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Limits on Interfaith Marriage 25 Aug 2013 | 07:26 am
Both culture and religion tell us it is only appropriate to marry certain people, although different cultures and religion might tell us very different things. This may be about age (you can't marry ...
Review of "Beyond Belief" 25 Aug 2013 | 06:51 am
Beyond Belief is the autobiography of Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of David Miscavige, current head of the Church of Scientology. She was born into the religion, and both of her parents were raised wi...
Death of Lee Thompson Young and Yoruba Religion 22 Aug 2013 | 03:53 am
First of all, I get rather nauseated at the way our media flocks to celebrity deaths. Reporting on an event is one thing, but encouraging spurious theories - particularly if they are scandalous - don...
Reza Aslan and Academic Discussions of Religions 1 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
This week, Fox News anchor Lauren Green shook up the blogosphere in an interview with author and professor Reza Aslan. Her first question about Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth was abo...
New Shapes and Symbols 27 Jul 2013 | 09:15 am
I think I'm pretty much finished with common meanings of geometric shapes, unless someone has a suggestion. I've added squares (which frequently are used like crosses, which is one of the reasons it'...
New Article: Unitarianism 13 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
Sometimes my articles are the result of significant tangents of thought. This is kind of one of them. I was planning out potential articles on famous deists, and I kept finding that some sources wou...
The Westboro Baptist Church 13 Jul 2013 | 07:26 pm
I've debated working on the Westboro Baptist Church for a couple of reasons. First, they consider themselves Christian, and we already have a Guide who writes about Christianity. However, the Koresh...
New Article: Types of Theisms 18 Jun 2013 | 09:36 pm
Religions come in a lot of different forms. Most religions are theistic. That is to say they accept the existence of a god or gods. There are others what are specifically anti-theistic: they deny th...
Science of Mind 18 Jun 2013 | 09:31 pm
The 19th century saw the development of the New Thought movement, which emphasized a oneness with God that allowed people to perform various actions of mind over matter through the law of attraction. ...
The Odd History of the Caduceus 23 May 2013 | 06:14 am
The caduceus is an ancient Greek symbol of divine heralds, most often Hermes. Today, many people think of it as a medical symbol, which is contrary to its original meaning. It has gotten confused wi...
