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POPSEducation Levels and Religious Denomination
"But I don't believe that most high IQ individuals pay inordinate close attention to the Bible, nor do I believe that low IQ denominations are necessarily steeped in scripture study (there is a wide variance among "conservative" groups which adhere to Biblical literalism in regards to the emphasis they put on scripture reading and analysis, from a general neglect among Pentecostals to a marinade among some Calvinist churches). What I think is going on is simply what we might term the Wisdom of the Crowds; people conform to the social and religious group which they identify with. Biblical literalism flourishes because most people trust pastors and parents who preach it." "Mainline Protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism has relatively high educational standards for its clergy and theological professionals. At the other end of the spectrum many evangelical Protestant sects have no such requirement. The Assemblies of God is a good example of this phenomenon, in this sect higher
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POPSIndonesia: Sect Ordered to Return to 'Mainstream' Islam. Hard-liners have attacked Ahmadiyah members and torched their mosques since the government said in April it was considering banning the faith. Several dozen religious tolerance activists were beaten at a rally in Jakarta just over a week ago while police stood by. A spokesman for the radical Islamic Defenders' Front — which has a long record of arson, stoning and vandalism against opponents and Western targets — said the decree falls short of its demands. "It is not enough. We will keep up the struggle until the president orders the disbandment of Ahmadiyah," he said in a telephone interview. Earlier Monday, several thousands protesters wearing white Islamic robes and caps gathered outside the presidential palace to demand that the organization be outlawed.
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POPSI hope your name is Hawkins "Only those named Hawkins would be saved"; nuclear war still on for Thursday. Alas, that troublesome Jesus, always messes up peoples' religions: he said, "You don't get to know the time. Timing is the Father's business." (Acts 1). Sorry, Hawkinses, if the apostles didn't get to know, I 'spect you don't either.
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POPSVatican: Excommunication for Female Priests Henry 8th made his own church when the Catholics wouldn't let the murdering bastard have a divorce. These women are probably more acceptable and better organised to form their own church/sect/whatever.
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POPSTexas Appellant Court ruling appalling
In the world of the FLDS, "spiritual marriage" between older men and underage girls — what the law defines as rape — is given the stamp of religious approval. Of 53 girls believed to be between 14 and 17, more than 30 have children or are pregnant, including one who gave birth to her second child in custody. Among the boys, too, there is suspicion of widespread physical abuse. Indeed, many teenage boys are routinely banished to preserve the odds of polygamy. Nevertheless, what do we make of an entire sect that has sexual abuse at its very heart? That believes plural "marriages" between older men and underage women are not an aberration but a pathway to heaven? Nobody can prosecute the FLDS for what they believe, says Marci Hamilton, author of God vs. the Gavel. "They can stay together and believe what they want into eternity. What they can't do is illegal action." In the end, what we have on that ranch in Eldorado is not a lifestyle. It's a pedophile ring.
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POPSCourt Rules in Favor of Texas Sect Parents, CPS Overstepped Authority Just like I said and posted previous. The CPS Nazis raid had no merit based upon rules of evidence. The media was complicit in their inflammatory and one-sided reporting. The State has no right to separate children from parents unless their is hard evidence of imminent threat, which is rational and the law.
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POPSNot-So-Secret Secret Societies 6. The Trilateral Commission The Trilateral Commission has been accused of all sorts of underhanded shenanigans by its critics. Formed in 1973 by David Rockefeller, the Commission includes over 300 prominent citizens from Europe, Asia, and North America in a forum for discussing the regions’ common interests. But conspiracy theorists hold that the Trilateral Commission, along with the Council on Foreign Relations and others, is really just a front for a larger, more sinister order called the Round Table Groups, founded in London over 100 years ago and bent on the creation of a new world order, a global capitalist police state. Yikes! (For the record, some say the Round Table Groups are themselves just fronts for another society, the Illuminati, so who knows?) American members of the Trilateral Commission have included Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, and Dianne Feinstein. Thanks alanocu
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POPSTexas Sect "Abused Teen" Caller a Fraud Obviously this woman is not a teen. The Texas authorities requested her arrest documents to be sealed, the article says at bottom. Why? So that the truth would not disturb their legally questionable procedures. The AP got it unsealed, but everyone is pretending as if it does not matter. The pattern of this woman in her fake calls of abuse suggests a conspiracy to make false accusations in order to justify inflammatory claims and proceedings.
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POPSCato Institute Warns of Unjust Texas Sect Trial and Child Custody Seizure The Texas polygamist sect trial is dangerous precedent. This must-hear 9 minute Cato podcast warns about government exceeding its authority and the dangerous precedent of its unchecked powers (including CPS) where there is clearly a lack of evidence for the inflammatory claims. 400 children, most under 5, are being separated from their parents without any substantiation of claims of abuse, and the initial call was a fabrication from an impostor. This is an excellent presentation of the facts with sober analysis of a violation of government power and a very dangerous legal precedent is being established where the laws of evidence are being trampled. (How would you react if CPS or the government took your children based upon false accusations and distorted information?) Note also, as he states, that as of 2004, marriage was lawful in Texas down to 14 years of age, with parental consent. Click link
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POPSChild Marriage in America vs Texas Sect "Abuse"
Country star Lorretta Lynn was married at 13. History has been forgotten that marrying before 16 even was not entirely rare. Most States permit marriage at 16 with parental consent, some even less (e.g. 14). The news about the sect has largely been filled with inflammatory rhetoric, even fraudulent in an attempt to justify a CPS raid that looked like Waco. Now we hear that the raid was sparked by a fraudulent (CPS planted?) "informant", who was doubtfully involved in the sect at all since she was black. Even some conservative talk radio, like Michael Savage, termed it "Bush's Waco" when it broke--i.e. a news-creating distraction to many more important matters they would prefer to sweep under the public carpet. Modern democratic society hates and distrusts all religion, even marriage, and considers indoctrination of children (which actually everyone does) as a form of tyranny. Yet the Roman Catholic church, and Pope, were not raided over proven sex abuse with SWAT teams!
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