The popular YouTuber was arrested for reading an anti-rape poem that allegedly includes a verse offensive to religion.
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Italy, The Homicide of Sharon Verzeni: Will the Media Apologize to Scientology?
A young woman who took Scientology courses was assassinated. Before it came out that the crime had nothing to do with Scientology, some media and anti-cultists used the tragedy to attack the church.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 5. Act Four: The Restoration of Hope
Although deconstructed by ideologies, hope is not lost. It is a perennial possibility, even in the midst of the most horrible persecutions.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 4. Act Three: The Attack Against Hope
By divorcing Biblical faith from Greek reason, Luther, Kant, and Marx destroyed the roots of the Christian concept of hope.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 3. Act Two: The Definition of Hope
Faith and hope are closely related. To understand hope, the German Pope argued, we should look at the definition of faith in the “Epistle to the Hebrews.”
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 2. Act I: The Birth of Hope
When was hope born? In “Spe salvi” the German Pope discusses the “scandalous” claim in the “Epistle to the Ephesians” that before Jesus hope did not exist.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 1. A Dialogue with Ernst Bloch and Greek Philosophy
Hope is the main resource religions provide, and one unfortunately becoming scarce. A proposal: reading again “Spe salvi,” the 2007 treatise on hope by the German Pope.
Dissolution of the Kishida Administration: A Boon for Religious Freedom in Japan?
Under Kishida, Japan went through the worst religious liberty crisis in its recent history. Will his successor improve the situation? by Michael Mickler Kishida announcing he will step down as LDP leader, August 14, 2024. Credits. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio...
A Swiss Criticism of the French MIVILUDES: “Opaque Methods, Imprecise Data”
The Director of the Intercantonal Information Center on Beliefs (CIC) co-signed a severe indictment of the French governmental anti-cult agency.
Charmion von Wiegand’s Journey: From Theosophy to Tibetan Buddhism
The American abstract painter’s deep relationship with both Theosophy and Mondrian oriented all her life, which she concluded as a devout Buddhist.