bishop attacked in Turkey

Roman Catholic Bishop Luigi Padovese killed in Turkey -- stabbed.

AP has "...the pope's apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was attacked in his home in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun" and his driver is a suspect.  When a bishop is murdered, well... that's a straight up assassination isn't it?

Possible connection to Muhammed cartoons.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37487272/

And commented on variously at

http://turkeynewz.blogspot.com/2010/06/catholic-bishop-in-turkey-murdered-by.html

http://www.nationalturk.com/en/catholic-bishop-in-anatolian-turkey-killed-after-stabbing-34636691

http://getsomenews.com/2010/06/catholic-bishop-reportedly-stabbed-to-death-in-southern-turkey-46437

http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2010/06/bishop-stabbed-to-death-in-turkey.html

http://faithofthefathersbenedictxvi.blogspot.com/2010/05/news-vatican-information-service.html

http://www.hristiyanblog.com/luigi-padovese-olduruldu/

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david gibson on ted haggard

     "Christianity is all about second acts, and disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard is the latest conservative Christian to exploit that role to the hilt. 

     Haggard announced Wednesday that he is starting a new church in the same town -- Colorado Springs -- that he left in humiliation in 2006 following a gay sex and drugs scandal. And he says this church will be for people like himself, "a church for sinners -- for people who have hit rock bottom and people who want to help people who have hit rock bottom. ... It is not a gathering for the righteous, except those who are righteous by faith.""

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/02/ted-haggard-is-back-gay-sex-and-drug-scandal-cant-keep-evangel/

Well, maybe Haggard's fall knocked a touch of sense into his noggin?

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the debate nobody has with hitchens

Hitchens is fun to watch.  Good debater.

I'm a bit tired of seeing the same debate again and again, though.  It's essentially a metaphysical debate about the existence of a very poorly defined and sloppily posited 'ultimate person'.  Does that person exist or not? is the usual question being debated.

I want to see a debate about the pros and cons of living one's life liturgically, keeping mythological patterns and rhythms conscientiously, and about the use and/or value of choosing to live one's life framed by Story.

I don't think Hitchens would be very interested in that debate... but why aren't more Christians?

Pentacostal drum 'n bass: disinfo

Via Disinformation.com:

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/05/pentacostal-drum-n-bass/

"Join fundamentalist fervor with a high-tech acoustic savagery, and you are prepared for the cleansing fury ofBaptazia.  Be sure to turn up the bass."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmhZVjaqQo&feature=player_embedded