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Gun culture refers to the attitudes, feelings, values and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used. [1] The term was first coined by Richard Hofstadter in an American Heritage article critiquing gun violence in the United States. [2] Local gun cultures are found all around the world, and attitudes toward guns vary ...
Sometimes the ideas you're taught as a child just aren't true. The post I Grew Up Thinking Guns Were a God-Given Right: Here’s Why I’ve Changed My Mind appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Gun culture in the United States refers to the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding the ownership and use of firearms by private citizens. Gun ownership is deeply rooted in the country’s history and is legally protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Firearms in the U.S. are commonly used for self-defense ...
On positive German God-belief (1939). In Nazi Germany, Gottgläubig (lit. ' believing in God ') [1] [2] was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism and deism practised by those German citizens who had officially left Christian churches but professed faith in some higher power or divine creator. [1]
Local religious figures have joined forces to form the Centre County Interfaith Coalition for Gun Safety.
In his book Guns, Germs, and Steel he argues that the leading cause of death among hunter-gatherer societies is murder. [63] Religions that revolved around moralizing gods may have facilitated the rise of large, cooperative groups of unrelated individuals. [64]
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. [1] [2] [3] According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese Folk Religions, is really so, or whether the apparent different objects of worship are to be thought of as manifestations of a singular divinity. [1]
The term "exotheology" was coined in the 1960s or early 1970s [1] for the examination of theological issues as they pertain to extraterrestrial intelligence.It is primarily concerned with either conjecture about possible theological beliefs that extraterrestrials might have, or how our own theologies would be influenced by evidence of and/or interaction with extraterrestrials.