Tag: fundamentalism
member name: Bert B.
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March 11, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
I just finished reading a book called "Under The Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. The subtitle is "A Story of Violent Faith." It's about the Mormon religion…from . . .
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December 05, 2007 01:41 AM EST --
This is the fourth in a series of conversations with my imaginary friend Al.
Here are the links for the first three:
A Question of Faith
Religion and Morality . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama.
Now, these . . .
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October 13, 2009 11:06 PM EDT --
My experiences here on Gather have included a number of interchanges with devout Christians. Most of these have been pleasant enough, but I am a nonbeliever, so many of them were somewhat . . .
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June 28, 2008 11:09 PM EDT --
Some people do not like what their kids will experience in public schools, so they "educate" them at home. Is this good or bad?
First, I must admit that I have some bias here. . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
I am happy that Obama won. I think it shows that Americans showed that they could see past the race issue. The result is not so much a rejection of McCain...although his campaign disillusioned . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
Devout religious believers often deplore the “moral relativism” of liberal/progressive thought, claiming that absolute moral standards, as defined by their sacred scriptures, are necessary . . .
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May 13, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
Kara Neumann of Weston Wisconsin died on Easter Sunday.
She died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a result of undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes. This is a treatable disease, and Kara should . . .
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September 27, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
This is the fifth in a series of fictional discussions with my imaginary friend Al.
To understand the background for this piece, I recommend that you read one or more of the previous . . .
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October 02, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
This is a continuation of an earlier piece. There was clearly a lot more to say on this subject, so…here’s Part 2…and it may not be the last.
Here is a link to the first part: . . .
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October 19, 2009 11:00 PM EDT --
People who are opposed to abortion view the fetus as a human being. They believe that human life is sacred, and that destroying it, even in its earliest forms, is a mortal sin. Many “pro-lifers” . . .
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June 13, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
This article appeared on the AlterNet web site today. I think it is an important issue. Here, we have a vaccine that is "100 percent effective at protecting against the most prevalent . . .
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August 24, 2008 04:07 PM EDT --
If you are a practicing atheist, then you are practicing a religion.
Don’t try to deny it. I’ll prove it to you.
When you get up every morning and go to bed every night, don’t . . .
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October 29, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
In an article on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) web site, writer Kimberley Daniels warns her readers to steer clear of Halloween candy.
She says that “…most of the candy . . .
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July 06, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
A number of people are predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012. That date is fairly significant to me. It happens to be my 76 th birthday. I suppose I should feel . . .
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April 25, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Kathleen Sebelius has a job I wouldn't take for any amount of money. She is the governor of the state of Kansas. She is also Obama's pick to head the department of Health and Human Services. . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
I read an article in the LA times the other day about the pastor of a church in Buena Park, CA. His name is Wiley S. Drake, and I guess I should have suspected something phony about anyone who has . . .
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June 24, 2008 03:47 PM EDT --
James Dobson, head of the fundamentalist Christian Religious Right group, Focus on the Family, issued another of his patented blasts of self-righteous flatulence today. He attacked Barack Obama, . . .
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August 08, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
A long, long time ago, there were humans on the earth. Records show that the first ones probably lived in what we now call Africa more than fifty thousand years ago, and from there, they gradually . . .
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August 16, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Everybody suffers from it…except me, of course. Well, I sometimes get up on my high horse about gas-guzzling SUV’s, but that’s different. I’m right, and I am just trying to help out all . . .
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