Archive for January, 2010

What I’ve Noticed

Most people who want to help in a disaster actually make things worse. The United States just legalized corruption.  Really government, corporations AREN’T PEOPLE. If a person was knowingly endangering the water supply of so many people, he/she would get more than a slap on the wrist fine. Interestingly, corporations fight hard for their own […]

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If only God hadn’t made women . . .

From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A religion which teaches men and women to regard their humanity as chronically flawed can alienate them from themselves.  Nowhere is this alienation more evident than in the denigration of sexuality in general and women in particular.  Even though Christianity had […]

The similarities aren’t because of god, they’re because of our brains

From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The notion of an enlightenment that was impersonal, beyond human categories and natural to humanity was also close to the Hindu and Buddhist ideal in India … Thus despite the more superficial differences, there were profound similarities between the monotheistic and […]