http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:24:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:45:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24384 A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit by a Salt Lake City religious group seeking equal space for its own marker in a Pleasant Grove city park that has a Ten Commandments monument.

Summum -- which was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in a pyramid-shaped temple -- encourages some Egyptian practices, such as mummification. It has demanded public space for a monument touting its 'Seven Aphorisms.']]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24384/judge-dismisses-summum-request-for-equal-space-with-ten-commandments/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:28:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24114 Summum, a small sect based on Gnostic Christianity, is suing Pleasant Grove, Utah seeking to erect a display of its Seven Aphorisms in a park in Pleasantgrove, Utah.

The town seeks to have the suit thrown out.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24114/summum-sect-asks-to-erect-monument-while-suit-is-pending/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:19:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22919 Followers of Summum believe that Moses received two sets of tablets on Mount Sinai and that the Ten Commandments were on the second set. The aphorisms were on the first one.

The tiny sect -- whose founder says says he learned the aphorisms during a series of telepathic encounters with divine beings he called Summa Individuals -- wants them displayed in a public park.

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear their arguments.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22919/summum-3/feed 0