Tag: faith
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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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Is the Internet killing religion?
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: We can blame the Internet for plenty: the proliferation of porn, our obsession with cat videos, the alleged rise of teen trends like – brace yourself – eyeball licking. But is it also a culprit in helping us lose our religion? A new study suggests it might be. Allen Downey, a computer scientist…
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Polytheism and Science: Coagulation
from polytheist.com: According to the Platonists, the procession or emergence of being begins with a distinction within a deity, any deity, between Their existence (hyparxis) and Their power(s) (dynamis/dynameis), that which Damascius characterizes as “the very first of all distinctions and which is all but absorbed in indeterminacy, so that the second seems to be…
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The Wicker Man: The Return of the Pagan World
The late Philip Coppens covers occult appeal of 1973 edition of movie, “The Wicker Man,” in his article, “The Wicker Man: The Return of the Pagan World.” Title suggests paganism may be growing? Are people simply tiring of same old routine and seek something new? In this case, what was once old – paganism -…
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Last Member From Family Of Old Believers In Siberian Taiga
A Vice Video documents life of Agafia Lykov, who lives in isolation in Siberian Taiga Mountains. The Lykov family fled Stalin for the safety of remote Siberian wilderness. “In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia’s vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled…
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‘Madman And The Cathedral’
Don Justo, short for Justo Gallego Martinez, has been on a mission, since 1963, building a cathedral in a small town just outside Madrid, Spain. Martinez, a pious man, contracted tuberculosis in 1961 and had to leave a monastery where he spent eight years of life. “He began to build a cathedral on a plot…