Criticism, though not exclusively, tends to be progressive because it seeks out errors. Such an attitude favors change if a problem exists. The laughs we get from The Daily Show are often founded on critical thinking. Political speaking pushes the boundaries of absurdity and the exposé amuses us, an unintended consequence for public figures no …
Author Archives: Todd Vickers
Tips for Students
My experience with education was very sad until community college. I can say that there was no class I couldn’t flunk. Was it the benal curriculum I rebelled against; the idea of authority? I am not sure. Maybe I just liked to party more than go to class. Regardless, I did not like school. But …
Gateway Sexual Activity?
There is a reason to criticize the conservative ideology. Tennessee lawmakers added language to the state’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum that warns against “gateway sexual activity.” Many have interpreted the phrase to include discouragement of anything that has potential to lead to sex — including kissing, hand-holding and cuddling. “‘Abstinence’ means from all of these activities, and we …
Crushing Habits of Prejudice – Dark Girls
A Problem With Religious Sexual Ideals
Criticizing religious ideals that are anti sex is controversial but let’s not kid ourselves. A great deal of guilt has its root in religion. Dogma pretends an authority to sanction sexuality as moral or immoral. These beliefs are advocated by the leaders regardless of hypocrisy on their own part. In other words these ethics are …
Church Victims
One more example of abuse of children in religious institutions. Last week yet another a revelation of Catholics castrating boys – Accuse a priest of molesting you and lose your stones. Now that is a code of silence. The question is why it’s so easy for these ugly things to go on behind the mask …
Rick Santorum is Mistaken
Mr. Santorum said “Kennedy took words written to protect religion from the government and used them to protect the government from religion,” Santorum said, referring to the phrase “separation of church and state.” The wars of reformation gave birth to a phrase that people now speak as cliché. Live and let live. This is a …