Major Religion Memes in 90 Seconds

Maps of War has a really interesting mapping of religion memes - spread and warfare:
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed [...]

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Hatred is not Religious

Peace be in you. Peace be through you.
I feel a great urge for peace today. I am thinking about some of the wise and kind people that I have met, and the way I felt when I was near them. There are people of the book(s). There are people of people, so to speak. There [...]

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Theoryheads and Postmodernism

I’ve added a new page - “About VirusHead.”
There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead.
There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious).
I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the [...]

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Who said it?

If you don’t already know who said this, comment with your best guess.
The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today, Christians stand at the head of our country. We want [...]

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Banning hot cross buns?

What do you get when you pour very hot water down a rabbithole?
Hot cross bun(ny)s!
One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns!
It’s official - the memes of repression in the name of freedom and diversity have travelled to the U.K. Or have they?
For fear of offending the religious minorities at The [...]

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Intelligent Design a Boondoggle

In a roundtable interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers President Bush said yesterday that he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.
No problem. Just don’t ask science teachers to teach it. Teach it in religion classes, not alongside evolutionary theories in biology class. The principle [...]

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Which theologian are you?

Kind of outdated and the questions aren’t that great, but anyway…

You scored as Paul Tillich. Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless.

Paul Tillich

87%

Jurgen Moltmann

73%

Martin Luther

67%

Charles Finney

60%

Friedrich Schleiermacher

53%

John Calvin

53%

Augustine

47%

Karl Barth

20%

Jonathan Edwards

13%

Anselm

0%

Which theologian are [...]

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