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
Living in a city as I am, in Malmo, Sweden, it feels natural to talk about bridges.In the year 2000 we got a bridge over the Sound to Copenhagen, Denmark. A bridge between two nations once fighting each other, now connected.We need to continue to build bridges, between different cultures, ideas, people etc. These bridges are harder to build but necessary in the society we have today.We need these bridges in order to reach people with the "Good news"