Whatever happened to people who think for themselves? When did it become OK to abdicate your personal responsibility to yourself and society at large to someone else’s ideology? I think there are a couple of reasons that people appear to not think for themselves. The first reason is that the voices that are the loudest [...]
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Intolerance…what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Christian Fundamentalism, Cultural Perspectives, fundamentalist, Political, Spiritual, SpiritualityTags: Christian Fundamentalist, environment, intolerance, Republican Party
I don’t know when it started or how it became so prevalent in our culture but large chunks of our society are very intolerant of things and people that they don’t understand and this has translated into individuals that are very quick to condemn that which is different. Regardless of whether those differences are spiritual, [...]
What country do I live in again?
Posted: November 16, 2011 in Cultural Perspectives, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, PoliticalAs I was watching the various videos that were being posted of the eviction of protesters from Zuccotti Park I wondered why it was so hard for the media and other observers to see what this movement was all about. The Republicans and the Republican news channel FOX came out against OWS because it was [...]
