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Sweden

2007-03-22T12:59:03Z

Orly:

Sweden is a small, family-oriented country in [[Scandinavia]]. The capital city is [[Stockholm]], which is also the largest city. Sweden has got 9 million inhabitants. With an area of 173,750 square miles (450,000 square kilometers), Sweden is a big country in [[Western Europe]].

Sweden is a constitutional [[monarchy]] and a parliamentary [[democracy]]. The prime minister of Sweden is 41 year old Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderates. The Swedish parliament has 349 seats. [[Carl XVI]] is the current king.

== Swedish Viking History ==

In Sweden the [[Viking]] Age1 was getting under way by the 9th century, and vast repositories of Roman, Byzantine and Arab coins attest to the wealth and power Swedish Vikings accumulated over the next century. Vikings travelled mostly to the east, making their mark in Russia, as well as trading with (and pillaging) Byzantine territories. They also travelled west and there is considerable evidence2 of artefacts (coins, remnants of ) on the North American continent. Vikings pillaged villages all over Ireland, and are the antecedents of many living Irish men and women, such as the former Taoiseach of Ireland, Charles Haughey and his cousin Sile de Valera, pop stars Bob Geldof and Phil Lynott, and artist Charlie Whisker. Remnants of a small settlement (called Ektorp) exist on Newfoundland which include the remains of small dwellings, deteriorated furniture and cooking utensils.

Christianity only took root in the 11th century.

== Christianity in Sweden ==

80% of the inhabitants belong to the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] of Sweden named The Swedish Church (Svenska kyrkan in swedish). This church are very different to other churches because it has decided to marry [[homosexuality|homosexuals]]. This Church are not a [[conservative]] Church and does not protest against abortions, divorces, or anything else. About 5% of the Swedish population belongs to real, family-values Christian churches. Many Swedes are atheists.

Sweden got 18 weeks of free abortion and 4 weeks when the women need to have a special permission to be allowed to have an abortion. Right now the Swedish politicians are discussing if foreign womens should be allowed to have an (late) abortion in Sweden, and much suggests that the parliament will vote in favour for that proposition. In the 1960's the government decided to reduce the school education about [[Christianity]]. In 2000 the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] and the government was separated. Before that all children were born members of the church, except those whose parent took an active decision against it and both left the church. Even if a child were not christned he or she became a member for life, having to pay a small tax to the church.

A few years ago a Swedish baptist priest Åke Green was charged with, and found ''not'' guilty of hate speech, when preaching the bibles words on homosexuality.

The struggle for religious freedom by some radical [[Muslim]] groups has lead to an awakening in the Christian society

== Politics ==

Sweden has high taxes and strong trade unions. Even if Sweden has now got a new government instead of the old one, socialistic one, it's still a country where socialism is strong. Fredrik Reinfeldt says that he is not going to destroy the Swedish model - in fact he says he likes that model - he only wants to do some small changes. And despite that one of the parties in the government alliance is named "The Christian democrats", no decisions have been made to make christianity stronger in Sweden.

Swedes are paying 35% in taxes (in average), a part of this money goes to contributions to unemployed people (4.8% of the swedish population are unemployed). In Sweden, everyone has the right to have a home, food, clothes, water. Swedes do also have equal rights to nursing and all schools (even the universitys) are free. Sweden is a country with a big immigration.

== Is Sweden a democracy?==
Krister Renard, a swedish author, schoolteacher and member in the swedish organisation "Word of Life"3 4, describes Sweden as a "totalitarian democracy". Sweden has fair elections.
Approximately 80% of the population between the ages of 18 and 65 are members in a trade union. If the government were to try to reduce unemployment and other welfare benefits, trade unions would possibly strike perhaps triggering an economic meltdown far beyond that of an ordinary recession.

==Some Notable Swedes==
* Alfred Nobel, instigator of the [[Nobel Prize]]
* Greta Garbo, actress
* ABBA
* Roxette
* Dag Hammaskjöld
* Anders Celsius
* Astrid Lindgren
* Carl von Linné
* Frederick Ljundberg
* Henrik Larsson
* Stellan Skarsgård
* Saint Bridgid
* Lars Magnus Ericsson
* Gustavus Adolphus (king, founder of Gothenburg etc, died 1632 in the Thirty Years War)
* Björn Borg, tennis player
* Olof Palme
* Ingemar Bergman

==References==
*[http://www.sweden.se SWEDEN.SE]
*[http://www.svenskakyrkan.se Svenska Kyrkan]
*http://www.lo.se
*http://www.moderaterna.se
*http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=913&a=324428
*http://www.gluefox.com
*[http://www.historyofnations.net/europe/sweden.html History of Sweden]
*1 Forte, Angelo. Oram, Richard. Pedersen, Frederik. ''Viking Empires''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
*2 Hudson, Benjamin. ''Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in North America''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
*3 http://www.livetsord.se/default.aspx?idStructure=918
*4 http://perkornhall.se/LivetsOrd/index-eng.htm
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Charles Darwin

2007-03-22T10:19:02Z

Orly:

[[Image:darwin.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Charles Darwin]]
Charles Darwin was a famous naturalist born in [[England]] to a Christian family on February 12, [[1809]]. He is best known for the [[Theory of Natural Selection|theory of natural selection]] which has since been generally accepted by biologists as the major mechanism for [[Theory of Evolution|evolution]]. The concept is that biological species develop over time via natural selection, branching from common origins. Outside of evolution in particular, he was regarded as an expert on barnacles as well as credited with discovering how coral atolls were formed.

==Religious Beliefs==

Charles Darwin was a Christian up and through his famous five year voyage on the ''HMS Beagle''. But in the ensuing two years after returning to England (1836 to 1839; and in his late twenties) Darwin abandoned Christianity (1) and [sic] "had become a 'materialist' (more or less equivalent to an atheist" (2). About twenty years later in 1859 (at the age of fifty) Darwin published his famous book ''The Origin of Species''. "In order not to hurt the feelings of his friends and wife, Darwin often used deistic language in his publications" (3). According to Darwin the "manifestly false history of the world" (4) as recorded in the Old Testament and New Testament miracles led him to reject Biblical veracity (5). Eminent Darwin biographer, Professor Janet Browne, sums up Darwin's views concerning religion: Darwin "mapped out a comparitive evolution of the religious sense, proposing that religious belief was ultimately nothing more than a primitive urge to bestow a cause on otherwise inexplicable natural events...In short, he made no secret of his view that he did not believe religion to have any rational foundation at all" (6). Yet, in spite of these views, when he died in 1882 at the age of seventy-three, Darwin was buried at Westminster Abbey next to Sir [[Isaac Newton]].

When investigating transmutation of species he knew that his naturalist friends thought this a bestial heresy undermining miraculous justifications for the social order, the kind of radical argument then being used by Dissenters and atheists to attack the Church of England's privileged position as the established church. Though Darwin wrote of religion as a tribal survival strategy, he still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver. His belief dwindled, and with the death of his daughter Annie in 1851, Darwin finally lost all faith in Christianity. He continued to help the local church with parish work, but on Sundays would go for a walk while his family attended church. He now thought it better to look at pain and suffering as the result of general laws rather than direct intervention by God. When asked about his religious views, he wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God, and that generally "an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind."

== External Links ==
[http://creationwiki.org/Darwin%27s_Illness Darwin's illness -CreationWiki]

== References ==
# Mayr, Ernst ''Growth of Biological Thought'' (1982:402).
# Mayr, Ernst ''One Long Argument'' (1991:75).
# Ibid. (1991:75).
# Barlow, Nora (editor) ''The Autobiography of Charles Darin'' (1958:85).
# Ibid. (1958:85-87).
# Browne, Janet ''Charles Darwin The Power of Place'' (2002:341)

[[Category:Biographies|Darwin, Charles]]

Chicken

2007-03-22T10:07:18Z

Orly:

A chicken is a [[bird]] that is commonly domesticated for [[food]]. Chickens are one of the few birds that cannot fly. Other notable exceptions include the [[emu]] and the [[penguin]].

Sweden

2007-03-22T08:46:18Z

Orly: Added info about Krister Renard, and links to two pages pro and against his organisation

Sweden is a small, family-oriented country in [[Scandinavia]]. The capital city is [[Stockholm]], which is also the largest city. Sweden has got 9 million inhabitants. With an area of 450,000 square miles, Sweden is a big country in [[Western Europe]].

Sweden is a constitutional [[monarchy]] and a parliamentary [[democracy]]. The prime minister of Sweden is 41 year old Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderates. The Swedish parliament has 349 seats. [[Carl XVI]] is the current king.

== Swedish Viking History ==

In Sweden the [[Viking]] Age1 was getting under way by the 9th century, and vast repositories of Roman, Byzantine and Arab coins attest to the wealth and power Swedish Vikings accumulated over the next century. Vikings travelled mostly to the east, making their mark in Russia, as well as trading with (and pillaging) Byzantine territories. They also travelled west and there is considerable evidence2 of artefacts (coins, remnants of ) on the North American continent. Vikings pillaged villages all over Ireland, and are the antecedents of many living Irish men and women, such as the former Taoiseach of Ireland, Charles Haughey and his cousin Sile de Valera, pop stars Bob Geldof and Phil Lynott, and artist Charlie Whisker. Remnants of a small settlement (called Ektorp) exist on Newfoundland which include the remains of small dwellings, deteriorated furniture and cooking utensils.

Christianity only took root in the 11th century.

== Christianity in Sweden ==

80% of the inhabitants belong to the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] of Sweden named The Swedish Church (Svenska kyrkan in swedish). This church are very different to other churches because it has decided to marry [[homosexuality|homosexuals]]. This Church are not a [[conservative]] Church and does not protest against abortions, divorces, or anything else. About 5% of the Swedish population belongs to real, family-values Christian churches. Many Swedes are atheists.

Sweden got 18 weeks of free abortion and 4 weeks when the women need to have a special permission to be allowed to have an abortion. Right now the Swedish politicians are discussing if foreign womens should be allowed to have an (late) abortion in Sweden, and much suggests that the parliament will vote in favour for that proposition. In the 1960's the government decided to reduce the school education about [[Christianity]]. In 2000 the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] and the government was separated. Before that all children were born members of the church, except those whose parent took an active decision against it and both left the church. Even if a child were not christned he or she became a member for life, having to pay a small tax to the church.

== Socialism ==

Sweden has high taxes and strong trade unions. Even if Sweden now got a new government instead of the old, socialistic, one, it's still a socialistic country and will be for a long time. Fredrik Reinfeldt says that he is not going to destroy the Swedish model - in fact he says he likes that model - he only wants to do some small changes. And despite that one of the parties in the government alliance is named "The Christian democrats", no decisions have been made to make christianity stronger in Sweden. There is, however, a few signs of light. a few years ago a Swedish baptist priest Åke Green was found ''not'' guilty of hate speech when preaching the bibles words on homosexuality and strange enough the struggle for religious freedom by some radical [[Muslim]] groups has lead to an awakening in the Christian society.

Swedes are paying 35% in taxes (in average), a great part of this money goes to contributions to unemployed people (4.8% of the swedish population are unemployed). In Sweden, everyone has the right to have a home, food, clothes, water. Swedes do also have equal rights to nursing and all schools (even the universitys) are free. Sweden is also a country with a big immigration.

== Is Sweden a democracy?==
Krister Renard, a swedish author, schoolteacher and member in the swedish organisation "Word of Life"3 4, describes Sweden as a "totalitarian democracy". Sweden has fair elections.
Approximately 80% of the population between the ages of 18 and 65 are members in a trade union. If the government were to try to reduce unemployment and other welfare benefits, trade unions would possibly strike perhaps triggering an economic meltdown far beyond that of an ordinary recession.

A "totalitarian democracy" may be a good way to describe Sweden.

==some notable swedes==
* Alfred Nobel, instigator of the [[Nobel Prize]]
* Greta Garbo, actress
* ABBA
* Roxette
* Dag Hammaskjöld
* Anders Celsius
* Astrid Lindgren
* Carl von Linné
* Lars von Trier
* Frederick Ljundberg
* Henrik Larsson
* Stellan Skarsgård
* Saint Bridgid
* Lars Magnus Ericsson

==References==
*[http://www.sweden.se SWEDEN.SE]
*[http://www.svenskakyrkan.se Svenska Kyrkan]
*http://www.lo.se
*http://www.moderaterna.se
*http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=913&a=324428
*http://www.gluefox.com
*[http://www.historyofnations.net/europe/sweden.html History of Sweden]
*1 Forte, Angelo. Oram, Richard. Pedersen, Frederik. ''Viking Empires''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
*2 Hudson, Benjamin. ''Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in North America''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
*3 http://www.livetsord.se/default.aspx?idStructure=918
*4 http://perkornhall.se/LivetsOrd/index-eng.htm
[[Category:Countries]]

Sweden

2007-03-22T07:38:50Z

Orly: Minor spelling. No facts edited.

Sweden is a small, family-oriented country in [[Scandinavia]]. The capital city is [[Stockholm]], which is also the largest city. Sweden has got 9 million inhabitants. With an area of 450,000 square miles, Sweden is a big country in [[Western Europe]].

Sweden is a constitutional [[monarchy]] and a parliamentary [[democracy]]. The prime minister of Sweden is 41 year old Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderates. The Swedish parliament has 349 seats. [[Carl XVI]] is the current king.

== Swedish Viking History ==

In Sweden the [[Viking]] Age1 was getting under way by the 9th century, and vast repositories of Roman, Byzantine and Arab coins attest to the wealth and power Swedish Vikings accumulated over the next century. Vikings travelled mostly to the east, making their mark in Russia, as well as trading with (and pillaging) Byzantine territories. They also travelled west and there is considerable evidence2 of artefacts (coins, remnants of ) on the North American continent. Vikings pillaged villages all over Ireland, and are the antecedents of many living Irish men and women, such as the former Taoiseach of Ireland, Charles Haughey and his cousin Sile de Valera, pop stars Bob Geldof and Phil Lynott, and artist Charlie Whisker. Remnants of a small settlement (called Ektorp) exist on Newfoundland which include the remains of small dwellings, deteriorated furniture and cooking utensils.

Christianity only took root in the 11th century.

== Christianity in Sweden ==

80% of the inhabitants belong to the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] of Sweden named The Swedish Church (Svenska kyrkan in swedish). This church are very different to other churches because it has decided to marry [[homosexuality|homosexuals]]. This Church are not a [[conservative]] Church and does not protest against abortions, divorces, or anything else. About 5% of the Swedish population belongs to real, family-values Christian churches). Many Swedes are atheists.

Sweden got 18 weeks of free abortion and 4 weeks when the women need to have a special permission to be allowed to have an abortion. Right now the Swedish politicians are discussing if foreign womens should be allowed to have an (late) abortion in Sweden, and much suggests that the parliament will vote in favour for that proposition. In the 1960's the government decided to reduce the school education about [[Christianity]]. In 2000 the Evangelical [[Lutheran Church]] and the government was separated. Before that all children were born members of the church, except those whose parent took an active decision against it and both left the church. Even if a child were not christned he or she became a member for life, having to pay a small tax to the church.

== Socialism ==

Sweden has high taxes and strong trade unions. Even if Sweden now got a new government instead of the old, socialistic, one, it's still a socialistic country and will be for a long time. Fredrik Reinfeldt says that he is not going to destroy the Swedish model - in fact he says he likes that model - he only wants to do some small changes. And despite that one of the parties in the government alliance is named "The Christian democrats", no decisions have been made to make christianity stronger in Sweden. There is, however, a few signs of light. a few years ago a Swedish baptist priest åke green was found ''not'' guilty of hate speech when preaching the bibles words on homosexuality. and strange enough the struggle for religious freedom by some radical [[Muslim]] groups has lead to an awakening in the Christian society..still, all Christians should pray for a revival in this country.

Swedes are paying 35% in taxes (in average), a great part of this money goes to contributions to unemployed people (4.8% of the swedish population are unemployed). In Sweden, everyone has the right to have a home, food, clothes, water. Swedes do also have equal rights to nursing and all schools (even the universitys) are free. Sweden is also a country with a very big immigration - much bigger than, for example, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

== Is Sweden a democracy?==
Krister Renard, a swedish author and schoolteacher, describes Sweden as a "totalitarian democracy". Sweden has fair elections.
Approximately 80% of the population between the ages of 18 and 65 are members in a trade union. If the government were to try to reduce unemployment and other welfare benefits, trade unions would possibly strike perhaps triggering an economic meltdown far beyond that of an ordinary recession.

A "totalitarian democracy" may be a good way to describe Sweden.

==some notable swedes==
* alfred nobel, instigator of the [[Nobel Prize]]
* greta garbo, actress
* ABBA
* Roxette
* Dag Hammaskjöld

==References==
*[http://www.sweden.se SWEDEN.SE]
*[http://www.svenskakyrkan.se Svenska Kyrkan]
*http://www.lo.se
*http://www.moderaterna.se
*http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=913&a=324428
*http://www.gluefox.com
*[http://www.historyofnations.net/europe/sweden.html History of Sweden]
*1 Forte, Angelo. Oram, Richard. Pedersen, Frederik. ''Viking Empires''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
*2 Hudson, Benjamin. ''Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in North America''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

[[Category:Countries]]

Talk:Debate:If Jesus were alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?

2007-03-15T14:48:18Z

Orly:

== Do liberals encourage sin? ==
Are you, [[user:TerryH|TerryH]] saying that [[liberals]] routinely do, and encourage others to, be unfaithfull and steal?

--[[user:orly|orly]] 14:41 15 March 2007 (CED)
:Yes, I am.

:[[Bill Clinton]] will go down in history--however much longer our history will last--as an adulterer.

:And he has many, many supporters.<blockquote>We have willing dames enough. There cannot be that [[vulture]] in you to devour so many as would to greatness dedicate themselves, finding it so inclin'd. ''MacBeth'' IV.iii.74-44</blockquote>

:Liberal politicians always get a free pass on adultery. And theft, too--witness Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA).

:Liberals now dominate [[Hollywood]]--where the actors and actresses and directors and producers are awfully busy playing "musical beds." And their ethos, such as it is, informs the content of their work product. I don't go to more than one movie a year, and haven't for years. I have fellow churchmen who don't go to the movies at all--they wish never to darken the door of a motion-picture exhibition hall, because of the trash exhibited therein. And I can't blame them. They aren't missing much.

:As to theft, liberal programs amount to organized theft. If there's one thing that [[Jesus]] never would encourage, it is theft.

:Add to it their thoroughgoing yellow-ness in matters of peace and war.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 10:04, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

::I was afraid you did...

::I do feel it is sad that you so lightly put all the "[[liberals]]" in one pack, closing in on, not [[racism]] (Racism is making broad generalizations about a group of people based on percieved notions, and then making such generalizations part of society), but very close indeed. I'm not saying that I don't do the same from time to time (we are after all only humans), but at least I'm here trying to se your side of things. (And in some places getting a good laugh as well. ^__^)

::I can tell you that I do visit a movie theatre as seldom as you do, and I perhaps should tell you that I don't encourage anyone to commit crimes or be unfaithfull, and I do consider myself as liberal and [[atheism|atheistic]]. Common sense takes you there as well you know.

::--[[user:orly|orly]] 15:45 15 March 2007 (CED)

Talk:Debate:If Jesus were alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?

2007-03-15T13:42:02Z

Orly:

Are you, [[user:TerryH|TerryH]] saying that [[liberals]] routinely do, and encourage others to, be unfaithfull and steal?

--[[user:orly|orly]] 14:41 15 March 2007 (CED)

Debate:If Jesus were alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?

2007-03-15T13:37:50Z

Orly:

If Jesus was alive today, what end of the political spectrum would he identify himself with? [[Conservative]] or [[Liberal]]? Please back up any assertions with references to the Gospels.
== Conservative ==
Where else would He find a home? [[Liberal]]s deny Him. They deny His [[creation|creative]] role,<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=1|verses=1|version=NASB}}</ref> and they deny the need for Him as Lord and personal Savior. They actually think that if they're good, they'll go to heaven--and that is simply wrong.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Romans|chap=3|verses=10-12|version=KJV}}</ref>

Moreover, [[Jesus]] would never countenance the behaviors in which [[liberal]]s routinely engage, and encourage others to engage.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Matthew|chap=5|verses=27-30|version=NASB}}</ref>

Jesus never said that a man could divorce his wife with a word. He did mention a specific circumstance that applied only to the [[Judaism|Jewish]] custom of engagement, which was less than a marriage but far more than the engagement we know today.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Deuteronomy|chap=24|verses=1-4|version=KJV}}</ref> Jesus now practically abolished divorce entirely.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Luke|chap=16|verses=18|version=KJV}}</ref> Liberals think divorce ought to be free and easy.{{fact}}

The "rehabilitation" of the thief consisted of salvation, and ''not'' of returning him to human society. Jesus was demonstrating that anyone could gain salvation if he would but repent--as this thief did.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Luke|chap=23|verses=42|version=KJV}}</ref>

Lastly: the reference to stumblingblocks<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Romans|chap=14|verses=13|version=KJV}}</ref> has nothing to do with "affirmative action." Rather it has to do with not putting temptation to [[sin]] in one another's way. But to a liberal, no one commits sin by engaging in the traditionally decried vices. Rather, one commits sin merely by having too much money (a thing Jesus never said) or by making the world less wild or by otherwise disagreeing with a liberal.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 22:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

== Liberal ==
As stated in [[liberal]] he would clearly fall in the liberal end.
* equal rights for men and women, including participation by men and women in the military
** Starting at Mark 5:25, you have Jesus administering a woman who was menstruating for twelve years. This woman was unclean in Judaic tradition and it was not proper for a man to be talking to a woman who was not family.
** Beginning at John 4:7 Jesus talks to a Samaritan woman. It was not proper for a Jewish man to talk to a foreign woman - there were three strikes against her, unclean, foreign and a woman. In Matthew 15:22 Jesus again talks to a foreign woman, this time a Canaanite for whom he healed her daughter.
** Jesus also accepted women as students. With Luke 10:38, Jesus instructed Mary, the sister of Martha.
** In Luke 13:16, Jesus refers to a woman as a "daughter of Abraham". This phrase occurs no where else in the Bible and parallels the term "son of Abraham" that is often used to describe men.
** With Luke 7:35, Jesus forgives the sins of a woman and refers to all people as children of wisdom.
** Many of the stories that Jesus told and later was mentioned in Acts has a man and a woman (rather than just a man). Luke 2:25-38 Luke 4:25-38 Luke 4:31 Luke 7:36 Luke 17:34
** In Jesus's time, it was possible for a man to divorce his wife with a word. In Mark 10:11-12 Jesus says that a man does not have this right and treats men and women as equal.
* distributing wealth from the rich to the poor
** It should not be necessary to iterate the number of times Jesus's ministry is helping the poor. One need only read the Beatitudes in Luke 6:20 and 6:24 to see his take on this subject.
* government programs to rehabilitate criminals
** The most famous rehabilitation of a thief on the cross to whom he says "To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43.
** There are other accounts of Jesus talking with criminals and outcasts from society.
*taxpayer-funded rather than private medical care
** Again, it should not be necessary to iterate the number of times that Jesus healed people who were poor and could not afford proper care. If anyone is sick, they should be healed.
* support of government programs such as welfare
** This closely relates to the distribution of wealth to the poor.
* support of affirmative action
** Much like that mentioned in equal rights (above), Jesus spent much time with foreigners - people of other races. He makes no distinction in teaching them, and most famously in the story of the good Samaritan.
** Moving from the Gospels to the writings of Paul, Romans 14:13 says "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Affirmative action seeks to remove these stumbling blocks that have been placed by society in the past.
--[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 16:30, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
:This page has a colossal joke on it, and you're it.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 22:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

== Neither ==
Jesus was a religious figure, not a political figure. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 21:06, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
:Just because he was a religious figure does not mean that he did not have a stance on various social issues that can be placed on a political spectrum. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 21:09, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Considering what was said above, and also his own teachings (as according to the bible), I don't think Jesus would claim a political status. Although I could see him leaning more to a conservative side as far as abortion and gay marriage is concerned. (No one is quite sure what Jesus thought of gay marriage but with biblical allusions I would say he was against it)--[[User:Goose89|Goose]] 22:56, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I would have to say, he'd probably be more neutral, and be like your average American and have a little mix of both. He'd be for gun control, as he didn't promote violence and certainly wouldn't embrace the right for someone to take the life of someone else. Abortion, he'd be against of course. Gay marriage... well he didn't tell hookers to stop being hookers did he? I think that would be an interesting thing to think about. I really don't think he'd give a hard-lined no. He would certainly think though that both liberals and conservatives need to be much kinder to each other. And he honestly... probably wouldn't like our president. If anyone is wondering why, I'll gladly tell you why I think so.--[[User:Ronnyreg|Ronnyreg]] 06:04, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
:Actually, He ''did'' tell hookers to stop being hookers. In the same breath He told men to stop picking them up, and He ''also'' told men to stop looking at women ''as if'' they (the men) wanted to pick them (the women) up.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Matthew|chap=5|verses=28-30|version=NASB}}</ref>
:And as regards weapons control, He once said that any man who didn't carry a sword ought to get one.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Luke|chap=22|verses=35-37|version=NASB}}</ref> That doesn't sound like being a proponent of gun control to me.
:And why wouldn't He like our President? On the contrary, He'd say that George W. Bush was and is doing exactly what a man in governing authority should do.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 09:31, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

I think if Jesus was alive today he would be very disappointed in all of us for arguing and bickering so much about a religion with care, compassion, and love as its fundamental principles. Not sure what he would say about politics except that it must be the devil's work.
-Gasmonkey

== It depends ==
Are we talking about [http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050504.htm Jesus, or Jeezus?] --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 21:39, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

== References ==
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Talk:Women

2007-03-14T14:43:04Z

Orly:

I'm not going into the Biblical issues here; that's for more scholarly folk than myself. However: "''Also not explicitly stated in the Bible, it is obvious that,''" does that work? At what level of opinion and/or writer's logic does CP draw the line? [[User:Aziraphale|Aziraphale]] 03:25, 12 March 2007 (EDT)

:: NO, this does not work. The logic in that is completely flawed.
::Also, if Eve was created from Adam's rib, wouldn't she be his sister? They are of the same flesh and blood...
::-- [[user:Orly|Orly]] 10:24 14 March 2007 (CET)

If god does not approve of menstruation, why did "he" design women that way?

-- [[user:Orly|Orly]] 15:42 14 March 2007 (CET)

Viking

2007-03-14T13:35:44Z

Orly: short change to clarify things

Name for the traveling warrior/trader people of the scandianvian population starting at approx. 750 A.D and ending 1050 A.D.

The vikings is belived to have reached Greenland and North America during their travels across the seas.

==References==

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.html

Viking

2007-03-14T13:31:40Z

Orly:

Name for the traveling warrior/trader people of the scandianvian population starting at approx. 750 A.D and ending 1050 A.D.

The vikings is belived to have discovered Greenland and North America during their travels across the seas.

==References==

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.html

Sweden

2007-03-14T12:59:51Z

Orly: spelling

Sweden is a country in [[Scandinavia]]. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city. Sweden has got 9 million inhabitants. With an area of 450,000 square kilometers Sweden is the third largest country in Western Europe.

Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy. The prime minister of Sweden is 41 year old Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderates. The Swedish parliament has 349 seats.

80 % of the inhabitants belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden.

==References==
http://www.sweden.se

John Kerry

2007-03-14T12:04:00Z

Orly:

'''John Forbes Kerry''' (born December 11, 1943) has been a Democratic member of the United States Senate from [[Massachusetts]] since 1984 and has consistently held one of the most [[liberal]] voting records in the Senate. In 2004, he received the Democratic presidential nomination and lost to President [[George W. Bush]] by a 51-48% margin in the country-wide popular vote.

[[Category:Biographies]]
[[Category:Politics]]

Fuzzy logic

2007-03-14T11:55:19Z

Orly: spelling

Fuzzy Logic is a computer-based system that models complex relationships handled in life by imprecise language. Included as fuzzy logic are formal fuzzy logic (a multi-valued type of logic) and fuzzy sets, which measure similarities between an object and a group of objects. In a fuzzy set one member can belong both to the set and its complement.

Fuzzy sets seek to approximate human reasoning better than traditional [[crisp sets]].

Molecular bond

2007-03-14T10:06:39Z

Orly: spelling

A shared pair of valence electrons that holds atoms together in covalent compounds.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Chemistry''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1998</ref>

==References==
<references/>

Talk:Women

2007-03-14T09:26:16Z

Orly:

Talk:18 USC § 1470

2007-03-14T09:13:03Z

Orly: spell

There's some fun Commerce Clause jurisprudence on this statute, isn't there, I think one of the parties is X-Citement Video, but I can't find it in my briefs...--[[User:AmesG|AmesG]] 23:37, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

== Obscene material is not profanity ==

It refers to using mail to send X-rated materials to minors, not posting bad words on a free-use website.

: Your wrong. 18 USC 1470 is applied to the internet, and whether the website is "free-use" or not is irrelevant.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 00:46, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

The internet is not American, by the way. Isn't there a jurisdictional issue here when applying this law to people who know how to spell aluminium? (And by the way, Aschafly, someone like you who's trying to write an encyclopedia should know to write "you're" - not "your". --[[User:Offaxis|Offaxis]]

:YOur such a smarty-pants. I bet you won't feel so smart when he send the FCC, the FBI, the Post Office, and the Pentacostal Ninja Squads after you! --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 04:55, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

:: Yeah, we'd better be careful... =o) --[[user:orly|Orly]] 10:11 14 March 2007 (CET)

Talk:18 USC § 1470

2007-03-14T09:12:48Z

Orly:

There's some fun Commerce Clause jurisprudence on this statute, isn't there, I think one of the parties is X-Citement Video, but I can't find it in my briefs...--[[User:AmesG|AmesG]] 23:37, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

== Obscene material is not profanity ==

It refers to using mail to send X-rated materials to minors, not posting bad words on a free-use website.

: Your wrong. 18 USC 1470 is applied to the internet, and whether the website is "free-use" or not is irrelevant.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 00:46, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

The internet is not American, by the way. Isn't there a jurisdictional issue here when applying this law to people who know how to spell aluminium? (And by the way, Aschafly, someone like you who's trying to write an encyclopedia should know to write "you're" - not "your". --[[User:Offaxis|Offaxis]]

:YOur such a smarty-pants. I bet you won't feel so smart when he send the FCC, the FBI, the Post Office, and the Pentacostal Ninja Squads after you! --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 04:55, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

:: Yeah, we'd better be carefull... =o) --[[user:orly|Orly]] 10:11 14 March 2007 (CET)

User talk:Affirmlife

2007-03-14T08:39:17Z

Orly:

Why have you edited the Iraq War page? My additions were 100% true, and 100% cited.
I am putting them back up. This kind of disingenuous censorship is not - I assume - what this website is supposed to be about. Feel free to air out your problems in the appropriate Talk Page of the Iraq War article.

--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Because they don't reflect reality, they reflect projections. I don't know what this website is supposed to be about, but I do know that it's supposed to reflect confirmed facts. [[User:Affirmlife|Affirmlife]] 04:10, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Considering I cited every single fact that I presented - all of which came from either peer-reviewed academic journals or profesionally-conducted public opinion polls with statistically normal standard deviations - I'm really puzzled as to why you're deleting my additions. Are you interested in the truth? I hope so.
--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:25, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

:Welcome to Conservapedia, Accidents. Unfortunately, your so-called "facts" don't reflect the Party Line here, and therefore will be rejected. The Iraq War is something of a sore spot with the True Believers--they were promised a military triumph that would let them quit having to think about the Vietnam fiasco forever, and instead they're trapped dealing with a slow-motion repeat, without even a Democratic President to blame for getting them stuck in it. You need to add some text explaining how the insurgency is in their "death throes" (for the 19th time), or assert that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were photographed at a keg party together, pr that the WMDs were shipped to Syria, or something like that, if you don't want your essay shouted down like a Creationist on Wikipedia. --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 04:32, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

::It seems like [[User:Scrap|Scrap]] needs to be made aware of the definition of [[fact]], as used by this wiki. --[[User:orly|orly]] 09:37, 14 March 2007

User talk:Affirmlife

2007-03-14T08:38:28Z

Orly:

Why have you edited the Iraq War page? My additions were 100% true, and 100% cited.
I am putting them back up. This kind of disingenuous censorship is not - I assume - what this website is supposed to be about. Feel free to air out your problems in the appropriate Talk Page of the Iraq War article.

--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Because they don't reflect reality, they reflect projections. I don't know what this website is supposed to be about, but I do know that it's supposed to reflect confirmed facts. [[User:Affirmlife|Affirmlife]] 04:10, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Considering I cited every single fact that I presented - all of which came from either peer-reviewed academic journals or profesionally-conducted public opinion polls with statistically normal standard deviations - I'm really puzzled as to why you're deleting my additions. Are you interested in the truth? I hope so.
--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:25, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

:Welcome to Conservapedia, Accidents. Unfortunately, your so-called "facts" don't reflect the Party Line here, and therefore will be rejected. The Iraq War is something of a sore spot with the True Believers--they were promised a military triumph that would let them quit having to think about the Vietnam fiasco forever, and instead they're trapped dealing with a slow-motion repeat, without even a Democratic President to blame for getting them stuck in it. You need to add some text explaining how the insurgency is in their "death throes" (for the 19th time), or assert that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were photographed at a keg party together, pr that the WMDs were shipped to Syria, or something like that, if you don't want your essay shouted down like a Creationist on Wikipedia. --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 04:32, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

::It seems like [[User:Scrap|Scrap]] needs to be made aware of the deffinition of [[fact]], as used by this wiki. --[[User:orly|orly]] 09:37, 14 March 2007

User talk:Affirmlife

2007-03-14T08:38:05Z

Orly:

Why have you edited the Iraq War page? My additions were 100% true, and 100% cited.
I am putting them back up. This kind of disingenuous censorship is not - I assume - what this website is supposed to be about. Feel free to air out your problems in the appropriate Talk Page of the Iraq War article.

--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Because they don't reflect reality, they reflect projections. I don't know what this website is supposed to be about, but I do know that it's supposed to reflect confirmed facts. [[User:Affirmlife|Affirmlife]] 04:10, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Considering I cited every single fact that I presented - all of which came from either peer-reviewed academic journals or profesionally-conducted public opinion polls with statistically normal standard deviations - I'm really puzzled as to why you're deleting my additions. Are you interested in the truth? I hope so.
--[[User:Accidents|Accidents]] 01:25, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

:Welcome to Conservapedia, Accidents. Unfortunately, your so-called "facts" don't reflect the Party Line here, and therefore will be rejected. The Iraq War is something of a sore spot with the True Believers--they were promised a military triumph that would let them quit having to think about the Vietnam fiasco forever, and instead they're trapped dealing with a slow-motion repeat, without even a Democratic President to blame for getting them stuck in it. You need to add some text explaining how the insurgency is in their "death throes" (for the 19th time), or assert that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were photographed at a keg party together, pr that the WMDs were shipped to Syria, or something like that, if you don't want your essay shouted down like a Creationist on Wikipedia. --[[User:Scrap|Scrap]] 04:32, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

It seems like [[User:Scrap|Scrap]] needs to be made aware of the deffinition of [[fact]], as used by this wiki. --[[User:orly|orly]] 09:37, 14 March 2007

Monica Lewinsky

2007-03-13T13:02:04Z

Orly:

An intern in the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] [[White House]], who had a relationship with President Clinton that he subsequently lied about while under oath. He didn't actually lie, but instead exploited a technicality in the definition of [[sex]] the investigation was using, by which Monica Lewinsky had had [[sex]] with him, but he had not had [[sex]] with Monica Lewinsky. This led to President Clinton's [[impeachment]].

Donatello

2007-03-13T12:43:02Z

Orly:

1. Donatello lived from 1386 to 1466. He was an influential painter and sculptor of the early Renaissance, and lived in [[Florence]].

2. Name of one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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[[Category:Biographies]]

Religion

2007-03-13T12:09:03Z

Orly:

A system of beliefs about the '''supernatural'''.

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== Religions ==

* [[Animism]]
* [[Atheism]]
* [[Bahá'í]]
* [[Cao Dai]]
* [[Christianity]]
* [[Discordianism]]
* The [[Heaven's Gate]] [[cult]]
* [[Hinduism]]
* [[Islam]]
* [[Jainism]]
* [[Jenovah's Witnesses]]
* [[Juche]]
* [[Judaism]]
* [[Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints|Mormonism]]
* [[New Age]] beliefs
* [[Rastafarianism]]
* [[Satanism]]
* [[Scientology]]
* [[Secular Humanism]]
* [[Shamanism]]
* [[Shintoism]]
* [[Sikhism]]
* [[Church of the SubGenius|SubGeniism]]
* [[Wicca]]
* [[Zoroastrianism]]

[[Category: Religion]]

Same-sex marriage

2007-03-13T10:58:40Z

Orly:

Same-sex marriage is a legal marriage (i.e. one typically formalized by filing papers at a government office) in which the two people being married are of the same sex. It gives these couples the same legal rights and status as married opposite-sex couples.

Unheard of a few decades ago, same-sex marriage is one of a number of issues involving gay rights and the "culture wars." Traditionally, in the United States, marriage has been considered to be one of the areas governed by each state rather than by the Federal Government, and marriage laws are a patchwork whose details are different in each state. The possibility of same-sex marriage in each state depends on that state's constitution.

In 1996 Congress recognized the likelihood that same-sex marriage would soon become legal in at least some states, and was concerned that the Constitution might be interpreted as forcing states that did not allow it to recognize marriages performed in states that did allow it. It passed the Defense of Marriage act, which prevents this possibility, and also prevents the Federal Government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

In 1999 a Vermont court ruled that under Vermont's constitution, it was not required to allow same-sex marriage but was required to make provisions to grant same-sex couples legal rights identical to those provided by marriage. Vermont responded by creating "civil unions," which are legally distinct from "marriages" but convey the same rights. As of 2007, Connecticut and New Jersey also provide civil unions. In 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that under Massachusetts' constitution, same-sex couples could not be denied Massachusetts marriage licenses, making Massachusetts the sole state to allow opposite-sex marriage.<ref>Because of an established Massachusetts law, Massachusetts same-sex marriages are all-but-limited to Massachusetts residents. The law says that an out-of-state couple cannot be married if their marriage would be illegal in their home state.</ref>

The religious ceremony of marriage is governed by each denomination and is unaffected by laws passed by civil authority. Same-sex marriage is forbidden in Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, and most mainstream Protestant denominations. Thus, a same-sex couple cannot receive the Catholic sacrament of matrimony in Massachusetts or anywhere else.

Public attitude toward same-sex marriage parallels attitude toward homosexuality. In general, it is opposed by social conservatives, and most of the support for it is from liberals.

Same-sex marriages are allowed in [[Canada]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]], [[South Africa]], [[Monaco]], [[Spain]], [[Cayman Islands]], [[Greenland]], [[Netherland Antilles]], [[Turks and Caicos Islands]], [[United States]] ([[Masachusetts]]), [[Pitcairn Island]], [[French Guiana]], [[Falkland Islands]].

[[Israel]] approves of same-sex marriges performed abroad, but does not perform them in the country.

Same-sex unions or registered partnerships are allowed in [[Hungary]] (from July 2007), [[Andorra]], [[Italy]9 (some regions), [[Luxembourg]], [[the Czech Republic]], [[Denmark]], [[Finland]], [[Germany]], [[Iceland]], [[Norway]], [[Portugal]], [[Slovenia]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]], [[France]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Martinique]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[United States]] ([[Vermont]], [[Connecticut]], [[New Jersey]], [[California]], [[Maine]], [[District of Coumbia]] and [[Hawaii]]), [[Mexico]] ([[Mexico City]] and [[Coahuila]]), [[Australia]] and [[Norfolk Island]] ([[Tasmania]], [[Western Australia]], [[Queensland]], [[Australian Capital Territory]], [[South Australia]], [[Nirthern Territory]], [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria]]), [[New Caledonia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Brazil]] ([[Rio Grande do Sul]]), [[Argentina]] ([[Buenos Aires City]] and [[Rio Negro Privince]]).

Same-sex unions are considered in [[Hong-Kong]], [[Philippines]], [[Taiwan]], [[Austria]], [[Faroe Islands]], [[Gibraltar]], [[Greece]], [[Gernsey]], [[Ireland]], [[Isle of Man]], [[Jersey]], [[Lichtenstein]], [[Poland]], [[Bermuda]], [[Costa Rica]], [[New Caledonia]], [[Chile]], [[Colombia]], [[Uruguay]].<ref>Homosexuality laws of the world[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_laws_of_the_world]</ref>

==Reference==

<references/>

Gottfried Leibniz

2007-03-13T09:58:21Z

Orly:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German mathematician, philosopher and political advisor. His greatest achievement was his independent discovery of differential and integral calculus, also invented by [[Isaac Newton]]. Leibniz was the first to use the notation of the integral.

In philosophy, Leibniz disagreed with Descartes' "I think there for I am" and instead Leibniz thought that neither form alone (the mind) or matter alone (the body) could explain the existence of an individual. Instead, Leibniz created a philosophy known as "monadology", which holds that souls are all there are in the universe. Even a table, according to Leibniz, is nothing other than a collection of "windowless monads" which cannot interact. This doctrine of non-interacting souls is abhorrent to traditional Christianity.

In physics, Leibniz proposed the use of "dynamics" or kinetic energy to explain motion, rather than "mechanics" that is based on Cartesian coordinates. Leibniz held the view that light always travelled the path of least resistance.

Leibniz was a Lutheran who dreamed of reuniting it with the Roman Catholic Church, and also of reconciling modern thinkers like [[Hobbes]] and [[Descartes]] with the [[Aristole]] of the [[Scholastics]], or even the earlier [[Greek]] philosopher [[Aristotle]].

An ugly dispute developed between Newton and Leibniz over who discovered calculus first. Most English-speaking historians give the credit to Newton but bias may play a role in that. The world certainly benefited immensely from Leibniz as well as Newton.

[[Category:Biographies]]