Posted on July 9, 2008 by John Uebersax
I am a citizen of the United States and a representative of the American Nation of people. The US Government is merely an administrative unit which has vastly overreached its legitimate powers. Unfortunately most Americans — and perhaps most people elsewhere — confuse the US Government with the American Nation. The former is [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by John Uebersax
At the Watchblog Third Party Website, Joel S. Hirschhorn wrote an good article titled The Evolution of Evil. He identifies as an essential problem the current two-party system. To quote Joel:
Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections…. Nothing conceals tyranny better than elections. [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by John Uebersax
On Religious Inclusivism and Exclusivism
John S. Uebersax
Summary
Here we make two main points:
Religious inclusivism – the view that “all religions are but different paths to the same goal” — is often presented as a means to promote peace. However, if religions actually are true to varying degrees, then radical inclusivism merely tries to sweep genuine [...]
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