religion

Religion is as old as humankind. With the dawn of language came the perennial questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is death? Thus, religion was born, describing a supernatural world beyond our ordinary senses.

Religion usually involves belief in a personal God or gods. Religious dogma — principles laid down by an authority — are taken by believers to be true on faith.

Religion deals with meaning and values — questions of "why." Compare this with science, which deals with facts and theories, in search of answering "how."

The most frequently practiced religions (or lack thereof) in the world today are: Christianity (2.1 billion); Islam (1.5 billion); and secular/nonreligious/agnostic/atheists (1.1 billion).

Watch the geography of 5,000 years of religion evolve.

Religion is considered an impolite topic — hence its popularity in the blogosphere.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “religion”

 

• Faith And Fracking: A Religious Case For The Environment

  
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  (Photo/Sharon Mollerus via Flickr) The hydraulic fracking debate has already gotten political. Now it’s getting religious. A Catholic diocese in England is stepping up to the front lines of the fracking debate, urging parishioners to think twice before supporting a drilling practice that injects chemicals and ...
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• Mme Ravalomanana Calls for Unity in Address to Moramanga People on UN World Refugee Day

  
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  ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --The campaign for Madagascars Mouvance Ravalomanana continues apace. Speaking ahead of her election rally in the regional province of Moramanga on World Refugee Day today, Presidential Candidate Lalao Ravalomanana expressed the need...
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• Lessons of the Past: A Review of "Lions of the Faith"

  
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  Lessons of the Past | William Kilpatrick | CWR A review of Andrew Bieszad’s Lions of the Faith: Saints, Blessed, and Heroes of the Catholic Faith in the Struggle with Islam Lions of the Faith  chronicles the lives of saints, martyrs, and heroes who were caught up in the struggle between Islam and ...
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• Man of Steel and Cross of Wood

  
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  Man of Steel and Cross of Wood | Nick Olszyk | CWR Man of Steel is the superhero movie Catholics were waiting for, and it was worth the wait. MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III (Adults) Reel Rating,  (5 Reels out of 5)           Among the great Christ figures of world literature, Superman is our ...
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• Hollywood makes a grab for the Christian dollar; compares Superman to Jesus

  
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  GO forth and tell thine flocks to pack cinemas for the latest Superman blockbuster, Man of Steel. That’s the essence of an aggressive marketing campaign by Warner Bros to get faithful bums on seats for their newest offering. According to this report , it has set up a special ministry resource site touting a ...
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• Christian Domestic Discipline is a thing apparently

  
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  But different to real BDSM, where equal partners consent(or not) to what happens, this Christian spanking thing seems to just be a way for sexually regressive and emotionally stunted males to oppress and abuse their wifes while citing divine authority. … Continue reading →
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• Pol of the cloth?

  
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  Clothes make the man, or — just maybe — unmake him.  Noë Rodriguez Roldan, a PRI candidate for the Tlaxcala state legislature took part in a comedy skit during a campaign appearance in May.  In the skit, the candidate played a priest hearing confession. While it’s unlikely that, as PAN state chair Sergio ...
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• China jails 19 for extremist crimes in Muslim west

  
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  Courts in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uygurs to up to six years in jail for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online, in the latest crackdown on what China sees as violent separatists. All but one of those jailed were from the heavily Uygur southern part of Xinjiang, ...
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• Provincial Parks Open for 2013 Season‏

  
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  News Release Provincial Parks Open for 2013 Season May 9, 2013 Ontario Encourages Families to Enjoy Great Outdoors Most provincial parks in southern Ontario will open for the season May 10, with the majority of northern Ontario parks opening May 17. Starting this month, visitors can enjoy a range of great family ...
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• BRAZIL: Evangelicals Force Approval Of Bill Legalizing "Gay Cure" Therapy

  
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  Brazil outlawed "ex-gay" therapy in 1999, but yesterday a congressional commission approved lifting that ban after pressure from evangelicals. The commission is led by evangelical pastor Marco Feliciano of the Social Christian Party (JMG: above), who has been accused of homophobia and enraged activists by calling ...
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• Our Church by Roger Scruton – review

  
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  Its heart is in the right place but this account of Anglicanisms past is full of Victorian cliches and misrepresentations I begin this review with a declaration of interest. Roger Scruton and I are rather alike. When very young, we watched our present queens coronation on small black-and-white televisions, our first ...
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• Our Church by Roger Scruton – review

  
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  Its heart is in the right place but this account of Anglicanisms past is full of Victorian cliches and misrepresentations I begin this review with a declaration of interest. Roger Scruton and I are rather alike. When very young, we watched our present queens coronation on small black-and-white televisions, our first ...
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• School prayer: 50 years after the ban, God and faith more present than ever

  
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  By Lee Lawrence, CS Monitor, June 16, 2013 Atlanta—At the adolescent-unfriendly hour of 7:10 on this rainy spring morning in tiny Loachapoka, Ala., classes won’t start for another half hour in the public school. But already the science lab at Loachapoka High School is coming alive with the banter of 13 teens ...
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• European Non-Discrimination Law: A Comparison of EU Law and the ECHR in the Field of Non-Discrimination and Freedom of Religion in Public Employment … Issue (School of Human Rights Research)

  
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  List Price: $ 105.00 Last checked best price : Kindly click the buy button to get latest prices Thank you for visiting AttorneyNext. Support us by buying products through our links. In Europe, contemporary multicultural issues raise the question as to whether the overlap between the non-discrimination regimes of the ...
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• A More Secular Europe, Divided by the Cross

  
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  By Andrew Higgins, NY Times, June 17, 2013 BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—Stanislav Zvolensky, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Slovak capital here, was thrilled when he was invited to Brussels three years ago to discuss the fight against poverty with the insistently secular bureaucracy of the European Union. “They ...
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• Iterum Cum Hac Merda …

  
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  American Humanist Association sues California town to halt construction of cross monument First, we had the courthouse in Bradford County , Florida that refused to take down the monument of the Ten Commandments, so now we have that and one representing atheism sitting next to it as a “compromise”.  Then, the ...
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• Man of Steel marketing campaign seeks to align Superman with Jesus

  
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  Dedicated website invites clergymen to utilise Superman myth as a mechanism for educating and uplifting Christian audiences Hollywood studio Warner Bros is targeting Christian audiences in the US with a campaign for its superhero blockbuster Man of Steel that explicitly compares Superman to Jesus . The studio ...
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• Humanist weddings and equal marriage pension rights to be debated by peers

  
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  Plans for humanist weddings and pension rights for those in same-sex marriages will feature in this afternoon’s House of Lords debate of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. As part of the committee stage, peers will continue the process of scrutinising the legislation. An amendment for humanist weddings was ...
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• Fathers deserve greater recognition for holding society together, says Archbishop of Westminster

  
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  The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, will portray good fathers as the unsung heroes of modern Britain – having a direct positive effect on crime rates, school results and even the nation’s mental health. In a speech in London, he will urge politicians to take “every opportunity” to ...
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• Actual Grace

  
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  Continuing his discussion of the transient assistance God gives us, Father Geiermann mentions the assistance of actual grace. “Actual grace is a virtuous impulse which God gives man to act in the supernatural order. . . . It illumines the mind to see the truth, the good, the moral beauty, as well as the ...
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