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In Alberta, Sikhs Can Now Ride Motorcycles Without Helmets (Because of Religion)

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 8 years ago

Source Alberta recently became the third province in Canada, after Manitoba and British Columbia, to include an exemption to the law requiring people to wear helmets while on motorcycles. The...

Christian Blogger: Women Are Taking Spots in Medical School That “Belong to Men”

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 59 Comments • 8 years ago

Source Lori Alexander, the Christian blogger whose fundamentalist content is so outrageous, you don’t know if it’s serious or satire, says it’s awful — awful — that women are becoming...

‘I want to die’: David Goodall, 104, hours away from ending his life in Switzerland

Via: tfargo • Religion & Ethics • 75 Comments • 8 years ago

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2018/05/09/david-goodall-assisted-dying/ In less than 24 hours, Australia’s oldest scientist will be injected with a lethal mix of drugs, closing the...

The real Jesus

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

Faith And Reason

Via: johnrussell • Religion & Ethics • 21 Comments • 8 years ago

Encyclopedia Britannica - Faith And Reason (bolded by JR) Different conceptions of faith cohere with different views of its relation to reason or rationality. The classic medieval...

Joy Reid Apologizes To LGBT Community For Tweets, Posts | AM Joy | MSNBC

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 76 Comments • 8 years ago

MSNBC Published on Apr 28, 2018 Joy Reid apologizes for her writings and tweets that were harmful to the LGBT community adding, “I should have known better.” Then a panel of...

Why Is It So Hard to Believe that Many Leading Scientists are Religious?

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 35 Comments • 8 years ago

Why Is It So Hard to Believe that Many Leading Scientists are Religious? by MATTHEW C. NISBET Big Think today features a new set of interviews with NIH director Francis Collins ,...

Heartsick Boy Asks If Atheist Dad Is In Heaven. Pope Francis Reveals The Answer With A Hug.

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 294 Comments • 8 years ago

A tearful little boy grappling with big existential questions after the death of his father received some touching words of consolation from Pope Francis. The poignant moment between the pontiff...

We Need Two Kinds of Truth: Why I Don't Want Science or Religion to Win

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 303 Comments • 8 years ago

by Francis Collins Surveys I have seen indicate about 40% of scientists believe in a God to whom one may pray in expectation of an answer. That’s not a god who went off after creating a...

Four priests accused of sexual abuse served at one Buffalo-area parish

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

Source Members of Most Precious Blood Church in Angola were as stunned as any Catholics – and maybe more so – when the Diocese of Buffalo in March publicly named 42 priests who had been...

Has Christianity harmed you personally?

Via: artie-3438207 • Religion & Ethics • 158 Comments • 8 years ago

There are many long raging battles over Christianity in America. Most people seem to say that it does more good than harm; that those who do harm are misguided; that the problem facing us to...

How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 527 Comments • 8 years ago

“How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?” That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith...

Church of The Donald

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 11 Comments • 8 years ago

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV. HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — The Music City campus of the Trinity Broadcasting Network is about a half-hour drive...

White Privilege is Getting Freebies for Loitering at Starbucks

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

The past week has not been great for Starbucks. Last Thursday, two black men were filmed being arrested at a Philly store and spent the evening in jail for sitting at a table and quietly waiting...

Witnesses Explain the Most Momentous Event in History

Via: yuk-phoo • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 8 years ago

(By Unknown Genius On The Internet) Mary: Well, the other Mary and I (Matthew 28.1) were the first to go down to the cave where somebody said they’d put the body. Salome: I was there too,...

The Great Divorce: Evangelicalism And Jesus

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 87 Comments • 8 years ago

C. S. Lewis’ profound book, The Great Divorce, sprang to mind when I read an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News by religion journalist Peggy Wehmeyer about her growing need to divorce...

Easter-deniers vs. Easter’s Reality

Via: heartland-american • Religion & Ethics • 534 Comments • 8 years ago

Expect the anti-Christian left to go all giddily gleeful over the April Fool’s Day date of Easter this Sunday. What a juicy opportunity for the God deniers to amp up their full-throated mock-fest...

What is Original Sin?

By: katrix • Religion & Ethics • 450 Comments • 8 years ago

The bible makes it clear that the "original sin" is the quest for knowledge. Getting past the writings which claim that Eve was at fault for tempting Adam - when it was Adam, not Eve, who...

Steve Strang is not a respectable person

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 8 years ago

Ryan Smith for the Chicago Reader: “Former Chicago gossip columnist Liz Crokin is now a star among far-right conspiracy theorists.” A large percentage of Crokin’s posts, interviews, and...

For many, Christianity and Trumpism are synonymous. These evangelicals are pushing back.

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

Lynchburg, Virginia, became the site of a battleground over the future of American evangelicalism last weekend. On one side of the conflict was Liberty University, the evangelical Christian...

Megachurch Pastor Says Trump Has God’s Approval to Start Nuclear War

Via: trout-giggles • Religion & Ethics • 188 Comments • 8 years ago

Not everyone is particularly worried about nuclear war . In fact, after one of President Donald Trump’s more recent outbursts about North Korea and “ fire and fury ,” at least one evangelical...

Faith without works is dead - TalkTalk by A Perfect Circle

By: katrix • Religion & Ethics • 15 Comments • 8 years ago

I'm mostly into modern hard rock (although I just saw the Tootie Heath trio live .. jazz .. amazing!). A Perfect Circle has a new song that's pretty amazing and will hopefully make some people...

Are All People of Faith Evil?

By: katrix • Religion & Ethics • 43 Comments • 8 years ago

A recently posted article claimed that all atheists are evil and immoral. If I had said something like that about all people who have faith, I'd be called out - and rightly so. No, all people...

As Holy Week Reminds Us, There is Always Hope, No Matter How Bad it Seems

Via: heartland-american • Religion & Ethics • 71 Comments • 8 years ago

We know that in the end, every knee will bow to Christ. In light of that, the frantic headlines all around us seem incredibly small. Is all the good news gone? Most days, it sure seems like it....

For Enoch - My Mom's Easter Service. The wonderful, awesome, very good day.

By: katrix • Religion & Ethics • 23 Comments • 8 years ago

Today was one of the best days ever. As we've discussed, I've had a really hard time getting Mom interested in church these days, when it used to mean the world to her (church, bluegrass, and the...

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