Religions

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• What religions do you find most interesting apart from your own?

  
  Khanya — Authority: 502
  Matt Stone , having passed on a meme about summarising the message of the Bible in five statements, has now come up with a new one: What religions do you find most interesting apart from your own? This evening I want to ask: what religions do you find most interesting apart from your own? Would you pick one of ...
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• The Prosperity Gospel and the Megachurches

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 536
  In her article Did Christianity Cause the Crash? – The Atlantic (December 2009) , Hanna Rosin points to the connection between the “prosperity gospel,” which teaches that God will make you rich if you only have enough faith–by which is meant positive thinking–and America’s megachurches: Among ...
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• Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West

  
  The Debris Field — Authority: 456
  Reality Sandwich | Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West
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• Obama administration reps meet with many faiths at PWR

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 518
  Members of all faiths reached out to one another at the Parliament of World Religins. Photo by John David Miller, Parliament of World Religions. Showing openness to diversity in American religion, members of the Obama administration met at the Parliament of World Religions Dec. 6 with 50 members of multiple ...
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• Naked Girls Plowing a field for rain

  
  Written on the Wind — Authority: 143
  It would seem that in certain rural villages in India, naked virgins are asked to plow the fields during times of drought.  Their nudity is supposed to embarrass the Gods into making it rain. Naked in the dust Sounds like a trick to get the girls to expose the goodies… Getting naked to get wet Shame on ...
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• Questioning Sathya Sai Baba: India’s Most Famous and Politically Powerful Guru

  
  Call For Media and Government Investigation — Authority: 124
  In 1999 came the publication of three articles in Nexus magazine (August-September). A person close to me, who knew well that I had deafened my ears to anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, strongly urged me (putting the magazine right into my hand) to read these articles, one of which was by the head of the ...
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• Obama dodges a ‘Christmas wars’ bullet

  
  GetReligion — Authority: 135
  Unless you have been on another planet for several decades, you have heard the phrase “ War on Christmas ” tossed about in the mainstream press and Fox News, too (cue: rim shot and cymbal). Well, imagine the outcry if the beleaguered White House cultural staff had carried through on the following idea for ...
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• Parenting: Raise Compassionate Children

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Compassion is a word that is bandied around often these days as a "value du jour" in our big-talk, little-action culture of values. Yet, as with most values that are co-opted for a particular agenda, compassion has lost its fundamental meaning and value to people. Thus, the importance of compassion in our lives is not ...
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• Reflections: Reforming the racist - by Todd Daigneault - Helium

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 465
  Racism, itself, is a very intricately complicated issue. All races, religions, colors and creeds practise it. We all do it sometimes-as this is just a modern form of tribal superiority from ancient times, where ones tribe stood as being superior to the other tribe. As the centuries and later the millennia progressed, ...
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• 5 Ways your synagogue or church is like Google

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Listening to on-line interviews and written reports of statements of the last few days made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it is tempting to see Google as a unique phenomenon. To be sure, Google, with its You-Tube and other subsidiaries ranks as one of the greatest and most inventive enterprises ever known to man. As I ...
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• Parliament of the World Religions

  
  Babasiga — Authority: 127
  from w Yesterday I received an email from the Multicultural Commission to say that the exhibition venue of the conference would be free for locals to visit. The conference is huge with about 8000 delegates. It was too expensive for me to participate in the lectures and seminars - about $180 a day! Anyway I took the ...
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• Internet Education

  
  Loyola University Chicago Blogs — Authority: 434
  In 1977 there was no such thing as a personal computer; today there are 1.1 billlion in use. I am typing this blog on one of those 1.1 billion computers in use today. The power to teach and learn through computers is, of course, immense, and the hostility to Internet education is also there. One presenter here at ...
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• Raelian leader who fled Iran is released from detention in Turkey

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 501
  THERE’S jubilation among Raelians this week over the freeing of one of their leaders from a detention centre in Turkey. Negar Azizmoradi Negar Azizmoradi, who is said to have escaped a possible death sentence in Iran, was released in time to celebrate the 36th anniversary – on December 13 – of Rael’s ...
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• Pray the flu away

  
  GetReligion — Authority: 135
  When I became a parent, I was introduced to a world with a lot of fighting. Not between my husband and me — we get along great. But there can be some pretty serious fights in the Mommy Wars . These range from whether mothers should work outside the home to whether they should breastfeed exclusively. And one of the ...
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• Amitabh Bachchan conferred Asian Film Cultural Award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Mumbai, Dec 8 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was Monday conferred the Asian Film Cultural Award for completing 40 years in the entertainment industry.Receiving the award from Bollywood director Ramesh Sippy, Bachchan thanked Kiran Shantaram, chairman, Asian Film Foundation for selecting him for the award.“I am ...
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• Texting on Faith

  
  Loyola University Chicago Blogs — Authority: 434
  Holy words can empower or harm, depending on the user’s motivations and understanding. Sessions titled “Interpreting the Text: Apostasy and Homosexuality” and “The Holy Scriptures and Questions of Intended Use” both addressed the delicate issue of how holy words should be studied and followed in the face of ...
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• Competent Muslim can become PM, says Rahul Gandhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 7 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi interacted with the students of the Aligarh Muslim University here today and responding to the questions posed by the university students that how long will it take for India to have it’s next Muslim Prime Minister, he said the religion is ...
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• Saint Death

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 536
  In Mexico, an ominous new religion is taking shape, the worship of St. Death : On the first day of each month, one of the most unusual religious congregations in Mexico gathers here at Alfareria Street in a tough barrio that even aspiring outlaws regard as a place to watch your back. In the late afternoon, ...
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• The customs and traditions of St Nicholass Day

  
  The Debris Field — Authority: 456
  DARK DORSET - Dorsets premier website devoted to local folklore and the unexplained: The customs and traditions of St Nicholass Day
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• Aboriginal Catholic Vicki Clark

  
  Loyola University Chicago Blogs — Authority: 434
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