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  Huffington Post: When Is A Religion 'Extremist'? [Food for thought!]

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-is-a-religion-extremist_us_590de8e3e4b046ea176aeb98.

  tim rymel, m.ed.. governments who support “religious freedom” over the equal human rights and dignity of others condone, and even endorse discrimination.. 05/06/2017 11:27 am et | photo – flickr/ justin kern .

  government endorsement of any religious ideology creates religious extremism.

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  “It effectively means that holding their beliefs and manifesting them is tantamount to a criminal act in Russia. They risk new levels of persecution by the Russian authorities,” said international legal counsel, Lorcan Price.

  Totalitarian thought police. Do dubs THINK that I am an apostate and therefore not talk with me? Yep..... They have every right to THINK what they want. They have every right to not talk to me. The beauty of it is I have every right to THINK they are fucking nuts and I have every right to talk to whoever I want.

  POS propaganda piece indeed.

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  Do you have enough guts to play the Ouija board game???

  by James Mixon in

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  if so you are now free!!!!!!!!

  i could sit in a secluded cabin, in a thunder storm and no lights, all alone with no fear of demons jumping out of the woodworks....evil spirits can play hell in your life, what a relief......

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  I could never play the ouija board game!! IT IS SOLD RIGHT NEXT TO MONOPOLY AT TARGET for $19.99!!!

  If that doesn't scream "evil spirits", I don't know what does!

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  Your opinion is watchtower extremist?

  by poopie in

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  court gave 4 reasons you agree disagree.

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  Orphan... I agree 100%.... What good is religion?

  "And why should the rest of society be burdened with task of fighting against the barbaric practice of child sacrifice?"

  I hope that I will always live in a society that is not only burdened with the task of fighting against barbaric practices against children but will never rest in that fight. Can you think of anything more important then fighting against these practices??

  Why do parents still refuse to provide these blood treatments?? Because they value belief and obedience to their god more then their own children's lives. The dubs have indeed adjusted their teaching... not because they thought it was the moral thing to do but kicking and screaming because we have a vigilant society that is burdened with protecting our children.

  At the end of the day, these are personal beliefs. Fucked up, short sighted personal beliefs. Fucked up, short sighted personal beliefs must be allowed in a free and open society.

  If a parent refuses treatment, grabs the kid and runs from he hospital or does not take the kid to the hospital in the first place then he has broken the law and needs to be punished.

  It is in fact a costly burden but one that is of vital importance.

  Human progress is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowww.

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  Your opinion is watchtower extremist?

  by poopie in

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  court gave 4 reasons you agree disagree.

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  It is absolutely not a myth. I realize it is anecdotal but that is exactly what was going to happen in my case.

  What good is society if it should not be burdened to protect its children, especially when that child's idiot parents will not? I would argue that is precisely why we need "society"

  I say "all right with the world" slightly tongue in cheek.

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  Your opinion is watchtower extremist?

  by poopie in

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  court gave 4 reasons you agree disagree.

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  Jw beliefs are extreme. So what?

  When their beliefs turn into actions that harm other people they will be held accountable in our justice system. (USA)

  Individual freedom of thought is paramount to any society. Having a minor share of the population with kooky ideas is part of the price of that freedom.

  The ever popular "jw's will let their children die rather then give blood transfusions" has turned into a moot point here. The state will take temporary custody of a child for the length of time it takes for the treatment to happen. Kid gets treatment, parents save face and all is right in the world.

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  UC Berkeley Reverses order cancellation of Ann Coulter speech

  by blondie in

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  uc berkeley orders cancellation of ann coulter speech.

  officials at the university of california at berkeley on thursday reversed their decision to cancel a speech by conservative firebrand ann coulter.. the university had announced wednesday that it was canceling coulter’s appearance following several political protests in berkeley that turned violent.. but on thursday, the university said it had found a venue where it could hold the speech on may 2, instead of the original april 27 date.

  however, a leader of the college republican group that originally invited coulter said the university was placing strict conditions on the event, and he said his group intended to reject the new terms.. before the reversal was announced, coulter had vowed to go ahead with an appearance anyway.. that probably would have put security officials on high alert and might have sparked another showdown in struggles over campus safety, student views and ideological openness.. “what are they going to do?

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  The same university that cancelled a SPEAKING engagement for a gay jewish man... or a jewish gay man, now wants to silence the voice of a strong independent woman??? (i know, they tried to reschedule it to a less prime time event)

  Donald Trump's America

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  ps.... my favorite quote of hers is this "The strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent,"
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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  Nonjw... I think that is an excellent idea. I am generally against giving subsidies to religious organizations. Take them away from all the churches.

  Td... There will always be kooky movements in the enlightened countries. The religion was not banned but its adherents were rounded up and arrested because of what they did to children. It looks like the movement is essentially dead now. JW or christian scientists who deny their children medical help should be rounded up and arrested as well.

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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  On May 5, 2015, customs authorities in Russia seized a shipment of religious literature containing Ossetian-language Bibles published by Jehovah's Witnesses. Russian customs officials in the city of Vyborg held up a shipment of 2,013 Russian-language copies of Bibles on July 13, 2015. Customs authorities confiscated three of the Bibles, sent them to an "expert" to study the Bibles to determine whether they contained "extremist" language, and impounded the rest of the shipment.[72]

  A government that confiscates a pacifist organization's bibles is the definition of a totalitarian government.

  Finkle... as a side note... do you think mein kampf or the nazi party should be banned as well? I only ask because here in the US neither the book or the party is banned. Their ideology is not taking over...not because our government has banned them but because the book is absolute shit and the ideology is fucking crazy.. and I can (and have) read the book. Our culture has deemed it extreme and has relegated it the few looney toon characters (sorry bugs bunny) that are left.

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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  banning ideas has everything to do with emotional reasoning (and a money grab) If my family is blown up by christian scientologists who are studying to be jews it will not change the fact that it is a bad idea to ban ideologies.

  Ideologies live and die by logic and reason. The athiest movement is small but it is making headway while the progress is being made despite the iron clad grip that religion had on the world just a few hundred years ago. Our progress as human beings is no doubt slow. That is ok. As Sam Harris has said "climbing down from trees and starting civilizations from sticks and stones is hard work" (loosely paraphrased)

  Who do you want determining what ideas you can or cannot have? Is it ok because the russian government did it???

  Maybe banning the jw religion will reinforce their beliefs. Maybe it will wake some up. If we cannot have the individual freedom of religion or from religion then we dont have much.

  Recognize totalitarian governments when you see them and speak out against them when you can.

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  and thanks sylvia.... fucked up things we do...
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  Outcome - Banned in Russia - Final

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i just watched the live feed from the russian court room and followed the updates on the russian exjw forum.. just waiting for confirmation from other sources...but, it looks like the final (and expected) result is:.

  banned.

  which means that the wts property in russia now belongs to the russian state..

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  When a child is allowed to die because his parents refuse medical treatment his parents have incredibly stupid ideas with terrible consequences. I was that parent. I personally spoke to my doctors and told them I did not want my 3 day old child to have blood transfusions when it looked like she may need them due to complications during birth. There is nothing in my life that I feel more ashamed about then that moment. My own ignorance and unwillingness to question authority led me to that moment. There is nothing more important then being able to question authority and think freely about ANY and ALL topics.

  I would have been responsible to for my childs death. Not the organization. ME. Ignorant and unquestioning people kill and destroy lives. A free and open society allowed me to start questioning and reasoning that this religion was fucked up.

  My government banning my ideas would not have helped

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