Atheist Ireland publishes 25 blasphemous quotes after the new Irish law on Blasphemy took effect on New Years day 2010. The group, Atheist Ireland, wants the law repealed: This new law is both silly and dangerous. It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law [...]
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Fr. Andrew Dickinson of SDSU rejects “Merry Christmas”
December 21st, 2009
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Fr. Andrew Dickinson is the new chaplain of the Catholic church located at the Newman Center, South Dakota State University. For the past Sunday masses, and in a number of daily masses, Fr. Andrew Dickinson has been condemning the “Merry Christmas” greeting. The first time I’ve heard Fr. Dickinson asking people to avoid saying the [...]
Is it enough not to do evil?
July 11th, 2009
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November formally lands boiling over with questions on faith in God. Since I had written a couple of religious stuff in the previous issues of this paper, I rummaged through one of the products of my early glorious moments at writing and thought of publishing a non-sequitur-like entry such as this. Action without faith, is [...]
Ora et Labora (Prayer and Work)
April 5th, 2009
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Fr. Paul mentions something about people who seem to be so attached with work that they forget and set aside God. I wrote something about this before. Ora et Labora (translated as Prayer and Work) are ancient monastic values. The values are for busy people who, because of their tight schedules, have sporadically affected their [...]
Brookings warrior children makes God smile even more
November 26th, 2008
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I pondered on how God has viewed our being individuals whose moment of stillness has not been so apparently fulfilled. The line in the bible that says “Be still, and know that I am God” really means, in its complete contemporary biblical setting, “Cease, relax, and shut up! Spare time for me and know that [...]
Counting every writer’s blessing with a prayer
December 8th, 2007
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In less than two weeks time, it will be Christmas day. While I contemplate the birth of Jesus, I am also enormously grateful to God for bestowing a precious gift – a writing ability that I continue to hone to this day. I would like to close this year’s column with a prayer. Father our [...]
Finding and sharing your own miracles this Holy week
April 21st, 2007
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Life’s miracles often appear in diverse packages. A bunch of them take place in a flashing instant when you wish for them, others occur over a life span, and few more others occur when you are not even anticipating them. Regardless of the type, it cannot be denied that a miracle brings in us a [...]
