by Deb Della Piana
http://www.opednews.com
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Our citizens may be deceived for a while, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.” For the past eight years, George W. Bush has been breaking both national and international laws with reckless abandon and […]
Entries from April 2008
The selling of the mainstream media: A threat to American democracy
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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CAFETERIA CHRISTIANS
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
April 16, 2008 at 00:14:08
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by Cosmic
“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you put in the bank belongs to the poor.” … […]
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Religion can’t shield illicit activities
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
By The Editorial Board | Saturday, April 12, 2008, 05:20 PM
Copyright 2008 The Austin American-Statesman.
Freedom to worship as one chooses without government interference is a fundamental tenet of the U.S. Constitution. It is right there in the First Amendment. All constitutional rights, however, have boundaries.
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A Christian nation? Then start acting it
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Enough already.
by Dale Wiley
News-Leader Springfield MO
It seems that I am unable to pick up a newspaper that does not have at least one discourse about the Christian heritage of our nation.
I agree that our Constitution is the greatest document a government has ever produced. And you can’t read the history of the American Revolution and […]
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Christian Right’s Emerging Deadly Worldview: Kill Muslims to Purify the Earth
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
http://www.alternet.org/story/76686/
Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out — a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy — to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the […]
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Mirror Image?
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Perhaps Christians in America should take a look at what is happening in other countries which might compared to a mirror image of what is happening here.
In an article on religion.info (see http://religion.info/english/articles/article_357.shtml ) the author makes the following observations regarding Christians in Korea;
“…….some South Koreans are increasingly skeptical about the size and power of […]
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