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Twilight language
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
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Infiltrating Scientology
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Which religion is friendliest to the idea of aliens?
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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What Americans know about the Holocaust: Fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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Anyone here practicing Zazen?
I recently finished "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki and was deeply moved. I've meditated sporadically over the years and dabbled in various Buddhist traditions yet never have I been...
I recently finished "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki and was deeply moved. I've meditated sporadically over the years and dabbled in various Buddhist traditions yet never have I been so taken with an approach as I was after reading this. If there is anybody out there practicing Sōtō Zen would you be able to recommend anything to read next?
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United Methodist Church announces plan to split over gay marriage, LGBTQ clergy
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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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Redefining the Indian republic
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Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B
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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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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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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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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 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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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
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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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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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George Pell loses appeal against child sex abuse convictions, may lose Order of Australia honour
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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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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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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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The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough.
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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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The disappeared, the dead, and the damned: Inside the Church Of Scientology
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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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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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Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni
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Did Israel Folau actually misquote the Bible? Hell, yes
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