Rethinking Religion and Spirituality in the Age of Fascism
It was decades ago, as a teenager, that I first heard Karl Marx’s famous description of religion as the ‘opium of the people’. The impact of that pronouncement on me…
Spirituality
“Daddy, how many gods are there?”
Girl: Dad, how many Gods are there?Dad: There is only one God, honey.Girl: But people fight in the name of their gods, don’t they?Dad: Sweetie, don’t let that confuse you.…
100 Theses of Faith
1 I do not ask you to believe in me. I do not ask you to love me. I do not command you to fear. I but ask you to…
Sincere Spirituality For A Better World
Spirituality has always been a very important part of human progress, but these days when we talk about spirituality we feel the need to prefix ‘sincere’, an indicator of how…
When I Ate My God
Sana was the master idol maker of a large community of Bedouins who inhabited & dotted along the long stretch of oasis in the Arabian Desert. The Bedouins didn’t have…
Ten Times a Day or We Don’t Have a Prayer
"Our faith in technology consumes resources and begets complacency. " -- from Jennifer L. Lieberman's "Why Technology Will Not Solve Our Criminal Justice Problems" To lay oneself out in…
Echoes From The Past Expressing Hope For Humanity
A 2012 World Bank report stated that without quick action to curb CO2 emissions, global warming is likely to add 4 degrees Centigrade (39.2 degrees Fahrenheit) during the 21st century…
Think like A Genius, Stephen Hawking
(Open letter to professor Stephen Hawking.) In your 6 part GENIUS TV presentations, you made it easy to understand that we cannot possibly be alone in the universe, and gave…
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