AUTHOR
Rodger Clark
Contractor, history buff, compulsive learner, currently in recovery from authoritarian education.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I had not told the old man that I was expecting my first child, but somehow he knew. And I never forgot.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
I have often seen confusion arise in the minds of people who hear snippets of the theatrical, artificial media version of Scientology. My own family, friends and acquaintances know me as mostly “normal” and hard working. A little wacky, a little funny, somewhat interesting, but just another guy.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
“This is classic,” I thought. This guy was the poster child for the usual type of person who rages against Scientology. You’ve met this type in your own life. Ignorant, smug, self-satisfied, self-aggrandizing, self-deluded, in a constant search for anything and anyone to hate and belittle, thinking it will somehow make them look good.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Some people see freedom as dangerous. They see people who cannot be enslaved as dangerous. They are the type who think that if people were free, those people would be as mean and cruel as they themselves are.
TOLERANCE
In the Galileo museum in Florence, Italy, carefully and lovingly preserved by his admirers in an ornate and gilded glass bubble, is the middle finger of Galileo, the 16 th century scientist and mathematician whose research and writings propelled science and discovery into its present day form.
TOLERANCE
The Winter Solstice itself is something that nearly all humanity and all life on this planet has in common. The point of renewal. The end of one climate cycle and the beginning of another, which humans experience with all other living creatures. The common experience goes back millions of years. It’s something that’s in us all and it runs deep.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I find it difficult to envision Walt Disney trying to make a buck by inciting anti-religious witch hunts. However, if current management sees a chance to make a buck, it jumps right in via its subsidiary “A&E Networks.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
You’ll find modern versions of these supremacists in the audiences of the likes of Jerry Springer, Tosh.0, South Park, Samantha Bee, Bill Maher, SNL and nearly every Comedy Central show.
MEDIA & ETHICS
War is sold by a handful of madmen on the basis that every citizen of the enemy country spends every waking minute slobbering at the prospect of personally destroying you, your family and all your friends.
