Does Satan EXIST? - Last Night's NIGHTLINE Story

I found this discussion last night intriguing. Wouldn't it be like the devil to gain the assistance of an Ex-Spirit filled Pastor (Carlton Pearson), and use some sinister strategy to make folks believe that he does not exist? See the deception in action. Posted in two-parts. Don't get caught slippin!

Coming Soon: Scientology Academy?

Jada Plinko Smith's controversial school in Calabasas, the New Village Leadership Academy, is thriving!

The actress turned musician turned producer opened the doors to the experimental Scientology Academy last fall after more and more parents requested for their kids to join the home-schooling program Pinkett Smith had started for her two children!

"More and more parents were like, 'Can we come?' Then my house started to fill up. We had like 20 kids and I said, 'We might as well start a school,"' Jada said on the conception of the Academy.

Sure! Starting a school on your own accord is always a good idea!

60 children have enrolled at the Academy so far, and Jada is hoping to extend the experimental school to grades 9 through 12.

With both Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith dabbling in Scientology, The New Village Leadership Academy was accused of abiding by the teachings of Tom Cruise L. Ron Hubbard!

Pinkett Smith adamantly denies this, saying the school abides by "'100 percent mastery,' encouraging students to retake exams until they score 100 percent."

We assume that means grades have been eliminated from the curriculum!

Would U send your children to Plinko's school???

First Black Hebrew gets Israeli citizenship

First Black Hebrew gets Israeli citizenship

Forty years after arriving in Israel as self-identified descendants of Tribe of Judah, first member of Israelite community gets letter from Interior Ministry approving request for citizenship. Ministry says more approvals to follow

"Hallelujah, Hallelujah," members of Dimona's Black Hebrew Israelite community sang out after one of them received a notification that he was eligible for Israeli citizenship.

The first of the Black Hebrews arrived in Israel from the United States and Liberia in December 1969, claiming to be the descendants of the Tribe of Judah.

Upon their arrival the Hebrews settled in the southern communities of Dimona, Mitzpe Ramon and Arad, and have struggled extensively in an attempt to gain recognition from the State of Israel.

Only in August 2003 did the Black Hebrew Israelites get the news they were waiting for when then- Interior Minister, Avraham Poraz granted them the status of permanent residents.

In 2004 members of the community, both men and woman, for the first time joined the Israel Defense Force and began fulfilling their civil duties.

On Monday, 62-year-old Elyakim Ben-Israel made his way to the post office to collect a letter sent by registered mail.

When he opened the letter, Ben-Israel was delighted to find a summons from the Interior Ministry inviting him to go pledge allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws.

"I jumped for joy and ran to the community and we all laughed and cried," Ben-Israel said on Monday.

Ben-Israel said he was the first of the community to renounce his American citizenship at the instructions of the community's leader Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, and filed for Israeli citizenship many years ago.

The Interior Ministry said on Monday that more members of the Black Hebrew community can expect to receive citizenship approval letters.

Director-General of the Interior Ministry Arieh Bar said granting members of the community the promised citizenship was a bold decision on the part of Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit.

T. D. JAKES RELEASES NEW FILM ‘NOT EASILY BROKEN’: Movie from Potters House leader touches on marriage, relationships, family and romance.

“Not Easily Broken," the latest faith-based feature film from Bishop T.D. Jakes, touches upon themes of marriage, relationships, family and romance.
Jakes said he wrote the novel that served as source material, and that the film was directed and adapted by men (Bill Duke and Brian Bird).

Morris Chestnut plays the main character, the story is of a young couple struggling to maintain their connection to one another and God. It's that rare personal drama — with a largely African-American cast — told from a male perspective.

Jakes is among the producers of "Not Easily Broken" and also makes a brief cameo in the movie. It's his second feature film, following 2004's "Woman, Thou Art Loosed," and it's the latest offshoot of what has become a vast multimedia empire.

Jakes, who began his pastorate in 1979 with a small West Virginia church of 10 members, now oversees The Potter's House, which has more than 50,000 active outreach ministries and has been described as one of America's fastest-growing "mega-churches."

As an author he has penned more than 30 books and hosts a weekly Gospel television program. He's a frequent guest of Oprah Winfrey's and is regularly called upon to serve as an on-air commentator for network and cable news shows.

Jakes has a developmental deal with Sony that could produce a number of big-screen and direct-to-video titles, especially if "Not Easily Broken" proves to be a success. "Not Easily Broken," which opened Friday, is the saga of Dave (Chestnut) and Clarice Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) who face a breaking point in their marriage after she is seriously injured in a car crash. The accident brings to the surface divisive problems that have been festering for years, problems caused by a lack of communication, eroding respect for one another and conflicting life priorities.

As an intimate, small-budget movie, "Not Easily Broken" arrives on the scene free of blockbuster aspirations. But the fact that it has found its way into theaters nationwide has Jakes encouraged that Hollywood is finally starting to embrace films with spiritual themes.

To Those African-Americans Who Somehow Believe John McCain Represents You, This One's For You!

AGAIN…WILL SMITH SAYS HE'S NOT A SCIENTOLOGIST: Latest denial comes amid rumors of teaching methods at his new school.

*For the umpteenth time, Will Smith has been asked point blank if he practices Scientology, and again, his answer is no.

Fox411 columnist Roger Friedman caught up with the actor and his wife Jada Monday night at the premiere of "Lakeview Terrace," which Smith produced with partner James Lassiter. Friedman asked about reports of the new school he founded in suburban Los Angeles using one of Scientology’s study programs.


The school, New Village Leadership Academy, is using one of Scientology's teaching tools, but Will told Friedman: “You can take different parts of things you like and put them all together.”


On Sept. 8, Smith met in person with an anti-Scientology group called Anonymous. In their recent press release, the group said: "We appreciate Will's interest in our efforts and his openness in speaking with us directly. It shows his concern both as a parent and educator.


"Anonymous is hopeful that NVLA will take the great strides necessary to correct for the deficiencies in Scientology's Study Tech, or abandon them altogether. We will be keeping an eye on the situation to make sure that NVLA lives up to the goals Will Smith has for it, which include keeping the Church of Scientology out of the classrooms."

We got our eyes on you Will.....

Uh Oh! WILL & JADA OPEN PRIVATE SCHOOL: But with Scientology overtones!!

*Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, have founded a new private school called the New Village Academy that's scheduled to open in September.
However, because the school, located in Thousand Oaks, Calif., will use an instructional system developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, called "Study Techology," it's already become become controversial.
To set the record straight, the couple insists they are not Scientologists, and the academy's director says the facility has no religious affiliation. *side-eye*
"We are a secular school, and just like all nonreligious independent schools, faculty and staff do not promote their own religions at school or pass on the beliefs of their particular faith to children," New Village Academy director Jacqueline Olivier told the Los Angeles Times.
Oliver said some of the school's staffers are Scientologists, Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
In addition to reading and math, the school offers classes on yoga, robotics and etiquette.

Don't get me started in on this one. These folks is not foolin' me.

OBAMA GETS WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS: Views and differences aired in private meeting.

Barack Obama discussed Darfur, the Iraq war, gay rights, abortion and other issues Tuesday with Christian leaders, including conservatives who have been criticized for praising the Democratic presidential candidate.

Bishop T.D. Jakes, who heads a Dallas megachurch, said Obama took questions, listened to participants and discussed his "personal journey of faith."


The discussion "went absolutely everywhere," Jakes told The Associated Press, and "just about every Christian stripe was represented in that room."


Jakes, who does not endorse candidates and said he also hopes to meet with Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said some participants clearly have political differences with Obama.


The senator's support for abortion rights and gay rights, among other issues, draws opposition from religious conservatives. Some conservatives have criticized Jakes for praising Obama.


For MORE, go HERE.

OBAMA RESIGNS FROM HIS CHURCH!!

Following an ongoing media firestorm regarding his former pastor, JEREMIAH WRIGHT, and a SUPPORTER’S RECENT SERMON, Sen. Barack Obama announced on Saturday that he had resigned “with some sadness” from Trinity United Church of Christ.

At a news conference in South Dakota, Obama said he didn’t want his “church experience to be a political circus” and added that it had been months since he had attended Trinity.

He and his wife, Michelle, notified the church in a letter on Friday that they “were withdrawing as members of Trinity,” in part because of “a cultural and a stylistic gap.” He added that he regrets “all the attention that my campaign has visited on” the church. CONTINUE READING »

Politics On Parade: Yet Another Sunday Morning Service Exposed To The World!

Here we go again ya"ll! The media and all bloggers and vloggers are running amock with this video, so I must too. Here we have Father Michael Pfleger (who defended Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright) giving his "spin" on why Hillary is doing what she does. Lawd! If these folks would just sit down, hold on, and shut up, maybe we can get through this process more perfectly! What do you think? Here is what everyone else is sayin':

On Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama said he was “deeply disappointed” by a supporter’s sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ that mocked his Democratic nomination rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Michael Pfleger also apologized for Sunday’s sermon in which he said Clinton felt “entitled” to the nomination and that “there’s a black man stealing [her] show”.


In a statement from the Obama campaign, the candidate said: “As I have traveled this country, I’ve been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger’s divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn’t reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.”

Pfleger, the white pastor of predominantly black Saint Sabina Roman Catholic Church, said he regretted his choice of words: “These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life and message and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them.”

Clinton’s campaign denounced Pfleger’s comments: “Divisive and hateful language like that is totally counterproductive in our efforts to bring our party together and have no place at the pulpit or in our politics,” the campaign said in a statement. “We are disappointed that Senator Obama didn’t specifically reject Father’s Pfleger’s despicable comments about Senator Clinton, and assume he will do so.”

DR. PHIL DEVELOPS TALK SHOW FOR T.D. JAKES: Preacher would cover such topics as relationships and family issues.

*Dr. Phil is about to do for Bishop T.D. Jakes what Oprah Winfrey did for him in 2002.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a talk show is being developed by CBS Television Distribution and Dr. Phil and Jay McGraw's Stage 29 shingle to be hosted by Bishop Jakes, who heads the nondenominational church Potter's House and has made several appearances on the CBS-distributed "Dr. Phil."
After McGraw's success with his regular segments on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," her company Harpo backed his own show and served as producer for "Dr. Phil," which debuted on September 16, 2002.
Jakes, whose sermons can be seen on TV via Trinity Broadcasting, has written several books, including "Woman, Thou Art Loosed! Healing the Wounds of the Past."

EXPLOSIVE! ROSIE SAYS REV. WRIGHT 'MADE SENSE': Talk show host defends pastor's beliefs during 'Today' appearance. Tuskegee Experiment REVISITED!!

I am in no way a Rosie fan, but she did something that I 100% agree with. She defended the statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and she GOT IT! She understood what he was saying! Check this out:

While sitting in with the ladies of the "Today" show's fourth hour Monday, Rosie O'Donnell said many people have mistaken her "passion for rage" – much in the same way some Americans have misunderstood Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
"This man is following a tradition of black preachers and there is a righteous indignation about people who were only considered three-fourths a person until fairly recently in our history," said the former talk show host of Barack Obama's former pastor. "And that his anger, which annoys some and forces some to look at issues that America is not really ready to face, is the actual issue. That racism does exist in this country and it's still thriving."
"Here's what I think," she continued. "There is a place in the world, an inspirational, liberational kind of preaching that Rev. Wright does that when you read something that's sort of – I was not as offended as the people in the polls that I read. I listen to him, and frankly, it made sense to me. I totally understood what he was saying."
"That we introduced AIDS into the black community?" asked "Today" co-anchor Kathy Lee Gifford.
O'Donnell responded: "But Kathy, you know what it's like for someone to pull one quote out of context for you. He was comparing it to when the government did give syphilis to black Americans for 40 years. What he was saying is in his history, in his genetic memory, he knows what it's like for the government to infect his own people because he lived through those Tuskegee experiments. And that's what he was talking about.
"You can't sort of pull the quote. He didn't just say, you know, 'the government made AIDS.'" It's the same [as] when I said, you know, you can support the [troops] and not the man who sent them there. You can support every single Marine and Army man and Navy man in this war."

I say if more of us actually LISTENED...we'd go much farther. My mic is off...

SO, WHAT WAS ROSIE TALKING ABOUT? WHAT WAS THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT? YES!!! THE GOVERNMENT DID TESTS ON BLACK MEN FOR 40 YEARS, WHERE THEY ALLOWED THEM TO GO AND SPREAD SYPHYLLIS UNTREATED!!!

READ ABOUT IT HERE!!!

Today's Foolywang: Oprah

I hate to agree with the GLOBE, but they are right on with this one. Oprah and her "New Earth" is some off the chain, scientolo, new age, mumbo-jumbo, mess! Get The Truth O!

POLITICS: OBAMA IS OUTRAGED

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spoke at a news conference in Winston-Salem, N.C., Tuesday, about the latest assertion by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday,” Obama said and added that WRIGHT’S COMMENTS do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church.

“Rev. Wright does not speak for me. He does not speak for our campaign. I cannot prevent him from continuing to make these outrageous remarks, but what I do want him to be very clear about, as well as all of you and the American people, is that when I say I find these comments appalling, I mean it. It contradicts everything that I’m about and who I am and anybody who has worked with me, who knows my life, who has read my books, who has seen what this campaign’s about, I think will understand that it is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country.”

WANT TO HEAR WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT? BELOW ARE THE COMMENTS OF REV. WRIGHT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

OPRAH'S TOM CRUISE SECRETS REVEALED: Interview to include questions about Scientology and Matt Lauer in addition to the couch jumping

I told ya'll they were gonna be comparing notes!:

*Someone attending a Las Vegas taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" over the weekend defied orders from producers and told a news outlet about Winfrey's own account of her interview with Tom Cruise, which is due to air in two parts on Friday and May 5.
During the taping at Caesars Palace, a Harpo staffer hit the stage and asked audience members not to repeat anything they were about to see or hear. They were even made to repeat several times in unison, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
But one member of the audience apparently buckled and ran to E! Online, who reported Monday that Winfrey told the audience that her Cruise interview included questions about Scientology, his contentious interview with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and, of course, the infamous couch-jumping incident.
The first of the two-part Cruise one-on-one has already taken place at his estate in Telluride, Colo., Winfrey said. "Oprah said Tom gave her a ride on a snowmobile," the audience member recounted. "She also said Katie and Suri were there for the interview, too."
As previously reported, the Telluride segment is set to air Friday. Then on May 5, Cruise will be interviewed by Winfrey at her studio in Chicago. Meanwhile, the Vegas episode feturing Tina Turner and Cher is scheduled to air May 8.

Awesome Interview! Bill Moyer Inveriews Reverend Jeremiah Wright!

Thanks to Deborah Torres for sending me this!  This interview on PBS is so compelling.  Rev. Wright is getting so much heat for his comments that have been circulating through the media.  YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!

INTERVIEW PART I (CLICK HERE!)

INTERVIEW PART II (CLICK HERE)

Regarding The Pope's Visit...

Woo, I may get some flack for this but, when you stop everything for this visit, and you don't give any other religions this kind of attention, something is up! I will just say...So the Pope visited us...

And the universe will never be the same...


My mic is off...

Bangin' at Yeshua's Tomb?? Christians clash at Jesus' tomb on Orthodox Palm Sunday!

Not sure if this is actually the TRUE sight of Yeshua's tomb, so in this case I will let them go ahead and call him Jesus. This foolishness would not be happening at the TRUE site of Yeshua, Trust!

JERUSALEM - Dozens of Greek and Armenian priests and worshippers exchanged blows at one of Christianity's holiest shrines on Orthodox Palm Sunday, and used palm fronds to pummel police who tried to break up the brawl.

The fight came amid growing rivalry over religious rights at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over the site in Jerusalem where tradition says Jesus was buried and resurrected.

It erupted when Armenian clergy kicked out a Greek priest from their midst, pushed him to the ground and kicked him, according to witnesses.

When police intervened, some worshippers hit them with the palm fronds they were holding for the religious holiday. The Eastern Orthodox churches, including the Armenians and Greek Orthodox, follow a different calendar from Western Christians and celebrate Easter next Sunday.

Two Armenian worshippers who attacked the Greek Orthodox clergy were briefly detained by Israeli police. Scores of Armenian supporters then protested outside the police station during the questioning of the two, beating drums and chanting.

The Holy Sepulcher is shared by several Christian denominations according to a centuries-old arrangement known as the "status quo."

Each denomination jealously guards its share of the basilica, and fights over rights at the church have intensified in recent years, particularly between the Armenians and Greeks.

Father Pakrad, an Armenian priest, said the presence of the Greek priest during the Armenian observances violated the status quo. "Our priests entered the tomb. They kicked the Greek monk out of the Edicule," he said, referring to the tomb area.

Pakrad accused the Greek Orthodox Christians of trying to step on the Armenians' rights. "We are the weak ones, persecuted by them for many centuries."

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in the Holy Land, Theofilos III, told The Associated Press that the Armenians are pushing to change the rules, challenging what he said was the dominance of the Greek church in the Holy Land.

"This behavior is criminal and unacceptable by all means," he said. "They wanted to trespass on the status quo concerning the order that regulates the services between the various communities."

The Church of the Nativity in nearby Bethlehem — where Jesus is said to have been born — also falls under the status quo arrangement. Last year, pre-Christmas cleaning in that church turned ugly when robed Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests went at each other with brooms and stones.