I admit it, I’ve been feeling discouraged recently. I’ve been advocating hard for people with disabilities to be prioritized for COVID19 vaccines in Canada, but still haven’t had success protecting our son. I was active every day on social media decrying the unfairness of Bill C7, the Medical Assistance in
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: What is Enlightenment?
Further Notes On The Dualistic Illusion (This ought to raise the hackles of the fundamentalists – both secular and religious. But I don’t write for the narrow of mind anyway, so I am not concerned about that.) Now here is someone who knows what he is talking about: Rabbi David
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Laying Waste To The Religious Right
A few brief thoughts for perspective: “Censorious scrupulosity” – Stephen Toulmin is as witty as he is brilliant. Make it viral (so to speak… Yikes, we will soon have to be censoriously scrupulous in avoiding that phrase, now that the global police state is here): “Is that a touch of censorious
Continue readingIs Christ Christian? Reflections on the niqab debate.
Pondering the late unlamented election debate about the niqab, I took to wondering just what a religion is. Not the dictionary definition or what theologians say it is, but how it is practiced by its followers.
Take Christianity, for example, the re…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Christian Martyr Loophole
If religion of was actually a ideology that was set up to respect and preserve life instead of increasing misery and pain we’d see over the course of history much more use of this particular “loophole”. Many thanks to Discern4 for producing the video. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christian, Martyr,
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Thank gawd, finally a new cult leader was appointed in Italy by…
Thank gawd, finally a new cult leader was appointed in Italy by an elite cabal during a secret backroom ritual. This one is from Argentina. I guess that country deserves it, considering they just lost the recent vote on the status of the Falkland Islands. Yay, does this mean the
Continue readingRick Santorum—an Antichrist?
Rick Santorum is a disturbing man. The candidate for Republican nominee for president has said things that if I were an American, I would find offensive if not frightening. For instance, he has suggested that people who don’t live according to what he refers to as “God’s law,” have no
Continue readingThe Global Express: The Offensive Meaning of Christmas
Having read an interesting article in the Globe and Mail, Canadian schools struggle with what to do about Christmas, I ask myself the same question every December when we are bombarded with “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas.” What’s happened to Christmas, and more importantly, the meaning of Christmas? In
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