So, it’s been an interesting week. So to speak. The Paris terror attack has caused some very different reactions. Some, predictably, reacted by essentially saying, “see, that’s what we’ve been telling you, Muslims are bad, and they won’t assimilate or…
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Thinking and attempting to discuss life, religion and other things that we experience here. I often have a theme displaying my LDS background.
My anti-terror rally (First draft)
Tagged with: Algeria, Assimilation, Assimilationism, Democracy, Immigration, Racism, society, Terrorism
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Society, Sociology
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Society, Sociology
I am Charlie — Je suis Charlie
No, obviously I am not. He’s dead now, because of two morons who didn’t believe in their religion enough to let it win the argument on merits. Because the moment you pick up a gun to answer an opinion, a…
Tagged with: Faith, Fanaticism, I am Charlie, Je suis Charlie, Terrorism, Western Europe
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Politics, Religion, Society
Human Civilisation Emerged in Africa
African Wisdom Statue. This one was lifted straight from Gently Hew Stone, who (yes, that blog name comes most likely from a speech-to-text misunderstanding, owing to English pronunciation being a bit quirky) sometimes has cracked a joke or two about…
About the essence of freedom and more griping about nationalism
I’ve been thinking very hard about freedom. It’s not all that complicated in a way. According to most dictionaries, freedom is simply a state, where one’s rights to move around, or form and express one’s opinions without fear of reprisals…
Tagged with: Blood and Iron, Blood and Soil, Fascism, Freedom of Press, freedom of religion, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gratitude, Italy, Kaiser Wilhelm, Nationalism, Nazi Ideology, Otto von Bismarck, Sociology
Posted in Politics, Religion, Sociology
Posted in Politics, Religion, Sociology
About faith crises
Last weekend I was asked whether I had ever had a crisis of faith. This wasn’t the first time, but I had to ask for some room to define, to interpret the question. I will write about my chain of…
Tagged with: Crisis of Faith, Faith, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Mormon, Mountain Meadow massacre, society, Sociology, Sunday School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Destructive Nationalism in Support of Racism and Slavery (Nationalism Part 2)
I must confess that I calculated the headline to be provocative. I mean to provoke, but I also mean to clear my own thoughts a little. I do not think that it is a far-fetched thought that Nationalist ideas have…
Tagged with: Atlantic slave trade, Christianity, Jews, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Nation-State, Rome, Rudyard Kipling, Slavery, United States
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Sociology
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Sociology
Griping About Destructive Nationalism, Part 1
London has been on the news lately, with some good news for a change. Or at least feel-good, not rioting like last year. But let us not forget that the roots of the rioting are there, untouched, and with David…
Tagged with: Britain, David Cameron, Internationalism, London, Nation-State, Nationalism, Nazi, Nazi Party, Nelson Mandela, Olympic, Olympic Games, Otto von Bismarck, Soviet Union
Posted in History, Politics, Sociology
Posted in History, Politics, Sociology
Personhood, or Being a person
Some recent phenomena have prompted me to write this, in an attempt at a common sense-philosophical study of what the word person means, and how definitions of being a person–sometimes called personhood–have been expanded in recent centuries. I am doing…
They say I’m not Christian? I’m indifferent…
The headline here is revealing. So I’ve been reading yet another set of press articles, where “journalists” interview a Baptist pastor about the “Mormon” faith? (Deep breath.) Anyhow, there have been about a billion blog posts, where Mormons argue that…
Tagged with: Christ-like life, Christianity, Jesus Christ, LDS Church, Mormonism, Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Posted in Mormonism, Religion, Society
Posted in Mormonism, Religion, Society
We are planning some action against "Defective by Design", AKA DRM
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