An Anglican bishop's call for a new theology of human sexuality would require a shift rivalling the Reformation in size to move Christianity away from the shadow of patriarchy and the too-narrow view of the human person, several theologians said yesterday.
Bishop Michael Ingham of B.C.'s New Westminster diocese told a church conference in Ottawa this week that the church's opposition to birth control, abortion, masturbation and homosexuality is morally groundless because its traditional teaching that sex is reserved for procreation is wrong.
"If we believe that we are created in the image of God, that we carry in our very selves the icon of God's own self in our earthly existence, then we must be able to say that our sexuality is not an accident, not a mistake and not simply a tool for the making of babies -- presumably God, in his infinite wisdom, could have devised a much less potent and complicated way of regenerating the species if the purpose of sex was simply that," he said.
Charles McVety, president of Toronto's evangelical Canada Christian College, talked about a huge and growing chasm between Christians who see the Bible as allegorical and those who see it as the teaching of God. He called the bishop's remarks whimsical, a passing fancy and a distortion of the Bible. CONTINUED ...
This is a LONG post, courtesy an internet mail list for gay fans of musclemen/bodybuilders. You will find lots of Rapidshare links for downloading. Most of the vids are G rated (posing, etc.), but a few are R rated or a bit more "pornographic."
You will also find information at the end of the post regarding suitable video players for various operating systems, and some other technical data. **This is the original unedited post**
MPlayer and VLC both run on all platforms and between the two of them you can play almost any format. Both players are free.
* Mac OS X: Add-ons are available to extend Quicktime's capabilities.
Flip2Mac provides Windows Media video and audio playback.
Perian enables Flash Video playback.
The Quicktime Components at Apple may be of interest.
Joining File Segments
Files over 100 MB in size are split into 100 MB segments ending with .001 .002 .003 etc.
File segments must be joined together to create a complete tar archive, zipfile or video clip.
* Mac OS X: use something like MacHacha.
After the MacHacha install, select "Quit after process files" in MacHacha > Preferences.
* Windows: use something like HJSplit.
* Linux: Unix, Mac: in a command shell: cat {basename}.* > {basename}
Please read all instructions and help provided for the software you decide to use for joining.
Note that modern archives are in tar format which is safer than zip format.
Zipfiles can transmit computer viruses. WinZip handles tar files just fine.