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Nation of Islam Looks to UFOs to Save the World
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIt isn't often you hear about entire religious groups seriously interested in unidentified flying objects. But UFOs are what the Nation of Islam, led by the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan, considers among its core beliefs. The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 in Detroit by a former clothing salesman, Wallace Dodd Fard (Muhammad later added to his name), a minister whose followers believed was the personification of God on Earth. His student and successor, Elijah Poole (who later became Elijah Muhammad), referred to Fard as a spokesman of God or Allah. NOI followers believe they ...
Man Stops Car in Road, Tells Police He's From 33 A.D.
By not in system - AOL NewsPolice in Solon, Ohio, responded to calls early Monday of a car stopped in the middle of Richmond Road. Why did the driver, a 32-year-old man from Poland, Ohio, tell police he stopped in the middle of the road? Because "his heavenly father" told him to. The man said "he was busy talking to God" and that God told him to go to a dance club in the area. When asked if he knew where he was, the man told police he was in Columbus. He then said he was having a tough time adjusting because he was actually from the year 33 A.D. The man agreed to seek treatment at St. Vincent Medical Center. Keep ...
Obama's Faith-Based Presidency: 'Help the Needy, Walk With God'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPresident Obama delivered an intense reflection on his Christian faith Thursday, telling hundreds gathered at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington how religion sustains him amid the trials of the office -- and against attacks on his faith -- and providing both an explanation and a defense of how Christianity informs his view of the bitterly contested role of government in society. In elaborating on the practices and tenets of his personal faith life -- something the president is increasingly doing to combat suspicions that he is not a Christian or a genuine believer -- Obama ...
Salvation Mountain: A Towering Salute to God
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsDriving in the California desert, on a desolate road about 80 miles south of Palm Springs, a strange sight comes into view. From a mile or so away, it looks like a candy-colored explosion against the side of a mountain. Closer, the colors begin to take shape and form. It's a massive painting, with the hillside serving as a canvas. Even closer, words appear -- religious messages. Welcome to Salvation Mountain, just outside of Niland, Calif. It's the vision and creation of Leonard Knight, a simple man with a simple message: "God is love." And those are the words atop the mountain, under a ...
Jesus Sightings in 2010: Year Ends in a Piece of Candy
By Marc Hartzman - AOL NewsAs the Christmas season fades and the new year approaches, a Toledo, Ohio, man believes he found the real spirit of the holiday in a piece of hard candy. James Burrows, 63, claims to have found an image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus in a piece of hard tack while shopping for candy at a grocery store where he works part time. "I just looked at it, and it just struck me," he told Fox News in Toledo. "This time of year, for this to come up, it was kind of unusual. Really, it was a great experience." Toledo man sees Christ, Virgin Mary in Christmas candy: foxtoledo.com The Vietnam ...
Latest Jesus Sighting: Outside a Pub in Australia
By Marc Hartzman - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- The first recorded miracle of Jesus was turning water into wine. But now it seems he may be more in the mood for a beer. After all, his most recent sighting was on the facade of an Irish pub on the southeast coast of Australia. The image appeared several weeks ago in the stripped-away paint by the front door of the Seanchai Irish Tavern. A local first pointed out that the missing paint chips formed the shape of Jesus with outstretched arms. Since then, many of the pub's regulars have agreed. ...
And Now, Google Even Finds God
By Marc Hartzman - AOL News
(Oct. 21) -- As Google becomes increasingly more all-knowing and omnipresent, it seems even God can't hide from the search tool. The Lord was recently captured in a Google Street View camera overlooking a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Or so it would appear. The heavenly image was posted on gossip blog Gawker earlier this week and is the latest sighting of God in an unexpected place. Google Maps A curious image found on Google Street View. Just days ago, he was spotted in the rings of a fallen tree limb in North Carolina, and last month Jesus ascended to a group of vines surrounding a ...
Close Encounters of the Sacred Kind
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board. Pretty much sounds like your typical, modern-day UFO sightings, right? Wrong. These are vivid accounts of stories from the Old and New Testaments. "If UFOs are some type of intelligent power from another world, they may have been around for millions of years and may have been involved in the development ...
7 Politicians Who Claim God Is on Their Side
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- To hear them tell it, they're on a mission from God. This week, Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell declared that God himself had a hand in her long pursuit to attain political office. "God continued to strengthen and empower us when, you know, his strength is perfected in our weakness," O'Donnell told the Christian Broadcasting Network. "Because you see that if it weren't for faith, when all logic said it's time to quite, we pursued, we marched on, because we knew God was not releasing us to quit." Whether or not you agree with O'Donnell's views, the belief ...
Pope's Astronomer Would Baptize ET
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Sept. 24) – If extraterrestrials exist, then they may have souls, and if they'd like to be baptized, a Vatican astronomer has offered to reach out and touch them. "I'd be delighted if we found life elsewhere and delighted if we found intelligent life elsewhere," Guy Consolmagno, a planetary scientist at the Vatican observatory, told The Guardian. Speaking just before last week's British Science Festival, Consolmagno, curator of Pope Benedict XVI's meteorite collection, suggested that the odds of the human race finding and being able to communicate with aliens are probably ...
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