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Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liberals' Establishment of Religion One of the reasons liberals are so hostile to public expressions of Christianity is because it threatens the monopoly that the religion of liberalism enjoys in the public square. The late Ted Kennedy was more than a leading senator, to liberal supporters. He was a secular saint. His appeal was essentially religious. He made it fairly explicit in his famous concession...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
`The Christian Institute’ The children of religious parents are being targeted in an anti-religion advertising campaign by the same humanist group that was behind atheist bus ads. The British Humanist Association (BHA) says its adverts, which read: “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, are part of its aim to “phase out” [...]
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
We can be sure they are saying Death to somebody! You can't blame people for making observations. Some of the aspects of Islam - have got to go! Rep. Don Manzullo, an opponent of the "IllinoisGitmo" plan, yesterday qualified remarks he made about Islam he made during an interview on WREX this week. In an interview concerning the prospect of moving terrorism suspects to Thomson Correctional...
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Maggi Dawn (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hanna Rosin writes in The Atlantic (December 2009), making a connection between different forms of Christianity and the housing crash. She notes some differences in how mainstream protestants and prosperity-pentecostals tend to view grace (as a steady reward, or as an undeserved blessing) and how these underlying philosophies affect one's ...
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JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pat Robertson has declared that Islam is not a religion but a “violent political system.” For many, such statements are nothing new from Robertson. However, it was a bit more surprising yesterday to learn that Virginia Governor Elect Bob McDonnell has refused to disavow that view. McDonnell was opposed during the recent [...]
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a strongly worded policy document (PDF) blasting the various defamation of religion resolutions that have been passed by the United Nations over the last few years. It begins: Although these resolutions purport to seek protection for religions in general, the only religion and religious adherents that are specifically mentioned are Islam...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Kozhikode: Spirituality is a way of life that ultimately leads one to know his or her real self and most religions mistake spirituality for rituals and such other outwardly services at the cost of losing their essence, said Rajayogini Brahma ...
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Quixotic Optimism (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is some sort of compromise coming in the future of religion? And if so, where?
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The conservative Republican commentator opines that one of the reasons that liberals are hostile to public expressions of Christianity is because it threatens the monopoly that the religion of liberalism enjoys in the public squares : "Analyze [late Sen. Ted] Kennedy’s Epistle to the Gentiles and you will see that the concern, the work, the cause, the hope, the dream that is the subject...
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Maskil (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My sense is that the non-Orthodox streams of Judaism have now begun to realise that Israel has become the battleground in the struggle for religious parity and pluralism in the Jewish world. Israel needs to be freed from the burden of religious discrimination both for its own sake, and because these alternative visions of Judaism will steadily lose ground in the Diaspora unless their status in Israel...
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
This isn’t surprising at all is it? An elderly Sikh who describes Islam as a “beast” and once provided a character reference for Nick Griffin during his racial hatred trial is set to become the British National Party’s first non-white member. Rajinder Singh, an anti-Islam activist in his late seventies who blames Muslims for the death of [...]
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Dave's Part (Free subscription) | yesterday
MY SOLE brush with publicly-funded office was the three terms I spent as external affairs vice president of City of London Polytechnic in 1983-84. But even experience that gives me one more democratic mandate than Baroness Ashton of Upholland has ever enjoyed. Several newspapers this morning make much of the fact that the EU’s new high representative for foreign and security policy has never...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rajinder Singh says he supports far-right party's anti-Islam stance A Sikh man who has campaigned for the BNP in support of its anti-Islam stance has been put forward to be the party's first non-white member. Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s, has twice lent support to Nick Griffin during the British National party leader's court appearances and appeared in an election broadcast for the party...
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Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | yesterday
No, but I wanted to use the phrase "Scarlet Whore of Babylon" and link to this post about Von Rumpoy's deeply held Roman Catholicism which appears to influence his political outlook strongly.
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wwdlu | 19/11/2009
Celtic symbolism was influenced by the many people they came in contact with such as Egyptians and the Vikings. When they encountered the Greeks they were known as the 'Keltoi' and in more familiar terms as the 'Gauls' in ancient Rome. This is how it came that the celts inhabited many parts of Europe from the 8th century to 1 AD.The occupation of Europe was in two vivienne westwood earrings . Firstly...
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vivian09 | 15/10/2009
Returning to power in 1980, Indira Gandhi announced a new National Health Policy. It emphasized the need for “securing a small family through voluntary efforts to move towards the goal of population stabilization”. The wishes of the people had been taken into account. India was a vibrant democracy. Qualitative help with essays editing: customized Essay Editing service for students Government could...
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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