| "Man" Teaching About God | 07/10/2004 | Generally this position has been rare in history. The rotating choices above give you a selection of articles describing how certain of righteous various humans have been in their pronouncements about the nature of God. |
| Acts Of Compassion | 07/09/2004 | The word "compassion" has several definitions -- some of those include synonyms such as "pity" or "sympathy." These are NOT the meanings we intend for this word, "compassionate." |
| Acts Of Compassion | 07/09/2004 | Acts of Compassion are NOT acts of pity or sympathy. Those would be, in fact, harmful acts. Compassion must be understood to be acts that are EFFECTIVE in changin conditions for the better.
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| Articles Of Faith | 07/09/2004 | We of the Church believe:
That God exists
That the characteristics of God are not to be labeled by man or The Church, but
That these characteristics are to be discovered by individual men
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| Church of Compassionate Service Donations | 07/09/2004 | Your donation will not be final, and you will not be charged until you COMPLETE the process. You may cancel your donation at any point up to that time. Your donation is completed AFTER you have provided the donation amount, your name, address, credit card number and selected "submit." If you select $5.00 here, for instance, the program will allow you to then select "one" amount of $5.00, or "two" amounts of $5.00 each, for a total of $10.00, etc. The donation will be processed through "Vibrant Life" and that is the name which will appear on your statement -- until the Church completes its registration processes. |
| Church Prosperity | 07/09/2004 | This Church of Compassionate Service has a very different philosophy on this than large centralized organizations -- aims at no centralized accumulation of worldly possessions within its vaults and aspires to no creation of a large "Church Staff." |
| Contributions | 07/09/2004 | We have a mechanism whereby if and when you decide to make a contribution to this Church, we do NOT usually spend the money ourselves, but send it to one of our Ministers or Senior Ministers to spend on good deeds and acts of compassion in his area. |
| Dictionary Definition of "Anabiosis" | 07/09/2004 | A restoring to life from a deathlike condition; resuscitation. |
| Do Good Deeds | 07/09/2004 | This Church is so serious about doing good deeds that all Members are required to do some number of good deeds on a regular basis. Further they are required, to maintain their Membership in the Church, to send us evidence so that any investigator could verify that such good deed was done! |
| Donations To The Church Of Compassionate Service | 07/09/2004 | In the meantime donations do not get formal "taxable exempt status." However, any and all donations made now will be kept in a secure, regular bank account, with details posted on this web site. All those details are yet to be worked out. |
| False Prophets Denounce False Prophets | 07/09/2004 | The problem with man speaking for God is that it is man who is being addressed. In many cases many men will believe the one man, but there will be, inevitably one OTHER man who disagrees with the ONE man, and announces him to be false. |
| Formal Membership In The Church Of Compassionate Service | 07/09/2004 | This Church is designed in levels or with a structure. The "higher" levels have features which you will probably find to be very attractive, but you must be interested enough to qualify for the First Level of Formal Membership before you learn much about the features available on Level Two.
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| Gangster Rap -- Shared Value? | 07/09/2004 | It seems not unusual for part of society to out of communication with other parts of society. Who can say, "Who is to blame?"
Neither can say, "The other!" Only both for not having the shared moral values and a method of restoring respect and communication among all. That has obviously failed in reference to "Gangsta Rap." I admit that I don't know how to fix this one, and I don't know that I care to.
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| Good Deeds | 07/09/2004 | Good deeds, oddly enough, MUST be judged by those who are the effect of the deed, not by the person causing the effect. ONLY those effects which can be easlly received by the other are "good." |
| Heroin -- A Shared Value? | 07/09/2004 | What could be possibly be said about sharing the values of millions around the planet who have started with at least a chance, and made wrong moral choices about drugs -- they and the planet are wasted! |
| Home Page For The Church of Compassionate Service | 07/09/2004 | You are cordially invited to explore this web site and learn about this religion. You will find that it is very practical. We believe in the existence of God, but this Church does not have "teachings" on any spiritual technology. We, in this Church, hold that it is up to each person to discover the nature of God. |
| Interactive Electronic Courses | 07/09/2004 | These courses are free, but require that you register within our "Learning Management System." When you find a link reference to one of these courses, your click will take you to the LMS (Learning Management System.) You register your name and password and then "enroll" on any of the available courses. The LMS will keep track of your progress through any course.
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| Jesus Chic -- Shared Value? | 07/09/2004 | The Church of Compassionate Service does not include "Jesus" as part of its religious teachings. Our Members have many different views of many different parts of any religion, but we share in common that we should respect the religious beliefs of others. "Jesus Chic" is not, by any stretch of imagination, an acceptable concept within THIS Church.
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| Liberty Bell's Journey and History | 07/09/2004 | During the building of the new Liberty Bell Center, historians discovered that it sits on a site where President George Washington's slaves probably lived. The house in which Washington and John Adams, the only two presidents in office while Philadelphia was the capital, lived sat just north of the new pavilion. Washington, who was from Virginia, brought his slaves to Philadelphia. The historians determined that they most likely lived behind the house, where the country's most sacred symbol of liberty now sits.
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| Personal Affluence | 07/09/2004 | It may seem strange to you that a Church which includes a "Vow of Poverty" within its upper Levels would still emphasize the need for "personal affluence" among its Members. |
| Praise Allah! Kill In The Name Of Allah! Allah Orders Death! | 07/09/2004 | Last week I was outraged at the behavior of a handful of reservists and disgusted by the pictures that have been plastered all over every media source around the world. I am no longer outraged. Arrest those guilty, give them a fair trial, and put those found guilty in jail—end of story. No more apologies; no more hearings; no more embarrassment over what happened. |
| Psychobabble -- Invented To Eliminate Religion and Morality | 07/09/2004 | It is easy to accept that one person, Jesus Christ, ignited a flame of hope and salvation that spread across the planet and has guided billions of people over thousands of years. Man is willing and able to look at "goodness" far more easily than he looks at "badness." We admire love, not hate! |
| Pursuit Of Liberty | 07/09/2004 | In the ultimate sense, "Liberty" is the goal of all humans. But "liberty" is not adequately defined if you do not define it further, as "Liberty FROM ..." and complete the definition.
Liberty and Freedom are often used interchangeably. No matter which one you use there is a vital concept often missing then the subjects of freedom or liberty are considered. "Liberty from what?" is the question to ask. What do you want "freedom from?"
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| Recruiting | 07/09/2004 | In this Church, you can be sure that many of the Members pray every day, perhaps even most. Most Members of this Church are also members of some other church -- there are many religious faiths among our Membership. The beliefs of this Church conflict in no way with any of these. We do not "teach prayer" but we acknowledge prayer as a fine behavior for those who wish to do it. |
| Request Your Free Copy of The Moral Code | 07/09/2004 | The Church places a very high importance on the common sense moral code which we use to judge "good deeds" and the behavior of our Members.
You can get your own free copy, sent by first class mail to any address on the planet -- just fill in the information in the form below. You can leave this page, if you wish, by clicking on the Liberty Bell above.
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| Responsibilities Of "Members" | 07/09/2004 | You are cordially invited to join this Church by establishing your eligibility for "Level One" Membership. The requirements for eligibility as a Level One Member are described on this page and the pages linked from the rotating links above.
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| Rev. Al Sharpton Speaks For God | 07/09/2004 | How many millions of Blacks have hung on his every word, learning of the nature of God from the mouth of Rev. Al Sharpton; what better local example could we find that when "man" speaks FOR God, much less about God, we should rather look to our own personal observation and discovery to know the nature of God.
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| Shared Value -- Be Competent | 07/09/2004 | |
| Shared Value -- Meet Your Obligations | 07/09/2004 | |
| Shared Value --- Be Prosperous | 07/09/2004 | |
| Shared Values | 07/09/2004 | The importance of shared values to any group is enormous. A group is a "tight" and long-lasting as its Members share the same or similar realities and values. |
| Shared Values -- Family Unity? | 07/09/2004 | It is well understood that the "family" as a unit of society is under attack, and is losing ground in any cultural war you would care to contemplate. |
| Shared Values Are Required Among Our Officers If We Are To Trust Them | 07/09/2004 | But there was more. There was a national subliminal understanding that a moral code had been transgressed; paradoxically, organised military violence is built on a series of moral relationships that you undermine at your peril. Morgan had carelessly and insouciantly crossed the line. |
| Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God. | 07/09/2004 | Down through history men have become famous and feared because they spoke "in the name of God." Many of these, like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards, talked of an "angry God" who would allow you to dangle over the pits of Hell -- likely to fall at any moment into the molten fires. Cotton Mather was one of the most famous defenders of the Salem Witch Trials -- certainly a dark blot on the "meaning of God, as spoken by man!" |
| Teachings Of Man -- The Psychiatrist -- God Does Not Exist! | 07/09/2004 | This article is intended to ignite the flames of outrage rather than hope and salvation. We leave to the capable Christians the job of proclaiming Christ. Surely the harm done by two humans, described in great detail in this article, and in the many supporting pages -- that harm is not as great as the goodness created by Christ those thousands of years ago. In that we are fortunate. |
| The International Academy Of Anabiology | 07/09/2004 | |
| The LA Times "Usual" Attack On Religion | 07/09/2004 | We are serious about changing conditions on the planet -- for the better, and serious about assigning personal and individual responsibility for specific good deeds in the regular activities of the Membership.
There might seem to be an apparency here, of "no religious code of conduct." That is true, but much easier to judge is the common sense moral code we expect every Member to follow -- and exemplify.
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| The Way To Freedom | 07/09/2004 | The Church offers freeom to use powers that you have, inherently, but may have felt contrained from using. The Church teaches responsible use of powers exercised only by those who are moral. |
| The Wrong Relationship Cause Of Health Problems | 07/09/2004 | This plan starts with data that might be very new to you -- the truth of the matter is that all diseases and illnesses, and every type of health problem has some sort of "relationship" problem that comes first. This wrong relationship could be right now, in present time, or it could have been many years ago.
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| Two Views Of Gay Baptist Marriage | 07/09/2004 | When it comes to MAN teaching us about God, what could be more illustrative than the Kentucky Baptists fighting with the North Carolina Baptists -- each claiming that GOD says they are right. |
| Write To Karl | 07/09/2004 | |
