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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
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Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
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The Christian right is helping drive liberals away from religion
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects
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George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court
News article: George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court Background: How does the High Court decide whether to grant George Pell a final hearing?
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On whose green Earth?
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Teacher sues Christian School over marriage equality beliefs
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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
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Gay Anglican priests fight to get church blessing of their same-sex marriage
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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Ganesh Chaturthi 2019: Ten lesser-known short stories of Bal Ganesha you need to know
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Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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Funerals of the future? – Sweden sees sharp rise in burials without ceremony
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Australian government releases "exposure draft" of religious discrimination bill
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination...
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill
A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination legislation on Radio National
Some legal analysis: The government has released its draft religious discrimination bill. How will it work?
A Christian response: Religious discrimination bill draft released
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International Interfaith Peace Gathering: ‘We must work together or we will all fail’
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Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
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George Pell loses appeal against child sex abuse convictions, may lose Order of Australia honour
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Denmark has a national songbook – should it mention Ramadan?
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Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
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One American import we could do without: hard-right religious conservatism
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Cricket in the service of Hindu Nationalism
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Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah
Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah Hajj 2019: the Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah explained Every able-bodied Muslim is meant to do the Haj once in their lifetime. Why? What...
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Let us predict whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican
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Excerpt from "Myth and Ritual in Christianity" by A. Watts
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It...
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It shows a mentality for which the present, real world is, in itself, joyless and barren, without value. The present can have value only in terms of meaning—if, like a word, it points to something beyond itself. This "beyond" which past and present events "mean" is the future. This the Western intellectual, as well as the literate common man, finds his life meaningless except in terms of a promising future. But the future is a "tomorrow which never comes", and for this reason Western culture has a "frantic" character. It is a desperate rush in pursuit of an ever-receding "meaning", because the promising future is precisely the famous carrot which the clever driver dangles before his donkey's nose from the end of his whip. Tragically enough, this frantic search for God, for the ideal life, in the future renders the course of history anything but a series of unique steps towards a goal. Its real result is to make history repeat itself faster and more furiously, confusing "progress" with increased agitation.
—Alan Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity. 1954
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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It's been a year since Denmark's contentious so-called Burka Ban came into force – since then 22 women have been fined
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Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
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Third Crusade - The Beginning
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Public Universal Friend, the genderless evangelist
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Samoa's 'third gender' delicately balances sex and religion
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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The new, extremely online era of Christianity
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More people need to talk about having fewer children
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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The Jewish case for open borders
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Santas from as far away as Japan and El Salvador are attending 62nd World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen
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Good faith: How queer BDSM and sex work helped me to refuse an inheritance of indoctrination
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Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni
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'The Discord is the church:' A place for gamers to worship
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Anglican Church rejects same-sex marriage approvals in vote
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Did Israel Folau actually misquote the Bible? Hell, yes
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Ethiopian-Israelis protest police violence in a divided Israel
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Swedish sect murder case set to feature in HBO documentary
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What is the Satanic Temple, and how did a goat-headed statue end up at the Arkansas State Capitol?
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“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart.
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Can animals commit crimes?
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