Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up virtual Jesus and automated sermons — a change drawing mixed reviews from the faithful. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/08/world/society/virtual-jesus-faith-ai-religion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #religion #ai #tech
In a move criticized by rights groups, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will give police new powers to place limits on repeated protests, after weeks of demonstrations have strained law enforcement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/world/uk-limits-protests-synagogue-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #uk #terrorism #censorship #religion #israel #israelhamaswar
Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas flared anew two years ago, U.K. security officials have braced for the bloodshed to spread into local streets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/world/politics/uk-terrorism-threat-gaza-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #manchester #uk #religion #judaism #terrorism #stabbings #discrimination
British police said on Friday they may have accidentally shot two victims, including one who died, in their attempts to bring under control an attack on a Manchester synagogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/world/crime-legal/manchester-synagogue-attack-police/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #manchester #uk #religion #judaism #terrorism #stabbings #discrimination
dada
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Journée de la vérité et de la réconciliation
🔸 Des centaines de personnes réunies à Montréal
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2025-09-30/journee-de-la-verite-et-de-la-reconciliation/des-centaines-de-personnes-reunies-a-montreal.php
#Autochtones #vérité #réconciliation #racisme #génocide #pensionnats #enfants #assimilation #langue #culture #gouvernement #église #religion #politique #société #Montréal #Québec #Canada
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Time to swear...
...off your religion.
Journée de la vérité et de la réconciliation
🔸 Des centaines de personnes réunies à Montréal
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2025-09-30/journee-de-la-verite-et-de-la-reconciliation/des-centaines-de-personnes-reunies-a-montreal.php
#Autochtones #vérité #réconciliation #racisme #génocide #pensionnats #enfants #assimilation #langue #culture #gouvernement #église #religion #politique #société #Montréal #Québec #Canada
Time to swear...
...off your religion.
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Reading the Lotus Sutra, it is obvious that Buddhism is a religion with mythology and supernatural ideas like any other. So, I wonder why so many people insist that Buddhism and Daoism are "philosophies, not religions." I was taught this in school and many Western books on Eastern spirituality say the same thing.
I think it is good that Buddhism is adaptable enough to be secularized, but the complete ignorance of the other stuff even existing is crazy. When I was in school I was taught about meditation, but never anything about bodhisattvas or the six realms or things like that. Maybe my teacher had never heard of them.
#MastoDharma #LotusSutra #Buddhism #religion #Taoism #Daoism #SecularBuddhism
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#China #religion #livestreaming #AI
'China has launched a sweeping crackdown on online religion after a series of scandals in the lucrative industry — warning clergy against engaging in internet fortune-telling, using AI for preaching and distributing short videos.'
https://www.ft.com/content/3f0f240b-c002-4726-a757-01ded711a5a8
Reading the Lotus Sutra, it is obvious that Buddhism is a religion with mythology and supernatural ideas like any other. So, I wonder why so many people insist that Buddhism and Daoism are "philosophies, not religions." I was taught this in school and many Western books on Eastern spirituality say the same thing.
I think it is good that Buddhism is adaptable enough to be secularized, but the complete ignorance of the other stuff even existing is crazy. When I was in school I was taught about meditation, but never anything about bodhisattvas or the six realms or things like that. Maybe my teacher had never heard of them.
#MastoDharma #LotusSutra #Buddhism #religion #Taoism #Daoism #SecularBuddhism
"Regulating #AI hastens the #Antichrist, says #Palantir’s Peter #Thiel
#Tech #billionaire claims in a lecture about #religion that the #devil promises #peace and #safety by strangling #technological #progress with #regulation"
Oh fuck you you fucking wackjob
But of course, he has vast power, we do not
While we struggle with terrible conflicts today, this asshole sets up the next, more horrible one
#China #religion #livestreaming #AI
'China has launched a sweeping crackdown on online religion after a series of scandals in the lucrative industry — warning clergy against engaging in internet fortune-telling, using AI for preaching and distributing short videos.'
https://www.ft.com/content/3f0f240b-c002-4726-a757-01ded711a5a8
Alex Akselrod
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Press Enterprise (Riverside County, CA): Lawsuits accuse former pastor of Riverside-based Harvest Christian Fellowship of child sex abuse
"...A former Riverside megachurch pastor has been accused of sexually abusing and trafficking children for years at a shelter he ran in Bucharest, according to lawsuits filed by two Romanian men in U.S. District Court in California..."
(comment: Seems like "pastor" is frequently found next to "sex abuse" in news articles. Why is that?!?)
Press Enterprise (Riverside County, CA): Lawsuits accuse former pastor of Riverside-based Harvest Christian Fellowship of child sex abuse
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has won major diplomatic victories since seizing power nine months ago, but he risks losing the battle that matters most: to hold his deeply divided country together. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/world/politics/sectarian-violence-syria-al-sharaa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #syria #ahmedalsharaa #druze #middleeast #religion
Alex Akselrod
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Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/
Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/