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  • FINDING EVIL IN HARRY POTTER BOOKS
    16 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNUTTERABLE EVIL AND HARRY POTTER
    By Peter Fredson
    July 16, 2005
    Another Harry Potter book went on sale yesterday, with bookstores opening at 12 o’clock midnight. People stood in long lines to purchase the long awaited book. When children actually got a copy in their hands they squealed with pleasure and skipped off happily to their homes to read the book.
    Although millions of people are fans of Harry Potter, yet there are many others that are very unhappy with the books. They find (…)

  • Are the Good Times Really Over For Good?
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sheila Samples www.dissidentvoice.org July 11, 2005
    “Are we rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell? With no kind of chance for the flag or the liberty bell... Is the best of the free life behind us now... Are the good times really over for good?”
    — Merle Haggard
    “For thou are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee. The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers. Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the Lord abhors (…)

  • The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing Robert Fisk July 8, 2005 [last updated 14:32] From The Independent “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, “we will bomb yours.” There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush’s “war on terror” and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in advance, as Attack Day.
    And it’s no (…)

  • 60 Years Ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer was Murdered
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been washed with many waters. We have learned the arts of dissimulation and ambiguous speech. Through experience we have become distrustful toward people and often owe them truth and the free word. We are worn-out or perhaps even cynical through the unbearable conflicts. Are we still needed? We will need plain, simple, direct people, not geniuses, cynics, misanthropes or clever tacticians. Will our inner power of resistance against what (…)

  • HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS EVIL
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS EVIL
    By Peter Fredson
    July 10, 2005
    The Bert and Ernie relationship seems evil according to Internet research. Tinky Wink is evil according to Jerry Falwell. Now even Sponge Square Pants Bob is evil according to True Believer Christians.
    When an entertainer at a football game showed about 2 square inches of nipple, over 180,000 True Believer Christians pronounced it as immeasurably evil. A quick peek at mammary tissue deserved a $200,000 fine by government (…)

  • Muslim leaders join condemnation of London Blasts
    7 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Muslim leaders join condemnation Muslim women in headscarves are warned to be vigilant Muslim leaders have condemned the attacks on London and said they fear their communities could now fall prey to vigilante attacks.
    Muslim Association of Britain president Ahmed Sheikh said the attacks would make the Muslim community less safe.
    He said women in headscarves might be in particular danger and warned all Muslims to be especially vigilant.
    Muslim News editor Ahmed Versi noted one of (…)

  • In spite of Christian opposition, secularism prospers in America
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The obvious question is why people of such extraordinary intellect value the secular view over religion."
    The American Religious Identification Survey 2001 conducted under the auspices of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) a follow-up study of a similar 1990 census. The poll utilized a sample of over 50,000 randomly selected respondents. It is described as “the most comprehensive portrait of religious identification in the U.S. today.” Very briefly, it revealed, (…)

  • The New Fighters of Faith and Reason
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    It often seems like the religious left won’t realize it has a dog in the fight against fanaticism until the right’s pit bulls are lunging at its timid throat. For too long, Christian moderates have been invisible, submissively surrendering and allowing the most destructive elements in America to claim the mantle of God. Fortunately, it appears that people of faith and reason are finally awakening from their long scriptural slumber.
    In last week’s New York Times, former (…)

  • VAST OR HALF-VAST?
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IS IT VAST OR HALF-VAST?
    By Peter Fredson
    June 17, 2005
    What shall I call it? Is it Vast? Is it Right Wing? Is it a Conspiracy?
    In a previous blog, my assertion that there was a Vast Right Wing conspiracy was indignantly denied by several True Believers. No Conspiracy, they said.
    After sorting out thousands of pages of material dating from the Reagan administration to the present time I have found more than enough information to determine several facts.
    First: Is it vast? Well, (…)

  • Peace is a field of Human and Earth Energy that is in Alignment
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nice work. I like the use of imagery and so forth. I am of European decent, but I am not a practicing Christian or any other Money centric religious system. These systems are based on the instituationalization of a heirarchy called a priestly class and they are supported by money that is made and accepted from anyone that wishes to donate even those that commite crimes and so forth. In fact these are only shells of actual human oriented spiritual organizations as they do take sides in human (…)