Skip to main content

Nathan Rein's Library tagged religion →  View Popular

25 Nov 09

From ChristianToday, a note on the release of the Poverty and Justice Bible (from the American Bible Society)

The headline, oddly, is "Americans more likely to credit Obama for verse on justice than Bible," which suggests a kind of conservative-Christian disdain for the supposed popular tendency to lionize Obama as a populist champion. The piece highlights a Harris Interactive survey that presented respondents with the quotation, "You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless," and asked its source. The answers given were Obama (16%), the Bible (13%), the Dalai Lama (9%), MLK (8%), Oprah (4%) and Bono (3%). (It's Proverbs 31.8f.) I have to wonder about methodology. I assume this was a multiple choice question, and without a list of choices I'm sure 95% of respondents would have answered "I don't know." The choices listed by the article only add up to 53%. Anyhow, it's interesting.

www.christiantoday.com/...24717.htm - Preview

religion christianity bible possible_blog_post obama social_justice news

Animal Sacrifice by Hindus at Gadhimai Fair in Nepal – Thoughts and Reactions

Interesting opinion piece on the Ghadamai (Nepal) sacrifice, going on now. The author rejects animal sacrifice as a false interpretation of Hindu teaching, but blames middle-class, educated Indian Hindus for failing to spread true teachings among rural communities, often seen as backward, primitive, and embarrassing.

www.hindu-blog.com/...ice-by-hindus-at-gadhimai.html - Preview

hinduism opinion commentary ritual sacrifice animals violence rels327 post:facebook(source) south_asia religion

  • It is easy to blame the animal sacrificing Hindu as uneducated, superstitious believing in witchcraft and tantrics. Educated Hindus impatiently tries to distance from such events and talk loftily about Yoga, Upanishads and the scientific achievements of ancient Hindus.

    The real culprits here are educated Hindus, modern day Hindu Gurus and Saints, Hindu leaders, Hindu organizations and the government. Majority of the Gurus and Saints are only interested in working among the middle class and the rich. The Gurus go all the way to talk about Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita in United States and Europe but never venture into the rural areas of India where there is no electricity and proper educational facilities.

    Only a few Hindu organizations work in rural India. Majority of the organizations are often confined to a particular caste or area.

  • You can never blame a Hindu who goes to sacrifice an animal for personal wish fulfillment or as a thanksgiving for his/her prayers heard. Because he/she comes from areas in India where there is no electricity, no proper roads and not even good water to drink. His sole refuge is in a local deity who can be appeased with his personal wealth and that is quite often his domesticated animals.
24 Nov 09

Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins | World news | guardian.co.uk

  • The event, which happens every five years, began with decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.
  • The festivities included a ferris wheel, fortune-telling robots and stalls blaring music and offering tea and sugary snacks.
  • 2 more annotations...
22 Nov 09

Sabbath protest in Jerusalem -- latimes.com

Article summary: "About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an action they view as a desecration of the sanctity of the holy city." Hard to imagine a more vivid metaphor fo the clash of "old" versus "new" sensibilities (though putting it that way suggests that haredism is "old," when actually it's pretty modern).

feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/features/religion/~3/Muk6zF2RV_4/la-fg-israel-intel22-2009nov22,0,2483608.story?title=Sabbath protest in Jerusalem - Preview

diigo judaism via:feedly israel religion rels328 possible_blog_post

21 Nov 09

59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop's Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex "Marriage" Law

Remarkable. I do find it pretty nauseating that they talk about how much they've "suffered" for the cause of "doing battle with same-sex 'marriage' advocates." (Note the quotation marks around "marriage.") I have a hard time mustering up too much sympathy for that kind of "suffering."

www.lifesitenews.com/...09111907.html - Preview

campaign_finance glbt marriage same-sex law religion christianity roman_catholicism

  • Malone said that he was grateful for his fellow Catholic bishops "prayer, encouragement, and financial support" and sharing the suffering that now comes with the territory of doing battle with same-sex "marriage" advocates.
19 Nov 09

Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests - Yahoo! News

  • But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.

Zazzle merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8"

Here's the Psalm that the inscription refers to: "May his days be few; may another seize his position. May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow." (Ps. 109.8f., NRSV).

www.zazzle.com/howlingbear3 - Preview

obama religion evangelicalism christianity violence rels327 products via:buzzfeed

1 - 20 of 1211 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

Related Tags

Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »

Join Diigo