I’m talking about white church-goers like myself who wade in the deeply spiritual, beautifully haunting songs that emerged from what W.E.B. Du Bois called “the souls of black folk” during slavery.

It is not surprising that mysteries often have a religious undercurrent, since the word “mystery” has religious roots. 

The drive for public education for all was based on the hope that with proper nurturing even those not privileged by nature could grow into good, responsible citizens.

Religions may be human inventions, but what of the mother and father gods worshiped by devotees?

The concept of a heavenly afterlife for the faithful (and a hellish one for their persecutors) seems to have become appealing in Judaism during a time of great persecution: if faithfulness was not rewarded on earth, then it would be later by a just God.

Down through the centuries religion has fueled many wars. Or is it just that Might makes Right, and religion is irrelevant, powerless?