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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On the final approach to New York’s La Guardia airport at 8:40 a.m. we flew over the World Trade Center. I was marveling at its beauty and the New York City skyline. Eight minutes later, the world was tragically changed.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
“Life is short—live it up.” This seems to be the mantra I hear more and more every day. Now, I’m all about fun. I think things should be fun. I think everyone should have some, I really do. But, there’s more to life than that.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Mainstream media is paid quite handsomely to manipulate public opinion. I’d like to tell you about a dirty little trick that they use in getting this job done. It’s one of those things that seems to be hiding in plain sight. When you know what it is, you'll find it popping up all over the place.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
If you enter a Scientology Organization you will find diversity there second to none. Every race, creed, ethnicity, nationality, age group and any other way you want to divvy up the human race is represented.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
My point is she didn’t take it personally. She actually didn’t take it at all. She stayed calm and reasoned and level-headed.
MEDIA & ETHICS
I’ve been following with interest the story of how Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are responding to the recent public and congressional outcry regarding just what the company does with the intimate details of our lives we choose to give away so publicly and so freely.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
A decade ago, the Royal Society of Medicine posited that psychiatry had become “the new religion,” replacing priests with psychiatrists, confessionals with clinics, and prayers with pharmaceuticals.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I say: bring on more of these spiritual/religious messages. If it is difficult to get young people to come into church then certain very well-known artists are bringing God to their fans’ ears through those ’ear buds’. And that works for me.
MEDIA & ETHICS
I realized that I could not always believe what I read, just because it appeared in a “respected” media source, by a “respected” journalist.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Just as scientists don’t rely on the blessings of priests to practice their disciplines, priests do not need the approval of science for their continued right to exist and to provide for the spiritual needs of their parishioners.
