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Religion and Racism
Study Links Religious Groups and Racial Bias Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business By Carl Marziali on February 10,2010 In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus warned religious listeners against what today would be called ¢â‚¬Å“ingroup prejudice ¢â‚¬ : the tendency to think less of outsiders, especially those of another race. The Samaritan, a […]
The Awesome Power of Encouragement
I had a very traumatic childhood. My parents were actively involved in church life and supposedly good Christians. But at home it was a different story. My father sexually abused me from the age of four, and my mother resented me for taking my father’s attention from her. I remember her holding my head under […]
CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush
Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush A new report details how the effects of torture on detainees were closely studied in order to perfect ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ June 7, 2010 | Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA’s […]
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water (Michael Poole, Lion, 2009) Somewhere in Surprised by Joy, before he became ‘the most reluctant convert in all England’, C S Lewis wrote that he did not believe God existed, and that he was very angry at God for not existing. Two contemporary atheists who do […]
The New Atheists (April 2010)
2 April 2010 SCOTT STEPHENS It’s been three weeks now since the Global Atheist Convention (GAC) was held in Melbourne (12-14 March). Apart from the frequently mediocre coverage on the ABC’s Questions of Faith blog, and a couple pandering interviews with the most prominent speakers, I’ve yet to see any serious engagement with the ideas […]
Jihadists and the Khaybar Chant
The Khaybar Chant and the Gaza flotilla Posted: 02 Jun 2010 In these days, the Israel Defense Force’s fatal engagement with Islamists on the Marmara has been drawing intense criticism from far and wide. However of particular interest to me was an Al-Jazeera report on the flotilla, showing interviews with an international collection of Muslim […]
MILITANT HINDUISM’S FEAR CAMPAIGN
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin Wed 02 June 2010 —————————————————- INDIA: HINDUTVA AND PERSECUTION ADVANCE UNCHALLENGED —————————————————- Hindu elites in the Sangh Parivar (Hindu nationalist forces) are striving to attain Hindu power in a Hindu State, primarily to perpetuate their own caste privilege. The strategy of the Sangh Parivar is to convert the indigenous, traditionally animist, […]
The Saving power of technology(?)
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I love technology. I love living in the 21st century with all its gadgets, and I’m continually amazed at what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do even 5 years ago. Who knows what we’ll be able to do in 5 years from now? When a new […]
An Infidel’s Progress
by EMMA BROCKES May 16, 2010 AYAAN Hirsi Ali enters an apartment in New York followed by a bodyguard. The 40-year-old, who for the past six years has been unable to turn up at a venue without it being checked by security, is a writer, polemicist and critic of Islam. She is also a Somali […]
The Global Warming Debate
Warming’s icy debate ADAM MORTON February 13, 2010 IT LARGELY went unreported, but January was the hottest on record. Taking a slightly wider lens, the three-month block between November and January also set a new benchmark. The record-breaking heat in the lower troposphere – the part of the atmosphere closest to the earth – came […]
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