Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

March 8, 2011

February 5, 2011

Religion

Latin religiōn-, religiō 

supernatural feeling of constraint, usually having the force of a prohibition or impediment, that which is prohibited, taboo, positive obligation, rule, impediment to action proceeding from religious awe or conscience, scruple, manifestation of divine sanction, religious fear, awe, religious feeling, superstition, quality evoking awe or reverence, sanctity, religious observance, religious practice, ritual, particular system of religious observance, cult, conscientiousness, in post-classical Latin also monastic community (8th cent.), religious order, rule observed by a religious order (12th cent.)

OED 3rd/online, 2010

January 15, 2011

Uprising in Tunisia

Why is Tunisia uprising?

Are the uprising people of Tunisia supported by USG, as in the recent eastern Colorful Revolutions, to create a liberal democracy which will conform to the religion and profit of USG?

Or is Tunisia a remote useless province of USG, with a vassal government, which USG carelessly ignored or cannot profitably or piously maintain by public force?

Or is this unrest stoked by local or regional factions, which will shuffle the politicians or other personnel, but little affect governing policy?

January 14, 2011