Election Un-Ethics
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Date: 30 October 2008
Fuzzy Ethics 2008
Attack ads. Rivers of money flowing into candidates’ war chests. Charges of registration fraud and voter suppression. Sound bites flung around like ammo. All this funny business may be hurting our nation’s politics – and its soul.
Rev. Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, former member of Congress from Pennsylvania
“Free Thinking” About Politics
Begins at 22:40
If there’s one group of voters happy to see religion brushed aside this election, it’s the non-theists: seculars, atheists, agnostics and humanists. Many hope that reason and rationality will someday prevail in American politics…but for secular voters, it could be a very long wait.
Jennifer Bardi, editor of The Humanist magazine
Green Faith
Begins at 34:07
In 2001, activist Mike Tidwell decided he was going to totally transform his bungalow into a low-energy paradise. Nine months and $7,500 later, he says most of his home’s energy now comes from either wind power, the sun, or corn. Laura Kwerel finds out why he’s more than just a guy trying to live in the house of the future. Plus, the new Green Bible, HarperOne’s Good Book for environmentalists.
Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Mark Tauber, senior Vice-President at Harper One, publisher of The Green Bible
Yiddish and Hebrew: The Languages of Judaism
Begins at 43:20
In his new novel, Peter Manseau tells the story of a young Catholic man who translates the Yiddish memoirs of an elderly Russian Jew. In the process, he learns why the Yiddish language is distinctively sacred, mystical and Jewish.
Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, founder of the Killing the Buddha.com
This Week's Interfaith Calendar
Oct. 31- Samhain (Pagan)
Samhain is celebrated by followers of paganism and earth-based religions. In Europe it was Christianized and renamed "All Hallow's Eve," or Halloween.
Nov 1-All Saint's Day (Christian)
Christians have observed this feast day in honor of all their faith's saints and martyrs since the 8th or 9th century.
Nov. 2- Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I
(Rastafari)
Haile Selassie was the Emperor of Ethiopia, and Rastas believe he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
