So, it’s been an interesting week. So to speak. The Paris terror attack has caused some very different reactions. Some, predictably, reacted by essentially saying, “see, that’s what we’ve been telling you, Muslims are bad, and they won’t assimilate or…
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My anti-terror rally (First draft)
Tagged with: Algeria, Assimilation, Assimilationism, Democracy, Immigration, Racism, society, Terrorism
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Society, Sociology
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Society, Sociology
I am Charlie — Je suis Charlie
No, obviously I am not. He’s dead now, because of two morons who didn’t believe in their religion enough to let it win the argument on merits. Because the moment you pick up a gun to answer an opinion, a…
Tagged with: Faith, Fanaticism, I am Charlie, Je suis Charlie, Terrorism, Western Europe
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in Islam, Nonviolence, Politics, Religion, Society
Human Civilisation Emerged in Africa
African Wisdom Statue. This one was lifted straight from Gently Hew Stone, who (yes, that blog name comes most likely from a speech-to-text misunderstanding, owing to English pronunciation being a bit quirky) sometimes has cracked a joke or two about…
About faith crises
Last weekend I was asked whether I had ever had a crisis of faith. This wasn’t the first time, but I had to ask for some room to define, to interpret the question. I will write about my chain of…
Tagged with: Crisis of Faith, Faith, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Mormon, Mountain Meadow massacre, society, Sociology, Sunday School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Personhood, or Being a person
Some recent phenomena have prompted me to write this, in an attempt at a common sense-philosophical study of what the word person means, and how definitions of being a person–sometimes called personhood–have been expanded in recent centuries. I am doing…
They say I’m not Christian? I’m indifferent…
The headline here is revealing. So I’ve been reading yet another set of press articles, where “journalists” interview a Baptist pastor about the “Mormon” faith? (Deep breath.) Anyhow, there have been about a billion blog posts, where Mormons argue that…
Tagged with: Christ-like life, Christianity, Jesus Christ, LDS Church, Mormonism, Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Posted in Mormonism, Religion, Society
Posted in Mormonism, Religion, Society
Is Critical History forbidden to Latter-day Saints?
On another forum (in another language), we had some discussion about Critical History some while ago. In that discussion, I guess we all were very much for open history. The audience was somewhat self-selected for openness, as it is a…
Gay marriage, another personal take
As someone else already pointed out, marriage ceremony was always between one man and one woman in Judeo-Christian culture, although one man could end up with more than one living wife in several cultures in history (including The Church of…
Tagged with: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gay, LDS, Mormon, Same-sex marriage, United States
Posted in Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
We are planning some action against "Defective by Design", AKA DRM
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Please take a look at Free Software Foundation, Freedom is important for software, too.
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