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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Censorship is closely related to the concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
		Censorship has been alleged to occur in such media policies as blurring the boundaries between hard news and news commentary, and in the appointment of allegedly biased commentators, such as a former government attorney, to serve as anchors of programs labeled as hard news but comprising primarily anti-criminal commentary.
		Censorship in Belarus, Censorship in East Germany (former GDR), Censorship in France, Censorship in the Republic of Ireland, Censorship in Poland, Censorship in Portugal, Censorship in the Russian Empire, Censorship in the Soviet Union, Censorship in Sweden, Censorship in Turkey, Censorship in the United Kingdom
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Censorship (3089 words)

	Censorship Quotes/Quotations
		When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly....
		Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion...
		Censorship is contagious, and experience with this culture of regulation teaches us that regulatory enthusiasts herald each new medium of communications as another opportunity to spread the disease.
	quotes.liberty-tree.ca /quotes/censorship (1917 words)

	Challenges to and Censorship of School Guidance Materials. ERIC Digest.
		Censorship, however, is a main tactic of some national organizations that want to change the way schools select and use educational materials.
		Censorship, as defined by the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, is the removal of material from open access by government authority (American Library Association, 1988).
		The absence of references to religion by guidance materials and textbooks authors, counselors, and teachers have brought accusations that the schools are in fact practicing religion--the religion of secular humanism.
	www.ericdigests.org /1992-3/censorship.htm (1646 words)

	Read about Censorship at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Censorship and learn about Censorship here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The content of school textbooks is often the issue of debate, as their target audience is young people, and the term "whitewashing" is the one commonly used to refer to selective removal of critical or damaging evidence or comment.
		Censorship, unlike acts or policies of sanitization, refers to a publicly set standard, not a privately set (or government-enforced but unannounced) standard.
		Censorship does not attempt to cover up material made by an organization, but rather to restrict or abolish defined types of material produced by private citizens.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Censorship (1346 words)

	censorship - Anarchopedia
		Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression.
		Wartime censorship is carried out with the intention of preventing the release of information that might be advantageous to the enemy.
		A recent phenomenon for avoiding censorship and speaking directly to members of society is culture jamming, where individuals or non-conforming groups use large-scale corporate techniques to attack implicit domination and censorship through trivial or deliberately irrelevant messages.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/censorship (1348 words)

	Who supports Internet censorship?
		Censorship is the moral or legislative process by which society “agrees” to limit what an individual can do, say, think, or see.
		The remainder of the paper is structured as follows: the next section provides a brief history of censorship, both in the world and the United States, previous attempts to censor the Internet, and the relatively scant economic literature on censorship.
		Finally, those who are employed in information industries might naturally disfavor censorship of the Internet because of their desire to have unfettered publication abilities on the Internet or because of concerns that government regulation of Internet content might spread to other sectors of the economy that deal with information [13].
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue11_9/depken (5553 words)

	Kant's Philosophy of Religion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		This provided Kant with a perspective from which to view religion as principally a human phenomenon in which the various aspects of our human make-up — the sensible, the intellectual, the historical and the social — interact in ways that are significant for understanding humanity's role in the cosmos.
		These are the philosophical function of the concept of God, arguments for the existence of God, the relationship between morality and religion (including his notion of “moral faith” and his treatment of “radical evil”), and the role of religion in the dynamics of human culture and history.
		The purpose of this revelation, however, is not to add something essential that would be otherwise lacking in the religion of reason, but to serve as a vehicle for the free assent that the religion of reason invites as the response of an authentic faith.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/kant-religion (8383 words)

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		Just to expand on this and give you my personal viewpoint on organized religion I'll share my own creation: If we were to encounter a completely virgin alien race, with only a knowledge of technology, the worst thing we could give to them is not some incurable disease, it would be idea of religion.
		Religion is also a just a tool, weilded by those who will use it for their own ends.
		Organized religion is society's collective spiritual outlook on Life -- the basis for their collective ethics and morality and way of looking at the "worth" of Life itself.
	www.wicca.com /celtic/forums/view_topic.php?id=13525&forum_id=15 (4316 words)

	56th Session of the UNCHR - Geneva -- China: Religion in the Service of the State (Related Background Documents)
		By stipulating punishment for organizers and for those who "make use of" so-called superstitious sects or cults and so-called evil religious organizations, the law arrogates to the central government and to the CCP the right to decide, on whatever grounds they choose, to legitimize or delegitimize a particular belief system.
		The Chinese government's highly organized and intensive campaign meditation, which exploded on July 22, 1999, employs a series of legal maneuvers that flouts international standards but allows the Chinese government to claim that it's crackdown is based on the rule of law.
		State interference with religion is extensive in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and in "eastern Tibet," that is, the traditionally Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/geneva/china-religion-state.htm (2779 words)

	+dotNetTemplar+ - Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I'd actually argue that the reason religion has gotten such a bad rap in all that is a direct result of the destabilizing and modernizing effect that the so-called Reformation had on Western society.
		And so we see the true nature of religion: arguably the most organized religion in world history has consistently tried to act as a check to the powers of this world, reminding them of their duties to mankind and trying to enforce those duties when it could.
		Religion, if one approaches history with an open mind, has a track record of an undeniably positive effect on human nature, both on the individual and in public life.
	dotnettemplar.net /CategoryView,category,Religion.aspx (9448 words)

	What is Censorship?
		In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of communication for the purpose of altering or suppressing ideas found to be objectionable or offensive.
		To understand censorship, and the impulse to censor, it is necessary to strip away the shock epithet value that is attached to the word at first utterance.
		Censorship is no more acceptable for being practiced in the name of religion than for national security (which is certainly an acceptable secular substitute for religious rationales in the 20th Century).
	www.gilc.org /speech/osistudy/censorship (1913 words)

	Online NewsHour: Religion Archive \| PBS
		The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which recognizes efforts to create a bridge between the fields of science and religion, is the world's largest annual award.
		Forty-four percent of young American adults agree that religion is a very important part of their lives, according to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
		Religion experts discuss the election and the growing problems in the church.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/topic/religion (1769 words)

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		Religious liberty Ä the right of each and every American to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all Ä is among the most fundamental of the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
		The Free Exercise Clause means that you are free to worship as you choose, and that the government can't penalize you because of your religious beliefs.
		I had always felt that religion is important and has its place, but I didn't think a public school was that place.
	www.eff.org /Censorship/Academic_edu/CAF/civil-liberty/religion.k12.aclu (2544 words)

	The Baha'i Faith and Religious Freedom of Conscience
		I was for many years, however, persuaded that the Baha'i faith was different, was the organized religion for people who didn't like organized religion, and all the other fireside slogans.
		In the end, of course, it became perfectly obvious to me that the Baha'i faith has deteriorated into a narrow organized religion just like all the others, with the same demands for conformity and blind obedience, the same cozying up to the rich and powerful, the same intolerance and bigotry.
		Of course, from inside an organized religion all of these values are seen positively.
	www.fglaysher.com /bahaicensorship/Cole6.htm (1035 words)

	The Atheist Alliance Web Center \| About
		Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is an organization of independent religion-free groups and individuals in the United States and around the world.
		An application for organizational membership is available in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf) for any group interested in joining the Atheist Alliance.
		The goal of the Alliance is to establish strong, democratic atheist organizations in every state, and indeed, worldwide.
	www.atheistalliance.org /aai/index.html (1409 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ill-considered response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The European Union (EU) is considering a media code that would ban the slander of religions or caricatures of religious symbols.
		And yet, religions have thrived for centuries and withstood the slings of non-believers.
		They also invite censorship of their own beliefs if those who disagree come to power.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2006-02-15-muslim-censorship_x.htm (440 words)

	Banned Book & Censorship Resources
		Project Censored claims its primary objective is "to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another." This is intended "to stimulate responsible journalists" and "to encourage the general public to...
		The Church of Scientology is not shy about suing individuals or organizations it considers critical of the Church or its tenets.
		It is also, however, a nation that has always tolerated a remarkable amount of censorship, and spawned dismaying numbers of self-appointed guardians of taste and morality.
	www.georgesuttle.com /censorship/censors-all.shtml (3226 words)

	Freedom From Religion
		Like the church itself, the family is not a democratic institution, and freedom of religion in this society applies only to adults; parents have a taken-for-granted right to impose on their children their own religious beliefs and associated moral--especially sexual--prohibitions (the Jehovah's Witnesses case is the rare exception).
		While some people choose their religion, in "free acknowledgment of that by which we are bound," as Neuhaus puts it, most absorb it at an age when parental authority is what counts.
		In a democracy, however, organized religion has no more right to be shielded from opposition than the state, the corporation, the labor union, the university, the media or any other institution.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20010219/willis/4 (972 words)

	MEDIA COVERAGE OF RELIGION: AN OVERVIEW by Jeff Cohen
		Yet mainstream media tend to reduce religion coverage to a narrow set of debates promoted by conservative evangelicals -- gay rights and abortion, plus school and censorship issues -- while mainline denominations and concerns are marginalized.
		An enduring myth is that secular mainstream media are hostile to organized religion.
		The truth is that if mainstream media were hostile toward the organized church and religious conservatives, Gov. Jesse Ventura's recent remarks disparaging religion would have been greeted by either approval or apathy.
	www.fair.org /articles/media-religion.html (1145 words)

	organized - OneLook Dictionary Search
		organized : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include organized: organized labor, organized ferment, an organized series of boat races, censorship by organized religion, criticism of organized religion, more...
		Words similar to organized: organize, unionized, led, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=organized&ls=a (202 words)

	Banned Books Across the Centuries
		According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who organized a census of the citizens and supervised public morality.
		Books gain the attention of censors because they are seen as threats that might undermine the power and influence of a government, a religion, or sexual convention.
		The act of censorship is often interpreted as an act of protecting the innocent from danger.
	web4j1.lane.edu /~arnold/censorship.html (208 words)

	Censorship
		I never did figure out if she equated Communism with menstruation or religion, the two major concerns in 12 year old Margaret's life.
		I believe that censorship grows out of fear, and because fear is contagious, some parents are easily swayed.
		And all due to the fear of censorship.
	www.judyblume.com /censors.html (483 words)

	Books about Religious Conservatism in the United States
		James Hutson, ed, Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
		Judd Owen, Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
		Ralph Lord Roy, Apostles of Discord: A Study of Organized Bigotry and Disruption on the Fringes of Protestantism, Beacon Press, 1953.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/right.html (8575 words)

	Religions In America Research
		Religion and Philosophy Collection: An EBSCOhost® database indexing full-text articles from 300+ scholarly/peer-reviewed journals back to 1975 focusing on religious and philosophical subjects.
		Accounts of the tenets, scriptures, practices, sects and history of various world religions, written from the perspective of believers.
		For example, if you have a citation to an article and want to see if it is available full-text in our databases, search for the journal title, and the system will lead you to the correct database.
	library.sullivan.edu /Research/religions_america.htm (456 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : NYCLU and Coalition of Groups Demand End to Censorship on New York's English Exams
		Out of twenty-six prose passages used in the exam over the past three years, twenty were surreptitiously censored to remove all references to race, religion, sexuality, or anything even mildly sensitive.
		The coalition, which include free speech, civil rights and parent/teacher organizations, as well as writers, scholars and publishers, demanded that Commissioner Mills immediately halt further testing using the butchered passages.
		The groups also called upon the state legislature to hold public hearings to examine who recommended, authorized and approved the censorship and whether those responsible were fit to serve in any educational capacity.
	www.aclu.org /freespeech/censorship/11054prs20020603.html?s_src=RSS (810 words)

	The Best Poet
		It is more that they recall the corruptness, and bigotry, by American moguls, and organized crime, during the "Happy Holidays" period of the late 1940's, early 1950's.
		The censorship of religion as a whole in the U.S. has gotten way out of hand.
		The best way in which to do this is to broadcast him to the world and refute him point by point, within the confines of his own religion (as you, I believe, pointed out).
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/censorship_books/68605 (2757 words)

	Dinocrat » Religion
		In places in the report, it is quite amusing to see the liberal Pew organization tie itself into knots to avoid confronting the various bits of awful data.
		And they also bring a religion which is not ashamed to speak of conquest and violence.
		But the mass graves–and the documentary evidence: the Baathists were meticulous about keeping record of their grim atrocities–were to “harden the determination of the Shi’a to carve for themselves a commanding role in the new Iraq.” The estimates of the scale of the terror were not precise.
	www.dinocrat.com /archives/category/religion (10042 words)

	Censorship History
		From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet filters to the v-chip, censorship is often based on the assumption that children and adolescents must be protected from "indecent" speech.
		The Free Expression Policy Project began in 2000 as part of the National Coalition Against Censorship, to provide empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues and seek free speech-friendly solutions to the concerns that drive censorship campaigns.
		From May 2004 to March 2007, it was part of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
	www.fepproject.org /issues/censorshiphistory.html (497 words)

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