#Religion

1/ By some measures, disaffiliated ("lapsed") #Catholics comprise the largest religious denomination in the US.Listen to one of them--"#Catholicism made me a humanist before I knew the word....I believed in
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This thread is so wise about the importance of ritual, and the distinction between grief and mourning.https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1295489893616025601 Reading about the 1917 Halifax Explosion, something jumped out at me: the city
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English politics has a last days of Rome feel about it. Their country is dying around them but they can't bear to admit it Brexit has become a religion to
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Dear world. India's **government** wishes us to celebrate a 'great thinker' who said "To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her
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Lessons from the Tech Bubble. Excellent thread by @corry_wang. Two areas where similar arguments are playing out: ‘New’ Green Economy & New Currency Order with #TSLA & #BTC as
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THREAD #Serbian #Orthodox #Church bishops start Conclave (#Sabor-Holy Assembly in #SPC parlance) to elect new #Patriarch, 3 months after previous died of #Covid. Election much more about politics than religion,
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I’d like to say, before my TL becomes a hate fest with people going, “imaginary person, stone aged barstewards,“ and other such epithets towards followers of Islam.As with any religion,
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Read this thread--on biblicist Jan Joosten's conviction for child porn and how his work is actually entwined w/that. As a sexual ethicist who also does text I want to focus
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2nd Motorised Independent Commando Company, Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade. A while back I got some interesting questions about the structure of this unit. Here is some more information. It was
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A bit more about mindfulness from the last RT:Mindfulness is a religious practice (Buddhist meditation). It is the simplest baseline form of that practice that has been ripped from its
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since y'all need a bit of education on any culture that isn't your own: a thread of some of the main hindu gods and goddesses, what they represent, and what
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New research. If you are a quantitative social scientist who ever uses a category for non-religion in your analyses (which is most of us), then this chapter will hopefully be
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The importance of friends in Islam(القدوة الحسنة)A thread Companionship in Islam is a very important topic. The Prophet PBUH had companions and friends who helped him in his mission
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Theodicy and State Violence: Political Theology & Rav ShagarTHREAD1/ Adam Kotsko usefully expands Carl Schmitt's definition of political theology thusly: Political theology deals, writ large, with analogies between the problem
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10 things to know on #ElectionDay about white evangelical Protestants.1. @PRRIpoll finds white evangelical support for Trump is as strong as ever: Among likely voters, 79% say they’ll vote
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Egypt The connection The warWhat is the brotherhood of the snake?All the way back to the Garden?What ties does Egypt have to Vatican?BloodlinesHow far back does the cabal go?Why do
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