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  • He's covered just fine

    Mr. Adkisson targeted a religion. Unitarian-Universalism is a religion, whether or not anyone cares to agree. Because we are non-creedal, non-Trinitarian (hence the name) and highly inclusive of most (but not all) belief systems, there are some who will try to assert that we are a ''cult,'' a ''poser'' religion, a ''fake'' religion, or something ...
    Posted to Explainer by Stickagum on July 31, 2008
  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008
  • Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking

    It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008
  • To Criminalize Sex outside of Marriage?

    In order to strip this topic down to its raw intellectual core void of cultural xenophobia, bigotry, ignorance, and general stubborness, and to avoid the prejudice and injustice of the Saudi regime, I wanted to raise this singular topic: what of the criminalization of sex outside of marriage. I understand the Judeo-Christian world dealt with ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on December 20, 2007
  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007