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Topic: God Bullies


  
  Old Patriot's Pen
The Jews and Christianity assert that God chose Isaac to be the "father" of the Tribe of Israel, the "chosen people" to bring His teachings to the world.
God is much smarter than human beings, and knows that His people are going to wander astry from time to time.
The practice of Islam elevates Mohammed to the level just under God, and his words and deeds, his appearances, are elevated to so rarified a level that it's an "insult" to depict him in photos or drawings.
oldpatriot.blogspot.com   (10467 words)

  
 Council for National Policy: Bibliography
Knelman, F.H., America, God and the Bomb, McClelland and Stewart, 1985; published with assistance from the Canada Council and the Department of Communications.
Young, Perry Deane, God's Bullies: Power Politics and Religious Tyranny, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
Prayer is merely expressing to God how you feel.
www.seekgod.ca /cnpbiblio.htm   (742 words)

  
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She claimed to be carrying a child of divine ancestry, but whatever it was wasn’t a child and ended up offing her.
Here’s a good one: There’s a woman by the name of Vassula Ryden who claims to receive what she calls “original handwriting” messages channeled from Jesus, his mom and Dad, and an angel named Daniel.
That religious types often take their religion very seriously has been used by pranksters like the Christians for the Cloning of Jesus (using DNA found in blood on the Shroud of Turin), whose web site prompted more than a few enraged reactions from Christians who saw no need to hurry the Second Coming.
www.sniggle.net /godhoax.php   (1241 words)

  
 Books about Religious Conservatism in the United States
Kenneth J. Heineman, God Is a Conservative: Religion, Politics and Morality in Contemporary America, New York University Press, 1998.
Lisa Barnes Lampman and Michelle D. Shattuck, eds, God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice, and Forgiveness, Eerdmans, 2000.
Perry Deane Young, God's Bullies: Native Reflections on Preachers and Politics, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/right.html   (8575 words)

  
 Badger Blues
You can see it in Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy (and it’s not just his strategy — he was elected as DNC Chairman by grass-roots Democrats from all around the country, because they wanted a 50-state strategy).
You can see it in the revitalization of the Democratic Party in places like Utah and Mississippi, where millions of committed Demcrats have been doing God’s own work, fighting the good fight, and are now getting some national support for the first time in years.
In the case of the democrats [sic], they have the nutty fringe that want to preserve every tree, eliminate God from the world, and are Socialists.
www.badgerblues.org   (8552 words)

  
 Poverty, Disability, and Development Aid in Economically Weaker Countries
Maulana Edhi has been Pakistan's best known front-line social worker, serving and strengthening the poor, the injured, the mentally ill and the downtrodden, while denouncing bureaucrats and resisting attempts by powerful people and organisations to co-opt his work or incorporate him in their empires.
As a boy in the 1930s, in a small town near Bombay, he learnt to be charitable toward those who were handicapped or destitute, and to defend mentally disturbed people against street bullies (pp.
The moral knife-edge could be generalised: "The sickly, wasted, or congenitally deformed infant challenges the tentative and fragile symbolic boundaries between human and non-human, natural and supernatural, normal and abominable." (p.
www.disabilityworld.org /12-01_06/povertydisability.shtml   (11396 words)

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