Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

My father had very little formal education.

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.