Daily Topics - Tuesday April 26th, 2011
By shawnt56
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Correction: Re: Conservatives' attack on public education 4/25...PFAW did not say, "The complete privatization of schooling might be desirable, but this objective is politically impossible for the time being..." They were quoting the Hearltand Institute who said it.
Hour One: What is the fate and future of the economy?
Hour Two: Is Chernobyl's legacy the future for Fukushima...and America? Cindy Folkers, Beyond Nuclear
Hour Three: Bankrupt states of America? Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
Comments
#2
You take a plane,
Followed by a train,
And then you go
For a walk in the rain.
Then some guy tells you that you're covered with radioactive water.
#3
Agreed! But futhermore, we should not be surprised that Christianity is so entwined with politics. When Christianity was in it's infancy, competing with many other similar salvation oriented belief systems, it was fragmented with many conflicting concepts coming out of interpretations of Jesus' message. The Roman Empire was also in turmoil as it was breaking up. It was Emperor Constantine, recognising the political uses of religion who declared he was miraculously "converted" to Christianity. He then gathered certain Christian leaders and set the approved standards for Orthodox Christianity, which handily enforces the idea of the political leadership as appointed by God, and denigrates women, self responsibility, and free choice. It also declared as Heresy those groups which had woman leaders, democratic ideas, and anything else that did not enforce the Monarchy.
#4
I think the "divine right of kings" came more from the Holy Roman Empire. Once the Pope crowned a political leader, it became a bandwagon, even though the "holy" moniker went back and forth between the French and Germans without delegitimizing whichever one didn't have it. The second, and possibly more important, step was when an emperor tried to excommunicate the pope and suffered for it.
Heh. We sound like Adams and Jefferson, arguing over whether state ruins church or church ruins state.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Screwed:
"Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull’s eye with a much needed exposé of the so-called ‘free market.’ Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now."
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
Religion is a for-profit business - plain and simple. As such, they should not be offered tax exempt status.