That's Matthew Anderson Stembridge, oddly renamed as simply Matthew Anderson in his 2012 «Green Corps Class of 2000» endorsement of his trainers, the individual I described in 2010 as co-author with Phil Radford of pro-global warming material (link broken in my 2010 piece, but is here as a PDF file, screencapture here) distributed
into religious organizations that failed to identify what organization he and Radford were affiliated with.
If you think people don't tear
into religious organizations for supporting and encouraging hatred and discrimination, you haven't been paying attention.
Not exact matches
If you work for a
religious organization that doesn't pay
into the Social Security program, you must pay Social Security taxes if your earnings are more than $ 100 per year.
Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit,
religious, charitable or educational
organizations did not pay
into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.
Tax benefits for
religious organizations fall
into three general categories: tax - free donations, tax - free land and tax - free commercial enterprises.
The project includes access
into the Vatican's case files, as well as interviews with the
organization's top exorcists -
religious experts who are rarely seen on television.
So let me get this straight...
religious organizations fight for their «right» to run schools like BYU that virtually write discrimination
into their so - called «honor code», but when a school has a policy that forces them to NOT discriminate, that's when they have a problem?
You don't think that people can be brainwashed
into a belief system with the more subtle indoctrination techniques used by
religious organizations and have it stick?
The policy goes
into effect on August 1, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a statement January 20 that
religious organizations that do not provide contraceptive coverage based on
religious belief will have until August 1, 2013, to comply.
Accepting the divine entry of God
into human history through the man Jesus Christ explains the extraordinary strength and resilience of the Christian Church, and also why it is a mistake to regard it as a purely human
organization of those who happen to share the same
religious views.
Surely we may ask him whether his view of the Church, too, must not include doctrines that ought not even to be tolerated in the Church if she is to have one confession and not to degenerate
into a mere external
religious organization.
I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get
into the work that I do - of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other
religious organizations around issues of human differences.
I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get
into the work that I do — of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other
religious organizations around issues of human differences.
And so I can not support a party that sees itself as the political extension of
religious organizations trying to use government to force themselves
into my soul,
into my faith,
into my life.
Next on the itinerary was a Jewish
religious school for girls, where the mostly evangelical
organization funds educational programs aimed at helping Ethiopian immigrants integrate
into Israeli society.
They turned it
into a
religious paramilitary
organization like Hezbollah.
I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives
into a mere political /
religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an
organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.
A few days later three «film doctors» — Lois Anderson from the American Baptist Churches, John Bachman from Union Theological Seminary, and I — were ushered
into a room filled with representatives of Protestant New York, forty - three people from
religious organizations across the spectrum, including every group from rock - bound fundamentalists to far - out liberals.
And of course all atheist and free - thinker
organizations were banned in 1933, right when Hitler came
into power, and secular schools were closed, with Hitler saying: «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no
religious instruction... all character training and religion must be derived from faith.»
The vast majority, however, came
into being as independent
religious organizations after the end of World War II, when such groups could first register as independent
religious corporations after the Allied occupation relaxed the restrictive legislations of the pre-war era.
As soon as you go out
into the public realm, and put yourself in situations where you are no longer interacting with individuals PURELY of your faith, then you are now open to the government enforcing those people's first amendment rights, and the rights of an individual absolutely outweigh the rights of a
religious affiliated private
organization.
Social agencies, welfare groups,
religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched
into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.
The CBN's research agency, in a study of partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other
religious organizations, partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming
into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»
The research gives little support to the contention that the
religious broadcasters as yet are draining money from the local churches
into their own
organizations.
These efforts appear designed to break
into the monopoly held by the independent evangelical
organizations, and hold possibilities for restoring some representativeness to
religious programming on television.
The broadcasters who have had money available for research
into religious television's effectiveness, namely the evangelical and fundamentalist
organizations, do not have a tradition of using empirical research for evaluating effectiveness.
now that
religious organizations are
into politics, are they going to lose their tax exempt statuses?
They have passed from being a Christian
organization into their own self - righteous «
religious» cult.
«This is the problem: no matter how open, accepting and caring
religious organizations are towards marginalized groups, if these feelings don't translate
into policy then it's empty speech.
What happened, of course, was the transplanting of foreign denominations, or more specifically an insertion of the «American pattern» of
religious organization into a Brazil still marked by the traditional «Latin pattern.»
No Jewish
organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle
into law and allowed
religious students a platform from which to inject religion
into the public high school environment.
Rather than merely pointing out the symbolic vistas along the expressway to an analysis of
organizations, economics, motivations, and other «determinants» of
religious belief, one sinks roots
into the neighborhood of
religious symbolism itself.
The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion program facilitates communication between scientific and
religious communities through partnerships with
religious organizations to help incorporate science
into educational programs and encourage scientific outreach to address public concerns about scientific advances and show how they address world problems.
Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, the right - hand man of the title character (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who was a drifter before he was drawn
into The Master's mysterious
religious organization.
Search for civic
organizations, societies and
religious groups to bring the community
into what the students are making in the schools.
Since then, REACH has grown
into a broad, diverse coalition that includes members from the business community, ethnic and
religious organizations, parents, and taxpayer groups.
In the US, one recent police sting operation brought down more than thirty members of a
religious organization who were sneaking drugs
into one facility by enclosing them inside the tiny laminated tabs that denote the different books of the Bible.
Well I formed a
religious organization over 20 years ago that morphed
into a new «nation» on this lovely planet and our
organizations now have
religious courts as well as civil courts.
If you work for a
religious organization that doesn't pay
into the Social Security program, you must pay Social Security taxes if your earnings are more than $ 100 per year.
Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit,
religious, charitable or educational
organizations did not pay
into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.
Since we have agreed that I accept (at least provisionally, as far as the powerfully augmented eye can see) an expanding Universe and am therefore clearly
religious about physics and mathematics and reason if nothing else, can you explain to me how God isn't something and yet is capable of things like sentience, action, choice, design, starting off Big Bangs out of nothingness — all things that seem to involve a remarkably high degree of material complexity and
organization (not to mention time, and space and energy)-- not to mention various Amazing Powers to make an entire Universe poof
into existence out of nowhere with just the right rules to work out to become (in very small part) me some 14 billion years later.