What’s not to love about a smiling child opening a box of Christmas treasures? Especially when the child is poor, Third World, and whose parents are unable to provide such wonders.
Every year millions of these Christmas boxes are sent all over the world. In the year 2016 the sponsor of these boxes was hoping to send 12 million boxes to eager children. But the boxes are most valuable to the rich people who send them out, thus making them feel generous and benevolent in a cheap sort of way. (A typical box only costs about $15-$25.).
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No one believed Moishe the Beadle (fictional character). He was the keeper of the synagogue in Sighet, Hungary in 
I was a middle-aged lady, set in my ways, when I decided to be baptized. And when that water poured over my head, I realized the big problem with my new religion: God actually lives in other people. I couldn’t be a Christian by myself. I couldn’t choose who else was my brother and sister.
“God’s got this” – mostly heard when some concern has been expressed concerning someone’s health, a crisis, or unexpected negative event. On the face of it, it sounds so religious and holy – “Relax, God’s got this.”
Words Without Eyes
I heard for the first time in the early 80’s that American foreign policy was being influenced by the joint ideologies of religious fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. It seemed far-fetched at the time, but the idea stayed around in my mind in the ensuing decades.
With all the talk about fake news these days, I’m most disturbed by the rise of fake religion.
“It was meant to be.”
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