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Assumptions about a person’s religious background can be prompted by societal trends and religious data. However, these assumptions still warrant further investigation. Some of these assumptions are based on broader societal trends, at least in the United States. A Pew Research Center report found that 43 percent of Hispanic adults identify as Catholic. Catholics remain…
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I find it interesting how different groups of people—namely Jews, Christians, Mormons, and Muslims—can read the same text, the Bible, and come away with completely different meanings. This text is sacred in some way to all of these groups of believers, but the stories within it are often interpreted differently. An important book on this…
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Chapter 1 – Of Kurds, Curses and Jam The first chapter begins by describing the loss of Kurdish lives that came from Saddam Hussein and chemical weapons. An expression is stated: “We have jam, but there is no jam. Jam exists, but it does not exist here. The spirit of jam is with us but…
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The Second Message of Islam reflects the thought of the Sudanese reformer and scholar Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ṭāhā. Ṭāhā was executed by the former president of Sudan, Jaʿfar Numayrī, on January 18, 1985. The book opens with an introduction by the translator, ʿAbdullāh Aḥmad An-Naʿīm, a prominent scholar of Islamic law and human rights. In the…
Triggered to Thinking 