I Don't Want the State Propping up My Religion
Universal rights might be the place we should begin. My understanding of Christianity is that its contribution has been to go beyond—and in many cases has given up—its own specific privileges in the larger cause of advancing the rights of all.
Religious leaders often become giant projections screens for everyone’s anxieties and fantasies. That proved to be true last week when Rowan Williams waded into the multi-faith cauldron that is currently boiling in England.
Some have suggested that merely using the term sharia law created an atmosphere in which nothing he said could then be heard. Apparently so. Anyone really interested in what he said, as opposed to reacting to the media firestorm, should read the actual text.
This remarkable man, the leader of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, thinks in public with subtlety and nuance. That is hard to capture in daily journalism. And even if well reported, the notion of some privilege of religious law would be hard to think about in a nation like his—and perhaps like our own—that is having a national identity crisis fueled in part by prejudice against immigrants.
The headline “sharia law unavoidable,” arose from Williams’ assent to a question asked in the interview after his speech: “the application of sharia in certain circumstances - if we want to achieve this cohesion and take seriously peoples’ religion - seems unavoidable?”
For the record, he said that in certain restricted areas—marriage, divorce, inheritance and custody—voluntary Muslim communal judgments might be recognized within the framework of common law. He added “no ’supplementary’ jurisdiction [should] have the power to deny access to the [universal] rights granted to other citizens or to punish its members for claiming those rights”
Universal rights might be the place we should begin. Somehow the archbishop’s remarks tilted toward recognizing particular religious communities. But my understanding of Christianity is that its contribution has been to go beyond—and in many cases has given up—its own specific privileges in the larger cause of advancing the rights of all.
I don’t want the state propping up my religion’s cherished codes, traditions and practices. Williams suggested that there’s a secular arrogance that disregards the unique and powerful religious contributions to society. I think that’s right. Any of us can be arrogant. (And in any case, as a religious person, secular laws and norms are only one part of my identity.)
But the way to overcome that arrogance is in the push and pull of civil society, all individuals, groups, and faith communities working to mediate a common way of honoring human dignity and protecting human rights.
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February 15, 2008; 9:17 AM ET
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Posted by: Mary Anne Ramer, maxramer@hotmail.com | February 24, 2008 2:28 PM
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God Bless America, till November 4th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKQKM8sHOzA
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 10:41 AM
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words, combinations, solutions, any technique applied on words, verbally orally grammatically, in lexicon and symantix, that i have put into internet with my name or known with me or that have any significance with me, are gifts to children.
they are not to be employed for governmental, military or any other purposes. they are not to be hidden or misused or employed in misguidance.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 9:32 AM
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the poems, theories and texts with my name that i put onto internet are gifts to children.
they aren't to be employed for governmental, military or any other purposes.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 9:21 AM
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i had thanked in advance and i thank much more now. blessings and greetings.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 9:10 AM
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is Vatican from Etrusk family?
in an article i had read that 15% of folk in Anatolia is immigrant and 85% is resident for more than 40.000 years.
may Vatican give thymuse extract to Priests, Cardinals and Popes? is boron mineral drinkable?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 9:06 AM
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you do not hesitate to employ the words of a book that you do not accept and you employ them for your desires and advantages.
you must heal, you cannot steal.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 7:30 AM
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what people say come to the table of authorities different than original and completely disadvantagous to the source, changed according to desires and advantages of Russia and Team of Viladimir Putin.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 7:26 AM
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the double headed eagle is known with Selcuks
The President of Turkey is Selcuk too
but President of Turkey is known with St George and Vatican
and he is intimate with Embassy of VAtican
and there are governments who want to protect Pope in VAtican
but Vatican is already in Anadolu with Presidency of Turkey
but i am sure Mr Viladimir Putin uses this Selcuk case in Kosovo
to keep VAtican out of Anadolu for Russian desires and religionlessness.
it is also in Russian Empire and masonry too.
leave Kosovo free, President Putin, and talk all of your precautions frankly.
you are stealing from other countries with your words.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 7:21 AM
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sixth fleet is about John McCain, Commander of Navy in Europe. but it is also about the fleet related with ascension of planet EArth too.
why shall you elect John McCain? for his white hair, lovely wife, travelling mother and aunt in Europe?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 6:21 AM
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William Tully, if i take the luggage on your donkey and put it down, do you have a horse?
or genetically, do you have a kangoroo? can you know? would you like to begin?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 6:12 AM
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dun gece sen uyurken yuregim baglandi sana. iste bu yuzden sirf bu yuzden, bir isim verdim sana.
dun gece hic tanimadigim bir erkege, sirf sana benziyor diye merhaba dedim. tanidik bir huzur aradim, saskin bakislarinda dun. bildik bir soz bekledim, eskiden kalma oylesine.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 6:05 AM
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are you afraid of angels and engines any more? while i was working at kids school for computer aided education, there were children who did not put on earphones. it was seven years ago. may be they are DJ now.
i was a grandnanny telling stories to children sitting around my chair. i was fat and i had a skirt and headscarf. i think i was in Europe around 1700, i remember tresh on the floor.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:56 AM
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Al Gore knows me. Israelian Scholars at universities know me. Condaliza Rice knows me. Dick Cheney knows me. i helped them much.
i wrote about history, laicism, thymuse gland, medicine, magnetics, afforestation, Biblic Sciences.
did you think about Finland, Africa and ice? what can you have in a shell, Willy Tully, other than a pearl? one-cellular creatures that date back to millions of years?
i wrote about World Trade Center, Granddaughter of BArbara Bush of United States, Grandson of Queen Of United Kingdom.
i am sure President Putin is jealous of me, and so is President Sarkozy. but they are not humble and i am not arrogant either. am i?
Willy Tully, did you ever think about time in water, land and air differ? is the time for one plant in water different than this one plant in air and land?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:50 AM
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i have two e-books i compiled in PDF format and put into Files section in Yahoo groups. i opened websites and uploaded to give a link to download.
i sent to United Nations and European Union Ombudsman.
i have poems in Turkish especially. i wrote about lunar eclipses, planet alliances, and what the connections relations are.
the main intent is health, and peace.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:35 AM
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i write poems and texts in front of computer. i just put a comma or dot between words. poemsor messages flow and i wirte. i write what i have in two languages. if i have German or French or Spanish, i may write the package in these languages too. they are not translations. i write what i write in English, in Turkish too.
i wrote a poem about Ataturk, for his anniversary, in literature group of municipility, i had a month to the day to speak, the night after the decision, i fell asleep and all night long the lines of the poem came down, they were comimg from white. it was like feathers coming down. i was seeing Ataturk in the white too.
i wrote about superconductivity between planets and weightlessness of planets as astronauts are. i wrote about Turkish-English translation techniques.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:31 AM
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i wrote many messages about many cases and all are on the internet and intelligence services, authorities too, especially in Yahoo and Google.
particularly infected cases i held. from technology to languages, from spirituality to communism, from Science to todays computers.
i wrote in this language Turkish too. this language is from Sibirian Altay roots. i wrote about words and traditions in Turkish.
i wrote about Quran and Turkish traditional life. i wrote about family relations, history, literature.
Willy Tully, do you think Williams Bush in Africa was a stunt of him? was Williams Bush in Atlantis space shuttle?
from bitten apple of MAcintosh and Alain Turing to Leibniz equations, from languages and words to integral and differentiation, from proof of God to homosexuality, from Galileo to Spirituality, from Celts to planets, from pumpkins to candles,
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:23 AM
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in Nyangan, the flag is Black Cock.
i think while i was holding the case, in Yahoo groups and Crimson Circle, i drove attention of intelligence services.
Vatican and Putin were in action.
one night while i was lying in bed, my legs straight on my back and arms on my chest, all opened and i elevated. i was in a classroom. a teacher in front of green board was talking to me.
two lights on upper left were asking for one last chance to our son, that is me, they are my light father and mother. at a school i was writing about "2" in English, french and German. then the teacher asked me "are you happy now"? i was sad and angry then. and i came down back to the bed, crying. then all began. it was about 1996.
two times, while i was in bed, the veil over me was discovered and though i was in a room, i did see the stars in the sky.
while i was walking in winter time, around 2000, all opened and there were tents with fires in front of them. there was a big full silver sun, or moon, and a teacher came to me and gave a stick. meanwhile on the street apartment i see the apartments, people passing by, i was walking too and there was sun in the sky also. with the stick i asked "am i a warrior now?", he said "this is not a war". and i went on.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 5:13 AM
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Willy Tully
in Sibiria, where Ob River flows, there is a city Nyangan. the language residents speak is closest to Hungarian. and the Ob river begins from Altay mountains where Sibirian Tatars live.
the flag of Kosovo is two headed eagle. do you know such other folklore?
there is a case to be held. can you do? yes you can. jump. there is a case to be held. shall you do? yes you shall jump.
this is how we come to Earth.
this time while i was coming into this body, i was asking what is Syphilis Scupper? but the word in my mouth was Frengi.
yes, frengi is syphisilis but in pronunciations, it is Fear of Angels and Fear of Engines, technologically.
in these 35 years, i was taken to Lenin lying on a table, and i approached from his top of head.
i was taken to Leibniz, there were shelves of books, going to light above and his hair was wide.
there were many cases stuck on these two cases, i didnt know that some authorities were waiting for Lenin. and i think i found first : )
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 18, 2008 4:58 AM
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Johnny B Goode : How are the inmates in the asylum getting internet access?
Moi : I don't know about the others, but as for me, with the straight-jacket on, I am forced to type with my toes. I am learning to type with my nose and tongue.
Posted by: Jihadist | February 17, 2008 9:51 PM
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How are the inmates in the asylum getting internet access?
Posted by: Johnny B. Goode | February 17, 2008 8:57 PM
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William Tully
did you hear about the land under Finland? the lakes and green land under Finland? the ice shall melt and they shall meet this land of millions of years.
did you hear about the new equator from Finland, and Africa shall be another pole? it was suspoicious whether it shall be in magnetic grid of earth or in the consciousness of humanity.
considering these years, it was in the consciousness of humanity. but may be later in the magnetic grid too.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 12:45 PM
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Oooppsssadaisy. excuse the double post. Tanka-Shame!
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A Cyber Friend & Volunteer For "HILLARY FOR PREZ"
VOTE: Abolish ALL "iMPORTED" [Not-Made or Prophecied in Sweet Sweet U.S.A.) Pre-Apocalyptic 'Cottage-Religions" and competing religilousous in U.S. of A., not non-religio Industry's NOW!!
Deport ALL of the VATICAN Catholic Roman Empire "PEDAPHILE/HOMOSEXUAL-PRIESTS/BISHOPS/CARDINALS" back overseas from whence they illegally Imported their 'CURSE & SIN(s)' into older U.S.A., but no longer into the "New APOCALYPTIC-AMERICA-NATiON" U.S.A of 100 States!!!!
Note: This is the E*C*L*A*T*i-ON Prophecy! Please do not be in denial to self nor others! Tonks!
VOTE: DEPORT ALL, Not-Made-IN-A*M*E*R*i*C*A, iMPORTED Religions, Not MEXICANS!
INstead Unite MEXICO w/U.S.A for an Additional 10 States!!! As a Matter of fact, VOTE to Merge & Absorb All AMERICA upto & No Further than PANAMMA, ironically John McCAINS "Birth Place! "Imagine" (john Lennon; pbuh) 100 U.S. States?
Then We can Say Good bye Middle East & Good Ridence!!!
Important: The Chinese Zionist {MAO's et al} are in Mexico too & populated Mexico 10-fold in last 10 Years! Remember, the Chinese want to POISON Americano's Minds via their Dangerous/un-Healthy Products!!! So They [Chinese Atheistic/Zionists] must be kicked-out of there ASAP! Ya Ya!
Trivia: Did ye knowth that Senator , wanabe Prez John McCain is a 'Dual Citizen of Panama & USA?
PS: Did you also know that John McCain & His Wife , are ALCOHOL Pushers & have lots of Blood on their hand for many Highway Car Crashes due to their Alchol Monopoly Biz in ARIZONA!?????
Please see these linko's on Cindy Lou Hensley the daughter of James W. Hensley, a wealthy Anheuser-Busch distributor from Phoenix, Arizona. McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife in Florida on April 2, 1980 and promptly married Cindy on May 17, 1980.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcaindiv.htm
Shame Shame John & Cindy McCAIN!! Kennedy's too!
Ya Ya Yo Yo!
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Better a CLINTON than a McCAIN!
STOP THE WAR STOP THE WAR
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Mr Putin
when i attack my allies they do not fight back
and they reside. then i shall meet the enemies
my enemies attack back. i shall meet the enemy
i shall apologize to my allies. we will reward
Mr Putin
my enemies shall not forget. they shall not be
able to pray from their brains. they shall not
open their mouths for which are not from heart
and what is verbalized shall be joy and wisdom
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 9:12 AM
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-talk to Bruce Willis, he can do this. but i shall not. by by.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:43 AM
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-this is not magnetic and this is not the way i write. so please hang down the phone to turn the transmit off.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:39 AM
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-my head is wide and hot while you transmit. are you free and peaceful while you speak?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:37 AM
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-why dont you frankly announce?
-why do you use this mobile technique to speak?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:35 AM
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Williams Bush
could you please identify who transmitted these lines?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:30 AM
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Williams Bush
are Putin and Sarkozy accepted as Temur the LAmen and Attilanian
and you happened to declare that Turks did it? yes you are right
but please make a differentiation then, at least based on region
yet you have made a generalization and we suffered with misguide
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 7:16 AM
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Ataturk is known as the Teacher of EArth, from Orion. you must be wise, Mr Putin and SArkozy, with your equipment.
you must be free of your personal agenda and personality with your presidencies in your countries.
you shall be evaluated with your heart, Putin and Sarkozy, not your muscles or brain.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 3:14 AM
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hic kimse baskasinin isine uyduruk gucleriyle karismasin. Ataturk'ten daha uzun olmayan Putin ve Sarkozy dahil.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 3:10 AM
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Sarkozy, be busy with your own country, besides muscular radioactive erection, there is spiritual shining wake up.
and you are just a president of police. is Vatican proud of you?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 3:08 AM
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turn off the electromagnetics, Mr Putin, or i shall invite the sixth filo.
and he is about to come. but this time he shall be greeted home.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 3:05 AM
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who shall pay the debt in the credit cards that do not belong to me but belong to whom is known with me?
who shall apologize for the rush to purchase electronics? who shall apologize for the experiments, for the researches, for the emposes and dictionaries and visions?
shall you Russia and France apologize? no? you are not kind to. and are you ashamed Mr Putin?
what is your business with Cyprus comparing to Kosovo? are you not ashamed Mr Putin? do your business with Kosovo. Cyprus is nother case, and it is not of your business, Mr Putin. sit in Celtic Kremlin.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 2:55 AM
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the CEO of Vodafone, Attila the Hungarian, is he in relation with Hungarian Immigrant Sarkozy?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 2:49 AM
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World Trade Center
Finland, Egypt, Russia, France
Lady Diana,
Library and Informatics
Portugal, USA, Ottomans,
Africa, India
Slavery, Civil War
Portuguese Ottoman Melungeons
Ahmet, Fatima, Mary, Jesus
Valongo, Bursa
Quran, Mohammed?
Shariah in United Kingdom?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 2:28 AM
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does YAhoo, France, Russia, Mobile Phone Company in Portugal, Turkcell or Microsoft have a copy of the two books with first lines of poems in Courier New font that had been presented within love i was in with her, the books that i sent to Baninha Bibiana MArgarida?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 2:22 AM
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it was a 1990 Autumn that International Youth Service
in Finland Turku sent an address to me, from Portugal
here is a city known with St Nicholas, and in Finland
is the postal address of St Nicholas. Finns are Turks
after she opened an account on Yahoo we began writing
to each other on the internet and messenger. she is a
teacher of Portuguese at high schools, she would come
to work in Istanbul at Servantes Spanish Library. she
went to Red Sea, Brasil and Egypt. we would marry but
she hesitated because of folk, church and her parents
she had purchased a flat to live on her own, she made
carpets for two of us. she was sleeping on the carpet
at nights. we had made love we were talking on mobile
i had gone broke, i had quit the job at PAtent Office
i had translated MAdrid Agreement from French Invaded
city, center of Roman pilgrimage. this city also is a
French Invaded. and the World Trade Centers collapsed
she sent to me money in registered letters many times
one day she sent letters from Egypt with photos taken
in front of Egyptian Muslim Men dancing, they offered
to make love with her. i couldn't accept how she told
then we argued and broke. she asked about immigration
and money were the reasons that i wrote to her. later
she told me on the internet she slept with Portuguese
and she was about to marry. i have a blessing on neck
till 2015 through 2012. i am an zoologist from Sirius
i had been writing poems from Argonauts and Arcturius
i had poems with planetray alliances and energies too
i wrote in Crimson Circle, opened Turkish Yahoo group
i wrote about Kryon and Genetics, also in Lightworker
a woman approached to me for love affair. her husband
was Representative for Theatre in United Nations from
Maritius. he was not kind to her and he was drug user
i argued on messenger with him, and then she divorced
at first i didn't know why she came to me. she was an
healer in electromagnetic means of Kryon. but she had
not been able to apply because she was religious, and
had problems with her parents too. Her husband was an
African and Indian inheritance practising black spell
her daughter did not know why we had gone to vacation
together in summer. meanwhile i attempted to break up
with the relation here in Bursa but she didn't let it
i wanted thousands of money, to cease connection with
the married healer woman. she had been trained by who
i had argued in the Yahoo group, she was jealous with
my first partner in the group. and one morning i left
may i ask France and Russia about what to do next now
does Yahoo have a copy of the text letters between me
and Baninha Bibiana Margarida? does Mobile Phone have
a copy of the energy between her and me? does anybody
have any roots of an orchid in Portugal and in Turkey
connected from the bottom? who may take the life back
that had been intruded after World Trade Center Crash
Levent Alkan,
text in Courier New
17 February, 2008 9:15 AM
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 17, 2008 2:15 AM
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NO Hallakha!
NO Caste System(s)!
NO Rule By BiBLE, GiTA, QURAN!
NO Putting Down Woman Anywhere!
THANK YOU!
Posted by: Anonymous | February 16, 2008 8:39 PM
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I agree with Mr. Tully. If anyone appreciates the down side of theocracy it should be a Catholic. Persons worldwide still cringe at the horror of the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and rampant antisemiticism. Jews, Muslims and Christians died by the thousands in the onslaught.
Posted by: Johnny B. Goode | February 16, 2008 12:53 PM
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I agree with the Reverend William McD Tully because I too do not want the state to prop up my religion. Mediation toward a common way of honoring our own dignity, and the protection of our human rights, is an effective way to overcome arrogance as well as ignorance.
This very blog is a good example of inter-group expression. I found it via Susan Jacoby's interview February 15, 2008, on Bill Moyer's TV program.
Posted by: Alice B. Watts | February 16, 2008 11:42 AM
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China, do not worry, cities of Olimpiads are clean. ask how is here the first capital of ottomans!
there is clean air fresh water here but there is a cloud when wind blows and water flows i am able to breath. and sometimes water and air are crystal, and it is a blessing really.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 7:07 AM
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i didnt know about Holland and ottomans but Court of Justice. all are flu and under a cloud for me. i sometimes happen to see. i never could keep awake more than a minute here. i see when i am elevated under my armpits.
did you see Hoffrau around?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 7:03 AM
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i knew Ottomans were in Europe and Mediterranean Sea. Africa was always free for me. Americans had taken Africans to America. i didnt know that it was ottomans and Portuguese to take Africans to America.
Africa is known with flowers, dance and love. Flowers of Europe is from Africa. gold used in dentistry is from Africa. i never met diamond, i dont know where it is used. i didnt see women with diamonds on the necks either. all i now is minerals and thymuse gland on the neck and chest.
i had "africa america, a free inca a merry inca". i didnt know then about Ottomans and Portugueses. but intuitively i have spoken.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 7:00 AM
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did it drive your attention, William Tullip, there is not any portuguese author on the Onfaith panel.
and Mr President Williams Bush is in Portuguese African countries. i am in Turkey Anadolu and i didnt know that ottomans were in trade of slavery.
now i see that it was just literature that i had my attention on. and tullips that are also in Holland.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 6:52 AM
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i shall look forward to reading your following article,
thanks in advance.
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 3:03 AM
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according to Robin Williams in Bird Cage
and Keanu Reeves and Charlize Therone in Sweet November
we are living in a lovely world.
and with you Williams Bush, it should have been frank too. Barbara and George Bushes shall be breastfed again. but what shall you have?
why do you talk about religions while seeds of religions are to be planted to the fresh earth, agriculturally mastered genetically engineered beforehand.
William Tully,
did you graduate science, engineering, mathematics or biology as Pastor of Beans did to give genetics? is engine an Angine to remind angelness in humankind?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 2:59 AM
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why dont you meet Israel in order to talk about islam? why dont you go to the source of this river to see what are in the water in your hoses today?
Williams Bush, where is BArbara and George Bushes? do you think juice of Oprah Winfrey heal your heart?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 2:47 AM
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i did not watch television
how were the funerals in New York around World Trade Center?
was there blood mixed with concrete of the walls of World Trade Center?
had concrete of the walls dissolved with blood and tears of the eyes to mix with earth, dust and ashes?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 2:43 AM
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i did not watch television,
how were the funerals in DArfur and Kenya? how did they clean the blood?
who shall wash the dishes and kitchen?
how is the earth of the china?
where did China take water from for the china to mix with earth?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 2:40 AM
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what kind of a china is in China
and what kind of a meal is in the china
and who shall eat this meal
and who did cook this meal
monkey brain? dog meat? cockroach?
is this religions case in order to cease air-pollution in the city for Olimpiads?
Posted by: Levent Alkan | February 16, 2008 2:36 AM
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“a secular arrogance that disregards the unique and powerful religious contributions to society”
As a devout secularist, I disagree. I am quite aware of the many, many good things that are done by churches and their members, as well as many, many more secular institutions . That has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion about whether governments should accommodate religious laws, rituals and codes within their laws.
No secularist I know of wants churches to stop doing good things.. or see churches banned or dismantled. We just want the government, at all levels to be of the people, by the people, for the people. All people, regardless of religious tendencies… neutral, transparent….
Christianity gets no preference, Islam gets no preference, total neutrality in society’s laws.
We do not want laws that reflect only one, or even a few religions' definition of morality unless that law is also in a secular sense protecting the rights of an individual. This would include Murder, theft, etc.
Those laws that are of a religious-only nature, i.e. Marriage laws should be purged from the government’s books. They serve no secular purpose and marriage rules vary wildly among various religious sects. The only way government can be fair to all religious definitions of marriage is to not adopt any of them.
Posted by: Corsair | February 15, 2008 3:33 PM
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I think Bill's comments are a wonderful clarification of Archbishop Williams' intent. Also, let's be clear that the United Kingdom does not have a First Amendment or any kind of bill of Rights. So, the link between religion and the state has never been as defined as here -- as in the fact that the Queen of England is still "Defender of the Faith." Also, it is useful to note that in the narrow categories that Williams suggested Muslim law might be incorporated within common law, the UK already allows Orthodox Jewish law to operate in the same way.