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Category: Religion and Reason
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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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In a previous post entitled “Resisting Fascism in your home town” It was illustrated how the CEF, the Child Evangelism Fellowship has infiltrated the schools as a result of an intentional ruling by the Supreme Court in 2001, allowing access under the cloak of the First Amendment. Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas presented a judgment…
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Adolph Hitler founded a youth group movement in 1923 which he called the Hitler youth. He realized that to gain control of the people he would have to start with it’s youth. He ingrained within the youth members the idea that Nazi beliefs were the only true ideas and that embracing these ideas would make…
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“Keep ‘em Ignorant.” This has become the technique which the conservative right within the Republican party has chosen to instill their ideas and beliefs within the minds of the gullible. One of the obstacles standing in their way of controlling the minds of it’s targeted audience is the schools. As a result the conservative right…
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The central defining point of Christianity is that everyone from birth is born in sin. This is credited to the original sin of Eve eating of the tree of knowledge of right and wrong, and then getting Adam to do the same. The tiny innocent baby is considered sinful from birth. This child, knowing nothing,…
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Tolerance: sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one’s own. This is the Merriam-Webster definition. Indulgence: allowance. To be tolerant of another’s beliefs is to acknowledge that they have a right to hold those beliefs. It does not mean that you must respect those beliefs, nor is it a sign…
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In the pursuit of equality in civil rights struggles it does not further the cause to adopt concepts and language which the public at large finds offensive. I am not talking of criticism of many of the publics faults, belief systems, but of common manners. Feminism seems to think that to have equality with men…
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Last year another milestone was reached by human beings: Population reached 7 billion mark. In a world already struggling, and failing, to meet the nutritional needs of it’s inhabitants this was not one of our shining moments. In impoverished and uneducated parts of the world the population continues to expand. Human population growth is proceeding…
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