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Current Topics.
In Defense of Elitism (The Choice of Sarah Palin)
Author Sam Harris called his article “In Defense of Elitism”. Newsweek titled it “When Atheists Attack”, which puts the emphasis on the wrong debate. The article is a well-reasoned criticism of the choice of Sarah Palin as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee. The article is lengthy but well-written.
–-September 23, 2008
The Decline of the US
"Dying empires cling until the very end to the outward trappings of power. They mask their weakness behind a costly and technologically advanced military. They pursue increasingly unrealistic imperial ambitions. They stifle dissent with efficient and often ruthless mechanisms of control. They lose the capacity for empathy...". [This article was published in the Philadelphia
Inquirer. If this link is no longer valid, click on the link above.]
-–Article by Chris Hedges, posted here December 10, 2007
The Creation Museum
The opening of this “museum” would be amusing if it weren’t taken so seriously by many as historical fact. It really should be viewed as a Disneyland for believers—a portrayal of the Genesis fairy-tale. But many families in this country will take their small children and teach them that this “museum” portrays the truth. And because so many American families ‘believe’, I expect the “museum” will be a cash cow for the owners. The downside for the country is that so many in these families vote.
-–Jeff Lewis, May 25, 2007
The Death of Jerry Falwell
This is a press release from Ellen Johnson, President of American Atheists, on the death of Jerry Falwell. Some people may think Falwell ‘meant well’. No one who denigrates other law-abiding citizens means well.
--Jeff Lewis, May 15, 2007.
American Family Association: A Hate Group
It’s ironic that the American Family Association (AFA) should protest the passage of this Hate Crimes Act since it is one of the organizations that makes this act necessary.
--Jeff Lewis, May 7, 2007.
Retired Lt. General declares Bush 'seems to have gone AWOL'
[If the above link does not work, click Bush AWOL]
A very succinct and accurate summation of the disasterous mistake the Iraq invasion was by retired Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army. His radio address Saturday, April 28, 2007, details why the Democratic Congress' intervention in attempting to halt the war is justified in this case.
--Posted here Sunday, April 29, 2007.
"Traitors don't get to question my patriotism."
The outing of Valerie Plame for purely political reasons amounts to treason, in my eyes and in the eyes of Bill Maher, host of HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher'.
March 23, 2007
Timothy Leslie's Letter to Judge Connell: Religious Oaths
[If the above link doesn't work, go to Religious Oaths.]
"It is my belief that the oath administered to jurors and witnesses in your courtroom violates the intent, if not the letter, of the law because it does not treat all citizens equally with regard to religious or philosophical convictions. A founding principle of our nation is the separation of government and religion, not the “accommodation” of religion by government. The only way for government to accomplish this is by maintaining neutrality on matters of religious belief."
--Timothy C. Leslie, December 20, 2006.
Why Iraq?
With all of the reasons put forth by the administration for going to war with Iraq proven to be fabrications or exaggerations, what was the real reason for the invasion?
--by Jeff Lewis, December 9, 2006.
Myths Of Arab Democracy
--by Dick Meyer, editorial director of CBSNews.com.
(If the above link no longer works, go to http://www.parallelpac.org/mythdemo.htm)
[It’s time for Americans to be realistic about foreign policy under Bush Junior’s administration. Those of us who opposed the war on Iraq did so because we knew Iraq was an insignificant threat. Before the war, U.S. planes constantly buzzed Iraq and U.N. inspectors crawled all over it on the ground; we knew there were no weapons of mass destruction that Saddam could deploy without our knowing well in advance. We also knew Saddam was not hosting al Qaeda.
As all of the administration’s justifications for war were exposed as lies, the administration shifted to ‘making Iraq a beacon of democracy in the Middle East’. I’ve been uncomfortable with that justification for going to war with a sovereign country but couldn’t quite express why. This article does a good job. –Jeff Lewis, July 20, 2006]
Worst President Ever
I have not verified that this article was actually read by Doug Mc Intyre on ABC radio. The only reference I could find was at http://www.michaelbutler.com/blog/civic/2006/06/01/776/ . However; it does say what needs to be realized and said by more conservatives.
I do take exception with the classification of both Bush and Gore as mediocre. This seems to be a continuation of conservative preference for ideologues over intellectuals. –Jeff Lewis
--June 5, 2006
THE MURDER OF LARRY HOOPER
The murder of an atheist by a Christian zealot has received very little press. This is an account of the murder, the court procedings and the treatment of atheist observers by the defendant's family.
--by Arlene-Marie, December 20, 2005
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Previous Topics.
Why Impeach Bush?
A long-time Republican lists legitimate, compelling reasons for impeaching Bush.
--by Lee Coleman, December 18, 2005
And the Lies Go On
CBS Evening News is beginning to expose Bush administration lies when they occur as their piece on "Iraqi Troop Preparedness" indicates.
--by Jeff Lewis, November 30, 2005
Tax Cuts: Report Finds Much Harm, Little Good
“If tax cuts were ever going to produce economic growth, the evidence would have shown up in the economic data by now – but it’s simply not there,” said Price. “It’s time to declare this administration’s tax-cutting strategy a failure and start strategizing about how to rebuild the economic strength we have lost.”
--From the Economic Policy Institute.
Article featured on Common Dreams, October 25, 2005
[If the above link is obsolete, click Tax Cuts:.]
If You're a Christian, Muslim or Jew - You are Wrong
"There are a lot of people I love dearly and respect wholeheartedly who believe in religion. I hate to do this to them. But we have killed far too many people, wasted far too much time on this nonsense for us to keep going in this direction for fear of offense."
--by Cenk Uygur, October 23, 2005 (Huffington Post)
[If the above link is obsolete, click If You're a Christian,.]
Finally, the Truth
"With Bush’s approval ratings among blacks hovering at a mere 2%, the administration trotted out Condi Rice, this morning to talk on Meet the Press. Astoundingly, Ms. Rice decided the time had come to tell the truth about why we attacked Iraq. Here is a transcript of her answer to Russert’s statement that a majority of the public no longer feels the war is worth the cost: ..."
--by Kevin Courcey, October 16, 2005
Like sunlight on a vampire. (Bill O'Reilly's meltdown)
[Media Matters (www.mediamatters.org) is one of the most reliable web sources for the truth behind media stories. They specialize in observing and correcting right-wing crap and they are seldom wrong. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News is a notorious disseminator of right-wing and self-serving crap and has gone ballistic over the effectiveness of Media Matters. He is melting down under the truth as a vampire under the sun. –Jeff Lewis]
--October 5, 2005
When religion takes over, tyranny results
[Salman Rushdie is the author of “The Satanic Verses”, a work of fiction that drew the wrath of Muslims, including a $6 million bounty to have him killed and a death threat from the late Ayatollah Khomeini. (See “Lessons from the Satanic Verses”, by Conrad Goeringer.) In this current piece Rushdie warns of letting religion out of its box in the U.S. and elsewhere. --Jeff Lewis]
--by Salmon Rushdie, March 13, 2005
White House Lies: A History
When the history of the Bush administration is written, the abject cowardice of the press in confronting an administration that held it in undisguised contempt and lied in its face will be one of the most depressing chapters. As citizens, we have no defense from official deception but the reporters who are tasked with discovering the truth and holding presidents to account on our behalf do. As Alterman writes, if public officials "feel free to lie to the press -- and, by extension, the nation -- with impunity, then democracy becomes pseudo-democracy, as the illusion of accountability replaces the real thing."
--by Paul Waldman, February 27, 2005
(If the above link doesn't work, see www.parallelpac.org/admlies.htm.)
An Initial Sentiment on the 2004 Election
“How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?” This was on the cover of the Daily Mirror immediately after the election results were known in the U.S. I think Bush's win was attributable to the following strategy:
1. Bribe a certain group of people with fiscally unsound tax cuts.
2. Appeal to another group by continually instilling in them the fear of terrorism.
3. Sway another group by starting an unnecessary war and using it to whip up patriotic fervor.
4. Shamelessly play on and encourage religious zealotry.
--Jeff Lewis, November 7, 2004
How You Play the Game
Concerning the war in Iraq: "Few things in our history have cost us so much (in dollars and lives) while losing us so much respect around the world and swelling the ranks of our enemies."
--Jeff Lewis, October 31, 2004
Investigate Bush's Service Record
"When it comes down to it, it doesn’t matter to me what either of them did that long ago. But when one, who avoided Viet Nam, attacks some of the details of service of the other, who volunteered for and served in Viet Nam, it displays a gross character deficiency of the former (not unlike the Bush camp’s smear campaigns against two other war veterans, John McCain and Max Cleland). When the party with the gross character deficiency controls the machinery of government and uses it to influence an election, it reminds me of third world politics."
--Jeff Lewis, September 7, 2004
Bush Flip-flops on 527's
Bush used to be in favor of 527 groups (political groups supposedly independent of formal campaigns) but is now calling for outlawing them. This reinforces our earlier assertion that 527’s are hurting him. It was a matter of First Amendment rights in 2000, according to Bush then. Now that people are in revolt, and money is pouring into 527’s that oppose Bush, it’s a matter of controlling campaign financing—something Bush considered free speech just four years ago.
--Jeff Lewis, August 27, 2004
Republicans for Kerry
Many prominent GOP members in Oregon can no longer support Bush.
--from an article in the Oregonian, August 27, 2004, by Jeff Mapes
When Actions Speak Louder Than Medals
"And all these years later - the name-calling and nitpicking about wounds suffered and medals earned and honorable service aside - the important matter is that, when push came to shove, Lieutenant Kerry turned his boat around and drove back into a firefight to fetch an Army Green Beret out of the river."
--By Larry Heineman, August 27, 2004
Flash! Married Gay Neighbors Didn't Ruin Marriage!
[If the above link doesn't work, click here.]
The following article from the San Francisco Chronicle is a common-sense narrative written by a man in a heterosexual marriage who lives next door to a gay couple who married in February. Caution: for those of you who buy into the Religious Right’s absurd notion that gay marriage is a threat to heterosexual marriage, this article may be upsetting. –Jeff Lewis
"My gay neighbors" by Louis Freedberg, August 16, 2004
Who Would Jesus Torture: The Religion of George W. Bush
[If the above link does not work, go to backup article]
I don’t believe the Jesus of the Bible ever walked, but I do think there were people in the Bronze Age who were beginning to consider extending civility to people outside their own tribes and that the authors of the New Testament embodied these teachings in their main character. This article contrasts Jesus’ teachings with George W. Bush’s actions. There are a large number of Christians in this country who still think George W. Bush is their kind of guy. I hope there are not enough of them this time to re-elect him.
--Jeff Lewis, July 20, 2004
--Article by Christian Dewar, July 17, 2004
The Evolution of Marriage
People who oppose gay marriage often defend heterosexual marriage as traditional. The Bible’s view of marriage can be viewed as the possible tradition of the times, and one wonders when, who and how that tradition was broken to become today’s tradition, and why the evolution of that tradition should be arbitrarily halted today by Republican attempts to halt gay marriage.
Posted July 20, 2004
CIA Whitewash
"But by examining one of the major justifications for the war (that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium in Africa), we can see how the administration ignored the CIA when it conflicted with pre-existing policy goals."
--by Kevin Courcey, Sarasota, FL, July 10, 2004
Finally: A Presidential Candidate Who Gets It
Kerry said, "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. But I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist ... who doesn't share it. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."
--by Jeff Lewis, July 5, 2004
Bush Administration to World: “Go fuck yourself.”
"Regardless of what triggered the response, Cheney revealed the Bush administration’s overarching attitude towards the American people and the world: go fuck yourself."
--by Jeff Lewis, June 26, 2004
You Have Rights -- if Bush Says You Do
"Gone was the pretense of legality or principle. The Justice Department had finally found its natural moral resting point: Civil liberties are tolerated only to the extent that they will not interfere with the government's actions."
--By Jonathan Turley, June 3, 2004
Thinking conservatives are beginning to speak out
A letter to the editor spells out very succinctly the moral degradatation fostered by the Bush administration, especially as opposed to the radical right's attacks on Clinton.
--by L. Michael Adler, Creswell, OR, May 8, 2004
Born Yesterday
Understanding the atrocities in Iraq.
"From the Enlightenment through the founding of the United States, with its godless Constitution and rights deriving from the people rather than a divinity, mankind has been slogging through the barbaric tribalism of competing religions to be within sight of an age of reason. In such an age, rules of law, respect and common decency prevail, and positions of authority are used to uphold these principles, not break or abuse them."
--by Jeff Lewis, May 8, 2004
Freethinking vs. Religion: A Point of View
A letter to the editor of ‘The Ellsworth American’ in Ellsworth, Maine.
For freethinkers who read this, it is an eloquent recitation of the obvious. For the religious, it may help you understand the thinking of about 30 million of your neighbors in the United States.
--by Nancy Glista, a member of American Atheists, posted April 4, 2004
Stacked Decalog
As the debate over the Ten Commandments continues in this country, it’s good to revisit an article written last year enumerating the irrelevance of seventy percent of the Ten Commandments in today’s world. The continued arrogance of the religious right in assuming that the rest of the world should follow their mindset, filled with bronze-age dogma, is magnified out of proportion because we have a president and many in congress who perpetuate these backward views for political gain.
For those of you who are religious and are offended by this article I say this: there would be no need for articles like this if vocal religious zealots would keep their religion confined to themselves, their family and their churches and out of our schools, courtrooms and publicly financed buildings. Holding your religious views is your right. Forcing them on others is not.
Jeff Lewis, March 21, 2004
[Original article by Katha Pollitt at http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030922&s=pollitt]
Bush vs Hitler
Comparisons of Bush to Hitler have been met with a huge outcry from the right, but it is much better to join the debate on such issues while freedom of the press and free speech are still available to us than to wait until those rights are crushed under the weight of mindless patriotism.
--by Jeff Lewis, March 16, 2004
The Godless Americans Political Action Committee (GAMPAC)
An e-mail sent to people on this (Parallel Politics and Comment) list
concerning my being selected Political Director of the newly-formed
Godless Americans PAC.
--by Jeff Lewis, March 14, 2004
Onward (un)Christian Soldiers
"...Which brings us to Billy and Franklin Graham. These fifth-rate shysters, both close personal friends of the president, have spent decades engaged on a
relentless quest to turn the United States into the world's revenge on smart
people."
--From an article by Matt Taibbi (original at http://www.nypress.com/16/51/news&columns/cage.cfm) -- Posted December 18, 2003
Patriotism? Or Just Conformity?
"- but why do I get the feeling that he spends his days earning money to feed his family and his evenings watching sports on TV? Yet because he stands and sings a song, he's done his bit, and I'm a communist, baby-killing dyke."
--From an article Laura Kaminker (original at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1027-02.htm) -- October 29, 2003
One Summation of the Bush Administration
"The war is now being funded just like the rest of this Administration, with imaginary ‘BUSH BUCKS.' They're just like regular U.S. currency, but stolen from Americans yet unborn. Mr. Bush seems determined to double his father's former record $290 billion budget deficit. He's right on track."
--From an article "Winning the War on Credibility" by B. Rehak
, July 21, 2003
"The Bright Stuff"
"We brights don't believe in ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny - or God." A fledgling movement to recognize and unite the prime movers of enlightenment.
--An article in the New York Times by Daniel C. Dennett, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, July 13, 2003
"Religious Freedom in the United States?"
"Fourteen-year-old India Tracy said she was harassed and attacked by classmates for nearly three years after she declined to attend Baptist Pastor Gary Beeler's annual crusade because of her family's pagan religion."
--Article by the Associated Press in The Washington Post, May 12, 2003
"An Alternative to War"
France and Germany have developed a plan that would effectively contain Iraq and ultimately lead to the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Belgium, China, Greece, Russia and the Vatican concur.
--Article from The Times Online, commentary by Jeff Lewis, February 10, 2003
"Building Churches With Public Money"
"He [Bush] seeks, and is rapidly establishing, a theocratic dictatorship. He acts without regard for Congress or the Courts, and plunders the national wealth as though it were his own. ...
"It is my considered view that George W. Bush is the greatest threat this country has ever faced."
--by John S. Dearing, President, Corvallis Secular Society, February 4, 2003
"Justice Scalia: Supreme Court Troglodyte"
Justice Antonin Scalia apparently thinks it's OK for government to discriminate against atheists. This is an editorial from the Washington Post, January 28, 2003.
"The Down Side of Tax-free Dividends"
Doing away with taxes on dividend income is a greater moral problem than a significant economic benefit.
"...Tax-free dividends smells too much like another tax loophole for the very wealthy who are in the market for tax shelters precisely because they have extra income to shelter.
..." -- by Jeff Lewis, January 24, 2003
"Republicans and Democrats: Old Testament and New"
"...Recent events have made it clear to me that we are still in a kind of Old Testament/New Testament tug of war. Democrats are more likely to adopt the U.S. Constitution as the 'New Testament', written in the 18th century and updated via amendments as civilization advances, while conservative Republicans seem to cling to Biblical concepts written in the Bronze Age and not updated at all.
..." -- by Jeff Lewis, November 9, 2002
"Big Government, Republican Style"
"...But the highest cost inflicted on the people of the United States and the world by the Republican administrations can be defined as truly big government: the 'big brother' kind of big government. The kind of big government that invades your bedroom and your doctor's office and attempts to censor certain factual information so it can feed you its 'party line'.
..." -- by Jeff Lewis, November 3, 2002
"You Want an Opinion on Abortion?"
"...Allowing abortions only to 'good' women who didn't want to have sex sounds a little too much like you think that women who enjoy sex are immoral and deserve to be burdened with unwanted children..." [Part of this post to a chat group.] --
October 19, 2002
"Power Over Principle, Seconded"
Commentary on the Bush administration's short-sighted 'power over principle' policies. The commentary by Jeff Lewis was triggered by an editorial in the New York Times by George Fisher, a professor at Stanford Law School, entitled 'Power Over Principle'. (Posted September 10, 2002.)
"An Open Letter to John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States"
A letter read by the Claire Braz-Valentine at this year's 'In Celebration of the Muse', Cabrillo College. Gentle, deserved ridicule of Ashcroft's spending $8,000 of taxpayer's money for drapes to cover up the exposed breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18 ft aluminum statue of a woman that stands in the Department of Justice's Hall of Justice. (Posted May 4, 2002).
Politics.
"Our Loose Cannon in the White House"
The November elections and the manufacture of the crisis over Iraq. Not that the Iraq question shouldn't be addressed, but the manner it is being addressed by Bush is embarassingly political and amateurish. It is certainly not bringing dignity to the White House. --by Jeff Lewis,
September 26, 2002
"Questions on War With Iraq"
Common sense questions, as opposed to the Bush administrations patriotic hype, concerning Bush's plans to invade Iraq without provocation. -- by Dr. Ron Paul, Republican Member of Congress from Texas.
(Posted September 22, 2002.)
"A Glimpse of the Right Wing Agenda"
A list of quotes of some well-know religious and right-wing activists in the United States that offers some insight into the archaic state of their mental development. And you can bet that the glimpse is just the tip of the iceburg. Quotes submitted by Lee Coleman, January 8, 2002.
Church and State.
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and engrafted into the machine of government, have been a very
formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man."
--Thomas Jefferson
"...the government of the United States is not in any sense
founded on the Christian religion."
--from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in
1797.
"It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that
drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather
a scrupulous intellectual honesty."
--Steve Allen
"Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists"
The intent of the authors of our Constitution concerning the First Amendment by someone who was there. The origin of the phrase, 'separation of church and state'.
"American Religious Identification Study (ARIS)--2001"
The study by the Graduate Center of the City College of New York identifying the percentage of Americans by religion. One significant statistic--the percentage of Americans specifying NO RELIGION increased from 8.2 percent in 1990 to 14.1 percent in 2001.
"The Bush Administration and the Taliban"
There are similarities between the Bush administration and the Taliban. Both presume to have jurisdiction over individual matters of conscience and attempt to control information and speech. -- Jeff Lewis, November 16, 2001.
"Nonreligious Grieve Without Prayer" One of the few media articles portraying how up to 15 percent of the U.S. population are coping with the September 11 terrorists attacks in New York and Washington. -- written by Kara G. Morrison in the The Detroit News, September 21, 2001.
Letter to President Bush, re: financing religion. This letter was sent
to President George W. Bush after the "Community Solution Act", H.R. 7, was introduced in the House. It's time to voice opposition to federal funding of religious institutions. -- Jeff Lewis, July 16, 2001.
Letter to Senator Bill Frist. I sent this letter to U.S. Senator Bill Frist in response to a second solicitation for renewal of my membership in the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle. Basically, it lists examples of the regressiveness of the current Republican Party -- Jeff Lewis, February 27, 2001.
'Objective' Morality. With Bush and other Republicans now using our tax dollars to prop up selected religions, it's time to remind people why the authors of the Constitution wanted to keep religion out of government. This is one article by John B. Hodges explaining the hoax that morality requires religion. --February 26, 2001.
The Office of National Religion. George W. Bush's proposed Office of Faith-based Action poses major problems. --Jeff Lewis, February 7, 2001.
" 'Majority rule' invalid demand by any religion in U.S."--by Jim Krider
--An excellent article about what's wrong with the push for the Ten Commandments in schools and majority-rule religious coercion in general. This article was published in the South Bend (IN) Tribune on May 21, 2000, and is one of the clearest, most straight-forward explanations of the principle of separation of church and state I've seen in a long time. --jkl, 9/4/00.
Abortion.
"Lately, stem cell research and cloning have caught the attention of Washington. Driven by ignorance, conservative thinking and fear of the unknown, our political leaders have undertaken to make laws that suppress this type of research."
--Jim Clark, August 31, 2001, from an editorial in the New York Times entitled, "Squandering Our Technological Future". He is the founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon (now WebMD) and myCFO. He is on the board of Shutterfly, myCFO and DNA Sciences.
The Abortion Issue. U.S. abortion policy under Bush and the Republicans is oppressive government policy. --Jeff Lewis, September 3, 2001.
Religion.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
-- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
...the "laws" of nature were never enacted, they were discovered, and when new knowledge was developed, the "laws" were modified accordingly. Since the advent of science, every single "unknown", the cause of which was ascribed to a god or gods but is now "known", has been exposed as a natural phenomenon; and there has not been a single case where a supernatural causation has been established. In other words, science has forced religious believers to retreat ever outward from our sphere of knowledge to what is still unknown, never the other way around. ...
-- Gene Sproul
"The most unbelievable social convention of the age in which we live is the one to the effect that all religious opinions should be respected, no matter how ignorant."
-- H.L. Mencken
"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as
erroneous as
to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
-- Cardinal Bellarmine (1615, during the trial of Galileo).
"The two most abundant things in the
universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
--Harlan Ellison
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
-- Albert Einstein
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move
against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
-- Aristotle
Are You a Christian? You are a fundamentalist Christian if ...
[Author currently unknown. Posted 2/22/2005.]
Debate: Living in an evidence-free zone. A great essay on the 'evidence' for a god. '"If you don't believe in God, how can life have any meaning?" I walk off, smiling'.
--by Michael Allen, Ohio State Director for American Atheists. July 1, 2004.
More on the Mythical Jesus. Jesus seems to be a composite of much older myths and religious beliefs.
Christianity's Origins in Mithras. Mithras was the major competing religion with Christianity in the early centuries AD in Rome. When Christianity became the official and only acceptable religion in Rome (starting about 300ad), there was an almost complete destruction of Mitraic literature, temples, info, etc. (info researched by zimba_2001)
Bible Versions. A short list and review of different versions of the Bible.
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Links (alphabetically).
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
American Atheists,
Placing human rights, reason and science above indoctrination, fear and superstition.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State,
"Church-state separation stands as one of the foundations of our Nation. Because of it, Americans enjoy unparalleled religious liberty and nurture one of the most vital religious communities in the world. Separation guarantees you the freedom to worship or not to worship as you choose."
CHILD, Inc.,
Fighting religion-related medical neglect
and abuse of children.
Corvallis Secular Society, Corvallis, Oregon.
Member of the Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies (ASHS),
which is affiliated with the Council for Secular Humanism.
Council for Secular Humanism, "We are committed to the application of reason and science to the understanding of the universe and to the solving of human problems."
Godless Americans Political Action Committee, (GAMPAC) A political action committee for the 30 million plus non-believers in America. Working to maintain separation of church and state.
Institute for First Amendment Studies, A group keeping an eye on religious right activity.
National Center
for Science Education, Inc., Dedicated to keeping
evolution education and combating the
teaching of creationism in public schools.
Oregon Death With Dignity,
Defending the rights of Oregonians to the option of
physician aid in dying if their suffering should
become intolerable.
Pearly's Liberal Democratic Links, A link to many liberal and Democratic sites.
Planned Parenthood, Provider of sexual and
reproductive health information and services.
Quotes, Good Quotes by Famous People
Site History.
This site used to be The Parallel Republican PAC which was discontinued on January 29, 2001. The domain name, www.parallelpac.org, is now Parallel Politics and Comment, a forum for political discussion and ideas.
The Parallel Republican PAC at its close, January 29, 2001.
(This site last updated December 10, 2007.)
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