World adherents of all religions, mid-2010: Christians: 2 billion 281 million Muslims: 1 billion 554 million Hindus: 943 million Buddhists: 463 million Chinese folk-religionists: 454 million Ethno-religionists: 270 million New religionists: 64 million Sikhs :24 million Jews: 15 million Spiritists: 14 million Taoists: 9 million Baha’is: 8 million Confucianists: 7 million Jains: 6 million Shintoists…
Human gender never has been and never will be a superficial alliance, subject to the shifting tides of cultural history. Chatter about the relationship breaking down ignores the obvious. The genders male and female have co-managed society since Homo sapiens’ first day.
Here’s a quote from distinguished professor and author Sarah Ahmed that goes to the heart of defining human solidarity. “Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as…
The defense of civilization is everybody’s personal business.
Interdependence is obvious. Global coexistence is our common cause.
Loyalty to the human constituency does not undermine or replace any of the many loyalties to which humanity is heir.
It’s more important to live for your people than to die for them.
Do you remember the fairy tale ”Jack and the Beanstalk”? Desperate poverty forces a mother to send her son Jack to the market to sell their scrawny cow. Along the way, a stranger offers to trade Jack five “magic” beans for the cow. Jack takes the deal. When Jack returns home with five beans, no…