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Drunk While Sober: Pious Christians Simulate Drug Use While Worshipping God
Getting drunk on God while still physically sober – a religious phenomenon with counter-culture roots and a new internet venue Getting Drunk on God from VICE
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New York Teen Dies After Ritual Beating in Word of Life Church Near Utica
Teen dies after being beat in church Teenager Dies in Fatal Church Beating from ABC News Six New Yorkers including Lucas Leonard’s sister have been charged in the beating death of one young teenage boy and his brother who survived the assault. The boys’ parents, Bruce T. Leonard, 65, and Deborah R. Leonard, 59, each […]
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Slavoj Žižek On Buddhism and Capitalism
Slavoj Žižek. The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capitalism Slavoj Žižek offers his opinions as to why Buddhism appeals to CEOs and entrepreneurs around the world as a guiding philosophy in their life and in the market. Using market dynamics and philosophical constructs, Slavoj Žižek attempts to explain the ontological reasoning and appeal […]
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Chinese State-Sponsored Christianity? Wang Zuoan Says PRC Aims to Develop Chinese Christian Theology
The growth of Christianity in the People’s Republic of China has prompted the Chinese Communist Party to consider developing an indigenous, Chinese Christian philosophy that incorporates Christian tenets with Chinese culture and CCP political goals such as the construction of state socialism according to senior official for religious affairs Wang Zuoan, who spoke at a […]
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Is North Korea’s State Ideology, Juche(주체), a Religion?
According to Adherents.com, which tracks membership numbers among the world’s various religions, the 10th largest religious group in the world is the entire state of North Korea itself – namely, the Juche (주체) ideology coined by Eternal President Kim Il-sung and propagated through the DPRK’s propaganda machine. The Juche movement is much more overtly religious […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Hayaa are Mocked on Twitter After the Mysterious Closure of a Dinosaur Exhibit in Dammam
Saudi Arabia’s powerful and omniprevalent Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice recently closed an educational exhibit featuring dinosaurs at a shopping mall in the oil capital of Dammam, prompting a backlash on Twitter that both mocked the ‘Hayaa’ as well as Saudi clerics. Some have pointed to the ‘dinosaurs […]
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Funny as Hell: Bill Maher’s New Rules of 2013
Comedian Bill Maher in a review of his best “New Rules” of 2013 Bill Maher New Rules | Best of 2013 From runaway highway masturbators to political inanity, here are the best “New Rules” Bill Maher has developed from 2013. Hilarious as always.
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