Yearly Archives: 2010

No one who truly understands “the sensitivity and sacred nature” of the Holocaust would deliberately and grotesquely mischaracterize the experience of a 13-year-old Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary whose father hid him with a non-Jewish family to keep him alive. Many other Jews survived the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by changing their identities and hiding with Righteous Gentiles. With today’s falsehoods, Beck has engaged in a form of Holocaust revisionism.

Buddhists, says HH the Dalai Lama, aren’t asked to believe anything that’s not in accord with reason and experience.

In the big day after, experts across Washington - including many in the religious world -- are trying to figure out exactly what happened in last night's election. To help make a little sense of it all, the polling gurus at Washington Post have a few interesting tidbits to share from their Religion tabs - national.xls. A more detailed version Religion tabs - v2.xls.

...the trend toward greater income inequality has been apparent since the early 1980s -- the decade when Gordon Gekko, a fictional character in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," first extolled the virtues of greed. History -- even fairly recent history -- is not America's strong suit. We ignore it at our own peril.

HELENA, Mont. – At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal.