CRITIQUING RELIGION - EVANGELISM

• Hidden From History: The Canadian Holocaust
  The untold story of the genocide of Aboriginal peoples
• Turtle Island Native Network: Focus On Indian Residential Schools
• Aboriginal Holocaust: Native Massacres and Indigenous Genocide
• In Search of an Aboriginal Future. "The situation could not be more urgent...the very survival of the first peoples of this country is at risk."
  Aboriginal communities have suffered profound psychological trauma due to the abuses of residential schooling, resulting in generations haunted by violence, alcohol addiction and suicide.
• Are reconciliation and 'truth' compatible?
  "The removal of children from their homes and the denial of their identity through attacks on their language and spiritual beliefs were cruel," says the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
• Canadian PM: "The government now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on aboriginal culture, heritage and language,"
  First time a Canadian prime minister has formally apologized for the physical and sexual abuse that occurred in the now-defunct network of federally financed, church-run residential schools.
• Pope Benedict Argues Catholic Church 'Purified' Indigenous Peoples
• Chavez demands Pope apologize to native Americans for “denying aboriginal holocaust”
• God's Wrath, and the Tories': Harper's zeal for retribution seems religious. No other prime minister in our history has so strained the fundamental edict of the separation of church and state.
  Few Canadians probably even realize that the prime minister who is steadily changing the nature of their country is a born-again, evangelical Christian.
• The Family: Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler
  In his new book, The Family, author Jeff Sharlet reveals sordid details about this power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway fundamentalist group.
• An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee
  He was taking broken people and giving them a road map to a new set of parents, a new family -- your basic cultist bait-and-switch formula for cutting old emotional ties and redirecting that psychic energy toward the desired new destination.
• Going Undercover at Mad Pastor Hagee's Christians United for Israel Summit
  "What they're hiding is a fundamentalist, apocalyptic, Christian right ideology that does not have high regard for most of the world's people and instead condemns most of them -- even those it claims to love and defend -- to hell."
• Going Behind Closed Doors in Christian Right Households
  To really understand the politics of the Christian Right, we need to look not only to public activity, but to private matters.
• The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians
• The Secrets of the Christian Right's Recruiting Tactics
• Creation "Science" Is the Christian Right's Trojan Horse Against Reason
• Radical Christian Right Preaches Liberal Evil
• The Evangelical Christian Takeover of the Military
• Evangelical video shows cadets pressured to be missionaries [VIDEO]
• Religious Freedom in Military Questioned
• America's Holy Warriors
• The Pentagon Sends Messengers of Apocalypse to Convert Soldiers in Iraq
• Christian Right's Emerging Deadly Worldview: Kill Muslims to Purify the Earth
  Christian extremists are preaching a war against tolerance to target and persecute all Muslims, including the 6 million who live in the U.S.
• As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse
• Lobbying for Armageddon
• The End Times Hits Primetime
• The Real Mike Huckabee: Israel and the Apocalypse
  Huckabee’s advocacy of forcibly transferring the Palestinians to other Arab nations reflects his close association with some of America’s most prominent End Times theological proponents.
• Diary of a Christian Terrorist
• Falwell and Savage Christians: A Legacy of Hate and Violence
• Right-Wing Pathologies Revealed After Adkisson Shooting at Unitarian Church
  America still clings to the culture of the mean, violent Ulster Protestants who populated the South and West.
• Southern Baptists Seek Laws Making 'Will Of Christ' Supreme
• Full-Quiver Theology: racist Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's call for 'full-quiver' theology is white-supremacy code language advocating for the increase of white babies.
• Theocracy Rejected: Former Christian Right Leaders 'Fess up
  Frank Schaeffer, John Whitehead and Cal Thomas have repudiated the theocratic movement they once led. Here’s why.
• For the Christian Right, Gay-Hating Is Just the Start
• The Christian Right's Fear of Pleasure is Our Greatest Threat to Choice
• Public Stoning: Not Just for the Taliban Anymore
• Christian "Ex-Gays" Brainwash Thousands
• Christianity Is So Gay
  It is if you read the news, and 2000 years, a certain way.
• Huckabee's Biblical Madness: Dispatches from the War on Stupidity
  Fog Facts: Huckabee has radical proposals to change the Constitution based upon his factually incorrect statements on what the Bible says.
• The Hypocrisy Gospel: Get Rich for Jesus?
  How the religious right uses the 'prosperity gospel' to win foot soldiers and continue its culture war.
• God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the GOP Crusade for Values Voters
  A look into the shady finances and manipulative politics of America's leading televangelist hucksters.
• Televangelist spreads the 'Gospel of Bling,' lands himself in hot water
  "This claim that Creflo Dollar makes that Jesus was rich is so ludicrous as to hardly bear examination"
• Ex-Con Televangelist Jim Bakker Returns to TV With a New Real Estate Scheme
  A faith-based con of a big real estate investment scheme exploiting a bankrupt dream sold to sweet-hearted ladies who twist the arms of their henpecked husbands.
• Senator to Question Televangelists Again
  The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is preparing another round of letters to Christian television ministries, prodding them to answer questions about their spending and the way they are governed.
• North Texas' Copeland sees bias in televangelist inquiry. Copeland is leading a counterattack against the U.S. senator who is investigating alleged lavish spending by six high-profile televangelists.
  Watchdog groups have complained for years that the ministries' charismatic leaders fund extravagant lifestyles with their followers' donations.
• Is the "Prosperity Gospel" facing a recession?
  Dealing with less prosperity, Mac Hammond's church cuts back
• Preaching the miracle of money.
  EVANGELICAL faith healer Pastor Benny Hinn claims he can cure the sick, make the crippled walk and rid terminally ill patients of cancer.
• Pastor leaves Australia $800K richer
  PROSPEROUS pastor Benny Hinn flew into Brisbane a multimillionaire. He left, 28 hours and three shows later, an estimated $800,000 richer.
• Who Is Rev. Moon? 'Returning Lord,' 'Messiah,' Publisher of the Washington Times
  "True Father" to some, madman to others, Sun Myung Moon is one of the strangest and least scrutinized figures in the conservative media world.
• The Development of a Jihadist's Mind
  "I passed through three psychological stages to reach this level of comfort with death: hatred of non-Muslims or dissenting Muslims, suppression of my conscience and acceptance of violence in the service of Allah."
• The cult of the suicide bomber
  Five years after the invasion of Iraq, Robert Fisk details the shocking extent of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history
• The cult of `Christian` Zionism is what the concept of the Anti-Christ is all about.