Category Archives: Morality

Thinking of Freedom, Religiously

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Perhaps April is the month of freedom. It certainly is for at least some major swaths of the population: Jews celebrated Passover during April, commemorating their deliverance from slavery in Egypt at the hand of God. Republicans like me hoped for the freedom to pay fewer taxes on April 15. Even stoners thought about freedom [...]

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Karma and Our Actions in the Cosmic World

Sunday, April 18, 2010

An interesting thing happened to me recently.  On Friday night, I was getting ready and holding a mirror up with my left hand.  Being the clumsy person I am, I dropped the mirror, which broke into pieces on the ground and gashed my right hand on the way down.  As I ran to UHS, worrying [...]

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Alcohol in Hinduism

Thursday, April 1, 2010

It can be noted that almost all of the religions of the world have declared alcohol as something that one must abstain from consuming. The ‘Abrahamic religions’, such as Islam, Christianity and possibly even Judaism, forbid the use of alcohol in varying degrees. I always wondered what the Hindu stance was on the consumption of [...]

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