4.12.08

Maria Duval - Evolving Beyond Religion

Evolving Beyond Religion
Religion to the mature adult is as dinosaurs are to a three-year-old Both are created by a maturing mind that lives in uncertainty times and fear

Peace Like a Bar of Soap
"Here’s what I say: Until peace is as everyday an assumption as soap, we have to keep making the effort to remember it. Oh yeah, we’ll say, there’s always peace. As quotidian and assumptive as the presence of soap."

Health for Peace
"Being for something is so much better for us than being against things. It’s easier, takes less effort, saves energy and produces results faster. Who do you know to whom you can speak today about this marvelous prescription for peace?"

An Elective Peace
"I’m beginning to think that until our elected officials start to treat peace as a priority, it’s not going to be in the consciousness of We, The People. And that’s where peace needs to be. In fact, even better, in I The Person." There is a growing movement afoot in the United States to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace.

Pixels for Peace
Then a headline appeared in the Week In Review in this Sunday’s New York Times which made me think seriously about using the web for peace. Here’s how it read: What to Do About Pixels of Hate The article was about a self-appointed Internet “cop,” for lack of a better word, who is waging a one-person campaign on militant Islamist websites. What he’s doing to them is knocking them offline. One at a time.

Heaven Without Religion
If Heaven and Hell are really just states of mind then anything can be considered either one or the other as all things are states of mind If God lives in Heaven and the Devil in Hell then they to are just states of mind There is no separation from one or the other

Evolving Beyond Religion
Religion to the mature adult is as dinosaurs are to a three-year-old Both are created by a maturing mind that lives in uncertainty times and fear

Peace Like a Bar of Soap
"Here’s what I say: Until peace is as everyday an assumption as soap, we have to keep making the effort to remember it. Oh yeah, we’ll say, there’s always peace. As quotidian and assumptive as the presence of soap."

Health for Peace
"Being for something is so much better for us than being against things. It’s easier, takes less effort, saves energy and produces results faster. Who do you know to whom you can speak today about this marvelous prescription for peace?"

An Elective Peace
"I’m beginning to think that until our elected officials start to treat peace as a priority, it’s not going to be in the consciousness of We, The People. And that’s where peace needs to be. In fact, even better, in I The Person." There is a growing movement afoot in the United States to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace.

Pixels for Peace
Then a headline appeared in the Week In Review in this Sunday’s New York Times which made me think seriously about using the web for peace. Here’s how it read: What to Do About Pixels of Hate The article was about a self-appointed Internet “cop,” for lack of a better word, who is waging a one-person campaign on militant Islamist websites. What he’s doing to them is knocking them offline. One at a time.

Heaven Without Religion
If Heaven and Hell are really just states of mind then anything can be considered either one or the other as all things are states of mind If God lives in Heaven and the Devil in Hell then they to are just states of mind There is no separation from one or the other

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