Best church & state religious studies according to redditors

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1. Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

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2. Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right

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3. The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy

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4. God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America

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u/frabelle · 10 pointsr/FundieSnark
u/PWC1004 · 4 pointsr/atheistvids

Read the 'show more' under the video (as directed in the title of the post)

SOURCES:

Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being

[Over 10% of American population are atheist]
(http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php)

Less than 0.21% of prisoners are atheist

In response to a freedom of information act request, the Federal Bureau of Prisons says that on February 12, 2010 atheists accounted for just 0.08% of the prison population

Majority of Nobel Prize winners atheist:

u/Carinus · 2 pointsr/DebateFascism

I would be delighted! He is my favorite living scholar. His first breakout work was on the relationship between Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt. He has since then worked extensively in the field of Straussianism, particularly in revitalizing the academic legacy of Carl Schmitt. He focuses primarily on Strauss's distinction between revealed religion and philosophy and how that informs the role of the philosopher within society. Most of his books tend to be succinct and brief, bordering on laconic.
The top three I would reccomend are "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", "Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue" , "Leo Strauss and the Theological-Political Problem".

If you have any further questions or want to discuss any of his work I am always happy to do so.

here are links on amazon to the referenced texts:

https://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Carl-Schmitt-Distinction-Philosophy/dp/0226518906/ref=la_B001HCW6QQ_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512083591&sr=1-3

https://www.amazon.com/Carl-Schmitt-Leo-Strauss-Dialogue/dp/0226518884/ref=la_B001HCW6QQ_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF

https://www.amazon.com/Strauss-Theologico-Political-Problem-European-Philosophy/dp/0521699452/ref=la_B001HCW6QQ_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512083591&sr=1-5


u/HermesTheMessenger · 2 pointsr/atheism

See the databases I referenced plus check into studies by Phil Zuckerman and Gregory Paul. Here are two sources to start you out;

u/throwawaythiscomment · 2 pointsr/TagPro

Congrats man! That's a lot of caps! In fact, if you were to donate ten caps to every baby in England & Wales born in 2015 who shares my name, Tyler, you would have 520 remaining which is the area code for Tuscon, AZ and the vast majority of southern AZ. In the 520 area code are Superior (w/ population 2916), Cornville (3335), Sells (2799), and Arivaca (909). If you add the population of these 4 areas, you get 9959. When you get how many caps you have minus that number, we get 41. When you divide 41 by the number of letters in NEUhusky, you get 26.26. So obviously 26 is important. If we do the math correctly, the amount of times the letter v appeared before this sentence (8) is the same number of days until Hugh Hefner's birthday, Apr 9... 1926! What a coincidence... 26 is the number that we found out was obviously important! Now if we take a look at some numbers, we can see that my name has a value of 82 (s = 27, a = 1; 27+27+27+1=82). The 82nd day of the year is March 23rd, keep this day in mind. Now at the time of writing this (3:11 AM EST), NEUhusky, you have 171 degrees and need 16 wins to advance a degree. 171 + 16 is 187... using this number we can even tie in politics to see where this conspiracy-rabbit hole takes us! 187 days ago was September 26, 2016, which happens to be the day on which the first Trump vs. Clinton
debate took place. We can all agree that this was/is an event that is splitting Americans pretty severely. A person who causes us to split a gut is Flavor Flav (I split a gut everytime I hear "Yeaaaaaaaaa Boiiiiiiiiii"). Flavor Flav is 58 years old right now. Interestingly enough, the distance from Frederick County, Virginia and Winchester, Virginia is 6.1 miles walking (remember that number)! If you take the degrees of each player with stats on in this game you get 555 if you divide that by the number of seconds into the second minute you scored your cap at (11), you get 50.48275. This is where I have no idea how I made this work and it gets a little creepy! If you take 50.48275 and divide it by the number of players in a game of TagPro (8), you get 6.3103 (we'll use this number again in a minute). If we search, we can find out that the time it would take to get from Frederick County, VA to Appomattox Court House in Virginia (where Robert E. Lee surrendered) is 2 hours and 56 minutes (via I-81S). So we have 2h56m, if we get rid of the letters, we have the letter 256. Now, to get the next stepping stone, we have to take 256 and divide it by the answer to this equation which uses a single digit: ((the number of letters in my name + that number squared) divided by the same number). That seems kinda tricky so I'll rewrite it with numbers: ((4+4^2)/4). We can solve that equation for 5. If we divide that earlier number, 256, by 5 we get 51.2. If we take 51.2 and multiply it by the number we got earlier, 6.3103 we get 323. Do you have any guess as to why this number is significant? I'll give you a couple seconds to think about it.

 

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If you think you have it, you'll find out if you were right or wrong in a couple seconds... That number 323 could be given a slash and would look like a date we already mentioned... You guessed it, that date is March 23rd. This is about to get really weird... An event took place on March 23rd in both Frederick County, VA and Winchester, VA. If we do some searching on Google, we find out that on March 23rd, 1862 in those counties, there was an event known as the 'First Battle of Kernstown.' At this battle, General Stonewall Jackson and the confederates were defeated. I don't know about you, but this can't be random... If I subtract 1862 from 2017 to find out how long it's been since then, I learn that it has been 155 years, try and remember the number 155 for later. Well I wanted to research similar to where I started and I found out that (according to babycenter.com) Jackson was the most popular male name in the US in 2016, which is odd as it is the surname of the aforementioned defeated confederate general. I'm beginning to smell a conspiracy. I wondered if the name Jackson was as popular in England & Wales and I end up finding out that 818 Jacksons were born there in 2015. 818. Do you know what is odd about that number? I do... it is a palindrome. So I decided to look up some palindromes to see if I could figure out where these numbers were guiding me. I goto palindromelist.net and think about which letters could be most significant. I thought maybe an 'N' for NEUhusky, but then I thought that that would be too obvious. After pondering, I decided that the word 'husky' would lead me somewhere. I find out that there are 3 breeds (Malamut, Alaskan, and Siberian) that are generally regarded as huskies, so I guess 3 must be significant. I then click the letter 'H' and click the third palindrome down... this is what it read: "HARASS SARAH." I thought I was at a dead end, I was thinking about this HARASS SARAH for a couple minutes getting no where, when I backtracked. I decide to go research the word 'husky' more because if I had to pick a code word, that would be a good one. So we have a player named NEUhusky, which is Northeastern University Husky. NEU is located in Boston, MA. I decide to look for husky breeders in the state. I come accross the 2015-2016 SHCA Referral Directory (http://www.shca.org/shcahp4f.htm) and see that there are 3 breeders in MA. I once again hit a wall and stare at these 3 people curious as to where they will lead me next.

So I decided to just run numbers and see if they could help me find a crack in this conspiracy case. Your combined post and comment karma (1111) minus mine (753) = 358. Your top 3 submitted posts have an average karma of 50. If I take 50 more away, we get 308, which we may use soon. If we look at your profile and sort by 'top,' your top post has 3 numbers associated in it: 57 (karma), 18 (comments), and 8 (months). If we multiply these together we get 8208. If we subtract the number got just a minute ago, 308, from 8208 we get 7900. I decided to take another look at your account and I ended up just staring at it for a while. Then, all of the sudden, it stuck out like a sore thumb: your post karma is a palindrome :O So I decided to multiply your post karma (242) by 7900 and it equals a huge number of 1911800. I thought this number was big on purpose, but I couldn't figure out why... I then went to YouTube and searched 'NEUhusky sass' and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRrKt4kQWE at the time of this comment, this video has 450 views. I took 450 and divided it by the sum of the digits of the date and the digits of the length (2+2+4+2+0+1+5+2+3+4=25). 450/25 is 18. I then understood, it was really clear as day /u/NEUhusky. I must add 18 to 1911800 to get 1911818. I imagine how you felt when you got your 10,000th cap is similar to how I felt when I realized 1911818 isn't one number, but 5. 19-1-18-1-8. When you convert these numbers to letters, it spells 'SARAH.' And remember 'HARASS SARAH?' I decided to research if there was a famous Sarah from NEU, but there was not. I decided to expand it to Boston and found a woman named Sara Diamond. I found out that this woman is an author who writes about the secret religious Republican agenda. Odd. Lots of politics and diversion in this comment research. I decided to take a look at Ms. Diamond's first book, Spiritual Warfare: the Politics of the Christian Right. I found it on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Warfare-Politics-Christian-Right/dp/0896083624). When I added the digits of the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, I got 114. Now on the same Amazon page if we look at the 2nd review, we see that it was submitted in February, 2002. That means we have the digits 2/2002. If we get rid of the dash, we can (almost) continue the palindrome theme and turn these numbers into a palindrome (kind of): 2 x 20 + 2. This equation = 42. If we add this number to the other numbers we got on Sara Diamond's Amazon page, we get 156. Once again, we see the obvious code of letter to number and vice versa. 1-5-6. If we read these numbers as letters, we get AEF. Now because I wanted to stay in the right general area, I googled AEF Boston, and came across this: https://www.aefboston.org/ Since there were a bunch of 2's on the Amazon, I clicked the second tab, 'Events.' On this page there are two events, one in August and the other one... the date is once again a palindrome. The date for this one is 01/21/2016. If we drop the dashes and space it, we get 01 21 20 16, which looks like another number to letter code. AUTP. So I search AUTP and nothing comes up. So I enter AUTP.com. On the top of this website are two phone numbers. I add 1 + 7 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 7 + 3 + 6 + 8 + 4 + 7 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 8 + 6 + 57 + 4 which is the phone numbers, AUTP in numeric, and 4 for 4 letters. I end up with 155. AS IN 155 FROM EARLIER. So this part was a process of trial and error for a while, but eventually this is what I found: k=11 o=15 r=18 s=19 o=15 t=20 a=1 g=7 p=16 r=18 o=15... 11+15+18+19+15+20+1+7+16+18+15=155! THE ANSWER AND REASON FOR YOUR 10,000th CAP IS "KORSO TAGPRO." but good job... and what the fuck am i doing? jesus christ, tyler make some friends

u/efrique · 1 pointr/atheism

http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/

posts lots on papers about religion and a lot of them use statistics

There are a few posts on my blog (but they're not particularly deep);
here's an example:

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/lower-rates-of-religiosity-associated.html

(and that post links to some data sources that contain a bunch more variables that you might find useful)

Phil Zuckerman has written on some of this stuff too

http://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797148

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-zuckerman/imagine-no-religion_b_731548.html

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edit: here are some of my other posts relating to religious belief and some other variables:

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/science-readiness-and-religion.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-religious-more-generous.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-development-index-and-unbelief.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2009/06/pax-atheism.html

(if you check the links on those, you'll find a few more sources for information)

u/ponie · 1 pointr/atheism

I highly recommend this book for this topic. I'm only a few chapters into it, but it's a good read so far.