December, 2014

This week through my headphones # 7

End of the year, we are all suffering through that winter chill. Oh Montreal, when you are cold, you are cold! It’s that time of the year to dust out those all time classics. You all know what I’m talking about, we are all doing it. We are all sneakily…

Religion in the Face of Crisis

Why the turn to the religious? Why now, with all we know? Anyone on the street can give you one thousand problems with religion: scandal in the Catholic church; fundamentalists of all stripes committing atrocities near and far; a long history of the suppression of the rights of peoples of…

Faith in the Millennium

The West seems to be losing its religion. This has not been a fast process, is not an intergenerational schism. While only 5 percent of the Greatest generation describes themselves as religiously unaffiliated 26 percent of millennials describe themselves as such. This might be the headline that someone else would…

Spiritual Techno in the New Age of Religion

The relevance of traditional religion is fading in our post-industrial world. While certain pundits hold up this trend as an indication of civilization’s moral downfall, others interpret it as a beneficial step in social evolution, heralding the triumph of the scientific method. Personal beliefs aside, there’s no denying that religion is being forced to assume an…

Not Faith, But Something

The sun shines patterns of red, green and blue through the church’s stained-glass windows. The priest squints at the pews in front of him. Under the windows, the colors surround him like a halo. Then again, everyone has a halo with my glasses off. His blurred face asks us all…

Recap: Environmental Theme Week

Yooo so lets recap, and by recap I mean entice you to revisit our articles. So let us return to a warmer time (see what I did there? hint:global warming) when in October we explored the generation-defining, global-spanning, all-encompassing, super-important, life or death, game changing issue of “The Environment”. We all…

Atheism is Wack

In a world far far away a game of competitive ping-pong is being played. All seems well and good, until the referee is believed dead and a replacement is brought in. All of a sudden a game that has been played for well over 10,000 years is radically reconsidered when…

God is a Robot

God is not dead, yet, God is no longer how we perceive him. The religious dynamic has shifted from that of a passive following to something that is more hands-on. This is due to the shift society has experienced; people have grown increasingly impatient, leading fast paced lives and so…

To the New Atheist

Do not deceive yourself — God is very much alive. The atheist for all his rules, restrictions, and rationalizing is every bit as dogmatic and loathsome as the dogs of history who use religion to justify their monstrosities. His sermons are proofs, his rituals are calculations. In his quests to…