Alpert, Joan
Together, our findings suggest that experimental manipulations of control may be ineffective in shifting belief in God, but that individual differences in the experience of control may be related to religious beliefs in a way that is consistent with CCT....
The Holy Father most certainly had the Pachamama controversy in mind when he exhorted the Faithful to “not be quick to describe as superstition or paganism certain religious practices that arise spontaneously from the life of peoples. Rather, we ought to know how to distinguish the wheat growing...
Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.” Freedom to choose trumps even reality itself, and relativism in all its forms was enshrined as dogma. The only self-evident truth is that there is no objective truth. Suc...
The story of the sea dragon eating the seven moons was first documented in a 1913 collection of old Visayan stories titledMga Sugilanong Karaan,compiled by the Visayan poet Fernando Buyser, who also goes by his pseudonym "Florpinas." The story was full of Catholic religious context due...
has caused it to be very commonly admitted that a Deist may be truly religious: but if religion stands for any graces of character and not for mere dogma, the assertion may equally be made of many whose belief is far short of Deism. Though they may think the proof incomplete that the ...
which provided the stimulus for much scientific research. But in Oxford the new freedom from Puritan control encouraged unruly behavior and religious enthusiasms among the undergraduates. These excesses led Locke to be wary of rapidsocial change, anattitudethat nodoubtpartly reflected his own childhood...
when the Arabs rode into Egypt on their way to conquer the Byzantine fortress of Babylon, they camped in those same orchards. Heliopolis, where the last remnants of the Priesthood of Ra continued their spiritual activities, fell the next day, ending three thousand years of religious continuity....
Let’s step into a young man’s shoes: it can’t be easy to feel that you’re blamed for all of society’s ills. Sure, straight white men have made the world go tits up, burying us in wars, colonialism, predatory capitalism, religious fundamentalism, mass shootings, and other absolute...
Slowly the conversation shifted from traveling to beliefs about America, God and man. These guys were wildly libertarian, deeply skeptical of “the government’s version of history,” racist, and religious. We listened, and we asked questions. No matter how shocking their beliefs, we did not ...