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	Sin - the ideology of the Military Industrial Complex
		Imperialist religious propaganda was quite blatant in its earliest incarnations, rising as it did concurrent with the appearance of the earliest states, and it only became more sophisticated in later times, being forced as it was to become less transparent, lest it lose its effectiveness as a tool of military indoctrination.
		Imperialism has responded to this crisis by forming a political alliance with the religious right and by diverting government funds into the coffers of the religious right in the hopes of helping to spark the sought after revival.
		Alas, Christian imperialism is doomed, and thus the imperialist must find a substitute for the all important ideology of ‘original sin', without being able to fall back on dead Christianity, which in the past provided that all important key stone which was required to hold up the structure of the entire arch.
	www.awitness.org /column/sin_military.html (3124 words)

	A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM - WILLIAM L. LANGER
		Imperialism is, in a sense, synonymous with the appropriation by the western nations of the largest part of the rest of the world.
		It was currently believed, in the days of exuberant imperialism, that the world would soon be the preserve of the great states -- the British, the American and the Russian -- and it was deduced from this belief that survival in the struggle for existence was in itself adequate evidence of superiority and supernatural appointment.
		Imperialism always carries with it the connotation of the Imperator and of the tradition of the rule.
	members.tripod.com /copy_bilderberg/lhlanger.html (4969 words)

	Dialogue
		Throughout the twentieth century, many forces worked to undermine people's attachments to traditional religious dogmas, and by the time of the centenary event the interfaith climate had warmed to the point where organizers were able to propose the adoption of a shared global ethic aiming to give voice to the common values underlying all religions.
		It clearly reflects a respect for religious pluralism and a commitment to the belief that in the religions' essential spiritual teachings is enough common ground for the development of an ethic that can lead humanity further along the path towards peace and the preservation of the planet.
		Religious strife, throughout history, has been the cause of innumerable wars and conflicts, a major blight to progress, and is increasingly abhorrent to the people of all faiths and no faith.
	studycircle.angeltowns.com /interreligious.htm (5438 words)

	Template
		Religious and spiritual disorder ensue when the significance of a loving, merciful God is superseded by anthropocentric standards and by incompetent religious management.
		No religious or spiritual tradition disregards or renounces an unreserved justice and equity for all people, a lasting and secure peace among every nation, the liberation of captives and the independence of the marginalized, the promise for a sustained cosmic harmony, and an unconditional hospitality for all members of the human family.
		Religious and spiritual traditions are, by necessity, global advocates of preventative diplomacy, and are international mediators of conflict resolution.
	www.nocirc.org /symposia/third/zavales3.html (4172 words)

	Repatriation - Arctic Studies Center
		Religious renewal will undoubtedly yield untold social and cultural benefits, but at the same time, it has the potential to create unanticipated and undesirable consequences.
		Traditional leaders are assumed to have a broad understanding and knowledge of their religious and cultural practices, and they may be able to develop clear and cogent claims to repatriate their objects.
		In closing, I would like to bring to your attention one aspect of NAGPRA identified as "religious renewal." As you may recall, tribes must prove that sacred objects are needed for the practice of traditional religions or the renewal of religious ceremonies.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/html/repatrw.html (3304 words)

	On the flight back from England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When religious leaders are heard speaking in the public arena in the United States today, the overwhelming probability is that they will be conservative evangelical or conservative Roman Catholic leaders.
		On the international scene, the new Pontiff has uttered, or caused to be uttered by some of his underlings, statements that reflect incredibly dated ideas on birth control, religious imperialism, evolution and the necessity for Catholics in public life to subvert their consciences to Vatican teachings, that are reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
		His goal is to form a rescuing majority of religious progressives in all traditions in combination with secular humanists who share the religious goal of building a more humane world.
	mysite.verizon.net /resqdbce/think/id120.html (1438 words)

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		He calls for religious unity but it is far less clear how this is to be achieved and what will happen to the great religious traditions if all the world became Bahá'í.
		This is not necessary for those that become Bahá'ís because of the belief that Bahá'u'lláh is the promise of all ages and fulfils the adventist prophecies of all the major religions.
		But there will also be others who will wish to maintain religious traditions that are important to their cultures or will wish to draw spiritual nourishment from acts and expressions of religious devotion from the past.
	bahai-library.com /?file=smith_religious_diversity (2925 words)

	Friends of Al-Aqsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		New lands and potential colonies were presented as the religious Zion in accordance with Biblical teachings; God's 'chosen people' were spiritually justified in their holy war for the Holy Land.
		The perceived religious deviance of the Irish Catholics and apparent 'heathenness' of the American Indians by the Protestant English were in themselves justification for occupation, domination and annihilation - Old Testament style.
		Cashing-in on secular fears of religious encroachment, largely seen as being perpetuated by Muslims, has meant that any words or acts of protest to America's vision of globalisation can be translated and transposed on to 'Islamic fundamentalism'.
	www.aqsa.org.uk /JournalsDetail.aspx?id=61 (812 words)

	Religious imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious imperialism is a policy intended to spread religious beliefs to people, territories or nations through the use of warfare, oppression, and other means.
		Japanese Shinto imperialism in the Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras
		Religious imperialism can be contrasted with separation of church and state and religious freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_imperialism (180 words)

	From the Evil Empire to the Empire for Liberty
		This large-scale acquisitive imperialism was conducted, it must be said, within the ideology of the Privileged Hemisphere, made specific in the Monroe Doctrine, in which established settler regimes were entitled to consolidate their position in the hemisphere while Old Europe was forbidden any further incursion.
		Moral imperialism has deep religious roots, for the Spanish and Portuguese empires, though undertaken primarily for profit, had conversion of the indigenous inhabitants to Christianity as their secondary and justificatory purpose.
		The climax of European imperialism in the nineteenth century coincided with the European population explosion.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/929281/posts (4091 words)

	The Issues of the War and the Jewish Position
		With the Protestant Reformation this imperialism is shattered, to be followed by religious nationalism.
		At first a call to self-defence and self-respect, as in the utterances of Fichte and Mazzini, the call to nationality became, under the influence of their theorizing successors in Germany, a call to aggression and empire in the name of national cultures.
		Religious imperialism was succeeded by cultural imperialism, with its extraordinary Aryan myth, its monstrous missionary paranoia, its demand that all mankind shall abandon their own grown fruits of the spirit to live by that made in Germany.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19171129/19171129kallen/2 (1334 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - ‘Imperialism and religious fundamentalism feed each other’ say Communists
		Although many people with religious convictions play a progressive role in political struggle, the combination of religious dogma with state power was invariably a recipe for the deepest reaction, she insisted, whether in the United States, Iran or Israel.
		Avtar Sadiq identified the main characteristics of religious fundamentalism as intolerance, hostility to minorities, severe restrictions on free speech and other civil liberties, anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and the use of violence.
		The seminar on Imperialism and Religious Fundamentalism was organised by the Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain, which intends to hold similar seminars in other towns and cities, and to publish the main papers presented to them.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1504/1/109 (602 words)

	Liberty Magazine
		The antiestablishment protection can be seen to accomplish two objectives: (1) protecting religious minorities from the moral dictates of the religious majority; and (2) protecting society generally from the “evil” of religious imperialism.
		The Charter safeguards religious minorities from the threat of ‘the tyranny of the majority.’ Non-Christians are prohibited for religious reasons from carrying out activities which are otherwise lawful, moral and normal.
		Smith was to require religious persons to comply with state regulations that were of general applicability, even where religious belief mandated conduct inconsistent with that regulation.
	www.libertymagazine.org /article/articleview/525/1/85 (2043 words)

	News at Tipitaka Network
		Another destructive trend is the drastic increase in the religious population in China, Australia, Russia and Europe.
		Samuel P. Huntington predicts that religious conflicts will be a main factor in the clash of future civilization, as we are indeed presently witnessing, around the globe.
		Covering both natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
	www.tipitaka.net /community/news.php?page=051120e (1138 words)

	Rising Above Religious Differences
		It must first of all be fully recognized that religious freedom encompasses not only the freedom to believe, but the freedom not to believe, and the freedom to express uncertainty as well.
		Knowingly, or unknowingly they have been guilty of religious imperialism, which is a forceful suppression of religious freedom.
		A resurgence of religious activity and freedom within the Communist countries could be ironically pointing to the fact that Communism may have too hastily thrown out the religious baby with the economic bath water.
	afgen.com /feudal1.html (501 words)

	MCC - Resources & Publications - Occasional Papers - A Theological Basis for Intervention Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This certainly is not the pattern of cultural or religious imperialism.
		No one is saved by religious practices such as going to church, offering sacrifices, making donations to temples, which are identified in Scripture as "works of the flesh." No matter what religious culture one is socialized in, one is saved only by the Creator-Savior God who is revealed in Jesus Christ.
		This certainly suggests that participation or non-participation in religious ritual is not of the essence.
	www.mcc.org /respub/occasional/205.html (3587 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		They lived with a chronic fear that one year the enveloping darkness that came each winter might finally capture the light forever and thus doom their lives to be lived without light at all.
		For this reason in almost every human culture there was a great religious celebration when the sun stopped its relentless retreat and began slowly but steadily to return.
		Once that is understood, then religious people will recognize that their exclusive claim to possess divine revelation is nothing but a part of our human security system.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/94/story_9453_3.html (534 words)

	WorkingForChange-Stability in secularism
		Continued religious intolerance and the subjugation of women in Afghanistan will be a stain on our crusader's cape.
		The Turks were once the engine of Muslim religious imperialism, believing that the Ottoman Empire's ruler was the leader of the Islamic world.
		Despite these efforts, the destructive power of religious fanaticism in the region has been chillingly demonstrated again and again, as with the assassinations of two Mideast peacemakers of the last half-century -- Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin -- by zealots of their own faith.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=12530 (652 words)

	portland imc - 2005.09.28 - Revolutionary Christianity
		Liberation can only confront imperialism, because imperialism enslaves, and the message of liberation is that of justice to those who are exploited in the service of imperialism.
		The imperialist writings of the Jewish Religious Right concern themselves with war and conquest, and the acquisition of real estate, and because the real estate being coveted was not empty, the imperialists were also racists who advocated either displacement or genocide for the native populations who were in their way.
		I would suppose that the homicidal fury of those religious right writings in the Bible are such a source of stupefying superstitious horror and dread fear that they are guaranteed to overwhelm and dominate, or this would certainly seem to be the way that works.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/09/325947.shtml (4134 words)

	Science and Religion the Unecesary War
		The basic religious impulse is the human recognition that life has real meaning, rather than illusional meaning; the sense that things like justice, order, harmony, and even love are intrinsically present within the very fabric of the universe itself and hence inspires us to take them seriously.
		Religious truth was the result of common experience and mutual understanding and dialogue, which formed the way societies governed themselves and established values.
		One religious approach recognizes the atrocity committed by terrorists and the unimaginable suffering experienced and are willing to dialogue as to why this happened and how it can be prevented.
	www.granitepeakuuc.org /sermons/science_and_religion.html (2586 words)

	David Forte on war on National Review Online
		We stand together against those who have claimed that it is the religious impulse or even monotheistic faith that is the ultimate cause of the events of September 11 — a view hostile to the role of religion in Western life as well as in Islam.
		We did not adequately protest the violence perpetrated against religious minorities or the resurgence of what its perpetrators claimed to be religiously based slavery in the Sudan.
		There is a difference between religious imperialism and intolerance, on the one hand, and flying planes into the World Trade Center and perhaps unleashing a plague upon our people on the other.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-forte110101.shtml (2400 words)

	Untitled Document
		For instance, the Western religious tradition begins with Judaism, and as a starting point there is great beauty and truth in the idea from the Talmud that a person who saves a life saves the universe.
		This is religious imperialism, and it constitutes one of the worst examples of cultural insensitivity.)
		And thirdly, and this is uniformly positive, religious messages are a significant balance to the modern icons of youth, beauty and wealth.
	www.dictatorwatch.org /merit.html (828 words)

	Catholic World News : The Future Pope Speaks
		Despite this, it would be wrong to say that the religious renaissance is passing the Catholic Church by (I am not well enough informed to be able to discuss other Christian communities).
		Religious freedom includes the right of a religious community to set up theological faculties to reflect upon its faith, its quite particular faith, and try to show its reasonability.
		If young people choose to study at a Catholic university, and parents recommend this type of institution to their sons and daughters wishing to study, then a certain degree of religious content is expected; benefactors' financial gifts are also connected with the idea of a certain spiritual direction.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37855 (7883 words)

	The Second Draft
		In these societies the prevailing political axiom runs: “rule or be ruled.” The dominant alpha males (warriors, big men) set the rules of honor-shame and determine when and how often a man can legitimately shed the blood of another for his own honor.
		Such dynamics encourage patriarchal domination, intimidation of dissent, and political and religious imperialism.
		According to JP, the Arab-Israeli conflict is fueled by wounded Arab honor and frustrated religious imperialism.
	www.seconddraft.org /ess_jp.php (3309 words)

	Comparative Religion and Cultures
		In thinking about religious or cultural traditions other than our own, we tend to want to bring them into the range of the familiar.
		When we read a sentence in a religious text, we make sense of it by placing it within the context of images, stories, concepts, metaphors and analogies we already know.
		It may be that for each new religious or cultural tradition we need a new way of thinking as well -- a new way of processing our world.
	www.southampton.liu.edu /fw/crc/theme.html (1410 words)

	End Missions Imperialism Now!
		Religious bodies are prone to rest their case with verbal formulas, sometimes intentionally ambiguous in meaning, and resist any efforts to carry through to valid interpretations and application of them.
		The great and familiar verse John 3:16 declares the order of things in the mind of God to be the same: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." The only mission that has a place in the world today is the mission chiefly intent upon serving men.
		Such a purpose is really the unifying agreement which has been drawing together the various denominational groups; it now needs to be clearly held and announced, and the churches should throw their full and enthusiastic support back of the programs which seek to embody it.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=477 (2187 words)

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