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Ethics

Today I read an article in one of the biggest Swedish newspapers about morality. Birgitta Forsman, a science theorist writes "Liberate ethics from religion" "Sometimes religiously based morality is build on false notions of reality and thus results in a quite unnecessary suffering" "The Bible tells many stories that are as exciting and visceral as the Icelandic sagas. And like Hdvamdl contains many words of wisdom, so do the Ecclesiastes and Proverbs in the Bible. But there is nothing to build morale in our global world." "In Catholic Poland, so-called family-friendly politicians have right now a strong support. These politicians would be better called misogynistic, because their agenda is primarily to ban abortion" "marriage between ethics and religion has led and still leads to so much suffering." "Ethics should be based on democracy, equality and free speech not religion" Well, Biritta Forsman, it may be

Saved

During the 80's I used to listen to a lot of Punk music from England and the USA. I had many favourite bands like Sham 69, Ramones, Clash and so on. In the midst of this a girl from Germany, east Germany to be exactly came and shocked a lot of punk rockers with her GREAT voice. She had a trained voice, you could hear that when she sang and she sang in a language we could not understand. Her name is Nina Hagen. Nina Hagen came and went at the same speed in my life and I also in a way abandon punk music for something else. Hard life with drugs and alcohol almost ruined Nina Hagen's life and that was and sorry to say is the "true" life of rock n roll. In the news paper the other day I read an article about Nina Hagen. Nina then says that when she was at the bottom, when she almost died, God came to save her. What!? Nina Hagen!? Not that God wouldn't save her but Nina admits that! WOW. I had to read more. She says: I had to die first to be rescued by God. But u