From this piece in Reuters: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that Russian soldiers who die in the war against Ukraine will be cleansed of all their sins, days after President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s first …
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Excellent point. The problem is that we live in a world in which there appears to be no penalty that accrues to bad behavior, and so many good people say, “Oh, what the heck.” If a U.S. president can be …
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As Bukowsky points out, humankind is marked by the distance we keep from one another, in other words, to function as tribal beings. We celebrate our differences: skin color, socio-economic standing, religious affiliation, etc., while ignoring the vastness of our …
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The author of the meme here makes a good point, and puts it poetically, to boot. I’m struggling to find an abominable human characteristic that is not embodied in Trump: cruelty, greed, dishonesty, love of violence, vindictiveness, taking pride in …
In fact, this nation has great reason to fear Christian nationalism. The word “Christian,” of course, has nothing to do with the teachings of Christ, and thus “Christian nationalism” should more properly be called “white male nationalism.” There are several …
The tragic decline in the fiber of American society is the result of many factors: the decline in education, mass incarceration, blatant and unpunished corruption in government and the corporate world, and yes, the slow disappearance of the nuclear family. …
The assertion made on this church’s sign is true in general. Most people, as they learn more about the world around them, especially from a scientific point of view, eventually reject monotheistic religion. They arrive at an impasse: I can …
As an environmentalist, wasteful glitz like this is simply irritating. Hence, I’m for the guy below, which I scoop up immediately and reuse over a period of decades.
Good joke here. Moving our society’s functions into the private sector is an appealing notion …until we begin to think about its consequences. And in no arena is this more apparent than the environment, where unregulated businesses happily use our …
We’re teetering on the edge. If the coup attempt goes unpunished, we’re essentially saying that using “force or fraud” to stay in power is a completely legitimate undertaking.
