Some time ago, I submitted a post in which I said the clergy should use some of their sermons tp relate our faith to situations here -     to. for example,  politics. I noticed that the response of clerics ranged from tepid to high Arctic. So let me try an example - using the very touchy issue of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The core of the sermon would be the meaning and importance of forgiving.

About six months ago, my children came home from school with a lengthy questionnaire that I was requested to fill out. All the schools in New Brunswick had it. I read it quickly, then slowed down. It was the most absurd, useless and incompetent questionnaire I had ever seen. One sample question was typical.

"Is your child's teacher working hard to improve standards of education?"

In the last few days I read an article in Walrus Magazine on how corporations and well-paid staff of NGOs are getting at least 80% of the money spent on reconstruction in Afghanistan and an article in Street Newz about how some social agencies, such as the Salvation Army in Victoria, are costing taxpayers more for providing accommodation than it would cost to just give poor people enough income to obtain their own housing.