beliefs

I came across this information about the Xhosa and how a great many of the Xhosa came to believe S.A. Study The words of the spirits, talking to 16-year-old Nongqawuse, as recorded by W.W. Qqoba in his narrative of the Cattle killing, based on oral sources. Dead will Arise: Nongqawuse and...

To me, politics IS religion for the most part. People accept one of the political "faiths" based often on their own upbringing or on their exposure to mass media. Virtually no one studies the actual impact of various policies in the real world, i.e. actual journal articles or independent...

While discussing people's attitude towards enterprises that their owners advertise their religious beliefs in a thread started by Tricky here , a very interesting topic came on the surface that we agreed that deserves a thread of its own: the relation between Religious beliefs and Medical...

You all know the arguments for placing the 10 Commandments in public buildings. It is our heratige (somewhat), it is the basis of our laws (false), and then there is the cry of opression saying to remove such a display is to deny people their freedom of religion. In Iowa some group donated a...

http://www.local6.com/news/2485707/detail.html I think the punishment is not severe enough. This frustrates me beyond words.

http://matthewsturges.com/journal/journal.php?jtpl=ENTRY_COMMENT&jid=159 Matt is a friend of mine, he's a very talented fiction author, and just a really great person. He and I, however, do not agree about god and religion. I thought some of you might like to read this posting of his. It's...

An interesting article from Today's Washington Post on Pres. Bush, his faith and the way it shapes his public pronouncements... http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A16539-2003Feb2%20&notFound=true