LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY amethyst_hunter)

Apologies in advance if this is not appropriate; I thought that these things might be interesting to some people on this comm.

I'm preparing to move, and as such am cleaning out some stuff. I found some religion-related materials that I thought someone here might find of use/interest, so I'm offering them free of charge to anyone who wants them. The items are a magazine (I forget the title offhand; the cover story is about *yawn* Satan: For Real?), a photocopy of a Rolling Stone article on Sam Brownback (a known dominionist politician), and a few other small things that I don't remember right now.

First come first serve, if interested.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY sunfell)

I found links to an overnight KGO radio show about "Christian Terrorists". Here are the links:

http://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/kgo/kgo-01.mp3
http://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/kgo/kgo-02.mp3
http://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/kgo/kgo-03.mp3
http://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/kgo/kgo-04.mp3

Just right click and save these- they'll expire tonight, so if you want to listen to them, grab 'em now. It's four hours long, but the OP said that Ray Taliaferro got some "fun" calls during the show. I'll bet... This guy is an outspoken agnostic and apparently enjoys annoying religious types, so be aware.

Christian Terrorism is one of those rarely mentioned subjects, but it's something worth exploring, especially since some of the sects examined in this community advocate such things.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY horvendile)

There is an interesting article in today's NY Times; Justice Dept. Reshapes Its Civil Rights Mission. I bet you didn't know that Protestants are discriminated against more than African Americans. Some causes the JD is taking up are:

Intervening in federal court cases on behalf of religion-based groups like the Salvation Army that assert they have the right to discriminate in hiring in favor of people who share their beliefs even though they are running charitable programs with federal money.

¶Supporting groups that want to send home religious literature with schoolchildren; in one case, the government helped win the right of a group in Massachusetts to distribute candy canes as part of a religious message that the red stripes represented the blood of Christ.

¶Vigorously enforcing a law enacted by Congress in 2000 that allows churches and other places of worship to be free of some local zoning restrictions. The division has brought more than two dozen lawsuits on behalf of churches, synagogues and mosques.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY navytron89)

fromaudotorg

 
The “faith-based” initiative is closely tied to the Bush administration, which has been pushing for government-funded social services provided by religious groups since 2001.

But members of Congress have long sought to slip a little taxpayer largess to their favorite religious groups. Consider, for example, the curious case of Canvasback Missions in Benicia, Calif.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY navytron89)

Found @atheism

On the June 12 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, following a report on Muslims in Minneapolis seeking religious accommodations at school and work, host Pat Robertson stated, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have to recognize that Islam is not a religion. It is a worldwide political movement meant on domination of the world. And it is meant to subjugate all people under Islamic law." He characterized the American Muslim community as "Islam light" and went on to say Muslims "want to take over and we want to impose Sharia on you. And before long, ladies are going to be dressed in burqas and whatever garments they would put on them, and next thing you know, men are going to be allowed to have wife-beating and you'll be beheading adulterers and so on and so forth."

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY wyldraven)

Baptists want hate-crimes bill to be defeated

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY catvincent)

Via Signs of Witness; a report states what is obvious to us here but seems to elude so many others - that religious fanaticism is the problem, not the particular religion espoused. Hopefully this might get the point across to a few more folk, especially those who feel the True Evils of the world are the *other* fanatics, not the ones who use their preferred symbol-set.

'Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of “good” and “evil” and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism, according to a report obtained by Reuters.

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Like we Discordians are fond of saying... Death to all Fanatics!