Tag Archives: religion

Dr. Lowery’s Presidential Words

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s Benediction Transcript @ President Obama’s Inauguration Can there be any question of the power of words? Can there be any mystery why the sophisticated symbolism of words binds people to… Others Ideals Fear Anger Dogma Superstition … Continue reading →

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CNN and Evil – Snivil…

Posted on December 19, 2008 by

Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary. Continue reading →

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Playboy Cover of the Virgin Mary Offends? Really?

Posted on December 15, 2008 by

CNN and others have reported on the “offense” generated by the Mexican edition of Playboy. Sanchez: We do. It’s right here. This is from the publisher of the magazine, Raul Sayrols. He says, “The image is not and never was … Continue reading →

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Questions and response to Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel according to Pelosi is just wrong http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/OPINION/808280310/ …and various newspapers around the country on 8/29/08 So there are several questions to be considered and answered, if possible, initiated by your swirl around issues of abortion, … Continue reading →

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Oh, Ben Stein… Don’t be that way….

Posted on July 26, 2008 by

One of my great friends and confidants has pointed out, in a non-chiding way, that one of my favorite authors, Ben Stein, has been doing and saying some disturbing and annoying things lately. This phase of his career started to … Continue reading →

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Pope attacks moral relativism

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

We all know that if you want to get your point across you need to begin teaching it early and with much fanfare and pomp. Families use holidays and traditions to cement the family unit and the values they collectively … Continue reading →

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It is the cosmos, not “Cosmo”

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

  Boy, has that a lot of meanings…. But consider this version of ‘cosmos’…   According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that   “…while we moderns see space as … Continue reading →

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…sect conditioned girls from birth

Posted on April 9, 2008 by

Polygamist sect conditioned girls from birth Washington Times - 1 hour ago By Valerie Richardson The 16-year-old girl whose phone call led to the massive raid on a West Texas polygamist compound was repeatedly beaten and sexually abused by her much-older … Continue reading →

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The End Game: the Big Zap!

Posted on April 4, 2008 by

Lets consider a dying star. Any dying star.  They are out there you know… dying, forming and changing as assuredly as Earth’s season’s change only their timeline is highly skewed toward the million year epoch. On a gross level, all … Continue reading →

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Barack Obama’s Speech – Behaviorist Perspective, post 3

Posted on March 19, 2008 by

John H. Bryant writes: Behaviorally speaking, what happened when Barack Obama spoke on religion yesterday?For some, like the way I approached the speech and later his presentation, Obama’s speech might have seemed to be about religion… or perhaps the American … Continue reading →

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