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Religious Literacy
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
“Life is short—live it up.” This seems to be the mantra I hear more and more every day. Now, I’m all about fun. I think things should be fun. I think everyone should have some, I really do. But, there’s more to life than that.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I say: bring on more of these spiritual/religious messages. If it is difficult to get young people to come into church then certain very well-known artists are bringing God to their fans’ ears through those ’ear buds’. And that works for me.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The dead were also removed from view, literally, when Reformation iconoclasts whitewashed hundreds of colorful religious murals inside Medieval churches to remove any trace of Catholicism.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
A U.S. Appeals Court has recently ruled that a 40-foot high cross located at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution because it is located on public land and maintained at government expense.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Falling away from church, moral codes and belonging has created depression and anxiety. It has created a sense that one is alone no matter how many strangers surround them.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The loss of faith, of religion, of church membership - and this goes for all faiths, all religions, all churches - is a loss of the most fundamental bind which has held communities and nations together for as long as Man has walked the Earth.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
L. Ron Hubbard wrote “Look. See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see.”
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
We are all human. That was not a choice. We all have human rights. That is not a choice either.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s with the science versus religion debate in full swing. It was and is, the major philosophical argument of the modern era and I found both sides electrifying and puzzling at the same time.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Every religion I know of celebrates the good and kind in ourselves and our neighbors. Religions celebrate who we really are.
