How Can a Religious Person Tolerate Other Religions?
April 13, 2018[…] that people do so long as it doesn’t hurt others. But I am not only a secularized human being who doesn’t care what people do. I am also a Jew. My religion tells me […]
[…] that people do so long as it doesn’t hurt others. But I am not only a secularized human being who doesn’t care what people do. I am also a Jew. My religion tells me […]
[…] healthily as sisters and brothers—one family—on this planet. It was with the intent to better combine the human family—to encourage cultural interaction between two disparate countries and to work physically and economically as partners […]
[…] all blameless? Under the mandate of a destiny in law, every instance involving the taking of another human being’s life must be interpreted outside the context of our mortal experience. In a world as […]
[…] the Humanist movement. One gets the impression that Mormons and Humanists have many areas of agreement concerning human responsibility for making this life not only tolerable but meaningful, for being concerned about the welfare […]
[…] some form, even if they amount only to a natural belief in the validity and significance of human choice, a decision to invest human life with some shadow of meaning, a willingness to treat […]
I begin with a paradox. Sociologists of religion have found that religious orthodoxy tends to decline with educational attainment. However, among Mormons religiosity actually tends to increase with education. This is paradoxical because Mormonism apparently…
[…] works out in the Flood’s chronology to nine months and one week, almost precisely the period of human gestation. More interestingly, the waters reach their height at 150 days (7:24, 8:24), which also corresponds […]
[…] In widely publicized media interviews, President Hinckley backtracked from LDS doctrines about plurality of gods and the human potential of becoming “as God is.” After his decades of dealing with the media, these statements […]
[…] Israelites were clustered together especially in the countries of northwestern Europe, where they have been known in human history as Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians, and other Germanic peoples. As such, they are an especially favored lineage, […]
[…] really keep an inventory of each and every one, meticulously monitoring the comings and goings of the human race? Not just in this world but worlds without number? Every fallen follicle accounted for? Or […]