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I will not go quietly into the night!
Month: August 2012
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Christianity’s culpability in many wars and atrocities is well documented. From the Crusades to witch hunts and from its utilization in the motivation of a peoples toward war, Christianity’s involvement is unquestionable. Yet, in the face of this evidence there are those today who wish to excuse Christianity, to disavow its involvement. Religion has been…
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“God is the source of all that is Good.” That’s what he said, honest. Then again, doesn’t the same God claim to be the source of everything, nothing having existed before he said… “LET THERE…..” One can derive from this proclamation that whereas all good has it’s origins in God, so does all bad. The…
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The hand-wringing continues. Frustration has melted into trembling fear. The arguments have not been going well. There is so little to work with… he left so little to work with. With such great power his might should be ever present, so easy to see, and yet… there is nothing. Could it be, that like the…
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Whether due to greed or desperation our local newspaper has started to charge for access to their website. Many newspaper websites have taken this route. Perhaps it is a necessary step, a needed path of revenue. Of course this assumes that the newspaper in question has a product worth buying. Our local newspaper is so…
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Two previous Blogs “American Fascism is Alive and Well” and “Resisting Fascism in Your Hometown” expounded on the intrusion of the fundamentalist Conservative Right into the public schools using the vehicle provided by a 2001 ruling of the Supreme Court which provided a backdoor for religious proselytizing, thereby violating the separation of Church and State.…
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Tolerance is frequently urged by many groups of well-meaning promoters of the concept of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc., in line with the guarantees of the Constitution. Tolerance, as Dictionary.com defines it, 1.A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinion, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own; freedom from…
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