A recent exchange led me to revisit an ancient realization: while it is customary to talk of "believers" in some creeds, belief proper is often optional and very circunstantial.
It seems to me that in practice what we see (most often and most emphatically in the Abrahamics) is rarely an...
I was in the library yesterday and I came upon an English translation of the "Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām" (the Book of Idols) by the Muslim scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi. Flicking through it, I came upon something very fascinating: A description of how idolatry came to be in the world. What struck me was...
Jesus may have been a liberal back then, but that has no bearing now. Think about it
“Jesus was a liberal back then, so he’d be cool with abortion now”
“Jesus was a liberal back then, so he’d be okay with all sin now”
“Jesus was a liberal back then, so he’d let you get into heaven without...
Do you know that not all us on the right want to enforce our religion through laws?
We are not regressive fundamentalists. We are simply traditionalists who believe in the dignity of all people. We just have a different Out look on life.
I’m not saying we’re the majority, but we’re not the...
I have been feeling really depressed lately. And the fact is, all the liberal with their anti-right vitriol are to blame. I try to keep my beliefs to myself, but their still important to me. When I hear all of you in mass condemning me for my belief and saying Christ would never have been with...
I was just wondering if any of the atheists on here had religious traditions they were partial towards? I can think of a few folks like Richard Dawkins ( church of England) or Sam Harris (Buddhism) who are atheists but still have sort of a soft spot for some traditions. Personally I have a soft...