When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
J. KrishnamurtiTags: nature religion relationship temples intimate
Matematika je religija za ljude s mozgom, zato ima tako malo pristaša.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: religion
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.
Bill MaherTags: humor religion beliefs halloween marijuana
New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked on CNN if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country. Well, the station was flooded with emails, and the twits hit the fan. And you could tell that these people were really mad, because they wrote entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS!!! Worst of all, Bill O'Reilly refuted my contention that this is a stupid country by calling me a pinhead, which (a) proves my point, and (b) is really funny coming from a doody-face like him.
Now, before I go about demonstration how, sadly, easy it is to prove the dumbness that's dragging us down, let me just say that ignorance has life-and-death consequences. On the eve of the Iraq War, seventy percent of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. Six years later, thirty-four percent still do. Or look at the health-care debate: At a recent town hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his congressman to "keep your government hands off my Medicare," which is kind of like driving cross-country to protest highways.
This country is like a college chick after two Long Island iced teas: We can be talked into anything, like wars, and we can be talked out of anything, like health care. We should forget the town halls, and replace them with study halls.
Listen to some of these stats: A majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government, or explain what the Bill of Rights is. Twenty-four percent could not name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. More than two-thirds of Americans don't know what's in Roe v. Wade. Two-thirds don't know what the Food and Drug Administration does. Some of this stuff you should be able to pick up simply by being alive. You know, like the way the Slumdog kid knew about cricket.
Not here. Nearly half of Americans don't know that states have two senators, and more than half can't name their congressman. And among Republican governors, only three got their wife's name right on the first try. People bitch and moan about taxes and spending, but they have no idea what their government spends money on. The average voter thinks foreign aid consumes more twenty-four percent of our budget. It's actually less than one percent.
A third of Republicans believe Obama is not a citizen ad a third of Democrats believe that George Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which is an absurd sentence, because it contains the words "Bush" and "knowledge." Sarah Palin says she would never apologize for America. Even though a Gallup poll say eighteen percent of us think the sun revolves around the earth. No, they're not stupid. They're interplanetary mavericks.
And I haven't even brought up religion. But here's one fun fact I'll leave you with: Did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older religion than Christianity? That's right, half of America looks at books called the Old Testament and the New Testament and cannot figure out which came first.
I rest my case.
Tags: humor intelligence education religion ignorance 9-11 immature war-on-terror essays war-in-iraq medicare healthcare-reform
New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me!
Bill MaherTags: humor hate religion awards religulous
New Rule: Let the Pope be Pope. An animal-rights group in Italy has asked Pope Benedict to give up his fur-trimmed cape and hat. To which the Pope replied, "Don't be hatin' on my cape, bitch." Sorry, but Popes are the original divas, they invented bling, they've been wearing outlandish outfits for a thousand years--almost as long as Elton John. The clothes, the jewels, the fancy palace...Those aren't just symbols of the Papacy, they are the Papacy. The day the Pope shows up on the balcony in a pair of jeans and polo shirt is the day a billion Catholics go, "What the hell were we thinking?
Bill MaherThe only religion with God is Islam
Yaqub khanIt is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed
Idries ShahTags: life knowledge learning death religion mind teaching sufism sufis
All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry and accusations? Men do it to women; Jews do it to Christians; Christians do it to Muslims. Yet, all these have an implied duty to Abraham.
Michael Ben ZehabeTags: peace hate religion intolerance christian muslim bigotry jew abraham song-of-solomon
لزم السعي إلى التحرر من سطوة العوالم (القديمة وامتداداتها الحديثة) والتفكير خارج فضائها الآسن، وعلى النحو الذي يفتح الباب حقاً لخطاب الفجر الذي ينبلج الأن. وضمن هذا السياق، فإنه يلزم التنويه بأن هذا التحرر لا يتعلق أبداً برفض أي من الدين أو الحداثة، بقدر ما يتعلق بضرورة تجاوز خطاب "القوة" الذي استبد بهما، إلى خطاب "الحق" الذي جرى تغييبه فيهما. وبقدر ما يؤدي هذا التجاوز إلى بناء دولة الحق التي يرنو إليها الكافة في العالم العربي، فإنه سيسمح أيضاً لكل من الدين والحداثة أن يستعيدا روحيهما الحقة.
وفي كلمة أخيرة؛ فإنه الانتقال من الاشتغال بآلية الجمع "التجاوري" الذي يتحدد بحسبها بناء كلٍّ من الواقع والخطاب اللذين يسودان عالم العرب إلى التأسيس المعرفي للمفاهيم التي يتداولها الكافة من الأيديولوجيين السابحين ( على تنوع تياراتهم وأطيافهم) على سطح خطاب راكد، من غير تدقيق وفحص وضبط، بل عبر ضروب فادحة من التعميم والتلفيق التي حالت، وستظل تحول، دون أن تتجاوز مصر، ومعها العرب، واقعاً فرضت عليه إكراهات الأيديولوجيا أن يعيش انقساماً فاجعاً بين جوهره ومظهره؛ وهو الانقسام الذي يسعى العرب، بثوراتهم، إلى تخطيه ورفعه، وغنيٌ عن البيان أن ذلك لن يكون ممكناً إلا بترسيخ خطاب التأسيس.
Tags: religion philosophical philosophy-of-religion
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