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SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
When asked, or if it just comes up, I tell all my co-workers and associates I am a Scientologist. The funny thing is, they don’t believe me! Every time I ask why, the answer is always the same: “But you’re just a regular guy.” I ask: “What do you think a Scientologist is?”
TOLERANCE
How do we reconcile the fact that religious freedom for one person could violate the basic human rights of another? If someone doesn’t want to bake you a cake for your wedding because they don’t support you getting married based on their personal religious conviction, where is the middle ground (if it even exists)?
TOLERANCE
Faith is spiritual, not physical. Faith exists in the minds, hearts and souls of those who embrace it. So physical proof of the existence of faith is not only impossible, it is unnecessary.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
A very good friend of mine is a police officer. She and I recently took a lovely vacation to Scotland and Ireland. Man, did we have a blast. The first day of our trip we were waiting for a connecting flight in New Jersey and we struck up a conversation with a very nice man and his family. He asked what we did and I replied that I was a business consultant and my friend was a police officer.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I recently came across this piece and found it to be a beautiful, uplifting and timely response by Rabbi Marc Gellman to a bigoted question about religion.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
It was July 1977. Gold was selling for $161.10 per ounce, Dodgers players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke had just invented the “high five.” “Star Wars: A New Hope” was released and most critics thought it would be a flop. The population of the world was slightly more than four billion. The top song of the year was “You Light Up My Life” by Debbie Boone. The Yankees won the World Series and the Raiders won the Super Bowl.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Perhaps it is time to replace the righteous indignation in our hearts with the swell of love and compassion we feel when we do truly lift another person up.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
“For these compelling reasons, we can no longer afford the luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discrimination.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I’m “a big kid.” That is to say, I’m an adult. I’m well-educated, reasonably affluent, and able to hold my own in a conversation… But I’m being bullied. And honestly? It’s really uncomfortable.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
When I look at the state of the world today—what with some 25 million individuals being human trafficked, two people dying in conflicts every minute, and lives shattered by drug addiction everyday—I have this (apparently misguided) sense that there are more important problems to “solve” than a Peace Cross commemorating World War I veterans or a Ten Commandments monument at a City Hall in New Mexico.
