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“I love my life, and I know I love my life.” —Ed Bradley, as recalled by Diane Sawyer in Friday morning’s tribute to him on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Take a walk down Memory Lane when you check out Beliefnet’s slideshow of fallen religious leaders. And remember this advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “Rely on the teachings to evaluate a guru: do not have blind faith, but also [have] no blind criticism.”

My warm thanks go to CM reader Daria for writing this in response to the revelations regarding minister Ted Haggard’s secret life: “I read Ted Haggard’s letter to his congregation and was surprised to find him taking responsibility, apologizing, asking for forgiveness, and blaming no one. I thought of how Martha Stewart, Ken Lay, and…

Notice how, in this piece by Richard Dawkins called “Why I Am Hostile Towards Religion,” Dawkins refuses to write the word “bible” with a capital “B” unless he’s quoting a Christian author whose work was originally published with the “B” upper case. Cheeky atheist!
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