Article: Guilt, religion and New Year's resolutions

Ah, hardly is the New Year upon us when it's already past time to make my New Year's resolutions! Of course, I did not keep very many of them last year, but that's not a good reason not to make a batch more for this next time around.

What do you plan to do for the New Year, and would any of the professor's set of resolutions offer any help?

1. In the New Year I resolve to not use guilt manipulation to make my children, spouse, relatives and friends go to my house of worship. God knows it's such delicious fun to put the moral thumbscrews on them, but it does not do a great deal in the department of conversion either. Leaving religious tracts around the house is still fair game, however. I ...

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