Thursday, August 25, 2011

A secular arrangement of the St. Francis Prayer

Make me an instrument of peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy;
Grant that we may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we gain eternal peace.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Food for thought.......

"Organized religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children, it is a plagiarism of a plagiarism, of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion..." ~Christopher Hitchens

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Food for thought.......

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.  Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
~Anonymous