BUDDHA MEANS AWAKENED ONE (A1)WITH AWARENESS !

WE WERE BUDDHISTS, WE ARE BUDDHISTS AND WE CONTINUE TO BE BUDDHISTS

DHAMMO RAKKAHATHI RAKKHITHA !DHAMMA PROTECTS ONE WHO PROTECTS DHAMMA !

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION NEWS

A VOLCANO

SOLUTION

The
Intellectuals and intellegent Advocated belonging to Social
Transformation Movement of Sarvajan Samaj must unitedly move the Supreme
Court as the EVMs are insecure, to Scrap them and Order for fresh Lok
Sabha elections and all the State Assembly elections conducted with
these fraud EVMs. Propagate through Internet by creating websites,
creating facebook, tweet, and sending bulk emails TV channels and media
as the present media is a dead wood forgetting what Napolean said: “I
can face two battalions but not two scribes”.Democratic Institutions
such as CJI, CEC, and all other pillars of democracy such as Presidents,
Prime Minister, Chief Ministers, Defence etc. must follow Collegiate
system consisting SC/ST/OBCs/Minorities to challenge the following
judgement:

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The Secular Community’s First On-Line Conference – Climate Change Last month, we announced that The Secular Community will be hosting its first on-line video conference, in support of TED’s Countdown on climate change. We now have our approval from TED to host our event. The event has been moved up a week and is now scheduled to take place on October 17th, 2020 at 4 p.m. GMT (10 a.m. PDT). The event is expected to last about two hours.     The Countdown initiative is focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The video conference is expected to cover the following five areas:   Urgency – climate science and the climate crisis and why it matters. Leadership – putting climate back on the political and social agenda. Transformation – decarbonizing fossil fuels and electrifying the way we move people and things. Breakthroughs – protecting and regenerating nature, reimagining the stuff around us and sparking a worldwide shift to healthier food systems. Action – thinking long-term about climate change and how each person can get involved, stay inspired and rally others to take part.   Our on-line event will be hosted on Zoom and in order to ensure that we have the proper license, we will need to know in advance how many people to expect on the call. You will therefore need to register for this event. To register, send an email with ‘Registration’ in the subject line to info@thesecularcommunity.org. Only those who register will receive the link for the event on October 17th. The deadline to register is September 30th. The link will be sent out 3-5 days before the event.   Watching Religion Die By James A. Haught Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book.   Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It and What Comes Next, by University of Michigan scholar Ronald Inglehart, is to be released in January by Oxford University Press. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine – in an advance summary titled “Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion” – Dr. Inglehart said:   “The most dramatic shift away from religion has taken place among the American public. From 1981 to 2007, the United States ranked as one of the world’s more religious countries, with religiosity levels changing very little. Since then, the United States has shown the largest move away from religion of any country for which we have data.” A profound cultural transformation is in progress – mostly happening quietly out of sight, little-noticed in daily life. Old supernatural beliefs are vanishing among intelligent, educated, science-minded western people, especially the young. Religion is shriveling into the realm of myth and fantasy. Here are some indicators:   Almost two-thirds of teens who grow up in a church drop out of religion in their twenties, according to both Barna and LifeWay surveys.   The number of Americans who say their religion is “none” began to explode in the 1990s – first to one-tenth of the population, then climbing relentlessly to one-fourth. Among those under thirty, “nones” now are forty percent. American church membership fell twenty percent in the past two decades, according to Gallup research. Southern Baptists dropped two million members since 2005. Tall-steeple Protestant “mainline” denominations have suffered worst. United Methodists fell from 11 million in 1969 to below 7 million today – while America’s population almost doubled. Evangelical Lutherans dropped from 5.3 million in 1987 to 3.4 million now. The Presbyterian Church USA had 3.2 million in 1982 but now is around 1.3 million. The Episcopal Church went from 3.4 million in the 1960s to 1.7 million now. These highbrow mainline faiths with seminary-educated ministers once drew public respect. But religion is shifting to lowbrow, emotional worship that is less admirable. One-fourth of the world’s Christians now “speak in tongues,” researchers say. Christianity is moving from advanced, prosperous, northern nations to the less-developed tropics. It’s going from respected to pathetic.   Retreat of churchgoing in America may undercut the Republican Party, which depends on white evangelicals as the heart of its base. In contrast, godless Americans tend to be compassionate progressives who have become the largest faith segment in the Democratic Party. The loss of religion may shift national political values to the left. Personally, I hope the Secular Age continues snowballing until supernatural religion becomes only an embarrassing fringe. After all, belief in gods, devils, heavens, hells, miracles, visions, prophecies and the rest of dogma is extremely questionable. It’s all a fantasy, a bunch of falsehoods, as far as any science-minded person can tell. It lacks factual evidence. The more religion declines, the more integrity is gained by society. Come to think of it, maybe there’s a correlation: White evangelicals swallow the falsehoods of faith – and they swallow the notorious falsehoods of President Trump. Psychology researchers should study this gullibility pattern. (Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry magazine. He has written 12 books and 150 magazine essays.)

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