tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349570782011-04-21T21:54:59.878-04:00Assorted opinions mostly on topics of religion, reason, current events and worldviews.ednoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-43950592927382162542010-08-17T09:07:00.001-04:002010-08-17T09:07:14.585-04:00

Authors Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, board members of the Muslim Canadian Congress, said: We Muslims know the ... mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation, to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith, ... as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.... As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-21610121430668021942009-10-09T07:30:00.000-04:002009-10-09T07:31:14.854-04:00

As it has been said "there is peace on the other side of war". TheNobel Commission just proved this famous dictum by conferring thePeace prize on the wrong leader. Obama, benefits from peace withouthaving taken the hard measures to achieve it. Ed Lane

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1160343375823859092006-10-08T17:36:00.000-04:002006-10-08T17:36:15.850-04:00

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." --Albert Einstein

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1160143857824009102006-10-06T10:10:00.000-04:002006-10-06T10:10:57.853-04:00

Many people have a sentimental affection for pleasant things thatmay have happened in the past. Having had a happy childhood for example lends motive to recall those years in the past when all was good and free flowing. It appears too that from a psychological aspect if there has been a significant loss in the past, then the human mind yearns for continuity or re-establishment, albeit

ednoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1160085497429124942006-10-05T17:58:00.000-04:002006-10-05T17:58:17.466-04:00

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." --Albert Einstein

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159476718295327272006-09-28T16:51:00.001-04:002006-09-28T16:51:58.300-04:00

BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - Mais de 150 brasileiros foram assassinados por dia em média no ano passado, o que equivale às taxas registradas em zonas de guerra, disse o Ministério da Justiça na segunda-feira.Foram cerca de 55.000 vítimas de homicídios em 2005, o que supera em alguns milhares o número de civis mortos em três anos na guerra do Iraque.http://br.news.yahoo.com/060925/5/1968z.html

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159476677224695942006-09-28T16:51:00.000-04:002006-09-28T16:51:17.263-04:00

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 150 Brazilians were murderedeach day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par with some warzones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice Ministry said on Monday.Some 55,000 Brazilians died of homicide in 2005 -- a few thousand more civilians than in three years of war in Iraq, according to leadingestimates.Brazil, a continent-sized nation of 185

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159393163205296322006-09-27T17:39:00.000-04:002006-09-27T17:39:23.913-04:00

el1212, inman3, flowerg

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159219220124788812006-09-25T17:20:00.000-04:002006-09-25T17:20:20.126-04:00

Should it be noted that the Jews in spite of centuries of persecution,slaughter and rejection are not blowing themselves up with explosives? Where reason is thy splendor?

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159218904119915922006-09-25T17:15:00.000-04:002006-09-26T20:40:44.136-04:00

"But a professor of Islamic law at Qatar University, Muhammad Ayash al-Kubaisi, proposed another route: A debate with the pope on the history their faiths. His offer, posted last week on the Web site of the Al-Jazeera television network, contends Christians should study their own turbulent past." Quoted from seattlepi.com athttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Christianitys_Sword.htmlMr.

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159218476325892192006-09-25T17:07:00.000-04:002006-09-26T20:42:13.693-04:00

"... at a religious workshop of Muslims and Christians earlier this year, the Rev. Hans Ucko, a representative from the nearly 350-member World Council of Churches, said no real understanding is possible until the faiths look beyond their own texts."The Quran, Bible and other sacred books should come with a warning label," he said. "It should say, `These books may contain passages that can be

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159217481349419382006-09-25T16:51:00.000-04:002006-09-26T20:43:12.206-04:00

The following paragraph is quoted from ABC News International athttp://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2486620&page=2 "On Sunday, Benedict praised an Italian nun who was shot to death on Sept. 17 in Mogadishu, Somalia in an attack that might have been linked to the worldwide anger over the Regensburg speech. Benedict noted that the nun forgave her attackers as she lay dying, showing "

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159122785318532742006-09-24T14:33:00.000-04:002006-09-26T20:43:28.786-04:00

It should be said that a call for reason in the post-modern western civilization touches at wery heart of the ideological handicap of our age.

ednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957078.post-1159121799554385332006-09-24T14:14:00.000-04:002006-09-26T19:20:57.353-04:00

That a journalist would misinterpret the Pope's argument is puzzling coming from a journalist. Yet it proves what is implied in Pope's speech, namely that failure to employ reason in dialog cripples its outcome. Meacham misses two important points: violence in any religion is inconsistent with the nature of the God of Christianity; the islamic reactions to the Pope's comments prove the Pope

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