12 Who Made a Difference / Steve Stone -- His congregation set example for religious toleranceMichael Kelley
After Anne Hutchinson was forced to leave Boston for her religious beliefs, she led a group of English settlers to Rhode Island, where they founded the city of Newport in 1639. Due to its origins, Newport has always been a place of religious tolerance. The bustling waterfront made this city...
The rest of us, however, do not come from Christian backgrounds. While most pagans and polytheists were originally Christian or from Christian homes, I was not. I lack religious privilege on a fairly substantial level. I run into monotheists and atheists all of the time who equate religi...
may seem to be doing certain external religious duties but he is spiritually asleep. And he will fall into the devil’s trap, he will be deceived. It is something we
A devotee of the Divine Mother as Kali, Ramakrishna (1836-1886) is widely revered as one of the greatest Hindu saints. Beloved for his great devotion, he experimented intensively with other religious paths, including Christianity and Islam. He taught a universal love and understanding of all rel...
They were desperate to have their Messiah come and overthrow the corruptions they saw destroying their people and their beloved Promised Land — corruptions done by Roman rule, crooked tax collectors, and even their own religious leaders. Everything likely felt unstable and uncertain and frustrating ...
We also acknowledge the limitation concerning the smaller proportions of respondents from Eastern European countries, and the fact that potentially important socio-demographic characteristics, such as ethnicity and religious affiliation, were not measured. It is also likely that men who have negative ...
For many people, the mind becomes a stumbling block. They elevate it to such a high position that they appear to worship at the altar of the mind. Others turn their back on it, believing that religious faith and the mind are in conflict, and they choose faith. ...
As far as I’m concerned, we have two important kinds of religious people: 1. Those who will use government or violence to bully people, arrest people, control people, or steal money from people. 2. Those who won’t use government or violence. ...
You know all those systems never were created for real live people. More for ideas of people as they were, at a fixed point, about 40 or 400 years behind the rest of the world. Now it’s costing the humans dearly. None of us really are square enough to fit into their rigid round ...