Tag: religion
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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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#MorningMonarchy: March 17, 2016
The Fayette Factor, less religious and the time of the Preacher + this day in history w/Burst Of Joy and our song of the day by The Heavy on your Morning Monarchy for March 17, 2016.
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#Webbys Cut ‘Religion’ Category
The most coveted award for work on the Internet bestows honors in 231 categories, but “Religion & Spirituality” is no longer one of them. A producer of the Webby Awards, […]
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‘Comic Art Propaganda’: See You In The Funny Papers
A comic aficionado from Sweden named Fredrik Strömberg put out a book in 2010 called ‘Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History and it’s quite literally the illustrations of indoctrination.
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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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Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?
from theatlantic.com: It is hard to know how our future descendants will regard the little sliver of history that we live in. It is hard to know what events will […]
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Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
from theguardian.com: Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to […]
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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 […]
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Temple Medicine, Oracles and the Making of Modernity
from forbiddenhistories.wordpress.com: Among the key figures in the hidden history of the human sciences are the Munich philosopher Carl du Prel (1839-1899) and the Cambridge classicist and psychologist Frederic W. […]
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Transhumanism — The Final Religion?
from disinfo.com: Transhumanism and its associated philosophies can be divisive. To be sure, the movement has some negative stereotypes attached to it. But nonetheless, it’s gaining traction in mainstream discourse. Over […]
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Can Moral Disputes Be Resolved?
from opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com: Moral disputes seem intractable — more intractable than other disputes. Take an example of a moral position that most of us would consider obvious: Honor killing is wrong. […]
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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. […]
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Understanding the Traditionalists
from newdawnmagazine.com: Traditionalists, for present purposes, means the loosely-constituted group inspired by René Guénon (1886-1951). Many of them also revere Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947). Later Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) became central […]