religion
Articles about religion, theology and religious organisations.
0400-2000: Northern Ireland - Is it a religious conflict?
Author's note; this is
an expanded version of a talk given to the Brecon Political and Theological
Discussion Group on Thursday 28th October, 2004. Alternatively it may
be read as a greatly condensed version of my book, Ulster Presbyterianism.
First union for Japanese temple workers
A buddhist monk from the Zenkoji temple in Nagano has formed the first ever union for temple workers in Japan.
The following slightly edited report is from the Australian:
An aggrieved monk and his band of truculent acolytes have formed the first Japanese union for temple workers.
The fledgling union, comprising a handful of monks and other workers from the famous Zenkoji temple in Nagano, is sending a chilling message to Buddhist priests across Japan.
Lend a hand: Starbucks engaging in religious persecution of IWW barista
For the second time in as many months, Starbucks management has kicked Starbucks Workers Union member Suley Ayala out of the workplace for wearing her modest Pentagram necklace.
Religious Discrimination
Ms. Ayala is a practicing Wiccan and as a religious observance never takes off the necklace. She wore the necklace at Starbucks without interruption for three years until the company started harassing her after she and a group of her co-workers went public as members of the Starbucks Workers Union on November 18, 2005.
The Trouble with Islam
Over 130 years ago the anarchist Micheal Bakunin wrote "I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." Writing of the Christian churches in Europe, he said "In talking to us of God they propose, they desire, to elevate us, emancipate us, ennoble us, and, on the contrary, they crush and degrade us.
Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity - Engels
published May 4-11, 1882 in Sozialdemokrat
In Berlin, on April 13, a man died who once played a role as a philosopher and a theologian, but was hardly heard of for years, only attracting the attention of the public from time to time as a "literary eccentric". Official theologians, including Renan, wrote him off and, therefore, maintained a silence of death about him. And yet he was worth more than them all and did more than all of them in a question which interests us Socialists, too: the question of the historical origin of Christianity.
On the History of Early Christianity - Engels
From Die Neue Zeit Vol. 1, 1894-95, pp. 4-13 and 36-43 ONLINE VERSION: Translated by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR, 1957 from the newspaper copy. Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org.
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The God Pestilence
Among all mental diseases which man has systematically inoculated into his cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
Can a Muslim Be an Indian? - Gyanendra Pandey
Can a Muslim Be an Indian?
GYANENDRA PANDEY
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Suicide for Socialism? - Brinton on the Jonestown massacre, 1978
Maurice Brinton's analysis of the bizarre mass suicide of a socialist cult led by American Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, which discusses the dynamics of political sects in general.
'We're gonna die for the revolution. We're gonna die to expose this racist and fascist society.
God and the State - Mikhail Bakunin
Bakunin's classic and highly influential atheist text setting out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimising the state.
The text is from Michael Bakunin, God and the State, 1916, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association.
God and the State by Michael Bakunin [1814-1876]
