Tag: Religion Dispatches
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The Monument to Atheism in Florida; The Onion on the Universe
“It was not a bad day because the atheists were allowed to install their monument on government property, or anywhere else. It was a bad day because the monument is so damn ugly.”
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Why We Are All Nuns: Catholic Pride; Universal Call to Holiness
by Jack Rakosky Why are people interested in nuns? Why are we “all nuns”?
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Total Bull
In the ring, bulls are regularly sacrificed “in honour of the Virgin Mary, as part of the celebration of a religious festival.”
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Fragments of Secular Sanctity
Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something else entirely, a curious and half-hidden alternation between the sacred and profane.