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Dystheism as a concept, although often not labeled as such, has been referred to in many aspects of popular culture.As stated before, related ideas date back many decades, with the Victorian era figure Algernon Charles Swinburne writing in his work Anactoria about the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her lover Anactoria in explicitly dystheistic imagery that includes cannibalism and sadomasochism.
He says "it is interesting that people of faith now seek defensively to say they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists". Hitchens began his rebuttal by tracing the understanding of the Nazis or Stalinists, to the concept of totalitarianism probably first used by Victor Serge and then popularized by Hannah Arendt . [ 39 ]
An investigation on subjective well-being representing 90% of the world population has noted that, globally, religious people are usually happier than nonreligious people, though nonreligious people also reach high levels of happiness. [88] As of 2001, much of research on religion and health has been conducted within the United States. [89]
God botherer: Australia: Christian people Similar to Bible basher, a person who is very vocal about their religion and prayer. [11] Isai Pakistan: Christian people From Isa Masih, a name of Jesus Christ in the Hindi-language Bible. [12]
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...
The last 50 years has seen an increase in academic philosophical arguments critical of the positions of atheism arguing that they are philosophically unsound. [12] Some of the more common of these arguments are the presumption of atheism, [13] the logical argument from evil, [14] the evidential argument from evil, [15] [16] [17] the argument from nonbelief [18] and absence of evidence arguments.
Charlamagne tha God slammed people celebrating the cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and delivered a reality check about it’s larger meaning.
Cringe is everywhere around us. Within us, even. So when Reddit user PaddedValls made a post on r/AskUK, inviting people to share their most embarrassing moments, many did.So we decided it would ...