Posts Tagged ‘ Chaeyoon Lim ’

Happiness and Religion

September 9, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by ronsho

The RNS blog has a post about the latest Gallup study that looks at the happiest countries world-wide.  Alfredo Garcia notes that 3 of the top 5 countries in happiness are also the least religious countries in the world. Even Finland and Netherlands which were not in…
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Anne Rice hardly posterchild for American non-religious

August 23, 2010
By tomsander

Writer Anne Rice evokes Mark Twain’s quip about smoking: “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”  Anne Rice claims that her 12-year on-off relationship with Christainity is now finally “off.”

In late July, the gothic and erotic vampire novelist…
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