LONDON — Researchers say a new find near the famous Stonehenge monument shows the religious significance of the site. The smaller prehistoric site is being called “Bluehenge” because of the color of the stones that were placed there thousands of years ago but have since disappeared. All that is left are the holes made when the [...]
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New Stonehenge Find Reveals Religious Significance
Posted in Religion on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harsh Job Market Has Students Flocking to Religious Education Graduate Programs
Posted in Religion on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Faced with a harsh job market and inspired to action by the recent spate of white-collar crimes, students nationwide are flocking to graduate programs in religious education, often in record numbers. Many of the nation’s divinity schools, including top programs at Harvard and Yale, have posted increases of 10 percent and higher for applicants to [...]
‘Deeply Religious’ more likely to fight
Posted in Christianity, Health, Religion on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What do you think about the following article? Are the ‘deeply religious’ more likely to fight? I found this article on foxnews.com Terminally ill patients who are deeply religious often get aggressive treatment in their final days, even though palliative care might be easier for them, researchers said this week. A look at [...]
Scientists Locate ‘God Spot’ in Human Brain
Posted in Religion on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found this today at foxnews.com. Enjoy! The brain of every human being, from believers to atheists, has been revealed to contain at least three “god spots”, all linked to religious beliefs and thoughts. A team of U.S. researchers has obtained strong evidence that religiosity is managed by the same parts of the brain that [...]
More Americans say they have no religion
Posted in Christianity, Religion on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 [...]
Pope Benedict and Nancy Pelosi
Posted in Abortion, Catholic, Religion on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday told U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who supports abortion rights, that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life “at all stages of its development,” the Vatican said. Pelosi is the first top Democrat to meet with Benedict since the election of [...]
‘Virgin Mary’ Underpass Stain Defaced With Devil Graffiti
Posted in Catholic, Christianity, Religion on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Chicago underpass stain resembling the Virgin Mary has been defaced by graffiti of a devil face. The stain, under the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, was tarnished by the demonic purple scrawl sometime within the last two weeks, police told the Chicago Tribune. The graffiti is a face with horns, a sinister fanged smile [...]
Atheist Group Files Lawsuit for Prayer at Inauguration
Posted in Politics, Religion, Rick Warren on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Source: Foxnews.com What’s next? The last time I read the Constitution, it says the Government should not establish a state religion. I can’t believe a prayer at the Inauguration establishes a religion. What do you think? The head of an atheist group that has filed a lawsuit against prayer at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration [...]
Outcry in Washington State
Posted in Religion on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
