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  • Looking Back and Looking Forward - Columbine as Exception or

    LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD: COLUMBINE AS EXCEPTION OR EARLY WARNING? Unfortunate incidents of violence can be guarded against by revising police and school stratagems, by soliciting more peer Informants, and by planning ahead of time. Unfortunately, there are several reasons why I think this Reaction Result leaves America almost as ...
    Posted to History Lesson by MichaelBernard4 on April 19, 2009

  • Can Israel Survive 4 Another 60 years?

    You forget nother ''categories'' of Jewish people who don't care...or wish they didn't have to..... Israel is, after all, a FOREIGN COUNTRY, if one does not live there. I know, I know....everyone in the USA has an ''old country''....so why not be proud of Israel being your ''old country'' if you are Jewish? One good reason is, there is no other ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Little Neck on May 13, 2008

  • Jesus was a rebel

    The article states (correctly) that one of the problems with creating rip-offs of Nirvana and Jay-Z for the Christian music scene is that you are trying to ''shoehorn a message that is essentially about obeying authority'' into an essentially rebellious medium. The fact that this is correct shows how far ''Christians'' have strayed from the ...
    Posted to Books by natwah on May 7, 2008

  • Some CCM will surprise you

    Not all Christian contemporary music is such a pale imitation of secular music and it's too bad the author of this article doesn't realize that. It is true that, like everything else, 90 percent of it is disposable trifle. But in that remaining 10 percent -- the 10 percent occupied by Randy Stonehill, Rich Mullins, Steve Taylor, DC Talk, Plumb, ...
    Posted to Books by Your Pal Steve on May 6, 2008

  • Incorrect Assertions in the Intro

    “Whether or not they were the butt of all of Stewart's jokes seemed irrelevant to them. The point was that the high priest of political comedy spent a lot of time thinking about them.” Being a Christian, I was hurt by that generalization. I watch what I watch because I find it entertaining not because I have a strong desire to hear someone ...
    Posted to Books by gdestroyer8 on May 6, 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