> What's the story on the National Cathedral? Is it a
> state funded/sponsored church? Blatant slap in the
> face to the idea of a wall between church and state?
> Many other institutions like this?
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> Thanks!
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http://www.google.com/search?q=National+Cathedral First hit.
Washington National Cathedral Washington National Cathedral. House of Prayer for all People. ... The Cathedral receives no government or national church funding. ... http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/index.shtml
BTW, at the Presidio in San Francisco, now retired Major Michael Aquino, Satanist, alleged paedophile, member of the Church of Satan of Anton LaVey and later The Temple of Set, got the Army to recognize the Church of Satan as a legitimate religion. http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_aquino.htm Articles and Essays: The Presidio Sex scandals Aquino defends himself and others against charges of child sexual abuse. http://altreligion.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.konformist.com/2001/aquino.htm (Konformist is a conspiracy theorist.) The Temple of Set Brief history and profile on Disinfo.com http://altreligion.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id163/pg1/ Temple of Set Accusations of Satanic infiltration of the military. Hysterical and unintentionally funny. http://altreligion.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.exposingsatanism.org/temple%5Fof%5Fset.htm
Aquino co-written paper on PsyWar, http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/MindWar.pdf http://www.xeper.org/maquino/ MindWar. “From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory”. Co-authored with Colonel Paul Vallely, this [in]famous “thinking paper” examines U.S. Psychological Operations (PSYOP) doctrine as of 1980 and proposes evolutionary and effective changes. Contains a 2003 Introduction discussing the paper in its original - and appropriate - context.
Psychological Operations: The Ethical Dimension. Research paper while a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, 1987. An in-depth examination of the ethics, from the personal to the national, which are of essential and crucial importance to any responsible, honorable, and respectable use of PSYOP.
Religious/Initiatory The Church of Satan. Fifth Edition, 2002. A documentary history of the 1966-1975 Church of Satan. [Note: This is a very large file: 9.4mb.]
The Temple of Set. Companion to The Church of Satan, this is more of a personal memoir of the Temple 1975-1996 than a history, as the development of the Temple was far more multifaceted, and multiindividual, than that of the Church. This book is currently in writing, and sections of it will be progressively uploaded here as drafted. Eventually the completed book will be here.
-- Michael Pugliese