This seems to be a tad unConstituional.  Where are the Jewish, Muslim, Bhuddist or Hindu programs ?  I am not aware there are any.\nIf there are none, then perhaps we ARE establishing the grounds for a state religion, or so it would appear.
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It has been suggested in several news sources (I cannot remember which, and I don't have exact details) that the Office of Faith Based Initiatives has been showing favoritism towards conservative Christian organizations when awarding federal contracts, which has driven many competing religious organizations to seek support elsewhere. This might be one reason why many non-conservative religious orders are suggesting that, when the current administrator retires later this year, the office should be closed and disbanded.
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I was never thrilled with this "faith based org" thing that our president made up. It actually is unconstiutional. Mix of church and state. Others will argue (mostly religious people) that mix of church and state really means the government cannot have a church, even though that was not the way the law was intended.\n\nfaith based should not fall under homeland security, it does not match up with what HLS does. If it is run by faithbased orgs, we will have some other WWII Germany on our hands and we certianly dont want religion dictating what our government does, that leaves room for discrimination of faiths other than christian ( note all these orgs are christian)\n\nI seriously think that the faith based laws need to go away, it is discriminatory.
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Well first of all, this country was not built on separation of politics & religion. It was built on : no state sponsered religion and equality of all religions. If you look at our founding fathers, they incorporated thier religious beliefs into many aspects of government and politics.\nSo in my opinion , on the religious and political front, our country is out of step with what the framers of the Constitution intended it to be.
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Why aren't you busy dancing atop dead burnt bodies?\nMr sensitive know it all.\n\nnote: And by the way...Mr Devout MUSLIM FREEDOMFIGHTER.\nIts about your AVATAR....doesn't Islam forbid that sort of thing?
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You know, I never realized this until the last year or so, and see how old I am! A bit dense, I guess. I feel like some of this goes back to the U.S. being so Christian and religiously based. They probably feel like the Jews are still 'gods' chosen people, and want to protect and be in league with them.\nIn a way, I undestand wanting to protect helpless people. However, Israel is not a helpless country any longer, probably more powerful than a lot of other countries.
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thank you for the link. it gave me some food for thought.\n\ni would not say that it is not a problem of monothism.main problem is  the way it was tried to force on everyone else. and made them all accept only one person as their leader.\n\nthe main difference between Indian  and western tradition is acceptance of all types of forms of worship as legitimate in hinduism or india. at least till it is not harming or hurting someone or others. not all Hindus practice all of the traditions and we like some and we do not agree with some other philosophies but none of them is called false. just that everybody has his own interpretation and is free to express his devotion as s/he wants. \n\nit is really confusing for an average westerner to understand that hindus are Monothist and believe god can is beyond depicting yet they worship him in form of icons.\nwhen muslims came to india they destroyed thousands of temples and thought they have proved supremacy of their god by destroying local ones. it was a surprise for them that hindus threw away broken icons and built a new one and kept worshipping them. they had learnt to respect and understand the concept to some extent. and you will get some devotional songs and poetry written by muslims writers in hindu tradition .in some sufi traditions muslim saits even used name rama (not rama of ayoddhya; it means supreme creater too) as an antonym for god. \n\nthe truth is the present character of such assimilation and tolerance of hinduisn did not developed in a short span. it is result of efforts of several scholors and sages over the centuries.  \n\nRigveda written around 5000 BC ( came into present form around 3000BC ) is not only monothist but accepts god as an abstract supreme soul. all the upanishads and educated philosophiers have described god as abstract. he has many synonims but always one.\n\n"Truth (God) is one, the wise call it by various names"\n-Rigveda\nand exhort us to "let good thoughts come to us from every where" in the Bhagavad Gita.\n\nKrishna assures the adherents of all religions that "those who pray with devotion to another god, it is to Me that they pray." \n\nthough i doubt krishna was supposed to be a god, avatar among his contemporaries and think later devotees made this up but still this comment was very wise and it led towards tolerance and assimilation of small sects. krishna also succeeded in stopping worship of gods depicted as a king of heaven Indra or others (depicted in a similar way as greek gods) smoothly and without any hate campaign. he encouraged nature worship instead. and only those of gods(Indra and his mates) are revered today who were connected with nature as surya(sun) and agni(fire).\n\nsages like shankarachraya while themselves wrote relegious philosophies on abstract god. yet he got constructed temples in a way to unite india.\n\nGupta Dunasty played a very important role in assimilation. first it combined all less popular gods to main forms of god Vishnu or Shiva. then they created a joint icon of god Hharihar(vishnu+shiva). next they joined icon of god shiva and female god shakti as ardhnarishwar(half female god). these two icons were never much popular but this fusion helped in these different sects in merging to a great extent. the icons were sanctioned as avatars and represented god though not they were god in themselves.The point was to tell lay man that all of the deities are just different aspects of one devine and followers should learn to respect each other too.\n\nother saints in later dates  kept reinforcing these ideas and that is how the hinduism developed in current form. sometimes even  muslim sufi came forward to reinforced it.\n\neven an uneducate villeger in India will tell you there is only one god.\n\nproblem is the idea of being special , chosen people , and thinking like " we are the only ones enlightenned and others idiots or under influence of satan and it is our duty to convert others
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o cmon...hindutva sux is what i think..i mean india is a secular country n NOT a hindu society..the shiv sena n the others need to learn that...\nyea hindutva can destro india..think bout the skhs..the muslims and the otherS!!!!
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Interesting website, but I'm a Hindu and this website is definately just a "Christianity is wrong" website. It's concept of God is limited in its perspective and it doesn't seem to bother to look further into the vast landscape of religious, philosophical, theological, and spiritual diversity that exists. The site seems to be aimed at trying to convince Christians that what they believe is wrong (which seems very similar to how many Christians try to convert people by trying to convince them what what they believe is right). So, for me, the website wasn't of any real interest.\n\nI do have a complaint about the website. It loads its pages too slow (and I'm on DSL!). Not sure why it was moving so slow, but it took me a while to even read through the website. Whoever maintains the website should look into this or contact their host. \n\nOther than that I am sure that the website is of interest to those who would already agree with it. Otherwise I seriously doubt many Christians would take it very seriously and the website isn't speaking to people of other religions (it seems not to even acknowledge the larger more diverse concepts of God, religion, etc). \n\nThanks for sharing the website.\n\nPeace be with you.
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the sites posted by the first person, those have always seemed rather conservative to me, Conservative Judaism that is, which is an offshoot of Reformism.  I could be wrong about that though.  And i might even be getting it confused with another webpage that looks similar.\n\nhttp://www.torah.org/\n\nI have a couple friends on paltalk i can ask for some good sites, sadly to say, since my computer got fried, i have not had a chance to get all the web pages back.
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I do not agree.  What I think would be nice would be for each of us to open our mind, be tolerant of the different religions and beliefs and respect each others diversity and learn from others. I practice my freedom of choice by ignorning hateful, blasphemous and disrespectful questions on this forum.
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I don't know why it is not on the category list on the front page. I find it strange that it isn't there, because there is a Politics and Government category listed. It could be that general rule, that you do not talk about Religion and Politics because you might offend someone. If that's the case, I don't think it is fair that you have to look to find the  Religious category. So maybe Yahoo Q&A has not figured out how valuable it would be to them have it listed on their front page. I would think there are a lot of people out there looking for spritual answers.
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yeah I read about the Varanasi blasts, my heart goes out to you guys. \nExtremists are really hard to deal with, I would say that no nation should go without responding to attacks. So the government hsould find the terrorist cells among these people and kill them/arrest them. I know it's easier to say, but well, that's what has to be done. \nIt always upsets me to see power-thirsty leaders twist a religion to make people kill others in the name of it.\n\nADDED:\nand Rev Flavel, people have commited horrific acts in the name of your precious Christianity throughout history and still do, so please....
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I think it's a combination of both politics and religion. This is especially the case when certain people in power use religion as a means for furthering their political goals.
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Ask Bush  he knows  better how  wars and murdurs are proceeded . and just trace back this  religion, i guess u will find out what religion spread this all.
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For someone so obsessed about extremely Orthodox letter-of-the-law detail, you certainly didn't pay attention to where you posted this, did you?\n\nThis belongs in Religion/Spirituality, not Teaching/Education.\n\nAnd all of this nitpicking about exact time, etc. on a forum like this is important -- why?  If a new Sanhedrin is established at a renewed site-built Temple in Jerusalem, whether they go computerized or through ancient observation is their headache, not yours.\n\nWorry about your own deeds and influence on the world. Do good for your fellow human and for the community, and the existence of a physical Temple will be inconsequential.
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Nah.  I tend to question any links between God and any religious organization that relies heavily on violent means to an end.  To me, if the basis for any religion is not the promotion of world peace, harmonious existence, and peace with nature, the religion is not a true reflection of God's will.
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Yes its a proper religion, I filled out my Census form to state that I was a member of the order. Pretty much it was a bunch of bored p****d-up students that decided to make up the Religion but since so many of us actually admitted on the Census forms to being part of the group, the goverment has to officially recognise it.