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POPSEuropean Court bans classroom crucifixes "Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom and revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows" - A.N. Whitehead
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POPSFact: Nearly All of Hitlers Beliefs Placed Him On the Far Right[
Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist." But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.
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POPSFrance refuses the "burka" Good for them! I am having a war with muslims now on what they teach their kids about 'dogs' they teach them that a dogs lick can poison your system so bad it can affect you in your adult years!! What a load of crap!
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POPSConservatives urge nationwide prayer on July 5 More from article: "'We know the problem lies in us and not in anyone else's issues or policies or persuasion,' he said. 'We are therefore bringing ourselves to God and asking for his mercy upon us.'" "But in an e-mailed message to supporters, Perkins said the focus of the day will be on 'praying that God would turn our hearts -- and the hearts of our political leaders -- toward him ... and restore respect for life, marriage, and faith in the halls of power.'" I totally agree with this article. The problems with the country started decades (almost a century now) ago when Christians started ignoring the moral decline of this nation & bending to the pressure of secularism.
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POPS"The bigger the state, the smaller its people." " The state sucks out creativity and dynamism just as much as secularism does. Why do anything for yourself when the state will do it for you? Why take care of others when the state will do it for you? Why have ambition when the state is there to ensure that few or no individuals are rewarded more than others? America has been the center of energy and creativity in almost every area of life because it has remained far more religious than any other industrialized Western democracy and because it has rejected the welfare state social model. "
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POPSReligion, Morality and Evil, Oh My! Thanking clipmarks' member tabsey for the post on how religion is losing it's power grab on America. There’s a new power in America – atheism At this link: http://www.clipmarks.com/clipmark/5C8C6D1A-B58D-4B2D-9BB2-ABFEE500CC7E/ Article here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article5907453.ece
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POPS10 Myths Conservatives Believe About Progressives
1. Liberals Hate America - a difference in the interpretation of the Constitution 2. Liberals want to leave us defenseless in the face of evildoers around the world - bigger guns do not create more security 3. Liberals hate the free market - try bundling free market ideas with free market labor (open borders) and fully informed choices 4. Liberals hate our troops - we love them so much, we want them home 5. Liberals are a bunch of elitists who hate decent working-middle-class Americans - as opposed to CEO's who fly around in private jets and cut thousands of jobs at a time 6. Liberals are against family values - our families are just as healthy, valid, and sacred as yours 7. Liberals want to raise our taxes - who is going to pay for your dirty little war? 8. Liberals are Godless and therefore, amoral - secularism is not amoral 9. Liberals don't believe in personal responsibility 10. Liberals are wimps - is a humane government too much to ask for?
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POPSSarkozy snubbing his nose at secularism again. I have no problem with people (And leaders) holding a religious ideology. What I have a problem is when they openly display (While on 'official' duty) their support of their ideology. It's a private matter, and should remain as such. Pray as you want (Or don't at all), just do so in 'unofficial' matters.
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POPSCatholic Patriarchy If your reaction to this clip is a blase "who cares" then the odds predict that you have a penis. It's remarkable that after centuries this outmoded way of thinking still holds sway. And what's even more remarkable is that women are sometimes responsible in not more forcefully opposing this outdated dogma.
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POPSReligion Out of Govt Our government is designed to operate without regard to religion. Unfortunately, many have not figured that out yet.
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POPSObama, Religion and the Public Square
Yet there is more to Mr. Obama and religion than the recent headlines might suggest. Here is how he put it: "Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King – indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history – were not only motivated by faith but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their 'personal morality' into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition." In his now-famous address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, John Kennedy called for "an America where the separation of church and state is absolute." He went on to state that a president's faith should be "his own private affair."
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POPSThe Economics Of Democracy In Muslim Countries The Status of Democracy Index (SDI) measures each country's progress toward democratic governance through multiple variables. First, it measures governance through four variables: how heads of state and members of the legislature are selected; political party development; suffrage; and the maturity of civil liberties The Status of Democracy Index rates each of these nine variables on a three-point scale: 0 (nonexistent), 1 (emerging), or 2 (fully present). Some of the variables, such as media freedom, religious liberty, and respect for human rights, are easy to quantify, whereas measuring human development is more subjective. Economic freedom can be scored on the level of governmental interference in the economy: 0 (strong), 1 (moderate), and 2 (low). It is then possible to convert the totals to a percentage for ease of digestion. Only three of these countries—Mali, Guyana, and Suriname —are considered full democracies. http://www.meforum.org/article/1921
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POPSAustin Dacey surprises One of the surprised : the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Roman Catholic priest and leading neoconservative culture warrior, has welcomed Mr. Dacey’s argument. Good read: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/perceiving-2-fallacies-a-secularist-faults-his-fellows/
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POPSBenedict XVI and the US Model for Religious Liberty Background information: DICI is the press agency of the Mother House of the Priestly Society Saint Pius X (SSPX). The SSPX, a society of Traditionalist (Vaticanum-II-critical) Roman Catholics, was founded in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (excommunicated in 1988). Scripts by and about Pius X: PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X ON THE DOCTRINES OF THE MODERNISTS LAMENTABILI SANE (in the spirit of THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS CONDEMNED BY PIUS IX ) Pius X's antimodernism (in German language) Vaticanum II: DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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