for Christian missionaries at a hotel in the northern city of Rason…Read More
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Intimate messaging with strangers on WhatsApp has led to an increase in divorce rates in Italy, according to a leading Italian lawyer.
“Forty percent of divorce cases that cited adultery have used WhatsApp messages swapped by unfaithful spouses and their lovers as evidence,” Gian Ettore Gassani, president of the Italian Association of Matrimonial Lawyers, was quoted as having said in the Times of London.
“Social media has boosted betrayal in Italy by making it easier, first through texting, then Facebook, and now WhatsApp, which is being used widely and has encouraged the return of the Latin lover,” he added.
“Lovers can now exchange intimate photos of themselves and we have seen adulterers using the service to maintain three or four relationships. It is like dynamite,” Gassani said.
In Italy, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service.
A 2012 survey found that 88 percent of the instant messaging market was captured by it.
“The family here is the cornerstone of society, but it has been under attack for years and WhatsApp is the final straw,” said Gassani.
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The Kellogg’s cereal company is experiencing a backlash from Christian consumers who claim they’ll no longer buy the company’s products after it helped sponsor the Atlanta gay pride march in mid-October by using the beloved Frosted Flakes mascot, Tony the Tiger, in a pro-LGBT advertisement in the event’s pride guide.
“Wear your stripes with pride,” the Kellogg’s ad states, highlighting the word “pride” in large-font rainbow-colored letters, while Tony the Tiger stands to the right with his arms crossed and a familiar smile on his face.
The American Family Association, a traditional Christian values activist group, posted a picture of the Tony the Tiger advertisement to its Facebook page last Friday and since then, the post has received over 800 comments. Many of the comments were highly critical of the company for using a cartoon character to promote homosexuality, while a number of other commenters stated that Kellogg’s has no place, as a food manufacturer, to weigh in on sexual preference.
“Our policy toward corporate America and companies that serve the public is that we ask them to remain neutral in this battle over same-sex marriage,” Ed Vitagliano, research director for AFA, told The Christian Post on Tuesday.
“We don’t expect them to take our side but we don’t expect them to support groups that want to legalize same-sex marriage,” he continued. “So we let our followers and supporters know because these companies rely on the patronage of their customers; and there are a lot of people who, in their own states, voted to keep marriage between one man and one woman. I don’t think they appreciate knowing that the companies they buy products from are working against that…Read More
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The infamous Westboro Baptist Church made its way to Joel Osteen’s home base in Houston, Texas, Sunday to blast the city’s lesbian Mayor Annise Parker and protest against the famous pastor.
Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which isn’t affiliated with any Baptist denomination, gathered outside the church as people entered for Sunday worship services.
The group held signs aimed at Parker’s support for the city’s Equal Rights Ordinance, which opponents believe will have several unintended consequences, such as allowing men who identify as female to use women’s bathrooms.
WBC staged its protest at several churches in the Houston area and also attacked the ministry of Joel Osteen. In order to shield its members from the hate speech, Lakewood Church played music on its loudspeakers while ushering attendees into the building.
A pastor from Christ Fellowship in North Carolina who protested alongside WBC in Houston over the weekend, told KHOU News that he was specifically protesting against Parker and HERO because “it’s a disgusting law that they (the city council) passed, that’s only pushed by homosexuals… Read More
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Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie, told delegates of the Global Leadership Forum, Monday, “You have to trust God.”
The Forum, being held at Grand Lucayan a Ballroom from November 10 to 13, opened despite the sudden death of the event’s host, Dr. Myles Munroe when the plane on which he was travelling to Grand Bahama crashed at the Grand Bahama Shipyard killing all passengers on board.
Prime Minister Christie said he was saddened by the deaths of those on board the aircraft, and “It is utterly impossible to measure the magnitude of Dr. Munroe’s loss to The Bahamas and to the world. He was indisputably among the most globally recognizable religious figures our nation has ever produced.”
Known for his work in the Christian ministry globally, the Prime Minister described him as “a towering force who earned the respect and admiration not only of Christian adherents but of secular leaders both here at home and around the world.”
He further stated, “Whether one agreed with him or not, there was never any question that Dr. Munroe was a man of deeply held principles who never hesitated to speak truth to power. He was regarded by a great many persons as the Conscience of The Nation. Certainly, he was among the most defining and influential spiritual leaders of the modern Bahamas and, I daresay, of the wider world of Christian evangelism as well.”
Describing Dr. Munroe as a personal friend as well as spiritual mentor, the Prime Minister said Dr. Munroe was consulted on several important matters, most recently being the consultations with religious leaders on the pending constitutional bills…Read More
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