Religion News in Brief (2016/10/28)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/10/28
Trump supporters strong among religious far-Right
Vox reports that that 2016 American presidential election is “about values” and the larger vision of America amongst the voting population, which comes in the two representatives of the Democrats, Clinton, and Republicans, Trump.
Prominent “white evangelical Republican voters themselves are still there” as “values voters” and are among “Donald -Trump’s most stalwart defenders.”
Many of these supporters with deeply held religious convictions are bound a narrow range of issues including “abortion, same-sex marriage, school choice and school prayer, and deeper problems with a hypersexualized mass culture that takes sex outside of marriage as a given.”
Civilization VI has religious victory route
Eurogamer notes that one of the new big video games, Civilization VI, contains various religious elements as with the previous series of the game, where players can win via religion, for example.
To spread a preferred religion within the game, the player will need to acquire Faith with continuous quantities of the resource throughout the game to be able to strike a Faith-based victory, or a Religious Victory.
The Religious Victory can be had through the training and sending out of Apostles and Missionaries to “help spread the good news.”
Baha’i members say Iran want to ‘crush’ the religion
According to ABC News, the Baha’i International Community has expressed deep concerns about the attempts by Iran to “crush the religious minority” and that this has increased under the Presidency of Hassan Rouhani.
There was a 122-page report with statements that there is a “campaign to incite hatred against Baha’is” such as the spreading of over 20,000 bits of anti-Baha’i propaganda via the Iranian media.
Rouhani was inaugurated in August, 2013. There have been 151 Baha’i arrests in addition to 388 “incidents of economic discrimination” that have included intimidation, threats, and shop closings.Indian Supreme Court will not debate greater meaning of Hindutva
According to the Hindustan Times, the Supreme Court, in India, will not enter into a greater debate as to the meaning of Hindutva, but, nonetheless, asserted that “asking for votes in the name of religion was “evil” and “not permissible”.”
The Supreme court was revisiting the judgment in 1995 about the Hindutva as a “way of life and not a religion” and that this might imply disqualification if candidates invoke religion for votes.
Chief Justice, TS Thakur, said, “It is difficult to define religion. There will be no end to this.” This was an observation and comment made with elections only five months away.
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