December 2007

The conceit of Fatica and other religious hucksters is that life is often brutal and hurtful, so he can rationalize being just as brutal in defense of the downtrodden.

The karma accountant was sitting at a table having a cappuccino when I arrived at the cafe. We often brooded together about the spiritual equilibrium of the universe.

It is the height of arrogance for anyone to insist that a belief in God is the only acceptable expression of meaning or spirituality.

Until now, SAMA’s investment policy has been conservative and largely limited to investment in bonds, especially US Treasuries, and shares.

The system maintains 65-75 degrees year-round with virtually no electricity. What’s the catch? The house must be strong enough to hold a roof-sized pond of water.

It’s another groaner over at Salon.After their inexplicable dalliance with the confused ramblings of Camille Paglia, it’s hard to pretend anymore that…

Around 5,000 children have been abandoned or killed since 1998. ‘The more children the pastor declares witches, the more famous he gets and the more money he can make,’

Anyone who didn’t recognize the Magisterium as the Catholic Church and their splendidly rendered “See” as the Vatican would have to have been sleeping.

People use God as the middleman for any thought, desire, or course of action they imagine that is too bold, deep, expansive, unsupportable or unrealistic to express on their own.

The documentary quoted Falwell, Robertson, and other evangelicals using virtually the same rhetoric as Phelps, albeit less colorfully.