Category: religion
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This Patchwork Life
Every day is multicultural! When we say “multicultural” our mind goes to the grand patchwork of society, a mixture of creeds, religions, nationalities, and so forth. Little do we appreciate that that is not the sole part of how much multi-culture affects our daily life. There is such a thing as microculture. We all know…
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“Illum il-festa tagħna!”
Festa season and I have a…complicated relationship Don’t get me wrong; as I have stated before, I used to hate it but I have warmed up to the idea. There are many aspects of it that I have grown to appreciate; within the concept of the traditional Maltese Festa sit most of the best and…
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Bodily Autonomy
A phrase we have heard quite a lot rather periodically, really. Sometimes I wonder if it is yet another rhetorical bomb we are thrown to simply divide people. However, I feel, it is not something we should shy away from discussing especially when we toy with the idea of abortion and other taboo subjects. You…
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Opium of the People
Why would a socialist such as myself choose to be in any way religious? Did not Marx famously describe religion as the “Opium of the people”? Well…yes and no. In Context, the statement was issued by Marx from a structuralist-functionalist perspective meaning that it is like a balm for the oppressed to find meaning in…
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