<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>The Effects of the Religious Right on Politics and on Religion : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/religion/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>61852</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61852/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Effects of the Religious Right on Politics and on Religion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who would deny that the ascendancy of the religious right has been bad for the U.S.? Its destructive consequences are plain to see. It has polarized the nation. It has made America a laughingstock in the eyes of the educated of the world. And it has encouraged devout believers to think of themselves as agents of the divine, and their political opponents as enemies of God.<br/><br/>Besides the political damage, religion itself has been damaged.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>245</score><crdate>5/14/2008 8:51:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-14T20:51:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37943</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37943/1/</url><title><![CDATA[True world history]]></title><description><![CDATA[The videos are long, and it may take a little while to see all of them, but I highly reccomend you watch.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>126</score><crdate>10/11/2007 12:09:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-11T00:09:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70871</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70871/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ruling: No religious right to marijuana]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no religious right in Arizona to possess marijuana, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, saying freedom of religion is not the same as freedom of action.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>147</score><crdate>8/1/2008 5:45:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-01T05:45:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29876</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29876/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Right Brain vs. Left Brain:  Creativity Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being creative or artistic doesn&#8217;t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world. <br/>Creative people use the RIGHT side of their brains more than the LEFT. Take the test and find out if your brain is RIGHT for a creative career.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>114</score><crdate>8/1/2007 11:17:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-01T23:17:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10002</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10002/1/</url><title><![CDATA[History Of Left- And Right-Side Driving]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reasons that countries around the world drive on either the left side of the road or the right side of the road are outlined chronologically.<br/>A table of countries lists every country and whether they drive on the left side of the road or the right side of the road.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>120</score><crdate>2/3/2007 9:30:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-03T09:30:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72273</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/72273/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Judge says UC can deny religious course credit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.]]></description><comments>26</comments><score>353</score><crdate>8/13/2008 3:55:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-13T15:55:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68955</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/68955/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Person Who Refused To Certify Gay Marriages Due To Her Strict Religion - Not So Religious]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lilian Ladele, the bigoted registrar won a lawsuit against Islington Council when they punished her for not performing her duties. She claimed that her strict religious beliefs superseded the will of the law and her employer. It has recently been discovered that she had a baby out of wedlock. I guess her strict religious beliefs only matter when it suits her.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>295</score><crdate>7/16/2008 1:19:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-16T13:19:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20207</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20207/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Study: Religion Is Good for Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>73</score><crdate>5/13/2007 10:29:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-13T22:29:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29695</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29695/1/</url><title><![CDATA[500-Pound Man Denied Right to Adopt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Man denied right to adopt his infant cousin because the mother is unable to care for the child-because he is fat.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>80</score><crdate>7/31/2007 12:46:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-31T12:46:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66957</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/66957/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Religion to keep Serena from voting]]></title><description><![CDATA[<i>&quot;I'm a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't get involved in politics. We stay neutral. We don't vote,&quot;</i><br/><br/>Someone please explain.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>274</score><crdate>6/27/2008 11:39:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-27T11:39:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35849</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35849/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Politics and Religion by Rev Pat Condell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi, I'm Pat Condell.<br/>I don't respect your beliefs<br/>and I don't care if you're offended.<br/>Cheers.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>127</score><crdate>9/16/2007 5:16:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-16T17:16:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46149</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46149/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Religion is bullshit]]></title><description><![CDATA[<i>Hey, it's the name of the site!</i><br/>&quot;If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities&quot; -- Voltaire (1694-1778)<br/><br/>Throughout history, religion has been responsible for a large proportion of the suffering in the world - yet religious beliefs are based in ancient myths and legends that should have been discarded centuries ago.<br/><br/>The purpose of this site is to point out the errors in religious texts and highlight the problems caused by religious believers in society today.]]></description><comments>77</comments><score>353</score><crdate>1/5/2008 7:53:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-05T19:53:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50885</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50885/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Big Religion Chart]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ReligionFacts &quot;Big Religion Chart&quot; is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart. Yes, of course this is impossible. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail, talking with religious adherents, etc. But this religion comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to &quot;get the gist&quot; of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world's religions and belief systems.]]></description><comments>41</comments><score>638</score><crdate>2/16/2008 9:07:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-16T21:07:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66515</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/66515/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Test Our Meat? Hell No!]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot; the USDA guidelines only test 1% of cows. Creekstone went to court for the right to test all of their cows and won at a lower level, but the Bush Administration is appealing it, saying that &quot;more widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.&quot;]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>170</score><crdate>6/24/2008 8:04:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-24T20:04:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61710</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61710/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Einstein's view of religion revised]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has long been assumed that Albert Einstein weighted science and religion equally, but a letter written by him in 1954 may well revise that.<br/><br/>Describing god as the expression and product of human weakness and the bible as a collection of primitive legends does not sit well with the previously held assumption that he weighted science and religious belief in equal regard.<br/><br/>An abridged version of the letter, which is due to be auctioned on Thursday, can be read <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/13/peopleinscience.religion" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>393</score><crdate>5/13/2008 7:54:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-13T19:54:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17006</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17006/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man Proposes on Price Is Right and Gets a Surprise]]></title><description><![CDATA[This guy proposes to his girlfriend on the Price is Right during his spin for the &quot;Showcase Showdown&quot; and hits $1.00 just as he is asking.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>104</score><crdate>4/19/2007 6:12:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T06:12:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13798</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13798/1/</url><title><![CDATA[political cartoons]]></title><description><![CDATA[im not sure how common this site is but it has alot of great political cartoons about everything]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>20</score><crdate>3/21/2007 9:14:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-21T21:14:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44460</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/44460/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Saudi rape victim 'spared lashes']]></title><description><![CDATA[If this report is correct then its a decent outcome. Was it down to world pressure?]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>111</score><crdate>12/17/2007 5:45:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-17T05:45:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7530</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/7530/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Religious Test For Muslim Congressman?]]></title><description><![CDATA[First Muslim elected to congress facing criticism for wanting to have a picture taken of him being &quot;sworn in&quot; with his hand on the Koran<br/><br/>the reason i put &quot;sworn in&quot; in quotes is because the picture is taken after being officially sworn in. so placing his hand on the Koran for the picture is just for media use and carries no official merit.<br/><br/>the link is a commentary so here is a news story on it as well <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200612/POL20061201a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200612/POL20061201a.html</a></div>]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>103</score><crdate>12/13/2006 2:13:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-13T02:13:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48372</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48372/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nazi 'death trains' exhibition opens ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly opened exhibition in Berlin on the role the German state railways played in deportation of Jews to death camps during World War II.<br/><br/>Part of the worlds humans dreadful past and still it happens!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>83</score><crdate>1/25/2008 2:21:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-25T14:21:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35271</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35271/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>183</score><crdate>9/11/2007 2:31:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-11T02:31:19+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>