Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.