The Atheist Republic Consulates are headed by the Meetup Coordinators who plan and organize meetups as well as events in the cities they reside in with the goal of providing a sense of community for atheists. These meetups can be as simple as a few atheists meeting up for a discussion....
When in the course of my literary duties I came to learn in depth about two outwardly unrelated sixteenth-century events—the battle of Lepanto, and the Elizabethan martyrs' via crucis—I could no longer resist entry into the Catholic Church. In honor of the pope who had done so much to ...
I felt that this definition didn't really work for me. I saw atheism not just as lack of belief but also as the rejection of such a belief, though this is probably anti-theism rather than atheism.
It is my counter claim that good and evil are not physical phenomena. Rather, they are our subjective assessments of the effects of certain events. It makes no more sense to claim that evil is the absence of good than it does to make the claim that good is the absence of evil. Overall...
It took nearly 40 years for it to be firmly established once again that the piece was not an accounting of actual events, and was in fact written by Zvi Kolitz. At present there are at least two English translations of thecompleteoriginal text fromDi Yiddishe Tsaytung. One, by Jeffry V...
And, at first only because that’s how news of musical events gets passed around these days, I ended up joiningFacebork. Mostly (I use the word advisedly) I don’t do much in the way of politics and religion on there, except well, you know; it’s hard tocompletelygive up once you...
light reporting to be Jesus, this light gave him information on the bible he had not known about, and the next day after showering he was fully cured. Would you say all these people describing Jesus as “light” in different situations (NDEs, meditation, life threatening events) shows ...
“Chronosystem: Consists of the pattern of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as changing socio-historical circumstances. For example, researchers have found that the negative effects of divorce on children often peak in the first year after the divorce. By two year...
Remaking himself as a ‘revisionist historian’, his exercises in revisionism somehow always correspond to an ultranationalist reinterpretation of the events and outcomes of World War 2. Ever willing to provide more grist to the mill of Britain’s paranoid Russophobia (complemented by Sovietphobia),...
Events like Hanfu festivals and the popularity of period dramas have brought these garments back into the spotlight. For many women, wearing traditional attire has become a way to express pride in their heritage. The Hanfu movement, for example, has encouraged people to embrace ancient styles as...