I have eliminated many "Faith Based Sites" from my blogroll. I did this after actually reading them every day for a week. I have no use at all for the "monastic" types who hide away in monasteries safe from all the world so they can "contemplate." Such contemplation invariably yields narrowness of mind, disassociation from reality, and obscure spiritual solutions to even more obscure central issues. I have even less use for celibates telling me about sex and people who earn their living by begging money from others offering financial advice. Not to mention people who don't work claiming to understand my problems at work.

Oh yeah, then there is spiritual advice from atheists who vomit their bullshit all over every PBS channel that will have them. They are the absolute worst.

I find that many Catholic sites in particular are a lurking spot for people hiding from everything. They are so full of shit they use toilet paper to wipe their brows. I think you will find the current list really good. Today's sermon comes from Fresno, and you'll find it pretty dam good. For the more contemplative among you I suggest you visit HERE. A sample:

Bring Out Your Dead:
Touring Corpses and the Yuck Factor-----In his Histories, Herodotus, the first Western historian, relates a curious anecdote about the Persian king Darius. Gathering a group of Greeks who were presently at his court, the king asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that no sum of money would entice them to commit such a despicable act. As Herodotus relates the story:

He then sent for certain Indians, of the race called Callatians, men who eat their fathers, and asked them, while the Greeks stood by, and knew by the help of an interpreter all that was said, -- “What he should give them to burn the bodies of their fathers at their decease?” The Indians exclaimed aloud, and bade him forbear such language. Such is men’s wont herein; and Pindar was right, in my judgment, when he said, “Custom is the king o’er all.”

Cultural relativism may not be sovereign over all but it does appear to rule over matters concerning the dead.

He then gives quite a view about cultural relativism.