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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I find it difficult to envision Walt Disney trying to make a buck by inciting anti-religious witch hunts. However, if current management sees a chance to make a buck, it jumps right in via its subsidiary “A&E Networks.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
From the perspective of this planet and possibly the whole universe, then, Hate has existed for less time than it takes to boil an egg.
TOLERANCE
Sometimes YOU (not the other guy) are the one who has to change. I’ve learned that many times in my life.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The effort to make these religious groups seem dangerous, threatening or just plain weird was prodigious. And didn’t really work on me, to be honest—my husband’s family includes a large branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses and they all seem perfectly normal to me.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
My sons were raised on Disney. We watched movies like Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Toy Story, over and over and over and over again.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
A recently released report by the Pew Research Center showed that Americans are much more likely to be actively religious than their counterparts in other western nations and that the United States is unusual compared to other affluent countries in that many more Americans are actively religious.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
When you look at bigotry (or more succinctly “hate”) as one person’s desire to ensure the target of the bigotry stops communicating, it makes more sense.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Philosophy is one of those topics that seems to belong in some ivy-covered building being discussed by men in vests who punctuate pronouncements by pointing with a pipe stem and woman in fine dresses holding tea cups with their pinky fingers aloft.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful empire this planet had ever seen… And all through the remains of this great civilization, one sees evidence that people of different religions lived together in harmony.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Millions of people across the world, including myself, followed this saga as it unfolded with bated breath.
