Does it represent the sun? Is it a holdover from the days of sun gods?A similar orb is used for gods and heroes in many cultures—Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and other religions. A Word About Mythicism ...
Pepperdine is a Christian university, but perhaps you feel that you can better understand Christianity by learning about and engaging with other religions. Maybe you’re fairly new to religion and still questioning and challenging—your contributions to conversations might be very different from that ...
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The resulting form of Voodoo is a creolized religion, made up of influences from many other religions [source: Dialogue Institute]. But in spite of these additions, Haitian Voodoo strongly resembles African Voodoo. Priestesses, known as manbos and priests, known as oungans, conduct religious se...
Please don’t be alarmed. Stories of demonic possession as a result of using tarot are the result of narrow-minded and superstitious misunderstandings spread by religions such as orthodox Christianity. Tarot is a tool of self-exploration – it’s like having a coach or teacher by your side –...
or action performed in a customary way. ... As an adjective, ritual means "conforming to religious rites," which are the sacred, customary ways of celebrating a religion or culture. Different communities have different ritual practices, like meditation in Buddhism, or baptism in Christianity. ...
Levenson responds: wait a minute. For Trinitarian Christians (the vast majority today and for most of Christianity’s history), JesusisGod in a fundamental sense; but for a Jew (or Muslim), to say that a man is God is an idolatry that drastically compromises God’s fundamental oneness and...
I am a Christian and I listened to your Critical Thinking podcast recently. Let’s cut to the chase. Your comments about the Texas GOP opposing the teaching of critical thinking boils done to one issue that you sidestepped. Our government, has removed God/Christianity/Religion from ...
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There are those who accuse Christianity of evil and, as a result of it, science and humanism are also doomed. Two centuries ago, James Lovelock (2006) points out, we were in time to establish “sustainable development” guidelines. It leads us to a question: at what point, for example,...