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POPSSaudi women -- gaining success, breaking barriers "In addition to Al-Dossary, these women include Nahed Taher, who went to Bahrain to set up her own investment bank in 2005 and has since become a major investor in infrastructure and energy projects in the region; Nabilah Tunisi, a leading executive at Saudi oil giant Aramco, who oversees 380 engineers as a manager on project support and controls; and Samra Al-Kuwaiz, the managing director of the women's division of Osool Brokerage Company, which is tapping into the growing wealth of the country's women." "Saudi Arabia is decidedly not an easy place for women to succeed: Women are not permitted to drive or vote..."
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POPSLife and Liberty for All Who Believe This documentary, produced by People for the American Way in the early 1980's, chronicles the formation of the Moral Majority. Narrated by Burt Lancaster, the film's message regarding dominionist politics is more relevant today than ever.
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POPSThe Church must be one St. Cyprian (c. 250AD) - "God is one and Christ in one, and one is His Church, and the faith is one, and His people welded together by the glue of concord into a solid unity of body. Unity cannot be rent asunder, nor can the one body of the Church, through the division of its structure, be divided into separate pieces." (On the Unity of the Church, 23) Tertullian (c. 197AD) - "We are a society with a single religious feeling, a single unity of discipline, a single bond of hope," (Apology 39, 1) St. Hilary (c. 4th century) - "In the Scriptures our people are shown to be made one, so that just as many grains collected into one and ground and mingled together, make one loaf, so in Christ, who is the heavenly bread, we know there is one holy, in which our whole company is joined and united" (Treatise 62, 13)
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POPS15 Quotes by Famous Atheists Bertrand Russell: “You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
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POPSVoluntary Regulation These flash clips are real funny; maybe not, if you're a right-wing war mongering pollution lover, but hey, to each his own.
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POPSThe Myth of Secular Moral Chaos - Sam Harris As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact—if we didn’t also happen to have the Qur’an. It is important to point out that we decide what is good in the Good Book. We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses; we read that a woman found not to be a virgin on her wedding night should be stoned to death, and we (if we are civilized) decide that this is the most vile lunacy imaginable. Our own ethical intuitions are, therefore, primary. So the choice before us is simple: we can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about ethics—availing ourselves of all the arguments and scientific insights that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse—or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.
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POPSAtheism is Good For You It's no coincidence that the countries with the highest proportion of belief in god are also the ones with the lowest educational rates and highest poverty rates. Go figure...