Tag: christianity
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Saints Alive! ‘Millions’ Believe In The Power of Money
The only Danny Boyle movie that isn’t rated R is kind of a kid’s Christmas movie about saints. But really it’s also about money – and what we value and what we believe in.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 16, 2016
Human animals, Scientology Sachs and accidental death + this day in history w/Soweto uprising and our song of the day by The Joe Jacksons on your Morning Monarchy for June 16, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 21, 2016
Back-up torches, Manson family values & grave dancers union + this day in history w/Tiananmen Square and our song of the day by Mike & The Melvins on your Morning Monarchy for April 21, 2016.
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The Medieval Christian King Inspired by the Muslim World
“If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, “Many faults in the universe would have been avoided.”
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Religious Children Are Mean
Controversial new research is claiming what many already feared: religion makes you mean.
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Disco and the End of Atheism
from americanvision.org: Atheism seems to be on the rise. A number of young people are taking to it like they did to disco in the 1970s. But alas, like all trends, it met its end on Disco Demolition Night July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, where a crate filled with records was…
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How Did God Get Started?
from bu.edu: One day in the Middle East about four thousand years ago, an elderly but still rather astonishingly spry gentleman took his son for a walk up a hill. The young man carried on his back some wood that his father had told him they would use at the top to make an altar,…
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A hint of civilisations clashing
from economist.com: As my last posting noted, the first edgy thing which the new Greek government did was to downgrade, albeit very politely, its relations with the church. The second thing was to upgrade a relationship whose historic roots are at least partly religious, with Russia. On his first day in office, prime minister Alexis Tsipras met the Russian ambassador,…
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Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
from wsj.com: Written by Mary Beard: The Greeks and the Irrational. By E.R. Dodds (1951) For me, this was a life-changing book. It starts with an encounter in the British Museum in front of the sculptures from the Parthenon. E.R. Dodds bumps into a young man who is unimpressed—he can’t bear the ancient Greeks, he…
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A Christian Nation? Since When?
from nytimes.com: America may be a nation of believers, but when it comes to this country’s identity as a “Christian nation,” our beliefs are all over the map. Just a few weeks ago, Public Policy Polling reported that 57 percent of Republicans favored officially making the United States a Christian nation. But in 2007, a survey by…
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How the Council of Nicea Changed the World
from livescience.com: When Constantine became the first Christian leader of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, his vast territory was populated by a hodgepodge of beliefs and religions. Within his own young religion, there was also dissent, with one major question threatening to cleave the popular cult — as it was at the time…
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The Beguines: A Lost World Made by Women
from nytimes.com: If feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest Europe — represented, perhaps, the world’s oldest women’s movement. Unlike sisterhoods that required a life spent apart from society under vows of chastity, these Catholic…
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Aesthetic Occultism: A New Terminology
from victorianweb.org: Christianity was dealt blows from all sides in the nineteenth century, altering forever the common system of Biblical image and terminology that people used to communicate. During earlier parts of the century, as industrializing cities grew faster than parishes, Anglicans were unable to supply churches and clerics quickly enough to minister to workers…
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Jesus’ House? 1st-Century Structure May Be Where He Grew Up
from livescience.com: Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus’ hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by Mary and Joseph. The house is partly made of mortar-and-stone walls, and was cut into a rocky hillside. It was first…
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Massacre of Innocence
from www.revisionisthistory.org: In focusing on the subject of abortion, much has been contended from a medical and social perspective. But when we pull the lid off and look at abortion from a spiritual perspective, the implications are far more profound and staggering. The Bible tells us: “Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but…