Preachers can have a tremendous influence on desperate souls looking for answers to their troubles, and the latter may take everything literally.

It’s time to draw the line and stop all this nonsense before it’s too late.

In addition to what we learn in school, other people we meet can give us valuable lessons, too.

If we close our eyes and ears and wish problems will just disappear, they won’t.

A married couple, whose hotel room was raided by religious officials, thinks the staff get a commission for each ‘successful’ raid.

If we turn the page and move on after hearing about corruption, we are complicit in these crimes.

While we are not anywhere near the sorts of brutalities committed elsewhere, it is easy to slip into a subtler version of that mindset.

Some of us have become rather obsessive about the religious pristineness of our food and are perpetually on the lookout for whoever may next cause offence.

In the midst of depressing circumstances, it’s all about how we keep our sanity.

If we keep treating our children as infants throughout their school life, we should not be surprised at the consequences.

Instead of waiting for others to make improvements, maybe we should start by changing ourselves first.

Many think it means the right to absolute freedom rather than basic rights such as the right to life, to dignity, to a nationality, to education and to work.