February 02 2012 (TUR) -- 200 Somali students and 40 religious officials left for Turkey on Thursday within the scope of a project by the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation (TDV). Somali students leave for Turkey This action by the parliament came to...
If you haven’t been paying attention to the growing number of incidents of racial and religious hatred taking place, please begin. Law enforcement and groups like theAnti-Defamation Leagueare warning that today has been targeted as aNational Day of Hateby white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups,...
You could use a BAIT icon, like this image from the now-defunct site openclipart, which would convey that you are fishing with this ancestor in your tree. That would hopefully accomplish two things: Discourage someone else from adding that ancestor to their tree just because you have that a...
I’m not going to defend the silly religious beliefs of the Orthodox, or their extreme form of Haredi Judaism, for those tenets are just as mythological and unfounded as the beliefs of any other faith. But you’d think that the writers of television shows depicting religions would at least ...
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I have never understood religious cults, and I still don’t. How someone can permit themselves to be brainwashed into following a self-appointed “religious leader” and hang on their every word represents, to me, a soul searching for acceptance or love that they believe has been denied them...
Most religious movies feel phony and cheesy when preaching the Gospel, but “Risen” presents it for what it is, what it means, and the good natured spirit of it all. It feels more like an engaging lesson than an obnoxious sermon. The historical figures of this movie begin and end with...
And no, civic duty doesn’t cover that. A vow of poverty, driven by extreme religious fervor might cover that, but most of us aren’t monks. Unless we’re this kind of monk: Also, when things are owned by the people, do you know who in fact gets to choose what’s done with the...
Here Updike is suggesting that religious language, the Bible’s language, or what he calls ‘the words … the dead have spoken’ are the very bread and butter of a minister’s vocabulary, words which determine not only the content of a minister’s speech but also the conduct associated ...
admit to irreligious or cruel behavior without guilt, contribute to or directly cause the death of others. Since Maugham resists moral judgments, his women are free toreactto the traumas they’ve created rather than simply being punished for them. No wonder they’re so fascinating to watch on...