Tag: religion
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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August 27, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
In the face of doubt it is sometimes said, "I am of two minds on this". The recognition of two minds makes communication and the discovery of newness possible. With respect . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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November 28, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI has relationship problems not just with Islam but also with his Church. The circular skirmishing of Vatican I polemicists scarcely obfuscates their real purpose. Case in point . . . more
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October 24, 2006 09:44 AM EDT --
If government is about social sustainability, sustainable usage of resources, concern for public interest, especially for the marginalized, educating the public toward cultural/social sustainability, etc., . . . more
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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August 29, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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July 30, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
The politicized use of guilt and fear for purposes of manipulation is wrongheaded and morally reprehensible. "Justified living", . . . more
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November 10, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
The election cycle of 2006 might be interpreted as a mission rescuing American culture from drowning in a sea of distrust. The danger of asphyxiation continues and so does the need of respiratory help. . . . more
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November 22, 2006 05:08 AM EST --
In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the . . . more
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August 31, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from . . . more
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . . more
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November 30, 2006 05:04 PM EST --
“…as we survey the principle features of [the] post-Einsteinian world…step by step we [move] into the Hebrew prophet’s eschatological world. A universe bound fast to grim, timeless . . . more
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December 27, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
To the article “AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from”, which I published at this site, December 16, 2006, Jerome K. writes: “Ah, but will it make ice-cream? Sorry, but it . . . more
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October 18, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
The developmental economic model of Western societies is based on the continued growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ascendancy up the corporate ladder. This model is now exposed to be ecologically . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
panic tubaing
in frantic wilderness - moose
calls the rising sun
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October 03, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
The arrogance of absolutism leads to all manner of perversion. Revelations about people in the US Government now boiling to the surface are not unprecedented. The perversity of absolutism, . . . more
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September 03, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
All religious consciousness like all life emerges from common ground. By reason of evolving commonalities, good faith emergence is enabled. Einstein's mind-expanding intuition that . . . more
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January 18, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Religion and politics are not above the unseemly usage of orthodoxy in litmus-testing. Purity of orthodoxy can be a deceptive measure that bedevils popes and presidents alike. Pope John Paul II’s . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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