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  • The Challenge and the Fear of Becoming Enlightened
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pierre Tristam
    Since Sept. 11, we’ve been living under a "clash of civilizations" doctrine that can be summed up this way: Over there, dogma, orthodoxy, Islam; over here, democracy, pluralism, Constitution. Over there, dark continents, dark ages, terrorism; over here, enlightened West, enlightenment, freedom.
    The doctrine has been used to justify two wars (so far) and a wholesale shift in the way the United States deploys its aims abroad and projects them at home. The doctrine draws (…)

  • What’s Wrong With Intelligent Design as Science?
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An intensifying battle over intelligent design (ID) to be taught in science classes has been emerging across the United States, alarming scientists and educators who consider ID as a political ploy to repackage religion under the guise of “alternative science” to undermine the scientific theory of evolution. Policymakers in 24 states are weighing proposals to introduce ID in their public school curricula. Whether ID is a religious belief or a scientific theory is at the heart of the (…)

  • The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicholas Wapshott in New York
    An exhibition celebrating the life of Charles Darwin has failed to find a corporate sponsor because American companies are anxious not to take sides in the heated debate between scientists and fundamentalist Christians over the theory of evolution.
    The entire $3 million (£1.7 million) cost of Darwin, which opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York yesterday, is instead being borne by wealthy individuals and private charitable donations. (…)

  • Social Indoctrination of GOD-Myths is the Foundation of Mind Control Slavery and WAR
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Understand that NO PERSON is YOU and can REPRESENT your NEEDS. To represent yourself you need EDUCATION for SELF AWARENESS. This comes from being ABLE to READ, which is the MAGIC bullet to FREE YOURSELF FROM mind control slavery. That means YOU SHOULD be very SUSPECT about ALL INFORMATION that is GIVEN you for FREE (like TV, radio, Internet) and that which you must pay for or struggle to obtain, for that information is most likely being HIDDEN from you FOR GOOD REASON. And that is that (…)

  • Blaming Islam Is Dishonest
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blaming Islam Is Dishonest Michael Coren November 19, 2005 Last week I wrote that the riots in France were more about the culture of 50 Cent than bin Laden and that to blame the violence solely on Islam was a gross misreading of the situation.
    The neo-con web world had a fit, reminding me that when it comes to abuse and stupidity the right and the left are similarly gifted. In fact, neo-conservatives increasingly resemble the left in their simplistic and formulaic analyses and responses (…)

  • Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion. [includes rush transcript] The Washington Post has called Octavia Butler “one of the finest voices in fiction period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of (…)

  • BOBCATS IN A BRAVE, NEW WORLD
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    "Preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader — a dictator — willing to use those dreaded ’extraordinary measures,’ which few know how, or are willing to employ." — Michael Ledeen
    Goodness gracious! Henny Penny! Since defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney teamed up to lead the charge to create a New World Order, the whole universe has become untidy. Very untidy. My friend Bernie says Dick and Rummy’s big plan to take over the (…)

  • Intelligent Design Falls Hard. Dover, PA, reams school board over Creationist teaching
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Zeliger
    Tuesday’s school board election in Dover, Pennsylvania, a quiet rural community near the Maryland border where churches seem to outnumber streetlights, was a fitting climax to a year of bitter division there. In a contest with national implications, Dover voters tossed an entire slate of Intelligent Design supporters, replacing them with backers of evolution.
    The eight incumbents, calling themselves “Dover First,” were defendants in a lawsuit over a board decision last (…)

  • It’s Time To Start Taking The Theocrats Seriously
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone needs to realize that "history does repeat itself", or does it have to? Therefore, by studying history, we can hopefully avoid the many disasters that have already happened. Or can we? IT’S TIME TO START TAKING THE THEOCRATS SERIOUSLY by Randolph T. Holhut
    DUMMERSTON, Vt. - The nexus of evangelical Christianity and Republican politics is a force that is transforming the United States, and not for the better. As someone who firmly believes that church and state should be (…)

  • The Priest Made Me Gay
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    A New York socialite who claims a priest turned him into a sodomite is suing the Catholic Church for $5 million. J. David Enright IV, 51, says Rev. Joseph Romano molested him as a 7-year-old boy at summer camp, and as a result he was unable to live as a suburban heterosexual.
    "Romano bent my life," Enright told the New York Post. "I believe my life would be very different now. I’d probably be married, living in Greenwich, with four children in boarding school. I had a (…)