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Adventure, Fairy tales, Horror/Ghost stories, Instruction, Religion, Short stories

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...n future, we were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, mas... ...y say "I am an Israeli". Affiliation - to a community, fraternity, nation, state, religion, or team - is really a positive statement of self- defin... ...of "laissez faire, laissez passer" - the hands-off battle cry. Theirs was a natural religion. The market, as an agglomeration of individuals, they ... ...dern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concept... ...se in the sense that we are subject to the same discipline and adhere to the same "religion". We are an inevitable result - not a chance happening.... ... Judaism is founded on shared biology as much as shared history and customs. As a religion, it proscribes a conjugal union with non-Jews. Jews are... ...or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion that is Judaism. It is true that some Jews are differen... ...rs. Bound by a common history, a common set of languages, a common ethos, a common religion, common defenses and ubiquitous enemies - Jews learned ... ...the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the European order. The Nazis borrow...

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...criptive (i.e., provides behavioral prescriptions). In certain ways, it is akin to religion. In its catechism, the believer (let's say, a politicia... ...of "laissez faire, laissez passer" - the hands-off battle cry. Theirs was a natural religion. The market, as an agglomeration of individuals, they ... ...f rampant individualism. Social cohesion and discipline diminished, ideologies and religions crumbled, and anomic states substituted for societal o... ...of social engineering and are civilizing, millennial, universal, missionary pseudo-religions. The denizens of the nether regions of central and ea... ...tions of people to new technology or to new laws (and to the temples of these twin religions - the scientist's laboratory and the courts). They are... ...and wore Burton(TM) shirts. He has all the channels: sports, porno, music, surgery, religion, even one of horoscopes, it was called Acuarium(TM) TV...

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...gh cyberspace. Think about it. All the wars are fought because of greed or religion. I agree with John Lennon. I imagine.” Yikes, what if something ha... ... I could tell they both loved you.” “Scott, we haven’t really talked about religion. I hope my reference to a civil ceremony didn’t offend your parent... ...sn’t part of my upbringing. Mom wasn’t always so outspoken about organized religion you know . Since Jake died, and since she started worrying about h... ...AN BRACKEN found new interests of all kinds. She would study all the great religions and try to understand what motivates people to be- lieve. She wou...

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...nventions, congresses, expositions, etc. : Council of Nicaea, Parliament of Religions, Fifteenth Inter- national Congress of Criminology, Westminste... ... "It is so in war; it is so in the economic life; it cannot be otherwise in religion." "Let us not enter into this now; let usJ rather, ask what the...

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...ON AND THE INTRA-SPECIFIC EVOLUTION, THE NON-CONTRADICTION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION, BETWEEN MATERIALISM (SUBSTANTIALISM) AND IDEALISM, BETWEEN ... ...ontain theories which are not wrong, but incomplete in our context (i.e. myths, religions, dogmas, etc...). To be against something is useful, but it ...

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...e business sector is alerted. In the name of capitalist ideology (another religion, really) it demands "privatization" of the medium. This harps on ... ... in non-theocratic societies such as Rome, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Mediev... ...re The Gutenberg Press, other than to the elite of wealth, education, and religion. Not only were books inaccessible to the person on the street, ... ...e business sector is alerted. In the name of capitalist ideology (another religion, really) it demands "privatization" of the medium. This harps on ... ...people to new technology or to new laws (and to the temples of these twin religions - the scientist's laboratory and the courts). They are awed, ama... ...Burton(TM) shirts. He has all the channels: sports, porno, music, surgery, religion, even one of horoscopes, it was called Acuarium(TM) TV and the T... ...businesses become interested. In the name of capitalist ideology (another religion, really) they demand "privatization" of the medium. In its atte...

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...d by the Revolution of 1830. In his heart he hated the aristocrats, and in religion he was indifferent; he was as much or as little of a bigot as Bona... ...die. I am a very miserable wretch; I can only cast myself into the arms of religion. I, sir, I have brought all these troubles on my sister and brothe... ...e assurance of your devotion to the cause of our legitimate sovereigns, to religion, and more especially to M. de Villele, if I am to interest myself ... ...ty begins with the law,” said the priest. “If it were simply a question of religion, laws would be superfluous; religious peoples have few laws. The l... ...You of this generation in France worship the golden calf; what else is the religion of your Charter that will not recognize a man politically unless h... ...e Reisebilder and wonderful verse; they are more powerful than ever, their religion is accepted, they have lent money to the Holy Father himself! As f...

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...: but I would rather Evan did not marry one of them. And then there ‘s the religion!’ This was a sore of the Countess’s own, and she dropped a tear in... ...t churchbells are ringing. It seems like a dream. There is nothing but the religion attaches me to England; but that—is not that everything? How I use... ...s redeemable if not exactly right. And you know the Catholic is the oldest Religion of the two. I would listen to the Pope, staunch Prot- estant as I ... ...happy in seeing our brother happy.’ ‘Y ou are talking to Evan as if he had religion,’ said the Count- ess, with steady sedateness. And at that moment,... ...s resolve tightened again; he hugged it with the furious zeal of a martyr. Religion, the lack of which in him the Countess deplored, would have guided... ...ow birth, till they have lived long with other people, and if they have no religion, are so very likely to do things. You do not judge them as you do ... ...the meanest trifles! Here you have every worldly charm, and all crowned by Religion! This is my true delight. I feel at last that whatsoever I do, I c... ...s handy. Fancy Lord Laxley in such a case. I shudder. This shows that your religion precludes any possibility of the being the real gentleman, and wha...

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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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... of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit... ...The laws concerning corn may everywhere be compared to the laws concerning religion. The people feel themselves so much in- terested in what relates e... ...cient Egyptians had a superstitious aversion to the sea; and as the Gentoo religion does not permit its followers to light a fire, nor consequently to... ...f the people naturally preserves the es- tablished forms and ceremonies of religion long after the circum- stances which first introduced and rendered... ...ormer situation than in the latter. In this respect, the teachers of a new religion have always had a consider- able advantage in attacking those anci... ... of their own establishment. The clergy of an established and well endowed religion frequently become men of learning and elegance, who possess all th... ...perhaps been the original causes of the success and establishment of their religion. Such a clergy, when attacked by a set of popular and bold, though... ...rgy is what every wise legislator will study to prevent; because, in every religion except the true, it is highly pernicious, and it has even a natura... ...ions, and affected excuses. But if politics had never called in the aid of religion, had the conquering party never adopted the tenets of one sect mor...

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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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...ch God has placed in us to aid that faith due to the mysteries of our holy religion; so it is needful to demon- strate abundantly the secret cause of ... ...t he would have saved his own soul ten times, of such good quality was his religion, before finding a chance to save the abbey itself from the clutche... ...“Out upon virtue! my lord; I’ve had my share of it. You have shown me that religion in conjugal faith is an abuse; this is then the reason that I have... ...isses, made herself a child as he was a child, educated him in the perfect religion of maternity; finally, be- haved as the best and happiest mother t... ...apprehension at the menacing words of Fallotte, and tormented by her great religion, she was in great fear of her husband, Imbert, to whom she was com... ...how this precious violator would finish his career. She told the duke that religion demanded that he should have a fair chance. And she dressed hersel... ...ngs to a queen. She was much beloved by the Church on account of her great religion, for she had never once forgotten God, hav- ing, as she once said,...

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... our day; a masterpiece finely rendered brought tears to his eyes; but his religion never bordered on mania, as in the case of Hoffmann’s Kreislers; h... ...th friends were Catholics. They went to Mass and per- formed the duties of religion together; and, like children, found nothing to tell their confesso... ...sk why? You might as well ask the reason of her indifference in matters of religion. Both of them were proud of a life lived in open day, of the estee... ... and courage of the fortune-teller; in other words, to ask of him all that religion alone can give. So the art is still practised in spite of a certai... ... Magus had a map of Europe on which all great pictures were marked; his co-religionists in every city spied out business for him, and received a com- ... ...f the world holds most of such men as Magus, strange beings with a strange religion in their heart of hearts. The London “eccentric” always finds that... ...with the green eyes, as some wretched Moor, accused of adhering to her own religion, might gaze at the inquisitor who doomed her to the stake. “Then, ... ...e Duplanty, “for M. 229 Balzac Schmucke’s condition claims the support of religion.” “I have just heard that he is alone,” said Dr. Poulain. “The Ger...

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...what, ma’am?’ asked Lizzie, with a modest smile. ‘T o make you change your religion,’ said Mrs Milvey. Lizzie shook her head, still smiling. ‘They hav... ...y. Lizzie shook her head, still smiling. ‘They have never asked me what my religion is. They asked me what my story was, and I told them. They asked m... ...nfidence here. But that makes no difference in their fol- lowing their own religion and leaving all of us to ours. They never talk of theirs to us, an... ... the last in the mill, it would be just the same. They never asked me what religion that poor thing had followed.’ ‘My dear,’ said Mrs Milvey, aside t...

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...aughter. Seeing that Bishop Proudie was, of course, much a man addicted to religion and to religious thinking, and that Mr Sowerby himself had no part... ...nd we may almost fairly say for frolic, was in no way inclined to ridicule religion or say anything which she thought appertained to it. It may be pre... ... in power them- selves, as to the present Government opposing the cause of religion! They declare now that Lord De Terrier cannot be very anxious abou... ...e he did not utter many words as to their present state of life. It was on religion chiefly that he spoke, not lecturing her individually, but laying ...

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...urch in the place, but Glam never went to it. He abstained from mass, had no religion, and was stubborn and surly. Every one hated him. So the time pa...

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...ound him perhaps too much of the mystery, but something of the comfort, of religion. That he had became popular in his par- ish cannot be said of him.... ...lace.’ ‘I only know,’ said he, ‘that when we had the whist we had the true religion along with it, and some good sense and good feeling also.’ ‘You ca...

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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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...gene without the patent holder’s consent? Forbidding human reproduction? Can religions secure copyrights over their scriptures? Even the ones they cla...