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A word about Number 2 in our Mandatory Criteria. Please read carefully. Well now to another of our Mandatory questions. Yes again we explain in great detail about promotion and content of your site. You see we are all entrusted with keeping the Internet safe. Youth and children are like sponges they absorb everything. So we must be very careful. To just post in a Criteria, NO this and no that we want to make sure you clearly understand. Hosea a prophet once said "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Every orderly society has laws, and every good web site has principles and ethics that surround a mission and purpose.

Definition of Religion: a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.b. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.

 Your worship and religion is your right! and we respect that. The Dove Award uses the King James translation of the Bible as the final authority and standard by which our Criteria and Ethics of this program are based. Below is a list that we will not accept materials that promote such things. This includes materials of science/art which we deem to be linked to practices that are not within our standard and we reserve the right to deem what we feel is within our Ethics. We are concerned about content not your personal belief [s].

Definition of the word Promote: a. To raise .b. To advance c. To contribute to the progress or growth of; further. d. To urge the adoption of; advocate:

2. We will not accept any materials or content that promotes in any way or form about the subjects listed below. If your site promotes any of such materials listed or outside links to any such materials we choose not to evaluate your site. Our standard is the Bible. Most ethics and ethic programs use the same standard.

[Explanation] Though both talk about the heavens and stars and it is even believed that Astronomy came from Astrology. There is a difference. Below is Astrology which we will not review and then Astronomy which we will review. Though Astrology is considered a science it is also a belief that a life is governed by the stars in the heavens. Thought perhaps Astronomy came from Astrology there is a difference. One links to them for the life journey the other is a science that studies the stars and universe.

Astrology a science founded on a presumed connection between the heavenly bodies and human destiny as more or less affected by them, a science at one time believed in by men of such intelligence as Tacitus and Kepler, and few great families at one time but had an astrologer attached to them to read the horoscope of any new member of the house.

And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars all the heavenly array do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven (Deuteronomy 4:19).

... and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky (Deuteronomy 17:3).

Astronomy is the science of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as auroras and cosmic background radiation). ...

Our List of not acceptable materials

[Explanation] of Meaning of occult (adjective) This is the list that we will not except but not limited to,hidden; beyond human understanding; mystical; supernatural; secret The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden". The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders.