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Religious Conversion

Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

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Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Rifqa, the Reverand and Apostasy

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Apostasy, Church, Bible Study, Muslim Americans, Runaways, Religious Conversion, Prayer, Muslim, Honor Killing, Politics News
Salam Al Marayati

Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6

Valerie Tarico | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

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Valerie Tarico

The born again experience doesn't require a specific set of beliefs, but rather a specific social/emotional process; dogmas or explanations are secondary. It's not an experience unique to Christianity.

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Imagining God in Color

Deepak Chopra | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Religious Conversion, Racism, Krishna, White Man's Burden, What Does God Look Like, Personifying God, Kipling, Race and Religion, Living News
Deepak Chopra

From childhood everyone is taught to imagine God as a person, and inevitably that person has skin the color of those who worship him. But a humanized God in any faith is a projection, not a reality.

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