by Wayne Hastings | Nov 15, 2009 | Life, Politics, Religion
On February 28, 2008, author Karen Armstrong was awarded the TED Prize. During her acceptance speech, she called on the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion — to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine. On October 5,...
by Wayne Hastings | Oct 5, 2009 | Politics, Religion
My father recently forwarded to me this video regarding birth rates in Muslim countries vs. the West along with this school prayer written by a 15 year old grade school student. The only comment he included was, “These attachments speak for themselves.” In...
by Wayne Hastings | May 9, 2009 | Politics, Quotes, Religion
In this week’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, during a discussion of religion, fundamentalism and equal rights for minority groups, I picked up a couple of interesting gems that I thought were quite poignent. Bill Maher, consistent with his anti-religion...
by Wayne Hastings | May 3, 2009 | Religion
On April 30, 2009, CNN reported that evangelicals in the United States are more likely to approve of torture than other groups. More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected...
