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The past three weeks have been some of the most momentous in the history of the Anglicanism — by some reckonings, let us not forget, the second largest Christian denomination in the world.
To recap: The Anglican Communion — the global network of national churches symbolically headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury — has been [...]
Filed under: Religion
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not by [...]
Filed under: Culture, Law, Politics, Religion, liberties, media
The latest Dan Brown atrocity has hit the silver screen. Though I am myself a lapsed Catholic waiting for the Tridentine Latin mass to return in force before being born again, I find that I am offended whenever someone is out there making a buck by bashing Holy Mother the Church. “Angels and Demons” preceded the Da [...]
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At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the [...]
John Derbyshire, Heather Mac Donald, Razib Khan, and friends have launched a new blog for the non-religious Right. There’s an old and deep tradition of skepticism on the Right, dating back at least to Robert Ingersoll and William Graham Sumner in America and to David Hume across the Atlantic. But believers no less than skeptics [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Religion
We just got a much anticipated phone call from our daughter, who is on a junior year abroad program in a city near Mumbai. She’s fine. But, she told us, she had been at one of those bars hit by the terrorists a few weeks ago. Deeprak Chopra is on the TV. Among [...]
Filed under: Events, Foreign policy, Religion, Uncategorized
At first sight the story of the man who marries a dog, bitch to be precise, seems totally absurd and a society that could allow such a marriage might seem demented. But this story is not a fraction as crazy as the weird and wonderful disaster that has been wrought on the world by the [...]
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Mollie Ziegler Hemingway flags a fascinating study in her Wall Street Journal op-ed today:
The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible [...]
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The past several weeks have seen an interesting surge of commentary and analysis on neoconservative “dual loyalty” coming from Jewish writers: Phil Weiss’s indispensable blog is ground zero; Joe Klein’s musings in Time Magazine were brave and significant; now J Street honcho Daniel Levy has eloquently weighed in on [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Religion
I’ve just learned (tardily, as usual) from Tom Piatak at Taki’s that University of Minnesota professor and blogger of the unfortunately common uber-glib school (casual conversational tone, replete with gratuitous obscenities), PZ Myers, outraged at the reaction of a Catholic church to a student protester spiriting away (excuse the expression) and defiling the Eucharist, has [...]
Filed under: Religion