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A Few Years Ago, A Priest Working In A Slum Section Of A European City Was Asked Why He Was Doing It, And Replied, 'so That The Rumor Of God May Not Completely Disappear.

There Are Times In History When The Dark Drums Of God Can Barely Be Heard Amid The Noises Of This World. Then It Is Only In Moments Of Silence, Which Are Rare And Brief, That Their Beat Can Be Faintly Discerned. There Are Other Times. These Are The Times When God Is Heard In Rolling Thunder, When The Earth Trembles And The Treetops Bend Under The Force Of [god’s] Voice. It Is Not Given To Men [and Women] To Make God Speak. It Is Only Given To Them To Live And To Think In Such A Way That, If God’s Thunder Should Come, They Will Not Have Stopped Their Ears.

Even In A Society As Tightly Controlled As Singapore's, The Market Creates Certain Forces Which Perhaps In The Long Run May Lead To Democracy

Some People Seem To Gravitate From One Fundamentalism To Another, From Some Kind Of Secular Fundamentalism Into A Religious Fundamentalism Or The Other Way Around, Which Is Not Very Helpful.

The Negative Side To Globalization Is That It Wipes Out Entire Economic Systems And In Doing So Wipes Out The Accompanying Culture