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Monolatrism

Monolatrism or monolatry is a form of monotheismNathan MacDonald, Deuteronomy and the Meaning of "Monotheism" (2012), pp. 53-54, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck (2nd and Revised edition), ISBN 978-3-16-151680-1. which places exclusive devotion on one latrine God alone, with recognition of the existence of other Gods, worshipped by other people. Monolatry is confused with henotheism sometimes, but they are different concepts of religious belief. 
==Examples==
*Judaism was originally a monolatry, but El (who later merged with Yahweh) and Asherah (the consort of El and later of Yahweh) disappeared from the pantheon, leaving only Yahweh; though there are numerous remnants of this belief remaining in the Bible (such as God referring to himself as "Elohim", which is the plural form),This was written long before the concept of the "royal we" was invented this is a highly disputed claim.Psalm 82 is a dead giveaway.
*Mormonism is also monolatrist, as though they see only one god as worthy of praise in this universe, they also recognize the existence of other gods in different universes.
==Notes==
==References==
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Monopsony

Monopsony is a situation in which there is only one buyer for a good or service in a market.Monopsony. Encyclopedia Brittanica. 
==Theory==
A monopsony is not unlike a monopoly. Whereas a monopoly is the sole supplier, the monopsony is the sole buyer. The idea originated with economist Joan Robinson in her book The Economics of Imperfect Competition published in 1933. In the real world, there are few good examples of pure monopsonists, though they are often associated with company towns. Monopsonists have large amounts of market power and sellers have to accept whatever price they offer.
==Minimum wage analysis==
In theory a monopsony complicates more simplistic supply and demand models of minimum wage that simply suggest they cause unemployment. Because the firm can increase profits by not employing local workers it is reducing wages and output. Increasing the minimum wage encourages more people to work for it and boosts total output.Monopsony Economics Online.
There's a rather simple flaw in the model, of course. A real monopsony could artificially segment the workforce, in order to pay some workers more than others, keeping the marginal cost of new workers low. The single employer wouldn't necessarily need to give every worker a raise as new employees are hired, so long as the firm could make up a convincing story about why two equivalent jobs should pay different amounts, e.g., "We are opening a new janitorial position that pays more than your job, but your experience won't let you apply because you lack of BS in Custodial Studies". Under this scenario, employment would return to the equilibrium rate, although the monopsony would of course be exploiting their workforce.
==See also==
*Monopoly
*Minimum wage
==References==
Category:economics
Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine was an American policy formulated by President James Monroe in 1823 to limit European interference in the Western Hemisphere. The later addition of the Roosevelt Corollary basically put the Eastern Hemisphere on notice that the United States would do all the colonizing and exploiting in the Western Hemisphere from that moment on. The corollary was used to justify invasions of Haiti, Nicaragua and other countries, and to overthrow left-wing governments (even elected ones) with repressive, right-wing Juntas, and arguably spurred further anti-American sentiment. That the U.S. should act as the regional hegemon in the Western Hemisphere became so much a part of American political culture that events such as the overthrow of the governments of Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile were treated as unexceptional events by many American political elites. 
The Monroe Doctrine is an expression of the longer-term geopolitical strategy of the U.S. often described as isolationism. The decision of the Truman administration to establish NATO and commit the U.S. to the defense of Western Europe, the decision of the Johnson administration to adopt Israel as a client state, and the decision of the Nixon administration to attempt to establish hegemony in the Persian Gulf each represent costly departures from the older geopolitical strategy of the U.S.
==On the other hand==
The early 1860s, a phase when the US was occupied with other matters, saw an unprecedented amount of war and European intervention in Latin America. Spain tried to re-colonise the Dominican Republic, France installed a Habsburg as Mexican emperor, and a great many other things that the US put an end to very soon after the civil war was over. So while the Monroe doctrine caused a lot of grief due to American intervention, no Monroe doctrine would have meant more European intervention.
==See also==
* Gunboat diplomacy
* Manifest destiny
==References==
 
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Monster

*:Category:Cryptozoology
**Bigfoot
**Bunyip
**Chupacabra
**Cryptid
**Cryptozoology
**Dragon
**Jersey Devil
**Leviathan
**Loch Ness Monster
**Loveland frog
**Mokele-mbembe
**Mothman
**Nephilim
**Sea serpent
**Spring Heeled Jack
**Troll
**Vampire
**Yeti
**Zombies
*Dungeons & Dragons
*Fun:Flying Spaghetti Monster
*Lycanthropy
*Pocket Monsters
*Rob Monster — nomen est omen
*Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Moody Institute of Science

The Moody Institute of Science (MIS) was a production company for pro-creationism and anti-science media, spun off from the fundamentalist Moody Bible Institute. MIS's leader and film director was pastor Irwin A. Moon (1907-1986).Rev. Irwin Moon, 78, Science Film Producer by Kenan Heise (May 24, 1986) Chicago Tribune."Something Different in Science Films": The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement by Marsha Orgeron & Skip Elsheimer. The Moving Image Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1-26 | 10.1353/mov.2007.0025. Its successor was Discovery Media, which now appears to be defunct. MIS produced films from 1938 to roughly 1972.
Moody was also responsible for bringing an appreciation of science to the fundamentalist Christian community; prior to the films, it had been widely believed among fundamentalists that science led "directly to atheism". 
They produced a lot of quite mainstream science films that they infiltrated into public school classrooms and the US militaryThe Moody Institute of Science, Irwin Moon and ‘Scientific-Evangelicalism’ in the US Military by Samuel Reid — always taking time to say that God was responsible. MIS's infiltration in the opposite direction, fundamental Christianity infiltrated by science, can be viewed as the precursor to intelligent design.
==External links==
*Moody Institute of Science — a collection of the films on YouTube
*Oddball Films: Psycho Science from the Moody Institute - Thurs. Jan. 3rd - 8PM — a mini film festival of Moody films from 2012
*Moody Bible Institute
==References==
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Moore

* Moore's Law, the observation that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit grows exponentially, first formulated by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore
* Charles Moore, former editor of The Spectator
* Graham Moore, leader of the English Constitution Party
* Jimmy Moore, low-carb high-fat fanatic and convicted pedophile
* Michael Moore, liberal documentarian
* Patrick Moore, English astronomer
* The other Patrick Moore, Greenpeace founder turned critic
* Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and failed Senate candidate
Moral Majority

Perhaps you were looking for Mobocracy?
 
The Moron Moral Minority Majority was a cult special interest group founded by Jerry Falwell,though Paul Weyrich originally developed the term designed to inject Christian fundamentalism into politics. It was founded in 1979 and disbanded in the late 1980s, but its campaigning methods outlived it and were taken up by other right-wing organizations. 
==Policies==
The Moral Majority was "Pro-life" and supported Bible-based morality, Classroom prayer, "Family values", "Free enterprise", and Israel; they opposed Communism, the Gay agenda, Pornography, and Sex education.
==History==
The Moral Majority aimed to include Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jews, and others with conservative opinions, though membership became predominantly Evangelical Christian. This inclusiveness became their downfall, as different right-wing groups began campaigning on different interests and the Moral Majority gradually lost support. Knowledgeable and otherwise unbiased scholars regard its founding as the beginning of the Religious Right in the United States.
In 1981, the Moral Majority set up a fund of $3 million to lead a valiant fight against homosexuality in San Francisco by putting up advertisements to stir up anti-gay sentiment and to try and persuade gay people to give up their lifestyle sexual orientation (the Chicago Tribune said that $3 million to stop homosexuality in San Francisco was "optimistic").Majority Rule, leader column in Chicago Tribune, February 16, 1981 A quote from Dean Wycoff, a spokesman for the Moral Majority in Santa Clara, gives a rather representative flavor of the love and kindness that ran through this campaign:
The New York Native noticed something:
==Inappropriate name==
The moral majority consisted of the same people that Richard Nixon called "the silent majority". It has been pointed out that the moral majority was neither moral nor a majority. They may well have been silent during his administration, though.
The name might be seen as a not so subtle argumentum ad populum: a similar kind of spirit runs in names like One Million Morons Moms.
==Notable people within the movement==
*Jerry Falwell (founder; deceased)
*Robert Grant
*Jesse Helms (deceased)
*James Kennedy (deceased)
*Beverly LaHaye (deceased)
*Tim LaHaye (deceased)
*Trent Lott
*Judith A. Reisman (deceased)
*Pat Robertson (deceased)
*James Robison
*Charles Stanley (deceased)
*Cal Thomas
*Richard Viguerie
*Paul Weyrich (deceased)
*Laszlo Pasztor - former member and Nazi collaborator
==See also==
*Christian Coalition
*Jerry Falwell Jr. — disgraced son of the founder
*Mary Whitehouse
*New Right (United States)
*Dead Kennedys - Moral Majority
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Moral clarity

Moral clarity is a right-wing, specifically neoconservative buzzword typically encountered in American political discourse. It usually appears as part of an argument against Islam and for greater American involvement in the Middle East and its conflicts. It encodes a fairly complex argument that asserts:
*A war on terror is something that can and should be fought;
*This war pits good versus evil;
*American values include freedom and democracy, which are universal goods that should be exported everywhere; 
Therefore:
*In this war of good versus evil, extraordinary measures up to and including torture and mass surveillance are justified;
*Attempts to contextualize or explain the activities of radical Islamists are a sign of moral relativism;
*Such relativism is an unacceptable weakness that hinders the forces of good and gives aid and comfort to the forces of evil.
The phrase has existed since the Reagan administration at least, but was popularized by William Bennett's Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism.Regnery, ISBN 0895261340 (2003). It has also been invoked by Alan Dershowitz, whose The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza CAMERA Monograph Series, ISBN 0966154851 (2009) makes the similar claim that since it's axiomatic that Israel is the good guy, we ought to automatically favor them against any moral claims of the Palestinians, and withhold judgment on Israeli responses to Palestinian provocations.
 
==Problems==
The concept has a number of problems. Moral clarity of a sort is in fact one of the defining characteristics of the Middle Eastern terrorists themselves. They assert supreme confidence that Allah unalterably desires the stoning of adulterers and the destruction of non-Islamic antiquities. Theirs also is a war driven by rigid concepts of good versus evil and the justification that God's on their side. 
Claiming that America's Middle Eastern wars are wars of good versus evil poses other problems and glosses over life's complexities, which of course is the point. North Korea is probably just as evil as Saddam Hussein's Iraq was; why have we not attacked it? (Maybe because they do have nukes and don't have anything we need that badly?) For that matter, Saudi Arabia is oppressive in ways easily comparable to North Korea. They've also been implicated in the financing of terrorism.Declan Walsh, WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists, The Guardian, Dec. 5, 2010. But they have oil and money enough to hire lobbyists in Washington, so we're happy to call them our friends. 
Moral clarity, in short, has always been mostly irrelevant to the world of international diplomacy and military alliances. In the contexts where the argument usually appears, the argument for "moral clarity" seems a hypocritical form of special pleading.
==See also==
*American exceptionalism
==References==
Category:United States politics
Category:Imperialism
Moral licensing

Moral licensing or self-licensing is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person uses their prior good behavior to justify later bad behavior, often without explicitly using that logic. The effect has been demonstrated in numerous psychological studies.Blanken I, van de Ven N, Zeelenberg M. A meta-analytic review of moral licensing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2015;41(4):540-558. DOI: 10.1177/0146167215572134 Evidence suggests that, though the effect is present in all sampled cultures, cultural differences explain a substantial amount of the total variation of the effect size of moral licensing.Simbrunner P, Schlegelmilch BB. Moral licensing: a culture-moderated meta-analysis. Management Review Quarterly, 2017;67(4),201-225. DOI: 10.1007/s11301-017-0128-0 Thus, in contrast to most cognitive biases, it may be possible to actively discourage this bias in oneself.
==Logical fallacy==
If performed explicitly or intentionally, moral licensing acts as a fallacious attempt to shield oneself from criticism. The implicit logic operates as follows: 
The logic is valid but unsound: the first premise presumes that each person has a sort of "moral balance" or "karma". This can be thought of as a "moral bank account" where one can "deposit" morality points for new moral actions and "withdraw" morality points for new immoral actions. Very few people adhere to moralities that would allow this sort of moral balancing act. This is because very few people would be comfortable with excusing (for example) murder committed by somebody who had "saved up" enough moral actions over their life.
As an example of this behavior, alt-right YouTuber No Bullshit attacked Ezra Levant for "acting Jewish" and defended this by saying that "I've called out every other race and creed on this channel".﻿ This is a red herring or a whataboutism and does not excuse bullshit for his behavior. Instead, it's a deflection from the issue at hand. The person using the moral license is attempting to shift the conversation from a discussion from "this new bad action I did" onto "am I a good person or a bad person", which are separate questions.
==External links==
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*https://medium.com/danmartines/why-moral-licensing-is-ever-more-important-33e3ac053bd8
*http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/moral-licensing-and-why-its-so-hard-to-be-a-saint
*http://bigthink.com/articles/malcolm-gladwell-on-the-2016-election-sexism-and-moral-licensing
*http://99u.com/articles/29299/permission-to-sin-how-moral-licensing-sabotages-your-long-term-goals
*https://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/moral-licensing-how-being-good-can-make-you-bad/
==References==
Category:Cognitive biases
Morris Cerullo

Morris Cerullo was a Pentecostal Christian evangelist who was prominent in the faith healing movement. He held crusades in a revival type atmosphere, encouraging people with serious illnesses and disabilities to attend so that Jesus can (allegedly) "heal" them. He used posters of people abandoning wheelchairs and crutches to promote his crusades.
Cerullo claimed that he received a mission from God in 1982 in Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Son, build Me an army." Why an omnipotent being would need an army is unclear but not unprecedented for this particular deity. 
Cerullo was an early and prominent promoter of the scare over Satanism which later became known by critics as Satanic Panic. Cerullo championed the testimonies of two fraudulent "ex-Satanist" fakes, John Todd and Mike Warnke, in the early 1970s, and set up a traveling mobile exhibit dubbed the "Witchmobile" where he displayed such things as occult artifacts, astrology items, Ouija boards, and Tarot cards in an attempt to warn young people to stay away from those things and to accept Jesus. Cerullo cut off his association and promotion of John Todd early on but remained closely associated with Mike Warnke until Warnke left to start his own ministry at the time of the publication of his phony memoirs, The Satan Seller.
After Jim Bakker's much-publicized adultery scandal, the PTL Club and Heritage USA amusement park fell into the hands of first Jerry Falwell, then Morris Cerullo. He lost the park to a Malaysian investment group in a lawsuit but retained control of the PTL television network, which he renamed the Inspirational Network (now simply known as Inspiration and run by his son, David Cerullo).
In 1999, Morris Cerullo ran an ad in the U.K. for his crusades, in which he claimed "Satanic hordes… occupied the principal palaces of power in Europe" and proclaimed homosexuality an "abomination". The channel that ran his ads was fined £20,000 over this.
==Official website==
Just being dead isn't a bar to making money spreading the Lord's message and his ministry continues to run a website under the name "Morris Cerullo World Evangelism", and offers a number of services, including the "Morris Cerullo Online Institute of Ministerial Studies" offering teaching and ordination for an "annual giving requirement of $240" and a "non-refundable application fee of $125.00" (Hint: The Universal Life Church can ordain you on-line for free!), as well as a bookstore offering assorted DVDs, CDs, and books on Bible prophecy.
==Notes==
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Mount Vernon Statement

The Mount Vernon Statement is a declaration of principles for the modern conservative movement. It was posted to the Internet on February 17, 2010. The Statement is notable mostly for the collection of high profile right-wing figures who signed it.
==Content==
The Statement is mostly conservative boilerplate about "founding principles" and "limited government" and similar Tea Party rhetoric. No specific planks are addressed, and while the site boasts links to the text of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, neither is directly addressed. The closest the Statement comes to specificity is a series of five points defining "Constitutional conservatism":
*It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.
*It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
*It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
*It supports America's national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.
*It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.
==Signatories==
The actual content of the Statement is secondary to the list of signatories, including Reagan-era conservatives and heads of major conservative organizations. For a statement centered around limited government, there are a surprisingly large number of social conservatives featured. Also, it calls explicitly for rule of law, and yet supporters of torture and indefinite detention were among the signatories.
===The List===
Erick Erickson was also to be a signatory, but in spite of actually travelling to Mount Vernon (to sign an Internet petition), he is not featured among the signers.Mount Vernon Lulz, Instaputz
===Richard Viguerie===
Interestingly, Viguerie initially pushed back against the Statement, saying "If the people in the leadership of the conservative movement are going to put out pablum like this, the tea party people are going to make them seem irrelevant. And the tea party people are going to march to the forefront."Conservative manifesto makes bid to reunify, The Washington Times Nevertheless, he signed it just a few weeks later, calling it an "attempt to draft a document that conservatives… can get behind and begin the process of reclaiming the Republican Party for small-government conservatives."'Mount Vernon Statement' to unite conservatives, Point of View
==External links==
*The Mount Vernon Statement
==References==
Category:Tea Party
MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org is an American website and political action group. It was originally founded to oppose the impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton by House Republicans (led by Newt Gingrich) in 1998The name of the original petition was called "Censure President Clinton and Move On to Pressing Issues Facing the Nation." My, how times have changed stayed the same.. The irony of the organization being originally founded to get us to move on from Clinton's improprieties now constantly reminding people of those improprieties every time they see its name seems to be lost on them. The organization is a strong supporter of the US Democratic Party and is liberal in its politics, and is widely disliked by the American right who think they are raving partisan leftists. 
MoveOn.org has been criticized for adopting the same platform as then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Their response is that their platform hasn't changed; Barack Obama is listening to them.
==External links==
*MoveOn.org website
==References==
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Move to Amend

Move to Amend is a reaction to the 2010 Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, proposing a constitutional amendment that would limit constitutional rights to only individuals acting independently. Corporations, civic organizations, clubs, churches, etc. would not be able to assert these rights. This would allow the government to not merely regulate campaign contributions, but to ban any speech, such as cigarette advertising or indeed any unfavorable political commentary (newspapers and broadcasters all follow the corporate form), it does not like, search premises without warrants, seize private property without due process or compensation, revoke corporate charters at will, and set different rules for different corporations — all based entirely on the whim of the government and which corporations happen to be in the government's good graces.These are not accusations made by opponents — these are actual points presented by its supporters for why we should pass it.POCLAD: Why Abolish All Corporate Constitutional Rights 2 March 2011 Political parties are also frequently organized as corporations. Just try to wrap your mind around what that would imply.
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