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Indian commentary on right wing ignorance and racism over Tucson prayer
By
Gus diZerega
With thanks to Makarios for calling my attention to it, here is a response from members of America’s Indian community to the bigots and worse on the right.
John Roll, Aldo Leopold, and Ayn Rand: heroism true and false
By
Gus diZerega
In his wonderful A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold gives my favorite description of what it is to be uniquely human. He observes that when the last passenger pigeon died, a species that once had darkened the North American sky with its numbers, many people felt badly, very badly. If on the other hand passenger…
Myth as a way of knowing
By
Gus diZerega
I have been struggling with better understanding what Karen Armstrong calls mythos in her book The Battle for God, on religious fundamentalism worldwide. I think it is essential towards developing a deeper appreciation of what Pagan spirituality brings to the spiritual table, among many other things. Pagan spirituality is filled with myths, and is I think…
Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Thoreau, and America today
By
Gus diZerega
Martin Luther King did not come to his conclusions about nonviolence entirely on his own. He had the personal strength to follow this path, but he also stood in a long noble and very interesting tradition with deep roots in America. King looked at Mahatmas Gandhi as the teacher who first opened his eyes as…
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