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Hi Lovely people: Just wanted your opinion on this to see if it worth trying to discuss anything civilly, and thus submitting any posts on this forum: I am self-confessed Dasam Granth cynic. I don't believe in its authorship, and don't need the Dasam Granth anyway, as I have Sri Guru Granth...

Religion in the Classroom February 26, 2010 In a recent issue of Newsweek, religion editor Lisa Miller took Harvard University to task for failing to seriously educate its students in religion. This gap exists in part because of the pressure of some faculty who contend religion should not...

A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five...

Jai Singh wraps a turban around Samantha Colletti in front of Hughes-Trigg on Monday afternoon. Be the first to comment on this article! More...

White bloke in a relationship with a Sikh girl, without her family knowing Good afternoon all. I am new to this site and this is my first thread, so please be kind. Right where do I begin. I've been dating this girl for around 6 months now, but we've had to keep our relationship secret from...

sat shri akal to all Well Sikhism is not a religion. Baba Nanak said " Na hum Hindu Na musalman". He rejected the religions. Sikh means Learner , because everybody learn from his daily life. So, the Hindus and Muslims those who rejected religions came to Sikhism means only have a trust in one...

The most trivial part of the relationship between science and religion, and yet one that generates lots of debate, is the simple question of compatibility: Can they co-exist? I have written a bit about this, but I have to confess that this question is boring. Establishing that two things can...

Saturday, August 7, 2010 Punjabi Pictionary, turban tying and Sikh history Jeopardy! are all part of the program at Sikh Camp this summer. The eight-day religious camp encourages campers ages 6 to 19 to follow the Sikh way of life, a 500-year-old religious tradition that began in India...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/02/tony-blair-faith-foundation-short-film YouTube- Filmmakers, 'Let us show you how faith inspires us', Tariq Chowdhury (UK) Tony Blair: 'To be religiously illiterate is foolish' When Tony Blair first moved to London, he was struck by the city's rich...

Divine dispatches: a religion roundup When I worked in the Manchester office of the Guardian I often wrote the Northerner, a round-up of northern news. This feature is a bit like that, except it's about belief and will never mention Coleen McLoughlin, unless she becomes a nun. • As it...

For our purposes as human beings the mind is the center of everything. It governs our experience of our bodies, it retains and composes the inner narrative of our lives, it absorbs the givens of family, culture and education, it orders the data of our senses into a coherent and continuous report...

The science/religion fault line has built up tremendous pressure in the last few decades, and people on both sides of it feel deeply shaken. Maybe that explains why so many can't see straight. Many theists continue, against all reason, to try to jam the 11-dimensional square peg of science...

hello i would like to learn more abouth sikh religion. Why is it in your view the " right ", or true religion, over other ones ? Why should someone prefere to become a Sikh, instead a Muslim, or christian, or buddhist , for example ?

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Jerry Coyne and I had an interesting exchange yesterday that will appear in a brief video on USA Today's website at some point. The question related to the compatibility of science and religion. Can one accept the modern scientific view of the world and still hold to anything resembling a...

After ferrying the Crusaders across the Bosphorus Straits, Byzantine Christians reported their horror at witnessing the Crusading knights and peasants skewering and roasting children on spits, as the invaders advanced from Nysea in Anatolia...to Marj Uyun in Lebanon. When the soldiers...

BALPREET SINGH is legal counsel and acting executive director for the World Sikh Organization of Canada. The purpose of the Sikh faith is to recognize and connect with the self. But this begs the question, what is the "self?" Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh scripture, tells us that within...

Source: Debate.org | Religion on the whole benefits the human race. 1. Is illogical The conception of God that most people around the world have simply cannot exist. First, let me define what most people think of as God: An all-powerful being, who created the universe, who is all-good. Now, you...

Religion could emerge as a wedge issue in this year's race for governor after Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts' reference to GOP front-runner Nikki Haley as a "raghead" and voter confusion about Haley's religious conversion to Christianity from Sikhism. More...

25-Points of Attack by Tss on the Sikh Religion Hinduization of Sikh Faith & History Based on “Tabai Roas Jagio” by Dr. Sukhpreet Singh Udokay Last week’s announcement by the VHP of putting portraits of Guru Gobind Singh and Sree Guru Granth Sahib in Hindu Mandirs has shocked Sikhs worldwide...