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”

 

• 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

  
  The Daily Spurgeon — Authority: 460
  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)

  
  Challies Dot Com — Authority: 636
  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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• Cultural Literacy for Religion: Everything the Well-Educated Person Should Know [24 Webrip Videos (MP4)] (Social Sciences)

  
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  Cultural Literacy for Religion: Everything the Well-Educated Person Should Know is your chance to experience the breadth and depth of the world’s religions from all angles—historical, theological, and cultural. Over the course of 24 engaging lectures, award-winning Professor Mark Berkson of Hamline University ...
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• American Jesus.

  
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• Pimping Expert Deflated; Head of Sex Trafficking Unit Resigns; and More Brooklyn Briefs

  
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  - Pimping "expert" loses swagger when Brooklyn judge sentences him for robbery. NY Daily News - The interim dean of Brooklyn Law School will present the case for Bible-backed debt reorganization at an “All Nite Torah-Thon.” Brooklyn Eagle - The Brooklyn Heights Montessori School in Cobble Hill has ...
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• Human Religion vs Divine Religion

  
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                What would God make of religion? Adherents of religion often make the claim that their religion is the only way to God. Poor God has so many conflicting religions – each claiming to be the only way to salvation. But, which religion did God really create? God did not create the human ...
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• Zarathost-no-Diso

  
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  Remembering Paigambar Asho Nabi Pak Zarathustra Spitama My Dear Zarathushtis, Today (25-05-2012) is Dae Mah and Khorshed Roz, our beloved Paigambar Saheb Asho Nabi Pak Zarathustra Spitama’s day for leaving this world. He left upon us to preserve and protect HIS creations and above all, gifted us with the most ...
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• Mitt Romney and the Women Who Dont Love Him

  
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  Mitt Romney has a particular effect on voters of the opposite sex—and its not a good one. During the heated final days of the GOP primary, female Republicans in many states favored Rick Santorum. Romneys dismal luck with the ladies was more apparent in April, when, according to a Washington Post poll, he was ...
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• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD soundtrack listed

  
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  Tony Hawk’s games were always filled with awesome pop-punk and angsty rock, and some of it is back! If you played the great Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater when you were growing up, you’ll remember the ‘totally bitchin” soundtrack. Growing into my teenage years as I played the game, the angsty rock and pop-punk ...
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• Researchers Geologists confirmed revealed the exact date of Jesus’ crucifixion April 3, 33 AD

  
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  Researchers Geologists confirmed revealed the exact date of Jesus’ crucifixion April 3, 33 AD The Discovery News reported that Textual and geological clues, along with astronomical data, support the date. Read more »
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• Christian and Muslim leaders visit Nigeria

  
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      Christian and Muslim leaders visit Nigeria   GENEVA, Switzerland, May 25, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An inter-religious delegation of senior Muslim and Christian leaders has begun a fact-finding visit to Nigeria on 22 May, where in recent months an increase in violence has threatened ...
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• Anton Lysy – Greek Religion and Philosophy through Neoplatonism [WebRip - 2 AVIs] (Philosophy)

  
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  Note: This video is freely available elsewhere. (Google is your friend!) I have uploaded it here for those who like to watch things offline or on the go. Enjoy! ANTON LYSY, Ph.D. is Dean of the Olcott Institute. In this video a psychologist relates Theosophy and Gnosticism to Greek religion and philosophy, with an ...
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• Top 10 People Who Give Judaism a Bad Name

  
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  Judaism is one of the oldest religions still alive today, and is the oldest of the Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism). Famous Jews such as Albert Einstein, Jesus, and Sigmund Freud, are considered some of the greatest people ever. However, Judaism, like every other religion, has its sociopaths. ...
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• Anderson Coopers Questions Woman Who Regulars Church Who’s Pastor Called For Gays To Be Fenced Off

  
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  The Internet and the majority of America was outraged after video of pastor calling for gays to be locked behind an electric fence to ‘die off’ went viral.  Now, Anderson Cooper invited one of the regulars from the church to ask her about the pastor’s sermon and views . Sadly, her brain capacity is so ...
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• ‘Equality’ divides Christianity | Jessica Abrahams

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk ‘Equality’ divides Christianity | Jessica Abrahams Divisions over same-sex marriage and women bishops reveal two world views in which notions of equality differThe bishop of London, Richard Chartres, doesn’t think there is a clash between Christianity and equality. In ...
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• INTERROGATING FAITH

  
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  I have been invited potentially to take part in a public event in London later this year featuring a ‘daisy chain’ of interviews about faith. The idea is that A interviews B who then interviews C, and so on, until finally X gets to interview A to complete the daisy chain. In this case there [...]
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• 25 May 2012. The Pot Still Boils at St T’s…

  
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  ______________________________ The Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots at St T ’s are still at it. The grapevine’s reporting that Fr Nicodemus told Atty he’s going to set up Liturgy in the pavilion, whether he likes it or not. As for my personal view, I believe that the Memorial Day Pilgrimage should go on as ...
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