The Vatican's official website has suffered an attack by Anonymous, cutting off access by users for several hours. Italian media outlets reported that the website, Vatican.va, became unresponsive around mid-afternoon local time.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, confirmed that vatican.va had been the object of an attack. Anonymous was attacking the Vatican to protest the execution of heretics and the burning of books during the Inquisition and more recently the sexual abuse of children by priests.
In 1966 John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon said: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Lennon uttered those fateful words at the height of Beatlemania. The British Invasion happened to also coincide with the decline of Christianity, especially in England, and especially amongst the younger generations. The mass hysteria of Beatlemania was analogous to religious ecstasy. Many fans truly saw the Beatles as musical messiahs. John, Paul, George, and Ringo reported that fans would bring sick people to their concerts, in the belief that the band had a divine healing presence.
Spirituality is the search for God, an ultimate reality, a transcendent dimension of the world, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his being, or the deepest values and meanings by which people live. Spirituality is often experienced as a source of inspiration or orientation in life. It encompasses belief in immaterial realities or experiences of the immanent or transcendent nature of the world. Spirituality is more personalized, less structured, more open to new ideas, and more pluralistic than religion. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Spirituality is not related to religion. Spirituality and religion lock horns! Many people define themselves as spiritual but not religious. Spirituals believe in the existence of many different spiritual paths, emphasizing the importance of finding one's own individual path to spirituality. Most people identify themselves as spiritual but not religious. Religion is a memeplex organized by churches, whereas spirituality is defined as an internal individual search.
God is a vision of the highest values of truth, justice, love, and goodness toward which we strive. In this sense, God is a standard against which to measure ourselves and our achievements. God reminds us of the relativity and limitations of our own ideas. God serves as a corrective to our biases and a basis for critical reflection. By bringing together our highest ideals in a single symbol, God provides a focus for personal devotion or communal worship. http://venitism.blogspot.com
We experience God as love, light, power, and wisdom. The God we pray to is both transcendent and immanent, a part of us but also greater than us. Sometimes we experience God as a light that comes to us in the darkness. This light emanates intense love and compassion and leaves us feeling joyous and connected to all of creation. Other times, we simply hear God's guidance as thoughts. It seems similar to a nudge or sometimes a whisper. This guidance usually comes suddenly and clearly, and it can arrive while we are deep in prayer or simply going about our business of the day.
Stung by myriad charges of clergy sexual abuse, corruption, orgies, and coverup that reach the pope, patriarchs, and archbishops, churches face a crisis of empty pews and empty coffers. Churches need to address their own failures, acknowledge their own guilt, ask for forgiveness, and heal as a family. Apostates of Christianity outnumber converts by four-to-one. http://venitism.blogspot.com
JOURNEY TO GOD
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
Faith is retarded thinking
That keeps you away from God
Give up the hoodwinking
Start now your journey to God.
Religion is spiritual slavery
It's very stupid very odd
Your soul needs real bravery
Start now your journey to God.
Discover God your own way
No priests, but spirit's nod
Don't let yourself astray
Start now your journey to God.
Become now pure and faithless
Faith replaced by truth of God
Spirituality is true and ageless
Start now your journey to God.
FOCUS OUR MACROSCOPE
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
Hosanna our Creator!
Focus our macroscope in Your direction,
And inspire us for proper behavior,
To enlighten Your wise creation.
Transform us to magi of peace and love,
And give us the courage to face the odds,
To vamp but not to shove,
And help all folks with all our heart.
Thank You so much for Your great benevolence,
And all wisdom in all Your kingdom,
Thank you so much for the great experience,
In the school of Earth for love and freedom.
Amen
DEAR GOD
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
God everything is in order
Everything follows Your plan
No statists no borders
Your will shall be done.
Don't know how to thank you
For inspiring me so much
For filling my mind with clues
For filling my heart with love.
Regards to my soulmate
And the entire bunch
Tell them of my debate
The statists had a real crunch.
Amen!
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