Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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While Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia is at it again, denigrating Congressman-elect Keith Ellison of Minnesota for wanting to take a ceremonial oath on the Koran, rather than a Bible, Mr.Ellison has managed to come up with a hard-to-assail reply: He is going to be taking his oath on a translation of the Koran once…
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By now we have all watched the macabre theater surrounding the execution of Saddam Hussein. The spectacle resembled a nauseating and well choreographed snuff film which played out endlessly on our TV screens in strange juxtaposition with the dignified and somber farewell to President Gerald Ford. Few in the world, especially Iraqis, are shedding tears…
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Perhaps I should have included humor in the category selection for this post. But it is no laughing matter. Religious clashes in public and civic matters hardly ever are. And that such senseless debates keep erupting with sickening regularity, makes me want to cry in frustration. Not far from my own home, in a suburb…
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Poor man! Soon after winning a seat in Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of the US House of Representatives was asked by a right wing blowhard to prove that he is not working with the enemy. Now he has raised the ire of conservative commentators Sean Hannity and Dennis Prager who fear…
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Welcome to the Devout Nation. We are repeatedly reminded by the religious faithfuls that the freedom of religion and worship are basic human rights. Many would interpret that freedom to include all religions and even the right not to believe. However, that interpretation predicates that we may be dealing with rational people. But the problem…
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What does the reactionary, authoritarian, torture loving, war mongering Bush-Cheney administration have to hide from us? Whatever it is, we will probably find out and we won’t be surprised. "The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative…
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Religion may have been reinventing the wheel all this while (and causing traffic fatalities in the process). It appears that we are hard wired from birth to know right from wrong. "Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal…
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Rush Limbaugh has a problem with Michael J. Fox’s condition. He thinks Fox is faking his illness. Fox suffers from Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder for which there is no known cure. He is endorsing political candidates who favor stem cell research, seen by some as the only possible hope for cure of Parkinson’s…
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Remember Pat Tillman – the Arizona Cardinals player who abandoned a lucrative football career and enlisted in the US Army so he could defend America? He served in Iraq and later in Afghanistan where he was killed by friendly fire under circumstances that the Pentagon tried to hide from his family. Tillman’s brother Kevin served…
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