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...I find that one of the missionaries of the Protestant sect, who accounts himself among the learned men of the twentieth century, a helper of the pure religion of Christ and one of the civilized and cultured occidentals, by name, Peter Z. Easton, has been so provoked by jealousy at the universal spread of the heavenly word of His Holiness Abdul-Baha throughout vast expanses...

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...tion Working Together” Rally - Comedy Rally - 9-11 14) “IMAGINE – THE FŌGIE WAY” 15) Developing another Word Picture: a Muslim and a Mormon 16) ‘RELIGION RAILS’ 17) 10 Cannots by Abraham Lincoln 18) ‘THE PROTESTER’ categories 19) ‘GOOD’ standards 20) Pledge of Allegiance change and TRUE REPUBLIC concept 21) TOUGH LOVE – WE, THE PEOPLE 22) Commander-in-Chief 22)...

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...nio," Gallucci said, disbelieving his own ears." "Pope Francis respects all religions." 209 J.Cross/Artemis "Aah," Gallucci grumbled. "Don't... ...16 J.Cross/Artemis Antonio responded, "Heaven does not distinguish between religions, it only distinguishes good from evil." "What if the Yakuz... ...is destiny. His hate for the Americans and the Israelis had not only become a religion for him, but a commitment to death. His attacks on their milit... ...d four glasses. "You have your choice, white or red," Gonzales beamed. "My religion forbids me from drinking." 276 J.Cross/Artemis "Of cour... ...d of the young man. Salim had an incessant desire to read books about all the religions in the world. “Why do you read all these books? I thought y... ...at have you discovered in these books?” Hakeem asked. “I have found that all religions are the same, and none provide me with an answer,” he said, ... ...ule's mind traveled over his past. As a young man, he was raised to honor all religions, and all people. His father had taught him to respect those w...

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... of the present to acknowledge it and make amends. This needs to happen so that the Muslims can truly practice what Allah has intended for them - a religion of brotherhood, peace, and justice. Until the end of time, even the most sincere Muslims will disagree upon what they truly believe is the most correct path. However, while accepting that there will be disagreeme...

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...also proclaimed that He was the Gate, Herald and Forerunner of an even greater Manifestation of God who would come after Him, the Promised One of all religions and Return of Christ in the Glory of the Father. In 1863, Mírzá Husyan-‘Alí-yi-Núrí (1817-1892), known as Bahá’u’lláh (Arabic for “The Glory of God”), proclaimed that He was the Promised One foretold by the Báb. By ...

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Travel, Religion, Philosophy

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Philosophy, Religion

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...cted upon no religious Foundation at all, indeed I had very few Notions of Religion in my Head, or had entertain’d any Sense of any Thing that had bef... ...ad all this Time observ’d no Sabbath Day; for as at first I had no Sense of Religion upon my Mind, I had after some Time omitted to distinguish the Wee... ...o the Seafaring Life, and into Seafaring Company, all that little Sense of Religion which I had entertain’d, was laugh’d out of me by my Mess Mates, b... ...t there were any living Creatures upon the Island; I mean of humane Shape. Religion joyn’d in with this Prudential, and I was convinc’d now many Ways,... ...st blinded ignorant Pagans in the World; and the Policy of making a secret Religion, in order to preserve the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, ... ...to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most brutish and barbarous Savages. ... ... I knew, the Soul of a poor Savage, and bring him to the true Knowledge of Religion, and of the Christian Doctrine, that he might know Christ Jesus, t... ..., Wranglings, Strife and Contention, which has happen’d in the World about Religion, whether Niceties in Doctrines or Schemes of Church Government, th... ...ot see the least Use that the greatest Knowledge of the disputed Points in Religion which have made such Confusions in the World would have been to us...

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...cy. It was, indeed, a time of very unhappy breaches among us in matters of religion. Innumerable sects and divisions and separate opinions prevailed a... ...stice I know not. I am very well satisfied that it cannot be reconciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity and Human- ity... ...of the visitation. It seems they had been checked for their open insulting religion in this manner by several good people of every per- suasion, and t... ...a sort of brutal courage; I must call it so, for it was founded neither on religion nor prudence; scarce did they use any caution, but ran into any bu... ... debt they owe to their Maker, those physicians who had the least share of religion in them were obliged to acknowledge that it was all supernatural, ...

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...rmed by people of the strictest virtue on both sides: and there is so much religion and philoso- phy in the heart of the seducer, so much tender innoc... ...fact is, was a Catholic, but did not care to own it: for in those days his religion was not popular. “Baids? Holy Mother of saints! give me back them ... ...ground in a fine white lawn shirt and nightcap; and, being a Papist in his religion, was attended by Father O’Flaherty, Popish priest, and chaplain to...

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...s, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth century -- imperia in imperio, foreign things at home....

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...h, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth cen... ... to change the faith of Japan, and openly professed their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connect... ...ence of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’s faces, not... ... wad hae nae mair words about it!” One thing was noticeable about Robert’s religion: it was neither dogmatic nor sectarian. He never expatiated (at le... ... with his doubts. Both the last talkers deal much in points of conduct and religion studied in the “dry light” of prose. Indirectly and as if against ... ...c- ing Shakespeare’s fairy pieces with great scenic display. A moderate in religion, he was much struck in the last years of his life by a conversatio...

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...d with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom. By the same wife he had four children more born th... ...or friendship. I had caught it by reading my father’s books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into ... ...ring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an inf... ...g man, of great integrity; the others rather more lax in their principles of religion, particularly Ralph, who, as well as Collins, had been unsettled... ... Palmer’s I was employed in composing for the second edition of Wollaston’s “Religion of Nature.” Some of his rea sonings not appearing to me well fo... ...rotes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had lived much am... ...iv’d opinions, slovenly to extream dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal. We continu’d there near three mont... ...rewarded, either here or hereafter. These I esteem’d the essentials of every religion; and, being to be found in all the religions we had in our count... ...e that might tend to lessen the good opin ion another might have of his own religion; and as our prov ince increas’d in people, and new places of wo...

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...owledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whi... ...the admirable but ill- written character of Javert, the man who had made a religion of the police, and would not survive the moment when he learned th... ...f this great Ayrshire academy. This arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which... ...or the past and terror for the future. He was still not perhaps devoted to religion, but haunted by it; and at a touch of sickness prostrated himself ... ...hard to fancy they are not gravely making fun of each other as they write. Religion, poetry, love, and charming sensibility, are the current top- ics.... ...- ics. “I am delighted, charming Clarinda, with your honest enthusiasm for religion,” writes Burns; and the pair enter- tained a fiction that this was... ...the facts of life. Any conviction, even if it be a whole system or a whole religion, must pass into the condition of commonplace, or postulate, before... ...s, all thoughts, trees and people, love and faith, astronomy, history, and religion, enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not... ... enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not against religion; not, 72 Robert Louis Stevenson indeed, against any religion. He ...

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...ny law of language, law of States, law of na- tions, law of morals, law of religions, any law, human or divine, in which an authority can be found for... ...foreign land, they will carry back to their native soil the rich fruits of religion, civilization, law, and liberty. May it not be one of the great de...

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...ognized. In Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox, Erik Blaire compares these features to the paradoxes of American politics, violence, and religion. Finding they are inseparable, he proposes that American freedom must therefore also be paradoxical. Armed with clues derived by examining American schizophrenia, obedience, disobedience, and paranoia, Blaire adopts ...

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...ocke's close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge) Locke argues for a new understanding of the relationship between religion and government. One of the founders of Empiricism, Locke develops a philosophy that is contrary to the one expressed by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, primarily because it supports toleration for various Christian denom...

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...n were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass humor, history, politics, science medicine, nature, finance, cooking, film and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)...

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...ional Delusions, Peculiar Follies, and Philosophical Delusions. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (summary from wikipedia)...

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... . . . . . . . . . . xi A Perspective from the Commander in Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Barack H. Obama SECTION I: RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION 1 Religion in the Military: Finding the Proper Balance . . . . . . . . 15 Barry W. Lynn 2 Burning Bibles and Censoring Prayers: Is That Defending Our Constitution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Gord...

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...8 125 Articles 125 Section 8 126 Chapter 1: 126 Part 1: 126 America’s New Cold War: China 126 Section 8 133 Chapter 2: 133 Freedom: America’s Religion 133 Section 8 135 Chapter 3: 135 T 135 ‘Abortion has become the default option to all the cultural dysfunction of American family policies and conveniently leaves it to be paid by ‘a women’s choice’ at the junctu...

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... the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied wit...

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...rsh and unprin- cipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single ... ...eaving it, and find their earthly affection changed into something holy as religion. And what is Time, to the married of Eternity?” Amid the tears of ... ...d round it, once, at least, in every month; sometimes they called it their religion, or their altar; but always, it was the banner staff of Merry Moun... ...ay be permitted us to show mercy. But woe to the wretch that troubleth our religion.” “And this dancing bear,” resumed the officer. “Must he share the... ...ho had shunned the cross, by providing for the peaceable exercise of their religion in a distant wilderness. Though it was the singular fact, that eve... ...roduced actions con- trary to the rules of decency, as well as of rational religion, and presented a singular contrast to the calm and staid de- portm... ...red advantages to men of unprosperous fortunes, as well as to dissatisfied religionists, and Pearson had hitherto found it difficult to provide for a ... ...im, it is true, was not a skilful controversialist; but the feeling of his religion was strong as instinct in him, and he could neither be enticed nor... ...ived the courtesy and kindness which all the contending sects of our purer religion united to deny her. Her husband and herself had resided many month...

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... enjoyment of its material prosperity in an orderly manner, but has also kept itself almost pinned down to them since ages. No doubt, these concepts, religion and politics, have played a great role in the satiation of one of the most prominent instincts, called gregariousness, essentially available in its members. In fact, both these concepts have helped the human society ...

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... enjoyment of its material prosperity in an orderly manner, but has also kept itself almost pinned down to them since ages. No doubt, these concepts, religion and politics, have played a great role in the satiation of one of the most prominent instincts, called gregariousness, essentially available in its members. In fact, both these concepts have helped the human society ...

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...m a society based point of view. 217 5 Immoral from a society based point of view. 218 LEGAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS 218 SOCIAL QUESTIONS 220 OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION 220 CHEATING OR LYING 221 Moral from a Self-centered point of view. 221 Immoral from a self-centered point of view 221 Moral from a God perspective 222 Immoral from a God perspective 222 Moral from a societal point o...

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.... 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ............................................................................... 53 POWER AND RELIGI... ................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGI... ... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS................................................................... 56 GAINING POWER THRU RELIGI... ...n with Freud. His classic theory was that our natural impulses often lead us to behave in ways that society doesn‘t approve of. So society and religi... ...se their thinking has taken them away from the belief system in which they were raised. By the same token, have people who were raised without religi... ...eist, I would like to think that we have all followed the lane of logic to arrive at our new beliefs. But I have seen people who have rejected religi... ...more saintly than others. In another society it might be to make you the most violent warrior. We need only look at the various sects of every religi... ...very religion to see how the spectrum of holiness varies from an individual union with the Almighty through a mystical experience, through the religi... ...humanity, and to the religious militarism that seeks to annihilate all who do not have the true faith—even those who are members of their same religi...

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...Excerpts: “It appears to me that almost every religion tends to circumscribe the reasoning potentials of its followers. The self-styled custodian of the religious beliefs would not take it upon himself as a duty to seek the explanations of the `deviating folk`, unless an...

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...ealth Management 114 Chapter 9 - Response to the cyclone – Society 117 Language, Ethnicity and Religion 118 Vulnerable Groups 119 Community Support and Welfare 122 Legal Issues ...

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... mean that some Muslims tend to be uncomfortable with distinctions between religion and state, though Muslim rulers throughout history have readily se... ...n age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their religion, thereby leaving Islam vulnerable to encroaching foreign powers ea... ...xtreme,fundamentalist traditions as his match.All these elements—including religion—combined in an explosive compound. Other extremists had, and have,... ... especially over the disputed territory of Kashmir. From the 1970s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.Af... ...n dental school.Around the same time, he began speaking increasingly about religion, and his visits to Senguen became less and less fre- quent. He beg... ...osque in Saudi Arabia, Suqami and Salem al Hazmi appeared unconcerned with religion and, contrary to Islamic law, were known to drink alcohol. 92 Like... ...inate terrorist groups and networks, and avoid malice toward any peo- ple, religion, or culture. 41 President Bush recalled that he quickly realized t... ...hrough the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from reli- gion, thus distorting... ...s faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us. Other religions have experienced v...

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...ort of a Papist or an Unitarian; another, every one who believes in revealed religion; a few extend their charity a little further, but stop at the be... ...ce from the reigning opinion in self regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the f... ...d ern reformers who have placed themselves in stron gest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects in... ...be formed which could again knit it together. The new On Liberty — Mill 30 religion openly aimed at dissolving these ties: un less, therefore, it w... ...of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of t... ...oduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much t... ...nts hold, at least in theory , that the respon sibility for the choice of a religion must be borne by each for himself, and cannot be thrown off upon... ... would have expanded from an obscure sect of the despised He brews into the religion of the Roman empire. When their enemies said, “See how these Chr... ...l doctrines—those of prudence and knowledge of life, as well as of morals or religion. All languages and literatures are full of general ob servation...