By Donald B. Ardell - 04.14.13
Introduction: Deju Vu Anyone?
Does this sound familiar?
“We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution...
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About the Holy Bible, 1894) applies as well to the Christian religion that promotes it, namely, it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart.
While many examples could be cited, what clearer illustration of this reality could be found than in the positions advanced by religionists on the two...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 03.31.13
I’m thinking about giving up religion for Lent. Well, to be more precise, I’m giving up hope for religion for Lent – I gave up religion itself, including Lent and other Christian rituals, ceremonies, dogmas, prejudices and such of guilt-inducing Catholicism, about 60 years ago – when I was fifteen. But, after watching the bizarre events associated with the selection of a new pope, which dominated the news for at least a week, I’m...
Read MoreDonald B. Ardell – 03.17.13
In St. Petersburg last week, a group of about three dozen infidels staged a curious demonstration at a local non-profit Catholic hospital. The action by the non-believers was designed to give the lie to an oft-heard charge by fundamentalist Christians that, without a belief in a god who punishes wrong-doers with eternal torture, there can be no morality or decency. Christians decry atheists because, they affirm, why be good if you think that there is no cosmic...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell – 03.03.13
Despite the Founders best efforts and the devotion of countless citizens to the masterwork of the framers, namely, the U. S. Constitution, this country has become a de facto theocracy. Maybe not to the extent of Islamic theocracies or even the Israeli theocracy, but definitely a theocracy. The Merriam-Webster definition of theocracy is quite simple - a theocracy is “a government of a state by immediate divine guidance.”
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell – 02.24.13
We’ve been deluged with news about the pope lately. Why does the media obsess about a pope, anyway? I know there are about a billion Catholics worldwide and many millions in this country, but polls indicate most of them don’t pay much attention to the pope, so why should the rest of us who are not even Catholic? It seems the media devotes too much attention to pope stories. There’s not that much to cover, most of the time. How often do we need reminders that the pope today has called for prayers for peace, more goodness or an end to hunger, suffering, pestilence and/or gluttony, avarice and coveting one thing or another? Doesn’t nearly everyone want most of that sort of thing?
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