religion

Religion is as old as humankind. With the dawn of language came the perennial questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is death? Thus, religion was born, describing a supernatural world beyond our ordinary senses.

Religion usually involves belief in a personal God or gods. Religious dogma — principles laid down by an authority — are taken by believers to be true on faith.

Religion deals with meaning and values — questions of "why." Compare this with science, which deals with facts and theories, in search of answering "how."

The most frequently practiced religions (or lack thereof) in the world today are: Christianity (2.1 billion); Islam (1.5 billion); and secular/nonreligious/agnostic/atheists (1.1 billion).

Watch the geography of 5,000 years of religion evolve.

Religion is considered an impolite topic — hence its popularity in the blogosphere.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “religion”

 

• Popes butler charged over leaked Vatican letters

  
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  Paolo Gabriele charged with illegal possession of documents after whistleblowing book alleges corruption at Holy See The popes butler has been formally charged over suspicions he leaked a large number of confidential letters addressed to Benedict XVI which have lifted the lid on alleged corruption and nepotism at the ...
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• Hierarquia Infernal dos Exus (Quimbanda) (PDF) (African Traditional Religion)

  
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  Hierarquia Infernal dos Exus (Quimbanda) (Infernal Hierarchy of Exu’s) Author unknown to me, written in Portuguese; but easily understandable to an English speaker familiar with Kimbanda. Nvep1Q
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• The film director who’s not allowed to go to the movies

  
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  The film director whos not allowed to go to the movies.
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• Saudi Woman Stands Up To State ‘Modesty Police’ At Mall

  
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  Even though the mainstream media has a constant watch on Middle Eastern countries, like Iran, Egypt, and Syria, there’s a conspiratorial black out on negative news from Saudi Arabia.  It could be because the US imports most of their oil from the Saudis that videos such as this , featuring a Saudi woman ...
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• Psalm 78

  
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  For my weekly quiet time this week, I will blog about Psalm 78 and its interpreters.  I have three items. 1.  Psalm 78:18-22 states (in the King James Version): "And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the ...
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• NY City School Mandates Arabic Language Study

  
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  Requirement for those in grades 2 to 5 PS 368, a public elementary school in Manhattan, New York, has implemented a school-wide mandate that is capturing headlines. Principal Nicky Kram Rosen is requiring all 200 students in grades second through fifth to spend two 45-minute sessions each week learning Arabic. The ...
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• To Have God Himself

  
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  St. Augustine, commenting on the verse “I cried to the Lord with my voice” (Ps 76:1), says: “Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, ...
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• God vs Google

  
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  You have to admit, they have a point. That is why every so often I sacrifice a live chicken to the Gods of Google. (Im probably kidding.) Happy Saturday!
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• Jihad and Anti-Jihad

  
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  For the believers of Islam, Quran is God’s Word, so let’s revert to the book. There He says utmost and every possible effort must be made to avoid war. For those who don’t, read on, for no civilized and truly educated person can think otherwise. God repeatedly emphasizes in the Quran, the conditions in which ...
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• Cain, Abel and Statism

  
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  A couple of months ago, while gathering up all of the data required to “render unto the IRS” and trying to feel better about all of the work involved in doing so, I ran across an interesting piece of Biblical literary criticism. It became even more interesting to me when I started thinking about the ideas it ...
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• N.A. Molina- Trabalhos de Quimbanda na Força de um Preto Velho (Scan- PDF) (Portuguese) (African Traditional Religion)

  
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  [center]~N. A. Molina – Trabalhos de Quimbanda na Força de um Preto Velho~ Classic Text on Kimbanda (Quimbanda, Kiumbanda). 194pages, High Quality scan in original Portuguese. W/ some Pontos Enjoy! Nvep1Q
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• N.A. Molina- Trabalhos de Quimbanda na Força de um Preto Velho (Scan- PDF) (Portuguese) (African Traditional Religion)

  
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  [center]~N. A. Molina – Trabalhos de Quimbanda na Força de um Preto Velho~ Classic Text on Kimbanda (Quimbanda, Kiumbanda). 194pages, High Quality scan in original Portuguese. W/ some Pontos Enjoy! Nvep1Q
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• General Medical Council (GMC) consultation – Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice

  
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  There’s currently an important General Medical Council (GMC) consultation taking place on the subject of Good Medical Practice. Dr Saunders notes: …the review is crucially important because, once finalised (definitive guidance will be published in November), these documents will be the basis on which doctors are ...
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• NEW HORIZON

  
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  New hopes ,new horizons, great challenges lie ahead, when a change becomes inevitable, the heart complies with Godhead. .. Glorious past or formidable, rich future  with glamour, when life gives a twist and turn, everything becomes reasonable… Life and nature ...
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• LIFE RATTLE RADIO UPDATE #38

  
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  Happy Holidays Life Rattlers: We are giving you the best gift we could think of………….(drum roll)………… Janine Burigana’s “JESUS CHRIST KIDS IT’S CHRISTMAS” Yup, the whole thing. Almost 2 hours of rollicking, suburban family holiday fun. And, so that you can make this event a centrepiece of ...
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• Laurie Roth – Obama has declared war on God not the Catholic church

  
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  Lucifer tried to be God before and was thrown out of Heaven. Countless dictators have attempted to turn Government into God and have been crushed. Now we have Obama, plagiarist of history, building nothing new in Frankenstein Obama’s laboratory. He is quickly ripping off Christian and Constitutional body parts and ...
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• He made us for His Glory

  
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  It was for this end that the Almighty made us, and for nothing short of this, that we might glorify God and enjoy him for ever. When a man fashions a vessel or a tool, it is that it may answer the purpose for which he designed it, and if it does not answer his design he casts it away. What man will keep a horse or a ...
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• A La Carte (5/25)

  
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  Costly Faithfulness - “It was the Anglican congregation’s firm stance on the authority of God’s word and the moral wrong of homosexuality that cost the 4,000-member church nearly everything they owned. Six years ago when the mainline Episcopal Church ordained an openly practicing homosexual bishop, 90 percent ...
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• The Jewishness of Ed Miliband: Labour’s first Jewish leader bravely faces up to the Left’s anti-Semitic streak

  
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  Today’s New Statesman contains a fascinating article by Ed Miliband in which he talks, for the first time in detail, about being Labour’s first Jewish leader. “I am not religious. But I am Jewish. My relationship with my Jewishness is complex. But whose isn’t?”, he writes. “My family history often feels ...
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• Is sin more fun than virtue? | Poll

  
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  A vicar is in trouble after joking on Facebook that sin is such fun, swearing and complaining about having to go to church. But is he right that sin is more pleasurable or are the rewards of virtue still higher?
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