Have you ever had a day when you just couldn’t get excited about blogging politics?? Have you ever been so burned out on politics that you felt like one more political post would make you pull your hair out??
Today is that day for me, so I am going to address the hypocrisy, or perhaps it’s [...]
In a video, Abdul Rehman Saleem (Trevor Brooks), praised Osama bin Laden and said Islam was a "religion of terrorism". He said: "Terrorism against the kuffar [non-believers], terrorism against those that terrorise us, terrorism against those that terrorise our women and children. Yes we have terrorised them so when they call you terrorist, be proud to have that title.""Religion of terrorism"? Oh Trevor, you Islamophobe.Via Jihad Watch
By Bob Patterson1: I don't believe in a god because I have yet to see, hear, or feel one. Neither have I seen any credible evidence that anyone else has. 2: I don't believe in your god because there are thousands of gods... What makes your god (out of 10,000 gods) the 'real' one? Ever notice that believers follow the religion of their parents? 3: What is the evidence for your god? If you tell me the bible, I'll have to assume you never read it. Much of the bible is the rantings of maniacal lunatics. Is that the best your god can do? 4: If, in fact, your god is the factual real McCoy, 100% of the world would know it. 5: Why does your god get all the credit for everything perceived as good, but never any blame for what isn't? 6: If your god is so great and so powerful, why is there still disease, suffering and birth defects? 7. Only 1/3 of the world's population are in 'Christian nations' which, of course, are only partially Christian? 8: If God is in fact the father of Jesus, what p
Kelly O'Connor
Jan 30, 2008
...hypocrisy; cognitive dissonance; higher rates of STD infection, teen pregnancy, abortion, and poverty; mass societal dysfunction; early mortality; homicide; and, in rare cases, delusions and psychosis. Is Living Under the Influence (of religion) less dangerous than Driving Under the Influence?
In the news this week, we have the case of Eunice Spry, a British woman who systematically tortured her adopted and foster children because of her religious convictions. She did pleasant things like forcing the children to eat their own vomit for being greedy, and making a child with nighttime enuresis (bed-wetting) at the age of 4 wear a sign reminding everybody that she was an evil attention-seeker. It doesn't stop there, either. She also prevented a teenaged girl who was injured in a car accident and temporarily confined to a wheelchair from walking in order to collect more compensation money, despite the fact that the prognosis was she would regain ab
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Sent in by BrandineIt's amazing how a little time and a lot of information can completely change your point of view. I never was really touchy about my religion. That's not to say I didn't get offended when someone said something I considered blasphemy, but I wasn't the one who was going to get up in their face about it. I pretty much accepted that everyone had their own road to walk.My sister, Layla, posted a testimony on this site a couple of weeks ago so I won't go into too many of the same details. Suffice it to say, we grew up in the rural south, bible belt where religion isn't so much of a choice or epiphany as it is just a way of life. Even our crackheads are somewhat practicing Christians. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I started questioning my faith. I can pretty much pinpoint the high water marks.I never really gave much thought to my spirituality until I was about sixteen. Until that point, I knew I was saved, and that was good enough for me. Then I moved in with some
Scholars participating in the conference on “Rethinking Religion in India” on Wednesday here were still trying to understand religion as is practiced in the sub-continent. The feeling was that there was a negative picture of India religion elsewhere in the world. According to Dunkin Jalki, a Ph.d student on Cultural Studies from Bangalore,“Only when Asians reflect upon themselves or each other, a positive picture on (social systems) emerges.” Prof. J.S.Sadananda of the Kuvempu University in Karnataka, who has been conducting research work on caste in Karnataka’s 40 villages, said: “The perception of India appears influenced by Christian theological framework of Europe. They haven’t been able to understand the phenomenon they are studying.” According to Professor Rajeev Ranjan Sinha, Head of the Department of Sanskrit Vidya and Dean Faculty of Shamana Vidya at Sampoornanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, the speakers appear to have misu
Why don't we ask this young lady who was terrorized by the "loving Christians" at a crisis pregnancy center--placed inconspicuously right next door to a Planned Parenthood, which is where this woman had an appointment when she mistakenly entered the wrong place. I realize this story is a little bit old, but I just saw it today and wanted to alert others to the dangers of these "crisis pregnancy centers" and the fanatical beliefs that will be forced upon an unsuspecting woman who ventures through their doors looking for help.
I know because it actually happened to me. I got pregnant one month after getting married. I was 20, and my husband was leaving for Japan in three days. I was going a month later to stay for three years. I was petrified to have my first child in a foreign country with no family or friends. I went to one of the "crisis pregnancy centers" expecting sound advice and just somebody to talk to, but instead what I got was guilt and lies
The Guardian Unlimited section, Comment is Free, has just started a year long project in which each week, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar will blog a different verse or theme of the Qur'an. Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting will help frame the debate and whilst readers cannot directly blog questions and opinions, they can email questions, their queries, etc.*We are only at the beginning of this project and it has already stalled somewhat and rightly so in my view, as Mr Sardar is refusing to engage with those of us who have raised what he clearly regards as prickly issues and by doing so has partially negated the whole point of the exercise. My own bone of contention with Mr Sardar has been over his claim that if it is to be understood perfectly, the Qur’an must be read in its original language. However if one takes into account the Qur’an was written in ancient Arabic, the vast majority of Muslims will be excluded from reading the book as they cannot und
Scholars from India and abroad, who feel that religion in India has been seen from European or ‘colonial’ eyes, are going to give a fresh look and try to evolve a framework for interpreting it at a conference which will commence on Monday. The joint effort is being organised by the Ghent University of Belgium in cooperation with the Kuvempu University and the Karnataka Academy for Social Sciences from Karnataka. Too much effort at ‘liberalisation’ and making religion ‘secular’ is not the answer to current problems and efforts to avoid violence. What is required for Indians is to understand the true significance of religion, said Dr. Balagangadhara Rao of Ghent University of Belgium, who is going to give the keynote address at the conference opening on Monday, January 21, said at a press meet here yesterday. Dr. Rao said: “We have a rich past. How our traditions, culture and religious way of living have been in the pas
Ah, the infamous 'religion' thing. Edelman has a clearly atheist viewpoint on the subject of religion. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and this isn't in any way an attack on Edelman, but simply a point of explanation. His viewpoint is shared by quite a lot of people, including me to some extent. Religion is a wonderful, beautiful thing, for some, or it is a bigoted, ignorant cloud to others. Who holds the correct viewpoint is irrelevant.Having said that, Edelman presents this point on the subject of divorcing morality from religion:I don’t think anything good comes from the belief that we should refrain from murder, theft, and rape because someone wrote it down in a book five thousand years ago. Those of us who don’t believe in an all-powerful Being In The Clouds are just as capable of defining principles of morality and sticking to them — in fact, I’d argue that we’re more capable. If you want to continue to believe in God, great; but we can agree on moral principle
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Is it news to find out that an employee for a City agency is sending religious emails on the company dime? Is that appropriate use of time funded by tax dollars? Recently, an employee with the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) sent an email blast to everyone she knew, calling for a boycott of dollar coins. Why might someone demand a boycott of currency? She thought the new coins did not say the phrase “In God We Trust.”
The third of the Christian Ten Commandments demands, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," but God damn it, I will if I want to. I have freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, so I can take any deity's name in vain if I want to. Besides that, what kind of democracy would base its laws on the idea of meek submission to a lord? That's what the founders of the United States rebelled against. Apparently Mike Huckabee has never heard about what happened in 1776.
La banda estadounidense Bad Religion presenta nuevo videoclip. El tema que podemos escuchar en la grabación es “New Dark Ages”, cuarto tema musical de su último disco, New Maps of Hell, lanzado el 10 de Julio de este ańo.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have shown that religion and spirituality are linked to positive physical and mental health in disabled people. The ...
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Surprise! It's not a woman this time. A man flirting with a married woman was shot and had his penis severed. All you naysayers thought there wasn't equal rights in Muslim culture. A Turkish man who flirted with another man's wife has died after having his penis cut off. The victim, who has been described only as being 58 years old, was shot at point-blank range in the middle of the street. He then had his manhood severed with a knife, and was left to bleed to death. Two teams of surgeons worked at the scene to save the man but were unable to revive him, authorities said. Regional Head Of Crime Investigations Franz Polzer said the cause of the attack had been jealousy, describing the motivation as a "question of honor". Investigators believe the suspect apparently was jealous that the younger man had flirted with his wife. A 76-year-old man, also of Turkish origin, was arrested shortly after the attack. The suspect initially fled into a nearby house after the slaying, but w
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There are over 1.4 billion Chinese, many of whom are Confucius, Taoists, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims or just “free thinkers”.
Early Chinese culture, around 5000 years ago, was a shamanistic culture with a strong religious stamp, at the centre of which stood the veneration of ancestors and rites. In addition, Heaven was regarded and worshipped as [...]
When Rep. Pete Stark disclosed he does not believe in a God, it was in the passive context of an active inquiry by secular humanist non-profit organizations. But some six months after his disclosure, Rep. Stark has begun talking more actively and openly about his beliefs, disbeliefs and how they fit into and around [...]
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!
Turkmenbashy writes:"Everybody has the right to define his attitude towards religion, to profess any religion or not to profess any, either individually or jointly with others, to disseminate and publicize his beliefs concerning religion and to participate in the practice of religious cults, rituals and rites."Ruhnama I, p. 251There are many people who are firmly established in their religious beliefs -- and there is nothing wrong with this. However, there are others who are so convinced that what they believe is the only 'true' religion (to the exclusion of all other religions and philosophies) that they are intolerant towards those persons who believe differently.One of the key teachings in Ruhnama is the necessity to demonstrate kindness, love and respect for others. This would also include respecting the 'beliefs' of others, so long as those beliefs do not infringe upon the rights and freedoms of individuals or society. This doesn't mean that we must believe what others believe, bu
Author: Robert Alun JonesPaperback: 360 pagesPublisher: Columbia University Press (August 16, 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 023113438X(R)"For Frazer, Freud, Durkheim, and Malinowski, totemism was central in their efforts to describe the earliest stages of humanity's religious and social evolution. Jones's beautifully written study is easily the best analysis of this important chapter in the history of anthropology."Robert Ackerman, author of J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
(Via angelsdepart)I was raised in church. I know that this statement is not profound. Roughly 80% of Americans are raised in church. Now don’t get me wrong, when I was young I believed in this stuff intensely, but some of the questions I had then were profound for a child. I remember being in Sunday school at about the age of 10. I was having difficulty taking the story of Jonah seriously. I remember saying to my teacher “the great thing about the Bible is that even the stories that are not true still have value because they teach us morals.” My teacher responded that my statement was true but that the Biblical stories had even more value because they were true.One time in youth group (a term for a church geared towards young teens) I was in charge of putting out a column for the church paper to represent our group. I wrote an article about how being drunk was wrong but drinking was not. I mean how could drinking alcohol be wrong if the foundation for our religion (Jesus) drank w
There's a curious little story pushing the new series of The X-Factor in today's Mirror:X Factor Muslim turmoilDannii Minogue says a Muslim X Factor contestant will be disowned by her family when they find out she auditioned.New judge Dannii said: "One girl, a Muslim, was shaking."Hang on a moment - why does the woman's religion even warrant a mention, never mind the headline "Muslim turmoil"? Surely the point of the story is that the girl went on the show despite her parent's disapproval; the religion is incidental, isn't it?Doubtless Dannii would insist she was "only mentioning" the Islamic connection - in the same way she was "only mentioning" those Arabic street signs - but the whole thing leaves a nasty taste in the mouth, with a lingering suggestion that Islam is such a crazy religion, it even won't let its followers be insulted by Simon Cowell. Is ITV really comfortable helping foster this false sense of otherness? Wouldn't the story be strong enough to promote a silly ga
One of my readers, Alan Who (I wanted to write "Dr.Who") tipped me off to a crazy diet I of which I was not aware-the Alkalarian diet.
Despite my 14 years in the pharmaceutical industry, I am by no means a scientist, so that said I'm going to explain this pretty plainly. I must note that when diets get all scientific on my ass I tend to shy away from them. All I want to do know is, am I going
There’s something else that’s bothering me about presidential candidate Sam Browback’s social ideas, as reported yesterday by the Des Moines Register. The Register reported that, at a campaign rally, Brownback “said encouraging poor, unwed parents to marry with welfare incentives and publicly celebrating religious faiths would help fight poverty and crime.”
Sam Brownback wants to use the power of the presidency to create public celebrations of religious faith. His idea is that if the government sponsors public celebrations of religion, then poverty will fall.
The facts contradict that idea. George W. Bush has used his power as President to promote public celebrations of religious faith more than any other President in living memory, and perhaps more than any other President in the history of the United States. Yet, according to the Census Bureau, the number of people living below the poverty level has increased almost every single year that George W. B
Jets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as part of France's annual Bastille Day celebrations.More photos here from BBC on Bastille Day celebrations in France... What Are the Iranians Dreaming About? Michel Foucault "They will never let go of us of their own will. No more than they did in Vietnam." I wanted to respond that they are even less ready to let go of you than Vietnam because of oil, because of the Middle East. Today they seem ready, after Camp David, to concede Lebanon to Syrian domination and therefore to Soviet influence, but would the United States be ready to deprive itself of a position that, according to circumstance, would allow them to intervene from the East or to monitor the peace?....European heritage battle At the foot of the Acropolis, a new museum is undergoing construction – but something important is m
Except the kids have no idea what's going on. I think it's become apparent that courage is not a prerequisite for becoming a RoP holy warrior. Those Taliban losers must really be pathetic if they need to use children to fight NATO soldiers. Looks like Allah has abandoned them. Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to which Britain contributes 5,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, revealed that soldiers defused an explosive vest which had been placed on a six-year-old who had been told to attack Afghan army forces in the east of the country. The boy was spotted after appearing confused at a checkpoint. The vest was defused and no one was hurt. The claim came only hours after the second report this week that civilians had been killed in NATO military operations. [...] Yesterday ISAF said it was investigat
After retaining their services for nearly a year, True Religion (TRLG) announced that they have concluded their review of strategic alternatives with Goldman Sachs, with this statement from the company’s CEO, Jeffrey Lubell…
“True Religion has been a fast growing young company, with a desire to build a global brand. We engaged Goldman Sachs to help [...]
After gaining nearly 15% on a heavy volume day yesterday, following an upgrade by Sterne Agee, True Religion (TRLG) closed up 6% on another high volume day. With 46% of the float short as last reported, it appears that a short squeeze may have been triggered, with shares breaking out of the range they [...]
True Religion (TRLG) shares closed the day at $16.24, up $1.28 on the day, representing a gain of nearly 9% on about 5 times average volume. Shares remain active after hours, up almost another 4%. While no official news has been released, the rumor behind this move calls for a management led buyout [...]
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Following yesterday’s closing bell, True Religion Apparel (TRLG) reported 4th Quarter and full year 2006 financial results. In the most recent quarter, the high-end fashion company achieved revenue of $29.8 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.21. These numbers were in line with expectations, displaying strong year over [...]
Eigenlijk wist ik wel van te voren dat ik een uitslag als deze zou krijgen bij de quiz Is religion right for You?
Maar om het zeker te weten heb ik toch even de vragen ingevuld, en dit is het resultaat.
You probably don’t need religion.
You find the morals and values in ...
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