Tag Archives: religion

Words are powerful

Posted on May 20, 2025 by borderslynn

The following is an extract from ‘The Friends of Israel’ and it is particularly important that anyone reading the book understands the semantics used, so as to be clear about the future use of descriptions such as ‘Israel lobby’. Those … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apartheid, Israel lobby, Jewish, muslim, Palestine, religion, right wing, UK, US, zionism | Leave a comment

Genocidal attempts: Yazidis

Posted on December 18, 2023 by borderslynn

The Genocide Convention is an international treaty approved in 1948 with the intent to prevent genocides in the future. It defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged community outsiders, Daeth, female, GBV, gender, gender based crime, ISIS, Lafarge Cement Company, murder of women and children, northern Iraq, patriarchy, rape, religion, slavery, women, Yazidi | Leave a comment

Valuing Human Life

Posted on November 23, 2023 by borderslynn

As humans became more sophisticated after thousands of years evolving, they became conquerors of land when explorers sailed to new lands and staked rights to it in the name of their monarchs. Vasco da Gama was one such explorer trying … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apartheid, culture, discrimination, ethnicity, hierarchies, human value, land rights, land theft, Palestine, religion, respect, South Africa, Tibet, violence | Leave a comment

The arrogance of religious beliefs to assimilate the Guardians of the Planet

Posted on October 18, 2022 by borderslynn

I was reading about how Jesuits sent from Rome helped destroy the culture of the Sioux at the behest of US government officials through re-education techniques. I have reproduced the article which informed me of this travesty which took place … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged "indians", assimilation, belief system, catholicism, culture, disease, earth, education, guardians of natural world, ICT, Lakota, native americans, neglect, poverty, re-education, religion, responsibility, schools, Sioux, truth | Leave a comment

Covid 19 and religion

Posted on September 23, 2020 by borderslynn

Humans have adhered to religious beliefs for thousands of years. Many belief systems fly in the face of advice for self and other protection against the current contagious virus. Here we have an example in the news this month: Israeli … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged belarus, hasidic, israel, pandemic, religion, ukraine | Leave a comment

Christopher Columbus Statues

Posted on June 14, 2020 by borderslynn

This image taken 2019. A long running sore. Now many voices call for such symbols to no longer affront the daily lives of those whose ancestors helped build America (and previous empires of the world) with their suffering. Now statues … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged degradation, genocide, humiliation, indigenous, injustice, military aggression, oppressed, poverty, religion, slavery, terror, uncivilised, violence | Leave a comment

The Sacred Condor

Posted on February 12, 2019 by borderslynn

The magnificent Condor is a familiar and respected scavenger bird which flies over the Americas. Condors are part of the family Cathartidae which contains the New World vultures. The Andean Condor‭ (‬Vultur gryphus‭)‬,‭ ‬is thought to possibly be the most … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged a.magificens, Americas, andes, aves, california, condor, endangered species, extinction, incas, miocene, p.sandersi, religion, triassic | 5 Comments

Romans left us with Christianity in a Savage Britain

Posted on July 10, 2017 by borderslynn

When the Romans left England in 410 AD the population had no understanding of how to govern, feed themselves or protect each other. 420 – Pelagian heresy outlawed in Rome (418) but, in Britain, supposedly enjoys much support from … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 5th century, anglo-saxons, celts, christianity, england, germania, holy roman emperor, missionaries, religion, st boniface | Leave a comment

Debt as a Driving Force

Posted on July 10, 2017 by borderslynn

Philip IV of France (born in Fontainebleau in 1268, the second son of Philip III. His mother (Isabella of Aragon) died when he was three and his stepmother, Marie de Brabant, allegedly preferred her own children to Philip and his … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Avignon, christianity, crusades, debt, england, family, feudal to civil society, Holy Land, kings and queens, Knights Templar, papacy, Philip IV of France, power, religion, roman catholicism, Rome, scotland, war | Leave a comment

Human Vulnerability

Posted on July 7, 2017 by borderslynn

There have been three major outbreaks of plague. The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. From historical descriptions, as much … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 13th century, 14 a18th century, Black Death, conflict, disease, gangrene, Jani Beg, Khan, Mongol empire, religion, rodents, Silk Road, trade, war | 1 Comment

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