Idolatry

Metropolitan Tikhon addresses NCCC annual gathering (OCA - Orthodox Church in America)

Edit Public Technologies 09 May 2016

(Source. OCA - Orthodox Church in America). BALTIMORE, MD [OCA]. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, addressed participants at the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA's annual Christian Unity Gathering here on May 4, 2016. The theme of the gathering was 'Fear Not ... The text of Metropolitan Tikhon's sermon appears below ... The three youths refused to give in to the king's idolatry and were thrown into a burning fire ... Amen....

Hope in Opa-locka

Edit The Miami Herald 08 May 2016

Among the worshipers were former employees, pastors and ministers and residents ... The former generation of greed, corruption, self-centeredness, idolatry and deceit has come to an end ... Thank God for new beginnings....

Indonesian summit to promote 'renovated' Islam in challenge to global jihadism

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 May 2016

Cirebon. It's hard to know for certain what a Muslim saint who was born in 1448 might have looked like, but for a reasonable price you can wear his portrait on a T-shirt ... Inside his mausoleum is a riot of sound and colour ... Advertisement ... Wahhabists oppose the veneration of saints and pilgrimages to tombs, which they see as idolatry ... They idolise the Wali Songo." ... then we may ... . ....

‘Building Bridges’ in Baltimore (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016

(Source. Episcopal Church in the United States of America). Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton stresses social sins of poverty and racism that lead to violence in our cities ... 'While we may not be participating, we allow a social sin to be done on our behalf,' said Sutton, adding that the country's relationship with firearms amounts to a form of 'idolatry.' 'We have worshipped too long at the altar of the gun as the answer to our problems.'....

From ‘Mother India’To ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ Nari Mangay ‘Azadi’

Edit Kashmir Observer 05 May 2016

Hindus, needless to say, are worse when it comes to “missing women” in India ... Women in India want ‘Azadi’ not idolatry! Just let the women exercise their constitutional right to equality and liberty in all spheres of life – political, economic, social and cultural without any discrimination.Till then the chant should be.Women of India unite, you have nothing to lose except your patriarchal chains ....

Why Friendship Is Like Art

Edit The Atlantic 04 May 2016

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of Broad City Comedy Central. Having friends is good for you, science confirms, but not all friendships are unequivocally good. They can be imbalanced, codependent, destructive, exclusionary ... Julie Beck ... Alexander Nehamas ... St. Augustine, for example, thinks that it’s idolatry to have friends because you love your friends for themselves, and that conflicts with the fact that only God can be loved for himself ... ....

Ted Cruz Will Die So That You May Live

Edit Rollingstone 04 May 2016

Ted Cruz was always going to have lonely questions for God, regardless of how he lost ... Sidebar. Carly Fiorina. The Anti-Woman Woman Ted Cruz Doesn't Need ». It could have been worse ... Losing to him in evangelical, heartland Indiana was worse ... It can still be his ... Joe Raedle/Getty ... This system created Ted Cruz, and he has every right to think that tradition, rabid orthodoxy and his own idolatry guarantee that 2020 belongs to him ... ....

May Day: What is the Spring Festival and How is it Celebrated?

Edit Newsweek 01 May 2016

The traditional northern hemisphere spring celebration of May Day dates back to pagan times and falls on May 1 each year. People across the world take part in a number of activities to mark May Day. It is a global tradition to dance around a maypole, made from birch, while holding ribbons, a custom that originated in Germany ... Try Newsweek. Subscription offers. Some Protestants in the 17th century saw maypole dancing as a form of idolatry....

The 10 Craziest Right-Wing Attacks on Beyoncé

Edit Alternet 30 Apr 2016

From a CIA plot to eat your kids' brains to demonizing Sasha Fierce to Ku Klux Klan tactics, the ridiculous conspiracy theories on the meaning of Queen Bey keep on coming. Following the release of Beyoncé’s new album “Lemonade,” far-right commentators went on the attack ... 1) Brain-Eating CIA Plant ... 2) "Toxic Mental Poison" ... 3) Possessed by the Devil ... 6) Race War ... This isn't entertainment, it's an outrage, and it's idolatry if we justify it....

Cruz Super PAC Head Promotes 'Biblical' Slavery for Non-Christians

Edit Alternet 30 Apr 2016

J ... Rushdoony is widely considered the father of the Christian Reconstructionism movement, which promotes radically laissez-faire economics, hopes to abolish most functions of the federal government, and aims to establish the death penalty for myriad infractions of biblical law including adultery, homosexuality, idolatry, blasphemy, witchcraft, un-chastity (female intercourse before marriage), and "incorrigible" teen rebelliousness....

Satanists Are Furious That Boehner Compared Ted Cruz to the Dark Lord

Edit Alternet 29 Apr 2016

They agree with Boehner’s sentiments—but said there’s no way Cruz is the living incarnate of Satan ... When asked by the Friendly Atheist, Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves bashed Cruz ... Earlier this week, their Detroit chapter scuttled anti-abortion protests by performing street theater in macabre baby masks, wearing BDSM gear and denouncing “fetal idolatry.”.  Related Stories....

In young Saudi Prince's reform plan, baby steps towards social change

Edit The Times of India 27 Apr 2016

RIYADH ... However, it also stepped into areas that have long been cultural battlegrounds in a country defined by its religious conservatism ... The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance, its relics deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry ... CULTURAL TUSSLING ... Wahhabi doctrine holds the display of ancient artefacts, even those associated with the Prophet Mohammed, to risk committing idolatry....

New Choral Work Premiers at Year-End Concert (Webster University)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016

(Source. Webster University). Apr. 27, 2016. ST ... The concert starts at 7 p.m. May 1 at Grace United Methodist Church. 'The piece draws inspiration from multiple sources and deals with the following overarching ideas, such as the sacredness of all human life, terrorism as a form of idolatry and human beings as agents of God - angels,' Portnoy said ... The piece is comprised of six movements. Hallelujah ... tags ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33279128) ....