Being a Church Member
The local church is a body of baptized believers who share common beliefs, values, and behavior. Church helps to satisfy the need to belong to something. Belonging to a local …
Jewish Culture in Europe Today
(Holocaust Remembrance Day is highly controversial in England. My former writing professor, Julia Pascal, made a film concerning Holocaust survivors in order to raise support.) The women’s eyes glistened as …
Spiritual Life and Daily Life how do they Merge
I was going through a phase of my life where no religion was being able to teach me how to incorporate spirituality in my everyday life, and that made me …
Raising Human Consciousness
Consciousness manifests itself and only has existence within life. It fills your mind with itself. Consciousness is the experiencer, awareness is the witness and also the source of your consciousness. …
The Good Book
Atheism is often a result of religion and the practices of religious people. During the Inquisition, religious people persecuted atheists and those that didn’t believe the Bible as they believed …
Defining the Main Hindu Symbols
Om Om is the most important religious symbol for Hindus. It is composed of three sounds a-u-m and this threefold nature is central to its significance. It represents the three …
God understands your anger at Him
To answer this from bitter experience, it would have to be said that it’s a natural thing that someone who loses a person may blame God. What happens in the …
Buddhism Views on Abortion
“The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.”- Aristotle Even in ancient Greece, mankind struggled with the debate over …
Take a technology break to nourish your soul
Spirituality is about connection: with oneself, with spirit and with a community. Technology often gives the illusion of true connection. While online conversations involve the regular exchange of words, photos …
Buddhism Introduction to the Thirty two Marks of the Buddha
The Thirty-Two Marks of the Buddha is a misnomer of monumental proportions. They are taken from early pre-Buddhist Indian writings. There they were called the Thirty-Two Marks of a Great …
The Religion of Atheism
Atheism seems to have evolved over the years. Ironically, the first atheists were those who rejected the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods for the monotheistic Judeo-Christian God. Thus, its …
Atheist Christmas
Atheists should celebrate Christmas however they please, especially if they don’t want to celebrate it at all. That’s part of the beauty of free-thinking: no one needs to tell atheists …
Who created God?
Theists argue that creation must have a Creator, but do not continue that argument to God, Himself. God is given exemption from this supposed natural rule. It would seem there …
Book Analysis the Zen Teachings of Lin Chi
The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi is the recorded sayings of a Master of the Ch’an school of Buddhism, Lin-Chi. While many other branches of the Ch’an school died out, …
The Major Schools of Buddhism
There are three major schools of Buddhism. First of all, the school of ‘Theravada‘ (also known as Hinayana’) which is dominant in Southeast Asia and began in the first century …
Planning a Pagan Wedding
When planning a Pagan wedding it can be as similar as planning a traditional wedding or as complicated as recreating a medieval-style ceremony. For the most part, the ceremonies that …
Laws of Islam concerning Women
The Zina Ordinance is part of the Hadood Ordinance in Pakistan’s law. It was brought in by General Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan in 1979. For the first time in Pakistan’s …
Biography of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
Better known today as the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama is respected as a great teacher, whose teachings were an oral tradition for a while before being written down and became a …
Phi Gods Secret Cosmic Code
Phi (The Golden Ratio) Phi, pronounced as “fi”, kind of like “fly”, is simply an irrational number like pi, but unlike pi, Phi has a great deal of very unusual …
Buddhism and Truths
In my search of the world’s religions, many failed to convince me of their beliefs, because I was seeking answers. Why do young people die? Why did my husband die …
The power in forgiveness
The power of forgiving is more persuasive than you or me. The true willingness to set aside past hurts is an act of God. In human faults, it is impossible …
Benefits of having your kids in church
It is a norm for a busy guardian or parent to wake up one Sunday and say “No, I’m not in a mood to go to church”. But this attitude, …
Miracle healing in Capernaum
This miracle occurs in Capernaum. Mark tells us that it takes place “A few days later.” Jesus has returned from his travels in Galilee and has come back to the …
The Goals of Life in Hinduism
The ultimate goal of life in Hinduism is “MOKSHA”. Another word for Moksha is “MUKTI”. Both these words literally mean liberation. Liberation from what? Liberation from the bonds of the …
Understanding Janus Pagan God of January
Pagan history is everywhere and is easily found by researching the history of our modern customs and practices. Some of the days of the week and even some months of …
Atheists Celebrating Christmas
There is no governing body, and there are no bishops, elders, or anyone else determining how atheists should do anything, or telling us what to believe. So how, or if, …
A Response as to Why Atheism is Wrong?
First and foremost I don’t believe there are any atheists. The people that are close to me and love me dearly think that this statement is gross arrogance but it …
Knowing the Spirit Within
“The Lord our God, the Lord is one” is a phrase spoken in the Shema of the Old Testament and by Jesus in the New Testament. God’s omnipotence, omnipresence and being an omniscient …
Introduction to Krsna Consciousness
I am a Krsna devotee, also known as a Hare Krishna guy. To understand Krsna is not a very easy task. We have got more than one hundred books based …
Hindu Deities Vamana
This Avatar of Lord Vishnu is of particular significance to the inhabitants and descendants of the people of Kerala with key importance to the harvest time festival called Onam. Onam …
God did not create Satan
God did not create Satan, He created Lucifer. Lucifer was a mighty archangel who had charge over many other angels. The angel, Lucifer, dwelt in the glory of God in …
The Pagan Recon Movement Explained
Pagan Reconstructionists, or more commonly referred to in the Pagan Community simply as Recons, is a fast-growing movement within Paganism. For the past ten years really, the Recons have been …