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Category: Religion
Due to the nature of following current international events I've been checking out YouTube more than I usually do, and one thing led to another and I ended up on a video of prayer services at a Zoroastrian temple in...
Posted by Razib at 2:19 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Religion
My friend Joel Grus has a book out which some readers might be interested in, Your Religion Is False. You can get it on Amazon. FYI, Joel is responsible for the banner on this weblog, which he cooked up in...
Posted by Razib at 2:26 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Blog
So claims Ali Eteraz: Most people in the world, including some Pakistanis, live under the illusion that the country is secular and just happens to have been overrun by extremists. This is false. Pakistan became an Islamic state in 1973...
Posted by Razib at 2:49 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Religion
The blog of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle has responded to my post that Buddhists generally believe in God. Some of the comments also brought up some semantic issues which are real in how Buddhists view God, and how it might...
Posted by Razib at 11:51 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Religion
As noted by a reader the 2008 GSS just came out. I noticed this variable, ANSCITST: Scientists should be allowed to do research that causes pain and injury to animals like dogs and chimpanzees if it produces new information about...
Posted by Razib at 5:12 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Religion
Gallup has an interesting survey up, State of the States: Importance of Religion. The title makes rather clear the result, but check out this map:...
Posted by Razib at 2:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Religion
I have a big round up of various responses to my posts on Judeo-Christianity at Secular Right. Ross Douthat responds: Indeed, the only real problem with the term for his purposes may be that it isn't intellectually lazy enough -...
Posted by Razib at 8:47 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Religion
Ross Douthat (also, James Poulos) makes an intelligent, well-informed defense of the term using the general framework that I began with (as opposed to some people who simply insist on digressing immediately to forward their own position). There are also...
Posted by Razib at 8:18 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Religion
One of my more quixotic quests has been to dispute the use of the term "Judeo-Christian" in normal conversation. Many people who use the term do so without much forethought, it's just one of the definitions you use to point...
Posted by Razib at 9:22 PM • 50 Comments •
Category: Religion
One of the more interesting an robust survey datum in the United States is the low opinion of atheists, and, the finding that atheists are less popular than Mormons or Muslims or Homosexuals when it come to a vote for...
Posted by Razib at 5:30 PM • 3 Comments •
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