Dalai Lama’s threat shakes Buddhism: If he quit as political leader but still headed the faith, it would go against his religion’s centuries-old tenet of church-state unity. [LA Times]
Ancient Humor: Raunch, Riddles and Religion: Polimeni theorizes that humor and spirituality emerged together, perhaps as ways for humans to relieve stress, communicate and make social connections in lieu of grooming, roughhousing and other, more direct means used by our primate ancestors. [Discovery]
St Peter was not the first Pope and never went to Rome, claims Channel 4: St Peter’s journey to Rome led to the spread of Christianity in the West and the foundation of Roman Catholicism, so the Church has always taught. But a new documentary will challenge the link as nothing more than a “conspiracy of faith”. [Telegraph]
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