Image by Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal via Flickrhttp://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/28/are-the-new-atheists-wrong-to-suggest-religious-moderates-justify-the-extremes
I want your opinion about something. I’m a liberal religious person who doesn’t believe in doctrines, dogma or a supernatural God. 19% of members in my tradition identify as atheist, 30% as agnostic and the rest Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Pagan or otherwise. Many of us have been wounded by the bigotry, homophobia and dogma in the religions we grew up in and find refuge, support and community in my tradition. We come together on Sunday mornings to enjoy music and hear sermons about social justice, the power of community and how to live inspiring and meaningful lives. Some ministers may use the word God in an all-inclusive way but most choose to avoid the term because of its troubled history. Here’s my question for you: Should I abandon my tradition because liberal and moderate religion serves to justify the extremes? Is my participation in this religious institution providing legitimacy and credibility for fundamentalism, violence, oppression and bigotry done in the name of religion? I’m studying to be a minister in this tradition. It’s called Unitarian Universalism. Am I guilty by association? Should I jump ship? What do you think?
Religious Indoctrination: Brainwashing, or just a rinse and set?
Muslim readers should skip this site to avoid offending sensibilities
http://atheistcamel.blogspot.com/2009/03/religious-indoctrination-brainwashing.html
What is more forceful, more intimidating, than to tell a child that failure to believe like the parents do will result in an eternity of pain and anguish in a hideously fearful place, and separation from the parents after death? Talk about force and coercion!
I'd proffer that unless a child is presented with the alternatives to the parents’ preferred religious belief; provided with a variety of options including the option of no belief ... and have it presented dispassionately without prejudice, threat, fear or undue influence, then indeed parental indoctrination of a child into their preferred belief system IS brainwashing.
Christianity in 105 Words
The belief that a walking dead Jewish deity who was his own father although he always existed, commits suicide by cop, although he didn't really die, in order to give himself permission not to send you to an eternal place of torture that he created for you, but instead to make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically promise him you accept him as your master, so he can cleanse you of an evil force that is present in mankind because a rib-woman and a mud-man were convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. -- Anon. _________________________ The whole thing would make Jesus die laughing, if he wasn't already dead, and assuming he ever existed.
U.S. Military Weapons inscribed with Jesus' 'secret' Bible codes
The Nightmare of Christianity: How Religious Indoctrination Led to Murder
http://www.alternet.org/story/142605/the_nightmare_of_christianity:_how_religious_indoctrination_led_to_murder?comments=view&cID=1322110&pID=1321699
Muslim Groups Talk War Over ‘Christianization’
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/city/muslim-groups-talk-war-over-christianization/382952
a new group calling itself the Bekasi Islamic Presidium is planning a roadshow aimed at persuading every mosque in the city to prepare for the possibility of “war” against “Christianization.”
Paid Bigots Including Walid Shoebat Teaching Religious War At U.S. Air Force Academy Mar 27 2008
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/israelenews_bigots.html
Civil liberties said trampled by G20 police
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100628/national/g8_g20_protests
Nathalie Des Rosiers, general council for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, planned to issue a report Tuesday unequivocally condemning some of the police tactics.
"We have police brutality, illegal searches, arbitrary detentions, people being asked all sorts of questions and being harassed," Des Rosiers told The Canadian Press.
"It's unconstitutional, it's illegal and it should not happen."
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