
Religious Freedom
February 4, 2019
The Greatest Tradition
Somewhere, thousands of years before Christ, deep in China, a spark was lit. We don’t know if it was a man or a woman but...
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February 4, 2019
Somewhere, thousands of years before Christ, deep in China, a spark was lit. We don’t know if it was a man or a woman but...
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February 4, 2019
Ever seen a news story of how crazy everything is “over there” and then you go “over there” or actually look into...
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January 30, 2019
I was born April 19, 1945, the same day that, British soldiers in Germany pushed 13,000 decaying bodies into trenches with...
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January 29, 2019
1964. For most Americans, vegetables at the dinner table were an afterthought. What vegetables there were, were certainly...
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January 27, 2019
I have often seen confusion arise in the minds of people who hear snippets of the theatrical, artificial media version of...
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January 22, 2019
Your recent mentions of Scientology make Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” look like the World Book Encyclopedia.
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January 20, 2019
Probably everyone reading this post has personally observed the large and growing problem of homelessness in the United States....
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January 18, 2019
Somehow religion and government, these two important arenas of human interaction, must come to terms with one another and...
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January 17, 2019
Can it be that governments and commercial interests have knowingly used the lunatics who reside at the fringe of our society...
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January 15, 2019
One Catholic priest known to me only as Father Donovan, whom my parents had befriended, attended many of our family picnics,...
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January 15, 2019
I thought back to close family members and friends who had spent time taking antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs...
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January 15, 2019
“This is classic,” I thought. This guy was the poster child for the usual type of person who rages against Scientology....
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January 9, 2019
Left, Right, or Center, the editorial boards all have an agenda. They’re all preaching to their own choir, which also happens...
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January 8, 2019
Isn’t that one of the key reasons religion exists? Besides recognizing and enhancing the spiritual aspect of humankind,...
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January 8, 2019
Until the mid-1300s, witchcraft and magic had been quietly accepted as part of the mystic melting pot that was Europe. That...
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January 7, 2019
The Jews, then, were set apart in the ancient world, a factor that worked both for them—preserving a unique and imperishable...
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January 7, 2019
One diplomat in particular, a Japanese man by the name of Chiune Sugihara, worked day and night, against the wishes of his...
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January 2, 2019
Last October, eleven worshippers at the at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania were murdered during Shabbat...
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January 2, 2019
Some people see freedom as dangerous. They see people who cannot be enslaved as dangerous. They are the type who think that...
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January 1, 2019
Bricks through windows, swastikas scrawled on synagogues, charred African-American churches, knocked-over tombstones in Jewish...
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January 1, 2019
Cultures rise and fall, governments come and go, but religion remains a constant influence. Under all the verbiage of such...
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December 31, 2018
Jews number less than 14 million in the whole world—that’s 1/535th of the world’s population…
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December 31, 2018
When a reporter takes on the subject of (someone else’s) religion, he or she does not usually understand what he or she...
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December 30, 2018
The day after Thanksgiving 2018, I suffered a heart attack and was rushed through triple bypass surgery. My wife is helping...
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