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I think there should be a third option for the survey: 'It depends.'

Yes, I agree. :p

Probably not. But you originally mentioned Vodun as an example of a syncretism that facilitated the creation of religious meaning. Most of what I have seen describes it as an 'apparent syncretism.' As in the construction of meaning. Examples? I think it is possible to make the distinction too...

I knocked at Heaven's door this morning. G-d asked me...'My child, what can I do for you?' And I said, 'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message.' G-d smiled and answered...'Request granted.'

The religious thing is what I'm addressing because that is (supposedly) what this thread was about! :) There is no mention of religion anywhere in your citation. I see there was one in Iraq. A thirteen year old. This incident does not weaken the point I was making, that if there is a religious...

Wil, How can there be a lack of faith commitment if it is contrary to Islam? The alternate hypothesis make more sense: it is because of their attachment to Islam that the failed attempters they didn't follow through. Consider the comment from Wafa al-Bissm, a failed Palestinian bomber who had...

Namaste Wil, There's a bunch of them The suicide rate in the UK is about 10 per 100,000. It is higher in the US. Compare that with a country like Kuwait, which has a rate of 2 per 100,000. This doesn't shed light on ideological motives for suicide attempts, but it does suggest the...

I was merely addressing the question you posed in your previous post. I was exploring Vudun as an example of an interaction between religions that produced some thing new. It does seem to have produced something new, but is is unclear if it was a social movement that led to a slave revolt or a...

I'd say the title of this article is misleading because it implicitly endorses the view that suiciders are engaged in a form of Jihad or that they have a religious agenda of some kind. Available self-report evidence from failed suicide attempters is that religion had nothing to do with their...

Thank for the detailed reply, PoO, Some of the attempts at fusing the indigenous religion with Catholicism were confusing. For example, Satan was identified with various Catholic Saints. (See P.E. Lovejoy 2000:108) But in a larger historical & anthropological sense, Vodun doesn't make any...

Been a while.

I'm no sure how one can talk about Christianity as a source of guidance without accepting Revelation. Since this is in the Abrahamic area, I'd still be interested in looking at a scriptural view of what it means to be saved.

I suppose it depends on when Feng Shui became recognizable. It seems the term itself did not appear until well after the discovery of the Lo Shu pattern that is attributed to Fu Hsi. Also, it seems the dating of that pattern is in question. (It may be more recent.)

Maybe Snoopy has no time to lose.... http://www.interfaith.org/forum/book-pema-ch-dr-n-9706.html

Thanks for the link on Superdeterminism. You might also be interested in Charles Hartshorne's theology of dual transcendence: "G-d is exalted above other realities not as cause surpasses effect, or unity, plurality, or being, becoming; but rather as eminent cause surpasses ordinary causes."

My impression of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is that people get into trouble when they think they can decide right or wrong for themselves. Kind of like the idolatry of personal judgment.

I'd be interested in your thoughts about what other written traditions have to say about salvation.

Is there a New Testament definition?

You must have gotten the same fortune cookie I did: "I see an epistemic quandary in your future."

This might be an issue if you equate Creation with Creator. But wouldn't that be pantheism (not panentheism)? The Biblical creation story suggests the existence of matter that antedated G-d. It is unclear who is responsible for the creation of matter. The act of Creation infuses matter with...