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In your religious practice, do you have any personal sacred space, shrine or altar dedicated to your god or spirits? In my home office I have some space set aside for a few divine icons, altar tiles in wood and metal of different symbols including the Pentacle and Triskele, a pewter censer...

Is apparently a thing: GOP Lawmaker Matt Shea Releases Christian Manifesto Calling For Biblical Law The manifesto: http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/khq/SHEAWAR.pdf I hope everyone in this subforum is ready for "Biblical War" (whatever that is?), if not refer to section 10/c/ii of the manifesto...

Inspired by another post I made today, I decided to make a new thread addressing the subject of understanding Satan, or other religious adversarial figures. As this is a Christian forum, this thread is sort of geared towards Satan, though feel free to discuss any figure. In the case of Satan...

Hi all, do any of you celebrate the autumn equinox in any special way? Can be religious or secular. For me, I think I am going to try my hand at a Mabon ritual this year but really its sort of the opener for the real beginning of my favorite time of year, spooky season! Equinox to Halloween is...

Hi Catholics, I was baptised and raised Catholic but I've not identified with it in years and now seems as good as any: I'd like the remove my name from the register as a member. Is there an overarching process for this or is it on a per diocease basis? Thanks!

This thread is addressed to Atheists/Agnostics/Non-religious/Other/Questioning etc., Atheism, as we know, I simply the lack of belief in a god or gods. This only covers a small question in philosophy. So bearing that in mind, do you ascribe any other philosophical systems for determining your...

Hi all. I was just catching up on Pew Studies (boy do I love reading their data) and I noticed something I find interesting: Religious ‘nones’ are not only growing, they’re becoming more secular From the study: Similar to Pew, my definition of 'nones' includes atheists, agnostics, secular...

Given that its the month of Samhain and I am mid-ritual planning as we speak I figured I'd ask the forum given its pretty substantial change in demographics this year. As a Christian or non-Christian, what is your perception of Halloween? Since they fall on the same day and Halloween is the...

Who's doing what for which? Samhain is the highest pagan holiday on my calendar, so I am in the process of organizing a group rite, which should be pretty exciting since the last couple of Samhain celebrations have been solitary rituals. Meanwhile for Halloween, I am going to hand out candy to...

This thread is mostly going to be about Witch Cult Theory but first, what is a witch cult? A/the Witch Cult was thought of as a pre-Christian pagan religion that survived the Christianization of Europe and functioned in secret alongside the development of Christianity in Europe. Murray claimed...

Hi community. I'm pretty bored by the current selection of topics on the sub so I was wondering what the interest would be if I posted some materials relating to paganism. I want to cover a variety of traditions, the "witch cult" theory and its debunking, syncreticism vs. reconstructionism...

http://jezebel.com/police-ritualistic-florida-triple-murder-was-tied-to-1722203890 OP Title quote in this video: http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/crime/2015/08/04/sheriff-triple-murders-could-tied-blue-moon/31141441/ Get ready, friends, it's going to be the Satanist scare of the 80s all...

I saw a neat article on the Wild Hunt about an attempt at Canaanite Reconstructionism. The site for the faith can be found here. I have a lot of admiration for people who work hard at Reconstructing the ancient religions as it requires meticulous research, dedication, organization and discipline...

Afternoon all, I hope all is well. I've been giving this some thought for awhile and I wondered if it would make for some interesting discussion. To start, this morning I was reading an article that I found very interesting: Thanks to Islamic extremism, Iraqi Kurds revive ancient Kurdish...

Question in topic. This is a theme I've discovered when I re-read the Christian creation story. From a Christian perspective, it seems we were created with the ability to make choices and Adam and Eve made the wrong ones condemning humanity. Often I am approached with "Well its your choice...

I'm working on a bit of a personal project. I am studying the texts and ideas of the world's major religions. I am looking at scriptures and 'required readings' to help better understand all of these religions and their beliefs. This is a text copypasta I have been using for the reddit version...

So we've before asked "where do you see current religions in the future?" but I want to pose a variation on that question: Where do you see NEW religions in the future? In this case I say that a "new" religion is any religion founded no earlier than the beginning of the 19th century with an...

Post your favorite sort of music for this time of year. :) Personally for me its a time where I bust out a lot of my favorite pagan folk metal albums which tend to be thematically pretty wintery. Or maybe that's just because most of the bands hail from northern Europe? ;) Blessed Yule, Merry...

Libya assembly votes for Sharia law - Africa - Al Jazeera English Support the revolution, they said Progressive democracy will come, they said

**The scope of this thread has been widened to include all religions, sin is also being used in the most generic context.** Let's address a classic problem, What causes people to sin or do evil? 1. God has only predestined a few people to heaven so that your life is scripted, sin included...