Category Archives: Religion

If it’s not religion …

Posted on May 4, 2019 by niebla

“If it’s not religion, they find other reasons – social status, envy, greed, skin color, dress code or dietary habits – to discriminate against each other, kill each other and make war. That’s human nature for you. We are programmed … Continue reading →

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Frank Sinatra quotes from Sermon on the Mount

Posted on August 29, 2014 by niebla

Well, I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source … Continue reading →

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A calvary variation

Posted on March 16, 2014 by niebla

A calvary variation, by Johannes Beilharz Digitally modified version of a photo taken near Divino Amore, Lazio, Italy.

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Somewhere

Posted on September 26, 2013 by niebla

Somewhere there’s got to be an end to it, this Allah says and this Jehovah says and this scripture says and therefore I am right and you are wrong and I eat the right things and you eat the wrong … Continue reading →

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One word

Posted on April 20, 2009 by niebla

… a perfect illustration of the blur of time – evanescence, transience, eradication. Continue reading →

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A door

Posted on May 8, 2008 by niebla

Not the da Vinci original but a copy from the protestant church in Haigerloch, southern Germany. The person to the left of Christ is clearly a woman. This painting is older than Dan Brown’s The da Vinci code but would … Continue reading →

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Body & Soul

Posted on April 21, 2008 by niebla

Why deny this body its rights? It is this soul’s one and only and best container this time around. – Niebla A somewhat late response to “Body and/or Link” (Two for Tuesdays VIII).

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Reaganomics & Jesus

Posted on March 19, 2007 by niebla

Swiss medium Beatrice Brunner, in a book I started reading and then put away speedily, claimed to have information that Jesus had not been a simple carpenter but a master builder with a bunch of employees and plenty of dough, … Continue reading →

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From Kabir’s mystic songs

Posted on March 8, 2007 by niebla

I do not know what manner of God is mine. The Mullah cries aloud to Him: and why? Is your Lord deaf? The subtle anklets that ring on the feet of an insect when it moves are heard of Him. … Continue reading →

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