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Our neighbors' unencumbered religious faith

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized5 Comments

Theologians, philosophers and mystics have spent centuries plumbing the mysteries of religious texts and what God may have meant when, from up above, He commanded, spoke or thundered to someone, down here below.Strike up the band.And every year I'm reminded that all that intellectual and spiritual firepower may have been wasted on the people in …

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Bloody Week

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized3 Comments

Although I consider myself a triple-plated Roman Catholic, one who attended Catholic elementary and high schools, plus college, and was even attracted—albeit very briefly—by the idea of joining a Benedictine monastery, I’ve never fully understood the RCs’ obsessive fascination with suffering. Not suffering as a concept, as in Buddhism which posits that suffering is an …

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