On the other Heart … (03/12/16)
On one hand, the mass media is telling us that the days of Kindness & Integrity are over; that a new era of intolerance & fear & hatred has begun … AND YET the Truth of the matter is FAR different. The Truth of the matter is that a vast portion of humanity is actually […]
Those dadgum Divisions … (03/11/16)
If it weren’t so hypocritical — and if it weren’t so dadgum saddening, I would get a real kick out of all these conservative pundits and right-wing politicians complaining about all the illegal immigrants from Mexico & all the “dangerous refugees” fleeing the war-torn Middle East … But it IS hypocritical — and it IS […]
Home of the Unbrave … (01/27/16)
The religion of Islam has its share of fundamentalist zealots, that much it true (though far fewer of them than Christianity had when it was of the same age), and the Koran is indeed a most problematic tome that seems to do anything but promote peace (I’m only half-way through it at the moment, but […]
Letting Freedom RING … (01/23/16)
Persecution anywhere is persecution eveywhere, and injustice tolerated is injustice defended. It is true indeed that those who stand silently by and do nothing against acts of opporession have in truth actively taken the side of the oppresors; that those who stand by and do nothing while innocent men & women & animals are confined […]
Well played, Charlie … (01/14/15)
What with the Charlie Hebdo magazine’s long history of producing words & images that often obliterated the envelope of “good taste” — and with their long-standing tradition of flagrantly offending any & all, I was frankly a bit concerned about what their first post-massacre publication would contain. Would they shoot back fire for fire? Would […]
a Peace-full Perspective … (01/10/15)
Now, in response to what I and others have written about last Tuesday’s despicable attack on the employees of the French satirist magazine Charlie Hebdo, I’m reading more & more comments (mostly from Christians) generally denouncing Islam as a religion of “violent criminals”, “maniacs” & “demons” … Well, I myself have yet to read the […]
Je suis Charlie … (01/09/15)
I’ve been reading a lot of comments and articles about the recent Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris, and one of the more common statements made claims that the journalists somehow “had it coming” — that their cartoons were so “over the top” that they should have expected violent retribution of some sort; even their own […]
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