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Our Moral Genetic Code: Religious Transcendentalism and Scientific Empiricism

In a fascinating essay published in The Atlantic in 1998, Edward O. Wilson digs into us to try to understand — The Biological Basis of Morality — and he leavens our understanding of faith and facts by pitting religious transcendentalism against scientific empiricism.  Wilson argues, in a thought-provoking and wide-ranging article, that the fate of the human condition rests in tempering a harmony between those opposite, and irreconcilable, philosophies.

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Midwestern Muslims and Iowa Immigration

Yesterday, we investigated the failure of Nebraska’s fiftieth out of fifty Safe Haven law to protect teenagers from dumping by misbegotten parents.  Today, we learn about another Midwestern mudfest flinging scorn and rage against Somali Muslims who wish to say evening prayers during work hours at a Grand Island, Nebraska meatpacking plant.  So far 86 people have been fired in this face off between commerce and religion.

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Knowing God's Wants

Is it possible to really know God’s wants — especially when we have so many Gods roaming the universe around us?  We can pretend we know God’s wants.  We can interpret text to try to give us direction — but any human knowing of an immortal’s internal intention is folly at best and heresy in the worst.

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Was Jesus Born of a Roman Raping?

I was startled to read today that Jesus — yes, THAT Jesus — may have been the child born from a Roman raping of his mother, Mary.

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Crime as the Last Religion

In a recent comments flow for my — Disposable Women: Slasher to Gash Her — article, we wondered about the idea of crime being the last, and perhaps greatest, religion.

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Born Broken

Are we born of original sin?

Are we, in fact, born broken?

If we are splintered and not whole from the start — how are we ever able to reconstitute our beliefs into whole-body faith and service to others?

If we are mendable and worthy of stitching — no matter our faults or precognitions — where to do go to find the glue and thread?

Are we bound to each other in our repair?

Or is it our disrepair that keeps us apart?

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Inevitable Us and the United We

The world requires us.

We are inevitable.

We become not what we want — but what others desire of us.

If were were unnecessary, we would not be here.

What, then, do we do with this complicated life when the risk of throwing it away outweighs the rewards of righteousness?