Tag: religion
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#MorningMonarchy: January 11, 2018
Losing my religion, SecureDrop suicide and punching Harvey + this day in history w/the “Shining City Upon a Hill” and our song of the day by Typhoon on your Morning Monarchy for January 11, 2018.
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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, now in its 20th year, cited fewer submissions to the category. “Unfortunately, entries in ‘Religion & Spirituality’ were decreasing each year,” Webby Award Produce Denise…
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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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Interview w/Adam Rockoff on ‘The Horror Of It All’
Download MP3 Author/Screenwriter/Producer Adam Rockoff has a new book called ‘The Horror Of It All’ and it’s a Klosterman-esque memoir, but it’s about horror films and not heavy metal. However, heavy metal plays into our conversation – as does the real-life horror of religious hypocrisy, the PMRC, subliminal images and zombies! With special appearances by…
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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 seem important to them, what the narrative of now will look like to the twenty-fifth century mind. We tend to think of our time as…
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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 the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version…
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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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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. H. Myers (1843-1901). Eclipsed by psychoanalysis, Jungian analytical psychology and other depth psychologies throughout the twentieth century, the contemporary significance and reception of these writers…
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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 at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, Dirk Bruere, explores transhumanism’s relationship to religion: After several decades of relative obscurity Transhumanism as a philosophical and…
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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. But honor killing has its supporters. Anyone who suggests that we can compromise with its supporters on the matter misunderstands the nature of this type…
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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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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 to the group, while the work of Julius Evola (1898-1974) partly overlapped with the others. Any one of these four can serve as a gateway…