The very fact that life is finite is the very thing that makes life meaningful. If we had eternal life, then what would be the point of it? We strive and work hard in life because life is short and so we feel an urgency to live our lives with passion . . . By taking death out of the equation, religious believers also take the passion out of our existence.
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Today gay men and women are serving openly in the U.S. military, marking another milestone in the march toward equal rights for all Americans. And needless to say, Religious Right leaders aren’t happy . . . Goldwater famously said of this issue, “You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.” Equality and fairness. Those are concepts that are foreign to the forces of the Religious Right. They prefer intolerance and theocracy. But in a nation built on the separation of church and state, they cannot and must not prevail. Read more . . .
Priestess of Delphi (1891) by John Collier
Pythia was inspired by pneuma rising from below.
“The Mermaid”
Hamburg Germany’s Alster Lake
“Friedrich Nietzsche”
By Edvard Munch, 1906
“The Descent of the Modernists”
By E. J. Pace, 1922
“An Intellectual Contrasted with a Prize-Fighter”
By Thomas Nast, ca. 1875
