Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 26, 2018
What You Can Do About Ignorance and Hate
We do not have to hate each other, we do not have to fight, we do not have to natter and criticize and we do not have to be...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 19, 2018
My Friend, the Jehovah’s Witness
He started bringing new people by and introducing them. I joked with him that he was training new people and I must be an...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 15, 2018
Big Bigotry Goes Mainstream: Remini & Disney Attack Jehovah’s Witnesses
How exactly do you ask, in politically correct terms: “What religious group can we profit from the most by misrepresenting...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 28, 2018
The High Tech of Hate
The mind can absorb 20 images per second. Video runs at about 25 images per second. That means that for every second of TV...
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Media & Ethics
October 26, 2018
The Smear
Through this book, one comes to realize that mainstream news is simply what someone has paid to get placed in front of you.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 25, 2018
Hang Together or we Shall All Hang Separately
We find that religion in general is under increased attack by the media, but mainstream religion still enjoys a certain level...
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Religious Literacy
October 21, 2018
The Unity That Disaster Handling Brings
I don’t think that there could have been a more appropriate song for us to sing that morning, for truly, it was amazing...
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Media & Ethics
October 17, 2018
The Media: “We Have Met The Enemy And It Is Us”
Every time you share a meme or a column or a podcast or a video that you like or agree with, YOU become media.
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Media & Ethics
October 17, 2018
Walt Disney Would be Appalled that the Company he Founded is Inciting Religious Hate
If Walt were alive today there’s no question Remini’s show would never exist on one of his networks.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 16, 2018
The Cult of Anti-Cult Cultists
Back in the 80s and 90s, people who used Macintosh computers—myself included—were considered odd, as were the computers...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2018
How to Fight Fake News in the Post-Journalism Era
There are still plenty of problems to fix in the world, but stupefying viewers with incessant catastrophes on a 24-hour news...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2018
Leah Remini—the TV Personality Who Makes Disney’s Biggest Villains Look Like Tinkerbell!
Just like in any Disney movie, the villain always loses in the end, winding up with egg on his or her face. Visibly, this...
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Media & Ethics
October 10, 2018
The Not-So-Magical Magic Kingdom
Why “family friendly” Disney would risk its reputation by sponsoring a hate show against a religious group begins to make...
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Religious Literacy
October 6, 2018
In God We May Still Trust
The venerable phrase “In God We Trust” has survived yet another legal attack and will continue to appear on the bills...
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Religious Literacy
October 6, 2018
Learning About the Religions of the World
On the first day of a four-part Open House on Religions of the World, I fulfilled my duty as a Jew. Are you surprised? Well,...
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Media & Ethics
October 2, 2018
Fake News Isn’t News and It Isn’t New
Some years ago, my local Church of Scientology was in a legal battle with an individual who was violating the law. We took...
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Religious Literacy
October 2, 2018
Surprised by My Own Prejudice
I surprised myself the other day when I recognized that I was actually prejudiced against another religion. That was a real...
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Media & Ethics
September 30, 2018
Disney Has a Problem
As a sad testimony to the bloodthirstiness of a portion of America’s viewing public, Remini’s show had a few people watching...
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Religious Literacy
September 30, 2018
Why Religion Matters
As a child growing up in the Sixties, I heard plenty of chants that “God is dead.” I watched as people around me, wanting...
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Media & Ethics
September 28, 2018
If Even Saints are Smeared by the Media, Can We Believe What We Read?
Surely Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Prize in 1979 and was made a saint in 2016 would be a perfect candidate. To my...
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Media & Ethics
September 21, 2018
LAist Breakfast: Journalism With a Side of the Same Old Diatribe
If Sofia Kercher had decided to be honest with Scientology Celebrity Center International about her intentions during her...
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Religious Freedom
September 20, 2018
How Religion Improves Lives and Why Bigots Oppose It
Growing up as an agnostic, John did not give religious matters too much thought. Nor did he assess his actions against any...
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