Antiquitopia

I just stumbled on this website, Religion Facts , which has some quick and dirty basic information on many many many religions around the world throughout time. The huge comparison chart is interesting. Each page also gives some recommended books, including generated book recs from Amazon in case you find that religion interesting and want to investigate it more in-depthly than the website itself allows. I just gave the Ancient Mayan section a spin. They also have some specific comparisons between two religions, as well as general topics and how varying religions discuss it: such as homosexuality and religion , which gives a quick general overview and then hyperlinks to each religion, again with book recs. Give the site a whirl and see what you think. I think I just may add this to my sidebar. If you like that, see also perhaps the more in-depth and more involved Pluralism Project from Harvard run by Diana Eck. It seeks to "help Americans engage with the realities of relig...

Ok...so I thought that Rick Warren's analogy between gay marriage and brother-sister marriage was bizarre. I also thought his analogy between homosexuality and pedophilia ridiculous--unless he is stuck in Periclean Athens. But the award for the strangest homosexuality analogy goes to Pope Benedict XVI: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. "(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration. "The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less." The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a d...

N.T. Wrong posted this educational video from a documentary called For the Bible Tells Me So, which, as Wrong explains in the comments section of her/his blog, tracks four or five conservative evangelical families with their gay children. In this bit, "Christian" learns about some of the latest scientific research into homosexuality. I am sure many of you already know about it from her/him, but I thought I would "spread the wealth" of knowledge. The studies, as you might note, focus on male homosexuality. And so, as usual, they need to do more studies for women.