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Abuja Natives And Minister's Humanism - Leadership Newspapers

Abuja Natives And Minister's Humanism
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The special town hall meeting on the Abuja land swap policy convoked on Friday 26th April, 2013 by the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has come and gone. It can however be reasoned that some of the issues that were raised there are ...

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18 May 2013 | 9:12 pm

Book review: Atheist calls for abolishing religion - News & Observer

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Book review: Atheist calls for abolishing religion
News & Observer
2013-05-18T23:41:23Z. By John Murawski The_News_and_Observer. Tweet · 0 Comments E-mail Print. "The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism," by British philosopher A.C. Grayling. More information. Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages ...

18 May 2013 | 8:11 pm

Law change 'could lead to Jedi and Pagan weddings': Tories fear inclusion of ... - Daily Mail

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Law change 'could lead to Jedi and Pagan weddings': Tories fear inclusion of ...
Daily Mail
Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams has told MPs that humanists carry out more weddings in England and Wales than the Quakers or Unitarians, and the proposals would give them the same legal footing as Jews and Quakers which can marry couples anywhere, ...

14 May 2013 | 9:08 pm

Scientific Anti-Humanism Is Being Refuted by Science Itself - Discovery Institute

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Scientific Anti-Humanism Is Being Refuted by Science Itself
Discovery Institute
Scientific anti-humanism refers to the cheapening of human dignity and of the value of human life in the name of science. Among many other pieces of novel information on that theme, the most important point that came out of Michael Medved's discussion ...

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9 May 2013 | 5:39 pm

Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore – Release ... - Press Information Bureau (press release)

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Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore – Release ...
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Tagore, one of the greatest sons of India, is globally known for his literary and artistic genius, creativity, humanism and internationalism. He was a great poet, an author, a composer, a philosopher, a musicologist, a visual artist of a very high ...
Union Minister of Culture Launched 13 Short Films Based on Tagore's PoemsJagran Josh
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9 May 2013 | 3:47 am

Family Research Council "Merchants of Despair and Anti-humanism" will be a ... - Crossmap

Family Research Council "Merchants of Despair and Anti-humanism" will be a ...
Crossmap
The book names the chief prophets and promoters of anti-humanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the anti-humanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in ...

1 May 2013 | 10:25 am

The case for humanism in a high tech world - mtprnews.wordpress

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The case for humanism in a high tech world
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The case for humanism in a high tech world. Posted on April 29, 2013 by Sally Mauk · Lerer With so much emphasis on math and science and technology, educators like Dr. Seth Lerer worry the value of an education in the humanities is being diminished.
LUCILE SPEER MEMORIAL LECTURE TO HIGHLIGHT HUMANISM ...The Missoulian

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29 April 2013 | 4:34 pm

Tribeca Review: A Lovely & Considered Humanism Courses Through 'The Rocket' - Indie Wire (blog)

Tribeca Review: A Lovely & Considered Humanism Courses Through 'The Rocket'
Indie Wire (blog)
There's a tricky balance to be found in Australian documentarian Kim Mordaunt's impressive narrative debut “The Rocket.” Mordaunt, who returns to Laos after exploring the country in his documentary “The Bomb Harvest,” tells a tale that's both ...

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27 April 2013 | 3:13 pm

Humanism is subject of lecture at CLU - Agoura Hills Acorn

Humanism is subject of lecture at CLU
Agoura Hills Acorn
James Croft of the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard will explore “What is Humanism?” at 6 p.m. Thurs., April 25 in the Lundring Events Center at California Lutheran University, 60 E. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. This event is free and open to the public.

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25 April 2013 | 1:07 am

Med students selected for Gold Humanism Honor Society - El Paso Inc.

Med students selected for Gold Humanism Honor Society
El Paso Inc.
The society is an initiative of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation that recognizes medical students and physicians who demonstrate and affirm humanism in their work, their lives and throughout their community. The students are: Saadi Imam, Andrew Matthys ...

21 April 2013 | 11:48 pm

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Mfon Amun Ptah, Tumblr
 18 May 2013 | 4:20 am

Why do European and Negro Scholars in mainstream academia continue to run with the claim that Homosexuality existed among indigenous Africans prior to foreign contact.
I have yet to see legitimate untainted archeological anthropological and oral sources that detail homosexuality being practiced among our ancestors prior to colonization. Even RAPE was virtually unheard of in Africa prior to colonization.
So the question is why do these so called scholars keep running with this BLATANT LIE?
THEY ARE TRYING TO PUSH AN AGENDA!!

Mfon Amun Ptah, Tumblr
 18 May 2013 | 4:20 am

THEIR IS ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF OF SEXUAL PERVERSION AMONG INDIGENOUS AFRICANS PRIOR TO COLONIZATION AND CONTACT WITH FOREIGN PEOPLES.
There is no archeological evidence of Homosexuality, Bestiality, Pedophilia, Transexuality or any other Perverse form of European Sexuality among indigenous Africans prior to colonization and contact with foreign peoples.
There is no anthropological evidence of Homosexuality, Bestiality, Pedophilia, Transexuality or any other Perverse form of European Sexuality among indigenous Africans prior to colonization and contact with foreign peoples.
There is no literary evidence of Homosexuality, Bestiality, Pedophilia, Transexuality or any other Perverse form of European Sexuality among indigenous Africans prior to colonization and contact with foreign peoples.
There is no oral tradition of Homosexuality, Bestiality, Pedophilia, Transexuality or any other Perverse form of European Sexuality among indigenous Africans prior to colonization and contact with foreign peoples.
THERE IS NO PROOF OF ANY OF THESE THINGS AMONG INDIGENOUS AFRICANS PRIOR TO COLONIZATION AND CONTACT WITH FOREIGN PEOPLES!! ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF!!
Anyone who says that there is without showing it, is either a naive tool or is BLATANTLY part of the Agenda to promote sexual perversion among African People and Destroy the African family.

fr0d0, Atheist Forums
 18 May 2013 | 4:19 am

[Bastardization? Really? How am I corrupting these texts? Please feel free to explain because frankly its quite simple. God says babies are innocents. God says killing innocents is murder. God killed innocents. Fact fact fact based on your texts, all three. It looks like rather you are dissatisfied with my conclusion that your god committed murder.]

Dissatisfied sums it up, yeah. Can you not see how you cherry picked two unrelated sentences and forced them together to prove your point? The logic is clear... God has the capacity to know and judge fairly where you do not. Given the whole concept of fallibility as accepted by Christians and Jews, your idea that children are innocents is unfounded and unbiblical. Simple as that.

Vlad III, FSTDT Comments
 18 May 2013 | 4:19 am

This is what I feel should be done about the homosexuality problem:

1. Repeal all gay "marriage" laws. They make no sense from a logical, legal, semantic, or philosophical standpoint. You can't have male hens and you can't have gay marriage.

2. Eliminate "civil unions" - see above.

3. Draft a Constitutional amendment preventing either of the above 2 points from ever being issues anywhere in the country.

4. Nullify all existing gay "marriages" and "civil unions". To allow them to continue to exist undermines the entire agenda.

5. Work to eliminate the arbitrary stigma toward reparative therapy.

6. Make said therapy mandatory for first-time offenses of displaying homosexual behavior in public.

7. Train all school counselors - from pre-K to college - in said therapy.

8. Make any public displays of homosexual misconduct a misdemeanor after the first.

I think this would really eliminate a lot of the problems homosexuals are causing. If you have any other ideas, let me know.

F. Roger Devlin, Thornwalker
 18 May 2013 | 4:18 am

A feminist in the strict and proper sense may be defined as a woman who envies the male role.

By the male role I mean, in the first place, providing, protecting, and guiding rather than nurturing and assisting. This in turn involves relative independence, action, and competition in the larger impersonal society outside the family, the use of language for communication and analysis (rather than expressiveness or emotional manipulation), and deliberate behavior aiming at objective achievement (rather than the attainment of pleasant subjective states) and guided by practical reasoning (rather than emotional impulse).

Both feminist and nonfeminist women sense that these characteristically male attributes have a natural primacy over their own. I prefer to speak of "primacy" rather than superiority in this context since both sets of traits are necessary to propagate the race. One sign of male primacy is that envy of the female role by men is virtually nonexistent — even, so far as I know, among homosexuals.

Normal women are attracted to male traits and wish to partner with a man who possesses them. Healthy societies are marked by a cooperative reciprocity between the sexes, but an unequal one in the sense that it involves male leadership of the female, somewhat as in ballroom dancing.

The feminists' response to the primacy of male traits, on the other hand, is a feeling of inadequacy in regard to men — a feeling ill-disguised by defensive assertions of her "equality." She desires to possess masculinity directly, in her own person, rather than partnering with a man. That is what leads her into the spiritual cul de sac of envy.

And perhaps even more than she envies the male role itself, the feminist covets the external rewards attached to its successful performance: social status, recognition, power, wealth, and the chance to control wealth directly (rather than be supported). She tends not to give much thought to the great mass of men who struggle to fulfill the demands of their role without ever attaining the rewards of superior performance.

Rubystars, JTF.org
 18 May 2013 | 4:18 am

I've heard stories about abortionists playing with the bodies of dead babies (like holding them up like dolls and making them "talk") and all kinds of other crazy crap that goes on in your regular run of the mill abortion clinic.

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China Wants to Replace Superstition With Science
China is getting more religious—and the Chinese government is none too happy about it. The government is now looking to "liberate" its people from superstitious beliefs about things like health and money to bring the population more in line with the country's official atheist stance, Reuters reports. "Religion basically...

21 April 2013 | 5:00 pm

Bodybuilding Pioneer Joe Weider Dead at 93
Joe Weider, a bodybuilding enthusiast who built a publishing empire and brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood, died yesterday of heart failure, the LA Times reports. He was 93. Born in Montreal, Weider pumped weights at a young age to protect himself from neighborhood bullies. He started his own bodybuilding magazine...

24 March 2013 | 7:24 am

Pope Francis to Wash, Kiss Inmates' Feet
At least he's washing them first: The new pope plans to wash and kiss the feet of juvenile delinquents in a rare gesture next Thursday, the Guardian reports. Instead of holding Holy Thursday mass in either St Peter's basilica or the basilica of St John in Lateran, Pope Francis will...

22 March 2013 | 4:40 pm

Pope Reaches Out to Islam, China, Atheists
In his first foreign policy address as pope, Francis today called for more dialogue with Islam and offered an olive branch to China and other countries that don't have diplomatic relations with the Holy See. The occasion was an audience with ambassadors from the 180 countries that have diplomatic relations...

22 March 2013 | 9:51 am

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Recently, the Humanist Association of Trinidad and Tobago has been fairly successful in igniting debate over a number of issues in the public domain.

18 May 2013 | 10:52 pm

Agonizing family choice in Japanese film at Cannes festival
By Alexandria Sage CANNES (Reuters) - A film about baby-switching by Japan's Kore-eda Hirokazu that ponders nature versus nurture premiered at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, joining an Iranian challenger as contenders for the top prize. "Soshite Chichi Ni Naru" ("Like Father, Like Son") is one of two Japanese films out of the international roster of 20 vying to take home the Palme d'Or ...

18 May 2013 | 10:00 am

'Star Trek Into Darkness': What the critics think of the sequel
By Tony Maglio LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Star Trek Into Darkness" was released on Thursday to mostly strong reviews. Mostly. Let's begin with A.O. Scott of the New York Times, who completely destroys the aforementioned generality, saying, "It's hard to emerge from "Into Darkness" without a feeling of disappointment, even betrayal. Maybe it is too late to lament the militarization of 'Star ...

17 May 2013 | 6:08 pm

College Notes: Ohio State University College of Medicine graduation
Valerie Niedermier of New Washington graduated with her Doctor of Medicine degree on May 5. She received the Tennyson Williams, MD Award in Humanism given annually to a student who possesses the '

16 May 2013 | 4:34 pm

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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
11 May 2013 | 12:42 pm
Why Sean Carroll won’t take money from the Templeton Foundation.
The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war
11 May 2013 | 12:40 pm
The Christian home school subculture isn’t a children-first movement. Some former students are bravely speaking out.
After Boston, Little Change in Views of Islam and Violence
11 May 2013 | 12:37 pm
The public’s views of Islam have changed little in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Atheists: Let Your Conscience Be Your God
11 May 2013 | 12:34 pm
Whether religious or secular, our universal goal should be to treat all our fellow human beings with respect and dignity.

Selected religion-related news from around the Web.
Reuters: Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary
When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Both sides on abortion applaud verdict
No one on either side of the intractable abortion debate was sorry Monday to learn that Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of first-degree murder.
AP: Politics and the pulpit: Black churches at heart of gay marriage debate in Illinois
When a proposal to legalize gay marriage started gaining momentum in the home state of President Barack Obama, it seemed a quick and easy deal: The pastor of his former megachurch endorsed it with powerful testimony at the Capitol and Democrats control Illinois' government.
Korea Herald: Missionaries urge Korea to lift travel ban
Kim Jin-dae hoped he could persuade the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lift its ban on travel to countries it deemed as too dangerous for Korean passport holders, but he knew better.