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POPSConfessions of a Lapsed Atheist "And enlightened as they are, they've come up with quite the pretense for justifying the righteousness of their bigotry: they are defending the vision of our Founding Fathers from a dominionist conspiracy to establish Christianity as the state religion." "You see, for liberal Atheists, the only thing worse than religion is the Religious Right, a term they use to encompass all Christian conservatives. And what better way to siphon fuel from the Religious Right than to convince Americans that the government is perpetually on the verge of becoming a theocracy? " "But above all, Atheists stoke fear among religious and nonreligious alike that conservatives view government as a tool to force religion down your throat."
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POPSMore & more Jewish Israelis support expelling Arab citizens of Israel This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple. It is driving people from their homes and ancestral lands, stripping them of their citizenship, all based on their religion & ethnicity. This is what American tax $$$ pays for. Supporting a racist, ethno-state. So much for the myth of Israeli democracy. Remember, they're talking about the roughly 1 million citizens of the state of Israel who happen to be Arab. This includes Christians as well as Muslims. They're talking about stripping them of their citizenship and expelling them. All paid for by American tax dollars.
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POPSThat Wacky Millennium Part V (1450 - 1492) The Inquisition! Here we Go! The Inquisition, What a Show! New Factoid: Isabella appointed Torquemada head of the Spanish Inquisition! That was one busy lady! Supporting Columbus, Marrying Ferdinand, appointing an Inquisitor General, yet she still has time to oust the Muslims from Spain and wait until Part VI!
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POPSOrthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments. What next? Wonder how this went down with the Christian Zionist fundamentalists? Are they in rapture over the burning of the new testaments? So your welcome to boast the Zionist economy but don't bring your bible. So now we have the torture, the concentration camps, the assassinations, the ethnic cleansing, the Gaza prison, the slow starvation, the economic strangulation, the racism, the Arab holocaust to match the Nakba of 60 years ago, and on and on. And all with America's blessing. What next? Burning the Christians?
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POPSHamas Condemns the Holocaust The Holocaust was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality.
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POPSThe Book That Can’t Be Published In America Alan Hart is a very brave man. I think, though, he is missing an important point. From the point of view of British and American politicians, Zionism is not about making amends for the Holocaust, it is about having a Western power to project their power into the Middle East.
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POPSClean Feet or Not? I admit to first reading this and thinking the University was wrong to install these "foot baths" to accommodate Muslim students. But I must admit now to not being so sure. What do you think?
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POPSRoad Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 Go to the source for a very insightful view of how and why the relationship between Israel and Palestine has deteriorated to the nightmarish state it is in today and what needs to be done to alleviate it before it is too late. Here's a bit more that needs to be heeded: "There is no place on earth that hasn’t at one time or another “belonged” to a different people than its current inhabitants, and no place other than Palestine where it even occurs to anyone to argue that the passage of two thousand years is irrelevant to judging current land rights. Far worse, by blinding the Israelis—and their equally unseeing supporters among diaspora Jews, especially in the United States—to the reality of the conflict, these childish arguments have had devastating consequences for the Israelis and the Palestinians alike."
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POPSCatholics attack neo-pagans in Glastonbury, UK( A march organized by revivalist Catholic organization Youth 2000 in Glastonbury, a major hub of neo-Pagan activity in the UK, turns violent. Catholic youth adopt quasi-medieval tone, throw salt, threaten hellfire, promise to "cleanse" the town, etc. ( Source: Bartholomew's Notes on Religion , a great blog for daily reading.)
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