International issues

Obviously it's difficult to find any bright spots in the war between Hamas and Israel. I summed up my attitude toward the war in a post on my Church of the Churchless blog, Religion plays a large role in the horrible Hamas-Israel war. Though I'm an atheist, I recognize that wars often don't involve religion to a significant degree. But sometimes they do, which means that rather than being a force for good in the world, religion encourages death and destruction. Politically, my goal is to be an open-minded progressive. So I embrace the notion being espoused by many liberals…