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Some people have used religion as a justification for advocating racism. The Christian Identity movement has been associated with racism. [164] However, it has been argued that these positions may be reflections of contemporary social views as well as reflections of what has been called scientific racism. [165]
According to Qu'ran 9:31, Christians should follow one God, but they have made multiple. They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One God. [225] In modern times, some Muslim scholars have continued to critique Christianity.
A religious delusion is defined as a delusion, or fixed belief not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence, involving religious themes or subject matter. [1] [2] Religious faith, meanwhile, is defined as a belief in a religious doctrine or higher power in the absence of evidence.
Georg Feuerstein lists Zen poet Hanshan (fl. 9th century) as having divine madness, explaining that when people would ask him about Zen, he would only laugh hysterically. The Zen master Ikkyu (15th century) used to run around his town with a human skeleton spreading the message of the impermanence of life and the grim certainty of death. [ 7 ]
A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule). Often constructed to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief system, a parody religion can be a parody of several religions, sects, gurus, cults, or new religious movements at the same time, or even a parody of no ...
Only 20% of people in the U.S. now say they view the Bible as the literal word of God — a record low — while a record-high of 29% of Americans agree the Bible is only a collection of “fables ...
Charlamagne Tha God appeared on the Dec. 4 episode of “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly) and got into a debate with co-host Whoopi Goldberg after he claimed that Joe Biden lied when it came ...
Stephen Prothero of The Washington Post considered Hitchens correct on many points but found the book "maddeningly dogmatic" and criticized Hitchens's condemnation of religion altogether, writing that "If this is religion, then by all means we should have less of it. But the only people who believe that religion is about believing blindly in a ...