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In the September 2012 issue of Reno Tahoe Tonight (RTT) magazine, Sean Savoy uses his monthly editorial column to mildly take to task the author of a pro-atheist opinion piece that appeared as the feature article in the popular free weekly magazine Reno News & Review (RN&R).

That critical and judgmental piece, titled “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Jake,” by longtime University of Nevada-Reno professor of journalism Jake Highton, addresses the pretenses and hypocrisy of modern-day religion and at the same time wags a finger at the moral foibles of famous professed believers whose behaviors, he believes, prove to him their moral hypocrisy. Professor Highton’s article begins with the childhood trauma that convinced him that God did not exist, then hops from eighteenth-century deistic points to ancient and modern atheistic points to contemporary scientific points, and ends with the arguments that all religion and all concepts of God defy reason, that modern empirical science alone is reasonable, and that the most morally decent nations are the most secular.

Bishop Savoy, in his article, recognizes the correctness of Professor Highton’s stance when the professor makes solid arguments and promotes an intelligent and more reasonable spiritual perspective when the professor does not.

Read Professor Jake Highton’s original article in RN&R.

Read Bishop Sean Savoy’s response in RTT.

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Sean Savoy was recently approached to write a quarterly column for the local magazine Reno Tahoe Tonight. The publisher and editor, Oliver Ex, wanted something new and spiritually oriented for his independent alternative publication, which he hopes to raise another notch in quality during the revamping process the magazine is presently undergoing. Reno Tahoe Tonight is already known for its excellent photography. Oliver Ex wants it to be known for excellent writing as well.

The title of the new column, The Light Factor, is intended to suggest not only light and enlightenment but also that there is something within the light, the “Light of light.” That is where the word “factor” comes into the title. The column focuses on matters of consciousness, science, energy, ancient mysteries, and adventures into the unknown.

Savoy says the reason he agreed to write the column was to “reach out to the younger generation about the new world consciousness and to provide suggestions for how a person might go about accessing it.”

The first full-length version of the column will appear in the June 2012 edition of Reno Tahoe Tonight. Read the digital short version teaser that appeared in the May 2012 issue at http://issuu.com/renotahoetonight/docs/rtt_may_2012_digitalv_high_res/13 .

You can visit Reno Tahoe Tonight magazine online at www.renotahoetonightmagazine.com. And you can see other writings by Sean Savoy at his website: www.seansavoy.com.