Archive for March 2022
Email about “right” and “left”
2020|7|7 From: Friend#6 Subject: Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, Or Both? Thank you for your response on sending you the Black Hills speech. And Move on email. I sent you the typed speech , in case you might see it’s meaning with out the speakers voice. ( and your request to read more) .…
Read MoreFoundational flaws of fundamentalism
I respectfully submit that the paradigm of biblical literalism is grossly out of step with God’s will during our changing times of rapid transition and imminent transformation, but it’s important to communicate diplomatically to well-intentioned evangelicals why this is so. That perspective is always looking backward to times that could not have imagined where we…
Read MoreEmail about sculptures and plagues
From: Ray Gangarosa musical interlude: I know Friend#5 is also a big fan of Kate Wolf, who died in 1986 at age 44 of leukemia. Here is my favorite song of hers, “Poet’s heart”, which reminds me of a gifted poetess, pianist, and diarist whom I had a deep crush on the year after I…
Read MoreEmail about “Frustration”
2020|5|23 From: Friend#6 Subject: Frustration Ray G I remember as young engineers , in med school voicing our concerns to each other, On the lack of discipline of our new field of study Had in math processes / and application. I remember a red faced physiology professor , when I confronted him after a class…
Read MoreIdentification of a path toward humanity’s co-creative partnership with God
Raymond E. Gangarosa, MD, MPH, MSEE August 26, 2020 Christian believers have long thought of history in terms of an inversion process, in which catastrophe rebuilds life: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” However, modern…
Read MoreReview principles that will go into my “proof of the existence and nature of God”
2020|5|15 Review principles that will go into my “proof of the existence and nature of God”, centered around the analogy that we are like cells in the body of an intelligent, enlightened, compassionate unicellular Organism Who has our interests at heart but also has an overarching agenda — on a much longer, civilizational, timescale than…
Read MoreRecent evidence I’ve collected about the existence and nature of a purposive God
2020|10|1-2 Recent evidence I’ve collected about the nature and existence of a purposive God 2020|10|1-2 Posted at theprodigalspecies.com on 2020|10|2 Also pasted into “DRAFT 1 of contribution 8, recent evidence about the existence and nature of God 2020|10|2.docx”: Contributions I offer to for defending God’s kingdom, part 2 Contribution 8. Recent evidence I’ve collected about the existence and…
Read MoreDamnation of the hypocritical fundamentalist heresies of our era. Commentary by a progressive Christian evangelist with a scientific background
Raymond E. Gangarosa, MD, MPH, MSEE October 16, 2020 Shame on all of you, you fundamentalist hypocrites, for the ordeal you’ve inflicted upon our nation and the world! Shame on you, you blasphemers against the Holy Spirit, for jeopardizing God’s kingdom to worship instead your manufactured doctrines, as you have disparaged and attacked those who…
Read MoreA “civilizational cure” for coronavirus
Worldwide synchronized lockdowns could be a prototype of an embryonic civilizational circulatory system — and beyond — as the first application for merging science and theology to design the body of Christ and embed it in human civilization. In principle, a synchronized worldwide lockdown for one incubation period could purge the novel coronavirus disease from…
Read MoreEmail discussion about Matt Taibbi
From: Ray Gangarosa Date: 2020|7|6 Hi Friend#13 Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I don’t consider myself in the same category of political commentary as Matt Taibbi. I’ve had to delay my response to your email because I have tried reading the blog you forwarded over and over again, and nothing sinks in for…
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