Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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I had decided not to publish any thing new today and leave the anniversary post at the top of the page for the rest of the day to attract comments from readers. But my co-blogger Dean just brought to my attention a recent White House press release that changed my mind in about half a…
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I have written two posts in quick succession about the hypocritical misuse of religion for war, strife, oppression and discrimination. Having got that off my chest, I am happy to present a kinder, gentler story on religion. This one warmed my theologically skeptical but animal friendly heart. (For a glimpse into our own animal nature,…
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Ellen Goodman, like me, was initially reluctant to comment on Mark Foley’s foibles and the inevitable political fallout from the disturbing and sordid "chicken hawk" saga. Just as I had hoped that the upcoming elections would be a stinging rejection of Bush and the Republican Party’s failed policies of peace and prosperity at home and…
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I said he is a mindless brute, didn’t I ? Michael Kingsley says it better. "It was, I believe, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) who first made the excellent, bitter and terribly unfair joke about conservatives who believe in a right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth. This joke has been adapted…
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Our Commander in Chief doesn’t get it – or he is an exceptionally adept liar. The invasion / occupation of Iraq has become a nightmare for Iraqi citizens (nearly 5000 dead between June and August of this year) and for the confused and dispirited US troops who no longer believe that Iraq is a legitimate and…
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Senator George Allen, R – VA, may harbor more unsavory prejudices than his now famous "macaca" remark would suggest. Hurling a racial epithet at a dark skinned young American of Indian origin shows Allen’s contempt for the heritage of others. But the latest revelations about the Allen family’s efforts at denying its Jewish roots illustrates…
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Is it an apology if the apologizer says in effect "I’m sorry at your reaction to my remarks"? Seems like that’s what the Pope is saying in his almost too carefully constructed statement, which has already had the distinction of being pored over and parsed by more people on the planet than any line in…
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Ron Suskind: Once you threaten someone’s children there’s pretty much nowhere else to go in terms of building the kind of relationship where they at some point tell you things that you really need to hear. I’m not sure, actually, if the quotation is more powerful in context: One of the dark moments in the…
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Another ethically challenged, pious Republican has spoken out in favor of religious meddling in public life. The notorious Katherine Harris aka Cruella Deville, the dishonest Florida Secretary of State who helped put George W. Bush in office is overflowing with religious fervor. Her nefarious role in the disputed 2000 electoral circus is not the only…
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Cindy Sheehan may have a new ally – the mother of another dead soldier, shocked and grieved by an encounter with George W. Bush’s heart of stone. Dolores Kesterson, whose son Erik was killed in Iraq in 2003, was treated with an amazing lack of grace by the Commander In Chief. During a recent meeting…
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Ever since the creation of the state of Israel, sections of the Jewish, Muslim and conservative Christian communities have taken bitterly partisan views of the now sixty year old Israel – Arab / Islamic conflict in the middle east. The rest of the world wants to see a just and equitable solution to the problem…
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