THE POTENTIAL ENDURES I, like most of you, who care about the United States of America am not pleased with the state of our nation. My father was an immigrant blue-collar worker. Now gone, he was a member of the generation that built America into a superpower that Tom Brokaw wrote about in his book, [...]
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While religions are interesting and rich in history and rituals, one finds that they remain human constructs formed thousands of years ago in the infancy of our intelligence by people like you and me. The historical context and ancient mindsets that produced these belief systems are abundantly evident. Clearly they are all a part of [...]
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Tribes We advance technologically with relative ease but not so socially, politically, or intellectually. There continues to be enormous inequities and extraordinary amounts of violence in our world. We war with each other in every way conceivable. We destroy our environment and deplete our resources. Why is that? We don’t drive around in vehicles that [...]
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“Religion evolved as a process analogous to the natural selection that produced us and every other living species. Religious belief may now be deeply programmed in our DNA. This may have happened because, at one time, such beliefs provided a survival advantage for the people who had such coded information in their genes.
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We have given gods great powers. We say they are omnipotent, meaning that they are all-powerful; omnipresent, meaning that they exist everywhere; and omniscient, meaning that they have all learning and knowledge. These stories have caused great worldwide confusion and conflict. And wars. Sixty-six percent of our wars have been fought over these stories. We [...]
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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, [...]
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If we take a survey of the attitudes, behavior, and beliefs of a representative sample of people on a particular subject or issue, do a statistical distribution with our data and plot the results on a graph, we come up with something that we refer to as a bell curve. The area in the center [...]
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“Young Earth creationists,” as they are generally known, have come up with their own theories to explain how cosmic history could be condensed into mere thousands of years. They make this case in books, pamphlets and lectures, as well as on numerous web sites. Mainstream scientists consider their theories to be wildly out of line [...]
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Earth is a hostile place. Life is a high-risk and ultimately fatal activity. Those of us who ask for peace and justice ask for something no other life-form enjoys. Every form of life struggles to survive and reproduce from one day to the next. Every meal represents life for one life-form and death for another. [...]
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We are challenged to graduate from our genetically inherited and very problematical short-term survival instincts and related thinking that permeate everything we do (politics, religion, business, social interaction). We are challenged to move beyond antiquated and divisive religious thought and to find our transcendence in this world, not in an imaginary one. We are [...]
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