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HINDUISM (It doesn't have a single founder, or 1 set of moral rules to follow. The site below has information on the caste system in Hinduism)
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm


15 NON THEISTIC PATHS, BELIEFS: http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_other.htm


SATANISM (includes myths on Satanism, and how Satanism is a lot less dangerous than people think. I'm against most of the values of Satanism (although I support their beliefs that people should be honest and behave responsibly), as they sound like something a really right wing person would endorse. However, most Satanists aren't as dangerous as the media makes them out to be) http://www.religioustolerance.org/satanism.htm


UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM (there are differences between universalism and unitarianism. I like how people with diffrent beliefs - even atheists and agnostics- can take part in this religion/path): http://www.religioustolerance.org/u-u.htm


ZOROASTRIANISM (one of the oldest religions in the world. Older than Christianity, too): http://www.religioustolerance.org/zoroastr.htm

LIST OF OTHER RELIGIONS:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm
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BiNSW (an organisation in NSW Australia)

http://www.bi-nsw.org.au/info.html#aims

Goals:

- To promote and celebrate bisexual pride, bisexual visibility, and diversity;

 

- To promote better understanding and acceptance of bisexuals, bisexuality, and sexuality that is not limited by gender;

 

- To campaign for, and work towards, removal of discrimination against people on the basis of their sexuality;

 
 You can also meet up with other bisexual people by sending a blank email to the BiNSW emailing list
sby-list-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

GLBTIQ friendly churches that don't condemn people's sexuality:

http://www.mccgoodshepherd.com/homo.htm

http://www.gaychurch.org/Find_a_Church/foriegn_nations/australia.htm

 

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Hi there everyone,

Leaarn more about different religions here:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/aboutus.htm

One of the best ways to fight ignorance, hate and fear is to learn more. So learn more about different religions, if you can. Religion is a major part of many people's lives and who they are. And I've often found that it's a person's political/cultural views that can affect how they treat people and understand their religion. The great news is that there *are* progressive allies in religion, as well as feminist, anti racist and GLBTIQ religious people out there. I'm not religious, but knowing about different religions has helped me understand other people more (and has helped reduce my ignorance and fear of people from other religions too).

Below are some parts from the above website that I found interesting:

ISLAM

List of sites for GLBTIQ Muslims: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_isla3.htm

Status of women in Muslim countries (webpage is unfinished) : http://www.religioustolerance.org/islfem.htm

A msut read excerpt on Female Genital Mutilation:
 
Many people link FGM with the religion of Islam. Actually, it is a social custom that is practiced by Animists, Christians, and Muslims in those countries where FGM is common. There are many Muslim countries in which the mutilation is essentially unknown, including Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. 

JUDAISM

On abortion: Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism are formally opposed to government regulation of abortion. They feel that the decision should rest with the woman, her husband, doctor and clergyperson. Some Orthodox authorities agree with this stance. 

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Hi there all,

Fantastic articles on how homophobia and sexism in religion don't make sense:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/not-another-word-on-gay-m_b_152282.html

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html?page=-1

Sexism hurts all of us. Respecting the rights of women and girls will enrich our livess so much more:

It is not women and girls alone who suffer. It damages all of us. The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.

Racism and cultural appropriation. Fascinating info and a gentle look on how Indians see yoga:

http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/680

Some passages from the article above I found to be interesting eye openers:

India, to me, is not spiritual; it is a raucous, exhausting, intense, and yes, at times, violent experience.

Yet I was also curious about the particular form of yoga she was studying, a layer of India with which I am not familiar. I had never met an Indian who went to an ashram; most I knew thought of it as a white person's paradise that cost too much, or it just hadn't crossed their minds to go. At the same time, I knew that yoga was practiced in India, but in subtler, less obvious ways.

Yet yoga was not altogether lost or forgotten; rather it was latent in the culture, sometimes woven into daily and religious life. Yoga, to an Indian, might mean meditation and breathing as part of a morning puja, a practice done quietly at home and without a name. Nearly everyone I spoke with told me the same thing: Yoga was something unremarkable...

The problem he sees--and it's by far the most significant-- is its effect of countering hatha yoga's aim: The heart rate and breath rate are actually increased rather than reduced. All of the teachers I spoke with were concerned about the Westerners misunderstanding yoga. Geeta Iyengar, B. K. S.'s daughter, states bluntly, "Popularity becomes a curse. Popularity introduces dilution. To maintain the purity of the original science and art of yoga is a difficult task. The careful balance between orthodoxy and modernity has to be maintained. However, dilution for the sake of convenience and popularity is not pardonable." Adds Ramanand Patel: "The objection is when these Western influences completely disregard what yoga has to say."

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