After the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to UCSB, I started thinking about how odd it is that Americans seem by-and-large content to refer to him simply as “His Holiness.”
These people that call him by this vague and yet exalted title; are they Buddhists?
I think something interesting must be happening in the American religious sphere when [...]
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In the Middle East, Israel frequently receives criticism for policies designed to maintain a Jewish majority in the political state of Israel. Even before tackling a controversial negotiations over the geo-political borders of Israel, the policies of the state concerned with defining eligibility of its citizenry based upon ethnic-religious identity are decried as racist by high-profile characters such as Ahmedinejad, who argue that using state policies to set limits upon citizens based upon their religious or ethnic identity is passé, to put it lightly.
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