Sunday, February 27, 2011

Revolutions In Muslim World Open Door For Severe Persecution of Christians

(AINA) -- For the second time in as many days, Egyptian armed force stormed the 5th century old St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, 110 kilometers from Cairo. Live ammunition was fired, wounding two monks and six Coptic monastery workers. Several sources confirmed the army's use of RPG ammunition. Four people have been arrested including three monks and a Coptic lawyer who was at the monastery investigating yesterday's army attack.

Monk Aksios Ava Bishoy told activist Nader Shoukry of Freecopts the armed forces stormed the main entrance gate to the monastery in the morning using five tanks, armored vehicles and a bulldozer to demolish the fence built by the monastery last month to protect themselves and the monastery from the lawlessness which prevailed in Egypt during the January 25 Uprising.

"When we tried to address them, the army fired live bullets, wounding Father Feltaows in the leg and Father Barnabas in the abdomen," said Monk Ava Bishoy. "Six Coptic workers in the monastery were also injured, some with serious injuries to the chest....

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Religious Makeup of Lebanon
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: History will not smile on Christianity in the modern Western world when it records the genocide that is about to unfold in the Middle East. The greatest failure of Western Christianity, particularly among the Evangelical Protestants in the United States, is a fixation on the Secular nation of Israel, to the neglect of their own Christian brethren in the same region. Few Western Christians in America know that nearly half of Lebanon's population is Christian. The United States government sends untold millions of dollars to Israel, but not a dime to the Christians in Lebanon.  Since when has the United States government, or any Western government for that matter, done anything to help Christians in the Middle East and North Africa?  What of the people of the United States and Europe?  What of the churches?  In how many television specials have the so-called "Christian televangelists" championed the plight of our suffering brethren in that part of the world?  Sunday after Sunday we are inundated with Christian television chronicling the cause of Secular Israel but not a word about their own suffering brethren over there.  For the last forty years the United States could have been working with the indigenous Christians of North Africa and the Middle East, championing their rights and calling for greater religious freedom.  No, instead we championed the cause of Zionism and simultaneously propped up North African and Middle Eastern dictators who keep the Arabs in check so we can maintain a steady stream of oil supply. 



This Cross Was Seen At A Recent Anti-Mubarak Protest in Egypt
It is time for a change, but don't expect that to come from Washington D.C. or any other Western government.  The change must come from each one of us...

Do you call yourself a Christian?  Do you support the Biblical mandate to care for Christians in the Middle East, particularly those in Jerusalem?  (1 Corinthians 16:1-4)  If indeed you call yourself a Christian, and if you are worried about the events unfolding in the Muslim world today, than there is ONLY ONE thing to do.  Start making regular donations to CNEWA (Catholic Near East Welfare Association), which is dedicated to helping Christians in this part of the world and providing general humanitarian aid as well.  It's a force for good in the Arab world, that supports Christians living among a Muslim majority.

This is not about politics folks.  It's not about Arab vs. Israeli or Muslim vs. Jew.  This is about Christians!  And if you won't do your part to help them, than what does that say about your own Christian faith?  Click Here NOW To Help and share this article with your Christian friends and family (especially Evangelicals) today!

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The Catholic Knight would also like to call upon ALL his fellow Catholic bloggers to take up this crusade immediately to help raise awareness of this issue on the Internet. The time to act is NOW!!!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

My Small Tribute To Aneta Florczyk

 So who is Aneta Florczyk?

Well friends, Aneta is 5 foot 5 inches tall, weighs about165 pounds, and she's from Poland. 

And yes, she's also a great deal more.

See besides having a career in sports, she's recently been elected to the Malbork City Council.  

The city of Malbork is in Poland. That's where Aneta lives.

That's where despite her new duties as a "Councilor" on the City Council, which I'm sure is the same as a Councilmen and women here, Aneta still maintains her sports career and businesses. 

So who says you can't be beautiful, strong, and successful? Aneta is certainly a great example of how to get things done.

And by the way, she pronounces her name "Ah-net-ah" and no not "Ah-neat-ah".

She has the will, the motivation, the knowledge, and the capability to go as high as she wants to in life. And friends, God Bless her for that.  There is nothing worse than a person who has the knowledge and capability to strive for a higher purpose in life, but yet does not have the will and motivation to do it.

She gets it done!  

And of course, she still has to find time to do her most famous demonstration of strength - rolling a frying pan!

Yes, rolling a frying pan!  

Don't kid yourselves, friends, this gal is strong!  She's not a very big gal at all in comparison to some women bodybuilders and powerlifters who I've known in the past, but God knows Aneta is strong.
If you can't imagine rolling a frying pan, then check out this video on YouTube.

                             

And here's a YouTube Video of Aneta, this is when she set the last Guinness Record Book record on China television.

      

I have no idea how she does what she does, and I have never seen anyone like Aneta. Friends, this little lady is incredible.

Basically at the age of sixteen, when she weighed about 130 pounds, Aneta started powerlifting as something to do for recreation.  Well she took to it like a swan takes to water, and now to her credit she's an International Champion and in the Guinness Record Books.

TOO CUTE!
Looking at this very sweet young women, I'm willing to bet that most folks would probably never believe that she is a Four-Time World's Strongest Women.  Well, she is.

She was World's Champion / World's Strongest Woman in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Aneta's Powerlifting and Bench Press achievements:
  • 19 years old Juniors' Champion of Poland in bench press
  • 23 years old Juniors' Champion of Poland in bench press
  • Silver medal in Seniors' Polish Championship in bench press
  • Silver medal on Polish Cup in bench press
  • Gold medal on Polish Cup in powerlifting
  • Seniors' Champion of Poland in powerlifting
  • Sport class - champion' s international
  • Member of National Team in bench press and powerlifting 1999-2001
  • Powerlifting - second place in European Championship of seniors, Luxembourg 2000
  • Record holder of Poland in powerlifting, weight category - 82,5 kg
  • Juniors' Record holder of Europe in dead lift - 213 kg
  • Silver medal in International Arm wrestling Tournament
  • As a first Polish woman she broke the barrier of 500 kg in powerlifting (507,5)
  • As a first Polish woman she broke the barrier of 200 kg in deadlift

 And of course, here are some of  her Strongwoman achievements:
  • 2003 – Second place on Scandinavian Championship in Vasteras, Sweden
  • 2003 – First place on Built Solid Strongman Challenge in Columbus, USA
  • 2003 – Fourth place on European Strongest Woman in Ireland
  • 2003 – First place on World' s Strongest Woman in Zambia
  • 2004 – First place on European Strongest Woman in Northern Ireland
  • 2005 – First place on FitExpo in London
  • 2005 – First place on International Norway's Championship in Larvik
  • 2005 – First place on World's Strongwoman Championship in Northern Ireland
  • 2005 – Second place on World's Highland Games Cup in Scotland
  • 2005 – First place on Bregstaed contest, Norway
  • 2005 – First place on Europe's Strongwoman Championship in Bydgoszcz
  • 2006 – First place on World's Strongwoman Championship in Opalenica
  • 2007 – Winning the European Strongwoman Championship - Trondheim, Norway
  • 2008 – Winning the World Strongwoman Championship - Poland, Tczew 

Other achievements:
  • Guinness Record in rolling the frying pans for time - 4 pans of 26cm diameter in 1 minute (Madrid, February 2008)
  • Third place in the polish edition of Stars dancing on ice TV show (March-May 2008)
  • Appearing in many popular programs in polish and foreign TV.
  • An appearance in the Polish edition of the popular adventure show called "Fort Boyard" (July 2008).
  • Improving her own Guinness Record - rolling 5 pans of 26cm diameter in 1 minute (Beijing, China - November 2008).
  • A Guinness World Record in lifting up adult men overhead - 12 persons in 2 minutes (Madrid, Spain - December 2008).

Impressive isn't it! Well, there's more!

Marina Kigileva and Aneta in 2010
In August of 2010, Chelyabinsk, Russia hosted "a battle of two strong women" as the Uralstrong Federation staged a two-event strongwoman showdown between Marina "The Armor" Kigileva and Aneta Florczyk.

On that day, the outcome was a draw and they both share the title for 2010.

To me, Aneta is a great champion.  And that's not only in powerlifting, but to my way of thinking, she is also a great champion in life itself.

Why you ask?  Well friends, it's because Aneta has been able to make her sport a positive part of her life while at the same time being a great role model for others.

All while being happy with what she's doing.  And yes, that's a big deal.  I've known many people in my lifetime, and actually I've met very few who can say that they are happy with what they're doing in life.

She is a wonderful role model in a world that needs good examples.  In a world where great examples are sometimes hard to find, Aneta is a great example of what a person can do if he or she puts their mind to it.

From the pictures that I've seen of Aneta, I would say that besides being an extremely beautiful woman dimples and all, she also looks like she enjoys what her hard work has brought her.

And yes, anyone can see that she likes what she's doing.  She definitely looks like she's having fun.

One last note about her life.  From what I gather, she had to choose which way she wanted to go in life as a kid in the small town where she comes from in Poland.  I guess options for recreation for young people there were really very limited.

For Aneta, she choose the gym and working out which lead to her interest in powerlifting.  She asserted herself and found her sense of individualism.  And from what I see, it appears she's won the greatest prize of all in that she enjoys a good life. 

A good life is not a bad prize at all.

It reminds me of that Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" where he wrote:

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
  I took the one less traveled by,
 And that has made all the difference."

Yes, make not mistake about it, Aneta Florczyk has taken the road less traveled by others.  And that, my friends, makes all of the difference.

To learn more about this amazing woman, please click on her picture on my home page or go to  http://www.anetaflorczyk.com/

To learn about Aneta's latest feat of strength, click here!


May God Bless Her!



























Story by Tom Correa
And yes, as you can see, I'm definitely a fan!


Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens vs David Wolpe and Bradley Artson Shavit - Is There an Afterlife?



Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris discuss a supernatural matter, afterlife with Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson in the panel held in Whizin Center for Continuing Education.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

The Saga of Biorn



Where is the last place a Viking would ever want to go? If you wanna learn, watch this cute animation. A big twist at the end. :)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

BBC - The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?



Uganda, home to around 33 million people, is a dangerous country for gay people. Preaching hate speech against homosexuals is a national sport here. Newspapers expose their names on the front pages and promote anti-gay propaganda. Gay & lesbians run away from home to save their lives and are constrained to hide in inhumane places. Radio DJ Scott Mills travels to Uganda and has been witness to the hell, showing that main drivers of the anti-gay propaganda is the church since the firt missionaries has been preaching the idea that homosexuality is an abomination and evil.

Also watch: A Jihad for Love



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Picks of the Month (February 2011)

The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible - Ruth Hurmence Green [EBOOK]

Atheist Universe - David Mills [EBOOK]

Deliver Us from Evil [DOC]

Christianity: A History [DOC]

Bullshit! - Holier than Thou (with Christopher Hitchens) [VIDEO]

Richard Dawkins' Richard Dimbleby Lecture [VIDEO]

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene [AUDIO]

The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker [AUDIO]

Moolaadé - Protection [MOVIE]

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

BREAKING: Modernist Schism Now Imminent !!!

An example of liturgical and doctrinal abuse in the Catholic Church
Masses like this are forbidden by Rome.
(Sydney Morning Herald) - The Catholic Church is facing open defiance over its new Mass, with at least a dozen Australian priests indicating they will refuse to use it when it comes into force later this year.

Hundreds more are angry about the lack of consultation for the new, more literal translation of the 400-year-old Latin text, which was heavily influenced by a Vatican advisory committee headed by the Sydney Archbishop, Cardinal George Pell.

What supporters say is a suitably elevated and poetic text more faithful to the original Latin is seen by detractors as an outdated, contrived and less inclusive version that ignores modern English and could further alienate Catholics from the church. It has become the latest battleground in the culture wars between progressive Catholics and traditionalists over the direction of reforms stemming from the 1960s Vatican Council, which allowed the faithful to celebrate the liturgy in their own language for the first time...

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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: A direct confrontation between the Vatican and the Modernists in the Church is about to come down - this year! That is unless the Vatican blinks and postpones the implementation of the new English translation of the Roman Missal. The question that arises is who's in charge here? Is this a Church still governed by the pope? Or has the Catholic Church become a mere collective, with nobody really in charge, sort of like the Anglican Communion. The message the Vatican sends over the next ten months will be crucial.

If the Vatican blinks, postponing the implementation of the new translation (which has already been postponed for years), it will send a clear message that the Modernists are still in charge of the Catholic Church, and the leadership in Rome fears threats of schism more than orthopraxy. Is Pope Benedict still our fearless German Shepherd? We will know for sure on November 27th, 2011 - the date the new English translation of the Roman Missal is set to go into effect.

Simultaneously, in the United States, a group of potential schismatics and heretics are meeting in Detroit on June 10th through the 12th in what has been compared to an alternate Church authority opposed to the Vatican and the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The American Catholic Council is a potentially schismatic and heretical group that has already been condemned by the Archbishop of Detroit - His Excellency Allen Henry Vigneron. The intention of this group is to celebrate the post-conciliar liturgical abuses and doctrinal innovations, as well as promote them for future development. The group is also calling for a complete restructuring of Church governance, setting itself up as a potential alternative to the USCCB.

What we have here are the makings of a whole new schism in the Catholic Church, comparable to the Protestant Reformation some 500 years ago. Any attempt to reason with these people will result in failure and give them the credibility they need to spread their errors. We can only hope the Vatican, and the bishops in Australia and the United States, take a strong stand against this type of open rebellion.