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CNN, 2000-09-21
One-third of all children who attend public schools in the United States are being taught unsatisfactory science, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
The evaluation by Lawrence Lerner, a professor of natural sciences and mathematics at California State University at Long Beach, graded each state according to its treatment of evolution in the classroom. Lerner used as the basis for his evaluation state science standards as they apply to the teaching of evolution.
Rall.com, 2000-09-06
America is one of the most religion-mad (really, Christian-mad) nations on Earth. Both Turkey and Israel go to extreme lengths to keep their deeply devout societies politically secular, while the United States seems poised to surpass Iran and Afghanistan for high-volume religiosity.
The Nation, 2000-09-18
American Senator (and vice-presidential candidate) Joseph Lieberman recently declared that "the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." Katha Pollitt explains that this is not only a gross misreading of the American constitution, but that Lieberman, a Jew, is thus giving support to the dangerous and already powerful Christian right. Says Pollitt:
When a Jew endorses, or seems to endorse, an intrusive public role for religion, the Christian right is inoculated from charges of bigotry. No wonder Lieberman has drawn praise from Jerry Falwell and Jewish-banker-conspiracy fan Pat Robertson--even though, of course, they know he's going to hell for refusing to accept Christ as his personal savior.
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Facing the common enemy, secularism, devout Christians and Jews dwell lovingly on their similarities as part of a "Judeo-Christian" ethos, when historically the ethos of each faith was precisely that it wasn't the other--as Jews were recently reminded by the Pope's shameful beatification of Pius IX, a reactionary anti-Semite...
Rationalist International, 2000-09-09
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly Holy Inquisition) has set the records straight: All religions are not equal! In fact, the only "church in a proper sense" is the Roman Catholic one and the Pope is the Pope is the Pope! In the document Declaration dominus iesus on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church, which is endorsed by the Pope and sent to bishops worldwide, the Vatican strongly rejects the concept of equality of religions. "There exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic church, governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him.""The Catholic church possesses and has been entrusted with the fullness of grace and truth." Non-Christian religions are in a "gravely deficient situation" regarding salvation. Other Christian churches "suffer defects" since they do not accept the Catholic doctrine of the absolute primacy of the Pope. While some remain united with the Catholic church and are therefore not completely deprived of salvation, others cannot be called "churches in a proper sense".
Rationalist International, 2000-09-02
More and more "saints" for the Catholic church! One of the two former popes who will be beatified on
3 September by the present pope will be Pius IX who reigned the Pontificate from 1846 to 1878. Pius
was the last pope-king to rule as the temporal monarch over central Italy and was notorious for his
ultra conservatism, anti- Semitism and intolerance.
One of the favorite shows of Pius IX for his visitors was done by Edgardo, a Jewish boy kidnapped by
papal police, and later grown by the pope "like his obedient son". The pope ordered Edgardo to lick
the floor with his tongue drawing a cross in front of his visitors to affirm his faith.
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Pope Pius IX during his Pontificate of 32 years, the longest ever in the history of the Catholic
church, despite losing temporal powers and land day by day, adamantly opposed religious tolerance and
published the 1864 syllabus of errors to combat modernism. He called the first Vatican Council to
define the doctrine of papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals. "I am the Church, I am the
tradition," was one of his favorite phrases.
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