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Clearsky wrote:

1)religion as beliefs and meaning […]  2) Religion as Identity( group) […]  3) religion as structured social relations. ( power relations)

I like that. I’ve never taken a course on religion, but if I did, I’d also be interested in how religion and politics relate (or not) to each other, especially those times when they’re kep…[Read more]

Christian history and variations of belief, including definitions of God, are a lot larger and more complex than Islamic history. Asking if Allah is a predator is more simply answered in the context of knowing how and which humans invented and promulgated beliefs in Him.

Islam is Human Religious Predatory Behavior, Ulitimate Version. The…[Read more]

And so, believer… is not believing in unicorns also a religion?

Interesting point, and might make some religious people think. Also makes it easier to define and lump cult members into their own lot, since they’ll most probably deny they’re in a cult. But then there’s the “I’m not religious, but spiritual” lot.

Useful, sometimes, especially when arguing that science is not a religion.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Genes are to biological DNA as Memes are to our cultural DNA.

Nice. Too bad cultural DNA can behave like silly putty looking for molds to fill.

History has been my weakest subject, for like… 50 years, actually, so recently I’ve been binge watching some dramatic series’ on Netflix as a quick summary on the past couple thousand years. I’ve mentioned here how the lack of a  “reformation” explains a lot about why Islam is so far behind Christianity, but damn, I didn’t know until now how…[Read more]

The men who invented those fictional characters were cultural predators.

Shower thought, rephrase the above for accuracy, albeit the following attempt at pith could also benefit from added context or qualification:

The men who fleshed out and promulgated as “true” those invented, fictional characters were cultural predators.

tom sarbeck wrote:

explanations for capitalizing the ‘g’ in ‘god’ are more rationalization than reason.

I think most grammarians would disagree with that, but I do share an emotional appeal to rid the world of the capitalized God word, and I’d rid the world of those presumptuous scriptural texts that get capitalized like The Bible, The Koran and…[Read more]