Have you ever heard of the American Coalition for HUMANE religion?
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more crap of just self-promotion.
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Yes, there is the HSUS or Humane Society of the United States. There is also Petfinders. There is also an organization called A.R.K. and another called H.A.R.P.S.
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Yes, there's one in my city.  For ursurping the sovergnty of the United States of America, our Congress has divided us, misrepresented us, has weakened the United States, has set us on a course to extinguish the American citizen, has taken aim against our Eagle, and her spirit cries out against their tyranny.\n\nI beleive the minutemen the first of such organizations for informed citizens.  When you pass laws against your nation and for and above the soverengty of another, it's citizens have been aggreiged, and shall not stand.\n\nI pledge allience to the Flag of Mexico which flys over the United States of America and to the tyranny for which it stands, multinationational, without God's approval, divisible, with unjust laws and injustice for all.\n\nWe had all hang together, for surely we will hang separately\n-Ben Franklin
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Select PETA, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, or some socialist, communist, or other anti-American ignoramuses. Google Search is excellent as they are ultra liberal.
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You can't be! That's like being a Catholic Jew...you either believe something or you don't.  There is no gray area.  I think that is America's problem...they vote for the "perks" of whatever it is that is being promised by the two parties (tax cuts, better employment opps, etc.), but not because of the moral beliefs of either party.  And we wonder, when we take God out of the equation, why America seems to get worse as the decades go on...
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There is a whole book on that subject.\nThe jist of it is that charity and love are required of Christians, not condemnation and hate.\n God's Politics (English)\n(Why The Right Gets It Wrong And The Left Doesn't Get It - ISBN: 0060558288)\nPrice range: $9.68 - $20.76 from 15 Sellers\n\nPublisher: Harpercollins\n\nFormat: Hardcover\n\nMSRP: $ 25.95\n\nSynopsis: In this call for a faith-based politics, evangelical Christian Jim Wallis excoriates both the left and the right in America for their mistaken positions on religion, a dispute which leaves the rest of us bereft and spiritually poorer. In his view, the left opts out by stubbornly refusing t... Read More
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Yes.\nThey say they're tolerant but clearly are not towards Christians.  The only time you see the left wing leaders at a church is when they're posturing for election.  The aclu is actively fighting against the freedom of religion for Christians and Scouts.\n \nYou can't really fault Bush from treading lightly with China, they are anti-Christian bigots...billions of them, with lots of weapons.  Same with Russia.  You don't slap a sleeping tiger or bear.
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It is usually the Humane Society or ASPCA.
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Hi- I am actually agnostic but I belong to the American Humanist Association and participate in a local humanist group in my area and many of the members are atheists. The American Humanist Association, Secular Humanists, and the Freedom from Religion foundation are all groups that I am aware of that are active in standing up for the rights of the nonreligious. They work to maintain the separation of church and state, a principle the country was founded on and that has helped people of different beliefs to peacefully coexist. If you are interested you might check out the American Humanist website and consider joining, they are a national organization but they list local groups where you could meet other like minded people on their site as well. The Secular Coalition is a similar organization but I think they are just a national organization at the moment. The Freedom from Religion foundation accepts donations that they use to help people who have been discriminated against due to not being religious file lawsuits. For example, recently they helped a family whose son was beaten up and refused admittance to the boy scouts after he declined to take a religious oath. \nThere are several online sites that I check with sometimes, I think Internet Infidels provides great information. Hope this is helpful!
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The Amishization* of America is happening rather fast.  The far right Christian coalition is afraid of science and most other fields of study so they do all that they can to interfer with education except those subjects that fit into their own very narrow biblical precepts. I am a Christian but I also believe in science.  This makes me suspect as far as far right Christians go.  Also being a Democrat is not acceptable since only Republicans can be Christians.  Some people call it the rise of the Anerican Christian-Taliban who are attempting to  take control of our democracy and establish a mind-police over us and put a Christian theocracy in place of our own government.  Men, not elected by the people, but, in their own minds, apponted by God to rule over us.  That is what the king system was supposedly. It is also how most middle east countries are set up. It is the dumbing down of America, by a fanatical few, to take us over and control us.\n(*Amish link below explains who and what the Amish are)
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I grew up in a Republican family; I was a member of the young Republicans. Everything changed with Reagan; he openly embraced and then cow towed to the Christian Coalition political will. This was almost 20 years ago and the thought of the Christian Coalition having political power should terrify all of us. They really want intrusive government and I'll quote Heinlein on this, "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." \n\nAmericans have lost their collective minds by supporting a political party with such pedigree. The actions of Rev. Haggard should surprise nobody; the most anti-homosexual political figure we've had was a cross dressing homosexual himself; J. Edgar Hoover. Hitler allegedly has Jewish blood in him. Why do Americans insist on faith? Facts matter even if you don't like them and the conclusions that such facts force you to derive. The radical right will continue to betray themselves, the country and our future as long as the 59 million Homer Simpson's continue to vote for them
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Here's some random information I found:\nApparently formed sometime in October of 1832, involving a man named John Bate Cardale. They believe in Holy Sealing (to get the Holy Spirit).They do not pass an offering plate during services. It states that there are over 10 million members, to become one...you would need to go to the bottom link and contact them...\n\n\nAccording to the web you can find out more from the following web sites:
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Yes, I am scared of them, and angry at the same time.  I can understand, academically speaking, that they believe that their religion is the best, but this country has survived for hundreds of years with religious freedom as a guarantee of citizenship.  I read things that Fundamentalists have written or articles about things that they've said, and I get really worried.  I mean, what if my next-door neighbor is a Fundie and I don't know it and say something about being a Wiccan?  Will I find dead cats in my yard, as I have heard of happening to someone else?  Will my windows be broken with rocks, my family threatened, all because of my religion?  I thought that we were past that, but apparently we're not.\n\nFundies seem to think that if the world would all change to be like them, everything would be grand.  They just don't get that not everyone wants to be like them.  Not everyone wants prayer and bible classes in school; that's why we don't send our kids to private Christian schools, after all.  Not everyone wants to walk into a public building and see the Ten Commandments on a pedestal when there's no representation of their religion there to balance it out.\n\nI'm always worried that something will happen, maybe a seemingly-unimportant piece of legislation will get through, and all of a sudden the U.S. will be a Christian theocracy.  If that were ever to happen, I would pack up and get out of Dodge despite the fact that I'm in the military.  I'd try for concientious objector first, but if they suddenly made some rule about that, the U.S. becoming a religious state would definitely be enough to make me desert.  Sorry if that sounds awful, but it's true.  I would refuse to serve a theocracy of any sort, even my own religion!  Freedom of religion all the way!
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What you've written is what organized "theocracies" have perpetrated since the dawn of recorded history. While the Catholic Pontiffs of yesteryear have acted particularly egregiously, they are not the only examples of how "Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches" (- the title of an anti-religious anthology of anthropolgical, cross-cultural studies, written in the 1970's) have come to be enlisted to create fear in the masses and exact control over protracted periods of time. Look at what the "Religious Right" want to do in this country. I suggest you read a book by Kevin Phillips entitled "American Theocracy." In there you can derive the sense that even a country such as ours is vulnerable to these age-old tactics... for example, think on just how effective the "culture of fear" trumped up by the present administration has been in creating an effecient "smokescreen" or deversionary force to escape the public's otherwise probing eyes.
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Well, of course I can't claim to know everything, but if supporting overpopulation in the third world by banning contraception and turning a blind eye to HIV, which is harming many women in the poorest countries is 'humane' or 'modern' then go for it. \n\nI wonder how you and the atheist started chatting about religion in the first place (atheists tend not to proselytise but I can't claim to know much about whether Catholics do), but if you put your opinions out there, you certainly can't expect everyone to agree with you. Maybe you consider anyone who disagrees to be 'attacking' you, but since this is only one side of the story, who knows.\n\nIncidentally, why is it so important to be 'right' rather than being a good person. A person's religion does not determine how humane they are.
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Yes, it's a religion.
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You make a very good point.  Check out the new "the America I believe in" campaign recently lanched by Amnesty International http://believe.amnestyusa.org   AI has launched this new campaign to restore our traditional American values of justice, rule of law, and human dignity.   It even provides simple actions you can take, and ways to raise awareness in your community.\n\nThe America we believe in... leads the world in human rights\nThe America we believe in... does not torture people\nThe America we believe in... does not run secret prisons\nThe America we believe in... would shut down Guantanamo Bay