Tag: religion
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The Secrets of Zoroastrianism
from iranchamber.com: About 1400 BCE a forty year-old hermit from northeast Iran, named Zoroaster, came down from his mountain to preach a new religion. Zoroaster had been visited by the […]
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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 […]
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Freemasonry and Islam: What do they share?
from dailygrail.com: The topic of Freemasonry is a vast and complex subject, it encroaches on the history and culture of every past, present society and undoubtedly it will even impact […]
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Resurrection: A History of Myths
from livescience.com: Ancient accounts tell of an important figure whose birth would be heralded by a star in the heavens, a god who would later judge the dead. He would […]
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Leo Strauss’ Philosophy of Deception
from www.alternet.org: What would you do if you wanted to topple Saddam Hussein, but your intelligence agencies couldn’t find the evidence to justify a war? A follower of Leo Strauss […]
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God Endures, Even As Religion Wanes
from Futurity.org: “Americans’ attitudes toward religion are growing more complex,” says study author Tom Smith. “While fewer people identify with a particular religion, belief in God remains high.” In the […]
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What Is Awakening?
from ZenGardner.com: Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New […]
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The Alchemical Roots of Daoism
from ScholarSage.com: Like everything else, spiritual traditions evolve throughout history. The older the tradition, the more likely it is to differ from what it originally was. In the vast majority […]
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Ancient Sun Worship
from reviewofreligions.org: Divinely revealed religions across the world point to a single omnipotent deity. Even traditional faiths and mythology seem to point to the worship of a single deity in […]
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The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self
from westernbuddhistreview.com: Traditional Buddhist sources have little to say about Nature in the often abstract and romanticized sense in which we use the word today, and still less to say […]
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The Pillars of Unbelief – Jean-Paul Sartre
from catholiceducation.org: Jean-Paul Sartre may be the most famous atheist of the 20th century. As such, he qualifies for anyone’s short list of “pillars of unbelief.” Yet he may […]
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Seven Points of Agreement Between Individuals
from redicecreations.com: In what follows, underlined words are my modifications to the original (cite given at the end) “Seven Points of Agreement Between Individuals” — a binding contract entered into […]
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The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time
from i09.com: Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. […]
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The Complex Life of Giordano Bruno
from machineslikeus.com: Giordano Bruno was a 16th century philosopher, theologian, and monk who was an early supporter of Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the universe. He was also burned at the […]