THE area of human experience where our bifurcated “Us versus Them” pattern of thinking is most deeply entrenched is religion. Higher than ethnic or political barriers, the notion that “only my religion ...
ETHNIC conflict is one of five most destructive consequences of our bifurcated way of thinking – the mindset of carving up all human experiences into the combative halves of “I versus you” and “us versus ...
WE have learnt that the classic Adam and Eve story in the old Hebrew scripture Torah is a masterful allegorical drama that subtly explains the fall of humanity into relationship conflicts in all spheres ...
ONE of the most poignant stories to emerge from West Asia is the tale of humanity’s advent and fall contained in an old Hebrew scripture called the Torah. Known as the Adam and Eve story, it has captured ...
SCIENCE in the 21st century is presenting all religious teachers with two options: confine adherents to a parochial exclusivist vision of their faiths with every centre of religious learning focused on ...
ARE religion and science incompatible belief systems that clash at many points? You may have been educated to accept only those scientific truths that support your religious worldview, and to consider ...
THE KK Mart socks incident that culminated in the throwing of three Molotov cocktail firebombs should have spurred leaders of all non-Muslim religions to jointly play a counselling role alongside Muslim ...
EACH of the world’s 12 officially recognised religions bears a unique quality, and for Taoism, its mark of distinction is the adulation of feminine soft power.
WHEN the eight billionth child was born on Nov 15, 2022, it triggered a sharp “over-population versus over-consumption” debate between conservationists who sounded the alarm and traditionalists who labeled ...
A HEART-BREAKING issue that still rears its head from Malaysia to California and from Mauritania to Armenia is child marriage. Although nuptials below the age of 18 are recognised by international agreements ...