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The repression of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region has deep historical roots
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"Forgive us our debts": Jubilee Baptist Church is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment, focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression
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The Christian withdrawal experiment
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Redefining the Indian republic
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India's Parliament approves controversial citizenship bill that grants citizenship to minorities facing persecution from three neighbouring countries - but excludes Muslims
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The Church of Sweden has unveiled the country’s first-ever LGBT+ altarpiece and homophobes are very upset about it
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Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B
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Faith and Reasons: Two authors explore the persistence of religious feeling
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Upon This Rock (from Pulphead: Essays)
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How compassion helped one woman leave an extremist group
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In US, decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
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Peter Thiel's Religion
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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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Click to pray eRosary: The new smart rosary to pray for peace in the world
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
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Christian right tactics to fight trans rights: seperate the T from LGBT
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A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
@aaolomi: Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, has a devil. But Iblis, as he's known to Muslims, differs from the red-skinned and horned devil popular in "Western" imagination. A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
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Shooting near synagogue in Germany leaves at least two people dead, was streamed on Twitch
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China is destroying Uighur graveyards, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang
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Religion for the nonreligious
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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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Shalt thou eat an Impossible Burger? The definitions of "halal" and "kosher" are being challenged by new food technology
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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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Losing my religion at Christian camp: The way a decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned views of faith and girlhood
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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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A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery
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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
5 votes