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Letters 0
- November/December 2003
- January 1, 2002
Look to the Walls I notice many polls these days regarding the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools. Recently I voted in the affirmative concerning mounting the Ten Commandments and noticed that the poll showed there were about two thirds of those polled who agreed with me and about a third whose conscience dictated
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For God and Country 0
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
He remembers the screaming KC-135s and C-5s; the roars, the lights, the vibrating windowpanes, the low buzz in his ears. It ignited his mind with the images and fantasies that only children can create. From those early days living near the Robert Gray Army Airfield in Texas, Allen Davis had one goal: to be a
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The Hijacking of Religion 0
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
For a country to move from general tolerance to extreme intolerance in just a few short years speaks to the power of religion and its ready exploitation by those seeking political authority and control. The fuel is human competition. Where there is enough food, land, water, and other resources, the need to fight other communities
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Home-Grown Intolerance in France 0
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
Passed by the French Parliament, and signed into law in June 2001, the “To reinforce the prevention and repression of groups of a sectarian nature” aims to restrict the free expression, growth, and development of religious groups. Amazingly, many of those targeted are from mainstream religious beliefs, which flourish in the United States under the
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Care For Your Rites 0
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
Jim Raines (a pseudonym) was hired as a service writer by a major auto dealership in a large Southwestern city. A service writer is the guy who prepares the service order on your car when you take it to the dealer. Jim was scheduled to work Monday through Friday, plus one Saturday a month. He
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Canadian Conundrum 0
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
Americans doubting the truth of Tocqueville’s great paradox of liberal democracy, that equality will overwhelm liberty once a state attempts to impose its version of perfect equality for all, need only look a few miles north to Canada. An experiment to test that proposition has been in progress here since 1982, when the Canadian Charter
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