Archive | July 12, 2013
ANALYSIS: ‘Pagan’ is getting a makeover. Not everyone got the memo. | Religion News Service
KTVU apologizes for racist SF plane crash gaffe | Matier And Ross | an SFGate.com blog
Tampons confiscated at Texas state house but not guns?
Words Matter: industrial climate disruption is not a religion
Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues
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- religion
- a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices (source)
Some people falsely allege that industrial climate disruption is a religion. This allegation is blatantly flawed, as is the related allegation that industrial climate disruption is a cult. But that doesn’t prevent deniers of industrial climate disruption from making the false allegation in an attempt to render the underlying science moot.
As shown in the definition above, a religion is a set of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices, with the key word being “religious.” Religion requires the worship of some greater power or divinity. Scientific disciplines do not. In general, religion concerns itself with faith and adherence to established doctrine whether or not the doctrine make sense. Science, on the other hand, concerns itself with what is observable, what can…
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Hubble spots ALIEN NAVY world – and it’s pelted with GLASS RAIN
Prayer for a July Summer’s Day
I raise my face to the summer sun this morning
I thank the cool breeze caressing my face
I ask blessings of the day from mornings first light
and all through the night.
Sweetness of the passing rain
Morning song of the mockingbird
Adolescent complaint of the crow
Cheeriness of the white rose
Freshness of the butterflies
Fragrance of garden herbs
Laziness of a lizard
Beauty of clouds
Cleaness of air
Bless my day and whom I love
All this day and during the coolness of night
Transgender Rights: The Elimination of the Human Rights of Women
ReligionWeek: Will organized religion destroy your religious freedom?
Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues
On July 2, America’s real Independence Day, by the way, leaders of a number of churches that doctrinally and theologically do not usually see eye-to-eye gathered at the National Press Club for a “religious liberty” press conference to announce their collective effort to trample individual religious freedom. They released “Standing Together for Religious Freedom: An Open Letter for All Americans.” The signatories to the letter included leaders from Catholic, Evangelical, Mormon, Lutheran, and Jewish organizations and denominations, as well as academics and various values-oriented groups, such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
The point of their letter and presentations is that the Obama Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services are violating the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause by requiring insurance companies or administrators to provide birth control coverage in separate policies to persons covered by policies paid for by religious institutions…
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