Talking religion and politcs with Pastor Dean Brown from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Red Bank, NJ. This thoughtful interview is the first video from the new 7Days2Vote project leading up to the election on November 8.Follow 7Days2Vote on facebook and twitter.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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“Ceci n’est pas une religion.” (via @MoAsumang) Edit: Oh. I just realized that, in the Magritte original The Treachery of Images, the thing about the painting of the pipe is that it’s a representation of a pipe, not actually pipe, etc. On that level, what does this painting/picture say? That attack weapons are a religion but …
tazzygal: lezly-odair: How I feel about religion. God should be presented as what he is, love and kindness. Stop using his name to justify your racism, homo phobia and sexesim ….dude… I got weepy by the last panel!
Quasi Religious Fandom
I’m still trying to make sense of the Penn State student riot in favor of Joe Paterno. Ignorance certainly plays a big part. But reading a couple of online forums etc. during today’s Bundesliga games, another thought came up. People believe in their team less critical than in God. Love their club more devoted than …
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries. The God …
Oh boy, the Vatican, no doubt patting itself on the back for being so generous to the filthy sluts of the world, has set up a six-day event in Madrid where ladies who’ve had abortions can come and confess in order to escape the automatic excommunication they otherwise would get. The reports don’t indicate if …
“Girls were not allowed to converse except from 6 to 9 p.m. each Friday. They were not allowed contact with their families during their first month, or with anyone else for six months. By that time, Roxy said, most girls are ‘broken,’ having been told that their families have abandoned them, and that the world outside is a sinful, dangerous place where girls who leave are murdered or raped.”
motherjones: Women isolated from secular society, scarred for life, and beaten for crossing the religious authorities. Kandahar? No, Missouri. And conservatives keep the system running. This is sickening.”Girls were not allowed to converse except from 6 to 9 p.m. each Friday. They were not allowed contact with their families during their first month, or with …
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