Tag: religion
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode227 – Climate Pope, Subliminal Martial Law, 3D Printing Saves Lives
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode227 – Climate Pope, Subliminal Martial Law, 3D Printing Saves Lives Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Pope Francis and Climate Change: Why Catholic Skeptics Are So…
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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 god Ahura-Mazda who proclaimed that he was the only god in the universe. Unlike most gods, Ahura Mazda was all good, all knowing and all…
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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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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 future civilizations to come. One could spend an entire life time researching and delving into the inner mysteries, symbolism and rituals of this ancient order;…
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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 be murdered in a betrayal by one close to him, his body hidden away — though not for long, as he would return in a…
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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 may just hire the “right” kind of men to get the job done – people with the intellect, acuity, and, if necessary, the political commitment,…
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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 United States, belief in God has ebbed over time from about 99 percent in the 1950s to about 92 percent at present. Certitude about God…
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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 Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep. The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning,…
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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 of cases, contemporary Daoism is very different from what it used to be two thousand years ago. For instance, religious Daoism (a recent creation) has…
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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 their origins. However, we can also observe polytheistic traditions that seem to have evolved from an erosion of monotheism. Man’s nature still yearned for the…
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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 about ecology understood in contemporary scientific terms. Why then is there so much interest in Buddhism among environmental ethicists and activists? And why so much…
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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 have done more to drive fence-sitters toward the faith than most Christian apologists. For Sartre has made atheism such a demanding, almost unendurable, experience that…
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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 by individuals with other individuals so as to create a society within which individual sovereignty is upheld. These agreements are thought by the author of…
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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. They called themselves the Discordians. And their weird ideas are still influencing us today. History does not record Robert Welch’s reaction when he received…
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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 stake by the Catholic church in 1600 at the age of 42 after being found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. That combination of…