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The religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and established an Islamic republic.

How the US-Israel war with Iran got so big so fast - BBC World Service

Here in the Torah is where we first see the pork taboo codified in Abrahamic religious law — Leviticus and Deuteronomy, both written down somewhere in the first millennium B.C.E.

Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know)

Trichinosis was really pervasive in Europe and the Americas in the 19th century, and at that same historical moment, intellectuals in the West were very eager to reconcile religious teaching with their newfound scientific knowledge.

Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know)

Harris argues that in the comparatively arid Middle East, pigs became both gross and uneconomical — a double whammy, and the religious prohibitions followed.

Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know)

first liberals didn't have the word "liberal," so the word "liberal" doesn't get used until the early 19th century. But I think a lot of Americans who would say they're not liberal would nevertheless recognize the value of the sort of rights that, say, John Locke celebrated, or ideas about religious toleration. You have coined a new—you haven't exactly coined it, but you've really developed this new ethico-political

The Past and Future of Ethics and Identity | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Institute for Advanced Study

Now, one kind of anti-cosmopolitan skeptic says, "You're asking us to care about all human beings, but we only care about people with whom we share an identity—national, familial, religious, or the like." And those identities get their psychological energy from the fact that to every ingroup, there's an outgroup. The trouble with "humanity" as an identity is that, until the War of the Worlds begins, there's no outgroup to generate the binding energy that every ingroup needs.

Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah

The next one is that his ethics is largely guided by religious thinking and not philosophically tenable. Okay, and many people came back to criticize his ethics as asymmetrical, saying that how do you understand that ethics as asymmetrical? Does it not lead to chaos? It also can lead to opportunity.

Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy

But because cosmopolitanism is fallibilist, the conversation across culture, politics, society, economics, and religious boundaries is not about wholesale conversion.

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Cosmopolitanism

They think, for example, that secular humanists have a difficulty being morally serious because they think you can't be morally serious if you're not religious.

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Cosmopolitanism

And the easiest belief you would compare it to is religious belief.

Investigating "Real" Voodoo Magic...

And – at least the way I’m teaching it today – chom-choms. [Theme Music] Kant took morality pretty seriously, and he thought we should, too – all of us – regardless of our religious beliefs, or lack thereof.

Kant & Categorical Imperatives: Crash Course Philosophy #35

particularly right-wing nationalism um we think about the the there is something to the idea that we can create equality without rootedness or without bad religious and yet there is also i think a necessity for for good rootedness for a way of being together and living with one another where place isn't just um the background of our instagram where it isn't just a commodity that we can consume as we

PloughCast 15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism

know if you're interested watch the plow twitter feed because we will definitely be tweeting it out um so john is going to be speaking and adrian pabst and mary harrington and stephen backhouse so join uh john milbeck and suzanne and those others there if you're in the london area john milbank is emeritus professor in the department of theology and religious studies at the university of nottingham where

PloughCast 15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism

"Limitations of personal actions are step-by-step removed, and general religious freedom is permitted." I want to pause; that's important because religious freedom comes from merchants from different nations. If you don't have religious freedom, they can't come to your city and establish merchant houses, and you're going to have no commerce—something that had not happened in the 17th century except in England.

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

comments about the enlightenment uh the high enlightenment's optimalist optimistic belief in unlimited progress first of all that faith required a very selective view of history right to believe that history is one story of constant progress from ancient rome to um late 18th century europe means that you have to kind of turn a blind eye to the uh hideous religious wars of the 17th century where the

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

This basic Egyptian religious belief remained in force for nearly 1,000 years until one pharaoh changed everything.

Explaining Advanced Ancient Egyptian Technologies | Ancient Aliens | Compilation | History

Almost immediately, he instituted a series of radical religious changes, including a ban on references to multiple gods.

Explaining Advanced Ancient Egyptian Technologies | Ancient Aliens | Compilation | History

Because understanding that Iran is key to understanding how we got this brutal religious regime and how it has survived for so long.

The REAL reason the US can’t beat Iran

And one of the most vocal critics of all of this, Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious leader who abides by a strict conservative interpretation of Shia Islam.

The REAL reason the US can’t beat Iran

He calls on the religious leaders to rise up to avoid, quote, "this nation to be slaves of Britain one day and America the next."

The REAL reason the US can’t beat Iran