Divorce Details: Who Gets Custody Of Dog?

A California animal rights lawyer wants divorce laws rewritten so that judges would determine which spouses would get custody of what pet.

Attorney Lawrence Weiss says the current law allows married couples to divide pets among themselves as property. Under his plan, dogs and cats would have rights just as children do.

Weiss says the canine custody battles could be determined by factors such as which owner lives closest to a vet, which owner has the biggest yard or even through a friend's testimony as to which owner loves the pet more.

- Wireless Flash News Service

Psychology And Shamanism

Psychologist William Doherty, director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota says: "Our profession actually comes out of the shamanistic tradition. But to be financially viable, to make a living,we had to hook it up to medicine and science. If we are really honest, we acknowledge that what we do is attend to the soul. It is soul work, not science." USA Today via PsychoHeresy Awareness Newsletter.

Few are so bold as to make that statement but it is surely true. Psychology comes from two Greek words: psyche (soul) and logos (word); words (or study) of the soul. These people have no true knowledge of the soul and as we have pointed out many times, the Bible and the teaching of psychology are opposites.

- The Cornerstone Challenge

Something To Think About!

A teenager was arguing with his father trying to get permission to drop out of school. "But," Dad, he protested, "There are a lot of geniuses today who were high school dropouts." "That may be true," said the patient father. "But before you can drop out of school, you must prove to me that you are a genius!"

- The Cornerstone Challenge

`God' Suing L.A. Times To Save His Reputation

A Los Angeles man who claims he's God is suing the Los Angeles Times because of an article that allegedly slandered his good name.

The 60 year old man who legally changed his name to God in 1981 says he plans on filing a $10 million defamation of character lawsuit for an article in which he was described as wearing a "bad toupee." The story also described God's skin as having the texture of "marzipan" and mentioned God's chain- smoking habit.

God says he's most upset with the photographs in the article that he complains are "unflattering" and hide the fact that he's "really a photogenic, handsome guy."

The author of the Times article, R. Daniel Foster, says if the California man truly is God, he wouldn't need to stoop to a lawsuit.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

Notable Quotable

"Pastors may think everyone is interested in their particular doctrinal fancy, but most folks just want to know if God is able to meet their needs and save their lost loved ones. It may be that many pastors are answering questions no one is asking and missing great opportunities to touch lives and impact the world."

- Pastor Don Chandler

Pope Hopes Ajar Door Unites All Christians

With a push from the spiritual leader of Anglicans and another hard tap from an Orthodox prelate, Pope John Paul II opened a symbolic door Tuesday in a ceremony that grew out of his dream of uniting Christians.

The archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and Metropolitan Athanasios, sent by Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox, were the most prominent of the more than 20 non-Catholic participants in the service to open the Holy Door of St. Paul's Outside the Walls Basilica.

Starting on Christmas Eve in St. Peter's Basilica, the pope by himself had opened the special doors of three basilicas to mark the start of the Vatican's Holy Year of pilgrimages and indulgences. But to highlight his goal of healing divisions some nearly a millennium old among Christians, he saved the last basilica door to be opened together with non-Catholics.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: True Born Again Bible Believers were never in the Catholic Cult. Therefore what the Pope wants will not come to pass until True Believers are caught up. When the Anti Christ comes on the scene, after we are gone, all religions will unite behind him. Can't be long now.

Southern Baptist Crusade Takes Aim At Mormons And Other Cults

Associated Press

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Two Southern Baptist congregations are preparing a crusade to teach their members how to convert "cult" members, including Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Cult Awareness Impact Crusade is scheduled for February 6-8, 2000 at Calvary Baptist Church and Oaklawn Baptist Church.

Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians, say the Rev. Mark Corts, Calvary's senior pastor, and the Rev. Philip Henry, assistant pastor for evangelism and new-member assimilation.

They want to help prevent their members from joining those religions and teach them how to convert Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons to Christianity.

"This would be like the U.S. Army holding a seminar on Russian military tactics or something," said Henry. "In the military realm, they would call that understanding your enemy, but we do not consider them our enemy."

Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses members objected to the congregations' plans.

"I'm disappointed that they would go to that approach," said Gary Smith, president of the Winston-Salem stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.

Robert Shields, one of the overseers of the South Congregation of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Winston Salem, said he wasn't bothered by the cult designation.

"But a cult follows a human leader. We follow Jesus," he said.

The local crusade comes as the Southern Baptist Convention has been criticized for its effort to convert Jews, Muslims and Hindus.

The convention angered Jews last year by asking its members to pray that Jews convert to Christianity during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: Most religions are cults. Any religion which teaches that salvation is any other way than through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a cult. Any religion who teaches that any kind of good works will aid you in making heaven your home is a cult. Salvation is entirely by grace. (Ephesians 2:8-9) Good works will not save you but Bible salvation will produce good works in your life.

Unitarians Promote Free Sex!

The following was taken from several articles in The Massachusetts News. Unitarians have produced many `sex education' materials including a film showing people in the act of heterosexual sex, male homosexuals (sodomites) and also lesbians (sodomites) having sex. They have shown this to fifth grade children.

In April of 1997 at Wellesley High School, an assembly that was required of all students featured the lesbian senior minister of Arlington Street Church, Boston (headquarters of Unitarians). She said casual sex is good for teenagers, including homosexual sex.

She said, "It's important to remember that sexuality happens along a long, broad continuum, with the exclusive heterosexuality at one end and exclusive homosexuality at the other. There's a great movable feast in between. Choose for yourself."

We have long said the Unitarians should not be considered a Christian denomination in any sense of the word. Not only do they deny the Trinity, but they deny all the basic doctrines of the Word of God. Parents who have children in the public schools, where this stuff is being fed to students regularly, should get them out and if that is not possible, they should find out what is going on. It is too late when your children are polluted with this wickedness.

- The Cornerstone Challenge

More Filth For Young People

The paper mentioned above also carried an article saying that the town libraries in 33 towns in the metrowest Boston area recommend a website that promotes pedophilia.

"The librarians voted in secret last month to retain the website-link that encourages boys and girls to have sex, masturbate, accept homosexuality and pedophilia as normal, and blames traditional parents, Christians and Jews for most of the world's ills."

Several librarians who were contacted said that they had not had any complaints about the website. It is amazing how swiftly things are deteriorating in this country. A few short years ago no one would have believed anything like this would be possible. We are fast moving toward Sodom and Gomorrah! God's Word says, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."

- The Cornerstone Challenge

TORCH EDITOR: Do you know what your children are being taught? Do you know what they are doing at the library? In Las Vegas nine years olds are checking out Playboy. IT IS EITHER BACK TO THE BIBLE OR BACK TO THE JUNGLE!! Even So Lord Jesus Come Quickly!!!

Trade Group Pushes For Halloween On Saturday

There's Easter Sunday, but how about Halloween Saturday? It could happen if a trade group known as the Halloween Association is successful.

The group wants Halloween to be legally changed to the last Saturday in October because sales of candy, costumes and booze usually increase 25 percent when Halloween falls on a Saturday.

A spokesman says if Halloween were celebrated on Saturday every year, it would give the economy a big boost mostly because more adults get in the act by renting costumes and throwing parties.

The Halloween Association also claims parents wouldn't have to rush home from work to take kids trick or treating if Halloween was always held on Saturday.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

Baby Goat Meat Food Of Cuture?

The phrase "getting your goat" may have new meaning in the future if a home economist in Texas has her way.

Nora Acevedo of Texas A&M University predicts that cabrito Spanish for baby goat meat will soon become a worldwide food craze.

It's already big in latin America, where grilling is the most popular way to cook cabrito. The meat reportedly tastes great and is described as being leaner than chicken or turkey.

Although Acevedo admits most Americans aren't thrilled at the idea of eating a baby goat, she says other nations including Russia and Canada are warming up to the idea.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: Here comes the animal lovers. We can see it now. Don't you love it!!!

Both Popes Can't Be Infallible!

Pope John Paul II recently rejected hell as being a literal physical place of eternal torment. But Pope Paul VI in the 1970's termed hell a reality and reminded people of the "terrible truth of a possible punishment called Hell, about which Christ minced no words." Canadian Revivalist editor Dr. Frank McClelland says: "It is obvious that there is a world of difference between Paul VI's view of hell and that of the present Pope."

- Calvary Contender

Eating Chocolate Helps Dieters Lose Weight

Researchers claim eating chocolate can actually help you lose weight.

Marcia Jones of the Dixie PMS and Menopause Center in Atlanta claims consuming chocolate can keep you from craving other junk foods because it contains a compound that satisfies your hunger.

The chocolate stimulates production of a brain chemical known as PEA, which balances the brain and reduces food cravings.

Of course, Jones may be a little biased since her company manufactures a weight loss pill called Cocotonin that contains chocolate stripped of its fat.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: Don't you love it? It doesn't matter what your favorite "good food" is you can find someone who says it is good for you. Bring on the fat!!!

Public School Graduates Lacking

When public school teachers were asked how many of their graduates had the skills to succeed in the work world, 64% said they had all or most of the skills. When employers were asked the same question, they reported that 63% of public school graduates did not have the necessary skills to succeed in the work world.

College professors said that college students do not have the basic academic skills for success in college. They asserted that only 33% of freshmen or sophomores had minimum competency (emphasis mine) in math and 83% were unable to write clearly. School Reform News - August 1999)

Every honest study of the public schools reveals the same disastrous results. Few high school graduates can succeed in the real world. Furthermore, since school is basically a non-learning situation and many young people are bored, numbers of them drop out Ä often ending up in trouble with the law. Never mind all those commercials put out by the teacher's unions about how public education is improving.

- The Cornerstone Challenge

UFO Lawsuit Wants To Expose Flying Saucers

An Arizona-based UFO group is suing the U.S. Department of Defense in the hopes of uncovering the truth about flying saucers.

Citizens Against UFO Secrecy wants the government to release all files regarding sightings of triangular-shaped UFOs that were seen over the skies of Phoenix in March 1997.

Although government officials claim no such files exist, a lawyer representing the UFO group says he's skeptical because so many eyewitnesses reported seeing military aircraft chase the unidentified objects.

Attorney Peter Gersten predicts the Defense Department will ask for a dismissal, but he hopes the judge won't throw out the case so he can get to the bottom of the mystery.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: UFOs are real! Just a few miles north of Las Vegas we have a military base called Area 51. If you are out toward that area it is not uncommon to see these objects. President Clinton just recently signed the order to keep this base classified. This has to be renewed each year. This area is strictly off limits and you can be shot if you are caught in that area. For many years the government claimed there was no such base. I have my own idea as to where these UFOs come from. We will see in the sweet by and by.

Hockey Referee Fights T-Shirts That Offend

Are tacky T-shirts and snotty bumper stickers turning America into a nation of rude citizens? A hockey referee in Poway, California, thinks so.

Marc Moniz, 45, believes T-shirts silk-screened with X-rated slogans and bumper stickers containing naughty messages are contributing to a rise in rudeness.

Now Moniz is fighting back by forming a group known as The Gentlemen's Respect Club.

Members of the group must pledge to respect others by not using filthy language, wearing offensive clothing or putting obscene bumper stickers on their cars. Moniz has created his own line of T-shirts featuring two English dandies shaking hands in a polite manner.

- Las Vegas Review Journal

TORCH EDITOR: Mr. Moniz is right. You have to be careful about reading bumper stickers and T-shirts. Of course what can you expect when the TRUE GOD has been kicked out of the social life and the school system of America. We are living in a heathen nation. VERY FEW REAL BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS!!! I wish Mr. Moniz much success but most likely not much will come of this effort.

Legal Suit Prompts Delaware To Alter Police Test

In response to a federal lawsuit, the "Delaware State Police" has "agreed to replace a psychological exam that asked prospective officers about their religious views. State officials also will pay $50,000 to a trooper candidate who claims he was denied a job because he answered true to religious statements that were placed on the exam.

Statements singled out in the exam included the following: "I believe in the second coming of Christ", "Everything is turning out just like the prophets of the Bible said it would", "I read in the Bible several times a week" and "I go to church almost every week."

While, agreeing to the financial settlement, the Delaware State Police spokesman denied that "the agency had treated" the applicant "unfairly." The spokesman also claimed that the settlement was "in no way an admission to religious discrimination."

- The News Journal, Wilmington, DE

Happiness The Reward For Marriages That Endure

According to a research report published in the Social Psychology Quarterly, "couples who stick out marriage for 35 years or so are likely to find themselves as happy as they were when they were newly weds."

The "study was based on data from the American's Changing Lives study," and was based on the "links between marital quality, duration, and various social economic and economic factors among 1,470 individuals in first marriages" ages 25 years and older.

- Alpena News [MI]

TORCH EDITOR: By the time you read this Mary and I will have celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary. We had our first date at a church Valentine Day banquet on February 14 fifty years ago at the Exchange Avenue Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. We were married on February 16 one year and two days later, in the same church, at the ripe old age of nineteen. We are more satisfied with each other today than ever before. My heart goes out to those who did not stick it out. THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY IF BOTH PARTIES ARE WILLING!!!!

For All Preachers Who Refuse To Identify Apostates And Compromisers By Name

"Dear Preachers: We feel that it is important to bring to your attention that there are some dangerous, ax-murdering, kidnaping thugs living in your neighborhood, and we want you to be aware of their threat. Now, if we mentioned names, some of you might actually know who we are talking about, and we wouldn't want to judge! So please protect yourself and your families. Your friends."

- The Angelus