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Roadside Musings
Ram Dass’ Greatest Teaching
“This one line has done more to shape my teaching than any other.”
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Is Lying About God Okay?
“Lying about God and promoting a Pollyannaish understanding of religion isn’t going to help at all.”
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Charitable Giving: Do You Know How Your Donation is Being Used?
“The problem isn’t that the Vatican needs money to maintain its operations, but that it is getting millions of dollars from a fund officially designated for helping people. This isn’t new, but it seems all the more egregious when religion preys on those who pray.”
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• Charity
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Greta Thunberg as Mad Max
“There are two women tackling climate change in a big way. Michele Bachmann is one of them. The other is Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist who was just named Time’s Person of the Year.”
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The Problem of How to Greet People This Season
Do you say, ‘Merry Christmas’ and risk the possibility of insulting a Zoroastrian? Or do you say, ‘Happy Holidays’ and risk the possibility of insulting a Christian?
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All Religious-Based Answers Are Acceptable?
“If the students in Ohio schools want to replace math with myth, and fact with fiction, who am I to judge?”
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• Politics
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You Don’t Need to Be Brave
“Bravery is the suppression or masking of fear but sharing one’s fear makes more sense to me.”
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• Dying
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We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident
“I am fascinated by religion. I simply don’t like the idea that something is beyond questioning.”
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• Politics
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Bring on the Global Exorcism!
In October of 1967, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin gathered Americans and encircled the Pentagon for a grand exorcism. The plan was to use an Aramaic chant to levitate the Pentagon, turn it orange, and shake out the evil that pervaded it...
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• Shamanism
Roadside Musings
Leaving Your Religion
If you have left or are considering leaving your religion for something spiritual, consider seeking out the renewalists in your religion.
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Muggles Strike Back
“What to do with all these evil books? Expelliarmus!”
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• Humor
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How Now, Brown Cow
“The fact that I am not among the 16.4 million Americans who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows is sheer luck!”
