Posts Tagged ‘confused about religion’

DIY religion on the increase in USA

Monday, November 13th, 2023

According to a recent survey conducted by Pew, 72% of individuals who identify themselves as religiously unaffiliated still believe in a higher power. Furthermore, about 20% of these individuals also believe in the God depicted in the Bible. In her 2020 book Strange Rites, Tara Isabella Burton examined how an “eclectic spiritual hunger” is expressed Read more

Scammer convinces woman to deposit in the Bank of Heaven

Monday, July 17th, 2023

In 2013  an elderly woman received a phone call from God instructing her to deposit her money into a “checking account of God at the Bank of Heaven with the promise of better interest rates and the possibility of building a house in Heaven. She never once suspected that she was being scammed, as she Read more

David Bowie video ‘confused about religion’

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

English rock singer David Bowie’s new music video has been branded “juvenile” by a former Archbishop of Canterbury and “confused about religion” by the Catholic League in the United States. The video, called The Next Day, depicts French star Marion Cotillard as a dancing girl who bleeds from stigmata marks on her palms while Bowie Read more