EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ISSUED ON MARCH 2, 2010. NOTE: The full fact finding report is available from aicc Delhi office: aiccdelhi@gmail.com Attempted Murders The Punjab police are hiding the fact that Sangh Parivar-led hoodlums in Batala, Punjab tried to burn five Christians alive.
TONGREN, China (Reuters) - For Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, one question is very much on their minds these days — who will succeed the aging exiled spiritual leader once he …
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a government work report during the opening meeting of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, ca…
Her mother is a churchgoing Methodist. Her father is a Southern Baptist. Yet could Chelsea Clinton be planning one of the biggest Jewish weddings of the year? The 30-year-old graduate student and her Jewish fiance, Marc Mezvinsky, 32, announced their engagement in November and told friends they were looking to a possible summer ceremony.
TONGREN, China (Reuters) - For Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, one question is very much on their minds these days — who will succeed the aging exiled spiritual leader once he …
TONGREN, China (Reuters) - For Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, one question is very much on their minds these days — who will succeed the ageing exiled spiritual leader once he…
Moucarry KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Mar 2010: Defining an ethnic group in religious terms can lead to oppression and arrogance, an Islamic studies expert said at a public lecture about Islam and Christianity in the Middle East.
Missionary apologists will often sing the praises of the good work that missionaries do. They feed the hungry, build shelters, teach the illiterate how to read, etc. These are all great things but they can all be done just as effectively if not more so by leaving religion at home. People in third world nations or nations which have been devastated by a natural disaster are in a vulnerable position. They are at a disadvantage economically, scientifically, and often emotionally (due to the losses suffered by natural disasters). The ends do not justify the means. It isn’t a “service” to use people’s hunger and poverty as a tool to convert more followers.
“In cities where the majority of people are Christian or Muslim, there is social pressure to conform, or at least to keep your opinions about religion quiet. Another reason is that non-theists are more likely to believe strongly in the separation of church and state, so they are less likely to make a political issue out of their non-belief. Because they believe religion is a private matter, they are less likely to speak of it in public.”
Philosophical skepticism, which is the view that our ability to acquire any knowledge at all is doubtful at best, frequently comes up in debates between atheists and theists — but it shouldn’t. Atheists’ questions about how any knowledge-claims can be made about any gods are met with theists challenging how we can make any knowledge-claims about …
