It's fitting that James Cameron's Avatar arrived in theaters at Christmastime. Like the holiday season itself, the science fiction epic is a crass embodiment of capitalistic excess wrapped around a ...

Central to the claim that science was born of Christianity is the flip side of the coin that modern science did not emerge in any other culture. Why? The short answer is that all the other cultures ...

Throughout the course of his life, physicist Albert Einstein, the publisher of the theory of relativity, affirmed his belief in pantheism, a theological doctrine based on the work of 17th-century ...

Ross Douthat has a very insightful column in the New York Times on the appeal of pantheism in American culture. It starts out as a review of the new (and according to John Podhoretz, avatarocious) ...

I take great issue with your saying pantheism and atheism are somehow intellectually related. It shows a great ignorance of what pantheism actually is, the diversity of pantheist theology currently ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.

Behold “the Gospel According to James,” said Ross Douthat in The New York Times. That’s James as in Cameron, the director of this season’s Hollywood blockbuster, Avatar, which has already grossed more ...

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