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The Jazz Network Worldwide Featured Artist of The Week December 12-18 Is International Jazz Vocalist Denise King With Pianist Olivier Hutman With Their CD “No Tricks”

(PRWEB) December 13, 2011

Denise King, known for her international musical travels reconnected after twelve years with pianist Olivier Hutman when he discovered her on Facebook. Hutman assured King that if she came to Paris he would enjoy collaborating and organizng live performances at clubs, festivals and concert halls across France, Belgium and Italy. He contacted Producer Fred Midgeon and together they recorded a new CD, entitled “No Tricks” on Cristal Records and she is currently writing lyrics for an upcoming project for Summer 2012.

Living part of the year in Europe and the other on the east coast Denise is in high demand worldwide. She has shared the stages with many legends, from Butch Ballard, Arthur Harper, Sam Dougherty, Cecil Payne, Jymie Merritt, Bootsie Barnes, Lex Humphries,Phil Wright, Cecil McBee, Christian McBride,?Dexter Wansel,?Orrin Evans,?McCoy Tyner, Bobby Watson,?Lonnie Plaxico, Uri Caine, Sid Simmons, Dr. Guy Ramsey, J.D. Walter, Derrick Hodge, Chris Beck, Billy Paul, Jean Carne, Celine Dion, Bunny Sigler and more. Her sites are fixed on Jazz Festivals, Jazz Cruises and special events that bring her wide range of vocal stylings to her audience from Jazz to R&B. ?I am continually inspired how social networking can create unbelievable musical collaborations across the oceans. Denise King is a vocalist who is a vivid story-teller with melodic enhancements that captivates her listeners. She truly is what you call a ‘sanga” and is a force to be recognized in all jazz forums. Hutman cradles her artistry with a cohesive musical conversation that takes you on a journey that epitomizes the true art form of jazz? says Jaijai Jackson of The Jazz Network Worldwide.

Olivier Hutman has an impressive career of his own, he has worked and recorded with many artists amongst which: Pepper Adams, Art Farmer, Clark Terry, Harry ??Sweets? Edison, James Moody, Michel Legrand, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mark Murphy, Stephane Grapelli, Toots Thieleman, Gary Bartz, Junior Cook, Frank Wess, Clifford Jordan, Mundell Lowe, Teddy Edwards, David ?Fathead? Newman, Von Freeman, and Roy Hargrove.

Using the medium of social networking has become a mainstay in the marketing of musical artists through technology today, this project is living proof of how successful a collaboration can be introduced through social media. It gives the opportunity for artists to be heard at a moments notice by the buyers of musical presentations. Be sure to come by The Jazz Network Worldwide at http://www.thejazznetworkworldwide.com to take a listen to Denise King and Olivier Hutman as they travel through space and time together. To learn more go to http://www.denisekingsings.com as well as http://www.olivierhutman.com.

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Christwire Wants You to Read Their Christwire Handbook Or Burn In Hell

(PRWEB) January 17, 2012

A myriad of celebrities are enthralled by ChristWire.org too, like Karl Rove, who follows them on Twitter, John Stamos, who?s their fan on Facebook, and there are regular references to their shenanigans on Andrew Wilkow’s show on Sirius XM. ChristWire remains a mystery, but there is clearly an audience on both sides of fence who will turn to their new book, THE CHRISTWIRE HANDBOOK (christwirebook.com). It is a comprehensive and highly amusing guide to help good Christian Americans survive the many tribulations they are bound to encounter throughout the course of their lives in a sinful world.

From YouTube to Wikipedia, the question has been hotly debated: Are these dudes for real or are we dealing with some serious, cutting-edge satirists? The time has come for YOU to decide?.

In January 2012, Citadel Press proudly published THE CHRISTWIRE HANDBOOK (christwirebook.com), penned by best-selling author, motivational speaker, and youth pastor extraordinaire Jack Gould, along with youth leader and abstinence practitioner Tyson Bowers III.

With a mission to ?combat the evil liberals of this world and once again ensure that a bit of freedom and righteousness once again permeates every country?? THE CHRISTWIRE HANDBOOK offers sagacious advice on an array of immoral subjects, including (but not limited) to:

?????????The Homogay Agenda

?????????Glistening Red Sun of Technological Damnation

?????????Foreign Dangers

?????????The American Liberal Elite

A national media sensation,ChristWire takes righteousness beyond the bounds of reason. You can?t argue the truth. If God didn?t send tornadoes to warn blacks about rap music, who did? If your husband isn?t a closet gay, he must secretly be Chinese. Don?t send your son to college unless you want to expose him to the dangers of vajazzling. This is no joke, folks. ChristWire is here to save the world from falling into the hands of sanity.

?ChristWire is extremely excellent and brilliant.?

-Rachel Maddow

?I?m the anti-ChristWire.?

-Howard Stern

?When I need the fulfillment of spirit, I turn to the words of Christwire?

-Andrew Wilkow

“It?s so good?and people on the Internet are so insane that no one gets it.”

-Village Voice

“In the world of ChristWire?the recent increase of pet-on-pet rape is a pernicious consequence of same-sex marriage.”

-New York Magazine

“The leading Internet site for ultraconservative Christian news, commentary and weather reportage.”

-New York Times

“ChristWire?s genius (or evil) lies in its hypberbolic, worst-case scenario Christian coverage of everything.”

-Jezebel.com

?Our biggest rival for making you laugh.?

-Cracked.com

?PRICELESS! Can?t tell if he?s serious or not but the sad part is MANY will take it as gospel!?

-Billy Burke from Twilight

Twitter: @christwire

Facebook: facebook.com/ChristwiresOfficialPage

Website: Christwire.org

Book Link: Christwirebook.com

About the authors:

Tyson Bowers III

Youth leader Tyson Bowers III proudly practices abstinence and teaches his youth groups the joys of a sexless life. Tyson travels the country giving lectures to students ranging from middle school to college about the dangers of homosexuality and liberals. Tyson is also a champion snowflake paper cutter.

Jack Gould Pastor

Jack “Jbox” Gould is a local best-selling author, motivational speaker, and youth pastor extraordinaire at Langley CC, where his stories about the laid-back California life and his relations to Jack-in-the-Box bobbleheads are all the rage. Jack is also one of the top-ten most-feared pro-lifers.

Here?s hoping you?ll help to promote ?Conservative Values for an Unsaved World? by recommending THE CHRISTWIRE HANDBOOK to your audience.

Should you wish to interview a member of the Christwire flock, please do not hesitate to contact Tysonbowersiii@gmail.com. The very freedoms of the moral majority may depend upon it.

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Country Music Singer/Songwriter Rick Monroe Inks Exclusive Recording Contract with L.A./Nashville Based Render Records As Their First Country Artist

Nashviile, TN (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

Country Music Singer/Songwriter Rick Monroe (http://www.rickmonroe.com) has inked an exclusive recording deal with Nashville based Render Records (http://www.renderecords.com), it was announced today by Render’s Steve Freeman.

All combined, the Render Records team is responsible for more than 10 Billboard #1 records, countless Top 40 singles and over 10 million units sold to date. Render currently works or has worked with some of the largest companies and most influential people in television, music and film. Render Recording Artists represent a span of the globe from South Alabama to South Africa and their music includes a diverse variety of musical genres from Country to Rock to Christian Contemporary to Hip Hop.

Of the new agreement, Steve Freeman said, “When it came time for us to sign an act that we could send to the country audience, I didn’t have to look far, I knew exactly who I wanted to associate our brand with, Rick Monroe. We are very excited that Rick is joining the Render family. We are currently in the studio recording Rick’s debut project for the label and are planning to release his first single “Crazy Not To” to country radio in late February.”

Rick Monroe added, “I am absolutely thrilled to be working with a forward thinking company like Render Records. With the rapid speed at which the music business is changing and evolving these days, being signed to a label that really ‘gets it’ from every angle is invaluable. And having talented, entrepreneurs, writers/musicians at the helm certainly allows for the perfect creative and open environment where artistry comes first and hard work is rewarded.”

Monroe comes to Render hot off the heel of four successful tours with Dierks Bentley, Josh Thompson, Eric Church and Randy Houser. Rick’s most recent single release, GET UR COUNTRY ON spawned the Jagermeister club tour of the same name which wrapped a 30 date swing at the conclusion of 2011. His hugely popular single and video, “Honky-Tonk Road Trip” (co-written with songwriter and celebrated journalist, Larry Holden) continues to be a fan favorite. No stranger to success Rick’s album, ‘Against the Grain’ spawned the hit single ‘Midnight Rider’. Having received rave reviews in print and accolades on television shows such as EXTRA, E! and ET, Rick’s gritty Midnight Rider video is still a much requested fan favorite. A true ambassador of the genre, Monroe was among the first country artists to perform in Russia and China. His extensive touring history includes performances throughout Russia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary, Honduras, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Germany, England, Netherlands and Switzerland, sharing the stage with a who’s who of musical greats.

Monroe’s also opened for the likes of Charlie Daniels, Dwight Yoakam, Montgomery Gentry, Marshall Tucker, Darryl Worley, Craig Morgan, Eric Church, Emerson Drive, Patty Loveless, Little Texas, Ricochet, The Birds, Black Hawk, Trick Pony, Chely Wright, Sammy Kershaw and Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus. He’s toured Europe for the last three years and performed an average of 100 dates a year for the last two years.

Steve Freeman added, “As a label, you are constantly looking for the perfect mix of hard work and talent in an artist. I have known Rick for a couple years now and have watched him consistently work harder on his own behalf than most artist with a big time record deal. I have written with him and even cut some of his songs on other artists leading me to become a huge fan of his writing and performing. I am looking forward to writing and cutting great records with him and watching his career move forward with the support of a label that believes in their artists from a creative standpoint, not just from a financial point of view. Rick Monroe, the writer and artist, has some things to say that people need to hear and I am glad that we get the opportunity to be the launching pad for him and the great music to come. 2012 will be a great year for this partnership, Rick Monroe fans and music fans as a whole.”

The creative and ownership team is comprised of hit songwriters and award winning producers Steve Freeman, Rich Redmond, Tully Kennedy, Kurt Allison, David Fanning, serial entrepreneur Randy Adams. Adams is a graduate of MIT and former member of the board of directors of Yahoo, where he secured Yahoo’s initial financing through his partners at Sequoia Capital and oversaw their transition to a public company. He is also credited with creating Adobe Acrobat and the PDF file format as Director of Engineering for Adobe. In addition to his role with Render Records and Render Filmz, Randy is currently the Director and Co-Founder of actor Will Ferrell’s company Funny or Die, funnyordie.com, the webs most popular comedy website, as well as, Director and Co-Founder of Celebrity Apps, the premier mobile app publisher for celebrities and celebrity brands. He frequently lectures at Stanford University on becoming an entrepreneur and has been called one of the brightest minds in technology in the past 25 years.

Steve Freeman is a hit songwriter and award-winning producer from Nashville who currently writes professionally for Colton Entertainment Group. He has had over 30 songs cut by artists in various formats including Country, Rock, Christian and Adult Contemporary. His production credits can be found on over 5 million records sold.

A part of the Render family, Rich, Kurt and Tully, also known worldwide as The Three Kings, along with artist/producer David Fanning, make up New Voice Entertainment. Together they produce country music?s hottest new duo Thompson Square, who just celebrated their first #1 hit single, ?Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not? as well as other acts Kristy Lee Cook, Blake Wise and Parmalee. When not behind the console, Rich, Kurt and Tully can be found in the studio and on the road creating the sound that made them famous with one of music?s most popular and best selling acts, Jason Aldean.

Media Contact: handsonpr(at)aol(dot)com 323-788-0741

More on Rick Monroe:

Rick Monroe is a country music road warrior who isn’t opposed to taking his music directly to the folks. Rick says, “You know all those reality shows on TV, my life IS a reality show.”

Monroe’s new recording contract with Render Records (http://www.renderecords.com) will spawn a new single in the spring of 2012 and a corresponding 6 track EP later in the year.

Regarding the new association, Rick says, “I’m very excited to be working with a forward thinking company like Render Records. With the ever changing speed of the music business at this time, having a label that really ‘gets it’ from every angle is invaluable. And having writers/musicians at the helm really allows for an extremely creative and open environment which at the end of the day is far more conducive to optimizing my artistic growth.”

Rick’s most recent single release, GET UR COUNTRY ON has audiences, both live and on the radio joining in the call… And in his hugely popular single and video, “Honky-Tonk Road Trip” (co-written with songwriter and celebrated journalist, Larry Holden) the country music sensation (http://www.cmt.com/videos/rick-monroe/335797/honky-tonk-roadtrip.jhtml) paints a vivid portrait of life on the road. The song has even spawned a unscripted/reality based television show currently in development.

On virtually every song written and recorded, through his artistry Monroe intentionally creates an amazing picture of a musician’s life. Be it one who hits the road, performing at every honky-tonk he can find to wash away the pain of a broken heart — only to find there was perfection waiting for him right around the corner… or something even more “every day grind” inspired.

The “Nashville favorite” recently joined Josh Thompson and Dierks Bentley on the Jagermeister Country Tour line-up. His single, GET UR COUNTRY ON was the spark for a Jagermeister Club Tour of the same name also in 2011.

Monroe’s opened for the likes of Pat Green, Charlie Daniels, Dwight Yoakam, Montgomery Gentry, Marshall Tucker, Darryl Worley, Craig Morgan, Eric Church, Emerson Drive, Patty Loveless, Little Texas, Ricochet, The Birds, Black Hawk, Trick Pony, Chely Wright, Sammy Kershaw and Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus. He’s toured Europe for the last three years and performed an average of 100 dates a year for the last two years.

No stranger to success Rick’s previous album, ‘Against the Grain’ spawned the hit single ‘Midnight Rider’. Having received rave reviews in print and accolades on television shows such as EXTRA and ET, Rick’s gritty Midnight Rider video is still a much requested fan favorite.

Due to his expanding sphere of influence, Monroe has picked-up sponsorships from Jagermeister, Resistol Hats, Blue Berry Guitars, GHS, Visual Sound and others.

A true ambassador of the genre, Monroe was among the first country artists to perform in Russia and China. His extensive touring history includes performances throughout Russia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary, Honduras, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Germany, England, Netherlands and Switzerland, sharing the stage with a who’s who of musical greats. At the request of Pete Peterson, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Rick performed at the week-long 4th of July celebrations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Mihn City. Monroe was honored to sing the U.S. National Anthem for the 5-year anniversary of the re-opening of diplomatic relations between the countries. This marking the first time the anthem had been sung at a public event in Vietnam in over 25 years.

He followed that up with a Command Performance for the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, on the USS Sequoia Presidential Yacht, Washington, DC. This lead to a trip to Russia where Monroe performed at several orphanages and was a featured performer on REN TV’s Bulat Okudzhava Festival in Moscow, Russia

Rick Monroe takes life experiences that we all share, the events that touch our hearts and creates music that speaks directly to the soul in each of us. Whether in an intimate setting accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, a good old honky-tonk, or on stage playing with his band to thousands at an outdoor festival halfway around the world, Rick strives to connect to his audiences. He is always a huge crowd pleaser.

http://www.rickmonroe.com

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More Christian Singles Press Releases

Q&A: How to find Christian singles in their 30s who have lived in a monastery for some time but returned home?

Question by seforjes: How to find Christian singles in their 30s who have lived in a monastery for some time but returned home?
How to find through the Internet Christian single people in their 30s who have lived for some time in a monastery but returned home, understanding that monastic life was not their vocation. And though now they live in the “world”, their life and worldview are not secular but, in some sense, remain monastic, or, in other words, they are very conservative and old-fashioned Christians. I need to find such friends or soulmates. Please give me advice what I can do to find them.

Best answer:

Answer by Thia Q
Are you from the monastery yourself?

Look for a church with the believes you want and start attending.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Christians, a Christian dating service ad on TV claims God wants you to use their service?

by D.C.Atty

Question by old_lew: Christians, a Christian dating service ad on TV claims God wants you to use their service?
Christian dating service commercial on TV claims God wants you to use their service. Does God work for them and if so, how is he paid? (stock options?)

Best answer:

Answer by Andie
Well, He didn’t tell me that.

Give your answer to this question below!

What should be done about women on christian dating sites dressing inappropriate in their pictures?

by D.C.Atty

Question by J.P.: What should be done about women on christian dating sites dressing inappropriate in their pictures?
I saw a woman dressed in shorts that covered up only half her thigh!? What the heck?? Why are so many christian women dressing inappropriate today?

Best answer:

Answer by Bunz
I say we ban the clothing all together!

Add your own answer in the comments!

Suite101.com Brings in Christian Music Expert Kevan Breitinger to Launch their Christian Music Website

Ocean City, NJ (PRWEB) August 14, 2006 –-

Suite101.com proudly announces the addition of a new Christian Music resource site in their Music section, managed by Christian Music expert, Kevan Breitinger, one of the latest additions to the Suite101 team. The new Christian Music site located at http://christianmusic.suite101.com provides free articles, music reviews, artist interviews, and a blog providing Christian Music news and commentary on topics ranging from current musical directions to chart reports to ministry opportunities.

The site will also offer reviews on new and upcoming music projects, discuss happenings and opportunities in the Christian Music scene, and provide information regarding artists and their music to enable consumers to make wise musical purchases. Readers of Suite101’s new Christian Music site are provided with the opportunity to share their own reviews and feedback, ask music-related questions, and interact with site author Kevan Breitinger directly through the freely available site discussion boards.

Kevan Breitinger, a freelance writer residing in Ocean City, NJ, will be fashioning the new Christian Music site for Suite101.com with a consumer-oriented and information-providing approach, helping music novices and experts alike keep up to date on the latest Christian Music news and products, including new albums, concerts, tour news, and artist interviews.

About Suite101

Suite101.com is a private company owned by Burda Media Group, a 102-year-old family-owned German magazine firm with more than $ 2 billion in annual revenues, and by four private investors, two of whom are a management at Abebooks.com. Attracting curious browsers in search of answers, news, tips, a good read, or a chat with like-minded groups, Suite101 offers primarily North American visitors quality content per click, covering topics ranging from entertainment, to home and gardening, to business and technology, to world affairs.

For more information about the launch of the new Christian Music site at Suite101.com, or the addition of Christian Music expert Kevan Breitinger to the Suite101 team, please visit http://www.christianmusic.suite101.com.

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GOD IS NOT ONE, Best-Selling Author Stephen Prothero, Compares the Eight Rival Religions That Run the World?And Why Their Differences Matter

GOD IS NOT ONE, Best-Selling Author Stephen Prothero, Compares the Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—And Why Their Differences Matter

Cover: GOD IS NOT ONE: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — And Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2010

In GOD IS NOT ONE, available from HarperOne Publishers April 20, religion scholar and author, Stephen Prothero supplies readers with much-needed literacy about each of the world’s great religions—opening our eyes to the religious clashes that threaten us worldwide, and creating a new context for the study of religion in the 21st century.

“At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true….This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.” – Stephen Prothero, from the Introduction

According to many popular religion writers like Karen Armstrong, Huston Smith, and Wayne Dyer, all religions are “different paths to the same God.”

Not true, says bestselling author and religion scholar Stephen Prothero. In his new book God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—And Why Their Differences Matter (HarperOne; May 2010; Hardcover; $ 26.99; ISBN 9780061571275), Prothero shows how the world’s religions ask very different questions, tackle very different problems, and aim at very different goals. And he explains why this matters both personally and politically.

Beginning with Islam—which of all the great religions has the greatest contemporary impact—he then moves on (in order of influence) to Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Yoruba Religion, Judaism, and Daoism. He highlights the unique contributions each tradition has made to our collective conversation about the things that matter most. And along the way, he explains how each attempts to overcome a different roadblock to human happiness. For example:

    Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submission
    Christianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvation
    Confucianism: the problem is chaos / the solution is social order
    Buddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakening
    Judaism: the problem is exile / the solution is to return to God

To claim that all religions are the same is foolish. And to suggest that these traditions don’t matter is not just foolish, but dangerous. Throughout history and across the globe, religion matters. It has, after all, toppled the Bamiyan statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan and the Twin Towers in New York City. It has stirred up civil war in Sri Lanka and Darfur. It has moved elections in the United States. And it has resisted coalition troops in Iraq.

In God Is Not One, Stephen Prothero supplies readers with much-needed literacy about each of the world’s great religions—opening our eyes to the religious clashes that threaten us worldwide, and creating a new context for the study of religion in the 21st century.

About the Author

Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of Time magazine, Oprah, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, National Public Radio, and other top national media outlets. He writes and reviews for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Salon, and other publications.

Stephen Prothero will promote God Is Not One in the following cities:

New York, NY – April 19 – 20

Boston, MA – April 27 and ongoing

Chicago, IL – April 29 & 30

Manchester, VT – May 7

Atlanta, GA – May 11 & 12

Raleigh, NC – May 13

New York, NY – May 27 & 28

Praise for God Is Not One:

“Provocative, thoughtful, fiercely intelligent, and, for both believing and nonbelieving, formal and informal students of religion, a must-read.” — Booklist

“Prothero sets up a helpful model for examining each religion on its own terms…a useful introduction to eight of the world’s great religions.” — Publishers Weekly

“Stephen Prothero has done it again. This is a powerfully-written, paradigm-shifting book. We live in the most religiously diverse country in the world and the most religiously devout nation in the West at a time of global religious crisis. How religious differences can be a bridge of cooperation rather than a bomb of destruction is one of the most important challenges of our era, and on that question Stephen Prothero is as good a guide as you will find.” — Eboo Patel,

Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Core, and author of Acts of Faith

“This book could well be the most highly readable, accurate, and up-to-date introduction to the world’s major religions. It does so by avoiding either polemics or the naive equating of them all as merely different paths to the same summit. Prothero faces the real differences among them squarely, but demonstrates how these differences can enrich, not prevent, dialogue and cooperation.” — Harvey Cox, author of The Future of Faith

“So all religions lead to God? That is certainly the foundation for a widespread and well-meaning modern assumption. But as Prothero shows us in this erudite and very wide-ranging study, the world’s different faiths differ enormously in their essentials as well as their incidental manifestations, and any serious consideration of the role of religion must begin by recognizing that fact. God Is Not One is an elegant and thoughtful study that challenges much of what we think we know about the great religions.” — Philip Jenkins, author of Jesus Wars

“An urgently needed and very nicely done corrective to politically correct nonsense.”

— Rodney Stark, author of Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Faith

“With intelligence, wit, wisdom, and humor, Prothero has written an important and informative book, which happens to also be a very entertaining read! Through discussion of the world’s great religions, the book makes a convincing argument about religious difference, a hopeful antidote both to the idea that religions are mutually exclusive and to the schmaltzy claim that ‘all religions are one.’ In God is Not One, Prothero gives us a way to religious literacy. Everyone will benefit from reading this book.” — Pamela Eisenbaum, author of Paul Was Not a Christian

“By giving us the best compact guide to world religions in years, Prothero has done an estimable public service in addressing religious illiteracy. With his usual combination of wit, insight, and breezy prose, he shows us that comparative religion can be both important and fun. His core point—that religions are diverse and plural, not necessarily mystical expressions of the same inner truth—is bracing and relevant. God Is Not One is the ideal jumping-off point for anyone who wants a single book that captures the core ideals and values of the leading religious traditions.” — Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School,

and author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

“Enough of lazy paddling of a false and dangerous idea that all religions are the same! They are the same and they are different, they are clashing and complementary, overlapping and incongruous. To live together well in a globalized world, we need to know each other’s faiths, learn to debate in a civil way about their truth claims, and above come to respect each other even when we disagree on what matters to us the most. A very much needed book!” — Miroslav Volf, Professor, Yale University, and author of Exclusion and Embrace

GOD IS NOT ONE: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—And Why Their Differences Matter

By Stephen Prothero

HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

May 2010 | $ 26.99 | Hardcover | ISBN: 9780061571275

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God and Religion Have Lost Their Role

by uBookworm

God and Religion have lost their role

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

If we go deep into the mind of this man on earth we come to the conclusion that this man on this earth has lost faith in God and he is following a religion in a formal way. Most of the religions and people in those religions have taken up their religions as political units and they have started to surpass the other religions. They are coming with new meanings of their texts and they are telling the people that their religions is telling something which is not available in texts of other religions. Similarly they are coming with stories which are in their mythologies and they are telling us that their prophets were more powerful than prophets in other religions.

In fact that this man has traveled centuries when he firstly declared that there is a God who had created this world, this universe and then this man on this earth. They gave all power to God and then they started worshiping and praying before that God. They had been on this path since centuries and we have seen that this man could not become religious nor he could completely had faith in God and left all his activities to God. We have seen that this man had been praying to God but he never left his own efforts. There had been prayers, but at the same time this man had been at work and we have noted that at most of the times this man had been believing in his own efforts and he was just having some help from the side of God. But he had been successful he never thanked God but had been boasting that he himself had been working hard and that is the reason, he could succeed.

The man had been believing in one of their religions on this earth and he had been hating the people in the other religions and it is on record that people in one religion had been trying to persuade others to join their religion and if they had been powerful they had been forcing conversion and it is also on record that the people who were not agreeing to convert were killed . It is also on record that that the religious places of one religions had been demolished and on those very places the rulers had been constructing religious places of their own religions, though no religious books allows such conversions and such demolitions. All these non-religious acts had been there which clearly means that this man had not been obeying the directions given to them by their prophets.

Today when the man has entered the age of science and technology, he has adopted a new way of life. If they are performing some religious ceremonies these are just formal and they try to establish that their religion is still alive. If we conduct a survey of police stations, the courts and the jails, we shall find people of all the religions and we shall find that they all had been committing crimes, sins and misconducts of the same type irrespective of their religions. When they people commit some crime, sin or misconduct they forget to which religion they belong. Similarly when they commit crimes, sins and misconducts, they forget that God is there and He shall be punishing them. It seems the people have got no real faith in God and in any religion because they had been violating all the norms set by God and by the religions and history is full of crimes, sins and misconducts. No religion and even God could not set this man right. Some wise people, some intellectuals and scholars had been writing down explanations of religious texts and some had been writing books on art of living and we have noted that instead of original texts, the people are liking these new books and new philosophy of life. They are trying to follow this new philosophy and they have started saying that old religions are making us fundamentalists and the present age does not like people who are fundamentalists. There is war between these two sets of people and one has turned terrorists and the other has turned rioter and they both are killing the people of the other wing. The whole world has become Kurkshetra and nobody on this earth is safe. No country is safe and that is the reason most of the time of the people is spent in attacking others and most of the time is spent in saving oneself. No body know that would be the next step of this man on this earth when he shall not be believing in God and in religion.

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Q&A: Why can’t the people around the world unite all Religion as one but keep their sovereign Gods?

Question by John: Why can’t the people around the world unite all Religion as one but keep their sovereign Gods?
All religion around the world is a one world religion, and all the gods around the wold talk to their people in each nation, all different gods talk about one thing is life, survive and thrive this is mankind’s religion is to survive why can’t we unite religion? they may have similarity beliefs, people bought religion as to feel safe to understand in their heart about their history and future. Why can we Unite religion?

Best answer:

Answer by gutbucket
Simply because all gods are jealous of all other gods.

What do you think? Answer below!