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But that won't be the focus of Western reporting.

Western reporting focuses far more on crimes done to Christians than on crimes done by Christians to members of other religions. When was the last time you heard a news story about the Christian terrorist groups in Africa that target Muslims?

But that won't be the focus of Western reporting.

So far as I know, Stairway to Heaven does not quote the Bible. But if there is ever a second volume of the Book of SubGenius it will probably reference Stairway to Heaven.

There are songs that do quote the Bible. Pete Seeger's song Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - best known from the cover version by The Byrds - is probably the best known example; aside from the words Turn Turn Turn, it's lifted pretty directly from Ecclesiastes 3:1-4. Lists with many more songs that contain Bible references are online; here is one: http://www.christiantoday.com/...

(You probably know all of this already, PopeRatzo. But maybe somebody reading the thread does not.)

Give it time, give it time ... in the meantime, some nut is asking for donations to raise $25,000 to translate the bible into emojis ... anything for a buck and 15 minutes of what passes for "fame" nowadays.

One thing you can say about the Egyptians and their pyramids, despite no one practicing their religion (in numbers): despite Cairo being 9:1 Muslim:Coptic Christian, no one will ever forget the people who built them. As long as humans exist on this earth anyway.

You may be interested to note that the Salafis released after the fall of Mubarak (thanks to the clueless Obama pulling the rug out from under him and unleashing the Islamists across the region) wish to destroy the 'pagan' Pyramids and Sphinx just as they blew up the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan and destroyed the medieval mosque in Timbuktu, Mali in the last year. Now not every Egyptian feel this way, but these guys are "on a mission from Allah" and feel they are commanded to destroy all non-Muslim cultural artifacts. As time goes one expect the Salafis to win additional power over more moderate Islamicists (just as in any organisation those who can claim to be 'holier than thou' can marginalise moderate voices, leading to the organization becoming more and more extreme over time).

Mandatory citations of the proposed madness:
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249092.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/
Here's a claim made nearly half a year later, showing that the call for destruction was not an isolated incident or single imam, but an intended goal of the Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood once they are in a position to do so:
http://au.christiantoday.com/article/muslim-brotherhood-backed-egyptian-president-renews-call-for-destruction-of-pyramids-and-sphinx/14432.htm

Now here is the apologies for the Islamicists from a left-leaning media source (typical, the leftist media in the US loves Islam and make excuses every way they can). It claims that the calls for destruction of the pyramids were a 'hoax' yet then goes on to say the claims were 'fringe'. That means the claims were *real* (not a hoax as the apologist makes out) but still on the fringe. The pyramids are safe, for now, but expect as Egypt becomes more and more extreme. This is also the plan of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis to impose more and more Sharia on Egypt progressively [incidentally, what they are trying to do through 'Cultural Jihad' through the OIC-dominated UN is similar, but on a much longer timescale so ordinary joes won't notice the installation of special rights for Muslims and limits being placed on Free Speech for non-Muslims; all in accordance with Sharia and enacted through "political correctness"].
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-24/blow-up-the-pyramids-u-s-pundits-fall-for-a-hoax.html

The Islamicists aim to take over the World (as the Qur'an commands them to). If they are prepared to rob other cultures of irreplaceable antiquities just how much less do they value your human rights or even your life. Islam must be stopped by all Free People (regardless of our differences in political leanings or beliefs in the best economic system). If we don't unite to stop Islam our culture will be destroyed and forgotten, just as the former cultures of the Middle East have been (eg. Roman/Byzantine culture that lasted around 2500 years; the Persians with a similar heritage; the Graeco-Egyptian culture in Egypt; etc). Israel is first on the chopping block and then the West is next (as the Muslims say to themselves, "First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people" [the planned order of conquest and subjgation]).

Most people simply aren't aware just how barbaric Islam is. No wonder, the Lefti

You have publicly advocated for teaching evolution as fact, rather than theory.

In an imprecise world, scientific theory serves a purpose of assigning better understood, and predictable, behavior to large systems, like evolution and the theory of relativity. Most don't dispute the theory of relativity because it is testable. Due to its very nature, the theory of evolution is difficult to use as a yardstick to predict what happens when, say, you put a petri dish of living organisms in a dark room over night.

Shouldn't it be more important to teach the scientific method, and the understanding of what scientific theory is, than to teach that scientific theories are important only when they are taught as fact?

Who Gives and Who Doesn't. [go.com]. Yes, you can call it biased... yet no liberals have ever been able to disprove it, just attack the authors without substantive arguments.

I don't accuse it of any deliberate bias, but I certainly do question the methodology and what's included in "charitable".

I'll tell you what. I will accept at face value your link's figure that Conservatives are 18% more likely to donate blood. However I'm not prepared to accept the figure that Conservatives are supposedly "30% more charitable" until I see some indication that that 30% actually is charity.

Donating money to build yourself a neighborhood church is certainly tax deductible, but in my opinion that is no more "charitable giving" than building yourself a neighborhood golf club. And donating money to maintain your church and pay salaries for ministers and whatnot is no more "charity" than money given to maintain and pay salaries for your golf club.

I would also say that 8,000 Bibles for Hurricane Katrina evacuees doesn't much qualify as charity.
And another 100,000 Bibles for for Hurricane Katrina evacuees doesn't much qualify as charity.
And another nearly one million Bibles for for Hurricane Katrina evacuees doesn't much qualify as charity.

And "food aid programs for starving children" need to be discounted according to whatever percentage of their expenses and efforts are actually diverted to Bibles and proselytizing efforts.

Furthermore, while certain Faith Based Charities (I'm looking at you, Salvation Army) primarily do real charity work, I am SORELY TEMPTED TO PUT EACH DOLLAR IN THE -1 COLUMN when their website has (or had) a Bible quote that homosexuals should be put to death and they lobby one or more governments for homosexuality to be CRIMINAL, and when instead of delivering toy-donations to children they instead DESTROY the donated toys if they are Harry Potter themed or Twilight themed or any other "non-christian" toys they get. They don't even hand those toys over to some other charity to use, they just destroy toys that people tried to donate to poor/sick children. The homosexual-thing is evil but comprehensible, but seriously WTF sort of twisted fuck goes around accepting toy donations for sick children and destroying those toy donations???

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http://www.cathnewsindia.com/tag/koodankulam-nuclear-plant/

http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/has-church-hijacked-tn-anti-nuclear-stir/327707.html

Dang, I wish I had mod points.

Interestingly, the Christian Missionary Churches in India are by far the most casteist, with upper caste priests dominating the churches and segregating the lower caste Christians. Which is why just last month some 5000 Christians reconverted back to Indian religions.

http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/1,000-dalit-christians-reconvert-to-hinduism-in-tn/2653.htm
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12011&size=A
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58117

The pastor arrested was in Sweden.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/swedish.past or.accused.of.hate.crimes.not.guilty/4649.htm

Hehe... I wonder if the True Love Waits crowd would like that as a slogan. ;)