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Posted by admin | Mar 6th, 2010
Blasphemy – How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
Blasphemy How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator and “Nature’s God,” on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the...
Posted by admin | Feb 4th, 2010
Judging Jehovahs Witnesses – Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution
Judging Jehovahs Witnesses Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution
Winner of the Scribes Award Given by The American Society Of Writers On Legal Subjects
Finalist, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
Washington Post Book World Notable Book in Religion and Philosophy
While millions of Americans were defending liberty against the Nazis, liberty was under vicious attack at...
Posted by admin | Feb 2nd, 2010
Gods Long Summer – Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Gods Long Summer Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Charles Marsh thinks historians who argue the civil rights movement was about rights have made a big mistake. In God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights, he takes a different stance. He says the civil rights movement was about God. Marsh defends this controversial thesis with five profiles of civil rights leaders (ranging from cotton...
Posted by admin | Jan 22nd, 2010
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt – Towards a Secular Theocracy
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt Towards a Secular Theocracy
"It is a small, conservative, philosophical gem, and I love it."-Amos Perlmutter
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context,...
Posted by admin | Jan 21st, 2010
Church and State – A Postmodern Theology, Book One
Church and State A Postmodern Theology Book One
This is a political theology for the Baha'i Faith, but it is also a philosophy for living in our globalized, post-modern society. The author investigates the Baha'i teachings concerning the separation of "Church" and State. This is an exhaustive review of Baha'i literature on the subject, but the book also inquires into the scriptures...
Posted by admin | Jan 21st, 2010
Democracy vs Theocracy – The President and The Senate Will Decide YOUR FUTURE
Democracy vs Theocracy The President and The Senate Will Decide YOUR FUTURE
Concise and unerring, Democracy vs. Theocracy: the President and the Senate Will Decide YOUR FUTURE by JoAnn M. Macdonald is an important work of non-fiction that illustrates the issues rearing their ugly heads in the American political climate regarding the separation between church and state. On a slippery slope, the contentious...
Posted by admin | Jan 21st, 2010
The Liberal Conscience – Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism
The Liberal Conscience Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism
"A new liberal theory awaits, one that properly acknowledges the fundamental values and commitments of theocrats and liberals alike." — from The Liberal of Conscience
In recent years, the battle between liberalism and theocracy has taken center stage around the globe. To many it is a dispute that can only end...
Posted by admin | Jan 20th, 2010
Eternal Hostility – The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy
Eternal Hostility The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy
What is behind the violence against abortion clinics, attacks on gays and lesbians and the growing power of the religious right?
Frederick Clarkson makes it clear that beyond the bombers and assassins who sometimes make news, is a growing, if not well understood, movement that encompasses Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, the Unification...
Posted by admin | Jan 5th, 2010
Dominionism – Conservative Christianity
Dominionism Conservative Christianity Politics Christianity Biblical law in Christianity Dominion Theology Christian Reconstructionism
Dominionism describes, in several distinct ways, a tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians, especially in the United States of America, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action?aiming either at a nation...
Posted by admin | Jan 4th, 2010
Christian Supremacy
Christian Supremacy Christian Christianity Americans United for Separation of Church and State Ceremonial deism Christian Reconstructionism Dominionism Fundamentalist Christianity
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christian supremacy refers to two different but related ideas. During the era of Western imperialism, the belief that Christians had a right and duty to rule over non-Christian...
Posted by admin | Dec 29th, 2009
Committed – A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Committed A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors...
Posted by admin | Dec 18th, 2009
Public Philosophy – Essays on Morality in Politics
Public Philosophy Essays on Morality in Politics
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent...
Posted by admin | Nov 17th, 2009
The Irresistible Revolution – Living as an Ordinary Radical
The Irresistible Revolution Living as an Ordinary Radical
Living as an Ordinary Radical Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the stre
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1 Star Read the Bible instead
From the first pages I knew what this book was. Pop cultural American neo-socialism. This...
Posted by admin | Nov 9th, 2009
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe – Immigration, Islam and the West
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe Immigration Islam and the West
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
Posted by admin | Nov 3rd, 2009
Crimes Against Logic – Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists and Other Serial Offenders
Crimes Against Logic Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians Priests Journalists and Other Serial Offenders
A witty assault on lame rhetoric, specious logic, and official BS
Here's a fast-paced, ruthlessly funny romp through the mulligan stew of illogic, unreason, and just plain drivel served up daily in the media by pundits, psychics, ad agencies, New Age gurus, statisticians, free trade ideologues,...
Posted by admin | Oct 26th, 2009
Pagans and the Law
Pagans and the Law
Dana D. Eilers now brings her legal education and experience to the Pagan community with this new book. A 1981 cum laude graduate of New England School of Law with a history of private civil practice for 17 years in the states of Missouri and Illinois, Dana has written an informative and educational resource to help Pagans understand the law and how it works. This book touches upon constitutional...
Posted by admin | Oct 16th, 2009
Readings in Classical Political Thought
Readings in Classical Political Thought Hackett Publishing Co
Designed to include all of the texts from presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thought, this anthology has at its core generous selections from Plato and Aristotle. Building on this core is a sufficiently diverse and substantial selection of texts from other writers-including Thucydides...
Posted by admin | Sep 28th, 2009
Jihad vs McWorld – How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
Jihad vs McWorld How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
As soon as you hear the conceit of this book–that there are two great opposing forces at work in the world today, border-crossing capitalism and splintering factionalism, and that they are the two biggest threats to democracy–you know it rings true enough to be worth reading. Although capitalism could have only grown to...
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