Hacker News with Generative AI: Religion

Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003) (slate.com)
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America.

Buddhism, Religion, Personal Experience, Culture, Science

35 points by whereistimbo 4 days ago | 76 comments

Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law (voanews.com)
Pakistan’s top advisory body on religious affairs on Friday declared that using virtual private networks to access blocked content on the internet is against Shariah, or Islamic law.

Pakistan, Religion, Islam, Internet Censorship, VPNs

40 points by ivewonyoung 5 days ago | 20 comments

E/acc as a religion:A Technologist's Right to Choose (avidfayaz.com)

Technology, Religion, Personal Choice

9 points by Avid_F 5 days ago | 8 comments

Is God a Silverback? Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. (aeon.co)
Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male

Religion, Philosophy, Gender Studies

5 points by FrustratedMonky 10 days ago | 2 comments

How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2021) (city-journal.org)
A new book explores the religious origins of the West’s divergent political, technological, and cultural development.

History, Culture, Religion, Sociology, Economics

6 points by walterbell 17 days ago | 0 comments

Nikolai Fyodorov wanted to resurrect the dead to live among the stars (kubicki.org)
“He was a searcher for universal salvation. In him the feeling of responsibility of all for all reaches the ultimate and acutest expression... there was no man on earth who felt such sorrow at the death of people and such thirst to return them to life.” —Nikolai Berdyaev<p>Why Common Task? Blame it on a 19th century Russian called Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov.

Philosophy, History, Religion, Russia

62 points by szkosma 19 days ago | 26 comments

The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot (nichegamer.com)
The Vatican has unveiled a new cute anime girl mascot, hoping to create characters that “can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations”.

Religion, Anime, Marketing, Youth Culture

10 points by type0 22 days ago | 6 comments

Oakland's Psychedelic Mushroom Church (oaklandside.org)
Despite a police raid and global pandemic, Zide Door has accumulated members and slowly begun to resume in-person sermons.

Oakland, Religion, Psychedelic Drugs, Churches

25 points by agnosticmantis 25 days ago | 4 comments

Necromanteion of Acheron (wikipedia.org)
The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone.

Ancient Greece, Mythology, Religion, History

30 points by drdee 29 days ago | 6 comments

Religion in Space (wikipedia.org)
Astronauts and other spaceflight participants have observed their religions while in space; sometimes publicly, sometimes privately.

Religion, Space Exploration, Culture

9 points by downboots 31 days ago | 0 comments

How the Malleus maleficarum fueled the witch trial craze (arstechnica.com)
Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches.

History, Witchcraft, Religion, Europe

13 points by BerislavLopac 34 days ago | 1 comments

The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends (michaelshermer.substack.com)
Religious and spiritual people say that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance. I’m beginning to think they might be on to something. On May 15, 2024, I posted on X a reply to Naomi Wolf’s posted image of the famed Shroud of Turin—believed by many people to be the burial cloth of Jesus—noting that it was…

History, Religion, Art, Conspiracy Theories

62 points by royalroad 35 days ago | 156 comments

WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force (restofworld.org)
It was the day of his mother’s funeral, but Jaldhar Kashyap knew the dozens of people descending on his home weren’t there to offer condolences.

India, Religion, Human Rights, Social Issues, Conversion

9 points by impish9208 37 days ago | 0 comments

Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants display workers' names (theguardian.com)
Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminatory” policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.

India, Discrimination, Religion, Muslims, Business

5 points by Tomte 38 days ago | 0 comments

Richard F. Burton's Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca (2013) (baumanrarebooks.com)
In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton started his most famous and important journey.

History, Travel, Religion, Biography

15 points by thunderbong 39 days ago | 4 comments

Tajikistan: New Law Bans Muslim Clothing and Limits Religious Celebrations (loc.gov)
On June 20, 2024, the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, signed Law No. 2048 on Regulating Traditions and Ceremonies.

Tajikistan, Islam, Law, Religion, Human Rights

12 points by nafnlj 44 days ago | 3 comments

Oklahoma seeks 55,000 classroom Bibles. Only Trump Bibles meet the criteria (oklahomawatch.org)
Superintendent Ryan Walters isn’t just talking about buying Bibles for schools.

Religion, Politics, Education, Oklahoma

8 points by morisy 48 days ago | 3 comments

Against the Cultural Christianity Argument (astralcodexten.com)
The "cultural Christianity" argument says that atheists might not like Christianity, but they like a culture which depends on Christianity.

Atheism, Religion, Culture, Christianity

7 points by paulpauper 48 days ago | 1 comments

William Cowper and the Age of the Earth [pdf] (2019) (charlespetzold.com)

History, Literature, Science, Religion

28 points by hwayne 49 days ago | 22 comments

Mount Sinai (wikipedia.org)
Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינָֽי‎ Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Religion, History, Geography

4 points by vinnyglennon 50 days ago | 0 comments

What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast (sotergreco.com)
Being slow has made me code faster, ship more, and be more productive in general. This didn’t come only from years of coding but also from life lessons and my religion. As an Orthodox Christian, you have to always be slow and not rush your moves.

Software Development, Productivity, Philosophy, Religion

121 points by thunderbong 61 days ago | 109 comments

New study links brain network damage to increased religious fundamentalism (psypost.org)
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain, when damaged, may influence the likelihood of developing religious fundamentalism.

Neuroscience, Psychology, Religion

8 points by ivewonyoung 61 days ago | 4 comments

The Illusion of a Pagan West (unherd.com)
Inside the Colosseum, in central Rome, stands a giant cross. Erected in 2000 by Pope John Paul II to commemorate the thousands of Christians martyred there, it’s not what you might expect to see on visiting the building once known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, named for the Imperial dynasty which built it.

History, Religion, Italy, Rome

10 points by bookofjoe 66 days ago | 5 comments

Is God a Strange Loop? (johnhorgan.org)
CAMBRIDGE, MA, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024. I recently hobnobbed with a writer, I’ll call him Bob, as obsessed with the mind-body problem as I am. The problem concerns, in a narrow sense, how matter makes mind, but it also encompasses the puzzles of consciousness, intelligence, free will, the self, meaning, morality…

Philosophy, Consciousness, Religion

29 points by XzetaU8 69 days ago | 10 comments

The Race for Lambeth Palace (newstatesman.com)
There is an ancient tradition in the Anglican Church of _nolo episcopari_, which roughly translates from the Latin as: “I do not want to be a bishop.”

Religion, Politics, History

16 points by lermontov 78 days ago | 13 comments

First Temple-era 'genie' seal discovered in Jerusalem (timesofisrael.com)

Archaeology, History, Israel, Ancient History, Religion

3 points by wslh 83 days ago | 0 comments

Historical Jesus (wikipedia.org)

History, Christianity, Religion, Biography

4 points by dynm 83 days ago | 0 comments

Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be (newyorker.com)

Culture, History, Society, Religion

173 points by pepys 101 days ago | 243 comments

Pope Francis on the Role of Literature (vatican.va)

Religion, Literature, Vatican

36 points by anigbrowl 103 days ago | 3 comments

When No Building Is Allowed: Inside the Satmar Hassidic Takeover of a Small Town (danfrank.ca)

Religion, Community Development, Real Estate

17 points by danielmichaelyc 104 days ago | 2 comments