The world’s largest religion is Christianity, which is practiced by almost 2.4 billion people. Toast tribalism induces a passion in people not seen since the days when the Church ruled medieval Europe. This is most frequently seen in the following nations: China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. For absent knowledge of theological doctrine, and absent the guidelines and constraints cited by James – which are neither theological doctrine nor positive law, but instinctive – we can expect, not a return to civic Christianity, but a mutation unlike anything seen heretofore. The Holy Roman Empire was seen as a attempt to resurrect the Western Roman Empire. Certainly no Turk ever took to Masses and holy water on its account; and even to us Protestants these seem such foregone impossibilities that Pascal’s logic, invoked for them specifically, leaves us unmoved. It is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ who lived in the Holy Land 2,000 years ago. Some of these incorrupt bodies are still on display today, tens or hundreds of years after their passing, suggesting some kind of embalming or natural mummification had taken place. In 1896, the great American psychologist and philosopher William James gave a talk to a collection of philosophically-minded Ivy Leaguers, young men from Yale and Brown, entitled “The Will to Believe.” While many of his arguments are fascinating and valuable, I am more interested in what the talk indicates about the cultural mindset and prejudices of the America of his time.

The city of Tenochtitlan was much more advanced than we might think. Our religious traditions can teach us much about one of the greatest sources of stress and struggle in our lives: money. Having both a college education and religious connection does not only increase the likelihood of belonging to certain types of local organizations. One in five (20 percent) college-educated religious Americans report helping organize a social function in the past six months, compared to half (10 percent) as many people who are not religious and lack a college education. In contrast, fewer than one in three (30 percent) Americans who are not religious and did not attend college participated in a local social function in the same time frame. Definition One: The belief that America should unite religion and politics in the same manner as the tribes of Israel in Leviticus and Deuteronomy (the more extreme case) or Puritan New England (the milder one) – with religious law enforced by the government, a theocratic or confessional state, an established form of Christianity, and non-Christian religions disfavored. Only 13 percent of nonreligious Americans without a degree say the same.

I am concerned – indeed, I might even say distressed – at the consequences for the faith of a project to revive the civic Christianity of Christendom artificially, or rather to engineer a Frankenstein monster of Christendom-era civic Christianity in contemporary conditions. You might like a sundial or a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, or even a plastic pink flamingo. On a similar, but arguably smaller-scale note, the line between a spiritual, but non-religious experience and an actual religion can be different from person to person-for example, New Age practices, Wicca, and even certain forms of yoga can be considered a religion by some, but not to others. This can lead to both thrilling adventures and impulsive decisions that may not always serve them well. Keeping your brushes clean can ensure a longer lifespan, as well as a cleaner, more consistent, makeup application. It is now evident that the long reign of Eurocentric Christendom is well and truly done, at least in its original homelands and their cultural correlates in North America, Australia, et al.

Countries whose populations are at least 95% Muslim: Maldices, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Comoros, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen. Countries whose populations are at least 93% Christian: Vatican City, Pitcairn Islands, American Samoa, Armenia, Barbados, East Timor, El Salvador, Greece, Kiribati, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Samoa, San Marino, Tonga, and Venezuela. The four main denominations are Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. This passage directly cites political “responsibility as citizens guided by the dictates of a Christian conscience” – although its main thrust is to distinguish such work from the activity of the Church. The main difference here compared with other people’s blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. With his quatrains rife with ambiguity and his supposed “lost book” being someone else’s work entirely, we aren’t left with anything suggesting Nostradamus considered the year 2012 to be significant in any way. Kwanzaa is about more than gifts, and he didn’t want the holiday’s message to be watered down by insignificant presents being given all seven nights.