did you knwo Jack the ripper was a christian and a freemason?
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Any man can call himself a Christian, but actions speak louder than words.  Jack the Ripper (who's identity is unknown, btw), certainly didn't act like a Christian.\n\nAs for the Freemasonry connection, that was a theory that was put forth and then dismissed.  Later it became the subject of a graphic novel, and eventually a Johnny Depp movie, but it is not a factual account.  If you do a little research, you will see that the whole premise to the movie is bunk.\n\nYou might be referring to "Jack"'s statement written on the wall about the "Jewes", and thinking that this might have a connection to the three men who killed Hiram Abiff in the Masonic Legend.  It has never been common practice for Masons to refer to these men as "Jewes", even though all three of their names start with Joo.\n\nThe whole Masonic connection theory is false speculation.  As for  the Christian thing, was he the only man who was supposedly a Christian who has comitted murder or another horrible sin?
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I suggest that you are correct. On a simple level, just look at the serial killers of the last 30 years; almost all came from religious backgrounds, and many felt they were doing Gods work.
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Well, Hitler siad he was Christian...but we all know that he was basically possesed.
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The College for young boys? My favourite Jack The Ripper Suspect, Montague Druitt, went there as a child. In one of the communal rooms, he is to have etched "M J DRUITT" onto one of the walls (the etching is still there).
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Anyone will agree that he certainly did not abide by Christian ethics and standards, but Hitler not only declared himself a Christian, but he also attempted to legitimize his actions with religion. Here is an article on the subject:\nhttp://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm\n\nDon't worry, it is a site discussing his history and not a nazi, anti-semitic or anti-Christian site.
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No.  there is secular evidence that he lived and was crucified.
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jesus died on the cross with a criminal on either side of him. check the bible! x
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I was very much encouraged by my parents to find my own way, be my own person and for that I am most grateful to them. For a number of years as a youth, I attended an evangelical Sunday group and although I have what I think is a deep understanding of the christian faith, I never really bought into it. I am fairly well convinced that somebody who lived 2000 years ago died a violent death for denouncing the corruption of the religious, political and military leaders of the time and that those ideals gave rise to the christian faith. But therein lies the most contentious point - that this enlightened individual was telling us we don't need self-righteous big-wigs lording it over us, yet from this message a whole new breed of religious zealots were born, who proceeded to enslave minds with their twisted dogma.\n\nBrian (Life of - MP) was so right and probably remains the most accurate reconstruction of that moment of history - by a country mile.
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a chalice  used by Christ at the last supper.\nhave you read any of the King Arthur stories?
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Yes I believe in Santa Claus. There was a fellow who went around doing good deeds for people named Saint Nicholas. He was became a Saint in one of the branch of the Christian Religions. He lived in Turkey during the 4th Century and he was best known for his good deed to a poor man who had three daughters all of them wanted to get married but the father had no money for a dowery for each of his daughters. So that none of them would become prostitutes, Nicholas as he was called at that time went to the man's house and through an open window placed money in each of the daughter's stockings. Hence the idea of putting gifts in one stockings. There is a shrine to him in Bari Italy. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of archers,children,prostitutes, lawyers and pharamacist plus a few other people in different trades. So yes there really is a Santa Clause and he wasn't made up by coke-a-cola.
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Yes I do.  I am a devout Christian who believes that God sent his one and only begotton son to die for our sins, was raised from the dead on the Trird Day, and is to come again to judge the living and the dead.  God Bless You
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My friend, anyone considering ANY form of Christianity or worship of ANY Christ should do so only after reading the eye opening text The Hiram Key by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight.  Their research into Masonic ritual has led them to uncover truths long kept secret by the Church for more than two thousand years.  The book is both frightening, and at the same time seems to be authentic.  It discusses the Illuminati (and NOT the Dan Brown Illuminati everyone seems to be so familiar with), Freemasonry, and their links to early Christianity; the origian teachings of Jesus Christ, before the Church decided what should be written.  The book is powerful, and revealing.  I reccomend it to anyone with an open mind who is seeking a high truth than whta is given to us by those who know nothing!\n\nAve,\nShawn
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Freemasons are a rather contraversial group. Today, they still have secrets. My dad is one, I should know. Anyway, to be a mason, you have to be reccomended by at least two other Masons, and you have to be male. The masons were supposedly founded in the days before the Crusades in the form of the Templar Knights of france. There are a lot of stories surrounding that. one of them is that the king of France wanted to steal or otherwise procure the Templar's treasure. They refused, and were almost wiped out. Sucks to be them. Any other questions?
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You know, about a month ago I had an enormous crisis in faith involving Freemasonry. \n\nIt was not any dark secret involving the da Vinci code or the Illuminati. It was not about the VSL or any garbage that Leo Taxil wrote about Albert Pike. Want to guess what it was?\n\nIt was that I was not up to be a good enough Freemason. True. I am a Co-Mason (women and men, all races, and all religions as long as you believe in a Supreme Being). We take the esoteric stuff pretty seriously. I belong to two real life Lodges and travel 1500 miles each month to attend them both. I also belong to a Lodge of research (we research Masonic history). I was Entered on May 23, 2004 VE, Passed April 17, 2005 VE, and Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on October 22, 2005 VE. \n\nWell, I was having physical problems - not sleeping enough, my leg hurting, my back hurting. A lot of it revolved around not having a good mattress and having been tortured when I was in the Army. The travel made it worse. I started taking everything my Right Worshipful Master said as an attack on me (even though she meant it as instruction).\n\nSo I had to deal with that. I had to think that maybe I was just not worthy enough to be a Freemason; that I was too rough a stone to be smoothed. Everyone else seemed to "be getting it." Eventually, through much more introspection I came to I was in pain and needed to deal with that instead of just running away and hiding (my first inclination).\n\nBTW, the "instruction" was nothing weird or violent, just what was proper to post where and what forms to send where. Nothing major, just ME making mountains out of mole hills. \n\nWhen you say to the Universe that you are ready for lessons, The Great Teacher in His Ineffable Wisdom smiles and sends those to you. Stone gets shaped very slowly and sometimes it seems kind of hard on the stone. But what a lovely edifice Solomon's Temple!
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Yes, he did.  And if you're truly interested, check out "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel, a journalist who originally set out to disprove Christianity but ended up supporting it instead, and he became a Christian.
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I agree with you completely, my brother.  I am a Christian, and I do NOT serve a god of cruelty and slaughter.  I serve the true, living, eternal God, the source of all love and compassion and mercy.  Thank you for your question.
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Jesus Christ married his favourite prostitute and left descendants who are alive and well and working as pizza delivery drivers in downtown Manhatten under secret identities. The crucifixion was a fake, the Holy Grail is being used as a sauce-boat in the North British Hotel near the Rosslyn Chapel, and anyone who can figure out antediluvian Greek puns can work out the truth from a series of ancient monuments, tablecloth labels and car registration numbers. \n\nI could tell you their names but then I'd have to kill you.