Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.