By Donald B. Ardell
About the Holy Bible, 1894) applies as well to the Christian religion that promotes it, namely, it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart.
While many examples could be cited, what clearer illustration of this reality could be found than in the positions advanced by religionists on the two...
Read MoreBy Mickey Walker-April 7, 2013
I was born in 1940 in Rosebud, Texas. It is a quaint little town of perhaps, 1,000 people at best. At dusk on Saturdays, people would stroll about the town streets and greet and smile at each other. My mother, Eva Pace Walker and father, Kramer Maurice (Bud) Walker had a teaching contract at the rural school in Meeks, Texas which was about halfway between...
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By Conn Hallinan - 04.07.13
In March 1990, Time Magazine titled an article “Ripples in The American Lake.” It was not about small waves in that body of water just north of Fort Lewis, Washington. It was talking about the Pacific Ocean, the largest on the planet, embracing over half of humanity and the three largest economies in the world. Time did not invent the term—it is generally attributed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Pacific commander during WW II —but its casual use by the publication...
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By Loren Adams - 03.31.13
A few years ago Al Gore released his movie / book aptly named “An Inconvenient Truth.” Hardly anyone desires to know the world as-we-know-it is ceasing to exist in a condition suitable to human sustainability. We’re on the fast-track to extinction, but one wouldn’t know it listening to major media or pandering politicians. Gore’s film failed to gain the notoriety of “Star Wars” or “Avatar.” The only horror/adventure movies that do sell are fiction. Human nature tunes out imminent danger – at least of the factual. Imagining myths is convenient; reality is not.
Read MoreBy Michael Faulkner - 03.31.13
On 19 March, exactly ten years after the U.S and British-led invasion of Iraq, a series of explosions rocked Baghdad, killing about 50 people and injuring dozens more. Although no-one has yet claimed responsibility, they were likely to have been perpetrated by al-Qaida operatives in the country. These outrages were simply the most recent and the most deadly in a continuing spate of killings that have claimed the lives of about 4.000 civilians a year. Despite attempts by apologists for the 2003...
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By Donald B. Ardell - 03.31.13
I’m thinking about giving up religion for Lent. Well, to be more precise, I’m giving up hope for religion for Lent – I gave up religion itself, including Lent and other Christian rituals, ceremonies, dogmas, prejudices and such of guilt-inducing Catholicism, about 60 years ago – when I was fifteen. But, after watching the bizarre events associated with the selection of a new pope, which dominated the news for at least a week, I’m...
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