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  • Bias vs. Principles, Which Wins?

    All those I heard speak with great emotion about Rev. Wright´s words, do it with great emotion and some tried to reach his level of eloquence and emotion, and fail -in both. But, what about the intellectual content of the words on both sides? One side could remind us of the price we must willing to pay and the excesses we must endure to be able ...
    Posted to Culturebox by MikeSar on April 11, 2008

  • Re: In 2008, people still kill their children for religion.

    We are more barbaric than we admit to ourselves. Our customs, our ways of life; we are not an advanced people. We still bury people. Let me say that again, we plant our dead, in reserved spots, and mark those spots with stones, which we engrave... That’s pretty darn archaic. That we should set aside land which could be used to improve ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Den on March 26, 2008

  • Re: "Jesus gave the US democracy," etc.

    For an interesting article on this religious idiocy, see: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/jesus-judas-and-dead-sea-scrolls-peddling-religious-sensationalism-america
    Posted to Politics by View from Here on December 13, 2007

  • Peddling religious sensationalism

    There's an interesting article on this topic, situating Romney in the context of a variety of fraudulent claims currently being made about a number of religious and scientific issues, here: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/jesus-judas-and-dead-sea-scrolls-peddling-religious-sensationalism-america
    Posted to The Big Idea by View from Here on December 13, 2007

  • Re: Culture ministers Nazi-like? How about unconstitutional?

    Culture and Religion are not synonyms. Some cultures may share a religion, but not necessarily. Look at France, they have a culture minister and are for the most part an anti-religious nation. Yet they have a well defined culture. We used to have a department that basically was a culture department. Frustrated here because for the life of me I ...
    Posted to Explainer by NNSmallwood on June 30, 2007