No matter how cute and goofy the Dalai Lama is, the Tibet his predecessors ran was a theocratic feudal society. I’m not certain that the Daiai Lama isn’t a democrat, but I don’t remember him ever advocating for a Tibetan democracy. Tibetan Buddhism certainly isn’t democratic. (If there is anything out there connecting the Tibetan […]
The new UUA ads are great and all, but I think we might get a lot more done by taking this approach instead. Anything but Jesus—that could work for us, right?
Karen Armstrong says pretty much the same, but here it is from a guy who went to Harvard to study fundamentalism. Brett Grainger sees fundamentalism as an entirely modern phenomenon, one that was born as a reaction against the modern world, but that has also been shaped by it. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, fundamentalists are […]
BBC said it was a “robot space truck,” and I can’t imagine what else that could mean. Robot space truck, more than meets the eye.
Beware the unbelievers! They are among us!