Difficulties over direction of prayers in Indonesia.
New York ad man 5 days a week,
shaman one day a week. There is now shamanism
online.
An Orthodox Church destroyed by 9/11
is apparently not going to be rebuilt.
A nice post
on the complexities of al Andalus.
Wrestling with what a religion is, means and differences in perspective
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Pointing out the anti-Christian element in Nazism does not actually get you all that far. Particularly as the Holocaust put together two principles which had been part of Catholic teaching for centuries -- the degradation of the Jews and social purification through slaughter (that is, after all, still their theology of Genesis 19 and turned up in all sorts of documents and forms: it is still Catholic teaching that the same-sex oriented are metaphysically deformedThe Holocaust really was just a great big pogrom, and followed the patterns of a pogrom down the centuries -- ( ... )
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I am very interested in the dynamics of monotheism, but it is important to understand the differences between the broad versions, and different strands within them. The Ismailis, the Kurds and the Kossovars are not the same as Saudis or Iranians, for example. And well, lots of Iranians are not like that either.
As for the performance of the Catholic Church: on balance, inadequate compared to that of the Greek Orthodox Church, which was in a much more vulnerable position. (Not a lot of Orthodox soldiers in the German armed forces: lots of Catholics though.) But Germans from Catholic parts of Germany and Austria were much more likely to be death camp guards than Germans from Protestant parts. As A. J. P. Taylor noted, (Protestant) Prussia had a better record of resistance to Hitler than (Catholic) Austria.
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