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Scary Mary, Mother of Dog78

The Second Largest Religion in the World

Catholicism is the world's largest religion. The second largest 'religion' is comprised of people who leave Catholicism and never look back. (Although, technically, if you are in this second category, you...

97 comments    politics religion spirituality
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What Is Buddhist Meditation?

Buddhist meditation takes many different forms and is taught in many different ways. Each form is practiced with slight variations according to the specific sect from which it originates and the teacher who...

17 comments    religion meditation buddhism
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Thoughts on Taking God's Name in Vain

I'm a profane person. I'm not as profane as my partner, a trucker for a major freight carrier, or my son, who listens to rap music and actually likes it, but I do swear, and I do use religious words like...

62 comments    religion god writing
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Is It Wrong to Believe Weird Things?

Last Sunday morning I was watching scientist and essayist Michael Shermer talk about how evolution ties in with free market capitalism. Okay, I was half-watching, because Sunday morning is when I read the...

36 comments    religion science ufos
'The Magician' from the Rider-Waite Deck81

How To Choose A Tarot Deck

The best way to learn to read tarot cards is to first choose a tarot deck and take it home. Don't worry at first about the meanings of the cards or how to lay them out or how to read them once you get them...

11 comments    religion spirituality magic
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Civil Tone Missing in Abortion Debate

President Barack Obama spoke at the 2009 Notre Dame commencement cereomonies and received an honorary degree despite local protests that have been building in volume for the past month and a half. The...

56 comments    family home politics
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Can Christianity Be Saved?

If you've ever visited the forums here at Hub Pages, then you know that most of the conversations there are ugly, one-note battles between self-professed Christians and self-professed atheists, agnostics,...

102 comments    religion faith spirituality
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John Patrick Shanley's 'Doubt'

Joe Versus the Volcano was the movie that made me a John Patrick Shanley fan. About twenty minutes into that particular movie, I remember thinking to myself, "This is totally original. This is not a movie...

16 comments    politics movies religion
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What Is Buddhism?

Wikipedia.com defines Buddhism as: "a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religion and based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as ‘The Buddha’ (the...

27 comments    religion god christianity
Author Erich Von Daniken looking for UFOs 74

Mantra-Fueled UFOs & Deep Time Travel

Remember Erich Von Daniken? He wrote a book way back in the 1970s entitled Chariots of the Gods, which put forth the gloriously crackpot theory that ancient astronauts had visited the earth in eras past, and...

29 comments    religion spirituality time
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