Jul 21

Burning incense solemnly has long been a tradition in many religious practices, including Zhongyuan Ghost Festival each year by the people of Taiwan. During this festival, which celebrates in general in Taiwan, to prepare and burn incense donations for victims of appeasement of the spirits. This year, however, the Environmental Protection Agency has again warned that these sticks of incense burning in the open air is illegal and is too big fines because of the adverse effects of the smoke of incense in the air. Read the rest of this entry »

May 24

Tolerance and acceptance should not only be painted facades on which practitioners religious dogmatism of power. They are principles and values, the need to share and instilled as the cornerstone of any religion. We all have our small defects, even that each religion has little bizarre rules, taboos and rituals. How can we insist that religion guide to practice their celibacy, while another promotes the marriage of his head, and another is quite compatible with polygamy? You can not all wrong, probably one of those wise old ways is right. Or perhaps their all right. They are certainly wrong, all in their nature and suggests correct way is the only way. No miracle, it is also much confusion among the people of the Age of Enlightenment. Sometimes, as they touch, whether a small tenant of their residence dogmatic failed, then everything fails. I do not believe that a religion or because they are human beings can indeed be fragile. Read the rest of this entry »