Will someone please help me out and fill in the blank? When I was in fifth or sixth grade, we had a “unit” on world civilizations, which was probably a worthwhile ...

Lately these pages have seen some comments about how worthless and unnecessary, or even harmful, religion is. I would have to agree with that statement when it comes to almost all religions prior to ...

Allah The Almighty created man and Jinn and commanded them to worship Him, and made the validity of any act of worship contingent upon devotion and monotheism. Islam and all its rites and obligations ...

In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

Is God dead? The fantastic proposition of God’s demise has fuelled our wonderings for millennia. The great philosophers and scientists have conceded that God’s existence or non-existence is a personal ...

An interesting working paper by the University of Connecticut economists Metin Cosgel and Thomas Miceli looks at a dataset of over 300 governments between 3,700 BC and the 20 th century in order to ...

Can it be argued that monotheistic religions are essentially intolerant as they cannot endorse anyone replacing what they feel is a true god? Have you noticed that academicians who say Hinduism is ...

A nomad interested in twisting the kaleidoscope of science and looking for new patterns Very recently I had to suffer a management seminar trying what seems to be the new fad amongst the management ...