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Home Again Home Again....
2008-05-16 06:56:00 Hopefully within the next month Walk for the Lord will have another author contributing! I won't say much more about it then that just in case it doesn't work out, but it should bring a whole new dimension to the blog!I've been home since Wednesday night, and its extremely good to be back. God has really been working wonders and miracles at my house and new relationships between my siblings and parents have really started to flourish, all because of my almighty Father.I have been having some discontent recently. It's an unrest inside of me... recently I renewed a World of Warcraft subscription to play along with some friends who have been playing it since I've been in college. Since then I really feel discontent, within me. I almost want to say its within my soul. I don't know if its God telling me not to do this, to stand out and to press into Him, and not to press into video games. One of my thoughts to try and make myself feel better about renewing the $15.99 (I believe) mo...
Pope praises U.S., but warns of secular challenges
2008-04-17 17:06:00 '); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size WASHINGTON: Pope Benedict XVI visited the White House on Wednesday, his 81st birthday, and praised America as a nation where strong religious
By: Get rich
The Marquis de Sade, Nietzsche and Secular Purism
2008-04-04 07:00:00 Compte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade (1740 - 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a famous French atheist and writer. He spent 27 years of his adult life in the prisons and insane asylums of the French monarchy, the French Republic, the revolutionary terror and Napoleonic Imperial France. In short, his sexual ...
By: Resources zone
Wow! Secular Court Refers Criminal Case to Sanhedrin!
2008-03-16 10:22:00 This is significant Sanhedrin news!(via Arutz 7 - Israel National News) Tzvia Sariel of Elon Moreh, who has been held in jail since December for refusing to recognize the authority of the secular court system, was allowed to testify before a Torah court set up by the nascent Sanhedrin Friday. The Sanhedrin Court for Matters of People and State ordered her immediate release.The court, headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, heard Sariel?s testimony after a judge from Netanya?s Magistrates Court ordered that she be allowed to attend the hearing on the limits of the youth?s struggle against the Israeli judicial system. It is presumed that Netanya Magistrates Court Judge Samdar Abramovitch hoped the Sanhedrin court would instruct Sariel to put and end to her struggle and recognize the civil courts....?It is no coincidence that the hearing took place on the anniversary of the passing of Moses our teacher, the father of Hebrew law, and close to the days of Purim, when it is said that the Jews reac...
By: Mystical Paths
One Secular Jew Who Gets It. . .
2008-03-07 22:30:00 I can only hope Roger l Simon's feelings are more widespread. . . The horrific news today from Jerusalem put me in mind of that age old question. I may be th village atheist but the idea that some religious psychopath could march into a yeshiva and shoot everyone in sight until someone stops him sends me reaching for my non-existent guns. And on top of that Hamas praises the act and people... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Film industry is secular, do not politicise it: Salman Khan
2008-03-07 21:14:00 Actor Salman Khan vehemently denied ever supporting Raj Thackeray on the ongoing anti north India hate campaign. Addressing media persons, the brawny1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
The Secular Conscience | Dr. Austin Dacey speaks in Toronto this Friday
2008-03-05 21:11:00 THE SECULAR CONSCIENCE: WHY BELIEF BELONGS IN PUBLIC LIFE, with Dr. Austin Dacey. The first Canadian book tour stop! Do ethics presuppose religion? Are objective morals incompatible with secular liberalism? Do questions of religion & values belong in public life? Secularism has lost its soul. From Washington to the Vatican to Tehran, religion is a public matter as never before, and ...
The AWOL Secular Humanists
2008-03-04 15:39:00 Today in Family Security Matters , I have an article on a topic I have been thinking about for some time: the silence of our reliable secular social critics in arguments over the threat of political Islam. There are plenty of commentators today who argue that we should adopt of policy of containment rather than confrontation with Islamists. These commentators have to answer the same critique that was presented against the the advocates of containment during the Cold War: their policy would condemn...(read more)
CA and the state?s interest in secular education
2008-03-03 19:21:00 Update: LocalHS.com has the best round-up of available information I could find. I particularly found this entry interesting (scroll past all the white space). As well as Tammy’s from Just Enough and Nothing More. It appears the family did not have good defense in their court appointed attorneys who did not know much about homeschooling ...
Do We Really Need To Be Secular?
2008-02-14 12:00:00 In the complex world of complex beliefs and complex mixture of scientific thoughts and those thoughts driven by religion, it is really tough for a person to focus on one channel of thinking. He is awed by beautiful thoughts of one sect of believers and is at the same time attacked by the unvindicated beliefs ...
Producer Rockwilder Dumps Secular Rap For Christian Hip-Hop
2008-02-13 20:00:00 Producer Rockwilder is planning to take his award winning music to enter the world of Christian Hip-Hop, he said.In an interview with Movement TV, the Grammy Award winning producer said he has become bored with the current state of Hip-Hop music and will be returning to his roots in the church.?It?s a new movement going on. And it?s a situation whereas Hip-Hop has reached a level to where it?s boring. [I don?t] really wants to glorify the violent aspects of it,? he said. ?Right now, I?m pretty much...(read more)
Human ID Chips (a secular appraisal)
2008-02-13 19:52:00 Human ID Chips Get Under My Skin The technology is available, but the potential for misuse is almost limitless. Our columnist takes you through the dangers of this futuristic process by David H. Holtzman While it’s easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of individual rights, I suspect ...
Calling all secular bloggers: Join the online opposition of WLUSU denial of
2008-02-04 18:32:00 Over the past few days Anatoly Venovcev, Tyler Handley and I have been working hard to spread the word about Wilfred Laurier University Student Union’s decision to deny group status to Venovcev, Handley et al’s Laurier Freethought Association. Click here for the full story. The outpouring of support from the blogosphere has been fantastic! Here is but ...
Religious women less likely to get abortions than secular women
2008-02-01 12:51:00 Religious women are less likely to get abortions than their secular counterparts, according to a new study. The study, led by Amy Adamczyk, PhD, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Jacob Felson of William Paterson University, showed that religious women preferred a no-abortion rule because they are more likely to lead a sexually conservative lifestyle, not because they have stronger pro-life attitudes. For the study, the research team used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. They measured sexual behaviour and out-of-wedlock pregnancy to religious and denominational affiliation. The study used multiple religion measures with longitudinal data to examine the influence of religion on abortion behaviour. Results showed that religious women were less likely to obtain an abortion than secular women, partially because they are less likely to become pregnant before marriage. Among those who become pregnant before marria...
By: B4U India
Doubt in and faking of faith, and the need for secular alternatives to reli
2008-01-28 22:25:00 A reader, postthought, expressed curiosity regarding why so many Americans are religious despite their access to education. She also opined that many of the faithful are faking their faith. Here are some of my quick thoughts on these matters:
Secular Forces Successful In Indonesia
2008-01-12 19:33:00 Secular-nationalist and Islamc paty coalitions were most succesful in Indonesia in 2007. Secular-nationalist parties won about 55% of 38 regional elections held across the nation whle nationalist runnin g alone won 31% while Islamic groups running alone only obtaned 8%. According to Jeirry Sumampow, of the People’s Voter Eduction Netword(JPPR) most Indonesians prefer leaders ...
Mixing Sacred and Secular
2008-01-03 14:44:00 As Rocco explains, the end of 2008's first day of trading at the Manila stock exchange ended with Mass. The whole story and the photo are here. More to come...
By: LAMLand
Reason?s Very Special, Very Secular Christmas Party
2007-12-25 18:08:00 Ok, so maybe some people really are waging war on Christmas. This video is of Christopher Hitchens at Reason’s “Very Special, Very Secular Christmas Party.” Hitchens reads Tom Lehrer’s “Christmas Carol.“ Following is from his introduction: “It may have struck you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s a big relationship between this marvelous time of ...
By: Liberal Values
Christmas in Asia: Secular and holy
2007-12-25 05:09:00 The headlines on the BBC report: Millions celebrate Christmas Day People queued to enter the grotto under the Church of the Nativity Scenes in Bethlehem Millions of Christians around the world are marking Christmas Day - the traditional ...
Mike Huckabee: Arkansas secular liberal?
2007-12-21 17:19:00 Mike Huckabee campaigns as religious Baptist. Yet how religious is Huck? Robert Novak, in the Washington Post, questions the depth of Huckabee’s Baptist support: More than personality explains why not all his Baptist brethren have signed on the dotted line for Huckabee. He did not join the “conservative resurgence” that successfully rebelled against liberals in the Southern Baptist Convention a generation ago. Ann Coulter goes farther, and questions both Huckabee’s intelligence and sincerity of his supposed religous convictions. Hat Tip: Allah Pundit: Hot Air, Huckabee is a liberal Arkansas politician, who would be a democrat, if the party was not anti-human life . Addendum I: Jim Geraghty, Nation Review, adds weight to Ann Coulter’s argument that Huckabee just isn’t all that smart. Huckebee has picked a fight with Rush Limbaugh: “It’s elites who want to talk to Iran, not Middle America. It’s the eli...
By: BitsBlog
Bahamas: Religious Leaders Deplore The Secular Aspect Of Christmas In The I
2007-12-15 23:18:00 The meaning of the season: Holiday or holy day? By Kermit B. Fernander, Guardian Religion Reporter: Nassau, Bahamas - Many Bahamian adults would agree that Christmas has lost much of its religious significance, and is far more secular today. Not surprisingly, the local religious leaders questioned on this point all deplore the secular aspect of Christmas now evident in The Bahamas. Youth activist of the "228 Generation", Minister Diana Johnson, believes the situation is as much the fault of the church as it is of secularism: "The problem is that we, as Christians, rely on the world too much to promote the birth of Christ as the central theme of Christmas, when, in fact, we should be the ones setting the Christmas traditions. We should be writing and animating Christmas cartoons, TV programs, plays, radio songs, and holding community gatherings and so on. "But, once again, the church has failed to get the community involved in these ways. We just stay within the four walls [of...
Gujarat Polls 2007 - Now psuedo secular Sonia is Durga !
2007-12-15 00:32:00 The Telegraph reports: The Congress today pulled out its ?Hindu card? at the fag end of the Gujarat campaign by comparing Sonia Gandhi with ?Goddess Durga? and Narendra Modi with ?Mahisasura?. It was M. Veerappa Moily, the head of the party?s media department. Moily was flanked by his media cell colleagues, such as Abhishek Singhvi, Jayanti ...
Secular Europe?s Merits
2007-12-13 18:03:00 Roger Cohen has an op-ed in the New York Times responding to Mitt Romney’s recent speech on religion. Following is a portion of the article, which also serves as a response to the overall trend towards ignoring our heritage of separation of church and state which the founding fathers wisely supported in the writing ...
By: Liberal Values
Gujarat Polls 2007 - Secular Outrage on Sohrabuddin Disingenuous
2007-12-06 07:44:00 So how many times did a “Communal” Narendra Modi invoke “hate” against “Muslims” to “polarize” the vote in Gujarat ? If on were to go by the tone of media stories in the last 48 hours Narendra Modi has been spewing venom and vitriol to cause a communal polarization in Gujarat. So what are the facts here ...
Hijab and secular society
2007-11-29 21:05:00 Italiano e English Sono piuttosto liberale sull’uso dell’Hijab e sinceramente non credo che sia “obbligatorio”, quando si leggono i testi al massimo possiamo metterlo tra le cose “suggerite” ma certamente non obbligatorie. Allo stesso tempo penso i paesi occidentali che lo vietano peccano di semplice pregiudizio contro l’Islam. Una parola a parte meritano a mio ...
By: Marco Secchi
Gujarat Polls 2007 - Now Hindutva is Psuedo-Secular
2007-11-29 11:42:00 The24×7 news channels are on the verge of losing all credibility with their bias now becoming a joke. With phrases like “in a shocking coincidence” they all covered an ad from the BJP questioning the commitment to Justice and Convictions in the Godhra Case, courtesy the U.C. Bannerjee Commission. If the mere mention of Godhra by ...
Joseph Ellis On The Creation of A Secular State
2007-11-24 08:14:00 Many conservatives (along with Ron Paul) promote a revisionist history of the United States in which they deny the intention of the founding fathers to create a secular society with separation of church and state. The Constitution was a radical document for its time in many ways, including breaking from tradition in not basing its ...
By: Liberal Values
Islamist Thuggery and Official Complacency Challenge Secular Foundations of
2007-11-19 17:17:00 ...(read more)
Lucknow and imbibing secular values: Vinod Mehta turns nostalgic
2007-11-17 08:00:00 Vinod Mehta has written quite a long piece in the Outlook, fondy reminiscing the Lucknow of yore. Titled 'How I became a pseudo-secularist', the Outlook Editor recounts his childhood and youths in the City of Nawabs.He writes about 'Kazim and Co' and its owner Nasir. 'Nothing exemplifies the clash of civilisations better than what happened to Kazim & Co.It will come as no surprise that Kazim & Co soon closed down as customers began drifting away to the neon-lit establishments of the Sikhs and the Sindhis who had come as refugees after partition. However, Nasir went down honourably: he did not put up a fight.'And Safdar, who survived on his wits., knew the family history of every person worth knowing in the city, was intimately familiar with the geography of the entire town, a self-styled poet and patron of the arts, he carried both delicate and indelicate romantic messages efficiently, frequently adding his own masala. He could fix an appointment with any minister, he ...
Lucknow and imbibing secular values: Vinod Mehta turns nostalgic
2007-11-17 08:00:00 Vinod Mehta has written quite a long piece in the Outlook, fondy reminiscing the Lucknow of yore. Titled 'How I became a pseudo-secularist', the Outlook Editor recounts his childhood and youths in the City of Nawabs.He writes about 'Kazim and Co' and its owner Nasir. 'Nothing exemplifies the clash of civilisations better than what happened to Kazim & Co.It will come as no surprise that Kazim & Co soon closed down as customers began drifting away to the neon-lit establishments of the Sikhs and the Sindhis who had come as refugees after partition. However, Nasir went down honourably: he did not put up a fight.'And Safdar, who survived on his wits., knew the family history of every person worth knowing in the city, was intimately familiar with the geography of the entire town, a self-styled poet and patron of the arts, he carried both delicate and indelicate romantic messages efficiently, frequently adding his own masala. He could fix an appointment with any minister, he ...
Secular Fundamentalists: There is no such thing...and the AAI conference do
2007-11-15 07:03:00 Reddit this -- Digg this! One of the methods used by the religious to marginalize atheists and our increasing visibility is to accuse us of becoming that which we originally opposed, or in other words, just like them. It?s even better if they have the convenience of one experience with these so-called ?secular fundamentalists? from which they can draw unfounded conclusions as to the validity of this argument and, ultimately, the character of all those who have no belief in gods, goddesses, or other mythical creatures. READ MORE » Bookmark/Search this post with: | | | | | | |
Defying the myths: the rational, educated, secular, prosperous suicide bomb
2007-11-14 16:24:00 Suicide terrorism. A term that in today?s political climate carries a certain image, like the one depicted to the left. One of irrationality and illiteracy, with fanaticism, religious zeal and 70 virgins promised in heaven for the martyr. Etymology The term “terrorism” comes from Latin terrere, “to frighten” via the French word terrorisme, which is often associated ...
Pseudo secular media and Nandigram: What they are saying about Buddhadeb Bh
2007-11-14 00:00:00 The 'pseudo secular' media is keeping totally quiet about Buddhadeb and Nandigram. Not a peep out of them. Some of them, in fact, are reporting that it is a 'reaction' to the 'action', initiated by violent Maoists and the CPI(M) retaliation was spontaneous, and entirely natural. Not! According to this screenshot, taken ...
By: DWS Extra
Secular Film and the Sublime
2007-11-03 11:49:00 Two films I saw this week have something to teach Christian artists about communicating the sublime. Neither was particularly deep, though one had pretensions in that direction. Both were about 40 minutes too long, the lack of character development eventually making me lose interest in pure visual sensation, but what a sensation it was. Most relationship-driven movies I've seen are directed like large-screen television shows, while the action movies are like video games, with lots of "shock and awe" but little attention to beauty. Across the Universe, the Beatles musical directed by Julie Taymor, is one of the few that sensually savors the visual medium and delights in exploring its extreme capabilities. So much so, in fact, that I was seduced by the experience of the film, and only afterward felt slightly dirty upon realizing what a work of propaganda it was. For one thing, drug use is shown in a wholly positive light. No one gets addicted, has a bad ...
By: Reiter's Block
Ghastly Spectres of Secular Humanism
2007-10-06 16:09:00 According to the James Dobson’s of the world, secular humanism inevitably leads to moral turpitude and societal decay. Strangely however, the opposite seems to be true. Take Norway as a case-study… Norway flourishes as secular nation: Rev. Rick Mason notes that atheism is on the rise. He blames Christian fundamentalism. Certainly the ineptness, dishonesty and ...
By: Migrations
Secular Israel vs. She?arit Israel
2007-09-21 07:46:00 God is not “finished” with national Israel, even though there’s a “partial hardening” until the fullness of the Gentiles come to faith (Rom 11:25), and then “all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:26). The Church is actually made a part ofshe’arit Israel- the faithful remnant of Israel (Rom 11:17), and not the other way around. ...
Humanistics the Atheist Church
2007-09-21 03:56:00 Chaplain Greg Epstein a Harvard Professor has Identified a need for Atheists to organize to build a structure for their secular community to develop a religion that is absent from GOD. read more
By: Communati.com
Welcome to the jungle
2007-09-18 05:26:00 The incident as depicted in the video footage from YouTube above happen in a place we called Parliament Malaysia, situated in the same city with the towering and mighty former world tallest building of KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Centre). A city with a gateway about 57km away call KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) which ...
Secular Democracy Begins at Home
2007-09-16 18:21:00 Charles C. Haynes of the First Amendment Center poses a good question in the following essay: What part of ?secular nation? do we not understand? While American soldiers fight to establish a secular democracy abroad, many Americans want to create a Christian nation at home. Consider the findings of ?State of the First Amendment 2007,? a national survey ...
By: Kmareka.com
Controversy on Bhagvad Gita - Gandhian Antidote to Secular Ignorance
2007-09-12 01:31:00 ? OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi ?? ?? ?? ???? ????? ??. ? Predictably the usual suspects in the media have expressed “secular” outrage on “observations, not “rulings”, by Justice SN Srivastava of the Allahabad High Courton the ...
Secular and Muslim : Not an Oxymoron
2007-09-05 01:51:00 Turkish immigrants who ended up in Germany a few decades ago were known as “Turks”. Nowadays Turks, Iranians and others who originally immigrated to Germany from Muslim countries, are simply referred to as “Muslims”. Not only are they typecast in this fashion by the government, but they are also spoken for by Islamic umbrella groups such as the Central Committee of Muslims.A number who have taken exception to being stereotyped in this fashion, decided to do something about it this year. With the help of Iranian human rights activist, Mina Ahadi, a group was formed called the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims - a play on the name of Germany’s largest Muslim organization - the Central Committee for Muslims.So-called ‘cultural’ or ‘secular’ Muslims are in fact more common in Europe than is generally acknowledged. Studies indicate that a large number of immigrants from Muslim countries rarely attend mosque, and that less than 10% of Muslim youth pray on a regular basis....
By: Aidan Maconachy
My Country not Secular ?
2007-09-03 08:06:00 I love my country very much and I can sacrifice my life for it.But not like Qutubuddin Ansari, begging for his and his families life,not to burn his home, but moments later this photograph is taken, he was dead along with his family members.People not knowing the truth can not feel the ...
By: Asiogroups.com
Secular Humanist Revisionists
2007-09-02 18:17:00 Your Sunday Skepticomic from D.C. Simpson.To view last Sunday's comic click here.
?Secular? Turkey?s Prime Minister And President Are Now Both Islamists
2007-08-29 14:51:00 The third time was the charm for Abdullah Gul. The devout Muslim whose wife wears a headscarf won Turkey’s presidency Tuesday after twice falling short of the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to secure the position. In the third round of voting, he only needed a simple majority. Gul?s party, the Islamic-oriented Justice and Development ...
A religious man rises in secular Turkish politics
2007-08-28 21:42:00 After being shut out of the presidency last spring, Abdullah Gul, a religious man in the assiduously secular realm of Turkish politics, allowed himself a little soul-searching.
Religion, Secularism & Politics in the 21st Century
2007-08-27 15:02:00 Center for Inquiry hosts conference in NovemberRenowned speakers, scholars, and media personalities will meet to discuss the future of reason and secularism in an America and a world increasingly divided by religion. Join Christopher Hitchens, Alan Dershowitz, Peter Singer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Wendy Kaminer, Ann Druyan, an unannounced Very Special Guest, and many others for this historic event.Themes will include: * The Age of American Unreason * The Next Islamic Enlightenment * Science and the Public * Student Freethinkers Speak Out * Secularism through History: from Spinoza to JFKWith the Atheist Alliance International Convention in late September, looks like there will be plenty of time to get in some good heathen networking before Christmas.Learn more and register at the Center for Inquiry website.
Song of the week: "Secular Praise" Sho Baraka
2007-08-27 07:20:00 I am posting my song of the week early since I won't be here. Enjoy. =)Sho Baraka MySpace
The ?Secular-Fundamentalist Death Spiral?
2007-08-26 16:08:00 (Title based on a quote by Andrew Sullivan) On August 31st televangelist Bill Keller will insult his last Muslim (or Mormon) on the CBS affiliate station in Tampa Florida, WTOG-TV. He’s being forced to move on. Who’s to blame for the termination of this fiery, shock-and awe, God-Smacking preacher’s four year relationship with WTOG and CBS? Most ... |
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