Money to Erase Love

On the front page of the San Antonio Express News yesterday was a story about a teacher fired from the city’s all-boys Catholic high school after marrying a divorcee. The reasoning given for her dismissal was that her husband’s previous marriage had not been annulled, meaning he wasn’t “officially” un-married from his first wife.
I have three close [...]

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Imperfection, Humility, Uncertainty

One of my longstanding struggles with religion is its obscuring of faith. I have trouble finding comfort in something that mires itself in details, dogmatism and judgements. I have trouble signing up for something that professes an adamant certainty - a certainty that allows its followers to discard their free will, and one so strong that it allows a religion to look down [...]

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A British View of American Christianity

“Dollars bills announce ‘In God We Trust’. But, just in case, we’ve got the Federal Reserve and the biggest GDP and army on the planet.” – Simon Barrow
It is with great interest that I get to spend a few months on the outside of my own country looking in. Editorials in European newspapers about the [...]

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Separation of Church and State

“Enforcing a strict separation between church and state curtails religious freedom and deprives state-funded social programs of a ’spiritual dimension,’ a top aid to President Bush told an audience of Vatican officials.” – Religious News Service (read for Religion, Media and Society class)


Granted, I could probably argue in favor of this but I’d rather [...]

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"Tell me all your thoughts on God…"

It interests me that immediately after I had a discussion that touched a little on the Bible and a little on socio-political issues that I read the chapter in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil on Religion. (Granted, this was not on purpose). And it occurred to me, reading mortal philosophy after talking to one well-versed [...]

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