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How Many Rutabagas for that House? About Currency – Religion and Politics
Rutabagas! Life blood of planet Earth! Okay, you’re permitted to disagree. Nonetheless, rutabagas are a “marketable commodity.” They can be bought, they can be sold, they can be traded. Imagine for just a second, that you’re a rutabaga farmer. You’re moderately successful in your “work.” Put another way, you get rutabagas to grow, to flourish […]
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On Racism, the Reality and the Fallacy – Religion and Politics
It is customary for me to add a “disclaimer” to any and all articles I do on the subject of “racism.” It looks something like this: “I don’t believe in racism, because I don’t believe in race. Race is generally an arbitrary, non-scientific construct of convenience. Humans are all of the same species, regardless their […]
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What is Socialism? – Religion and Politics
I believe that one of the things that makes it so very hard to “nail down” a definition for Socialism, is that folks—myself included—have a tendency to view various terms through their “personal lens.” Put simply, people allow their experiences and the words of others, to “color” their view of particular words or expressions. This […]