An "Aha!" Life

Mar 25, 2012 10:22

Excellent essay in the NYT Sunday Review.  Thnanks to Bob Howe for sending it to me.

Rethinking His Religion
by Frank Bruni


Excerpt:

He saw cruelties born of the kind of bigotry that religion and false righteousness sometimes abet. A teenage girl he met was dying of sepsis from a female circumcision performed with a kitchen knife. He asked the male ( Read more... )

reproductive rights, religion, grateful, politics

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ccjohn March 26 2012, 23:11:55 UTC
I've never believed life's answers can come from one book, or one faith, or one person, or even one moment. It's taking everything in. Snap judgments, ultimatums ... they seem dangerous.

At least we can try not to increase the misery in the world.

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