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Preacher Dan Smith turned a rap song about babes with booty into a spoof Internet hit, and used it to help create a new church for people who hate church. Dan Smith thinks Christians take themselves too seriously. Pastor Dan Smith's 'Baby Got Book' video, a big hit online, helped him start his Momentum Church. "We can be dorks," he says after Sunday service in suburban Cleveland. "We can be Ned Flanders and basically speak jargon that nobody understands." The 33-year-old pastor has made it his mission to turn the notion of earnest, boring, humorless Christianity on its head —...

(AgapePress) - Prior to 1949, Mickey Mantle was an unknown. But then Tom Greenwade, a New York Yankee scout, went to a semi-pro game in Kansas with intention of scouting another player from Mantle's team. Instead, the 16-year-old Mantle, an outfielder on the Baxter-Springs team, drew the attention of the veteran Yankee scout. The young Mantle dazzled Greenwade and the spectators that day. Incredibly, Mantle hit two very long home runs while playing with and against baseball players several years older than the aspiring switch-hitter from Commerce, Oklahoma. Greenwade was surprised when he found out Mantle's age. He knew he...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul Sunday welcomed the 10 new nations of the European Union but said the bloc could only face the challenges of the 21st century if it defended its Christian roots. The pope, whose native country, Poland, is one of the new countries in the 25-strong EU, told a packed St Peter's Square Europe's identity would be "incomprehensible" without Christianity. "Only a Europe that does not remove, but rediscovers its Christian roots will reach the stature needed for the great challenges of the third millennium: peace, dialogue between cultures and religions, the safeguarding of creation,"...

Just when you think that the pile of hoglsop from hollywood cannot possibly get worse, they mistakenly release a movie with an actual message. "Bruce Almighty" starring comedian Jim Carrey features a man who feels like everything in his life has gone wrong, and has decided to blame it on God. Well God decides to teach him a lesson in how we as humans can royally mess things up by donating His powers as well as responsibility. Overwhelmed he eventually comes to realise that things are better off with the real God in charge. Please go see this movie with...