Posted in seeker, tagged religion on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m sorry that Robert Legault died. We only spoke a few times, but he always struck me as one of the good guys.
I’m glad that my mother is home from the hospital again, and I’m especially glad that she became a Canadian citizen, so the cost of her care isn’t a burden to her or [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged religion on February 13, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Jesus did not say, “I know the way, so I can stop praying.” Buddha did not say, “I am enlightened, so I can stop meditating.” Confucius did not say, “I am wise, so I can stop learning.” Jesus kept praying because he knew the way. Buddha kept meditating because he was enlightened. Confucius kept learning [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged leveler, religion on February 12, 2008 | 33 Comments »
I choose to be a spiritual slave. If I choose to be a spiritual master, I choose to separate myself from the people. So I choose to be a friend.
Every good tradition warns us about people who want to profit from our need to know:
Judaism: “Whoever derives a profit for himself from the words of [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged lessons for myself, religion on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s only because I need to learn. If I sound like I’m full of myself, it’s only because I feel empty. When I sound like I’m learning, then I’ll be ready to teach. When I sound like I’m empty, then I’ll be full.
No, I have not changed my life. But I am changing it. I’m [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged lessons for myself, religion on February 10, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Remember that logic has failed them. Whether they’re right or you are, they can’t imagine they could be wrong. They will say their position is based on reason, but yours is based on faith. They will say they know their champion has learned from mistakes, but you see yours as a messiah. They will give [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged religion on January 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know if this is my last post to it’s all one thing forever or for today, but should it be my last post, here are four good last quotes, three of my favorite bits from the Bible and one from the Gospel of Thomas:
Amos 5:21-24:
“I hate, I despise your religious feasts;
I cannot stand [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged mormons, religion on December 13, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Cartoon Mitt Romney Doesn’t Want You To See [VIDEO]
It’s better than most Saturday morning TV of my youth. And I didn’t catch anything that was glaringly inaccurate. If I’d seen this earlier, The Gospel of the Knife would’ve been even odder.
Posted in seeker, tagged leveler, religion on May 28, 2007 | No Comments »
If you consider Jesus’s politics, this much is clear: he was a communist or an anarchist. He said, “Give Caesar what is Caesar’s and give God what is God’s.” Since he taught that everything is God’s, that leaves nothing for Caesar except the coins with Caesar’s face on them.
And this is what Jesus said about [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged religion on March 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
From Special Report: Has James Cameron Found Jesus’s Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error?: Scientific American:
Magness also believes that if Jesus’s family were wealthy enough to own a burial cave, it would have been in his home town of Nazareth and not in Jerusalem.
U.N.C. Charlotte archeologist Tabor, a consultant on the documentary who [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, Israel, religion on January 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s an excellent question asked in Israel’s Arab problem hits home | Salon.com. The writer is a Jew who is not quite as objective as he might be. He writes, for example, “Arabs living in what was to become the state of Israel either fled or were expelled (this depends on whose narrative you buy, [...]
