The Challenge of a Broken World

My title this morning -- “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World” -- may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an enduring feature of our species, something people search for (often quite desperately) and hang onto (usually quite tightly). For guidance, we tend to look to those people who have hope, not to those who have forsaken it. How can this hope be weakness?

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The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism
By WALTER A. DAVIS

"I know you're a Christian, but who are you a Christian against." Kenneth Burke

In Apocalypse, a patient study of Christian fundamentalism based on extensive interviews over a five year period with members of apocalyptic communities Charles Strozier identifies four basic beliefs as fundamental to Christian fundamentalism. (1) Inerrancy or biblical literalism, the belief that every word of the Bible is to be taken literally as the word of God; (2) conversion or the experience of being reborn in Christ; (3) evangelicalism or the duty of the saved to spread the gospel; and (4) Apocalypticism or Endism, the belief that The Book of Revelations describes the events that must come to pass for God's plan to be fulfilled. [1] Revelations thus becomes an object of longing as well as the key to understanding contemporary history, to reading the news of the day and keeping a handle on an otherwise overwhelming world. Each of these categories, Strozier adds, must be understood not doctrinally but psychologically. What follows attempts to constitute such an understanding by analyzing each category as the progression of a disorder that finds the end it seeks in Apocalyptic destructiveness.

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Italian Writer Loretta Napoleoni on the Amman Triple Bombing, How the U.S. Helped Create Zarqawi and the Terror Financing Network

Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi is the prime suspect in a triple bomb attack that killed at least 67 people in Amman. We speak with Italian writer Loretta Napoleoni, author of "Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation."

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FLAWED REFERENDUM WILL MORPH IRAQ INTO REGIONAL BLACK HOLE.

"Democracy is not alone a form of state and of administration. It is a philosophy of life and an outlook on the world. The authority of the state and its law is derived from general agreement among citizens upon the main postulates of philosophy of life". President Masaryk.

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Lawyers Against the War Charge George Bush of aiding, abetting and counselling the commission of torture

A Vancouver Lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.

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Why Iraq Still sells its oil à la cartel
Twilight of the neocon gods

By special arrangement with Harper's magazine, we are reproducing here for the first time the entire updated article on the US government's secret schemes for seizing control of the oil fields of Iraq.

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AUSTRALIA THREATENED BY US STATE TERRORISM

After a 4 decade career as a scientist, I have almost finished researching and writing a huge book on global avoidable mortality. “State terrorism” has had massive complicity in global avoidable mortality (excess mortality) that now totals 1.3 billion since 1950. While “jihadist” and insurgent “non-state terrorists” have killed 5,000 Western civilians over the last 20 years, US state terrorism is complicit in a post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now totalling 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively.

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Over 100 Arrested in Toledo, Ohio After Neo-Nazi March Prompts Counter-Protest & Riot

Over one hundred people were arrested this weekend in Toledo, Ohio after a riot broke out in the North section of the city where a Neo-Nazi group planned to march through a predominately African-American neighborhood.

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UNCIVILISED STATE OF AMERICA
 
'It would be a good idea.' Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about his views on western culture.  George W .Bush, "You are with us or against us "after 911= End of pluralism, liberty and democracy "I did not know how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as I saw them with eyes still young.

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