The tragedy of modern atheism is to have ignored just how many aspects of religion continue to be interesting even when the central tenets of the great faiths are discovered to be entirely implausible. Indeed, it’s precisely when we stop believing in the idea that gods made religions that ...
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The majority of people follow one of five major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But there are many, many more religions than that. And within each of these are denominations so distinct that some people may consider them to be different religions altogether...
3-Idolshave been present throughout the history of the humanity. Some of them were built by people out of wood, stone, silver, etc. Some of them had faces others did not. There are various forms of idolatry from the totems of the primitive tribe religions to the modern idols of the so...
Fiction is fiction, yes, but the bible as fiction is still the basis of religions which have caused how many thousands of deaths? It’s not fiction to the people who base their lives on it. And when “fiction” uses actual historical figures and romanticizes actual historical events that ...
I do not think your impression is correct because you are confusing two very different concepts. Bidah is innovation in theology. Jurisprudence on the other hand is much different is concerned with applying the teachings of revelation in changing times and circumstances, in new languages,...
Voodoo, a religion primarily practiced in Haiti, is actually a combination of two religions. It is a syncretic religion based on West African vodun and Catholicism. What do you call someone who practices Voodoo? Practitioners of voodoo can be referred to in several different ways. Some call the...
Kristor is saying that all religions are imperfect with respect to truth. But if so, why should anyone adhere to a religion instead of to the truth itself? Nor can he claim not to know the truth itself, or that only God can know it. For, just as a person cannot understand blindness...
Although its roots go back further, scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. Islam started in Mecca, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, during the time of the prophet Muhammad's life. Today, the faith is spreading rapid...
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