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A Theologian Answers the Atheists about God

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:48:10 GMT

Father Williams has produced a quick read that manages to point out flaws in simple reasoning and clear errors in the more complex arguments that are often blindsided by the atheist's own prejudice.

The natural sciences grew out of Christian culture. As the sociologist Rodney Stark has so convincingly shown, science was "still-born" in the great civilizations of the ancient world, except in Christian civilizations. Why is it that empirical science and the scientific method did not develop in China (with its sophisticated society), in India (with its philosophical schools), in Arabia (with its advanced mathematics), in Japan . . . or even in ancient Greece or Rome? . . . Science flourished in societies where a Christian mind-set understood nature to be ordered and intelligible, the work of an intelligent Creator. . . . Far from being an obstacle to science, Christian soil was the necessary humus where science took root.

Tags: god, atheism, religion, christianity

Free Speech and the Right to Offend

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:49:30 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Free speech is indeed precious, but that doesn't mean that we have to defend without qualification every moron who abuses it

Saying that we have a right to offend skips over the question of whether we are right to offend. I have a right to tell random strangers that I think they're ugly, or that they have terrible taste in clothes, but it would be wrong of me to exercise that right,

we don't just utter words, we do things with them, as the Oxford philosopher JL Austin put it. When words belittle or mock, they can reinforce prejudice and hierarchies that have very real effects on people's lives. Mockery of those already on the margins can shore up the very barriers that limit their life chances.

Tags: morons

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:59:25 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Sad, but let us hope that those who still hold on to their xenophobia and complete unfounded fears of anyone who looks different from themselves. Will, at long last, get so fed up with the status quo of the almighty greed and corporate powerbrokers, who use any tool to hold on to their powers. Consequently, making them realize that they are just pawns to the GREED GODS This "awakening" will end the long reign of power by those who only care about themselves. I can only dream.thinkingblue

PS: this (utter stupidity) was a comment on one of my blogs...

obama bin biden this might be silly but if you put Obama and Biden you come up with the name of osama bin laden ... come on .. how close is that name.. this is not good news for US to have osama bin binden as the people in charge.. i dont think this is an accindent .. you know this kind of scares me alot to see that name...

WHAT STUPID HORSESHIT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4NxHGb6iI (VIDEO)

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

EXCERPTED FROM PM CARPENTER

The (Newsweek) new poll suggests white voters continue to be a challenge for Obama

We are still living in the DARK AGES as far as ignorance amongst the American populous. I don't know when it will change, if ever. When I got a job as a civil service employee, in the 60's, working for The Clerk of Quarter Sessions, I had a DOOFUS (click) boyfriend tell me, not to take the job because I would be outnumbered by blacks and maybe even wind up with a black boss.

At that time, I had a friend who was a civil service employee tell me, "it's a good opportunity, don't pass it up". So I took the job and found out... HOLY JUMPING JUPITER, BATMAN, dark skin or light skin, people are all the same. Some are ASSHOLES and some are quite rational.

Well here I am, almost two generations down the road and prejudice is quite ensconced "STILL" in the American psyche.

thinkingblue

utter stupidity

was a comment on one of my blogs

Tags: politics, election, 2008, bigotry

Scottish minister backs fight against rural homophobia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:33 GMT

clipped by: queah

Clip Source: www.pinknews.co.uk

The Minister for Communities and Sport in Scotland has said the country's SNP government is committed to fighting prejudice and discrimination against LGBT people.

Stewart Maxwell MSP made his comments on a visit to Dumfries LGBT Centre last month.

Dumfries and Galloway is the only rural region in Scotland that "visibly tackles issues like homophobia and exclusion," say centre staff.

In government the SNP has supported a new homophobic hate crimes bill but it has been delayed.

Scottish studies have revealed that violence against the gay community is reaching a devastating level.

According to one such report, 36 percent of LGBT people have experienced abuse or violence in the last year, compared to 2.5% of the general population.

Hate Speech Defined

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:04:20 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: Watch for it!

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Hate speech

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hate speech is a term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic class, occupation or appearance (such as height, weight, and hair color), mental capacity and any other distinction-liability. The term covers written as well as oral communication and some forms of behaviors in a public setting. It is also sometimes called antilocution and is the first point on Allport's scale which measures prejudice in a society.

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1 Legal aspects
2 Speech codes
3 Laws against hate speech
4 Differing concepts of what is offensive
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Weisburg's Racist Comments on Election

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:44:50 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: Author's propaganda tries to turn tables on realities. Despicable barely describes this hateful diatribe. Not in criticizing Reps.,McCain,etc. That's part of the game. I refer to his conclusions. Hopefully we can see through this kind of distortion no matter where we stand politically. If he felt confident in Obama's record he wouldn't need to even go where he does here.
It seems that the concept, the equation, coming clear in this time, as we hopefully progress past true racism and the hurt it does to good people, is that, as blatant, actual racism lessens and becomes ever less an immediately impacting harm , less of a component of thought and feeling in our society, there seems to be, hopefully only temporarily, a corresponding yet negatively driven counter-trend of some sort. which insists that, there be a reverse racism taken for granted in order to prove the non-existence of the old, shameful racism..
Speaking for myself, I had, earlier this year, felt most favorable about

Clip Source: www.slate.com

2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?

Much evidence points to racial prejudice as a factor that could be large enough to cost Obama the election.

If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.

Such prejudice usually comes coded in distortions about Obama and his background.

What Will You Discover? Go RVing.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:07:04 GMT

clipped by: zalisan
clipper's remarks: Don't let the present economic situation keep you from vacationing. RVing is affordale and everything you need is right there with you.
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Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Who doesn’t enjoy a great vacation? You can’t wait for it to begin and wish it would never end…You return to your everyday routine feeling relaxed and happier…You bond with your spouse and family while away, growing closer…you return to work with a more motivated outlook…And research has proven these “feelings” to be truths.

In addition, RV trips add benefits like less stress because you are in control of your itinerary and timetables – easy to pick up and go without having to pack luggage or limit the things you can and can’t take in your luggage – ability to follow special diets or eat your favorite foods with your own kitchen along – no worries about having to leave any family members behind because even four-legged companions love to RV.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Mark Twain

Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Bring the Pets

Clip Source: www.gorving.com

RVing Through History

Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Tags: rv, vacation, affordable, camping, travel

Mrs. Conservative

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:43:12 GMT

clipped by: sillysam
clipper's remarks: So what we will see in the next days and weeks--what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination--is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.

Clip Source: www.weeklystandard.com

A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington--the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.

That spectre has a name--Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who's a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who's broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who's a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who's a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who's a leader.

'Publicity seeking' a novel form of backlash

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:55 GMT

clipped by: fetsiboomsticks
clipper's remarks: Backlashers gripping at straws

Clip Source: gaynewswatch.com

News24 (S. Africa), Posted: 8/22/2008, 4:32 PM
Any prejudice homosexual music lecturer Johan Strydom may have suffered after the NG Kerk, in Moreleta Park, dispensed with his services, was due to his own publicity seeking, counsel for the church told the Pretoria High Court in South Africa on Wednesday. Judge Dion Basson reserved judgement after hearing final arguments in Strydom's R200 000 damages claim against the church for his loss of income and dignity after being sacked from his post in the church's music academy for being a practising homosexual. Strydom has also demanded an unreserved apology from the church. Strydom's senior advocate Ronel Tolmay argued that the church had infringed his constitutionally protected right to equality, dignity, privacy and freedom to work in the profession of his choice.

TRUE

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:27:26 GMT

clipped by: savagevalyn

Clip Source: www.firstpeople.us

Obligations of the True Path Walkers

To bring back the natural harmony that humans once enjoyed.
To save the planet from present practices of destruction.
To find and re-employ real truth.
To promote true balance between both genders.
To share and be less materialistic.
To become rid of prejudice.
To learn to be related.

To be kind to animals and take no more than we need.
To play with one's children and love each equally and fairly.
To be brave and courageous, enough so,
to take a stand and make a commitment.
To understand what Generations Unborn really means.
To accept the Great Mystery
in order to end foolish argument over religion.

Unequal corporal punishment in schools

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:30:19 GMT

clipped by: ukeness217
clipper's remarks: Should schools and teachers have the right to use corporal punishment? If they do, how can they make sure it's even? Do certain populations misbehave more often causing the inequity, or does it highlight possible prejudice in the classroom?

Clip Source: www.citizensugar.com

corporal punishment is legal in schools in 21 US states. It is, however, illegal in 106 other countries

according to this

new survey

almost a quarter of a million kids

have been physically disciplined in schools. Opponents of the paddling practice call it abuse, while supporters say it works wonders.

Whether it works or not is mitigated by the study finding that the punishment isn't doled out equally.

African-American girls were more than twice as likely as white girls to be hit, as were kids with disabilities and Native-Americans.

African-American students were 17.1 percent of the student body, and 35.6 percent of those paddled. Students with disabilities

were 10.7 percent of students and received 18.4 percent of the punishment

Though little research has been done on corporal punishment's efficacy in classrooms, research shows it doesn't work in the home.

It makes them more aggressive, more delinquent, and makes them have more mental health problems.

Tags: children, corporal punishment, education, discipline, prejudice, minority, schools, u.s.

Foxnews: Stupid or sexist; which?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:09:20 GMT

clipped by: boniface
clipper's remarks: A tart is defined as:

1. A prostitute.
2. A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.

So how do a couple of women that have been together for many years qualify as "tarts." It's the old prejudice: lesbian = promiscuous. What idiots!

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Pop Tarts: Stars Send Well-Wishes to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

LOS ANGELES — After many years together, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi finally tied the knot on Saturday.

Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:56:25 GMT

clipped by: pitim

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.

It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives".

It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell".

Tags: wtf

Indigenous People

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:15:26 GMT

clipped by: MetisCougar
clipper's remarks: The brand, Indian was placed upon us by the Spanish and has carried on since that time.

This alone clouds our heritage.

Cougar

Clip Source: webmail.canada.com

"There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied."

--Joseph Bruchac, ABENAKI

Eat rats, 'solve global food crisis'

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:34:04 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Sc-fi book, I read, related the absence of rats in an underground area to a past famine. Hreat source of protein

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Eating rats is the best way for rich and poor people to solve the global crisis of rising food prices, an Indian official said as he unveiled his plan to put rodents on menus.

Regular rat snacks would translate into fewer rodents eating precious grain stocks, 50 per cent of which are lost in the north-eastern state of Bihar every year to the animals, said Vijay Prakash, secretary of the state's welfare department.

"This will help in mitigating the global food crisis. We are sure that it will work wonders," Mr Prakash said.

"It will save half our grain, and will also reduce villagers' dependence on food stock."

Mr Prakash's plan promotes consumption of rat meat in homes, street stalls, restaurants and even international five-star hotels.

He said he was also holding talks with prestigious hotels outside India to encourage them to put rat meat on their menus, but admitted his scheme had to overcome public prejudice.

Tags: mac rat, has, a, certain, ring, to, it

Clipmarks | Prejudice Clips

A Theologian Answers the Atheists about God

Free Speech and the Right to Offend

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

Scottish minister backs fight against rural homophobia

Hate Speech Defined

Hate speech

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

Weisburg's Racist Comments on Election

What Will You Discover? Go RVing.

Bring the Pets

RVing Through History

Mrs. Conservative

'Publicity seeking' a novel form of backlash

TRUE

Obligations of the True Path Walkers

Unequal corporal punishment in schools

Foxnews: Stupid or sexist; which?

Pop Tarts: Stars Send Well-Wishes to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

Indigenous People

Eat rats, 'solve global food crisis'