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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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  • The World Discovers Afghanistan’s Peaceful Clerics


    MarcGopin.com — Authority Authority: 85
                                    This article was originally published on January 18th here . At the beginning of December 2011, the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University convened a meeting of over twenty world famous ...
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  • Evangelism


    Samuel at Gilgal — Authority Authority: 498
    In the words of J. I. Packer: [F]orcing tactics can only do damage, perhaps incalculable damage, to men’s souls . . . Evangelism must rather be conceived as a long-term enterprise of patient teaching and instruction, in which God’s servants seek simply to be faithful in delivering the gospel message and applying ...
    5 days ago

  • Breakthrough prayers: Jericho walls must fall!


    Save the World....Sermons and Deliverance prayers — Authority Authority: 115
    Joshua 6 vs. 5: - It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” High praise ...
    5 days ago

  • It’s an excellent thing


    Cubik's Rube — Authority Authority: 416
    Here’s a video I enjoyed today, in which thirty wordsmiths of note from around the world discuss their lack of belief in God:     Although there’s some variety in the tone they set, there’s a greater preponderance of deliberate antipathy toward religion than simply apologetic or uninterested disbelief. ...
    5 days ago

  • Life is an adventure.


    The Adventures of Supermom... now, where is my cape? — Authority Authority: 112
    Hilton Head, SC 2011 Recently a lot of funny things have been happening around here, maybe not funny but things that are fun!  Here’s a recap.  See, I’m not that boring after all.  :) My sister came over Friday afternoon and we had a blast!  We were playing dress up with the girls and danced all over the ...
    5 days ago

  • Obama forces Christians to provide contraceptives


    Early Today — Authority Authority:
    Evangelical and Catholic groups on Friday blasted the Obama administration over its decision not to expand religious exemption from the new health care law that will require them to provide insurance plans covering contraceptives, sterilization and some abortion-causing drugs.   Christian groups joined together ...
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  • ACID TONGUE OBAMA ON CHRISTIAN RIGHT


    Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority Authority: 136
    http://conservativebyte.com/2012/01/acid-tongue-obama-on-christian-right/
    5 days ago

  • My problem with religion: A question with more than one answer


    What Would Jack Do? — Authority Authority: 477
    Be the change you want to see in the world. Mohandas K. Gandhi I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Mohandas K. Gandhi Over the years, a few people have taken me to task over what I’ve written about my antipathy for modern ...
    5 days ago

  • Memo to Social Conservatives: In American, Christians cant be an oppressed majority


    What Would Jack Do? — Authority Authority: 477
    T H E W O R S T P E R S O N I N T H E W O R L D (apologies to Keith Olbermann ) Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) addressed a crowd gathered Monday at a South Carolina Tea Party conference and resolutely concluded that “the greatest minority under ...
    5 days ago

  • Missionary Reality Check


    Gently Hew Stone — Authority Authority: 104
    My family read Alma 21 in the Book of Mormon this week ; a zealous young missionary teaches in a hostile city, encountering intensely reflexive skepticism, then:  10 And it came to pass as he began to expound these things unto them they were angry with him, and began to mock him; and they would not [...]
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  • Another look at the four noble truths


    The Zennist — Authority Authority: 410
    For a newbie, it should be fairly obvious that the Four Noble Truths ( chatvari arya-satyani ) should come at the beginning of their spiritual journey giving it direction.  Logically, it is difficult to imagine the Four Noble Truths as comprising the Buddhas actual awakening; after he recognized his mind had been ...
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  • The right of the wife on her husband


    Talk About Marriage — Authority Authority: 146
    Brother sister husband wife .... Peace, mercy and blessings of God and After .. , Each one of you have rights and duties of the other, and these rights are fixed in the Shar-Hakim; because Allaah says: {And due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable} [Baqarah: 228]. And ...
    5 days ago

  • Prayers: I shall enter my Breakthroughs


    Save the World....Sermons and Deliverance prayers — Authority Authority: 115
    Joshua 6 vs. 1-2: – Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. Doors of breakthroughs , open now in Jesus name I enter my Jerichos in ...
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  • QUESTION ON THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION AND CHURCH


    The Splendor of the Church — Authority Authority: 117
      Anonymous Jan 20, 2012 11:03 PM hello father! i would like to ask, isnt it that religion and church are 2 different things? or are they one and the same? accdg to different dictionaries, religion is worship or set of beliefs while church is a congregation or body of believers or the whole Christian ...
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  • Obamacare and freedom of religion


    The Recliner Commentaries — Authority Authority: 101
    There is an Obamacare mandate that requires even religious (Catholic) organizations to provide coverage for contraception . Im not Catholic and I dont have a problem with contraception, but a government mandate requiring religious organizations to violate their fundamental religious convictions is unconstitutional, ...
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  • Why we shouldn’t be quick to dismiss faith organisations


    Liberal Conspiracy — Authority Authority: 570
    contribution by Steve Hynd ‘Politics and religion should not mix’. This is the mantra that is lazily wheeled out by self congratulating lefties as they marvel in their own enlightened wisdom. I come across social progressives who openly shun the role of faith based organisations (FBOs) as either an ...
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  • Jefferson Bethke: Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus


    Dandelion Salad — Authority Authority: 499
    Dandelion Salad bball1989 on Jan 10, 2012 A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it’s core Jesus’ gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to ...
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  • Portland Wedding - Kennedy School, All Saints Parish, Two Brothers, and Pearson Air Museum


    What Do I know? — Authority Authority: 116
    Were in Portland for a wedding.  Wednesday I got a call asking if I would serve as the best man.  Ive known M for over 30 years and were the kind of friends who may not talk often, but when were together its like we havent been apart.  We went to his first wedding in Anchorage many years ago.  When I had ...
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  • New Year Deliverance prayers


    Save the World....Sermons and Deliverance prayers — Authority Authority: 115
    Joshua 5 vs. 14: -   So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.”And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?” Captain of the host of the Lord, appear in my battles in Jesus name Commander in Chief of the ...
    5 days ago

  • Agenda 21


    TWT Wrestling & MMA Social Network — Authority Authority: 152
    Depopulation Agenda 21 Simplified - Must Watch - Click Show More - YouTube
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