Tag: fundamentalism
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June 03, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
My last two articles on immigration stirred up quite a maelstrom. Now here is another tidbit that is sure to add more grist to the mill. Many Muslim cab drivers, operating out of the Minneapolis-St. . . .
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December 08, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Laura Schlesinger, Ann Coulter have all insulted me and my family.
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December 28, 2007 09:26 AM EST --
The American temperance movement labored for decades to equate chardonnay with demon rum. In the Midwest they joined forces with fundamentalist Christians and finally began to influence local . . .
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May 31, 2008 09:05 PM EDT --
I recently read a riveting memoir written by the ex-wife of a Christian fundamentalist minister. Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith is Carlene Cross's disturbing . . .
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October 16, 2006 04:51 AM EDT --
A few days ago, a young Muslim teaching assistant in Britain was sacked for refusing to remove her veil in class. This decision was subsequently endorsed by Britain's race relations minister. Last . . .
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September 04, 2006 05:07 PM EDT --
I just got a disturbing email sent to two Gather "Christian" groups that basically said that if I disagreed with the "group consensus" that homosexuality is a sin, that I should leave . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:40 PM EST --
Last night I was listening to Fresh Air and Terry Gross was interviewing Jeff Sharlet who wrote The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.
You owe it to . . .
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September 26, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
Our news in Phoenix has been dominated by the guilty verdict against Warren Jeffs, the leader of the fundamentalist LDS sect that believes men should have multiple wives in order to get to heaven. . . .
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October 18, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
I found this interesting disscussion of the way our youth look at Christianity, it's Jesusness, if you will, and the trends aren't good. If you're a Christian, the obvious effects of intolerance, . . .
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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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January 11, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
She has often touted this line, in defense of Mr. Bush's ill-begotten Iraq policy, as well as his confrontational approach to dealing with Iran and Syria. She was at it again this morning, in defense . . .
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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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December 18, 2007 03:11 PM EST --
There are many excellent reasons why Iran should not have access to nuclear weapons. It is a nation run by brutal, bloody-minded . . .
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January 10, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
The lack of outrage in the Muslim world over the hijacking of their religion is striking. The silence is deafening when Shiites murder . . .
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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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August 27, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
A troubling news story out of Malaysia:
Woman to be caned [beaten with a bamboo stick] for drinking a beer in a public place .
Malaya was a British colony until 1957, when . . .
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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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October 19, 2009 03:38 AM EDT --
On my 76 th birthday, the world will end. The date that has been positively identified for this event is December 21 st , 2012.
Before I delve into the various justifications for this latest . . .
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September 13, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Bertrand Russell
I'm an agnostic. This doesn't mean I believe a god . . .
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November 26, 2009 11:08 PM EST --
I was watching Nightline last night and there was a piece on moonshine and the state of Virginia, some town that is known for stills and revenuers and all the hillbilly culture and so forth and I thought . . .
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