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Which Religion Will Win
“That was the day ethnicity disappeared entirely, and the conflict became just about religion,” Abdullahi said. Chaos broke out, as young people on each side began to throw rocks. The candidates ran for their lives, and mobs set fire to ...
Question about Religion, Ethics, Sport - Richard Heck responds
In many sporting competitions (and other types of competition) people will pray to God for help. Would it be fair to call such help cheating if it were granted? Is it ethical to even ask for what would be an unfair advantage over an ...
Question about Freedom, Religion - Alexander George responds
I have recently been reading in Richard Dawkins' book, the idea that God being both omnipotent and omniscient is a contradiction. I think it is something along the lines of: if God is omniscient then He already knows how He is going to ...
Question about Religion, Biology - Sally Haslanger responds
Largely the scientific community argues evolution as their leading theory behind the existence of life. The Church argues creationism. What if they are both wrong and in reality it is both. For anything to exist, it seems fair and ...
1910 Labor Nationality Religion J Connoly
**Labor, Nationality and Religion BY James Connolly Being a discussion of the Lenten Discourses against Socialism delivered by Father Kane, SJ, in Gardiner Street Church, Dublin, 1910. Published by JAMES CONNOLLY SOCIALIST CLUB 43 West ...
The Next Big Thing In Religion
This is what any number of us have been saying for a while now: religion in America is a complicated business. Those who'd like to convert religious demographics into neat political ones are off on a fool's errand. ...
Educational attainment and religion in South Korea and Singapore
This blog post on the sociology of religion in East Asia is quite interesting. It seems that South Korea has been a country that has witnessed rapid changes in people's religious affiliations over the past few generations. ...
The Role of Religion to Humankind
Some believe in several gods and not just one ultimate being alone. Believing in a supreme being, in an entity you never see or feel, is regarded to as religion. And even long before, religion never had any basis, whether scientific or ...
Shopping List Religion
ten-commandments.jpg. “Today’s special is………tolerance”. When you read the Gospels you rarely find Jesus expressing truth in list form. There are a few instances where Jesus does make something of a list in His expression of a certain ...
The Lobotomy: Procrustean When Religion Fails
(10 votes - 0 comments - 51 views) Cool little documentary about the infancy and the SIDS of lobotomy procedures.