Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
April 1, 2013
The Roman Catholic Church, in this post-Easter season, ledby a new and promising pope, should declare a world-wide Year of Mourning for all children abused by priests and others. During this time, it would be wise to remove all those guilty of such crimes, release their names, and place all relevant Church […]
Posted in Religion |
Tags: Benedict, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Rome
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July 13, 2011
I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
Posted in Politics, Religion |
Tags: Anthony Weiner, Aristotle, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Greek mythology, News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, Religion in America, Roger Clemens, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, tiger woods, Wall Street Journal
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February 15, 2011
Think of Tina Turner’s hit song: “What’s love, what’s love, got-to-do, got-to-do with it…” Cometh Valentine’s Day, and storefronts are sick with every shade of red. Gosh, we’re a loving people. You can tell from our music, literature, rhetoric and scriptures. We sing and rhapodize about it, and look for it in all the wrong […]
Posted in Gays and Society, Race in America, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: Arts, Isaiah, Jews, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Romance, Tina Turner, Transgender, Troubadours, Valentines Day
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December 16, 2010
For those who love wars, there’s always room for one more, and now it’s said that one’s been declared against Christmas by those who don’t believe in or celebrate it. I thought the latter were merely stating their own preferences, but Fox News, eager to push people into a fight, has made this a priority, […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: "New Athiests", Baby Jesus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Holiday greetings, Holidays, Kwanzaa, Oliver Cromwell, Opinions, Religion in America, Santa Claus, United States
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September 9, 2010
Anything Obama says or does will be criticized by the radical right, who are masquerading as “conservatives,” though not worthy of the name. It warmed my heart to see him give voice to religious freedom in regard to the mosque center–and he did not “back off” or “qualify” that stance the following day. Whoever can […]
Posted in Guns Control, Politics, Race in America, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: FDR, Guns, JFK, Lincoln, Manhattan mosque center, Obama, Reagan, right wing, the Bushes
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October 30, 2009
The fall of ‘09 gave us a glimpse of another cultish movement gone bad: this time in an Arizona sweat lodge; apparently people have lost faith in the real deal led by Native Americans who’ve done this long and responsibly. The lesson was a painful one for the sweat lodge tragedy. In these hard times, […]
Posted in Religion |
Tags: AZ sweat lodge, James Arthur Ray, Religion, religious chicanery
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