On Religion. And Living

There it all is, folks, right there. That's your religion for you. It's certainly mine.

Have a nice day.

Quote of the day -- on American institutions

Quote of the day -- on rules for living

Quote of the day

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

--Albert Camus

Quote of the day

"The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease.

The churches' obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world."

--A.C. Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Links: http://acgrayling.com/morality-and-the-churches

http://acgrayling.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Grayling

Quote of the day

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." --Dalai Lama

Quote of the day

“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.”
--Henry David Thoreau, American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862

Neitzche, to a dance beat

How do you not love that?

Quote of the day

"The heart is what matters most of all."  --Kris Kristofferson  (Yeah, tough guy Kris Kristofferson.  Go figure.)


Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

Quote of the day

"Believe in yourself and believe in love.  Love something.  We've got to learn to love something deeply."  --Andrew Wyeth, quoted in the book "Wisdom" by Andrew Zuckerman.

(Go, get this book.  It's inexpensive but good.)

Have a great weekend, y'all.

Quote of the year?

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith.