Tag: religion
member name: John M.
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January 19, 2007 02:22 PM EST --
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
The following is a BBC article
By BBC Team
"Are Mormons Christians?
"Are we Christians? Of course we are! No one can honestly deny that."
"We . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
Now that Americans have been rudely awakened by a virtual waterfall of books and commentary and failed policy, to the dangers of a theocratic government, guess what? The Democratic Party has decided "if . . .
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November 24, 2006 06:12 PM EST --
The Islamic Middle East today is somewhat like ancient Greece in one critical regard. Athenian culture served as the symbolic fountainhead of logical reasoning for the intellectual development of western . . .
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December 24, 2008 04:54 PM EST --
In his 2008 book, 'The Religious Case Against Belief' James P. Carse goes to great lengths to make a sharp distinction between 'Belief Systems', of all varieties, and that which . . .
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December 14, 2006 11:50 AM EST --
This post is for members of the gather group titled Comparative Religion. Our group continues to expand and now includes 82 people from, virtually, all over the world. We will continue to consider one . . .
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December 22, 2006 10:08 AM EST --
This post is for members of the gather group titled Comparative Religion. The religion we will be discussing for the next week or so is "Judaism". I have decided to change the format for presenting . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:35 AM EST --
As some of you know I am an Independent in matters political. My leanings are fiscal conservatism and a preference for small government. The war in Iraq disturbs me and millions of others deeply. It is . . .
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January 19, 2007 03:28 PM EST --
Can civilization survive contending religions each of which is convinced of it's own exceptionalism?‚
The wall of separation between church and state that worked so well among the Western . . .
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February 22, 2007 12:34 PM EST --
I was driving home late one night with my wife and oldest son. It was a heavily wooded setting we had traveled thousands of times before. There were no man-made landmarks along the curving country road. . . .
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November 27, 2006 10:53 AM EST --
Attorney Stanley Fish in a column in todays New York Times clarifies, with some exceptions, the limits of the "free exercise of religion clause". Generally speaking there is absolute freedom . . .
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December 29, 2006 11:08 AM EST --
This post is for members of the gather group titled Comparative Religion. The religion we will be discussing for the next week or so is "Buddhism". I will provide . . .
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January 13, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
The next religion in our series is Unitarianism. ÂÂÂ
I found a neat summary statement:
"Historically the basic content of Unitarianism . . .
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December 09, 2006 04:25 PM EST --
This post is for members of the gather group titled Comparative Religion. The religion we will be discussing for the next week or so is Hinduism. I have decided to change the format for presenting the . . .
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January 05, 2007 04:35 PM EST --
Study group on World Religions
We will next be discussing "Christianity". I found an interesting treatment of the subject in Wikipedia. This treatment looks at Christianity by contrasting . . .
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April 11, 2007 05:55 PM EDT --
"[Passage (if you will)]
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals . . .
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May 28, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
There's this one restaurant in West Fort Lauderdale that has a strange hold over my behavior. Anyone who purchases the full dinner from the menu is presented with a coupon that entitles you to a free . . .
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December 28, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
In my previous article "Saving Private (Baghdad)" some of the ensuing comments raised, in my mind, an underlying issue. There are two conflicting interpretations . . .
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December 31, 2006 10:14 AM EST --
Happy New Year!
Our discussion pages and commentary along with the 24 hour news media and popular literature have been overstocked with "doom and gloom" forecasts about the inevitability of . . .
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October 14, 2006 11:06 AM EDT --
How seemingly impossible it is to wrap our mind around the Amish massacre in Pennsylvania. Attempting to execute ten totally innocent little girls. What could possibly have motivated this unspeakable atrocity. . . .
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December 08, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
Hindu Philosophy (Extract from Wikipedia)
"Samkhyais the oldest of the orthodox philosophical systems in Hinduism. Samkhya postulates that all in reality is either a soul or matter. There are many . . .
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