It is obvious all that religion has done nothing to improve the human condition. In fact, it continues to perpetuate division, violence and death. Although it may appear to be development, it is only the evolution of ideas and their systems that occurs. Evolution has happened and will continue to happen. This is in some ways good as our sciences, organizations, technologies, politics, etc., evolve. But inevitably we will continue to use these developments not only for progress but for... Read more

Every once in a while I come to the realization that I don’t believe in church as it is. I don’t wish to support it. I don’t want to perpetuate its existence. I don’t want to reinforce its rules, its politics, its agendas, its programs. I want to get out of it altogether. I yearn to remove myself from this game completely and forever. I want, like the earliest hermits such as St. Anthony in Egypt, to retreat to the... Read more