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Why Gay Marriage Is Really Winning
Ed Feser’s Thesis. On gay marriage’s advance to date, the Thomist philosopher Ed Feser writes the following: “How have we descended into such Orwellian insanity?…Part of it has to do with the fact that what is at issue here concerns … Continue reading
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Who Is Your Neighbor?
Sharing with a stranger–one of the better angels of our nature–is on display in this YouTube: __________ The video is moving, but why is it moving? Why don’t we have similar responses, say, to adult alcoholics who are homeless, cold, … Continue reading
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The Great Question of Religion: Who’s on First?
No, I’m not joking. True religion boils down to this one question. But before I demonstrate this, I’d like to point to something the literary critic Adam Kirsch recently wrote. He has been reading one page a day from the Talmud, … Continue reading
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Tagged demonization, gandhi, God, idolatry, Jesus, love, peace, philosophy, psychology
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Christianism Watch: The Sign of the Fish Enlisted for War
A pretty darn ironic image: one of the Prince of Peace’s symbols enlisted for nationalist identification and war: . Of course, Constantine did something similar with the cross. But, if a contemporary Christian uses the sign of the fish in … Continue reading
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The Seven Atheist Denials: God, the Self, the Soul, Immortality, Free Will, the Good, and You’re Never Really Alone
It’s often said that atheism is no more than the rejection of belief in gods, and, on a strict definition, this is true. But there are six other things that also tend to go with this rejection, and they ought to … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Buddhism, free will, gandhi, God, immortality, Jesus, the self, the soul, theism
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A Little Satchidananda for a Sunday
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An Agnostic Interviews a Muslim: Are One of the Names of God Love?
In this clip, I ask Kamal al Khatib, an imam who heads a Muslim congregation in Palmdale, Ca., about non-retaliation and love in Islam:
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What Is The Universe? And What Should We Be Doing In It?
My guess is that the universe may be the mind of God calculating—then presenting the sums, before the witness of consciousness, in four dimensions (height, width, depth, and time). The universe, as it were, is the ones and zeroes made flesh; God’s search … Continue reading
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Tagged Dionysus, gandhi, love, Martin Luther King, math, physics, the mind of god, the universe, Tolstoy, wine
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September 17th, 2010: International Have a Meal with a Muslim Day
In response to the Florida pastor who recently called people to an “International Burn a Koran Day,” I thought I’d set my own International event, a siren call, not to hate, but to love and dialogue: September 17, 2010: International Have … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, communication, food, gandhi, ground zero mosque, international have a meal with a muslim day, Islam, Judaism, love, Muslims, peace, quran, Santi Tafarella
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With Regard to the Internet, What Would Gandhi Do?
I found this Gandhi quote several years back while perusing an undated letter of his that I found in volume 49 of his Collected Works. At least that’s what I wrote down. My local branch library in Lancaster, Ca. just happened to … Continue reading
I Like This Howard Zinn Quote
From “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation, 2004: The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous … Continue reading
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Tagged american history, gandhi, history, howard zinn, imperialism, liberalism, life, the present, thoreau, yoga
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Here’s a Link to Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer”
In case you’re interested.
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A Muslim Imam Who Once Advocated Violence Now Renounces Terror
The heart intervenes. This today in Spiegel: In 2001, imam Mohammed El Fazazi of Morocco preached that it it is a Muslim obligation to “slit the throats of non-believers” in a Hamburg mosque. Among his listeners and star pupils were … Continue reading
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Iranian Police, in Full Riot Regalia, Rush on a Crowd of Protesters at Tehran University Earlier This Week
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Iran’s Turn: Not Televised, But Twittered?
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Sheep in the Midst of Wolves?
Apparently, many of the young Iranian protesters might be getting all ahimsa (non-violent) on the regime. Below is an image of someone holding up a quote from Gandhi. According to Andrew Sullivan’s blog, the translation is: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 