Monroe Cty 911
As near as I can figure, the Indians want to make the strait between them and Sri Lanka a little better for navigation. I did not know that it was so shallow. Fundie Hindus are protesting because their God, Ram, built a bridge there, with an army of monkeys. The Tamils, who are not Hindus, [...]
Categories: Little Sects · Odd News · Religion · War on Terror
The former governor of Massachusetts is a Mormon. Should it matter?
If the criteria for acceptance as a viable candidate is a logical belief system, than anyone who believes in a religion is disqualified. Faith, of any sort, does not enter that equation.
Romney has been compared to JFK. I do not agree with the comparison in [...]
Categories: American Politics · Commentary · Little Sects · Original writing · Politics · Religion
The saga of the Indian Jews seems to be drawing to an end.
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Panthic Weekly
She slung an M 16 rifle on her shoulders for the first time when she was 17. Now at 20, she is patrolling the streets of Kabul. Ranbir Kaur of the U.S National Guards first hit headlines in 2003 after becoming the first Sikh girl to join the U.S. armed forces that consists of [...]
Categories: Iraq · Little Sects · Military · Our Best: Babe Edition · Religion · War on Terror
This is where the universe was born:
photo copyright Michael Totten
Michael Totten continues his reporting from the Kurdish north of Iraq.
In Northern Iraq there is a place called Lalish where the Yezidis say the universe was born. I drove south from Dohok on snowy roads through an empty land, seemingly to the ends of the earth, [...]
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My present route to and from my office takes me through a significant portion of the northeast part of the city. Along my route there must be ten, or more, storefront churches. The Church of Christ as the Word Worldwide Ministries kind of thing.
By the names of the pastors, or the use of Spanish, I [...]
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Michael Yon is on assignment in Northern Iraq, and decided to track down one of the most interesting yet little known peoples of the region. I wrote about them here.
Michael YonThe sun approached apex above clear skies, warming and drying the air as we entered the Yezdinar village. Several Yezidi men welcomed me graciously, and [...]
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BBC A team of senior Israeli rabbis is due to rule soon on whether thousands of Indians who say they are members of one of the lost tribes of Israel can settle there. Shlomo Amar recently led a delegation of rabbis to the north-eastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram where members of the Benei [...]
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The preachers are out in downtown. A roller church(es) has men on every corner shouting their message and a host of urchins, urchinettes and spousettes out handing out tracts. I feel bad. I was told that I passed up my last chance to be saved. And apparently any day now something is going to happen. [...]
Categories: Catholic Church · Little Sects · Original writing · Religion
BBCBasava Premanand is India’s leading guru-buster. He believes that the country’s biggest spiritual leader, Sri Satya Sai Baba, is a charlatan and must be exposed.
Basava Premanand has been burgled… again. It is the third time in just one month. But he is in no doubt of the thieves’ motives.
He suspects they were looking for evidence [...]
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News 24Madras - An Indian mystic who vowed to spend a weekend buried underground to show his desire for world peace has died of suffocation, police said on Wednesday. Ananda Swami, 22, had performed the ritual twice before but this time overzealous followers packed the soil tightly on top of his 2m deep pit lined [...]
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