#Religions

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nebula_pierce

i keep finding antireligion stuff in atheist circles, so I just wanna remind some of you, as a former anti-theist person myself:your anger at religion should actually be directed towards

Jambavan

SirJambavan

https://twitter.com/hinduacademy/status/1325686776334225411?s=20Some thoughts on this tweet and the widespread fallacy that somehow religion is inferior to science [corollarily, religion has to be elevated to a science in order to be respec

Sturgeon's Law

Sturgeons_Law

Revisiting this several years on. I still think Boyer and Atran are largely correct about how to understand religion. The divide between "elite" and "popular" religion, in particular seems more

Onsi A. Kamel

onsikamel

Was listening to this great Mere Fidelity interview with @NotoriousTIB, and I found her advice to churches about how to become stronger institutions sound (basically: embrace the weird, including orthodoxy).

Asif Arif

AsifArifMa

M. le Ministre @GDarmanin, je souhaiterai vivement vous interpeller sur l'article de la loi qui indique qu'un Préfet peut décider de dissoudre une association dès lors qu'elle appelle à une

Ken Arneson

kenarneson

If you hold the view of human nature that everybody is selfish all the time--which is the Trumpian view of human nature--then what logically follows is that "ethics" is for

jewitches

thejewitches

one day we’ll talk about how ex-Christians witches & pagans use their religious trauma to be antisemitic and islamophohic just kidding, we're talking about it now because i'm thinking about

Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨

MycoJonathan

Just because Westerners stole Yoga from Hinduism and commercialized it as solely a form of exercise doesn’t remove its origins in Hinduism. Besides your westernized Yoga is missing out on

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

When it comes to a people - black, white, native Indian, oriental, etc. - LAND AND BLOOD are an essential element.It was LAND AND BLOOD that gave rise to these

Francesca Tacchi ★ Italian history & shitposting

jackdaw_writes

Serious talk about religion tho. The atheist stance that every religion, in every circumstance, is oppressive and 'irrational' is incredibly harmful and - yes, also racist, as it's rooted in

Daigengna Duoer

daigengna

#sblaar20 just attended Prof Jose Cabezon’s AAR presidential address on “The Study of Buddhism in the AAR.” It’s really fascinating to learn how the study of Buddhism as an academic

Rev. Jes Kast

RevJesKast

A Zoroastrian man once approached me on the Staten Island Ferry. He asked what religion I am. Christian. He replied, “Ah, my sister! I am your brother a Zoroastrian. It

Jess Mahler

PolyamOnPurpose

Caught up on some of the discussion here and it has confirmed something I've suspected for a while -- that there seem to be two main types of people who

Katherine Fugate, B.A.

katherinefugate

Days ago I read a tweet by a Black woman and I've been thinking about it ever since. Wish I could remember her name to give her credit but essentially

Mayurika Srivastava

IshaSattva_

How FEMINISTS ruined the FEMININE: (THREAD) In ancient days, when Sanatan was the only way of living, when no concept of religion was created, feminine worship was very prominent in

Tommy Collison

tommycollison

1/ For the last year or so, I've been wondering about religions: are the positive attributes of religion unique? Why be (or become) religious?@NotoriousTIB has written a book on this:

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