Mitchell Global Studies Final

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In the early days of his presidency many left viewed Obama as a kind of Messiah

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True

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The better we understand the religious impulse, better we will understand liberal Americans trajectory

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True

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Hollywood uses religion to its advantage

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False

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A "black angel" featured a white character who is enlightened by a black man

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False

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Obama's race did him more harm than good. It was an opportunity for white atonement

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False

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a "light worker" is a person who ushers a new way of being on the planet

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False

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In America the Christian faith has been roaring back

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False

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Modern religions expression is seen even in the kind of tats people get

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True

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A political religion is a sign of huge political trouble

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True

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Marxist Government were one of the few to keep religion at arms legth

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False

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Totalitarian regimes were interested in public political life and personal life

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False

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One of the preemenient of the modern religious movements is environmentalism

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True

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Traditional religions differ from secualr religions in that they acknowledge that they are religious

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True

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Modern secular religions greatly threaten to seperate of church and state

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True

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Once Obama leaves office the threat of secular religion will be fro the most part be over

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False

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The idea that religion and politics should be seperate dates back almost to the beginning of Christianity

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True

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Wrestling with problem of Church and state is uniquely Christian

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True

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The world has numerous religions that have the potential to battle on a world wide scale

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False

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Iran's hostility toward the West emanates from its ancient zorastrian religion of a cosmic clash of god and evil

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True

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The classical muslim view divides the world into 2 spheres - The house of Islam and the house of war

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True

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Muslim resent the fact that the west has always been superior and a threat to Islam

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False

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the muslim is bothered by he loss of authority in his own country even his own family, but is enraged by the loss of muslim world wide domination

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False

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Muslims have always been fascinated with America

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False

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Many attitudes towards the US were borrowed from Europeans who hated the US

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True

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The most frequent adduced for antiAmerican feelings among muslims is Amercan support for Israel

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True

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Many places in the world have been guilty of slavery, tyranny and exploitation but the west has been especially grevious in the practice of this

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False

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America's pecularity with regard to slavery who know its existence but its abolition

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True

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Muslims believe they are being ruled by infidels because of terrible sins they commited in past

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False

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Muslims demand rights in western countries they do not extend to others in their countries

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True

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Muslims do no rise in Russia because they respect Muslims

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False

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Muslims especially resent west because it provides an attractive alternative to their traditional way of life

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True

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Muslims resent the west in part due to a feeling of himiliation

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True

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Islam's not inherently evil

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False

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The outcomes of this great struggle will be determined by how the West decides to treat Muslim people

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False

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We must achieve a better understanding of the religion of others but also a better understanding of our own

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True

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For most of recorded history the wealth of societies remained the same

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True

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in 1820 America was like an undeveloped third world country

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True

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Modern economics have given us a clear picture of the causes of economic growth

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False

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Modern economist have often said the key to growth was a reducton in population

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True

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Population growth is one of the causes of economic growth

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True

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Much of America's approach to foreign aid was borrowed from Soviet Russia

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True

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Poverty is being eradicated around the world

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True

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The biggest reason for the reduction of poverty is foreign aid

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False

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Capitalism has played a small role in growth economies

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False

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Jeff sachs argues that the rich countries should be taxed to help poor ones

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True

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The hope for ending third world poverty is the UN

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False

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Generous foeigh aid usually results in genocide, corruption, police states and the erosion of individual liberty

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True

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William Easterly argues that hard to understand local factors drive growth

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True

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Growth is not a cure all but the lack of growth is a kill all

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True

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Economic growth transcend economics

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True

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Insistence on the English language harms poor countries

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False

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US growth has been caused by the creative freedom individuals enjoy.

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True

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The predicate of economic growth is the readiness of individuals to take risk

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True

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Market based growth is the only real way to eradidate poverty

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True

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Government do nothing to aid economic growth

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False

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In the last 150 years the amount of food we grow has gone up faster than the population

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True

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Because we live in a special moment each of us should consider having one child

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True

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World population will stop growing in the next few decades

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True

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if the population rate of the past few years remained constant in 150 years we would reach the absurd population of 296 billion

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Truef

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Figuring out the carrying the carrying capacity of earth is a matte of scientific calculation

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True

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For nearly 3000 years experts have been predicting the Earth would run out of food

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True

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1798 Thomas Malthus correctly predicted the demise of human resources

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False

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There are specialist who argue that population growth is good

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True

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20% of the world's population lacks access of potable water

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True

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world grain producton continues to go up and up

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True

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Weather is far more erratic and extreme today than it was just a few decades ago

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True

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If you want to scare with yourself with guesses about what may happen in the near future there's no shortage of possibilities

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Truef

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In reality Americans use little more energy than the third world villager

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False

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Economic Growth in the Third world has ground to a halt

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False

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President Clinton kept his pledge to keep greenhouse emissions constant

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False

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It is impossible to imagine 10 billion people consuming at our level

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True

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It is easier to change fertility than lifestyle

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True

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Americans are increasingly divided about where we're going as a nation

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True

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History warns us that once powerful societies collapse they do so quickly and unexpectedly

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True

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Diamond seeks to learn from history lessons that can prevent American collapse

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True

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Diamond finds 5 interactive factors that lead to historical collapse, one of which is climate change

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True

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Diamond closely examines the fall of Rome and the British Empire

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False

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Japan learned in the 1600's that her isolation that made it obvious she woude have to depend on own resources

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True

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One of the major lessons we take from history is to take enviornmental problems seriously

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True

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A society contains a built in blue print for failure if the elite insulated itself from the consequences of its actions

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True

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Societies must examine core values when they no longer make sense

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Truef

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Humanities biggest problems today are entirely of our own making

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True

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China is adding another whole US coal consumption every 3 years

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True

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The world's poor people burn carbon it is in easy reach

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True

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The US must control the global supply of carbon

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False

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80% of the World's oil resources are owned by allies of the US

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False

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The US must control the global demand for carbon

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False

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The US is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases

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False

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Humanity is not going to reduce flobal emissions at any point in the forseeable future

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True

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The best hope for reducing greenhouse gases is to buy the cooperation of poor countries

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False

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Meeting NYC's total energy demand would require 50,000 windmills

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True

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The nuclear accident at 3 mile island killed 8 people

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False

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Green anti-nuclear activists have unwittingly boosted US coal consumption by 400 million tons a year

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True

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Carbon free alternatives fail because they are so expensive

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True

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The best way to cut dependence on foreign oil is to burn more coal

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True

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Burning more coal would , ironically, cause us to cut emissions

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True

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California has lead way in using alternative sources of energy

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False

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The suggestion that we can lift ourselves out of the economic doldrums by spending lavishly on new sources of energy is absurd

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True

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When anti-carbon forces encounter inconvenient truths they hatch up their apocalyptic rhetoric

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True

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The purpose of incediary rhetoric is to get people to talk about the problem

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False

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Uing land and forest differently will play little role in carbon emissions

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False

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Building Green bridges to nowhere makes things worse not better

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True

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Through much of History the distinction between church and state would be inmprehensible

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True

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The third world is producing a distinctively Christian politics

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True

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In the third world churches have invariably opposed revolution

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False

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In Latin America liberation theologians fought a timeless battle against marxist ideology

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False

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in Africa the church the church has generally stayed out of politics because of its colonial origins

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False

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One of the dangers of Christian political influence is christian political oppression

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Truef

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In Latin America Catholic radicals defend Pentecostals against oppression by the Roman Catholic hierarchy

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False

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Pentecostal preachers were better than gunships in Central America

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True

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Modern Western media do an awful job of covering religion even in their own countries

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True

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Western policy makers will make numerous errors if they do not understand religion

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True

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The persecution of Christians has received little attention from America media

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True

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Religious conflict is at its height right now but should get better in the next two decades

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False

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Both Muslim and Christian nations exaggerate the religions loyalty of their subjects

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True

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Christians balk at spreading their faith in Muslim lands

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True

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Since 1850 the Christian minority in Middle Eastern countries has grown substantially

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False

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The threat of intolerance and persecution comes chiefly from Islam

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True

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Sudan was one of the last countries to abolish slavery

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False

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Nigeria is split between Christianity and Islam

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True

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In Indonesia Christianity is viewed as a religion for the illiterate underclass

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False

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The growing states of Africa will not remain hopeless for ever

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True

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The central problem in relations between the West and the Rest is America's efforts to promote universal Western culture and its declining ability to do so

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True

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The US has always been a missionary naiton

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True

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Islamic and Chinese civilizations have more in common with each other than with the West

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False

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It is unlikely terrorsts will ever secure nukes

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False

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Muslims get their weapons from Europe

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False

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The US has consistently insistent that China improve her human rights record

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False

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The best bet for human rights is the UN

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False

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the export of people was perhaps the single best important dimension of the rise of the West over the past 400 years

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True

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In France the word "immigrant" in synonymous with Muslim

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True

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Europeans societies either don't want to assimilate immigrants or are having trouble doing so.

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True

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Relations between civilizations are becoming increasingly cordial out of necssity

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False

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Actual Military conflict between Us and China is extremily unlikely

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False

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It is important to distinguish between mainline Muslims and Islamic extrimests

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False

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Europeans have no room for hostility toward Islam since they have never been seriously threatened by Muslims

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False

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Muslims attack the West, not because it's Christian, but because it's secular

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True

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The economic changes in Asia are one of the most significant developments in the world over the past 50 years

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True

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Commercial interchange is invariable a force for peace

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False

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China is no just a big player it is the biggest player in the history of man

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True

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Japan is a uniquely non-western Company

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True

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War between China and Taiwan is a very likely possibility

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False

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The rise of the new global Christianity will have tremendous impact on the first world

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True

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Peaceful immigrants greatly outnumbered the world's largest armed forces

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True

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White religious conservatives in the worth fear the "Browning" of Christianity just as much as white seculars

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False

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The RC Church is conservative because it has such a third world constituency

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True

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The RC Church does not accept the religious views of Western elites it is doomed

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False

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Afric and Asia are highly conservative on moral and sexual issues

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True

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Abortion is legal in Africa

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False

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Southerners accuse Northern liberals of selling out to secularism and paganism

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True

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The Anglican Mission in America serves under the Bishop of Singapore

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True

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Black churches will never make in roads into white European populations

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False

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Looking at the ways Christianity is now developing tells us a great deal about the religion

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True

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We cannot predict the future because we have essentially no info how the world will look in 50 years

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False

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The RCC has the fewest resources where it needs them most

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True

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Brazil, a predominately Catholic country, has more protestant pastors than priests

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True

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As the 21st century roles along look for Christianity and Islam to decline in numbers and influence

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False

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The next Christendom will, for the most part, look like the old

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False

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Christianity will continue to be by far the largest religion in existence

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True

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Teaching about Christianity would be a wonderful way to teach diversity

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True

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Most Christians in the world are relatively rich

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False

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New Southern churches read the Bible in a wholly different way from northerners

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True

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Christianity is flourishing among the poor and atrophying among the rich

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True

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Christianity has a breath taking ability to transform weakness to strength

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True