Category Archives: People, Politics & Culture
No More Crucifixes In Classrooms In Italy
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Crucifix, Dark Ages, human sacrifice, Italy, paganism, Pope, religion, Roman-Catholic, Vatican
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Burkas and Other Religious Anachronisms
How much of an anachronism an ancient tribal culture or religion can be in today’s world was demonstrated recently in Amsterdam, when its Mayor Job Cohen said that women who refuse to give up wearing the burka for jobs should … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, anachronism, burka, burqa, discrimination, unemployable, unemployment benefits
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BC Legislative Session Starts With A Prayer?
No, that was not appropriate. This stuff is meaningless to me – and although graceful hogwash by any other name – I want our politicians to be accountable to me and everyone else they claim to represent, the people in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, BC Legislature, Higher Authority, Prayer, Separation of Church and State
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What Will They Dream Up Next?
So there are folks in India and members of the Hindu religion, who – at the occasion of the recent solar eclipse – gathered by the thousands to take a bath in the filthy and polluted Ganges river near the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hinduism, Reincarnation, religion, unsubstantiated beliefs
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The Meaning of Meaning
Meaning is a function of context – the framework of relationships between people, things and events that bear on a thing or event such that they are placed within this framework in a way that value is provided to the … Continue reading
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Tagged finding meaning, framework of relationships, meaning, subjectivity, the context of meaning
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The Truth Is Not Out There.
Some scientists like to believe that more information about the origin and nature of the universe can be found by poking around in the farthest reaches of outer space, many millions of light years away. What they are trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic dust, earth, infinite timespace, truth, universe
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Does God Have a Belly Button?
According to the Christian bible, God created man in his own image. So this question occurred to me: Given that we have one, does God have a belly button? Yes, I know that is a silly question, but I’m sure … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, Creationism, discovery, God, mankind
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The Evolution of the Global Mind
Is the Cosmos here for us, or are we here for the Cosmos? Then again, it could be neither, or both, or we are just innocent bystanders, and a by-product – if not a casualty – of a cosmic cataclysm … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, evolution, homo faber, homo sapiens
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Aliens, Lost in Space.
Man is absolutely not the crown of creation: every creature stands beside him at the same stage of perfection. … And even in asserting that we assert too much: man is, relatively speaking, the most unsuccessful animal, the sickliest, the … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, human evolution, space
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Onward, Christian Soldiers!
For those who have argued that oil was the only key driver for the disastrous Bush plan to secure Iraq for the US, I suggest there may have been another strong motive to proceed with this dumb idea, from an … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Gospel, Christian Soldiers, George Bush, invasion, Iraq, marketing theology, oil, Religious Right
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