Religious Supremacy?
Today’s column borrows a story from the ancient scripture, The Bhagavad Gita, to address a serious contemporary problem. Can We Talk About Religious Supremacy? “When religious supremacy takes power in…
Tag: Secular
Blasphemy!
“You hurt my feelings … you should go to prison!” “You insulted my religion … and if we can’t silence you, you should be prosecuted!” “You disrespected my God ……
Freethought Film
The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought. With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is the time to get educated about the critical and historical…
Super, Natural Poetry
My friend Jim Gronvold has just published a delightful new collection of his poetry. He calls himself a “simple rhymer,” but you’ll find “an endless expanse” of meaningful images in…
Abe & Charles
In Honor of the Dual Birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born this day, February 12, 1809: “As the patriots of seventy-six (1776) did to the support of…
Auguries
augur: seer, visionary, a diviner of omens augury: sign of the future inauguration: “The word inauguration stems from the Latin augur, which refers to the rituals of ancient Roman priests…
Sunrise
We Don’t Need a Candle to See the Sun Rise In October 1832, several years before he gained fame as a writer and lecturer, Ralph Waldo Emerson jotted down something…
Religious Addiction
If you haven’t seen this very short video from a while back, here you go. The “Nature Chaplain” addresses one of the most serious illnesses in our culture: Religious Addiction…
