Religious links
The major work of a C19th women’s rights activist who had Christianity in her sights (and seems to have been the original source for the “9 million dead” estimate for the witchburnings).
Someone is killing Peruvian shaman. A new religion of mediumship in Venezuela reflects Venezuela’s very high homicide rate.
Mapping religious belief in Europe: “paganism” is winning. Christianity is weakening in the US:
"It's not like there's a lot of hostility toward religion in the United States," Chaves said. "It's just that there's been a softening of religiosity."
Pointing out that the decline of monotheism is not the same as decline of religion.
Results of a three year project studying religion.
A local “church or gaol” ordinance causes ructions.
Controversy over the director of the Houston National Cemetery who apparently tries and stops people referring to Jesus in funeral services there.
Official Hindus upset over Melbourne Festival play putting Ganesh against the Nazis.
Reviewing a medieval text on friendship.
About a division within Evangelicals in the US. A rebuttal. Making a point about clarity of language. Documenting Dominionism.
Israeli court grants right to put status as “without religion”.
Hasidic Yiddish newspaper crops two women, including Secretary of State Clinton, from a photo and then apologises.
Ultra-Orthodox extremists targeting a bookshop.
Study projects current trends will see religion vanish from nine developed nations.
Criticising the European Court of Human Rights for the very limited information and reasoning in a recent appeal case about hanging crucifixes in Italian schools. Criticising the original decision.
Criticising the Law Lords understanding of religious identity in the Jewish Free School case.
About the tsunami of Jew hatred in the Muslim world.
About the position of the Copts in contemporary Egypt. Recent violence against Copts and the underlying Islamic theology.
A Shia shoe seller being prosecuted for selling Halloween-themed sandals with graveyard crosses on them.
About an iconic Ismaili intellectual:the Ismailis are a fascinating example of possibilities within Islam.
The debate over apostasy within Islam. A case of a young Christian mother in Pakistan being executed for “blasphemy”.A Christian pastor in Iran faces the death penalty for apostasy.
An apostate woman of Muslim background explains what is wrong with Sharia. Noting what Islamism and the far-right have in common. Opposing permitting Sharia law in Oz:
Rights, justice, inclusion, equality and respect are for people, not for beliefs and certainly not for inhumane parallel legal systems. Sharia law contravenes human rights. In order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of all those living in Australia, there must be one secular law for all and no religious courts.
How it is the younger generation of Muslims in the West who are being radicalised.
An Islamic cleric “explains” that women do not count as equal to a man as a witness because it has been scientifically demonstrated that women cannot talk and remember at the same time. The notion has since been endorsed by the spiritual leader of the Muslim brotherhood:
Time magazine, in its 31 July 1995 (pg. 39) publication, presented the results of a scientific study which displayed the image of a woman’s brain when she was engrossed in speaking and conversing. At that moment, both sides of the brain were completely occupied, being used to process speech. It also showed the image of a man’s brain when he was speaking, and only one side was being used. This makes him more precise (in speaking), because he uses the second side of his brain to remember, while the woman occupies both sides of her brain just to speak. This -- Allah knows best -- is the secret of the saying of Almighty Allah: “If there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” [Qur’an 2:282].
Dr Wafa Sultan tries to educate Bill O’Reilly on the implications of the Sharia requirement for 4 witnesses to sustain a complaint of rape.
Someone is killing Peruvian shaman. A new religion of mediumship in Venezuela reflects Venezuela’s very high homicide rate.
Mapping religious belief in Europe: “paganism” is winning. Christianity is weakening in the US:
"It's not like there's a lot of hostility toward religion in the United States," Chaves said. "It's just that there's been a softening of religiosity."
Pointing out that the decline of monotheism is not the same as decline of religion.
Results of a three year project studying religion.
A local “church or gaol” ordinance causes ructions.
Controversy over the director of the Houston National Cemetery who apparently tries and stops people referring to Jesus in funeral services there.
Official Hindus upset over Melbourne Festival play putting Ganesh against the Nazis.
Reviewing a medieval text on friendship.
About a division within Evangelicals in the US. A rebuttal. Making a point about clarity of language. Documenting Dominionism.
Israeli court grants right to put status as “without religion”.
Hasidic Yiddish newspaper crops two women, including Secretary of State Clinton, from a photo and then apologises.
Ultra-Orthodox extremists targeting a bookshop.
Study projects current trends will see religion vanish from nine developed nations.
Criticising the European Court of Human Rights for the very limited information and reasoning in a recent appeal case about hanging crucifixes in Italian schools. Criticising the original decision.
Criticising the Law Lords understanding of religious identity in the Jewish Free School case.
About the tsunami of Jew hatred in the Muslim world.
About the position of the Copts in contemporary Egypt. Recent violence against Copts and the underlying Islamic theology.
A Shia shoe seller being prosecuted for selling Halloween-themed sandals with graveyard crosses on them.
About an iconic Ismaili intellectual:the Ismailis are a fascinating example of possibilities within Islam.
The debate over apostasy within Islam. A case of a young Christian mother in Pakistan being executed for “blasphemy”.A Christian pastor in Iran faces the death penalty for apostasy.
An apostate woman of Muslim background explains what is wrong with Sharia. Noting what Islamism and the far-right have in common. Opposing permitting Sharia law in Oz:
Rights, justice, inclusion, equality and respect are for people, not for beliefs and certainly not for inhumane parallel legal systems. Sharia law contravenes human rights. In order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of all those living in Australia, there must be one secular law for all and no religious courts.
How it is the younger generation of Muslims in the West who are being radicalised.
An Islamic cleric “explains” that women do not count as equal to a man as a witness because it has been scientifically demonstrated that women cannot talk and remember at the same time. The notion has since been endorsed by the spiritual leader of the Muslim brotherhood:
Time magazine, in its 31 July 1995 (pg. 39) publication, presented the results of a scientific study which displayed the image of a woman’s brain when she was engrossed in speaking and conversing. At that moment, both sides of the brain were completely occupied, being used to process speech. It also showed the image of a man’s brain when he was speaking, and only one side was being used. This makes him more precise (in speaking), because he uses the second side of his brain to remember, while the woman occupies both sides of her brain just to speak. This -- Allah knows best -- is the secret of the saying of Almighty Allah: “If there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” [Qur’an 2:282].
Dr Wafa Sultan tries to educate Bill O’Reilly on the implications of the Sharia requirement for 4 witnesses to sustain a complaint of rape.