Recent additions
- Thomas Sowell:
- Race, IQ, and facts liberals ignore
- Race dialogue: same old stuff: It's Culture, Not Racism
- Do 'minorities' really have it that bad?
- Black Liberation Theology and The Audacity of Rhetoric
- It isn't white racism:
- IQ Will Put You In Your Place
- Black/Hispanic failure in public schools is not racial bias
- The Question of IQ versus Race, and the leftist' agenda
- Morality Gap Mirrors Asian/white versus black/Hispanic IQ Gap
- Black college graduation rates under 50 percent
- The real problem in American public schools is liberal racism
- Scoping Out Pepe (and Mexicans): Why We Should Get It Right, But Won't
- Far-left lunacy:
- How Marxism became racism
- Why the term Islamic or Liberal fascism?
- ACLU sues Palm Beach over black graduation rates
- Where are you Reverend Sharpton?
- On Obama, race hustler
- The Man Who Would Be President - Or the Manchurian Candidate?
- Race card? Ask Obama... he brought it up...
- One in Nine young black men in jail
- One in 100 black women in jail
- Illegal alien nailed for child rape in Washington County Virginia
- The advantages of social apartheid
- James H. Lilley, Police Writers' "Author of the Year"
- The Sinking Ship of America
- A Town's Future Is Leaving the Country: Travelocity and Dickenson County
- Snakebite kills preacher: Should snake handlers be subject to prosecution?
- Senate Committee Requests Tax and Fund-Raising Records for 27 Muslim Charities
- In the Cold for an "imbalance" at Bristol Virginia Utilities
- Bristol Virginia Utilities to Add On-Demand Movies, breaks promises again
- Social Apartheid and the Bristol Virginia Utilities (BVU) Scholarship Program
- Nepotism at Bristol Virginia Utilities
- BVU goes back TVA, more massive rate increases announced
- Fiber Optic Fiasco at Bristol Virginia Utilities in 2007
- Kilgore Family Politics
- Small-town election, big-time trouble
- Letter form Lilli Buck
- Gates Corporation bringing 172 jobs to Southwest Virginia
- Northrop Grumman and AMS-CGI: More jobs or more hype?
- Welcome to Bristol Watch 2005
- Issues surrounding the Minutes of Bristol Virginia Utilities
- Outmigration still killing Southwest Virginia
- 2700 new jobs?? Employment figures mask real truth
- Some still fighting War on Poverty after 40 years
- Critics of the Appalachian Regional Commission say many distressed areas left
- Tri-Cities gains 1,300 jobs in first quarter 2004, manufacturing still declining
- Tri-Cities kids are behind economically
- Why should businesses pay for schools' failure?
- Islam verses Judaism and Christianity: Some observations
The refusal to pay better wages limits the labor pool. We have plenty of college graduates, but that isn't what they want. They desire better educated minimum wage workers to work all of the $6 an hour jobs this region produces. They won't get it.
Quoting a Sullivan County official, he confirmed again what most in power here will not address: "I was in no way casting dispersions on the level of education at ETSU. When I said that "we have ETSU students flipping burgers," I was pointing out that we do not have the level of jobs in this area to sustain the number of graduates from our local colleges. Therefore, they are forced to either leave the area or take what jobs are available to them, which in most cases are in the service area," The trouble is there are no decent jobs even in trades as the Tarnoff report revealed. See:
- Sitgreaves: 'Burger' comment aimed at lack of white-collar jobs in Tri-Cities
- School officials say dual-track education costing Tennessee jobs
- Poor reading skills hamper Tennessee economy
- NAEP results show Tenn. is shortchanging students
- Region desperately needs more educated workers
- Strong work ethic sadly lacking in region
- Tenn. high schools leave many students behind
- Tennessee's students still not making the grade
- Students' knowledge of civics, history appalling
- Drug overdose deaths in Southwest Virginia eclipse rest of state
- The negative impact of kids working to pay their bills.
- DANA closing doors in Bristol, Virginia
- Utilities Overload at BVU
- Call centers 'a global business in a competitive market'
- VCEDA Labor Statistics and Commentary The one they pulled.
- Apparel/Textile Plant Closings and Job Losses
- Muslim 'Palestinians' firebomb Christian 'Palestinians'
- Honor Killings of girls/women in Islam
- White woman attacked on bus: 9 black youths charged; possible hate crime.
- How Multiculturalism is Betraying (Muslim) Women
- Daughter of British imam under police guard for converting to Christianity
- (Southwest Virginia) Tourism board suspends executive director and tourism hype.
- Open letter to the free people of the world from Iranian students
- Big Stone Gap approves curfew for minors.
- Sudden Jihad Syndrome
- The Origins of Political Correctness
- Bristol VA Electrolux plant layoffs, illegal aliens hired in Springfield TN
- The Age of the Enlightenment
- College graduates need not apply
- Methamphetamine use on the rise, sheriff's official says
- Another meth lab busted in Kingsport: TBI steps in
- Nepotism an issue in Sullivan County, Kingsport city government in Tennessee
- Food service distributor, GlaxoSmithKline layoffs, Quebecor Chapter 11
The Christian Reich in Sullivan County, Tennessee
Jerry Falwell, the Antichrist, attacks Jews
I Lived in Mendota, and Why I Left
- Letters to the Editor 1
- Letters to the Editor 2
- Is salvation by faith or works?
- Index of Pat Robertson articles
- Why we should know John Calvin
- Where the Bible meets the Big Bang
- Sullivan North student brings pistol to school, bullying blamed
- Bills would allow Ten Commandments in public buildings is defeated
- Tennessee BOE approves tougher student standards: math and science requirements will be expanded.
- Tax-exempt status for churches an unfair subsidy, should end.
- Nonprofits Reach for Profits on the Side
- Tax Churches
- Sample Church
- Should churches be taxed?
Deism and Gnosticism. Gnosticism is another dualistic belief system began in Judaism/elsewhere prior to the first century which heavily influenced Christianity. (Paul and John are influenced by Gnosticism) They are notable for their extensive use of myth to express profound religious ideas, non-violence, and among some equality for women. A downside is their belief of Creation as corrupt. The Church would later on claim/distort their mythology as historical "fact" to foster their dogma and unite Christianity. They murdered the Gnostics in the end for heresy. I've included a large Gnostic section because I enjoy reading their mythology and to present their great influence on the Christian religion. See my Gnosticism section
- Thought of Norea (Gnostic)
- Impact of Gnosticism on Christianity
- Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
- Universal Pantheist Society - Socinianism - A forerunner to Modern Pantheism
- Socinianism: Unitarianism in 16th-17th Century Poland and Its Influence
- Natural Rights Rest Upon Deism by Bryan Black
- Cult Behavior and Christian Fundamentalists
- My View of Other Faiths
- Jerry Falwell Attacks Americans
- Fundamentalists use 9/11 to destroy separation of church/state.
- Bible Contradictions
- Occam's Razor and Reason
- Religious Confidence Games
- Cult Behavior and Some Christians
Catholics attacked in Sullivan County
Debate over religion killing children in Colorado.
God has a moral right to kill..so do we.
More quotes from fundamentalists.
The Old South and the New Religious Right
The Christian Right seeks dominion by Sara Diamond
The new fundamentalist Royal Race of the Redeemed. This is evil 101!
Christian Reconstructionists in their own words.
Interview with Gary North King of Christian Economics
There's something about Gary
Religion verses Science
25 Questions and answers for Creationism
Introduction to the scientific method.
The scientific method.
Humor
What Tennessee Law would be under fundamentalism.
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