#Instagram’s empty religions and other commentary

#Instagram’s empty religions and other commentary

“#Instagram’s empty religions and other commentary” Culture critic: Instagram’s Empty ReligionsThe “nones” — the 22 percent of millennials without a specific religion — have “found a different kind of clergy,” Leigh Stein reports at The New York Times: Instagram “personal-growth influencers.” Millennials’ “new belief system is a blend of left-wing political orthodoxy, intersectional feminism, self-optimization,…

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#Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated: survey

#Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated: survey

“#Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated: survey” Atheists have a reputation for putting their faith in science, not divination. Now, it’s a fact. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that the godless are more likely to get vaccinated for COVID-19 compared to religious groups — as 90% of atheist respondents said that they…

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#Andrew Yang doesn’t support prioritizing secular education over faith-based

#Andrew Yang doesn’t support prioritizing secular education over faith-based

“#Andrew Yang doesn’t support prioritizing secular education over faith-based” Gracie Mansion hopeful Andrew Yang on Thursday mounted an extraordinary defense of the Big Apple’s embattled yeshiva schools, telling a Jewish-run mayoral forum that the city has little business “prescribing” secular curriculum to the religious institutions. Yang made the comments during a virtual New York City…

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#Maryland church donates 0K in slavery reparations

#Maryland church donates $500K in slavery reparations

“#Maryland church donates $500K in slavery reparations” An Episcopal church in Baltimore wants to be on the right side of history. This week the Memorial Episcopal Church announced plans to contribute a total of $500,000 by 2025 — $100,000 each year — towards racial justice organizations, particularly efforts to support slave reparations. “Our church has…

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#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims

#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims

“#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims” WASHINGTON – China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the US Congress said in a report on Thursday. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said new evidence had emerged in the…

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#Ireland to apologize for abuses in unwed mothers’ homes

#Ireland to apologize for abuses in unwed mothers’ homes

“#Ireland to apologize for abuses in unwed mothers’ homes” LONDON — The Irish government is poised to make a formal apology for abuses in church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies, where thousands of infants died and were sometimes buried in mass graves. The final report of an inquiry into the mother-and-baby homes is…

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#Hillsong co-founder’s shocking sex advice book unearthed

#Hillsong co-founder’s shocking sex advice book unearthed

“#Hillsong co-founder’s shocking sex advice book unearthed” So much for “judging not so you may not be judged.”  As pastors leave en mass and former members continue to come forward with abuse allegations against megachurch Hillsong, co-founder Bobbie Houston’s 2003 audiobook, “Kingdom Women Love Sex,” has come under fresh scrutiny, as have her and the…

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#Indonesian clerics declare Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine halal

#Indonesian clerics declare Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine halal

“#Indonesian clerics declare Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine halal” JAKARTA – A COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac Biotech is deemed halal, or permissible under Islam, the Indonesian Ulema Council said on Friday, days before the country is scheduled to start its inoculation program using the Chinese vaccine. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has 3 million doses…

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