Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Geraldine Ferraro Shouldn't Step Down

We should all have expected the republicans to play the name-game; what I’m referring to is Bill Cunningham (no relation to Billy Cunningham) and Steve King (no relation to Stephen King) deriding Barack Obama because of his middle name. But the remarks coming from the Clinton camp? Well, when former President Bill Clinton discounts South Carolina because Jesse Jackson had previously won that state, when Hillary says John McCain is ready to be Commander-in-Chief but Obama isn’t, when Mark Penn equates Obama to Ken Starr, and when former vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro says if Barack weren’t black nobody would be voting for him, I think it’s time we all took a breather.
At this moment, Barack Obama has won the popular vote, the most states and the most delegates. Any other candidate opposing him would have given up the challenge, but Hillary isn’t just any other candidate. She has gone from inevitable to probable to even-money to underdog to spoiler. If she keeps it up, she’ll go down in history as one of the most destructive-to-the-democratic-party candidates since George Wallace. (I’m not that old, but I study History!)
So I don’t want Geraldine Ferraro to step aside - at this point, it would be too little too late. There’s only one way we democrats can hang on to our slim chances of winning in November, and that’s for Hillary to quit the race - immediately.

Monday, March 10, 2008

On the Unknowable

Is God’s name Jehovah, Allah, maybe An, Set or Saturn; or maybe something else? More to the point, when you say “God”, to whom or what are you referring? Is he or she perfect, all-knowing, all-powerful, holy, pure, good, eternal; and if so, what implications do those attributes bring to our reality?
“The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.”
“There is no God but Allah.”
“I am the Lord your God. Thou shall have no other gods before me.”
Is there one God, or three-in-one, or ten thousand?
If God created man, who created God?
Anyone who says they know all the answers is either naïve or insane. Better to admit that we don’t know; that we can’t prove the existence - or nonexistence - of God.
I realize that logic occupies a tiny place in today’s world and that rhetoric far outweighs reason. Religion is man’s excuse for a multitude of sins; and will be till the end of time…