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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…

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…

Read this report of the religious garbage American soldiers are exposed to, and shudder.  During the Thirty Years War between Catholics, Protestants, and anyone else unfortunate enough to be living in “Christian” Europe, “christian’ killed ‘Christian’ for not being the right kind of Christian.  As for non-Christians, they’d already killed most of those.  Millions died.…

A while back I posted on why big organizations tended to become criminal enterprises.  The immediate inspiration was more dirt coming to the surface on the Vatican’s protecting child molesters.  Now a genuine smoking gun verifies what any reasonable person already knew – the orders for cover-up, stonewalling, and deceit came from the Vatican even…

I hope this does not cause any of you to start drinking organic milk, because I hope you already do, but recent research indicates organic milk is healthier than the other kind.  But if you aren’t drinking organic milk and start because of this research, I’ll still be happy about it.

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…

As we observe this day honoring the life of Martin Luther King, jr., two thought come to mind as particularly relevant, and I hope worth sharing.  The first has to do with violence and the second with the intertwining of what I consider some of the most inspiring periods in our own history.  My first…

While I have been no Obama fan for a long time, his speech at Tucson’s memorial service for those murdered by Jared Loughner was wonderful. But this was even more a community event more than  a national event.  One of the less mentioned but I think important features of this service was the opening prayer by…

Just finished a long and utterly pointless attempt to make a rational argument to a sometime contributor to this blog who was complaining that liberals were distorting stuff after the murders in Tucson.  There are links on my Facebook wall if anyone want to go there. The final straw was when he tried to tell…

UPDATE I & II As I have been reading discussions about what happened in Arizona, over and over again those on the right or those not wanting to admit we have a genuine problem in this country claim Jared Loughner was a “lone crazed individual” as if that somehow absolves Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Glenn…
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