Jone's Treasures

Gems I've pick up while surfing ... and want to share.

Friday, September 24, 2004

Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked: Definitely a thought-provoking article!

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Thursday, February 26, 2004

The Despoiling of America - "How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State" - a well-researched article about the theocratic ideas of dominionist religious conservatives.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

How Can I Keep From Singing? - one of my favorite hymns, here in an MP3 version of the traditional Quaker hymn, performed by the WFBHS Concert Choir.

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Monday, August 25, 2003

To see ourselves as others see us: Gary Younge: God help America: "So while there is a constitutional, albeit contested, barrier between church and state, there is almost no distinction between church and politics. Indeed, when it comes to elections, religion is the primary galvanising force and the church the central mobilising vehicle." From The Guardian.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly . Archive | PBS - articles relating to bioethics

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly - stories updated periodically.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2003

The Bright Stuff: Daniel C. Dennett "comes out of the closet" -- as someone who does not believe in "ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny -- or God." Well, he was not so much in the closet before -- but finds that the new term "brights" has helped him talk about this rather large and much-maligned group of Americans.

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Vessel of Honour: Harry Potter: A Muggle Speaks Out - some conservative Christian commentary on the Potter phenomenon and their sort of Christianity. Not the insane overwrought reaction, far more thoughtful than that, though still very far from where I am!

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Saturday, July 12, 2003

Another of those fun and irritating quizzes -- these seem to be coming up with a single theme these days ...

Atheist
Threat rating: extremely low. You may think you can
subvert the government, but if you should try
you will be smited mightily because God likes
us best.


What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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