Religion

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Discussion and scholarship of world religions.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by metic@lemmy.world to c/religion@lemmy.world
 
 

I’ve added some basic rules for the community. They can be viewed on the sidebar. Mainly I hope to encourage some nuanced discussion.

I’d like another mod or two. If interested , send me a DM with your timezone or general part of the world and any experience you have modding internet communities or background in interfaith spaces.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by metic@lemmy.world to c/religion@lemmy.world
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Every religion has like a slogan or something to offer to this world. They have a motto.

What is your religion motto??

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Thing is that, I know it can't be proven by science as soul and spirit are something beyond like science can't answer that. I think that there is something called soul and spirit but I am very naive enough to understand what exactly are they. Those who believe, can you pls give me proofs like not scientific, but logical, metaphysical.

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Hi there, I am always fascinated to hear the story of Jesus by Christians and Muslims. Thing is that, many persons like there are some denominations in Muslims that say that Jesus is dead.

I wanna know are there any historical evidences that Jesus is dead??

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So I am an Atheist and I find a lot of joy in going through ritual motions. It is comforting and it does de-stress to sort of "pray" to an altar that I built. Logically it has no purpose other than to scare away proselytizers and be a neat conversation piece, but it is my favorite aspect of new age witch and pagan cultures.

Similarly, occult practices from those cultures and those found in things like Kabbalah or Chaos Magick are good for simple goal manifestation. I know in Chaos Magick, the idea is to set in motion the intention of whatever goal you have and that will increase the odds of it happening, but one must still work to achieve the goal. You cannot simply cast a spell for more money you must also be working towards a promotion. That idea paralleled with an idea in Atomic Habits for this kind of manifestation. It claimed that saying out loud daily what your goal was increased the chances of you actually doing the work to achieve the goal.

I wrote more about it at my blog, but I'm interested in what other people find interesting in other spaces.

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"I will never again be gaslighted by an institution that sells out Jesus for political power."

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The Solomon's temple in Jerusalem was a mistake... according to samaritan israelites, who follows 5 books of the old testament, and pray on Mt. Gerizim, 48km north of Jerusalem. THE place to worship God.

Most of the european christians probably know the term only from the story about the good samaritan. Today I've learned not only they are still a thing, practicing their barebones version of judaism, but in addition to israel and the west bank, some of them even live and practice their religion in brazil.

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Zoroastrianism Explained (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by deafboy@lemmy.world to c/religion@lemmy.world
 
 

The so called new religious movements are a guilty pleasure of mine. Some of their followers often claim to be inspired specifically by Zoroastrianism.

But what is zoroastrianism? Apparently, it all started ~3000 years ago in the area currently known as iran, by the guy called Zarathustra. And although the number of active practitioners is rapidly declining, the ideas behind it affect us all to this day, as the christianity and islam seem to be highly inspired by the ideas behind zoroastrianism.

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ReligionDispatches.org (religiondispatches.org)
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Sacred-Texts.com (www.sacred-texts.com)
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