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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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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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Well, hello there.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

My name is Matt. I’m a full-fledged Catholic, a convert from secularism and everything. I am interested primarily in theology and morality, to the extent of making religion my primary concentration here. I am fascinated by ethics and metaphysics.
To start off what will hopefully be a fruitful experience of blogging across religious lines, let me [...]

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