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 | 2000-OCT-14: Tamara Holmes of AccessMagazine wrote an
essay "Elections: not just a popularity contest." She quoted
the OCRT coordinator: "I suspect that most staunch Democrats
or Republicans have pretty much decided how to vote in November,"
says Bruce Robinson, coordinator of the Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance, the group that sponsors ReligiousTolerance.org.
"It is the large number of undecided voters who will determine
the outcome," he says. "And issue-oriented Web sites
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| 2000-AUG-31: Zeal.com
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| 2000-AUG-2: Yep.com appears to have taken over Hitbox.com
in the monitoring of traffic to the top 1,000 web sites in various
categories. Their
religious section typically rates our site as #2, and an Indian
website, Sikhnet,
as #1. Yep.com visitors gave our site a "Surfer rating" of
five stars. In August, they added a surf report for each site. They
also gave our site a five star rating for "weighted usability."
Their "usability details" compare our site relative
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| 2000-JUN-5: Apologetics Index is a counter-cult group that disseminates information about what it regards as heretical Christian groups. We suspect that they are distressed at the content of our web site because we define as Christian any faith group or individual that defines themselves as Christian. That is, we use the same criterion as public opinion polls. Groups in the Counter-cult movement (CCM) tend to have a very exclusive, narrow definition of what they consider to be Christian, They review our web site at: http://www.gospelcom.net/ They concluded: |
"Unfortunately, while you'll find an extensive collection of documented, cross-referenced information, many articles are not as balanced as advertised. The site promotes pluralism, and has a decidedly dim view of the anti-cult and counter-cult movements. It prefers to believe cult-apologists, and promotes many of their arguments. In public and private messages, staff and supporters of the Scientology-backed [Cult Awareness Network] CAN, refer people to the site rather than their own."
| 2000-MAR-30: Bruce B. Lawrence, an Episcopal priest who is
also Chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University
is the author of a recently published book: "The Complete
Idiot's Guide® to Religions Online." It is an excellent
book: clearly written, balanced, and inclusive. We may be a bit
biased; the book includes dozens of references to our
ReligiousTolerance.org web site. They have a review of our site on
Page 26 which states: "There are only four consultants at this
site, and they're all amateurs, but they do a professional job of
putting together a user-friendly site with tremendous variety and
depth on almost every aspect of contemporary religious life. The scary
and the sacred, the small and the big, all get equal billing. Almost
too fair? Maybe so, but it's a nice change from some of the
aggressively self-boosting sites you find, even on a topic like
religion."
You
can read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store |
| 2000-JAN-12: The WillowFyre coven is a Wiccan group in southern
North Carolina. Publicity has suddenly been thrust upon them because
the local school board suspended one of their members, a 10th grade
English teacher, apparently because of her religion. They describe our
web site as: "An outstanding
site devoted to telling the truth about a wide variety of world
religions. Includes Legislative and Judicial information as well
as numerous essays and analyses! A wonderful resource for the
Activist or Scholar!" |
| 1999-DEC-18: The new CSIS report on terrorism from doomsday
millennium cults has a link to our web site. CSIS is the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service. |
| 1999-DEC-1: Article about the OCRT web site appeared in the
December issue of an online " magazine called HOPE," at:
http://mountainmist.designspot.com/Hope.html |
| 1999-NOV-19: We learned that Daryl Lease mentioned our web
site in his article in the Skeptic magazine (Vol. 7, #3) called:
"Th--That's all Folks! - It's the End of the World...Again." He refers to
our TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) prediction list.
He writes: "my favorite site of all...is from Ontario, which is, arguably, the end of
the world. This site offers a lengthy, but certainly not exhaustive, list of doomsday
predictions that just didn't pan out." |
| 1999-NOV-16: We learned that the Canadian Encyclopedia 2000 links
to our web site for information on religious groups. The Encyclopedia
is published by McClelland and Stewart through the version of the Hutchinson's Multimedia Encyclopedia
that they carry on CDROM. |
| 1999-NOV-15: We picked up a book by Vernon Blackmore: "God
on the Net: Year 2000 edition," [Marshall Pickering, (1999)] Read
reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
He wrote: "Many religious sites on the Internet are created by
committed believers. The aim of this site is to describe dozens of
faith groups as accurately as possible from a neutral stance, from
Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism." |
| 1999-NOV-10: The FBI's Megiddo report on the potential for
domestic terrorism incorporated our list of cult danger signs. |
| 1999-OCT-11: Hitbox.com included this site on their
weekly review: "Dozens of various faiths are explored on this multi-denominational
site. 'Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance' puts the word out that
it is uncool to be intolerant of people's diverse faith. It's a timely message
as we approach the new Millennium. You would think by now in the history of
evolution we would be enlightened enough to be beyond all this mumbo-jumbo. The
site does not promote a point of view, but expresses in an intelligent and
organized manner a view of many different beliefs. The site, which is volunteer
run, offers suggested readings, essays, and a great selection of religious
links. It proves to be very interesting reading." |
| 1999-SEP-15: Hitbox.com rated the OCRT as the
most-visited religious web site on the Internet. See: http://www.hitbox.com/wc/ReligionFrame.html
for daily updates. |
| 1999-SEP: "Each month Religion & Ethics Newsweekly chooses a Web site that makes a significant contribution to religion and ethics." They selected this web site as their site of the month for 1999-SEP. |
Latest update: 2008-FEB-24
Author: B.A. Robinson
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