About this web site:

Content:

Unlike almost all other religious web sites, we don't promote the beliefs and practices of a single denomination, faith group, or sect within a single religion.

Instead we try to explain the beliefs, practices, and history of a wide range of faith groups, and promote religious tolerance, freedom, understanding, coexistence, and cooperation.

Other web sites that discuss religious information generally include only news that has developed in the immediate past -- perhaps during the previous day. This web site often tells complete stories from beginning to end, sometimes covering a few weeks or even years. An example was the story of the 50 murders at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during 2019-MAR. We covered developments over a month's time in five articles. Another was the 2019-APR fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. We consolidated information from over a dozen news articles published over a many months into two articles about the tragedy.

According to "The Book Of Odds," the chance that a web site will contain pornography is 1 in 8.3. If you are looking for porn here, you will be disappointed. We only have words and the occasional non-pornographic image.

See the list of topics on this page titled: "ABOUT THIS SITE" for an index of topics discussed in this web site.

See our list of Recent new/updated essays for articles added in the last few months.

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Important note:

All medical, legal, and other information on this web site is for educational purposes only. For specific information including advice, diagnoses, options, and treatment, see your physician, lawyer or other professional.

Conventions used:

Visitors come to this web site from all over the world. So, we had to select a uniform style for dates. We chose a Year-Month-Day sequence, like 2019-APR-11, which is clear and unambiguous. If we had used a convention like 04-11-19 then some visitors would read this as April 11, 2019 and others would decode it as NOV-04, 2019.

To designate years, rather than use the AD/BC convention which is Christian in origin, we use the newer universal designations:

• CE is equivalent to AD and refers to the "Common Era:" dates that run from 1 to the present year beyond 2019.
  
  
• BCE is equivalent to BC. It refers to dates "Before the Common Era." that run before 1 CE.

• "Nashville Statement"
  
  
• Ozone depletion & the CFC ban
  
  
• Baker Won't Make Wedding Cake; case before Supreme Court
  
  
• About transgender military service members
  
  
• Gay marriage legalized in both Austria and Australia.
  
• Controversy about the use of gender-neutral, personal pronouns
  
  
• Former Chief Justice Moore of Alabama runs for the Senate, and loses
  
  
• Essays donated by contributing editor, Susan Humphreys:
  
  
  • "The Joy of Love:" the Pope's 2016 teaching Amoris laetitia"
    
    
  • Prayer at Public Meetings: a Sacrament or Sacrilege; a Blessing or Curse?
    
    
• Religion the United Kingdom (UK): Banning Franklin Graham from the UK
  
  
• Two examples of the Golden Rule trumping a religious tradition
  
  
• Gay marriage in Australia: Part 33: 2017-DEC: The first "intent to marry" forms issued. The first same-sex marriage
  
  
• An essay donated by: Gabriel Gherasim: "The Final Solution, or Am I worth living?"
  
  
• 2017-DEC: U.S. Supreme Court & the 9th Circuit Court rule on Trump's travel ban
  
  
• Life events shared by Yeshua (Jesus) and the "Mythic Hero Archetype"
  
  
• "The Christmas Wars / Christmas Dilemma. Part 3"
  
  
• Gay marriages in Bermuda Part 1 Part 2: Legalized during 2017; may shortly be canceled.
  
  
• Imbolc, a Wiccan and Neopagan seasonal day of celebration a.k.a. Groundhog Day, Snowdrop Festival, etc.
  
  
• Christian Humanism: a liberal faith within Christianity.
  
  
• Assessing the will of God through prayer; is it reliable?
  
  
• The Presbyterian Church (USA) redefines marriage and gives their clergy the choice of solemnizing the marriages of same-sex couples.
  
  
• Climate Change 2017-OCT to 2018-FEB
  
  
• Deism, God, the Big Bang, Matter, & Motion, an essay discussing Deist beliefs and the existence of God, contributed by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys
  
  
• Updating the New Testament, an essay donated by Alton C. Thompson about the Golden Rule.
  
  
• Beliefs about God, by Stephen Hawking, an Atheist who died during the morning of 2018-MAR-14
  
  
• School Shootings, mostly in North America: 2010 until now. Changes after shooting in Parkland, FL
  
  
• Beliefs about God, by Stephen Hawking, an Atheist
  
  
• Proposal to Create a Life Enhancement Group (LEG), an article donated by Alton C. Thompson
  
  
• An Extensive Study of the "Pillars of Practice" in Islam, an essay donated by Professor Hafiz Ikram Ullah
  
  
• Mississippi creates law to ban abortions after 15 weeks
  
  
• New Years resolutions, donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys
  
  
• "People are Naturally Good, But ...:" an essay donated by Alton C. Thompson about selfish and cooperative behavior.
  
  
• School Shootings, in North America During 2018-MAR/APR. Student walkouts. Public reactions.
  
  
• About the biblical story of Sodom & Gomorrah: Introduction

Visitors come to to this web site from around the world:

Most visitors come from the U.S. Many others come from Canada, Central America, Europe, India, etc.

We have never been able to figure out who the various isolated folks are, who are floating in the southern Pacific Ocean, Indian ocean, near Madagascar, etc.

Copyright © 1995 to 2020 by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Author: B.A. Robinson
Latest update: 2020-MAY-03