legalised paedophilia???

Ok. So we thought the Catholic Church had a pretty bad past on this subject. They are now paying the price in lost respect, revulsion and decline.

But as has been mentioned in this blog before, many 'religious organisations' are also revealed to be lacking in this morality. As has also been mentioned here, Islam – with it's seperate and warring clans and groups (Sunnis, Shia, Wahabbi, Alawites, Taleban, etc.etc.etc.) – is no stranger to Paedophilia.  However, most of the time this is presented as isolated incidents in modern life, or in the past.

So, take a look at modern Syria – where the government has actually removed 1000 teachers who wore the niquab – and read about recent 'proposed revisions' to State Law:

"…as a concession to Islamists, …..…a proposed rewrite of Syria’s personal status law, which governs civil matters, leaked last year, retained provisions that made it legal for men to marry girls as young as 13 years old"

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Oh Dear, Islam…..between the BACHA BAZI in Afghanistan and proposed laws like this in Syria……and your reliance upon ethical and moral standards of more than 1000 years ago……you set a poor example in this modern world

Time to modernise………?

Carpe Diem…the children cry

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs.  The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.  ~William J. Clinton, 1

inter-dependency

“The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Spiritual Sudoku – Postscript 1

 

"There’s a seller’s market in ideologies that gives people a chance to feel victimized"

David Brooks    VIA

never-ending story

VIA

Many roads, ONE destination – One-ness.

"The great Sufi saints like the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi held that all existence and all religions were one, all manifestations of the same divine reality. What was important was not the empty ritual of the mosque, church, synagogue or temple, but the striving to understand that divinity can best be reached through the gateway of the human heart: that we all can find paradise within us, if we know where to look. In some ways Sufism, with its emphasis on love rather than judgment, represents the New Testament of Islam."  

William Dalrymple

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spiritual sudoku

There are some who 'play the mind games' with spiritual truths. It's a kind of spiritual sudoku. It's entertaining. Sold as an expensive necessity to life or as the latest 'ticket to an enlightened nirvana", consciousness, or self-satisfying personal indulgence.

balancing polarities

“I have learned silence from the talkative,

tolerance from the intolerant,

and kindness from the unkind;

yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”

Kahlil Gibran

“Sometimes it is only when you meet the opposite of what you are

that you truly become what you are”     geoff groom

Respect is free

 

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

never to late to say 'sorry'

At 93 – and following a stroke in 1996 – KIRK DOUGLAS still has important things to say, and does say them….

it is written……….

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Healing kindness

"Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of...[our] immune system[s] and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine that! Kindness extended, received or observed, beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved"

 

The Power of Intention     Wayne Dyer, Ph.D

the necessity of love

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama

 

"The mind is like a parachute…it works best when it is open"      Dalai Lama

Cambodia court

 

This poem was written many years ago in memory of all the innocents who died at the hands of their own government in Cambodia – approximately 25% of the population.

 

FORGET – ME – NOT

geoff groom

sensitive morality

"People who behave morally don’t generally do it because they have greater knowledge; they do it because they have a greater sensitivity to other people’s points of view"

 

David Brooks, NYT

happiness recipe

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

 Abraham Lincoln

situational penitence

"The Catholic Church continued to heap insult upon injury when it revealed its long-awaited new rules on clergy sex abuse…."

Maureen Dowd, New York Times…read the full article here

"(it)…did not issue a zero-tolerance policy to defrock priests after they are found guilty of pedophilia; it did not order bishops to report every instance of abuse to the police; it did not set up sanctions on bishops who sweep abuse under the rectory rug; it did not eliminate the statute of limitations for abused children; it did not tell bishops to stop lobbying legislatures to prevent child-abuse laws from being toughened."

errr….what does it take for the Vat to realise that with each step it takes down the road of denial, it more than echoes Peter?

Within 20 years this org in it's present form will have disintegrated from within.

real ideas?

treasure……..

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~

C.S. Lewis

the injury of boredom

 

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau