Musings of Maaia – Justin

Top ten reasons I know that Islam is not a militant religion:
To all people who are surrounded by the propaganda regarding Islam that is a result of the 9/11 bombings and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  All references are to verses in the Koran.

10.  Islam is not anti-semitic.  The Koran states, “We made a [...]

Religions are like languages.  I think it was Wittgenstein who said something like: “Langauges are incomplete and ambiguous–but extremely useful–reflections of an incomplete and ambiguous world.”  They may not be perfect, but they get the job done.  One would never say that a language is “right” or “wrong,” or that it is “good” or “bad.”  [...]

I recently took a seminar through the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, funded by the Freeman Foundation. One of the ideas that most struck me was the way in which Confucius knew that socialization was the only way to effectively govern a nation, especially a large one like China. Napoleon said, [...]

Proof That God Doesn’t Mind What Gays Do:
1. Justin Maaia loves and accepts gay people and wants them to live their lives happily.
2. God is infinitely more loving and compassionate than Justin Maaia.
3. If God is infinitely more loving and compassionate than Justin Maaia and Justin Maaia loves and accepts gay people [...]

Religion is a way to God; it should not get in the way of God.

Recently, while eating my lunch, a colleague of mine commented that he didn’t understand how a person could be both a Catholic and a Democrat at the same time.  While the locusts (my fellow teachers) were descending upon him to devour his Epimethean brain, I had this thought:  “Just remember which Democrat let you borrow [...]

Rules like “Sunday is a holy day of obligation” are exactly the type of thing Jesus was rebelling against.  When you spend every morning before sunrise in the desert with your holy Father, what obligation have you to observe any such rule?  And if you are not going out into the desert, then what good [...]

Devotional attitude to the earth:
There is all this evidence global warming exists, that it’s getting worse.  There are some who say it’s a hoax.  There are all those who say it’s caused by humans.  There are a few who disagree.  There are those hopeful who say that human beings can do something to fix it, [...]

“God is interpreted as nature and the attributes of nature are transferred to him (almightiness, for example); just as in the same sociomorphic way the properties of power are communicated to him.  But God is not nature, and not being, he is Spirit.  Spirit is not being, it stands higher than being and is outside [...]