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TOLERANCE
The concept of responsibility is at the core of personal freedom. For centuries and across cultures it has been believed that the proper answer to an affront or a transgression is retribution.
MEDIA & ETHICS
In early 1898, William Randolph Hearst needed more readership for his newspaper, the New York Morning Journal . He figured a war would do the trick. The paper had been covering the Cuban Revolution since 1895, as had the Journal’s chief rival, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World .
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
That religions together and in unison will bring a new enlightened age where spirituality and Godliness will once again rise above materialism and where we all win.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
Ron was discussing methods of determining sanity. He described sanity in a number of ways but the simplest was noting the individual’s ability to compute—think—accurately. The word that got me was “accurately.”
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The most popular attraction is always the chimp enclosure, where people get to sit and laugh at the antics of the resident troupe—a caricature and mirror of human society.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I met a very nice Persian man who was Jewish. His family was driven out of Iran because they were Jewish. Then in America he experienced a great deal of discrimination and bullying because he was from the Middle East.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I can see it now—Indonesian and American physicists in a catfight over which direction an apple takes when it falls from a tree. Maybe they should vote on it.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
I was born in 1943, too young to experience World War II. I am Jewish and as I grew older I learned about the Holocaust and the atrocities of the Germans during the time of the Nazis.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I come from a large, affectionate family that includes grandparents, parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. Looking back many years, when we were all much younger, family occasions would fill a house to the rafters with love, gossip and good food.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
I’m no student of world religions, but the ministry seems to be a male-dominated field. In centuries past, women have, for whatever reason, taken a back seat in the religious arena while the men were more involved.
