From Olle JOhansson: Dear All, I have now made a short summary of our recent article: Holmboe G, Johansson O, “Symptombeskrivning samt förekomst av IgE och positiv Phadiatop Combi hos personer med funktionsnedsättningen elöverkänslighet”, (=“Description of symptoms as well as occurrence of IgE and positive Phadiatop Combi in persons with the physical impairment electrohypersensitivity”, in
Read more →George Bush: ‘God Told Me to End the Tyranny in Iraq’ By Ewen MacAskill The Guardian UK Friday 07 October 2005 President told Palestinians, God also talked to him about Middle East peace. George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to
Read more →Spinning the Chernobyl disaster Now that the world is waking up to the fact that the age of cheap oil is well and truly over, and that the Greenhouse effect is here to stay, the promotion of nuclear power as an energy solution is back on track with the nuclear industry (How to pour nuclear
Read more →BOOK REVIEW: God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia The Age Reviewer: Muriel Porter February 26, 2005 God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia By Marion Maddox, Allen & Unwin, $29.95 Australia journalists are, in general, notoriously ignorant about religion. Academic surveys regularly reveal that they are
Read more →Step to the right as the brethren gather force September 14, 2005 A scandal in New Zealand over election money from a fringe group reflects a trend, writes Marion Maddox. The women wear headscarves in public. Their religion opposes assimilation, and they educate children at home or in their own schools. Fearing the taint of
Read more →Francis Fukuyama (1992) termed the phrase “The end of history” for his theory that modern liberal democracy has been so successful as a system of government, conquering rival ideologies such as hereditary monarchy, fascism and communism, that it was the “end point of mankind´s ideological evolution”. Fukuyama called it the “final form of human government”,
Read more →Left Behind: Bush’s Holy War on Nature By Chip Ward TomDispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=22312 Thursday 15 September 2005 Hurricane Katrina showed us how difficult it has become to distinguish between natural disasters and man-made ones. First, the Army Corp of Engineers decides it can build a better river than Mother Nature and in the process deprives the
Read more →Hillsong: Songs of praise “” and politics http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1811.asp July 3, 2005 JANA WENDT: The word ‘church’ hardly seems to describe Hillsong, which looks more like a convention centre for God’s delegates. Today its 18,000 Pentecostal Christians represent the largest congregation in Australia. BRIAN HOUSTON, HILLSONG CHURCH: Perhaps the reason why we’ve been effective and have
Read more →Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2005/s1406779.htm Broadcast: 04/07/2005 Costello addresses Hillsong congregation Reporter: Tony Jones TONY JONES: I spoke with Treasurer Peter Costello a short time ago just outside the Sydney Superdome, after his address to the congregation. Peter Costello, thanks for joining us. A big reaction again. Do you feel a bit
Read more →From the Holy Spirit Research Center http://www.oru.edu/university/library/holyspirit/pentorg1.html The Origins of the Pentecostal Movement by Vinson Synan, Ph.D. (Formerly Director of the Holy Spirit Research Center; now Dean, the School of Divinity Regent University) Introduction 19th Century Holiness Movement Origins of Pentecostalism American Pentecostal Pioneers Missionaries of the One-Way Ticket Neo-Pentecostals and Charismatics ———————————————————————— Introduction The
Read more →Americans United Exposes Congressional Leaders” Plan To Push Religious Right”s Controversial Political Agenda http://www.churchofreality.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=59 The Family Research Council, a Washington-based Religious Right group, held a closed-door “Washington Briefing” March 17-19, 2005. During the event, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) addressed attendees and pledged that Republican leaders in
Read more →BBC News UK Edition Wednesday, 2 March, 2005, 16:57 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/4311709.stm By Mark Alden BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents Energised by last year’s election victory which mobilised their vote, Christian conservatives have been confidently pushing a moral agenda which puts education at the heart of a battle to change US culture. Patrick Henry students are
Read more →The Crusaders From the Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7235393?rnd= 1119683189844&has-player=unknown Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image By BOB MOSER Apr 07, 2005 It’s February, and 900 of America’s staunchest Christian fundamentalists have gathered in Fort Lauderdale to look back on what they accomplished in last year’s election — and to plan what’s
Read more →The Anti-Christ and I By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 08 June 2005 Satan rules, at least according to many of my fellow Americans. In recent surveys, over two-thirds of those polled said they believed the devil to be real, whether with or without horns and a
Read more →The following was written in 1996 and is still posted on the biblebelievers web site. It is a fairly illustrative example of the sort of pseudo-science babble that is promoted by the religious right in America. For instance note where the author claims that Global warming is a myth and actually the world is getting
Read more →Marching to the drums of madness Comments from Nick Possum’s Blog “Whispers from the mean streets” http://www.brushtail.com.au/drums_of_madness.html 1 May 2004 There was something eerily familiar about the photos of the maltreated Iraqi POWs. I looked again at the snap of the prisoner standing on a box. He was holding electrical leads in his outstretched hands,
Read more →Democrats Voted Out of Baptist Church The Associated Press http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/050705Z.shtml Saturday 07 May 2005 Waynesville, N.C. – Some in Pastor Chan Chandler’s flock wish he had a little less zeal for the GOP. Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who didn’t support President Bush.
Read more →Jesus, Jihadis, and the Red-State Blues By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/24/5479 Thursday 29 July 2004 In this week of John Kerry’s nomination, we should all give President Bush his due. Iraq boils up in his face. Over half his fellow Americans now think his war wrong-footed,
Read more →Stations of the Cross: How Evangelical Christians Are Creating an Alternative Universe of Faith-Based News By Mariah Blake The Columbia Journalism Review http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/3/blake-evangelist.asp It’s the first Tuesday of April. In Washington, D.C., the magnolia trees are blooming, tourists crowd the sidewalk cafés, and Congress has just returned from its spring recess. CBN News has chosen
Read more →Christian Emphasis on Evangelism at Heart of Air Force Academy Scandal By Steve Rabey Religion News Service http://www.beliefnet.com/story/167/story_16786_1.html Colorado Springs, Colo., June 2 – There’s “a heck of a battle” going on at the Air Force Academy, says legendary football coach Bobby Bowden. The problem is deciding who started it. Bowden and other evangelicals rallying
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