Category: Religion General
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Pope resignation. A coup d’état against God?
The Pope has resigned. This move is an immensly important one, with consequences we have not yet realized. Many people say that this is actually a coup d’état against God. And I think I will agree with them. The reason that Popes die and do not resign is very specific and has political as well…
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Transubstantiation, atoms, scientism…
Non-believers are baffled by Christians believing they eat the blood and body of Christ during transubstantiation. We can accept it as a metaphor, but not as something “real”. We cannot literally accept that we eat the blood and body of Christ. What are we taking “literally”? We see food and we think it is solid.…
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What truly matters in life! (or why religion kicks ass!)
John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped to New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily married, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple”…
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Meditation results and Religion as a “Set of Wisdom”…
A new research reveals that transcendental meditation could slash the risk of heart attack and stroke (and in the meanwhile make you less angry). [1] Another research published in the “Frontiers on Human Neuroscience” revealed that meditation can help control negative emotions like fear and anger while it enhances positive emotions like compassion and sensitivity…
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Atheistic France (again) as a proponent of Free Speech. Thank God!
France is once more in the front line of defending the right of Free Speech. French magazine Charlie Hebdo published satirical sketches of the prophet Mohamed, while at the same time the French administration has prohibited a protests against the recent US film which “insults” Muhammad [1]. Of course this had as a result the…
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