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How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
These important distinctions about religion offer a real challenge to how we see other cultures and their traditions. If we’re only seeing them through our eyes, rather than challenging our gaze, how can they ever trust us to see them for who they are? How does this imposition of “religion” onto other cultures contribute to broader misunderstanding... See more
Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
Reading is like downloading thoughts. Religion is simply a designed vehicle for transporting ideas across time. Who controls history? That’s the issue with our modern day, isn’t it? Everything is interdependent and related: Nature, chemistry, and engineering are the standards from which ergonomics, geopolitics, and culture grow. Reality is that whi... See more
To be sure, peace won’t look like the world joining hands and singing kumbaya. It will look, at first, like pockets of exhausted people seeking refuge. Writers and thinkers will break from the herd. People will seek out community based on what they love instead of who they hate.
Chris Best • The coming culture peace
In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the "scapegoating mechanism," in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order.