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BE WARNED: This website is not here to hurt Christians or convert anybody to anything. Many Christians/others may find much to disagree with here as far as theology, but the purpose is to find a balance between reason and faith. I don't consider being a Deist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, etc. a magic formula for "salvation" however defined or perhaps disbelieved. I do believe we all will be judged, both in this life and the next, by how we act and treat others. That we all have the free will to control our actions, and are as individuals responsible for our own actions. But I strongly resist anyone attempting to impose their religious beliefs on others or dragging them into politics. That means complete separation of religion (including secular pseudo religions), a private spiritual affair, from politics, an often corrupt worldly affair.

I believe there are absolute truths and in the general Jewish-Christian moral codes and western liberal democracy. I believe in God and science. If some material here sounds harsh and judgmental, I apologize and I'm working to change that. I claim no special insight or knowledge and have no wish, and in fact reject any idea of starting a "church" or organization. I believe the Bible, etc. do contain truths, but require careful thought and consideration. I certainly don't have all the answers. We are all human, we make mistakes, and that includes myself. Do the best you can.

This is a Deist/Unitarian website. I take a view of rational theism and a unified view of God often at odds with Paul's mostly Gnostic or "faith based" theology. I consider Christians and Jews in general good people that have contributed positively to American culture. There's a direct line for "Christians" from Apostle Paul's Christ to Marcion who invented the New Testament to St. Augustine to Martin Luther and John Calvin. Also read the following Thomas Jefferson on the Morals of Jesus.

At the demand of Media General (who bought out the Bristol Herald Courier) I have removed all of their material from this website and no longer act as an archive. They maintain no online archives. This website has undergone reconstruction and many of the articles that are being added or updated are below. One can e-mail me at lewis@sullivan-county.com with any questions.

The first several articles presented addresses the issue of left-wing bias in news reporting, etc. They are racists in the worse sense caring only for a political agenda and power. Racism is wrong, period, but facts are still facts. The simple fact is that refusing to deal with black crime often means black people suffer the most. Their children have to dodge the bullets and resist the drug dealers often on every corner. Then they have to deal with the backlash and fear all of this creates with whites. The majority are not criminals and often end up as pawns in other people's power games. I'd trust the typical black person over the typical white doctor or lawyer. ISLAMISTS CAN BE DEFEATED The American Truth Forum exposes Islamic penetration of the universities What Most "so-called" Palestinians Believe

More Illegal Aliens in East Tennessee The Mexican solution (to illegal immigration)

ACLU Leads the Fight against Christmas AN OPEN LETTER TO THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL VIOLENT CRIME SPARK VIGILANTE JUSTICE? OUR FAILING JUSTICE SYSTEM

• School starting time change causes uproar in Bristol, Tennessee
• Closing Schools in Sullivan County
• Why the public should be angry about Bristol Compressors
• Exit 7 Fiasco
• Travelocity Debacle
• Grundy, Virginia and the $200 million Bridge to Nowhere
• Sullivan County Exposed
• Bills would allow Ten Commandments in public buildings
• Education at Eastman Chemical
• Bristol Wal-Mart Wars

• Bowing to Jihad

• VA Gov. Kaine faces questions about Muslim appointee to immigration panel
• Poverty, Rural Area Medical (RAM), and Tourism Hype
• Wise County residents jam RAM Health Expedition
• Flying with Pork-Barrel Airways
• RAM Project update 2003
• RAM Project update 2002
• RAM Project Exposes massive Poverty in Wise, Virginia, 2001
• RAM Project Page

• Snake Bite Kills Local Preacher
• Death as Religion in the Bible Belt
• Less Welfare, Same Poverty in Heart of Appalachia
• Worlds Apart by Cynthia Duncan
• A Future Imperiled by Poverty
• How the ARC Wastes Millions
• Who Really Gets Mountain Money?
• Pierce Trial and Racism
• Poverty Myths
• War on Poverty and how the Poor Lost
• What Virginians Think

• Science and Religion in Sullivan County Schools
• Middle school student suspended for harassing teacher about religion
• Parent says suspended student meant no harm
• Suspension deserved, Follow school policy, and Two fallacies Opinions
• Child showed love, Discuss Jesus, We have rights too, Suspension wrong, Brainwashing, One-sided class Opinions
• Confusion about science at heart of incident Editorial
• Know what you disagree with on evolution
• TDOE lawyer dispels myth regarding religion in schools
• Not in conflict, Not persecuted, Founders' beliefs, No idols, Insulting God, and more

• Baptist Preacher and wife get 179 years in prison: Combs child-abuse case
• Liberal Racism and the so-called "Jena 6"
• Are facts racism? The Killers of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom
• The murder of nine-year-old Jordin Paulder
• Why is trial involving marathon torture session by gays against a teen being ignored?
• Robbery survivor: 85-year-old fought through pain to stay alive
• Long Beach Hate Crime Travesty 40 blacks attack three white women, get probation.
• The Wichita Massacre
• Officials Consider Hate Crime Charges in Week-Long Kidnap, Torture of West Virginia Woman

I'm dead set against illegal immigration, but there's not a thing most illegal aliens do I wouldn't do myself to have a better life for my children. I worked security at a construction job where most of the workers were Hispanics, I suspected many were illegal. They were the hardest working and most honest individuals I'd ever seen. I hit it off with one named Louis, who taught me a person with a college degree, how to properly do drywall. (I was remodeling my own house because I couldn't afford to hire anyone.) He was my teacher and I'll never do drywall as well as he could. The fact was they couldn't find nobody to do this work even paying $12 an hour. A little respect works wonders.

Don't blame the typical Mexican farm or construction worker for this mess. Blame the exploitive business owner, lazy American on welfare, the political left trying to deconstruct and destroy our borders and culture. In particular blame everyone that wants a cheap gardener, nanny, or under-priced service or product produced by people in nasty jobs they have never worked or would never work themselves.

I don't want Louis deported, but I don't want or will tolerate Mexican flags on American streets or have my country reduced to a multicultural, socialist cesspool. The people behind this are not people like Louis, but those with a political agenda that wouldn't invite Louis home to dinner. Don't blame Louis and others. If I sound harsh with Mexicans, etc. I apologize, it isn't them.

There's also a lot material on this site regarding Muslims. Let me be clear it's Sharia Law and Saudi Wahhabism and related sects I oppose, not Islam or Muslims as such.

ISLAMISTS CAN BE DEFEATED The American Truth Forum exposes Islamic penetration of the universities What Most "so-called" Palestinians Believe

More Illegal Aliens in East Tennessee The Mexican solution (to illegal immigration)

ACLU Leads the Fight against Christmas AN OPEN LETTER TO THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL VIOLENT CRIME SPARK VIGILANTE JUSTICE? OUR FAILING JUSTICE SYSTEM

• School starting time change causes uproar in Bristol, Tennessee
• Closing Schools in Sullivan County
• Why the public should be angry about Bristol Compressors
• Exit 7 Fiasco
• Travelocity Debacle
• Grundy, Virginia and the $200 million Bridge to Nowhere
• Sullivan County Exposed
• Bills would allow Ten Commandments in public buildings
• Education at Eastman Chemical
• Bristol Wal-Mart Wars

• Bowing to Jihad

• VA Gov. Kaine faces questions about Muslim appointee to immigration panel
• Poverty, Rural Area Medical (RAM), and Tourism Hype
• Wise County residents jam RAM Health Expedition
• Flying with Pork-Barrel Airways
• RAM Project update 2003
• RAM Project update 2002
• RAM Project Exposes massive Poverty in Wise, Virginia, 2001
• RAM Project Page

• Snake Bite Kills Local Preacher
• Death as Religion in the Bible Belt
• Less Welfare, Same Poverty in Heart of Appalachia
• Worlds Apart by Cynthia Duncan
• A Future Imperiled by Poverty
• How the ARC Wastes Millions
• Who Really Gets Mountain Money?
• Pierce Trial and Racism
• Poverty Myths
• War on Poverty and how the Poor Lost
• What Virginians Think

• Science and Religion in Sullivan County Schools
• Middle school student suspended for harassing teacher about religion
• Parent says suspended student meant no harm
• Suspension deserved, Follow school policy, and Two fallacies Opinions
• Child showed love, Discuss Jesus, We have rights too, Suspension wrong, Brainwashing, One-sided class Opinions
• Confusion about science at heart of incident Editorial
• Know what you disagree with on evolution
• TDOE lawyer dispels myth regarding religion in schools
• Not in conflict, Not persecuted, Founders' beliefs, No idols, Insulting God, and more

Local:
• Blogging sites (this one) in the news
• Illegal Aliens in East Tennessee
• Why the public should be angry about Bristol Compressors
• Responses to Ed Barlow of Creating the Future
• Futurist: Sullivan must recruit, celebrate diverse work force. Bunk
• Futurist offers sound advice for our region
• Second-class education hampers American workers
• Clear Creek Mobile Home Park Travesty
• Bulldozing Clear Creek Mobile Home Park
• Local activist working to help displaced trailer park residents
• Poverty, Rural Area Medical (RAM), and Tourism Hype
• Wise County residents jam RAM Health Expedition
• Study Says White Families' Wealth Advantage Has Grown
• Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan by Maria Hsia Chang

  Religion:

• Comments on the Second Great Awakening
• Thou shalt have no other gods before the ACLU
• The gospel roots of Christian pantheism
• Gibson's Blood Libel
• The incoming sea of faith
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• Unitarianism Spreads in the Church of England, 1690 - 1750

  Ecology:

• THE AGES OF GAlA Exposed
• About James Lovelock and Nuclear Power
• Michael Crichton Speech - Environmentalism as Religion
• The Ages of Gaia and science facts they won't talk about.
• Extracts from Science under Siege by Michael Fumento

  The Left and Radical Islam:

• The Muslim hate crime that wasn’t
• The Chorus of Useful (Leftist) Idiots
• Taking On The Neo-Coms Part 1
• Taking On The Neo-Coms, Part II
• The Fifth Column Left Declares War
• Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
• Shocking (Liberal) Silence
• Moral Relativism, etc.
• The Nazi connection to Islamic terrorism
• See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
• Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan

  Islam, Saudi Arabia, and Beslan:

• Q&A with Stephen Schwartz on Wahhabism on National Review Online
• VA Gov. Kaine faces questions about Muslim appointee
• Theo van Gogh and "Education By Murder" in Holland
• Radical Islamists must be stopped: the Beslan child slaughter.
• A Cry from an Arab American over the Russian Children
• What really happened at Beslan?
• They shoot children, don't they? By Dennis Prager
• Why American Muslim Converts Turn to Terrorism
• AN UNTONED-DOWN COMMENTARY ON SUDAN
• Time to get Cracking at the Vatican
• Al Qaeda among the Chechens
• 'Why do Arabs Hate the West, Especially the U.S.?'
• Saudis behind beheadings, conspiracy theories, and Saudi TV
• Seeking clarity on Islam and jihad
• Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
• OOPS! Arab "demographic bomb" revealed as dud
• Of Courage and Cowardice
• State Dept Math: The Kurds and being a hypocrite
• Only U.S. Strength Can Defeat Islamism and Israel's Intifada Victory
• Eurabia The road to Munich and Islam in VA public schools.
• DE PROFUNDIS (Honor by Murder)
• PEACEMONGERS AND JIHADEERS
• Muslims want us dead
• The Facts, the Law and the Judgment of Nochum Korman
• The only good infidel is a dead infidel
• I Am a Lucky Arab
• How Do I Know? (About Islam)
• New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying The Genocide of Infidels
• Twenty-Year Plam: Islam Targets America
• Moderate, peaceful Muslims ? where is the evidence?
• 'Innocent religion is now a message of hate'
• Saudis Blame U.S. While Exporting Terror Abroad
• When is violent speech still free speech?
• Terrorism only became such a potent weapon
• What Makes a Terrorist?
• Banker linked by prosecutors to Hamas gets 13 months in prison
• Takiing Away Their (Muslims) Greatest Weapon

• Saudis Fire Clerics Who Preached Intolerance
• Will Islamist-front groups silence ordinary Americans?
• The jobs Britons won't do
• We've replaced Rushdie in hiding
• Learning About Islam With Imam Ellison
• Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman
• Can we judge religions?
• Salman Rushdie and British Backbone
• Flushed Korans and Protected Victims
• "Islamophobic Prejudice" and CAIR stupid "hate crimes"
• The Persistence of Islamic Slavery
• THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN HOLLAND
• ISLAM'S DISHONORABLE HISTORY
• THE SUBJECTION OF ISLAMIC WOMEN AND THE FECKLESSNESS OF AMERICAN FEMINISM
• THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS
• 12 STEP RECOVERY PROCESS (From Islam) FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM
• RADICAL ISLAM'S "END-GAME"
• SAUDI ARABIA'S EXPORT OF RADICAL ISLAM
• AMERICA'S NEO-TURCOPHILES: DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS ABOUT TURKEY, ISLAM, AND THE EU
• THE ORIGIN AND IDENTITY OF THE ARABS
• ISLAMISTS THREATS IN THE U.S.
• THE GRAND DELUSION: ISLAM
• WHY CONFRONT ISLAMISM?
• Arabs losing faith in ‘the cause’
• So what are we doing about ‘failed’ Muslim communities here? (In the West)
• Whenever it comes to Muslims, commentators feel the need for obfuscation
• THE COMING WAR WITH ISLAM
• Does oppression cause homicide bombings?
• CAN THERE BE AN ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY?
• THE MUSLIM MAINSTREAM AND THE NEW CALIPHATE
• Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab Too by Daniel Pipes
• Women the Future of Freedom by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WEST by Fjordman
• Why Is America Doomed?
• GENDER, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, AND TERRORISM: WOMEN'S LIBERATION OR OPPRESSION?
• Do I hate Islam and Muslims?
• A new Communism, Humanist Manifestos
• A Discussion on Multiculturalism and the Real Agenda
• Pictures and News from Londonistan, how Muslims think
• Cult of multiculturalism' vs. U.S. sovereignty
• Why illegal Immigration Matters in Bristol Virginia/Tennessee
• Illegal Aliens in Virginia and Tennessee
• The truth on mass immigration.

Something to keep in mind reading this material: The general Muslim faith doesn't advocate wanton murder of civilians and suicide is a mortal sin. 99% of Muslims are not terrorists. The use of terrorism was imported from Europe and in many cases the terrorist act has nothing to do with Islam.

• The Dispensational Origins of Modern Premillennialism and John Nelson Darby
• Comments From a Former Fundamentalist
• Strip Club regulations upheld by Tennessee Court of Appeals; Sullivan law remains in force
• Judge: Nashville can't enforce adult club rule
• Sullivan County Tennessee Cathouse
• Sullivan County Exposed

• Moderate Muslims Must Seize the Reins of Islam
• Zawahiri – Not bin Laden – Is the Top Target

• Exit 7 Fiasco
• Sullivan North principal blasts county commissioners over funding shortage
• Tennessee tops nation in personal bankruptcy
• Biblically inspired billboards set to return to Tri-Cities
• Virginia made wise use of tobacco settlement funds or did they?
• School officials say dual-track education costing Tennessee jobs
• Ten Commandments don't belong in courthouse
• Schools get low marks in history and civics
• Report provides clues about curbing school violence, drug use
• Southwest Virginia demographics
• Teen substance abuse becoming epidemic
• Teens in rehab say drugs are everywhere
• Open letter to the Sullivan County Commission

• The Barter Theater goes naked
• Evangelist behind efforts to ban schools' Halloween celebrations
• Picking on Satan and Rev. Poff

• More Letters on the Evolution Debate
• Sullivan advised to remove Ten Commandments plaque
• Removing God
• Baptists have highest divorce rate
• 7 States Still Classify Cohabitation as Illegal
• Democracy and the Origins of the US Constitution
• Religious Fundamentalism As Mental Illness
• Treaty of Tripoli and Misquotes
• Examples of Misquoting by the Religious Right
• Myths And Mischief of the Religious Right
• Did Jefferson Put Bible in school in DC Public Schools?
• Did the NY SC ever say the First Amend never meant to withdraw religion?
• Did Madison ever say that religion is the foundation of government?
• Did Madison ever say that our future is staked on the 10 commandments?
• John Adams, the American Revolution, and Christianity
• Did Joseph Story ever say that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state?
• History Revisionists
• Creationist' Tactics

• Sykes Pikeville call center to close
• The Travelocity.com Debacle in SW Virginia
• SI INTERNATIONAL LOCATES IN DICKENSON COUNTY
• A small frown in America (Clintwood, virginia)

• Rightwingers Accuse Grover Norquist of Supporting 'Islamist Fifth Column'
• MIDEAST: CHRISTIAN-FREE ZONE?
• Origins Of America-Bashing and Marxist Failure
• Army Extends Enlistments to Curtail Troop Shortages
• On Islamists: They want to kill us all
• Proud to Be Muslims
• Bush, Al-Arian photo resurfaces, Al-Arian convicted
• WHAT BURIED ARABIA?
• THE SAUDIS: The Middle East Mafia
• The Socialist Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism
• Who Supports Israel?

• Comments and additions from Mark
• The Adventists Churches and the End-Times
• Armageddon and All That Jazz
• 220 Failed Second Comings
• Pastors Play Down End-Times Speculation
• Christian Confusion and the End-Times

• Unitarianism and Deism
• Sermon: Unitarian Roots in England and America
• Why UU Humanism Requires Rejecting Our Humanity
• Unitarianism, misc. information
• Unitarianism Spreads in the Church of England
• Humanism, the Early Church, and Rational Religion
• Socinianism: Unitarianism in 16th-17th Century Poland and Its Influence

• Humanism and Reason Rejected
• What is Humanism? Atheist
• Why UU Humanism Requires Rejecting Our Humanity

• Ontario Canada: Racist convention shut down by The Guardian
• British Israelism: A Mirage by R.P. Nettelhorst
• Christian Churches of God and Fundamentalism
• Back to Christian Fundamentalism Exposed
• British-Israelism Refuted by www.Bible.ca
• Genesis 4: Christian Fundamentalism and Science
• Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World
• Christian Fundamentalism by Myss
• Liberal-Bane – The Real Truth About Christian Fundamentalism by Paul Scates
• The Historical Roots of America's Christian Fundamentalism by Sunshine
• Religion of Communism in Bristol

Reasons why telecom is not the future in Bristol:
• BVU and Cable Ready Socialism
• Fiber Optic Fiasco at Bristol Virginia Utilities Continues
• Travelocity Debacle
• Why Telecom is No Future
• Telecom Outlook: First the Bad News, Then the Bad News
• Slowdown sending tech jobs overseas
• Call centers 'a global business in a competitive market'
• US Call Center Operator in Cebu Needs lT Employees
• JobStreet.com - Call Centers -- RP's Emerging Sunshine Industry

• Congressmen Challenge 'Friendship' of Child-Stealing Saudis
• Islamic Bloc, Christian Right Team Up to Lobby U.N.
• Islam's Deadly Truth
• Are Christians Crazy?
• Dr. Bhatti Travesty
• Notes on Neoplatonism
• Early Christian and Medieval Neoplatonism
• Pelagius: To Demetrias, why he was cleared of heresy
• Pelagius: Chapters
• Pelagius and why he was right.
• Defense Of The Freedom Of The Will
• UNWORTHY OF TURKEY: Lessons from Iran's Easter parade of British hostages
• Nicene Creed and the Trinity
• Another Look at the Trinity

• Saudis, Bush, and a Troubling Influence
• Religious Marker should stay
• Virginia's rich areas richer; poor get poorer
• Income Gap Grows in the 1990s

• Was Thomas Jefferson a Deist?
• Thomas Jefferson: Deist or Christian? Debunking Dr James Kennedy
• The Founding Fathers Were Not Christians or Secular Humanists
• Deism in America
• Jefferson on the Morals of Jesus and Deism
• Deism and Reason
• About Thomas Paine
• Thomas Paine on Deism
• Thomas Paine Age Of Reason: Editor's Introduction
• Age of Reason Part I
• Age of Reason Part II
• Letters Concerning the "Age of Reason"
• Reason and Religion by Ethan Allen
• John Locke and a Letter Concerning Toleration
• THE CRUCI-FICTION: NAILING DOWN THE STORY
• Epictetus Deist Sayings
• Thoughts On It All
• Bill of Rights
• ON LIBERTY By JOHN STUART MILL
• Fight Religious Bigotry
• Theo Van Gogh and Education by Murder
• Further developments on the Van Gogh Murder

• Which Creation Story?
• Which Creation Story? Another view
• Evolution debate in schools
• Creationism Teacher Is Told to Stop
• An evolving controversy
• Evolution and the early church, and Islam
• Isaac Asimov Science and the Bible
• Christian Orthodoxy On Creationism
• Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics
• Ancient Underwater City Found Off India: Archaeologists to Rewrite History
• Explorer Finds Evidence of Life Before Great Flood

• Atheist files suit against ACS claiming wrongful termination
• Challenge to Atheists
• Challenge to Atheists 2
• Atheist files suit against ACS claiming wrongful termination
• CitiGroup settles religious discrimination lawsuit

  Pat Robertson

• Jim Bakker: Asteroid will make Y2K look like Sunday picnic
• No casualties? White House disputes Robertson comment
• Pat's Big Lie
• Coalition Survival Questioned
• Racism at the Christian Coalition
• Coalition Woes May Hinder Religious Right
• Pat's Diamond Scam
• Pat Robertson Warns Dover Pa of Disaster

• Pat Robertson Attacks Hindus
• Pat Robertson Loses It in Attack on High Court
• How Pat Robertson and the Virginia GOP Use Each Other
• Ten years after Oklahoma City bombing, militia movements are rudderless and in disarray

• Palast investigates Pat Robertson
• Pat Robertson: God tells me it's Bush in a blowout
• The Terrorist and the Televangelist: Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson
• Pat Robertson's high horse
• Pat Robertson describes Islam as violent religion
• PAT ROBERTSON'S REGENT UNIVERSITY FLUNKS AMERICAN HISTORY
• Pat Robertson's 'nuke' idea draws protest: State Dept. spokesman: 'Idea is despicable'
• Robertson's Fierce Rhetoric May Have Diminished His Political Clout

• Worlds Apart by Cynthia Duncan
• For some, religion and politics go hand in hand
• White-collar jobs joining blue-collar counterparts overseas
• Stand to Reason Commentary - Culture Wars II
• Bible Belt Death
• The Founding Fathers Speak Out on God, Religion and the First Amendment
• Less Welfare, Same Poverty in Heart of Appalachia
• A Future Imperiled by Poverty
• Champions of the game
• Who really gets mountain money?
• 15 year old convicted of murder
• Rural Poverty: Myths and Realities
• Wars on poverty: Battles exceed wins
• opinions of virginians
• PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
• Two Views of the United Pentecostal Church
• Randy "Ruby Ridge" Weaver hero in Sullivan County
• Both sides of Ruby Ridge clash faulted
• Enlightenment: 18th-century Europe and America.
• Empty Platitudes on the Poverty Tour by Bill Bishop
• Stop the Mendota Trail in Washington County, Virginia!
• A Town's Future Is Leaving the Country: Travelocity and Dickenson County
• Catholics and Mormons unwelcome in Sullivan County TN
• Colorado Children's Deaths Rekindle Debate on Religion
• Answers for a Fundamentalist
• Quotes from some of our Christian "leaders"
• THE OLD SOUTH AND THE NEW RELIGIOUS RIGHT
• Dominion Theology: The Truth About the Christian Right's Bid for Power
• The Royal Race of the Redeemed?
• Words of Christian Reconstructionists
• Gary North Y2K Interview
• There's Something About Gary North
• 25 CREATIONISTS' ARGUMENTS and 25 EVOLUTIONISTS' answers.
• Why fundamentalists are beyond reason.
• Introduction to the Scientific Method
• Scientific Method
• Tennessee Law Book
• Islam Versus Judaism and Christianity: some observations
• Ten Commandments group leader: Support feeds on terrorism fears
• Jerry Falwell blames America for 911
• Bible Contradictions.
• Charter Schools A Ruse For Destroying Public Education?
• Cult Behavior
• The Flag Controversy in Norton, Virginia
• Gnostic websites
• What is new age religion?
• Occam's Razor
• What is Paganism, a factual overview
• Universal Pantheist Society - Socinianism - A forerunner to Modern Pantheism
• Religious Confidence Games
• Natural Rights Rest Upon by Brian Black
• Socinianism: Unitarianism in 16th-17th Century Poland and Its Influence
• Victims of the Christian Faith?
• Christian Confusion On End-Times Nonsense
• 220 Dates for the End of the world!!! Date Setters!
• Baptists in N.C. aim to convert Mormon, Jehovah's Witness 'cult' members
• Christian complains about cartton
• Christian Fundamentalism and Science
• Gate City Evangilist attacks ACLU over school prayer
• Religious Fundamentalism As Mental Illness
• Christianity as a sect of Judaism?
• Jews speak on y2k hype
• Jungle of Christ
• Article: EVOLUTION AND THE POPE
• The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
• Sullivan County emergency crews will be ready to roll in case of Y2K problems
• How can a politician be a Christian, too?
• No nudes in Sullivan, except for commission
• Survey suggests teens not worried about Y2K

• UNWORTHY OF TURKEY: Lessons from Iran's Easter parade of British hostages
• Do I hate Islam and Muslims? Why Sharia can go to Hell
• How Christianity drew on Philo's synthesis of Judaism and Hellenism
• Which Creation Biblical Story?
• Isaac Asimov Science and the Bible
• Ask Professor Esposito, NOI, and Racism
• Overview of Gnosticism
• Saint Augustine and the Western Christian World-View
• Augustine [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
• The Theology of Paul
• The Problem of Paul
• Paul's Bungling Attempt At Sounding Pharisaic Hyam Maccoby
• Review of Paul and Hellenism by Hyam Maccoby, SCM 1991
• Pelagius
• John Adams embraces a Jewish homeland
• Comments from Mark and Don on the End-Times
• Arianism
• Conspiracy (Bessel)
• Arminianism, an overview
• Calvin and Calvinism
• Comments on the Great Awakening
• Challenge to Atheists 1
• Challenge to Atheists 2
• Devil, Demons and Hell
• The Devil Did Not Make You Do It
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance
• FAMOUS FREEMASONS
• What is the connection between Judaism and Freemasonry?
• General Contradictions in the New Testament
• Fewer Americans in church
• Jesus the Man
• Marcion
• Christian Jew-Haters
• Christianity as a sect of Judaism?
• Jews Killed Christ?
• Remembering the Jews of Monticello
• The Gospel of John, an overview
• Judaism Meets Hellenism and the Logos
• Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism.
• WORKFARE AND THE NON-PROFITS
• Early Christian and Medieval Neoplatonism
• A discussion of Pantheism and Deism
• Salvation is not just "faith alone"
• Servetus: His Ashes Cry Out Against John Calvin
• Bristol Wal-Mart Controversy
  • Study: Thousands of Wal-Mart workers on TennCare
  • Illegals boost bottom line at Wal-Mart
  • Wal-Mart Raids by U.S. Aimed at Illegal Immigrants
  • Cleaner at Wal-Mart Tells of Few Breaks and Low Pay
  • Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
  • Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
• The Fight for Democracy in Iran and a salute to heroes.
• Congressmen Challenge 'Friendship' of Child-Stealing Saudis
• Are Christians Crazy?
• Feds hold retired doctor under shrouded circumstances, controversy erupts.
• Pelagius: Defense Of The Freedom Of The Will
• Virginia's rich areas richer; poor get poorer
• James, Paul, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Anabaptists: Separate by Choice, Marginal by Force

• Apocryphon of John
• Gnotic Terms
• The Genesis Factor
• Alexander, the Jews, and Hellenism
• Hellenistic period
• Syncretism
• Platonism and Christianity
• Demiurge
• Who are the Cathers?
• Docetism
• ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION
• Hyam Maccoby [The Mythmaker] was mostly right
• Marcion's Church Not Really Gnostic?
• Jewish Origins of Gnosticism
• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
• Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
• Gnosticism, Philosophy, Religion
• Impact of Gnosticism on Christianity
• Apocalypse of Adam
• Hypostasis of the Archons
• Gospel of Thomas
• Thought of Norea
• Gnosticism - Ancient and Modern
• The Genesis Factor
• The Gospel of Philip
• The Gospel of Truth

• Sister Anisah David and Muslim Women
• Contrast three local economic reports from the Kingsport Times-News

• John Adams embraces a Jewish homeland
• Preaching terror
• Isaac Asimov The Reagan Doctrine
• Isaac Asimov Science and the Bible
• St. Augustine [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
• The Anti-Semitism of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo: A Dangerous Revival
• BAD COMMANDMENTS
• Bahai News - Human Rights Watch World Report 1995 [Iran-Human Rights Developments]
• Bahai Educators in Iran Sentenced
• Bahai News - The Baha'is of Iran
• Frances Bellamy; Freemason, socialist, Baptist preacher wrote Pledge of Allegiance
• Conspiracy (Bessel)
• Bristol, Virginia Utilities and "cable ready" socialism.
• Slowdown sending tech jobs overseas
• Utilities Overload
• Call centers 'a global business in a competitive market'
• US Call Center Operator in Cebu Needs lT Employees
• JobStreet.com - Call Centers -- RP's Emerging Sunshine Industry
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• Chechen rebels phoned Gulf during siege
• Happy Constitution Day
• Converts to Violence? - article by Daniel Pipes
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• Support Denmark
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• Fury over Islam cartoons, calls for restraint
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• U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive
• Sympathy for those who draw Anne Frank in bed with Hitler?
• Today it's some Mohammed cartoons; tomorrow it is you they will silence
• Curse of the Muslim moderates
• Western wimps missing chance to teach important lesson
• Denmark Is Unlikely Front in Islam-West Culture War
• Dane Defends Press Freedom as Muslims Protest Cartoons
• More European Papers Print Cartoons of Muhammad
• PRINT FREE OR DIE
• Submission is all in your dhimmitude
• Faces Of Muslims
• Deism advocated in the Bible.
• The Devil Did Not Make You Do It
• Fulbright's Terrorist Tie
• Four killed in Muslim rioting near Coptic churches in Alexandria
• Stop making excuses for Muslim extremists
• Chronology of Terror from fairus.org
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• What is the connection between Judaism and Freemasonry?
• Freemasons - From the 700 Club to Art Bell, an Object of Conspiracy Thinking
• Famous Freemasons and the Pledge of Allegiance
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• 'Honour killing' shocks Berlin Germany
• An ugly reality only the most enlightened refuse to concede
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• Sister Anisah David and Muslim Women
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• The new Islamic fascism
• Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism
• WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON A DEIST?
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• Mir Aimal Kasi Executed for terrorism.
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• WorldNetDaily: Chechens: Islam justifies killing prisoners
• Pakistani tells how he killed 4 daughters
• The Roots of Muslim Rage Part 1
• The Roots of Muslim Rage (Part Two)
• Muslim defeat and Bernard Lewis on Understanding Islam
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• WorldNetDaily: Myths of the Middle East
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• Historical Jesus FAQ
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• List of Muslim terror attacks in Egypt
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• Survey: Anti-Semitism on the rise in U.S.

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• Virginia Senate panel kills Ten Commandments bill
• Virginia Ten Commandments bill wins preliminary approval
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• Falwell Sues State of Virginia
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• Channing Interview
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• Unitarianism
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• Randy Weaver gets the boot in Vegas
• William Ellery Channing
• Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers

[restornu]

Hello, my name is Lewis Loflin. I'm a 50-year-old veteran of the US Army and have been married for 23 years. I'm a small property owner, taxpayer, gun owner, and I even have a dog and several cats. I support America and our system of democracy, religious and personal freedom, science, secular government, and moderate capitalism. I'm also political independent and my hobbies are science, electronics, history, and religion. This page is constructed as a blog and addresses many issues. I'm a Deist/Unitarian. I reject both the Religious Right, radical Islam, and the extreme Left as threats to our freedoms and nation. The religious material on this website reflects that view

[restornu]

There is a collection of pro and con article all in one place so please don’t throw out the baby with the bath water!

This does not reflect my point of view but I think it makes for interesting awareness of others out there!

[wideawake]

I reject . . . the Religious Right . . . as [a] threat[s] to our freedoms and nation.

The guy is a clown, plain and simple.

Moral equivalence is the stock in trade of idiots.

[BenLurkin]

"moderate capitalism"???

[Durus]

What precisely is moderate capitalism? Why do you feel the need to reject the “religious right” and what is your definition of the “religious right”? If you are actually for what you say you are for, then the Democrat platform has no place for you while the republican platform agrees with you by about 99%. Why do you call yourself an independent?

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Well, I liked your tagline. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/killed.htm

[snip] Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked some in Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to the Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to prison, said he had only one regret — that he didn’t kill the stepsister’s alleged lover too. Hundreds of girls and women are killed by male relatives each year in this conservative Islamic nation, and rights groups said Wednesday such “honor killings” will only stop when authorities get serious about punishing perpetrators... Ahmed said he killed his stepdaughter because she had committed adultery, and his daughters because he didn’t want them to do the same when they grew up. [end]

Yeah, that’s the same as wanting prayer in public school.

[restornu]

Why can’t you read what other in this world is doing with out castigating on others, because you don’t like what you read.

I already stated in post #2 it is not my point of view.

Which part of that don’t you understand?

[Durus]

I didn’t castigate anyone or anything. I asked questions. You did not specify in your original post, which I took the time to read, that this was not in fact you. Had you done that I would have merely put the question to the blogger but the questions would have remained. Why is it that you think asking questions of a bloggers stated opinion is somehow wrong? What is the point of posting if it isn’t to stimulate conversation?

[Cold Heat]

Ha! LOL.....

You opened yourself up to be attacked by this group of political jackals. They don't think very much and what you are asking them to do is far too painful for them.....LOL....

But have a nice day anyway....and try to retain your sense of humor. You will need it for the decade that is coming like a huge ominous storm.

[restornu]

Well I always found the unusual interesting, and they have some truth and wonder how they got so jaded.

[RightWhale]

a huge ominous storm.

Ominous would mean there were omens. There are, but when the storm breaks it would be omenated rather than ominous.

[Resolute Conservative]

Mr. Potatohead.

[Cold Heat]

Sorry, I lost my thesaurus....:-)