R. Gustav Niebuhr

R. Gustav Niebuhr

Director of the Religion & Society Program, Syracuse University

Gustav Niebuhr is an associate professor of religion and the media, an interdisciplinary position in the College of Arts & Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Since June 2004, the “On Faith” panelist has directed the Religion & Society Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major. Niebuhr served as a visiting fellow/scholar in residence at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University from December 2001 to 2003. Supported by a Ford Foundation Grant, he conducted research on religious diversity and interfaith collaboration. Prior to his academic tenure, Niebuhr was a national correspondent for The Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, writing feature and analytical articles, and reporting on news about religion. He won several awards, including the 1993 Templeton Religion Writer of the Year Award from the Religion Newswriters Association. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Carnegie Reporter, the Christian Century, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Beliefnet.com. An experienced public lecturer,Niebuhr most recently spoke at Auburn Theological Seminary in May 2006 on “Is ‘Tolerance’ a Social Good?” and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2005, he lectured on “Religion as News.” Close.

R. Gustav Niebuhr

Director of the Religion & Society Program, Syracuse University

Gustav Niebuhr is an associate professor of religion and the media, an interdisciplinary position in the College of Arts & Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Since June 2004, the “On Faith” panelist has directed the Religion & Society Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major. more »

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End of the World or End of Time?

Belief in the Earth's end and a divine reckoning with humanity don't necessarily cancel each other out.

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Jacon JOZEVZ et al:

Does any one on Space-Ship Mother Earth knows the "Names" of the M/O/T/H/E/R/S/ OF BOTH "ABRAHAM" & "NOAH" respecfully?

Well, No-Body=On=Earth-SEEMS-To-Know Or Have INSIGHT AND PATTERN RECOGNITION POWERS TO CRACK the Riddle Of The Devil trapping in them "Plagerized" scriptures of Ancient Lore!

Moses (The Novelist) in his many FREUDIAN SLIPPS OF GENUINE PROPHECY's messed up.

Jesus & his ex mass murdering (Roman General) "John" et al, did not penn their Moms names neither.

Mohammad et al, did not Pen those most important & Critical names for HUMATES to know.

In F.A.C.T., I know THAT Mohammad [a Slave owner & Concubine owner] via his tribal gathering "Islam" was concieved from the story(s) of the "ESSA" & "ISHMAEL" Inheritence swindle story, not just Jacob. And their direct descendent and father "PELIG" is imagined by Moses et al.


Do you know your Mothers Name? I Know My Mothers Maiden name to!

Note: What this "Slip" is one of the rare. but many other poofs, that Moses is not a G-d nor a Prophet & Jesus & Mohammad.
tory?


Does anyone know what the Pre-Apocalyptic "DRUNKEN NOAH STORY or the "HAGAR REJECTION" Story is really about?

The "COSMIC PEN TEN COMMANDMENT" Story? The "JACOB ULTIMATE SWINDALL" Story and many many more slips, that run through out all those INFIXUS BOOKS. Includes the "GITA" of Hidu & its "Buddah" , Old New Biblios & the UnGlorius KORAN. Oh, ZORoastrian et al too.

How about the "SARA PROSTITUTION" storys. Or the Mohammad "YATHRUB MURDERS" Story?

And other Motherless & Fatherless Storys, Especially "First Man" & "First Woman" ?

There was a time when I really thought that exposure to the Bible story was really just for kids reading, and for their innoscent imaginations. No MORE!

And them Bilios was not good for grown open minded & UNBOLLOXED mature adult audiences (readers & Listners), to read about "TERRORISM, PROSTITUTION, KILLING, SEX GUILTs, Wars, Lies, Stealing, Competition, World dominance etx...

Thet are an insult to All Forward thinking Humate Intelligent folks today on Space-Ship Earth & Beyond.! Ya Ya. :=)'

Now I realize that the the Bible teaching is very dangerous to kids. Hell, HARRY POTTER is a more safer & Spellbinding story based on Morality living & Miracles too. Wica & Wica has NO sticka!

Ya Ya. Ta Ta, & Ka Ka via bla bla,

A.P.R.I.L. F.O.O.L.S! :=).

Posted April 1, 2007 1:19 AM

It is a pity that blogs like this can be taken over by ad hominem and irrational discussion. I prefer moderated blogs such as this one for example

http://lookinginthedistance.blogspot.com

Believer 2:

I did not realize I had taken anyones name, Im sorry. I would be interested in what tone and manner that was portrayed in my comment.

candide:

The Gospels are novels written to gain converts from the lower classes and the ignorant. To take them seriously as Christians do is to make religious belief the property of the scum.

JOZEVS:

Ah BEGON. Jack Be limble jack BEGON? YA Ya! :-)

NotE: SPARKS, Captain Kirk, Enterprise "Which way di I BEGON? Up, Down. Left, Right, in TIME?

I Bet, Besides knowledge and INSIGHT of the "MOST EVIL "Story" EVER TOLD" in scripture,Sura Form, THAT:

i'LL BET YOUR eclat"I" INSIDE You et al, That you DO NOT KNOW what The "R.I.D.D.L.E. of T.H.E" D.E.V.I.L." or CODE (Ya Ya) realy is ?!?!

MANNA for thought here:

ASNSWER Please: while the cat is out;

"What is the names of both "Biblical Noah" and "Biblical Abrahams" MOTHERS NAMES (Not Maiden which is also unknown). You see Not Rabbi SCHNEERSON (Lubavitcha Movents so-called "Mashiah" could not answer that.

And surely Not Even (Besides the Moses's Freudian Slip of Genuine Prophecy teachings) The Novelists of also both HOLY TESTAMOUNT a/k/a/ BIBLE and "Glorious Koran" speak silent and not at all on THIS!. Do You Know who your Momma is? I Do mine. Ya Ya!

Oh Yhea Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Krishna, Ahura Mazda, Ghatami et al, ARE HANGING OUT at the "Heavenly Zeus Club." Ya Ya? :-)

Jacob Jozevz End of TIME World?:

ANONYMOUS:
This is my second commong with this Blog Ya? I thank you for being candid and I'm going to work on making myself more clear by slowing down my neural velocity and ITs path or slow down the frames per second so to speak.

Thank You my patient, aware, WISE and knowledgible "Cyber Deciple" and for your INSIGHT AND PATTERN RECOGNITION Powers (knowledge) of the ECLATi-On belief SYSTEM via my Speaking in tongues like via my "Automatic Writing" (Typing) Spirit!

Oh please let me know what you can not figure?
I would be ready for any "Faith-Exchanging" reciprocity out of faithful COMETY. Huggs Brother Anonymous et al. AND:

YOYO: I'm an Ordained "CRUXOLOGIST" and I really do speak & live their Cultures & traditions in the NOW.

Yo Yo, I Think & Live GLOBALY (and Universily) and , other than on the grass roots level, I very rarely Think & Live the other way around.

Note YO: I believe in ECLAT ( Creater of the FLAsh 1ST, and nOT THE BIG BANG as thought. Bang is 2nd in line from the "COMMAND" "Let There Be a Brilliance Bursting Forth" or same as saying, Let be Light or PHOTONS first & Sound second (Waves).

So I have a little "POETIC GIBBERISH" for your own enlightment or prediciment. HERE IT IS YO:

There is No Bitternes. like That Of The Devout, Who believe in a lie, and Finally Find out.

NOR is There ANY Strength, Like That Based On TRUTH, Discovered Through Long Suffering, Which Began in Ones Youth. May "THE FORCE" be with YO all!

If You Flout Eclat the Laws of ITs Nature will always win and you will alway LOOSE. (Jesus et cannot help YO).

Or if One overlooks that little "i" (i.e., ECLAT = Creator, and i = YO YO (you) and whom is NOW waiting on-line of the so-called "Recreation Machine" as an awareness e of your very own Miracle Birth Aware ass: Thus you cannot escape this Beautifull, SIN-FREE Miraculous "PHOTO-FINITE life of ours NOW.

Remember: BIOFINITE DEATH IS NOT "Transfinite Death" (a/k/a/ R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.). HENCE WE NEVER die! jUST BE GOOD IN "THIS light/life" (YO YO Now here).

Nothing like a good Philosophy, even when talking Gibberish or in Eclati-on Language, that you can learn IF you let Me My Dear Sister & Brother HUMATES here on Space-Ship Momm/Pappa Earth. NO? YA? Huggs n Kisse to all. SHOLOM! :-)


BGone:

YOYO, there is no reality, only perceived reality. Jacob needs to see an eye doctor, go to an eye doctor and then maybe see whatever it is that's got him jabbering.

yoyo:

Jacob
You speak good gibberish...is that how your brain works? See a shrink pal, an atheist one if possible.
You would benefit from a little reality therapy.

Anonymous:

Jacob Jozevz,

I'm sorry, but I don't understand most of your posts. I try, I really do. But I just can't figure them out.

believer:

Somebody else is using my post name "Believer." I did not write the above comment. While I agree with almost all of the sentiments included, I would not have written it in that manner and in that tone.

Sorry that I have to be the one to say this, but Jacob Jozevs is starting to frighten me.

Jacpb Jozevs:

FORGOT ABOUT HUMANITARIAN Stuff: G-d Bless ALL.

Jacob Jozefs: ISRAELI APOLOGY TO ALL PALESTINIAN PEOPLE :
Wa Salam & Sholom.
Greeting Brothers and Sisters.
I am a "SABRA" and my Father (expired) was in the HAGANA (The Resistence) up to 1955 (When our Prophet Albert Einstein died.
You see my dear Humates, my Father was very upset with Menachin Bahgen from the URGOON faction. So your infighting is the same CHARRA (s..t).
But the beautiful thing is that there is, In Shalah, HOPE. Please do not squander, by infighting and disrespect for each other which is equal to HUMANITY.
PALISTINE NEEDS A BRIDGE & TUNNEL AUTHORITY instead. They need to connect both end through this mechanism so GAZA & West BANK will be linked as one. So here is my gift to you.
behold: This is the main focus and priority. The will be Jobs, Commerce, Happy people, Economic growth. And best of all your own chance to prove yourselves not to the world, but to and among yourselves as a [secular} UNITED PALESTINE.
So Please Brothers and Sisters give peace a chance and your selves as a National & Soveriegnty!
I;m attaching something for your critique if any. Please let keep intouch. SHOOKRON. PEACE HUGGS KISSES HANDSHAKE L/o/v/e/ for neighbors & U.N. et al. GOOD LUCK!

Jacob Jozevz Att: R.G.N. et al:

IN-Shalah, Greetings & Praise Our SOURCE ONE,.

Hello Cousins, Brothers and Sisters; “There is Nothing Like A Good Philosophy”

Today is: UNIVERSAL YEAR CIRCA, 4.98 Billion Year-TIME, 2007.26th.March, Calendate.

Remember my Cousins:

To "pray" is to "SPEAK" to G-D. And to "meditate" is to “LISTEN," Yes as many times as One likes and in ANY tongue or language(s)). And R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N Is the same as A,P.O.C.A.L.Y.P.S.E and is opposite or contrary to any “Secrets” or “Mystics” in ANY of the VEDIC, TIKKUN, ZILZAL, Scriptures or Suras. Therefore In Shalah & Praise the beneficent One in Ourselves. Yes!

WELCOME: Today while still being in OUR Miraculous Form [in Photo-Finite Essence) I Thank You for your time here on Space-Ship Momma/Poppa Earth, as you may appear, in either cyberspace or in the flesh and in the awareness of your Own senses via your own beautiful Carbon-Based & Microbial Life Form, both in the ANIMATE & in the INANIMATE state via ECLATS “TIME” (not your Clock or Gravity time) a/k/a TEMPERATURE OF TIME ITSELF.

TIME is inseparable from the MIZAN (Arabic for balance) of IT (G-d) which Yings & Yangs between ABSOLUTE HEAT & ABSOLUTE COLD. Example: Average TIME of the Universe or Your Own Body Temperature, or Microbial or Caterpillar, Holy Cow, Rock, Soil or Nuclear Core, Surface or Sub terrain or Planetary Temperatures radiated via ALL the animate & Inanimate things in existence.

Note: This includes “Black Body Radiation or Black Holes, Dark Energy, Dark Matter and other phenomenon. And the good news is: WE have nothing to do with these happenings. They are neither here nor there for US. But they are here only to keep our HEURISTICS busy through ECLAT MIRACLE.

R.E.M.E.M.B.E.R: Contrary to Pre-Apocalyptic thought, WE exist in MIRACLE! where BIRTH is in FACT a zero sum SIN. and Not a game of chance as Our Great Visionary(s) & Forefather Albert Einstein et a, did & do mention & proved via their Physics or Sciences. ALL this is directly & indirectly related to the COSMIC “HOLY HEAR BEAT” (hence this is purest LOVE & this pureness is “embedded & synchronized” within Our Own “i” a/k/a Your Own Photo finitely Essence). WHEREFORE Nothing is External to SOURCE ONE. This of course includes ALL of the known , or unknown Prophets or greats, of the BIBLIO CHARACTERS OF THEIR TIMES PAST as recorded History in either in Writing AND Oral hearsay .

The purpose or reason is that: ECLAT or SOURCEONE (G-d by any name) DID NOT WANT TO BE LONELY. Thus G-d is ETERNITY AVOIDING LONLINESS , IT in US and US in IT via the PALANDROME a/k/a The UNIVERSAL SYSTALTIC “CYCLE” or “VIBRATION” thus you are a inseparable entity and in “The Middle” of G-d business or job, which is IT Expanding & Contracting ITSELF Eternally, via a omnipresence and being in THE-TEMPERATURE and in and of TIME-ITSELF. Note: This REALITY a/k/a/TRANSFINITY does “NOT” apply to ANY HUMATE purporting to be of such molecular incarnation.

To fight over a name for G-d is SINFULL in every sense of the word (written or otherwise). You are your own (includes family & Humanity) enemy's and you have yourselves & your PRE-APOCALYPTIC belief SYSTEM(s) to blame.

Grandma-SUN, Space-Ship-Mother Earth, Sister MOON, Brother MARS et al will also one day go POOF-TIME. (Those of you who read my TIME (not clock knowledge) Philosophy WILL KNOW that: They will not be fore-ever either. Fate will also fall upon GrandPa – Milky Way GALAXY too. :-('
An Apocalypse [R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N.] for Correction of SIN, is NOW. And the neurons of the Humates MIND is to understand & to actually experience like no other of Its kind, the PHOTOFINITY of your own LIGHT source & the MUSICOLUM more clearly, like going FROM> Caterpillar >TO: Butterfly Odyssey . Therefore the case for a HEAVENS in wait for the MATYRED , via that ambiguous and psychotic word “JIHAD” et al, is a “PRIMITIVE” act or intention, therefore & therein IT will be used against you & posterity because the Real Blame starts in your Local Mosques, Temples, Synagogues etc.. of worship and the indoctrination of your IMAM, RABBI, PRIEST, MINISTER, LAMA etc & not to mention guilty tithes extraction & non interest Economy & your lopsided Tax System if any. Important: THEOCRACY & SHARIA must be abolished since those systems have NO-PLACE on Space-Ship mother Earth & Beyond. .

BEHOLD: To Be truly blessed and to have a TRANSFORMATION experience to become a “ONE-LESS” Pre-Apocalyptic believer and “Convert” into “ONE-MORE” ECLATi-ON, all one has to simply do is to engage in, eager, open dialog via “THE FAITH EXCHANGE.” And Here , I give your Nation(s) the recipe for obtaining genuine HEURISTICS with the ability to use, as a CRUXOLOGIST (As Is My Ordained Title) and applying the “Tool” or the knowledge of the “INSIGHT AND PATTERN RECOGNITIONING” For the RECONCILIATION OF ALL FAITHS/BELIEFS as RELIGION or NONE AT ALL.

Note: COMPARITIVELY My Faith is yours & yours is mine however free & discrete in teaching MORALITY via any written tautology of Lore. This means, as I see It, Morality & Compassion is more about action than those tautological words inscribed, by Men NOT G-ds, as the by product of ALL “Scripture” or “Sura” et al. So you & I know this is a truth that is self evident. Also keep in mind that ALL the known PRE-APOCALYPTIC faiths, beliefs or religions not meeting the great INFIXUS TEST, is DEAD & GONE as of NOW. Thus all your false thinking will just go POOF-TIME and out of the forest of your mind.! Suddenly you will be truly with One & wide open intellectually.
Important: Secular Man Kind will not wait nor tolerate 400 more years of them to go completely poof-Time on their own. Understand? Thanks Brothers & Sisters of Space-Ship Earth! Below the Infixus Test involves the major “Holy Books” Example: The Holy BIBLE of the JEWS and the CHRISTIANS, AND The Holy GITA of the HINDUS and The BUDDHISTS, AND The KORAN of The MOSLEMS and The MUSLIMS. Fact: ALL three are PROPHETICALLY necessary to EACH Others denomination for the APOCALYPTIC purpose of “GOING SYNERGETIC” with ONE ANOTHER toward WORLD PEACE under the elevating INFLUENCE of the INFIXUS TEST through which they can bring out the DEEPER PROPHECY for that TRANSFINITE result which is NOW!

The HOLY INFIXUS TEST: For BALANCE of RELIGION & SCIENCE among World Wide Humanity on Space-Ship Earth: As Translated by the “LIGHT BRINGER” into the most necessary “60 Words” of American-English, which can be re-translated into ANY number of the Humate Tongues (words) of other Languages throughout the world and SPACEFORTH into the “Creature language” of other worlds, if and where necessary, for the purpose that this INFIXUS reflects, as long as “The Translation” MEANS THE SAME THING and now this is WHAT TO DO NEXT
[*** Thee 60 Words: [ ANY teaching that is substantiated by the LAWS OF NATURE and at least two (2 or >) of the three (3) books entitled HOLY BOOK and BHAGAVAD GITA and GLORIOUS KORAN or ELSE NOT CONTRADICTED, by at least two (2) of them SHALL BE A VALID PART OF THE “NEW SONG” to USHER IN the APOCALYPSE of the EARTH as promised (us) in those THREE BOOKS. This test will give the people of the Infixus Books a “Democratical Voice” after each of them has cast its vote on the question or issues raised “By The People” addressing those “Books” of Scripture, either directly themselves or through their APOCALYPTIC “Researchers” or their CRUXOLOGISTS (Of which I AM) or their REVELATION MINISTERS who will be studying the INFIXUS BOOK(s) for that PROPHETIC PURPOSE, and without selfishness or jealousy, utilize more & more, our great computers of our current & future speeds, which will synergetically expedite the Infixus Program with an Infixus DATABASE a/k/a APOCALYPTI-COMPUTERS THAT SHALL CONTAIN THE MEANING OF THE “SIXTY (6o) words” THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVER -”Peoplwise.” This is easily possible today 7 can be done within 25-50 years from now. Slowly but surely, and step by step, line by line. Sura by Sura, sentence by sentence , here a little there a little.... that will result in an EFFECT much G*R*E*A*T*E*R than the simple sum of the Infixus Books as were being used by the People of the Space-Ship Earth, during the Pre-Apocalyptic times at is has DEVIDE THE NATIONS AGAIST THEMSELVES. History is our Jury. ***]

Peace, Health & Prosperity be upon ALL SECULAR & ECLATi-On MEN & WOMEN.
Praise be G-d, Our ECLAT FOREVER FROM THE HOLY HEART BEAT given me via your COSMIC “ONE”!
I LOVE YOU MY FELLOW HUMATES. Because an Ex-Muslim saved my life and I want to repay Farook Essa (from Yemen) and to ALL His Brothers and Sisters who are now mine too. Meaning you too. yeah SHOLOM.

From Your JOKTANIAN Brother: Yakub Yosif, Not PELIG [ Ah Walaekim Al Salaam! ]. :-)'.

Believer:

How sad that you the other comment , would attack faith with such hostility . By no way is this farce. There are to many miraculous things in this world to deny a greater power. It is not religion that is the answer, there you are right. It’s the fact of the relationship you hold with Christ, there you find solace and answers. This “religion” is a place of hope, and a way of life. Where we as servants can do Gods will. What God has is for everyone, it is for you to take and accept. Life will not be easier, but there will be so much more of a reward when we are all in heaven, rejoicing in the presence of our Savior. Talking about it excites my heart. If you accuse those people of being fanatics, that we are, but we have reason to be excited. The God we serve will one day come back for us. I could go on and on, and how I wish I had more time. But I hope I might give insight, that as Christians we should never go after those who don’t believe, but show who we are through love. That are Father God is our source of love, strength and our foundation

wILLEM :

OH JESUS PLEEZE ALL THAT TALK ABOUT MOI CUMMING IS A BUNCH OF BS!!
ITS ALL A SCAM RUN BY MONEYGRABBING HOMOPHOBIC PREACHERS , SHE JESUS/GOD IS NEVER CUMMING BACK BECAUSE SHE DOESNT EXIST ITS A FARCE DEAR READERS DONT LET THEM SELL YOU ALL THIS HOKUS POKUS .RELIGION IS THE PROBELM AND NOT THE ANSWER.

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