He is canonizing Junípero Serra, a man whose motivations were pure Christianity .. a horrible motivation that led to the deaths and torture of the indigenous peoples — the heathens —of California. Francis church is famous for the guilt, the centrality of sin and redemption, that is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
October 18th, 2020 - 1:48 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: God permits abortions!
How Science Impacts The Abortion Debate. I always show respect for those who believe there is something non physical. If the antiabortion activist wants to argue that her God has told her that sperm is alive, or that a soul enters the gee with the sperm, then I have no basis for argument. The[...]
October 11th, 2020 - 1:43 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Newton and God
I had a dream about Newton last night. It seems to me that what Newton actually discovered is a pretty good definition of”God” if you strip away the idea that God is a person. The fundamental laws of science are .. eternal and not limited time or space. If one looks at what Christians, [...]
March 8th, 2020 - 12:10 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: What Happened to the Buddhist Teaching of Detachment?
The Buddha Taught His Followers to Detach Themselves From Material Items. Among the surging crowds in the streets of Phnom Penh are Buddhist monks, who are angry about the mysterious theft of a golden urn, believed to hold ashes of the Buddha himself. As the New York Times reported, monks blame a [...]
January 26th, 2020 - 12:58 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELARIONS: When a Jew Burns a Christian Bible
Manchester, England – An Orthodox Jewish candidate for mayor of Manchester apologized after burning what he called a “missionary bible” and posting images of it on social media. Shneur Odze, who is a candidate for the right-wing populist UK Independence Party, or UKIP, on the eve of Passov[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Did Jesus Exist?
So, here is the problem. Since Jefferson edited his bible to eliminate the miracles, there has been an effort by Christians to claim Jesus was a real and wise man, a rabbi, whose teachings were distorted by Paul and his successors trying to create a popular religion. I suggest problem is not w[...]
December 15th, 2019 - 1:35 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS
Jerusalem – The mother of the baby who drowned in a jacuzzi in a hotel in Ashdod earlier this month is suspected of murdering her son. According to media reports on Sunday, the 28-year-old mother said in a police questioning that she had experienced a “divine revelation,” in which she beli[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS:Of Nuns And Popes
Is Pope Frank for Real? In 2012, the Vatican accused U.S. nuns of taking up such “radical feminist themes” as social welfare and political action. The Romans saw income inequality as a distraction from Roman Catholicism’s issues of contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage. There[...]