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A Chance to Save a Life
By
Gus diZerega
I wrote earlier about a little girl in my area who is fighting a very serious cancer with the odds against her, as an example of undeserved suffering in a good world. I just saw a story in Huffingtonpost about a four year old who needs a bone marrow transplant, as she did, and an…
The Failure of Religion and the Rise of Nihilism
By
Gus diZerega
Chris hedges, who wrote my favorite book on the nature of war, has a great short essay over at Truthdig. He discusses the gifts and failures of mainstream religion in our society, and the risk of nihilism that accompanies its growing failure. I could not agree more. I think the rise of what I call…
A Pagan Take on Recent Disasters and the Value of the World
By
Gus diZerega
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico raises a question that has been raised in other contexts over the last year or so: has the scale of things we attempt as a society come to exceed our ability to do them well? What do BP’s failure, Goldman Sachs’ failure and Massey Energy’s failure have…
On Seeing the World
By
Gus diZerega
Rod Dreher at Crunchy Con has a thoughtful post about the nature of reality and how we perceive it that should interest all Pagans.
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