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POPSThe BEattitude
What a fabulous & concise commentary on religion. Be sure to read the whole post at http://tinyurl.com/n4wmcn. I was lucky to never really have been indoctrinated into religion, except as much as it’s simply ubiquitous in our culture. Even so, I went through my own awakening as a result of being in a relationship with someone who was involved in AA’s 12-step program. I also became involved in Al-Anon, and therefore started really thinking about the question of a higher power. I just could never resolve that satisfactorily, and I couldn’t get around it, so I left Al-Anon and continued my searching and analysis of religion in general. It’s become a subject I’m endlessly fascinated by, but purely from a psychological, sociological, and historical perspective. Basically, the more I find out about the major religions, the more horrified I am that people continue to propagate these archaic & delusional beliefs. It really encourages me to see that people can overcome this kind of
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POPSCan Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? Speaking of artificial sweeteners, this article talks about the study into how artificial sweeteners may cause the body to seek more calories. Maybe you can't fool Mother Nature, after all.
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POPSIs High-Fructose Corn Syrup Really Good for You? This article talks about those ads by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) that are trying to convince us that high-fructose corn syrup is really good for you. Maybe it isn't the new trans-fat, but as this scientist says, "High-fructose corn syrup just doesn't exist in nature." I have recently heard that scientists have begun to think that all artificial sweeteners cause an unnatural craving for more sweets. I don't care what they say - if it doesn't occur in nature, I don't think you should eat it.
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POPSWheelie Bin Murder Only the British could write such a tongue-in-cheek article about a man murdering his father.
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POPSHuckabee: Change the Constitution to be "in God's Standards" Forget gay marriage and abortion - how'd you like to live in a country where all religions are illegal except for Christianity, where it's illegal to have a statue of Buddha or to use certain swear words, and where attending church is mandatory? Sounds a lot like the Taliban to me.
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POPSRevisionist History Week "While the recent House of Representatives 'Christmas resolution' was being covered and discussed ad nauseum on countless websites, blogs, and elsewhere, another far more heinous resolution was introduced, one which, unbelievably, does not appear to have been noticed by anyone." ~ Chris Rodda
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POPSGrowing New Hearts Approximately 50,000 people die annually waiting for a heart donor. That doesn't include those who die waiting for other organ transplants, like lung, liver, or kidney.
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POPSSuper Secret Agent CIA Satellite Scam These people believed that secret agents would administer medicine to them as they slept? Yeah, and if you leave $800,000 under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy, the Underpants Gnomes will make you a tinfoil tiara.
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POPSHoly Furniture of Fertility Maybe for laughs they should move the chair into an actual nunnery, just to see if all the nuns get pregnant. By the way, who would have thought that a fertility goddess would become a Catholic saint?
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POPSWhite House continues aid to Pakistani dictator Whatever happened to "We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation -- the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right" ? (Bush's 2nd Inaugural speech, 2005)
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