Front PageOctober, 2007
Funeral law fails ethnic groups
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The Creation Narratives as Thought Experiments
Syndicated from: open source theology - collaborative theology for the emerging c on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 16:44 creation syndicated articlesIn 10 principles for reading the Bible in a postmodern context, Andrew proposes that contributors to an emerging post-evangelical theology adopt Principle 2 - "Let’s pretend it’s not inerrant." He suggests that we "set aside claims to the predetermined inerrancy and sanctity of the Bible, at least insofar as such claims force upon us standards of truthfulness that conflict with criteria of thought that we are not prepared to abandon in other areas of discourse (scientific, historical, literary, social, etc.)." Adopting Principle 2 "allows us to read the Bible as the unbeliever reads it; it helps to defamiliarise the Bible for us, which will be an essential aspect of the deconstruction process…" In the Genesis 1 as True Myth post we’ve been trying to make literal sense of the Biblical creation narratives. What if instead we were to read Genesis 1-3 in light of Principle 2?
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The death of Jesus in Paul
Syndicated from: open source theology - collaborative theology for the emerging c on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 08:01 atonement syndicated articlesThe first and most important question we face in asking about the meaning of Jesus’ death in Paul is: What sort of thing are we looking for? This is necessarily a highly abbreviated analysis, but I think that what we need to find is not the right explanatory theory to superimpose on top of Paul’s various arguments and metaphors (substitutionary atonement, Christus Victor, moral influence, etc.) but the eschatological narrative that lies underneath them. The mistake that is typically made is to isolate the cross from the narrative context and transmute it into a singular metaphysical event that can in principle be formulated in terms of a theory of the atonement. This is not necessarily an illegitimate procedure, but problems arise when these theological constructs are turned round and used as interpretive grids for the reading of scripture.
Flying While Sikh?
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 06:57 Belief Business--Religious aspects Religious accommodation Seekers symbols syndicated blogs Dear Friends:
Guru Fateh.
Please distribute widely and encourage people to support Sikh Coalition and other Sikh organizations that are doing such good work.
Guru Fateh.
Please distribute widely and encourage people to support Sikh Coalition and other Sikh organizations that are doing such good work.
What You Need to Know as a Sikh Air Traveler click here
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Flying While Sikh?
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 06:57 Belief Business--Religious aspects Religious accommodation Seekers symbols syndicated blogs Dear Friends:
Guru Fateh.
Please distribute widely and encourage people to support Sikh Coalition and other Sikh organizations that are doing such good work.
Guru Fateh.
Please distribute widely and encourage people to support Sikh Coalition and other Sikh organizations that are doing such good work.
What You Need to Know as a Sikh Air Traveler
Download the Sikh Air Travelers Guide and Bill of Rights [English version] [Punjabi version]
We Need to Know Whether the New Policy is Working!
Click Here To Document Your Air Travel Experience Good or Bad
Animal and Human Sacrifice in Religion: Is God Pleased?
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Sun, 10/28/2007 - 15:34. animal sacrifice Christianity Culture & Society Hinduism human sacrifice Islam Jihadism judaism religion sacrificeThe rituals involving animal sacrifice are age old in world religions. In fact all the world religions have tribal moorings and the rituals and religious customs appear to have originated from tribal ancient practices and primitive religions. Antiquity of this practice can not be established.…There were also some cannibals in some parts of the world who killed and ate human beings, mostly their adversaries. Some tribes sacrificed their victims and ate them while few tribes ate the dead. It was believed that the Gods, in whom the men believed, could be satisfied by offering fresh food as offering.…Regardless of its origin, the sacrifice of animals in homage to the gods was an idea that obviously had wide acceptance and this practice has been accepted by the words major religions and rituals infact sanctified these acts.
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Faith Quotes: Faith Ignited
Submitted by bill on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 08:11. faith Faith, Meaning & Purpose sharon salzberg Quote: Sharon Salzberg from Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
Faith is the animation of the heart that says, “I choose life, I align myself with the potential inherent in life, I give myself over to that potential.” This spark of faith is ignited the moment we think, I'm going to go for it. I'm going to try.
Parents Fake Religion To Avoid Vaccines
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 18:43 Business--Religious aspects Faith and the Media philosophy Religious accommodation syndicated blogs womenReligious Or Not, Growing Numbers Say They Are To Get Out Of Vaccinating Their Kids
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2007, CBS News
Parents Fake Religion To Avoid Vaccines
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 18:43 Business--Religious aspects Faith and the Media philosophy Religious accommodation syndicated blogs womenReligious Or Not, Growing Numbers Say They Are To Get Out Of Vaccinating Their Kids
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2007, CBS News
Parents Fake Religion To Avoid Vaccines
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 18:43 Business--Religious aspects Faith and the Media philosophy Religious accommodation syndicated blogs womenReligious Or Not, Growing Numbers Say They Are To Get Out Of Vaccinating Their Kids
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2007, CBS News
Faith Begins with the Glimmer of Possibility
Submitted by bill on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 09:53. faith Faith, Meaning & Purpose myth phil cousineau sharon salzbergAll of us have a story, a life story, that plays in our heads and defines who we are, as well as who we will become. There is redemption in changing a story of impossibility to one with potentiality and possibility. And this is where the power of religious story-systems, or myths, comes in. Glimpsing possibility is the beginning of faith, while seeing it come true is the reality.
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Peoples Capitalism and Venture Capitalism
Syndicated from: On The Commons Blogs on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 13:00 syndicated blogs The CommonsI have been reading a lot on cap and trade systems lately. One especially fine paper by James Boyce, an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, shows how a cap, trade and rebate system could actually improve the economic well-being of the majority of Americans by putting extra money in the pockets of the working majority.
Everyone knows that putting a price on greenhouse gases (GHG) is bound to reduce the living standards of working Americans for the simple reason so much of what we buy and use generates GHGs. A tax on carbon or a cap and trade system is, sad to say, an regressive tax that hits low income earners that hardest because a greater portion of their income is spent on carbon intensive goods and services than among higher income earners. Boyce and his team at U Mass show how pricing carbon leads to the double dividend of putting a price of carbon, thereby creating incentives for polluters to reduce carbon emissions, while redistributing income from high to low income households to reduce the pinch of pricing carbon on poor people.
Peoples Capitalism and Venture Capitalism
Syndicated from: On The Commons Blogs on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 13:00 syndicated blogs The CommonsI have been reading a lot on cap and trade systems lately. One especially fine paper by James Boyce, an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, shows how a cap, trade and rebate system could actually improve the economic well-being of the majority of Americans by putting extra money in the pockets of the working majority.
Everyone knows that putting a price on greenhouse gases (GHG) is bound to reduce the living standards of working Americans for the simple reason so much of what we buy and use generates GHGs. A tax on carbon or a cap and trade system is, sad to say, an regressive tax that hits low income earners that hardest because a greater portion of their income is spent on carbon intensive goods and services than among higher income earners. Boyce and his team at U Mass show how pricing carbon leads to the double dividend of putting a price of carbon, thereby creating incentives for polluters to reduce carbon emissions, while redistributing income from high to low income households to reduce the pinch of pricing carbon on poor people.
American youths bridge religious divides
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 09:53 Interfaith Dialog Religious accommodation syndicated blogs tolerance womenAmerican youths bridge religious divides
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 09:53 Interfaith Dialog Religious accommodation syndicated blogs tolerance womenFaith Quotes: Faith Verses Belief
Submitted by bill on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 18:08. Belief buddhism faith Faith, Meaning & Purpose sharon salzberg Quote: Sharon Salzberg from Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
With our assumptions of correctness, beliefs try to make a known out of the unknown. They make presumptions about what is yet to come, how it will be, what it will mean, and how it will affect. Faith, on the other hand, doesn't carve out reality according to our preconceptions and desires. It doesn't decide how we are going to perceive something but rather is the ability to move forward even without knowing. Faith, in contrast to belief, is not a definition of reality, not a received answer, but an active, open state that makes us willing to explore. While beliefs come to us from outside—from another person or a tradition or heritage—faith comes from within, from our alive participation in the process of discovery.
Bid to de-recognise a unique world heritage site representing pluralistic traditions
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 14:52 Business--Religious aspects Religious accommodation secularism symbols syndicated blogs theologyBJP wants de-recognition of Champaner Word Heritage Site
Submitted by kashif on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 14:21.
Saffron brigade’s bid to de-recognise a unique world heritage site representing pluralistic traditions
By Rupa Abdi,
Bid to de-recognise a unique world heritage site representing pluralistic traditions
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 14:52 Business--Religious aspects Religious accommodation secularism symbols syndicated blogs theologyBJP wants de-recognition of Champaner Word Heritage Site
Submitted by kashif on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 14:21.
Saffron brigade’s bid to de-recognise a unique world heritage site representing pluralistic traditions
By Rupa Abdi,
Saint Ramdas Helped Revive Hinduism in Muslim India
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 07:21. Culture & Society Hinduism india mughal ramayana ramdasSant (Saint) Ramdas lived in Maharashtra of India during 17 th century and he has gone in the golden pages of Indian History as the one who has helped revive Hinduism in India at a time when Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was persecuting Hindus very severely and let loose a rule of repression and religious intolerance. He as the Guru (Teacher) of Maratha warrior Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was credited to have inspired him to rise against the Muslim suppression and build a Hindu Kingdom. Accordingly, Shivaji succeeded in building an independent Maratha Hindu State under the very nose of Emperor Aurangzeb that arrested Islamisation of India and played great role in the ultimate destruction of Mughal Empire. Maratha empire dominated Indian political scene till it was shadowed by English power in India. Thus Sant Ramdas occupies an important position in the history of India ( 1). As a spiritual master he occupies an important position among world religious teachers.
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Turkey's Offensive Against Kurds Would Disturb Already Complex Middle East
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 09:57. iran iraq kurds syria turkey Kurds are demanding a separate nation called Kurdistan. They are distributed in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. Kurds live in the mountainous region of the Middle East where the borders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran meet. There are an estimated 20-25 million Kurds throughout the Middle East. The Kurds have always been a stateless people. It is concentrated in the parts of eastern Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq that make up the region known as Kurdistan that does not have any national status as a country. Kurds are distinct from the Arabs, Turks, and Persians (Iranians) of their region, but are ethnically and linguistically closest to Persians. Kurdish origins are commonly traced back to the Empire of the Medes in the sixth century BC. About 12 million Kurds live in the southeast region of Turkey alone. Twenty percent of Turkey's population is Kurdish. Iraq is 15-20 percent Kurdish; Syria, less than 10 percent; and Iran, 7 percent. The majority of Kurds is devout Sunni Muslims (1). .
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Turkey Struggles With Terrorism by Kurds
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 18:09. Fanaticism & Terrorism iran iraq kurdistan kurds shia sufi sunni syria terrorism turkeyMiddle East politics are replete with rivalries, sectarian conflicts, mutual hatred and ethnic struggles that transform into terrorism causing great human suffering. Struggle between Turkey and problem of Kurds is a live example that has contributed to destabilization of the region and conflicts in neighboring countries such as Iraq, Iran and Syria too apart from Turkey. Guerilla war now has been clubbed with terrorism globally and both have become synonymous although they are distinct from each other. The name “Kurd” was a generic term used to denote nomads and non-Arabs in particular. In Kurdish, the name “Kurd” means “warrior” or “ferocious fighter.” By the time of the Islamic conquest of the northern Middle East in the 7th century AD, the name “Kurd” was already in use as a term to designate the population of Western Iranians in the Zagros Mountains.
Halloween, 2007
Syndicated from: The Gates of Horn - Gateway to the Inner Realms on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 15:50 Dr.Hofmann syndicated blogsHallowe’en is just a week or so away and the for days now the stores have been filled with hideous masks and replicas and complete outfits for children, and others to wear, not to mention equally hideous things designed to turn the average lawn into a graveyard. I thought it might be of interest to readers who didn’t know about it to see where these commercially made monsters originated, and how they connect with today.