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For 90% of our species’ history, we did not farm, or create large settlements and complex polytheistic religious and political hierarchies. Instead we lived in small, nomadic family based bands, ...

In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

Can it be argued that monotheistic religions are essentially intolerant as they cannot endorse anyone replacing what they feel is a true god? Have you noticed that academicians who say Hinduism is ...

The further back we go in history the more glaringly evident it is that humanity at its most primal stage of development had a proclivity for a plurality of gods and goddesses. Africans, long regarded ...

A conference of Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars and preachers ended here on Thursday with a proposal that an international centre for religious dialogue be established. A conference of Muslim, ...

Buddhism originated in India over 2,500 years ago. It is a nontheistic faith founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha. The Buddha was a human being; he was born and lived as a man but ...

“The three Abrahamic monotheistic religions share common goals and are in complete agreement in their approach to end-of-life situations,” the document says. “Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide ...