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<title>The Catholic Conundrum</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2717_The-Catholic-Conundrum.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The pope's in town!  Will American Catholics listen to him?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:42:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A just war or a war that is just a war?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Islamist terror and subsequent Iraq War have let loose a huge debate around what is “Just War”? The Islamists claim that Just War is Jihad and it is perfectly legitimate to fight against oppression by unbelievers. The Iraq Just War claims are based (and debated) upon legal arguments arising from UN and parliamentary resolutions. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:26:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A review of the Organisation of Islamic Countries report on Islamophobia</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2691_A-review-of-the-Organisation-of-Islamic-Countries-report-on-Islamophobia.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Islamophobia exists but the OIC report is the wrongway of going about it. A phobia is a strong irrational or powerful fear and dislikes of something, in this case, the religion of Islam.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:39:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A reformer who died too soon!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2647_A-reformer-who-died-too-soon.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, when Muslims were restive, worried about having been left very far behind the West in terms of scientific, political, economic and educational levels, when the west was overpoweringly overwhelming the Muslim world politically, a polyglot man arose who talked, wrote, taught and convinced a generation with a new way of looking at Islam. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 27 February 2008 12:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tete-a-Tete</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2585_Tete-a-Tete.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to debating religion, theists keep missing the point.
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<pubDate>Friday, 18 January 2008 10:45:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PRAY TO SEE NEXT YEAR</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2573_PRAY-TO-SEE-NEXT-YEAR.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[HAPPY NEW YEAR can only happen as we individually face reality that we are being taken by a system that does not like us.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:16:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>THE REAL SECRET</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2535_THE-REAL-SECRET.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[You don't have to believe the Bible, but you will have to face the beast sooner or later.  It watches us each moment of our lives.  What is this Beast? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 3 December 2007 07:28:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Promised Land – As Promised in the Three Holy Books</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2136_The-Promised-Land-As-Promised-in-the-Three-Holy-Books.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Israel was promised to the Jews not only in the Jewish Holy books but also in the Bible and the Quran? I didn't, so I went looking and this is what I found!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 February 2007 11:11:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ministerial Seduction</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1882_Ministerial-Seduction.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are times when I am amazed of how a woman will allow herself to be so engulfed in a man to a point she does not consider the logic behind it.  There is a drawing force that automatically draws a woman to a man.  It gets a hold of her and takes her to another world.  Some people say it was activated in the Garden of Eden when the woman became disobedient to the command of God. This hypnotic drawing force is often times misinterpreted as falling in love by some women. In reality, it is seduction – a means for a fall.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 5 June 2006 05:15:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>I Wished My Father Knew</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1881_I-Wished-My-Father-Knew.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When I think about Father’s Day, I can’t help but to think of the only father I ever knew.  He was a man so loved by the women and his family.  He was highly respected by everyone.  He had a natural charm that would make you want to be around him especially when he would speak.  His voice would make you want to listen to every word he spoke.  With that voice, he had intelligence and wisdom.  But when you looked in his eyes, they always seem to be fighting back tears.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 5 June 2006 05:15:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RELIGIOUS TERRORISTS: Driven by fear of modernity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Islamic, Christian, Hindu, and Jewish Fundamentalists share many common traits. As I patiently waited in line at the supermarket, an elderly lady behind me picked a morning newspaper out of a nearby rack and scanned the headlines touting a suicide bomber killing of several U.S. soldiers in Iraq. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 13 May 2006 05:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Religion - Constructive or Divisive?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1842_Religion---Constructive-or-Divisive.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is religion causing a split among civilisations in the current global climate? Undoubtedly yes, with the conflicts between many religions being more than just a minor irritant. Infact, it is happening with alarming regularity. Is this the end of an enlightened age when man can talk their differences out without resorting to violence and war? Or did that age never even ever existed?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:10:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Christianity And Fundamentalism; NOT One And The Same!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_874_Christianity-And-Fundamentalism--NOT-One-And-The-Same.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s time to clear up the obvious confusion surrounding the words "Christianity" and "fundamentalism." The two are not necessarily synonymous. Having posted on various debate boards on this very topic, I have observed more than a few schools of thought on each. This is not surprising, as the terms have different meanings for different people. Let’s tackle Christianity first.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 27 December 2004 03:52:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Flying Monk</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_565_Flying-Monk.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am on the plane to Atlanta. I have been reflecting upon the Buddhist concept of emptiness over and over. If you are not familiar with Emptiness, it is one of the major facets of Buddhism but also one of the most enigmatic. I can perceive it intellectually, but somehow I cannot experience it emotionally. 

It has a great deal to do with the concept of Self, or rather Non-Self. Something to do with what really makes up a human personality and its connection with the outside world. We are supposed to be kind to each other because we are part of each other. Yet somehow the idea of all of us living as one entity is a bit much for my Westernized mind to wrap itself around. My first instinct is to separate my world into "mine" and "theirs." I am completely at a loss.

Then, I look out of my window. From up here everything makes sense. As we ascend into the air, I try to focus on individual cars until my eyes cant strain to see them anymore. Then, I look at house lots with buildings that are so similar it looked like a Monopoly board, trees that were blocked into unnaturally geometric boundaries. 

I looked beyond and saw the vastness of everything. The world is so big, and yet I can still see the small dots of cars plodding along the road. Inside the cars and monopoly houses dwell people, with their own lives, their own triumphs, and their own struggles and pains. 

I see people going through the motions of life seemingly unaware of the other little dots, unaware that they all have the same end. I see countless people denying their own death. If there is a god, this must be the way he sees the world.

Are we really as unique as we like to think we are? Each battle we fight has been fought before us: breakups, life decisions, poverty, losing a loved one. Although these can all be life changing events to an individual, its comforting to note that this battle has been fought and won hundreds of times and perhaps is being fought at the moment you are fighting it. This is the nature of a personal battle. Nothing is really new.

The only new triumphs to be made are the triumphs of society as a whole: global alliances, scientific epiphanies, and integration. None of these can be done alone. We move as a single organism. When humanity makes a change, this is new. This is lasting.

As I look at the world below me, I look into myself. I cannot pinpoint myself. I am a thought. I am a sensory experience. I am a feeling. A physical characteristic (Batchelor, Stephen. Buddhism without Beliefs). But really, I am very little other than a piece of a global puzzle. Some of us spend our lives searching for the other pieces in the form of soul mates or work. 

Little do we know that the pieces surround us every day, and all the pieces search for us.





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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 July 2004 05:47:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Polygamy in Islam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Quran verses are quoted wrongly, to present the that Islam allows marrying unlimited number of women at the same time, this however is not true.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 4 July 2004 03:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Life After Death</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_390_Life-After-Death.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Life after death is an eternal life. 

The life that we will never find the death anymore. 

It is different life from the life in the world. 
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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:37:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tony Chose to Die</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_389_Tony-Chose-to-Die.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There was no reason why he would choose to die, rather than be sentenced to 13 years for his pedophelia case, whereas he wrote a letter that he would appeal after his trial in the first court. 

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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:35:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Islam is not Moslem</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_335_Islam-is-not-Moslem.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Often non-moslem people judge moslem people as a bad people, like terrorist, brutal, etc. The judgment influences their thinking about Islam itself that Islam is a bad religion. They see the moslem, but have they seen Islam?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 21 May 2004 05:51:52 GMT</pubDate>
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