Tag: baptism
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#MorningMonarchy: December 14, 2017
Cause of death, age of consent and burning initials + this day in history w/the Sandy Hook school shooting and our song of the day by Sufjan Stevens on your Morning Monarchy for December 14, 2017.
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Sarah Palin says, ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.’
from csmonitor.com: Sarah Palin has rallied and riled lots of voters in her political career, but she might have hit a new high for controversy over the weekend by saying “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.
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The Devil Chased Out of Church
Church of England Waters Down Baptism?* from telegraph.co.uk: The devil has been dropped from a new Baptism service of the Church of England. The old Book of Common Prayer version asks the godparent: “Dost thou, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the…
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Baptism By Ice: Russia’s Trend of Dipping Children In Frozen Rivers
When an amateur video of a screaming, naked boy being plunged by a priest into an ice hole in Siberia appeared on the web, it caused a massive outcry in the Russian media and blogosphere. The boy appears to be no more than five or six years old.