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The Go-Between God
It all started with a knock at the front door. I opened it to find an
eight-year-old aboriginal girl with a tousled hair asking me for an apple. What harm could it do?
I asked myself, as I walked to the kitchen to find her an apple. That interaction began a six-month
encounter with some of the kids of our inner city neighbourhood.
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Heroes of History
Will Durant sees himself as a philosopher-historian meaning that instead of
just presenting human history as a dry collection of facts, he tries to see the meaning
and capture the essence in them. He puts many important events and representative people
into perspective and invites the reader to look deeply into history.
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I Don't Believe In Atheists
After the first hour of reading Chris Hedges' I Don't Believe
in Atheists, my animus toward the new and very popular “fundamentalist”
atheists was sated. Like Chris, I have as much disdain for these pompous
ignoramuses as I do for narrow religious fundamentalists. Any wrongheaded
and stubborn opinion rooted in ignorance ought to repulse us. But after that first hour I was left with a desperate
question, “Where on God’s green earth did reasonable dialogue disappear
to?'
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The Little Friend
I was furious. I knew I was right. People could be so pig-headed when they didn’t want
to see the truth. Every time I tried to remind them of what was going on, they would smile and disregard me.
In frustration I stormed through the office doors, determined to set the matter straight.
As I waited for the elevator, I heard myself think, “Nobody listens to me.” With a shock I recognized those words.
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