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finally done the story of the “virgin” mary and her immaculate conception for my sequential art final. very happy with how this came out/that it’s finished.
this is beautiful, good job!
This is actually how I said it probably happened.
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Barangaw - god of the rainbow. He can manipulate colors of the rainbow to various effects
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Tawhid
- Allah - the concept of God in Islam [PDF]
- God and His Attributes by Mujtaba Musavi Lari [PDF]
- Knowing God by Mujtaba Musavi Lari [PDF]
- Fundamentals of Knowing God by Reza Berenjkar [PDF]
- A General Look At Rites* by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr [PDF]
- Justice of God by Naser Makarem Shirazi [PDF]
- Tradition of Mufaddal [PDF]
- Hadith of Halila [PDF]
- God of Islam by Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi [PDF]
- The Justice of God* by Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi [PDF]
- Al-Tawhid and Its Social Implications by Ali Khamene’i [PDF]
- Divine Justice or The Problem of Evil by Javad Shayvard [PDF]
- Does God Exist?* [PDF]
- Seeing Allah [PDF]
Islam and the Shi’ite creed
- Invitation to Islam by Moustafa al-Qazwini [PDF]
- Discovering Islam by Moustafa al-Qazwini [PDF]
- Rationality of Islam by Abu’l Qasim al-Khu’i [PDF]
- Invitation to Islam: A Survival Guide by Thomas McElwain
- Islam and Religious Pluralism by Murtadha Mutahhari [PDF]
- Man and Universe by Murtadha Mutahhari [PDF]
- A Shi’ite Anthology by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i [PDF]
- Shi’a by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i [PDF]
- An Introduction to Islam by Bashir Hassanali Rahim
- Islam by Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi [PDF]
- Need of Religion* by Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi [PDF]
- ‘Itiqad Al Imamiyah or A Shi’ite Creed by Shaykh Saduq [PDF]
- The Shi’a and Their Beliefs* by Muhammad Shirazi [PDF]
- Fundamentals of Islam* by Muhammad Shirazi [PDF]
- Islamic Beliefs for All* by Muhammad Shirazi [PDF]
- What is Islam?* by Muhammad Shirazi [PDF]
- Islam - Fundamental Principles and Teachings* by Sadiq Shirazi [PDF]
- Inquiries about Islam by Mohamad Jawad Chirri [PDF]
- Introduction to Islam* by Islamic Humanitarian Service
- Islamic Doctrine* by Abdul Husain Muhammad
- The Revealer, The Messenger, The Message by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr [PDF]
- Shi’ism, The Natural Product Of Islam by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
- The Faith of Shi’a Islam by Muhammad Rida al-Muzaffar
- Basic Beliefs of Islam by QMM Kamoonpuri [PDF]
- Faith and Reason* by The Porch of Wisdom Cultural Institution
- The Children’s Book on Islam by Ibrahim Amini
- Islamic Doctrines Simplified by Al-Balagh Foundation
- Asl ash-Shi’ah wa usuluha or Origin of Shi’ite Islam and its Principles by Muhammad Husayn Al Kashif’ul Ghita’[PDF]
- The Roots of Religion by Dar Rah Haqq’s Board of Writers
Shia-Sunni Dialogue
- The Shi’ite Apologetics by Reza Husayni Jassab
- Shi’ism in Sunnism by Muhammad Reza Mudarrisi Yazdi [PDF]
- Peshawar Nights by Sultanu’l-Wa’izin Shirazi [PDF]
- Al-Muraja’at by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi [PDF]
- Al-Nass Wal-Ijtihad by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi [PDF]
- Questions on Jurisprudence by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi
- Then I Was Guided by Muhamed al-Tijani al-Samawi [PDF]
- The Shi’ah are (the real) Ahl al-Sunnah by Muhamed al-Tijani al-Samawi [PDF]
- To Be With the Truthful by Muhamed al-Tijani al-Samawi [PDF]
- Ask Those Who Know by Muhamed al-Tijani al-Samawi [PDF]
- All Solution Are With The Prophet’s Progeny by Muhamed al-Tijani al-Samawi
- Inquiries About Shi’a Islam by Moustafa al-Qazwini
- Spurious Arguments About The Shia by Abu Talib at-Tabrizi
- Shi’ite Islam: Orthodoxy or Heterodoxy? by Luis Alberto Vittor [PDF]
- Wahab’ism and Monotheism by Ali Al-Kurani Al-Amili
- The Truth About The Shi’ah Ithna-‘Asheri Faith by As’ad Wahid al-Qasim
- Wahhabism by Ja’far Subhani
- A New Analysis of Wahhabi Doctrines by Muhammad Husayn Ibrahimi
- Glimpses of Shi’ism in the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal by Kazim Tabataba’i
- Shi’ism in Relation to Various Islamic Sects by Abulqasim Gorji
- Shi’ism: Imamate and Wilayat by Muhammad Rizvi [PDF]
- The Emergence of Shi’ism and the Shi’ites by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr [PDF]
- The Shi’ites Under Attack by Muhammad Jawad Chirri [PDF]
- The Twelve Successors by Murtada al-‘Askari
- Mu’tamar ‘Ulama’ Baghdád or The Conference of Baghdad’s Ulema by Muqatil ibn ‘Atiyyah
- Devils Deception of the Nasibi Wahabis Abdul Hakeem Oranu
Inter-Religion Dialogue
- Search for Truth* by S.V. Mir Ahmad Ali [PDF]
- A Closer Look at Christianity by Mohamed Qasem [PDF]
- Book Review: Islam and Christianity by Ali Quli Qara’i
- Book Review: Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre by Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen
- Islam In The Bible by Thomas McElwain [PDF]
- The Bible, The Qur’an and Science by Maurice Bucaille
- Bible Contradictions [PDF]
- Shi’i beliefs in the Bible by Thomas McElwain [PDF]
- Women In Islam Versus Women In The Judaeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth & The Reality by Sherif Muhammad Abdel Azeem [PDF]
- Mary and Jesus in Islam by Yasin T. al-Jibouri
- The Bible and Christianity* by Muhammad Shirazi [PDF]
- Extracts From Correspondence Between A Muslim And A Christian by Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi [PDF]
- A Closer Look at Christianity by Barbara Brown
- Converts to Islam by Zainab
This is a fantastic compilation of reading materials from the wonderful Delilah in response to a request for suggestions on helpful resources pertaining to Shi’a Islam - and she went above and beyond. Take advantage of what Delilah was good enough to compile for us and be sure to follow her because she’s the absolute best.
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The man in the picture is Rachid Nekkaz, a French-Algerian businessman living in France.
He heard about the niqab ban in France. Then he announced that he will pay all fines for women who wear the niqab - not just in France but “in any country in the world that bans women from doing so”.
He opened a fund of € 1 million. Then he said, “My sister, go out free wherever you want and I will pay the fine for you”
Allahu Akbar, May Allah reward him.
this man is perfect mA
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amazing
yes you dense motherfucker
go science or something damn
Oh my god, Dawkins, shut your ass up….
whatistheology?
we just don’t know
perfect example of why i don’t discuss religion or anything religion-related to ppl who don’t know the first fucking thing about it
And God said unto Abraham, “Abraham.”
And Abraham replied, “What.”
God said to John, “Come forth and receive eternal life.” But John came fifth and won a toaster.
And Judas approached the rabbis and Pharisees saying, “The one whom I kiss is the one you seek.”
To which they responded, “Gay.”
And thus, god made Eve. And she was bammin’ slammin’ bootylicious.
see you all in hell
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okay this is going to be painful honest
i’m still trying to work through this, and it’s twisted in so much …stuff, but i might as well articulate it
at this point, i really don’t care about the faith-based stuff re: christianity/religion as a whole
to be extremely frank, i don’t really care about jesus. never have. my relationship and all my emotions have always been with god and the holy spirit, not really with jesus. i can’t really explain how that’s happened, but that’s how it is. and there was a point in my life where i was like shit i love god more than i love jesus… it must be because i don’t know him enough so i should learn more about him! but that didn’t really work out, and honestly, i think a lot of it is because jesus is tied up with forgiveness and redemption, and beside the whole original sin shit, i’ve never really needed a lot of either. yeah, i’ve fucked up, but for the majority of my life, i’d never fucked up or hurt anyone (to my knowledge) where i felt i really needed that. hahaaaa, what a terrible thing to say, but i do think that’s tied up in my feelings wrt jesus
he takes our shame away… but the shame i felt and experienced wasn’t the shame that was being preached about, so there was always this disconnect about the goodness of jesus and why i ~needed~ him so much (i got the idea, i couldn’t muster up the feelings to back it up though)
i’m rarely in the mood to talk about this shit, so i might as well see what i can get out of it
first things first, if you didn’t grow up religious, then you don’t really know what it’s like. not that any of my followers (at least the ones i interact with) are of this mindset anyway, but just putting that out there.
‘cause literally every person with whom i’ve ever talked religion with who didn’t grow up religious—and by religious, i mean, in general contact with it, in varying degrees—had no working understanding of religion or how religion and culture intersect.
it’s funny
i think about the time a friend of mine described how good he felt at a rave. he told me about the warmth and generosity of everyone there. strangers coming up and offering what they had, people helping each other out, altruism. this great unified feeling of peace and goodness and he was telling me this and i was like YOU ARE DESCRIBING WHAT CHURCH CAN BE LIKE!!!
‘cause when church is good, it’s GOOD
it’s euphoric
i don’t use that lightly
it’s powerful shit, especially if it’s the only source of that type of emotion
so, yeah
it’s a lot of things
so skip if necessary
i left my home church about a yr and a half ago. the catalyst was me finally getting my own car, so i wouldn’t have to rely on other ppl for rides, and i could finally go out and check out churches for myself.
i did, for a while—check out churches. none really fit. the closest one i found was not nearly close enough to what i had in mind. even though i knew there was no perfect church, i still wanted to find something LIKE it. i was tired of settling; that’s what church life had become for me, so i wanted something different for once. i wanted somewhere i could grow and learn and find like-minded ppl, but i haven’t been going out to church for about half a yr now, and i don’t feel anything lesser for it.
ironically enough, i’m learning more about christianity and theology and history and etc. on my own anyway, and if i do miss something, i guess it’s being able to sing worship songs with the rest of the congregation and feeling a moment of peace.
i feel that it’s good i’m not attending church at the moment. i don’t want to give the impression that me not attending church is somehow better than attending regularly in any objective measurable sense; i’m just at a different stage of my life. i’m going through different things, and this is where i need to be.
church life is really toxic. sure, i learned a lot of things there—it’s another social site. was it worth it? i shouldn’t ask that question since i can’t change anything by this point, and again, you can’t neatly divide such things into “good”/”bad”. it’s absurd
if anything, i think this time—of not being a part of a church—needs to be used to process all the time i WAS part of a church. even though i don’t talk about religion or christianity or church life with most, whenever i find the chance to do so with fellow religious (ex or not) ppl esp christians, it’s like i can’t stop airing out all this shit that’s been festering inside of me. i don’t have all the words or tools to articulate everything yet, but it’s begun
it’s been a long time coming, that’s for sure
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Buddhist monks working with Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks at the Janggyeong Panjeon of Haeinsa Temple, South Korea. (Photo credit)
Tripitaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong (팔만대장경) is the Korean collection of the Tripitaka, or Buddhist scriptures, carved onto more than 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. According to the UNESCO, the woodblocks are revered for “their artistry and excellent execution of engraving techniques [and] occupy an exceptional position in the history of Buddhism as the most complete and accurate corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world.”
The buildings of Janggyeong Panjeon (장경판전), which date from the 15th century, store these woodblocks. They are “unparalleled not only for their beauty but also for their scientific layout, size and faithfulness to function, i.e. preservation of the woodblocks.” As the oldest depository of the Tripitaka, the Janggyeong Panjeon was designed to provide natural ventilation and to control temperature and humidity, thus successfully protecting the woodblocks from deterioration.
The Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1995 and the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks were listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2007. (source)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mby1wxx7uz1r81px0o1_500.jpg)
Buddhist monks working with Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks at the Janggyeong Panjeon of Haeinsa Temple, South Korea. (Photo credit)
Tripitaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong (팔만대장경) is the Korean collection of the Tripitaka, or Buddhist scriptures, carved onto more than 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. According to the UNESCO, the woodblocks are revered for “their artistry and excellent execution of engraving techniques [and] occupy an exceptional position in the history of Buddhism as the most complete and accurate corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world.”
The buildings of Janggyeong Panjeon (장경판전), which date from the 15th century, store these woodblocks. They are “unparalleled not only for their beauty but also for their scientific layout, size and faithfulness to function, i.e. preservation of the woodblocks.” As the oldest depository of the Tripitaka, the Janggyeong Panjeon was designed to provide natural ventilation and to control temperature and humidity, thus successfully protecting the woodblocks from deterioration.
The Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1995 and the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks were listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2007. (source)
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“judeo-christian” is a bullshit term for two main reasons
- judaism and christianity have very little in common with each other aside from holy texts—and even then beyond the books of the torah they diverge and both interpret their shared text in different ways anyway
- when people use it, 99.99% of the time what they really mean is just “christian”
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Need to write a 6 page paper for a friend. Or helping as we call it.
armageddon
something about the destruction intrigues me
i feel less afraid
my favourite is ecclesiastes. great book. changed my life. I stopped being a christian after I read it.
hm, 1 corinthians, isaiah, psalms, james, philippians, genesis
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wow it’s like alcohol breaks down the walls of privacy or something? it’s kind of amazing to witness, no?
okay, so i follow this one person solely because they post/reblog about anti-asexual things even though they’re this typical white, us am lesbian GEEZ. not anti-asexual as in “all people who ID as asexual are misguided and terrible!” but “the asexual community, specifically the white ones appropriating ‘queer’ on tumblr, is very homophobic and tends to espouse very hurtful and misleading things to questioning and/or confused peoples (at least in terms of sexuality and sexual orientation).”
okay, so that wasn’t part of the package deal when i started following this person. so what, what is? anyway, even though i initially disagreed because i was IDing as asexual at that point (gray-asexual, to be exact), i kept reading these posts. eventually, independent of these posts, i stopped IDing as gray-asexual, though i won’t be so naive as to say that these posts did not partially influence this decision.
the bottom line is i’m trying to find others who also started out IDing as (gray-)asexual and then stopped BECAUSE they began to undo the internalized hatred of their bodies (regardless of what parts or aspects make up their bodies). ‘cause for me, i had this huge religious and social stigma with sex. long story short, i was equating women who enjoyed and SOUGHT OUT sexual pleasure independent of their monogamous partner as sluts/whores, and after unlearning all that and ALLOWING myself both self-acceptance and just a wider range of what sexuality is and means to different folks, the stigma of sex no longer applied to me and with that, my most solid connection to the asexual community was broken.
i’m not saying that this is the case with all peoples who ID as asexual. this is MY story, and my desire is to find others who can relate to it, particularly religious qpoc.
