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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• An Article Of What Constitutes Off Limits In The New World

  
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• Progressive Orthodoxy

  
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• Christians Adopt Buddhist Child

  
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• ‘They demonize me!’: Bradlee Dean talks about MnIndy reporting of his ministry

  
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• Pastor Steals Nearly $160,000 from Parishioners

  
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• British bishop Richard Williamson to go on trial in Germany for Holocaust denial

  
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• Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

  
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• The Media in this counry is a joke .... the shit this AM is pure shit

  
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• Philosophy of Religion :: RE: Does free will exist?

  
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• The GOP is in deep shitnola in Fla ... too fing bad !!!

  
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• Broadway Baptist skips BGCT for the ‘best interests’ of all

  
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• John Denhams misplaced faith group faith | AC Grayling

  
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• Doublethink? Doubleplus good!

  
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  Submitted by Lara. If you can’t beat them, take their published works, remove what you disagree with, and then add a 50 page ad hominem attack. That’s what one fundamentalist group has done to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the ...
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• Giulani is a POS ... burn in hell you lying POS bastard

  
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• LOL ... Giulani thinks Palin is good for the GOP

  
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  Excellent !!! Nothing better than a cross dressing GOPer endorsing the Queen Airhead Rudy ... you won how many Primaries?
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