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Rudi Stettner
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An eclectic mix of politics and world culture that defies easy classification
Recent Posts
Can One Be "Good Without G-d?
My daughter and son in law came in yesterday, listening for a good part of their journey to National Public Radio, which had a program on Greg Epstein, a humanist clergyman and authour of "Good Without God", what a billion nonreligious people DO b...
Avraham Fried and Modern Miracles
I was listening to JM in the AM this morning. JM in the AM, which stands for Jewish music in the morning is a wildly popular program of contemporary Jewish music. In the last 20 years, Jewish religiously oriented music has encompassed the spectrum of...
Priest Tells Congregants to Shoplift
An Anglican priest in York, England has advised his poor congregants to get through hard times by shoplifting, distinguishing it morally from violent robbery, prostitution and burglary. The Daily Mail reported as follows on the stunning sermon by th...
Thoughts of December 25, 1989 and 2009
President Obama has put a Christmas deadline on the approval of his health plan in the Senate. Many people of goodwill view the plan as an albatross and a disaster in the making. There is certainly a lot of ego buried in his ostensible altruism...
Yankee Doodle, Lorena Bobbitt and Labeling
Yankee Doodle is widely known as an upbeat song of the American Revolution. There are many versions to it, as well as verses. Originally, it started out as a derisive song, adapted from an English folk tune that poked fun at American freedom fight...
London "Honor Killer" Gets Life
The Swiss passed a ban on minarets, or prayer towers, from which calls to prayer are sounded from loudspeakers. The French have banned hijabs, or head coverings from the public schools.Musically, I like the Muslim prayer chants. They remind me o...

