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Religions > Atheism |
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"Ben Kaufman" |
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17 Oct 2006 02:10:56 PM |
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article: Loosing faith in Bush |
"White House officials realized they had a problem, former staffer David Kuo
writes in his new book, "Tempting Faith," when they saw how a panel rated the
first applications for grants under the "faith-based initiative," President
Bush's vaunted effort to help religious charities.
On a scale of 1 to 100, respected national organizations such as Big Brothers
Big Sisters of America scored in the mid-70s to mid-80s, "while something called
Jesus and Friends Ministry from California, a group with little more than a post
office box," scored 89 and Pat Robertson's overseas aid organization, Operation
Blessing, scored 95, according to Kuo.
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Kuo tells a story about meeting a member of the review panel at a party. He says
she giggled as she recalled, "when I saw one of those non-Christian groups in
the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero."
Kuo says he laughed but, at the same time, was aghast.
.......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601101.html
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http://tinyurl.com/szkp5
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| User: "Lookingglass" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
17 Oct 2006 06:13:13 PM |
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"Ben Kaufman" <spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:0faaj2114b8p6s91ljk5und0l0b47sdd87@4ax.com...
On a scale of 1 to 100, respected national organizations such as Big
Brothers
Big Sisters of America scored in the mid-70s to mid-80s, "while something
called
Jesus and Friends Ministry from California, a group with little more than
a post
office box," scored 89 and Pat Robertson's overseas aid organization,
Operation
Blessing, scored 95, according to Kuo.
I call it 'Circular Faith'...
Pat Robertson (and all the other televangelists) come on TV to ask us for
money so they can get a bigger, stronger satellite so they can broadcast
their 'message' that they need to raise more money so they can get a
bigger-er and stronger-er satellite so they can broadcast their... well, you
get the point.
dancin' dave (...in dogs we trust...)
www.Shemakhan.com
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
17 Oct 2006 08:45:14 PM |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:13:13 -0700, "Lookingglass"
<Shemakhan@comcast.net> wrote:
I call it 'Circular Faith'...
Pat Robertson (and all the other televangelists) come on TV to ask us for
money so they can get a bigger, stronger satellite so they can broadcast
their 'message' that they need to raise more money so they can get a
bigger-er and stronger-er satellite so they can broadcast their... well, you
get the point.
Isn't it amazing, though, that so much of the money never makes it to
the satellite company? I wonder where it goes?
--
rukbat at optonline dot net
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds
are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her
tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the
existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of
the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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| User: "Tim McGaughy" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
22 Oct 2006 07:52:51 PM |
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Al Klein wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:13:13 -0700, "Lookingglass"
<Shemakhan@comcast.net> wrote:
I call it 'Circular Faith'...
Pat Robertson (and all the other televangelists) come on TV to ask us for
money so they can get a bigger, stronger satellite so they can broadcast
their 'message' that they need to raise more money so they can get a
bigger-er and stronger-er satellite so they can broadcast their... well, you
get the point.
Isn't it amazing, though, that so much of the money never makes it to
the satellite company? I wonder where it goes?
Has anyone looked in the heated swimming pool at the mansion? Perhaps
some of it got dropped in there.
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
24 Oct 2006 02:00:41 PM |
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:52:51 -0500, Tim McGaughy wrote
(in article <ehh3p80htk@enews1.newsguy.com>):
Al Klein wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:13:13 -0700, "Lookingglass"
<Shemakhan@comcast.net> wrote:
I call it 'Circular Faith'...
Pat Robertson (and all the other televangelists) come on TV to ask us for
money so they can get a bigger, stronger satellite so they can broadcast
their 'message' that they need to raise more money so they can get a
bigger-er and stronger-er satellite so they can broadcast their... well,
you
get the point.
Isn't it amazing, though, that so much of the money never makes it to
the satellite company? I wonder where it goes?
Has anyone looked in the heated swimming pool at the mansion? Perhaps
some of it got dropped in there.
And let us not forget the air-conditioned dog-house. (Can anyone remember Jim
(I'm not a jail-bird) Bakker?)
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³We don't just borrow words; on occasion English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new
vocabulary."-James D. Nicoll
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
17 Oct 2006 02:20:55 PM |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:10:56 -0400, Ben Kaufman
<spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com> wrote:
"White House officials realized they had a problem, former staffer David Kuo
writes in his new book, "Tempting Faith," when they saw how a panel rated the
first applications for grants under the "faith-based initiative," President
Bush's vaunted effort to help religious charities.
On a scale of 1 to 100, respected national organizations such as Big Brothers
Big Sisters of America scored in the mid-70s to mid-80s, "while something called
Jesus and Friends Ministry from California, a group with little more than a post
office box," scored 89 and Pat Robertson's overseas aid organization, Operation
Blessing, scored 95, according to Kuo.
What was really sick, is that after th
......
Kuo tells a story about meeting a member of the review panel at a party. He says
she giggled as she recalled, "when I saw one of those non-Christian groups in
the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero."
Kuo says he laughed but, at the same time, was aghast.
......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601101.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/szkp5
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: article: Loosing faith in Bush |
17 Oct 2006 05:11:17 PM |
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In article <38baj2lqmm20bdap004pogsh6r33kqgndm@4ax.com>,
Christopher A. Lee said...
On a scale of 1 to 100, respected national organizations such as Big Brothers
Big Sisters of America scored in the mid-70s to mid-80s, "while something called
Jesus and Friends Ministry from California, a group with little more than a post
office box," scored 89 and Pat Robertson's overseas aid organization, Operation
Blessing, scored 95, according to Kuo.
What was really sick, is that after th
Oh no! They got to Christopher!
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Brian E. Clark
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