A quick roundup today because I am leaving town tomorrow and will be blogging irregularly this coming week. We will begin with an examination of a theme from my earlier post on Fractured Faiths — The Myth of Unified Religious Traditions.
In this article, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche over at HuffPo Religon discusses what it means to [...]
Tags:Buddhism·Catholic·intolerance·monotheism·moral babies·moral rigidity·natural morality·Siddhartha·syncretism
Based on keyword searches leading people to this blog, it appears that many are interested in religious syncretism. With this in mind, I thought some comments would be in order. To kick things off let’s take note of two recent articles, each of which sheds some minor light on syncretism.
In the first, Lois Solomon of [...]
Tags:Christian yoga·ecumenical·group level selection·monotheism·polytheism·sex·syncretism·tantras
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed David Gelernter’s new book, Judaism: A Way of Being. Along the way, the reviewer claims that “Judaism itself is a wide-ranging book about the beliefs, practices and philosophy of the world’s first monotheistic religion.”
Not really. Zoroastrianism is usually recognized as the first monotheistic religion, and its roots go all [...]
Tags:Judaism·monotheism
Barbara Hagerty at NPR just published an article asking: “Is the Bible More Violent Than the Quran?” I am not sure how one would assess whether the Bible is more violent than the Quran, but both books contain ample amounts of violence and encourage violence under certain circumstances.
If these books are read literally (and not [...]
Tags:monotheism·violence
