Georgia celebrated Family Purity Day today!
Is it okay to celebrate such customs?
Georgia's prime minister joined tens of thousands of people on a march through the capital on Friday to mark the Day of Family Purity, which celebrates so-called traditional family values in the country where animosity toward sexual minorities is strong.
Welche Rolle spielt #Religion heute in Gesellschaft und politischer Bildung? Kann Religion helfen aktuelle Herausforderungen zu bearbeiten?
Am 6. Juni diskutieren wir darüber in Berlin u.a. mit Meron Mendel und der Eugen-Biser-Stiftung. In Workshops werden Fragen zu Demokratiebildung und Religion, Religious literacy, Reflexionsräumen und Vorurteilsbewusstsein erarbeitet.
No, no. Of course I didn't change the churches stance on contraception. I'm just joining in with the Climate Debate to gain popularity. We still want our worshippers actively oppressing women, spreading deadly, sexually-transmitted diseases, and adding to population growth which is a major cause of climate change.
A big decline in church attendance was making news in Britain in March 1966 and twenty-five-year-old John Lennon commented on it during a long, rambling interview.
"Christianity will go.
“It will vanish and shrink.
“I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
Young people generally do believe in a higher power. To their credit, they do not believe in hatred, greed, or hypocrisy. Those raised in hateful churches are looking for another way to connect with the divine.
Good for them for grasping what is most important for that journey: love for others. They may feel lost, but they are going in the right direction by leaving places that basically worship white cis het identity.
I interviewed two anti-Zionist Jews about their perspective on the protests for #Palestine, one a current grad student at #UTAustin, and the other an alumni. Both were present at the big protest at April 29, and one was arrested—but only one would have been classified as an "outsider," even though they both have deep ties to the school.
I've got their story coming out later this week at Decelerate.news.
Pope Francis: World Nearing ‘Breaking Point’ from Climate Change
ROME, Italy — Climate change has brought the world to the “breaking point,” Pope Francis asserted in his introduction to a 3-day climate summit to be held in the Vatican in May
Nice chat with an older Jehovah's Witness couple at my door yesterday. Tried their hardest, even though I told them my history with religion and my current viewpoints. One thing they tried to convince me WITH: "interpretation of the scriptures isn't necessary, they interpret themselves". They left when my reaction to "his scripture gives us comfort" was that scriptures commanding genocide and forced circumcision of god's enemies made me discomforted.
In 2022, there were just 42,000 nuns in America and the majority were elderly. For The Baffler, Lauren Fadiman spent some time with Benedictine sisters and explored the history and decline of religious life. "There was a time when the convent was the closest a woman could get to both the Lord and women’s lib," she writes. "The vow of chastity lifted the burdens of early marriage, bad sex, and potentially lethal childbirth; the habit released women from the obligations of beauty; and the requisite knowledge of Latin and a wide range of religious texts required that nuns be well-educated."
Stars played an important role in ancient Egyptian belief. In the Pyramid Texts the soul of the deceased pharaoh ascends to the #celestial realm of the imperishable circumpolar stars.
"He places thee at the head of the spirits, the imperishable stars."
When you take the lyrics "would he devote that Sacred Head for such a worm as I?" into your very core as a 5-year-old, it takes A LOT to get shut of that unsightly baggage as an adult.
Even "Amazing Grace": "...how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me...."
Really? I was a child. A baby.
A wretch?
Reprobate & miscreant are some of the synonyms. I was to learn those as well.
...the wider implications of my experience & of the fact that it is not unique to me.
There are so, so many of us.
And when those of us who critique Christianity & #religion & church engage in our critiques, I think we underestimate the depth of the trauma that has damaged and is continuing to damage the people who remain caught up in Christianity, religion, church.
They are all walking around with raw, open, festering wounds that they deny deny deny so as to neither see nor feel them.
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Trickle down is literally a religion for economists. There is always a few professors of economics that SWEARS that if implemented correctly it will work THIS time.