Tag Archives : Religion

Atheists are finally coming out everywhere and are becoming more visible than ever before. If you are living anywhere near New Jersey, you must have noticed a new festive season special billboard which is actually promoting atheism and asking world to celebrate ‘Reason’ these Christmas holidays. The advertisement has been put up by American Atheists. [...]

Father Tom Eichenberger began a recent sermon using an iPhone to play the sound of church bells at the microphone, and compared the habit of praying to use the popular device. “The same rules apply,” he told the congregation this Sunday to the parish of St. Francis Borgia in Cedarburg, a town north of Milwaukee. With smart phones equipped [...]

Religions and religious bodies seem to be becoming all prevalent and omnipresent once again. It is unbelievable that Best Buy should get flak for greeting US Muslims Happy Eid on 27th Nov and Gap should inform AFA (American Family Association) about its holiday campaign. Times are changing but this religious fervor will only take us back to medieval [...]

There have been many explanations formed to render a clearer picture as to why the current global recession occurred after the burst of the housing bubble: ‘interest rates were too low, regulation failed, rising real-estate prices induced a sort of temporary insanity in America’s middle class.’ However, social analysts have found a more profound [...]

Recently was launched the DVD of Religulous (religion + ridiculous), a documentary / comedy of Bill Maher. Bill Maher is the host of “Real Time” on HBO, comedian that since early in his career has mock the behavior and beliefs of evangelicals. Bill Maher is the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, and tin the film he interviews [...]

Dost Tariq, a Muslim police officer in England, is suing the police of the West Midland and the police authorities becase of racial and religious discrimination. Dost, from Small Heath, Birmingham, was working as a recruitment officer for the force when his boss said that Dost looks like Osama Bin Laden – Dost has a long beard. Healso accuses [...]

It was French President Sarkozy’s first historic appearance before the Parliament and in his first direct address to the lawmakers and policy makers present in the Parliament Sarkozy chose to slam veil of muslim women ‘burqa’ while speaking about his vision about France. He thus supported a proposed parliamentary commission by 60 legislatures [...]

For French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics, religion is a product of imagination. Moreover, the reason why humans possess the concept of religion and practice it is because ‘they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.’ This capacity for imagination which began to develop 40-50,000 years ago, [...]

Some common practices are sacred elements in Hinduism. These are meant to pursue awareness of the Supreme Being through divinity, even in everyday life. Hindus can perform worship or veneration in either their home or temple. It is not mandatory to visit temples. Mantras are chanted invocations to God and the deities that are actually prayers or praises. [...]

There has been a report that more and more youngsters and youths claim to be non religious. According to a survey done by the Institute for Study of Secularism at Trinity College, a majority of the individuals who fell in this non believer category was from 18-34 years of age. Marketing experts are of believe that marketing as a whole has been a factor [...]