"Religion poisons everything" -Christopher Hitchens.
Never a truer sentence spoken #religon #secularism #Athiesm
New from Homo Vitruvius
"The truism is that we need to distinguish between extremists and the ordinary faithful. It’s a reasonable enough axiom. But it comes accompanied, even founded, in an unexamined piety, shared by the religious and even the secular alike. That piety is the profession that people’s faiths, even if they are not shared, should at least be respected."
It is very difficult for Westerners to understand indigenous people - we don't have the vocabulary or the worldview
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8695bBp/
#pagan #animism #sami #religon #environoment
#pagan #animism #sami #religon #environoment
Look at poor old St Gerald's expression. The face of a man who lived a "holy" life, died, and was told by the angels that in God's bureaucracy he will in future be responsible for all prayers about pregnancy (for or against). This job is for all of the afterlife, no job rotation, department moves, or promotions. I suspect he has been hitting the alter wine...
#religon #saints
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Majella
Look at poor old St Gerald's expression. The face of a man who lived a "holy" life, died, and was told by the angels that in God's bureaucracy he will in future be responsible for all prayers about pregnancy (for or against). This job is for all of the afterlife, no job rotation, department moves, or promotions....
#religon #saints
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Majella
A good reflection on celebrating this season by UU mi Oster Dan Harper #Religon #Solstice #light #dark
Rethinking Christmas as the darkest time of the year
https://www.danielharper.org/yauu/2022/12/rethinking-christmas-as-the-darkest-time-of-the-year/
#religon #solstice #light #dark