• Don’t Help me, The Unknown!

    by Rabbi Tom Re: Meditation 232 Jeff, I must fervently disagree with you. It does seem the political lobbying of right-wing fundamentalists in enshrining their…
  • The Church of Popeye

    In an apparent error of judgement, I answered, in Ask the Patriarch 50 and 51, two queries from people wanting to know what religion they…
  • Choosing your Orientation

    If you go to one of Jerry Falwell’s web sites and question the search engine on Falwell’s policy on homosexuality, you will get as a…
  • Redefining God

    by Jeff Hiatt The name God appears in many places in the United States and has been argued to be a generic word encompassing all…
  • Debate & Discourse

    Re: Meditation 233 I want to know what religion I am. I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I believe in reincarnation or something similar.…
  • The Q-Verse

    I wrote in Meditation 219 of that strange verse found at Luke 14:26: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father…
  • Reason And Science: Are they our gods? Or our religion?

    Occasionally in my reading, I have come across suggestions that agnostics, atheists, humanists, freethinkers and various secular groups have not abandoned religion and gods, but…
  • Debate & Discourse

    by: Trevor Hello: I have recently had a very hard time finding my “religion.” I know what I believe in but I am not sure…
  • One in a million

    by: JT Kayla wrote asking: I have been curious about what religion I belong to ever since my friend started questioning my religious beliefs. I…
  • None of the Above

    by: JT One further way of responding to “What is your religion?” is to simply answer “None!” In North America today, when people are asked…