Topic: Religion - on July 16, 2016 at 5:53:00 PM CEST
1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid Digitized & Put Online by The Vatican
It’s fair to say that every period which has celebrated the literature of antiquity has held epic Roman poet Virgil in extremely high regard, and that was never more the case than during the early Christian and medieval eras. Born in 70 B.C.—writes Clyde Pharr in the introduction to his scholarly Latin text—“Vergil was ardently admired even in his own day, and his fame continued to increase with the passing centuries. Under the later Roman Empire the reverence for his works reached the point where the Sortes Virgilianae came into vogue; that is, the Aeneid was opened at random, and the first line on which the eyes fell was taken as an omen of good or evil.”
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Topic: Religion - on July 14, 2016 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
Creationist Ken Ham offers public schools a massive discount to bring kids to his Ark museum
Attention, public schools! Do you want to make your students significantly more ignorant for a rock-bottom price? Well, you’re in luck: Creationist Ken Ham is offering public schools a big discount if they bring their kids to his new Ark Encounter museum on a field trip.
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Topic: Religion - on July 7, 2016 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques
When we walk into a beautiful, ornate cathedral or mosque our necks reflexively whip upward. The body senses the eerieness of a vast indoor space, and the eyes are rewarded with intricate and gorgeous architecture. But our gaze can only see part of the artwork at a time, and the blood rushing from our heads limits our ability to stare. Iranian photographer Mohammad Reza Domiri gives us an opportunity to see the entirety of these incredible spaces all at once. His fully panoramic, expansive photographs of centuries-old mosques reveal the genius of their geometries and complexity. The effect is dizzying in a different way, like some kind of fractalized religious hallucination.
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Topic: Religion - on June 18, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
Chinese authorities have announced the destruction of thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks, nuns and lay practitioners at Serthar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the famed Tibetan Buddhist religious encampment located in Serthar (Ch: Seda) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in eastern Tibet.
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Topic: Religion - on May 23, 2014 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
Conchita Wurst's Eurovision 2014 win caused Balkan floods, says Serbian Church leader
The floods which devastated towns and cities in the Balkans, and killed at least 50 people, were a 'punishment' from God after drag artist Conchita Wurst won Eurovision 2014, the Patriarch and other senior figures of the Serbian Orthodox Church have claimed.
Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian church reportedly said that God sent the deluge as a “divine punishment for their [the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, transgender (LGBT) community’s] vices” Pink News reported via the Economist.
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Topic: Religion - on September 22, 2011 at 8:59:00 AM CEST
Religious Fundamentalists Are the Ultimate Nerds
When you think of a nerd, you probably have a very specific image in your mind of someone who wears thick glasses and lacks physical and social grace, but if you were to think about the general qualities that characterize a nerd, you'd find things like borderline-insane obsession with very narrow pursuits, a general inability to relate to folks who don't share their passions, a megalomaniacal sense of self-importance because they happen to hold what they mistakenly believe to be some ultimate and transcendent truth, virtually zero athletic prowess, a tendency to interpret fiction as facts... and probably not much in the way of pre-marital sex.
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Topic: Religion - on August 29, 2008 at 8:57:00 AM CEST
Despite pope's anger, crucified frog stays put
An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
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Topic: Religion - on November 13, 2006 at 10:42:00 AM CET
Sir Elton: Ban organised religion
Sir Elton John has said he would like to see all organised religion banned and accused it of trying to "turn hatred towards gay people".
Organised religion lacked compassion and turned people into "hateful lemmings", he told the Observer.
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Topic: Religion - on October 29, 2004 at 8:34:00 AM CEST
IRS Says Christian Churches Cannot Pray For Bush to Win
The IRS has said that Christians cannot pray for a second presidential term for George W. Bush in their churches, because doing so would violate their tax exemption status.
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Topic: Religion - on October 25, 2004 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
Satan Worship Ok'd By Royal Navy
England's Royal Navy has officially recognized technician Chris Cranmer as its first Satanist, allowing him to perform Satanic rituals aboard his ship the Cumberland and giving him a Church of Satan funeral if he is killed in action.
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Topic: Religion - on September 22, 2004 at 5:34:00 PM CEST
Proteste in Italien gegen bekleidete Mosleminnen in Schwimmbädern
Zunehmende Proteste finden in Italien gegen bekleidet badende Mosleminnen in öffentlichen Schwimmbädern statt: 'Es ist eine Schande, wir sind hier nicht in Afghanistan.' Der Verband moslemischer Frauen fordert jedoch, dass sie bekleidet baden gehen können.
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Topic: Religion - on September 9, 2004 at 8:33:00 PM CEST
Religious Symbol Ban Sharply Criticised
A Sihk religious group, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) have slammed France’s ban on religious symbols in schools, saying that boys are being deprived of their education in the country as they can no longer wear their turbans.
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