Apologetics
Cults
Cults as Power Structures Four interlocking dimensions make up the framework of a cult’s social system and dynamics. You can use this framework to examine your own cult experience. These four dimensions are clearly separated so that former cult members (whose memories of cult experiences are often confused and conflicting) can more easily deconstruct and […]
Characteristics of Cults
by Janja Lalich and Michael Langone Concerted efforts at influence and control lie at the core of cultic groups, programs, and relationships. Many members, former members, and supporters of cults are not fully aware of the extent to which members may be manipulated, exploited, or even abused. The following list of social-structural, social-psychological, and interpersonal […]
Cults: Who Joins and Why
Who Joins and Why Is there a certain type of person who is more likely to join a cult? No. Individual vulnerability factors matter much more than personality type when it comes to joining or staying in a cult or abusive relationship. “Everyone is influenced and persuaded daily in various ways,” writes the late Margaret […]
What capitalism just cannot get right
What capitalism just cannot get right By Michael Kinsley November 22, 2006 The death of Milton Friedman has been an occasion for celebrating the magic of capitalism, and fair enough. Capitalism is pretty great, and Friedman was its feisty defender when that view was far from universally held. But let’s not get carried away. There […]
Jim Reiher: Christian Greens candidate
Hi from Jim Reiher A quick update…. and two short speechs I have given recently: I survived 5 meet the candidate nights in the last week: 4 run by the Australian Christain Lobby group and the 5th in a Uniting Church. The ACL ones only gave upper house candidates 3 minutes to speak. I changed […]
American politics
I abhor violence and hate and wish I had the answer to the world’s troubles but I don’t. Where were you when your country invaded Vietnam, along with mine? Where were you when your country invaded El Salvador? Where were you when your country, again in the company of mine, invaded Iraq? Where were you […]
Reclaiming the Cross in the UK
Reclaiming the Cross in the UK Yesterday Nadia Eweida lost her internal appeal against her employers, British Airways. She had been seeking the right to wear a small silver cross visibly around her neck while working in her check-in job at Heathrow Airport. Nadia’s case is an example of the discrimination which now exists in […]
Senator Steve Fielding – Putting The Murdoch Family First?
For God’s sake are there any Christians left in Australia who care about where this country is heading, or has the Christian God become a private idol or a family totem? Without the support of Senator Steve Fielding the government wouldn’t have got its new media laws through parliament intact. Those laws now threaten to […]
Ghosts of imperialism past coming back to haunt us
The Independent – 20 November 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article19 98888.ece Even when our foreign policy is benevolent, it appears condescending and exploitative In many ways, I am a captive of my history, as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are of theirs by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Tony Blair and Gordon Brown take up the white man’s burden, one in […]
Origins of Creationism
In USA creationism was virtually restricted to Seventh-day Adventist publications until 1961, when “The Genesis Flood” by Whitcomb and Morris appeared. The story behind this is a bit involved, but one strong influence was teh revamping of science syllabuses in USA following the first Sputnik in 1957. Americans were shocked that USSR had overtaken them […]
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