Open Scandal

Growing up I was forced to attend church most weekends. There were the rare weekends in which I would wait in bed and no one would come to wake me up. Those were precious weekends. No fault to my parents as they were only doing what their parents had done/taught to them. I assume they [...]

This one has all the ingredients: Republicans, Democrats, Unreported Money, The Church, and Sex.   I’m literally drooling.  The unfortunate timing and escalation of this matter could not surface at a more desperate time as so many Americans are losing their homes and having hard times finding accommodations for their families.  Yet, these politicians will take [...]

St. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) was a living large kind of guy in a time frame that still regarded the Earth as having four corners. His early adult years found him supporting his own concubine, who, after producing for him a son during thirteen years of cohabitation, was summarily dismissed when [...]

The scandalous, even moronic history of organized religion is the stuff of legends.  And nowhere is it more prevalent than in the rich, dastardly archives of the Catholic Church.   More than a few of the iconically clad pontiffs have bitten the proverbial dust due to complications with the more sordid side of money/politics/sex religious (uh) [...]

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of souless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx We need to get back to basics. High School Civics. We need to see today what we learned back then and we need to learn our [...]