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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (7249)	3/3/2001 12:32:23 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I thought you would find it interesting. Even if you have not experienced the direct influence, notions of anthropocentrism yielding to ahimsa, a reverence for all life; a strong critique of industrial civilization; a keen concern for what one might call global ecology; a reverence for things like coral reefs--- all suggested to me that you might find some resonance there......

To: Lane3 who wrote (7249)	3/3/2001 2:54:51 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

The NYT has another article today updating the status of the faith-based initiative. Not much new but a little more detail. <snip> A survey of more than 1,200 religious congregations in 1998 conducted by Mark Chaves, a sociology professor at the University of Arizona, found that only 28 percent of politically conservative congregations were willing to apply for government financing for charity work, compared with 51 percent of politically moderate or liberal congregations. <snip> nytimes.com