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Poetry, Religion

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...The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before i...

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Religion, Politics

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...In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues that the existence and nature of God can be empirically veri...

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Philosophy, Religion

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...unintentional mistakes become disconcerting – even for the most sincere seeker. One may then ask, “What are the benefits of the different types of religion? From the many religions of the world, which practices will accelerate my spiritual growth? In actuality, how to live exactly?” In the book “The Essence of All Religion”, Gnani Purush ((the enlightened one) Dada B...

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...Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French...

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Religion

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...Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French...

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Religion

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...Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French...

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Religion

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...“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth; on the contrary, it recognises Truth in fundamental principles which are the basis of all former dispensat...

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Religion, Politics

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...Learning how to think about religion. Accounting for religious experience and the esoteric spiritual process in our thinking about "God" and the Greater Reality....

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...Reality Is. Religion is what we make it. Reality Is, prior to mind. Religion is what we make it, with the mind. Religion without experience in the Greater Reality is often worthy of criticism. But that criticism misses the point. Su...

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...Contents Light, Religion, and Spirituality -9- About Intelligence in Religion -12- The Problem in Thinking about Religion -14- A Common Ground -17- Heaven, Houdini, and Kierkegaard -30- Nonsense, Violence, and Truth -41- Th...

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... is how Christians foresaw the coming of God’s Kingdom on Earth. All other religions wait for this Kingdom, too. Jews await the Messiah that will brin... ...ritual ones. And so he is to raise the Kingdom of God on Earth. Most other religions, also, vision the coming of a Messiah on a white horse (Mahdi, Ka... ...lead their armies on Earth to bring to power their kingdoms. No new global religion will take us straight to Paradise and God, within one single Judge... ...in quite a lot of schools, colleges and universities. - Of course, the old religions will not disappear. On the contrary, the Messiah and spiritual le... .... No Word of God will be cast away. - But slowly and delicately, all these religions become incorporated in a global “spiritual communion” system. Thu... ...igions become incorporated in a global “spiritual communion” system. Thus, religions evolve from instruments of separation to instruments of unificati... ...ll our future life: in politics, economics, trade, legislation, education, religion, etc. And so, the first steps to officially “institute” GC into ev... ...ys follow approximately the same pattern, no matter what patient’s faith, religion, intelligence, culture, nationality and so on is. First, the patie... ... course, every believer will repeat the name of God used in his or her own religion. Each believer chooses his or her own name of God. Because, any na...

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volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft. This was the fortnightly poetry project for February 8th, 2009.

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...The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature' and 'The Utility of Religion' date from the 1850s - the period between the publication of 'The Principle...

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Advice, Essay/Short nonfiction, Religion

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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...n future, we were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, mas... ...y say "I am an Israeli". Affiliation - to a community, fraternity, nation, state, religion, or team - is really a positive statement of self- defin... ...of "laissez faire, laissez passer" - the hands-off battle cry. Theirs was a natural religion. The market, as an agglomeration of individuals, they ... ...dern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concept... ...se in the sense that we are subject to the same discipline and adhere to the same "religion". We are an inevitable result - not a chance happening.... ... Judaism is founded on shared biology as much as shared history and customs. As a religion, it proscribes a conjugal union with non-Jews. Jews are... ...or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion that is Judaism. It is true that some Jews are differen... ...rs. Bound by a common history, a common set of languages, a common ethos, a common religion, common defenses and ubiquitous enemies - Jews learned ... ...the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the European order. The Nazis borrow...

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...s all the nations of the universe, shall be in the bosom of the church, full of religion, of piety, and that holy fear of God which is the proper ch... ...ins to convert the Jews into Gentiles and make them renounce their God and their religion; they might adore the gods of wood and stone, which the oth... ..., for all was full of continual wars, inquietude, and disturbance; and the true religion having triumphed over so many and grievous oppositions, the ... ...ality of his epistle, but because it spoke of Jesus Christ and of the Christian religion. And is it to be believed that St. Peter would fear on this... ... be some purely spiritual kingdom? May it not peradventure be the tabernacle of religion, or the seat of the high priest? Certainly not. The high pr... ...shed with iniquity;” consequently without faith, without righteousness, without religion, and in the highest disorder and most lamentable carelessnes... ...c. and likewise because that princess renounced her idols and embraced the true religion. But both reasons appear to me false and improbable. False;... ...idonians, Hittites, &c. d id likewise renounce their idols and embrace the true religion, notwithstanding that this most sensual king did for all an... ...g converted to Christ, there shall reign universally upon it one uniform faith, religion, righteousness, concord, and peace: “every one under his ow...