... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...f mortality could be eased. In the face of challenges from other ideologies, Christians protected their God and religion with defensive armament of an... ...We go on occasion. We aren't believers. Catholic Mass is similar to Russian Orthodox services and it makes my sister feel like she is back in St. Pet... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... the universe. This is called pantheism, meaning that ‗all is god.‘ Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bahais and Parsis or Zoroastrians believe in a single ... ...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ...e chosen group can be rewarded. But is that chosen group Sunni, Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Shi‘ite, evangelical, conservative or some other sec... ...ce of panenthism, with a God that is the force behind all nature, in early orthodox writings and in later Reformed and Conservative Jewry. But we als... ... of Christian mystics in the West. Panentheism is more common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Here God is both the creator and the creation, but ...

...nships have been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...rmed in heaven, why wouldn‘t God accept the truth of a proposition if two Christians today agreed to it? Was Jesus only talking about those in his a... ... in his audience 2,000 years ago? If Galileo or Darwin, both of whom were Christians, convinced a friend of the truth of a scientific finding, would... ...the same religion. Both the Sunnis and the Shia claim the real truth. The orthodox Jew upholds the true religion, the Reformed Jews are really misgu... ...or giant steps, whichever our citizens will allow. You remember what the Greek orator Demosthenes said, ‗Small opportunities are often the beginnin... ...sh‘ sound, the international symbol ‗ʃ.‘ The symbol for ‗th‘ is ‗θ‘, the Greek letter theta. We definitely want to avoid the problems that some ...

...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ...e a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christianity.‖ —―And many Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ... God of Abraham, but like the brothers they are, their fights have been most brutal between them. Jews against Moslems, Moslems against Jews, Christ... ...that‘s not where we war. It‘s the Muslims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthod... ...slims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek ... ...t of as a whole country or a culture but may be thought of as a smaller group of people with similar interests. So what might be normal for an Orthod... ...igrants. Sunnis and Shi‘ites have done it to each other recently, Catholics and Protestants did it to each other a few hundred years ago, and Orthod...