The hunger strikers are no longer hungry. Soon, if they keep going, they will no longer be lucid. (Some say they never were.) Cocooned in sleeping bags on the cold floor of St. Stephen’s Church in Columbia Heights, the hunger strikers dozed under a painting of Jesus Christ bearing a loaf of bread. They woke now and then to flick through their Twitter feeds in search of solidarity, looking for the hashtag #OccupytheVoteDC , wondering whether anyone would join their bodily protest of the District’s taxation without representation. Read full article > >

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Occupy D.C. hunger strikers, frail but undaunted

Two months before Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez allegedly fired shots on the White House , he asked an Idaho University student to videotape him as the second coming of Christ. “It’s not just a coincidence that I look like Jesus. I am the modern-day Jesus Christ that you all have been waiting for,” Ortega-Hernandez says in the 20-minute video. Read full article > >

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Alleged White House shooter believed he is ‘modern-day Jesus Christ’ (VIDEO)

Dear Governor Romney, You haven’t asked, but I’d like to offer you some free, nonpartisan advice about how to talk about your Mormon faith in public. When a Texas megachurch pastor can rob you of a news cycle, as the Rev. Robert Jeffress did last weekend when he called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a “cult” at a meeting of religious conservatives, you need to do a better job of explaining your beliefs. Read full article > >

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An open letter to Mitt Romney

Try this. Type “church,” “Old Testament” or even “friend” into Google, and the Web site of the LDS church, the Mormons, pops up near the top of the list. In the age of the Internet, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has found a way to dominate what is arguably today’s most important information source: the search engine. It’s all about Mormons controlling their own image, church officials say. They’ve been doing that for a century or more. And now, with two of their own vying for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential race, and a Broadway hit and reality television generating huge interest in the denomination, much is at stake. Read full article > >

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Mormons using the Web to control their own image

Christians around the world are celebrating Palm Sunday. In the Christian faith, Palm Sunday marks Jesus Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem. It’s also the start of Holy Week, which commemorates Christ’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection. (April 17)

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And now, a word about brotherhood from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley: There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit. But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister.” ”Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he continued. “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.” I will let Goldblog’s Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Wiccan readership speak up for themselves (yes, this blog has Wiccan readers; at least two of whom I’m aware). The wonderful thing about the world today is that so many Christians understand, in ways Christians didn’t understand before, that Jesus was a Jew, and a rabbi, as well, that he lived as a Jew, preached to Jews, and died as a Jew, and during his life, and after, his followers were Jews who lived as Jews. I like to imagine that if Jesus came to Earth as Messiah (or back to Earth as Messiah, which is not this blog’s understanding, but one that is respected by here nonetheless) he would look around and ask the leaders of Christianity, “What, exactly, were you all thinking when it came to the treatment of my people?” I would like to imagine that he would feel comfortable in my synagogue, that he would find it far more familiar than he would, say, Robert Bentley’s church.  

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Sweet Home, Alabama, Unless You’re Not Christian

LAS VEGAS — “Hey, man, do you want a free beer?” the bearded man asked as I walked by his booth. Like any good conference attendee, of course I said yes. He handed me a card. On one side, there was an image of Jesus Christ with an Xbox 360 controller in his hands, a headset in place of a crown of thorns, and a Twitter bird on his arm. On the other, there were the details for a USB stick giveaway, and the note that for four hours a day, they’d be giving away free Sam Adams bottles to passersby.  ”Are you a Christian game developer?” I asked.  ”No,” he said. “We are just here telling people that Jesus loves them, making sure they hear that Jesus loves them.” This is the GameChurch.com booth, which consisted largely of tattooed, skater-style hipsters wandering around talking about Jesus and videogames. It turns out GameChurch is a Christian gaming website. Their slogan: “We are all for killing pixels on a screen but loving people in real life. Love Without Agenda.” The site is part of Fireproof Ministries, a site founded by Craig Gross, a former youth pastor with edgy hair. Gross aims to spread the word through “culturally relevant” programs, reaching people outside traditional church events. GameChurch is actually a junior member of Fireproof’s website network. The original site was XXXchurch.com , which tries to connect with people making or looking for pornography. XXXChurch actually sent a team to the Adult Entertainment Expo with a simple message: “Jesus loves porn stars.” Or as the man at the GameChurch booth explained, “Jesus loves porn stars. He loves people wherever they’re at.”

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“Jesus Loves Porn Stars”