<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Religion : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Religion : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and Truths of Buddhism]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/65560/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Upon discovering that I was a Buddhist, one friend proceeded to state that he disagreed with Buddhism as it was a materialistic religion, in that its followers prayed to certain gods for wealth and such. I was quite disappointed by his misconceptions about my religion... &quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rastafari: The Secret History of the Marijuana Religion]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132051/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s most profound movements begin with a great enlightenment. People hear of this epiphany that changes lives, and become disciples to spread the word. Over years and centuries these true believers form churches to meet and celebrate their beliefs and traditions while encountering opposition and persecution. The cannabis culture has its own profound religion borne out of three important epiphanies that happened serendipitously around 1930, and one more when religious prophet Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Religion Chart]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50885/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The ReligionFacts &quot;Big Religion Chart&quot; is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart. Yes, of course this is impossible. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail, talking with religious adherents, etc. But this religion comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to &quot;get the gist&quot; of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world's religions and belief systems.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Would A Scientific Religion Look Like?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/99059/1/</link><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.magnes.org/atheon/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Atheon</a> was designed to get people thinking about what a scientific religion (or religious science?) would look and feel like.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[History of Religion]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38435/1/</link><description><![CDATA[5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds with this multimedia map.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Religion Comparison Chart]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83843/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The &quot;Big Religion Chart&quot; is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart.<br/><br/>Pretty interesting to compare all the major points of most of the world religions]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism is fastest-growing religion in English jails over past decade ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130402/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism is the fastest-growing religion in England's jails, with the number of followers rising eightfold over the past decade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 7 Deadly Sins Of Religion In Science Fiction]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/102588/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Religion is a huge part of science fiction - and it makes the genre better and more fascinating, as Battlestar Galactica proved. But there are seven mistakes SF should avoid in portraying the spiritual realm.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein's view of religion revised]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61710/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It has long been assumed that Albert Einstein weighted science and religion equally, but a letter written by him in 1954 may well revise that.<br/><br/>Describing god as the expression and product of human weakness and the bible as a collection of primitive legends does not sit well with the previously held assumption that he weighted science and religious belief in equal regard.<br/><br/>An abridged version of the letter, which is due to be auctioned on Thursday, can be read <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/13/peopleinscience.religion" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion 'rules sex belief, not actions']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/16741/1/</link><description><![CDATA[God may influence Australians' attitudes towards sex but religion plays little role in what they actually do in bed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which Religion are you?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15753/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what religion is right for you? This quiz answers it.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study: Religion Is Good for Kids]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20207/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ban Religion! - Elton John]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5582/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Elton, excuse me, &quot;Sir&quot; Elton John has proposed that religion be outlawed because it lacks compassion and promotes hatred of homosexuals.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Brigstock on Religion (an animation)]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34173/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Stop fighting and give me back my planet!<br/>[not sure whether this should be religion or humor]]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Hollywood Gets Religion So, So Wrong ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/78121/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Usually, when Hollywood has a question of a holy nature, it calls a consultant. For Catholicism questions, for example, script writers, costume people and directing assistants ping a guy named Tod Tamberg, communications director of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian biologist fired for beliefs, suit says]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43833/1/</link><description><![CDATA[if your studying biology as profession in life, it seems that you must accept evolution otherwise your religion will be a conflict of interest to your job.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has environmentalism become the new religion?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/93852/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This was not the first discussion of environmentalism as a religion, but it caught on and was widely quoted. Michael explains why religious approaches to the environment are inappropriate and cause damage to the natural world they intend to protect.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81414/1/</link><description><![CDATA[When Ronald Reagan began courting the religious right in his bid to win the Presidency, I doubt he knew he was spelling death to the lean tenets of Goldwater conservatism. Yet soon afterward, under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. In 2008, the price is being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God For Atheists (And Vice Versa)]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/113771/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The success of religion may be the fault of non-believers (or, if you look at it the other way around, thank god for the atheists!) <br/><br/>*Humans, you&#8217;ve got to love them*]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School for Atheists]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42452/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An estimated 14% of Americans profess to have no religion, and among 18-to-25-year-olds, the proportion rises to 20%, according to the Institute for Humanist Studies. The lives of these young people would be much easier, adult nonbelievers say, if they learned at an early age how to respond to the God-fearing majority in the U.S.]]></description></item></channel></rss>