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Thoughts on Power and Spirit
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Gus diZerega
Trying to integrate spirituality and politics as this blog attempts gets frustrating. Real frustrating. Politics is a little context compared to spirit, but it can so easily come to dominate our attention. It’s sort of like when I hit my thumb with a hammer. My thumbs are important. Life would be pretty awkward without them. …
Beck, Bachmann, Tribalism and Terrorism
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Gus diZerega
Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, and others like the are seeking to destroy the United States by replacing citizenship with tribalism. I do not think most of them intend this consequence, but they are so intoxicated by their self-righteousness that they are blind to the deeper consequences of what they are accomplishing. Richard Poplawski’s…
Gay Marriage in Iowa
By
Gus diZerega
While I suspect Iowa’s Supreme Court ruling went well beyond the current moral capacities of many of that state’s citizens, their unanimous ruling establishing the right of gay marriage is a wonderful one. And as usual, the culture warriors are up in arms, pontificating about ‘tradition,’ though as usual knowing little of it. That celibate…
More on Organizational Corruption
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Gus diZerega
The New York Times today has an article on how key members of the American Catholic hierarchy had been warned by their own experts as early as 1952 not to reinstate pedophile priests because they could not be cured, and ignored it all the while lying that they did not know this. Documents recently come…
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