As usual, Marc over at Critical Belief has written a thought-provoking post about the Good News and how it differs from good advice we can readily find in religion — and how both truly affect us, if at all. He writes: If there’s one thing in this world which is in no short supply it’s good advice. Long ago, I assume, good advice was something precious and rare and accessible to those with wise parents, grandparents or gurus and carefully preserved. Nowadays we can all, fairly easily, subscribe to famous quotes via RSS or get forwarded chain letters with all manner of tips and motivation, buy self-help books and even read wise sayings from ancient or distant religious teachers….

…and yet, somehow we are unaffected. We read a wise saying, think “that is so true”, nod meaningfully and click or page on to the next news story. Which brings me to the next item in apparently endless supply today: Bad News. This week has been particularly full of natural disaster (China, Burma), xenophobic violence (South Africa), general mayhem (Iraq) and hunger (Somalia, Zimbabew, Haiti etc.). But this is business as usual and even local papers are filled with stories of accidents, rapes, murders and hooliganism. No News may be Bad News but apparently so is All News. But even bad news, really bad news, fails to affect us. We page on to the adverts and look for stuff to buy…

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