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America is Tragically Soul-Sick
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RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick
(January 12, 2015 at 3:34 am)Alex K Wrote:
(January 12, 2015 at 3:28 am)NathanHawks Wrote: Look into all the ways in which tax money is given to faith-based organizations which then parlay that money into successful big-money lobbying. Oligarchy or corporateocracy are both inadequate words; I don't think we have an adequate word for the intersection of fascistic influences at work in my homeland.

Are you talking about the tax-exemption for churches? I'm not aware that outside of that, very large sums are directly given to faith-based organizations, but maybe you know more.

Well, for starters, a huge portion of our GDP and tax dollars - a huge portion of that 50+% chunk of our lives, which is devoted to building a military - goes to supporting Israel for no other reason than because the Bible tells us to.

A single example from a nice mainstream website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/opinio...rches.html

A slew of examples from a risky, independent website:
http://www.theocracywatch.org/

How much we can talk about this, depends on how detailed we're going to get. One could summarize and sound like a nutter talking with no context; one could also copy/paste whole bodies of select books. I just discovered theocracywatch.org in answering your post, but seeing that its reports about Zionism do not contain anti-Semitism, I feel tentatively comfortable using it as a shortcut to answering your prompt.

And finally, the huge elephant in the room:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/ameri...xtremists/
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America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 1:27 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 1:39 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 1:58 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by rexbeccarox - January 12, 2015 at 2:09 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 2:28 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 2:30 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 2:57 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Minimalist - January 12, 2015 at 2:37 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 2:54 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 2:55 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 2:56 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 3:02 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 3:03 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 3:17 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 3:07 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 3:10 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 3:28 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 3:34 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 4:00 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by robvalue - January 12, 2015 at 3:10 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by Alex K - January 12, 2015 at 4:16 am
RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick - by NathanHawks - January 12, 2015 at 4:32 am

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