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| | Gender Differences in Religious Beliefs |
 | | Respondents were asked to rate their own religiosity and spirituality, to describe their level of religious conviction, and to state whether or not they believe in God, an afterlife, traditional religious paranormal phenomena such as angels and ghosts, the power of prayer, and the meaningfulness of life. | | | angels, spirits; question 7), belief in the effectiveness of prayer (question 8), belief in the meaningfulness of life (questions 10 and 10a), and strength of religious beliefs (question 9). | | | “Religious” is generally considered to be involvement with religious institutions such as churches and temples and/or believing in their ways of practice. |
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http://www.bsu.edu/web/kaharris/GendDiffEssay.htm
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| | Religious Beliefs Gwadar |
| | Zikri, a significant religious faith in Makran, is not mentioned in the 1981 census. | | | Almost all the Islamic religious parties took it as a stimulus and demanded for a proclamation by the government to declare Zikris as non-Muslims. | | | The beliefs and rituals practised by Zikris are completely different from those of Islam. |
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http://www.gwadar.sdnpk.org/religiousbeliefs.htm
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| | Religious Diversity (Pluralism) |
| | Religious Diversity and Religious Harmony, a Buddhist perspective, by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron. | | | Gellman grants that if a religious belief affirmed by an exclusivist is not rock bottom (is not a foundational assumption), then it may well be subject to obligatory belief assessment in the face of religious diversity. | | | Gellman, J., (1993), "Religious Diversity and the Epistemic Justification of Religious Belief," Faith and Philosophy, 10: 345-64. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-pluralism
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| | Humanism's Political and Religious Beliefs |
| | Humanism is an ideological, political, and religious belief that denies the existence of God. | | | Christianity, in its essence, is the belief that Jesus Christ is the Messiah whose coming was foretold in the Old Testament of the Bible. | | | The religious humanist believes, as the Humanist Manifesto states, that the religions of the world are outdated due to a vastly increased knowledge and experience, and are powerless to solve the problem of human living in this time. |
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http://www.contenderministries.org/humanism.php
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| | Religious Beliefs and Substance Use among Youths |
| | Youths aged 12 to 17 who reported that religious beliefs are a very important part of their lives were less likely to have used cigarettes, alcohol, or illicit drugs in the past month than youths who reported that religious beliefs are not a very important part of their lives. | | | For example, 15 percent of youths who reported that religious beliefs are a very important part of their lives used alcohol in the past month compared with 27 percent of youths who reported that religious beliefs are not a very important part of their lives (Figure 2). | | | Youths also were asked to indicate how often they attended religious services, whether their religious beliefs are a very important part of their lives, and whether their religious beliefs influence how they make decisions. |
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http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/youthReligion/youthReligion.htm
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| | Richard Dawkins: Is Science A Religion? |
| | Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. | | | Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion. | | | There's all the difference in the world between a belief that one is prepared to defend by quoting evidence and logic and a belief that is supported by nothing more than tradition, authority, or revelation. |
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http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/dawkins.html
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| | The major world religions |
| | Though believed by many to be a polytheistic religion, the basis of Hinduism is the belief in the unity of everything. | | | However, since the time of the Buddha, Buddhism has integrated many regional religious rituals, beliefs and customs into it as it has spread throughout Asia, so that this generalization is no longer true for all Buddhists. | | | They belief that it is the same faith taught by the prophets, Abraham, David, Moses and Jesus. |
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http://www.omsakthi.org/religions.html
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| | James Lewis - afterlife religious beliefs |
| | Spiritualism is a religious movement emphasizing the belief in survival after death, a belief Spiritualists claim is based upon scientific proof and communication with the surviving personalities of deceased human beings by means of mediumship. | | | As a part of the religious phenomenon known as esotericism, Theosophy concerns a gnosis (intellectual insight) offering enlightenment to the individual through knowledge of what is believed to unite that person to the world of the divine and to its hidden mysteries. | | | Manichaeism was a religious movement that arose in the third century and spread across the Mediterranean world. |
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http://www.near-death.com/religion.html
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Native American Religion |
| | The beliefs and practices of many groups are sectarian derivatives of other native groups, and there is also a significant infusion of Christianity, and more recently, New Age beliefs and practices permeating these traditional beliefs. | | | As contemporary Native American religious flowerings are best understood by first examining the origins of Native American Spirituality, all of the contemporary sects are best comprehended in light of the traditional religions. | | | The origins of contemporary Native American religion, and that of their recent ancestors, can be traced back 30,000 to 60,000 years with the arrival of the first groups of people from northeast Asia. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/naspirit.html
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| | Religious Beliefs |
| | Both deal with a range of issues in the psychology of religion such as sources of religious belief, social supports for religion, and the effects of religious belief on behavior. | | | There are many competent books on religious belief and the general psychology of religion. | | | (*) Freeman, 2000 A provocative analysis of religious belief in its broadest domain. |
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http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sch/beliefs/b-religion.htm
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| | George Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Washington's religious views are a matter of some controversy. | | | James Abercrombie, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia mentioned in a weekly sermon that those in elevated stations set an unhappy example by leaving at communion, Washington ceased attending at all on communion Sundays. | | | Ona Judge Staines escaped the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia in 1796 and lived the rest of her life free in |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Amish |
| | The moral beliefs of the Amish Church are based on the Bible and most of their views stem from literal translations of the teachings of the Bible. | | | While the Amish subscribe to basic Christian beliefs, such as the belief in a divine Christ, heaven and hell, receiving inspiration from scripture, and the church as the body of Christ, the Amish tradition differs from many other modern religions, in that their faith is combined in their entire culture | | | Some of the most important beliefs held by the Amish are: separation from the outside world, vow of obedience, and closeness to nature. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/amish.html
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| | My religious beliefs page 010 |
| | Among these secular freedoms that are so important are the freedom of religious belief and worship, and -- importantly -- freedom from religious belief and the subsidization of religion by the state. | | | On the other hand, adherents of those religions believe that the religions, and their sacred texts, are not man-made, but are the inspired word of God. | | | If the latter is the case, then to murder in the name of religion can be readily supported by terrorists on the basis of their religious beliefs -- beliefs that are divine, not man-made. |
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http://waynepaulson.topcities.com/MyRel010.htm
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| | CHEROKEE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS |
| | They built their religious belief upon foundations and pillars built by the express creations of God and not of men, and they were reserved as such. | | | The Cherokees had a Sacred Ark that carried the sacred fires and other Holy things, which were the fragments of their religious beliefs - fragments that represented the everlasting bond between the creator and the Cherokee people. | | | However, if the modifications were attempts to conform to popular belief, they would experience disastrous results in their religion and government. |
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http://www.cherokeenationmexico.com/religiousbeliefs.html
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| | My "religious" beliefs |
| | They only interpret it differently because of their cultural, religious, or intellectual bias, or their lens of belief, and therefore assign qualities to their gods and deities based on what they already think to be true. | | | Therefore Pagans are not automatically right just because they have the oldest beliefs, nor is it proof of the truth of the Gospels that they have survived 2000 years. | | | I believe a large percentage of people who grow up within another religion and never look outside its walls act this way only because their religious tenets were instilled in them as early and as persistently as moral education and toilet training. |
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http://members.aol.com/troochie/belief.html
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| | About the Mayflower Web Page |
| | Below is a basic outline of some of these religious beliefs supported and practiced by the Leyden Pilgrims. | | | John Robinson (1575-1625) was the pastor of the Pilgrims after their removal to Holland in 1607-8, and many of his writings survive--giving us a direct view of the Pilgrims religious beliefs and theology. | | | The Pilgrims believed baptism was the sacrament which wiped away Original Sin, and was a covenant with Christ and his chosen people (as circumcision had been to God and the Israelites), and therefore children should be baptized as soon as practical. |
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http://members.aol.com/mayflo1620/religion.html
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| | Cornerstone - Religious Beliefs |
| | Yet others modify their religious beliefs when they are found to be incongruent with other strongly held beliefs and convictions on the road to developing a more internally consistent sense of self. | | | The psychologists at Cornerstone have diverse religious backgrounds and beliefs. | | | For some, religious convictions intensify and serve as a strong motivator for making positive changes in their lives. |
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http://www.cornerstonebh.com/relbelf.htm
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| | The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents |
| | Abercrombie wrote the letter I have quoted, in 1831; the Rev. Bird Wilson preached his sermon on the religious beliefs of the founders of the republic in the same year; Bishop White wrote his letter to the Rev. B.C.C. Parker in 1932, and I his letter to Colonel Mercer in 1835. | | | And a really religious man believes in "letting his light shine." If, like Washington, he is not a religious man, and at the same time honest, not wishing to offend his friends who are religious, he will take a non-committal attitude. | | | An account of the religious beliefs, and lack of such beliefs, of our chief executives, and a chronicle of the more important religious events and controversies of their administrations. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/franklin_steiner/presidents.html
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| | Religious Institutions |
| | His four characteristics are: a very strong belief in the Bible as the primary religious authority; a commitment to the practice of conversion, so that people need to be changed in a Christian direction as a basis for participation in the life of God. | | | Christian Fundamentalists argue that the Bible must be accepted as the literal word of God, correct not only in its religious or moral teachings, but also in its scientific and historical claims. | | | The death and resurrection of Christ is the heart of the Christian faith. |
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http://www.theocracywatch.org/relig_inst.htm
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| | Hitler's religious beliefs and fanaticism |
| | But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy. | | | But through his political and religious reasoning he established in 1933, a German Reich Christian Church, uniting the Protestant churches to instill faith in a national German Christianity. | | | Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. |
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http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
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| | THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION |
| | Many Christians are aware of their own denomination's current beliefs, but are unfamiliar with the history of those beliefs, or of the teachings of other denominations. | | | Included also are the beliefs of the very early Christian movement from the 1st and 2nd century CE. | | | People in the U.S. and Canada are going to need religious understanding and tolerance in the future, because these are the currently most religiously diverse countries in the world -- and we are becoming increasingly diverse. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/christ.htm
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| | BELIEVE Religious Information Collection - Scholarly Articles |
| | Beliefs and procedures in some other Church may be VERY different, and they may even seem incompatible with what you must follow. | | | Their belief system seems to have a number of errors in it regarding Christianity, such as the impression that the Christian Trinity is Father, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary! | | | It is our belief that if we provide sufficient accurate information, each visitor and his/her indwelling Holy Spirit will then be able to Discern the Truth for that person. |
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http://www.mb-soft.com/believe
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| | State Department Fails to Designate Partners as Violators of Religious Freedom (Human Rights Watch Press release, ... |
| | The government forbids all demonstration of religious faith that is not consistent with the state-sanctioned interpretation of the Sunni branch of Islam. | | | The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom had recommended that Uzbekistan be placed on a "watch list" of countries that might be designated as major violators if they do not change their practices. | | | In 2002 alone, Human Rights Watch documented five deaths in custody, apparently as a result of torture, of men convicted for their religious practices or affiliations. |
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http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/03/us030503.htm
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| | 85.06.07: Egyptian Tomb Art: Expressions of Religious Beliefs |
| | They are significant because they tie into beliefs about the Egyptian social structure., ideas about work both on earth and in the afterlife, and religious beliefs. | | | The idea that these cultural practices derived entirely from religious beliefs (at least at an early stage) is important. | | | To be able to connect the object to Egyptian religious beliefs expressed by the object. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/6/85.06.07.x.html
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| | A DOUBTER'S GUIDE TO AGNOSTICISM |
| | This tradition might be described as religious agnosticism, and is the common source of modern atheism and agnosticism. | | | Most religious historians agree that the proximate cause of Buddhism's eventual disappearance from India lay in the rise of Shaivism and Vishnavism: emotional, functionally monotheistic cults. | | | Christian fundamentalists use the term "atheist" to describe any unbeliever as they define him, but many younger folks are quite simply materialists or sensualists for whom the existence or non-existence of god is a matter of almost complete indifference. |
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http://www.geocities.com/bontasaurus/agnosis.htm
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| | Arnold's Religious Beliefs |
| | Arnold confronts Newman directly as the supreme nineteenth-century expositor of the mystery inherent in religious truths who conceived of the universe of supernatural truth and reality as a realm on the edges of man's ordinary consciousness the shadowy outlines of which were fragmentarily revealed to him by Scripture. | | | Whereas the father had allowed that some scriptural language had to be understood as metaphorical rather than as simple-mindedly literal, the son went farther and held, finally, that the Bible is all metaphorical, recording essential human hopes and aspirations rather than historical events. | | | Arnold's "additions" tend to be deletions, his ultimate theology being a collection of religiously tinged moral maxims from the Bible. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/delaura3.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Schoolgirl who put her faith before her education |
| | Instead the 15-year-old Muslim girl was at home yesterday explaining why her religious beliefs meant she had not set foot in a classroom for the last 18 months. | | | In a statement, Luton borough council said the school was a "multiracial, multifaith" one, with a "flexible uniform policy" designed to fit in with all religious and cultural beliefs. | | | In return, the school, Denbigh High School, claims that it has a school uniform policy which takes into account all faiths and cultures. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1147227,00.html
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| | Children and Religious Beliefs |
| | A young child will believe practically anything an adult tells them with regard to these questions, and once a certain belief has been incorporated into their world view, and other beliefs have been built upon them, it can be extremely difficult for the child to unlearn these beliefs enough to consider any alternatives. | | | In fact I’m sure she didn’t realise at the time, as many western people still don’t today, that Buddhism, in most of its varieties, while being rightly called a religion, does not entail belief in anything even remotely resembling what most Christians mean by God (the exceptions here are some Christian mystics). | | | The religious myths that get to a child first are at a great advantage. |
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http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/ChildrenAndReligiousBeliefs.htm
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| | Pharyngula::Tillman's religious beliefs |
| | My point is that religious faith is fundamentally a social phenomenon of exclusivity, deeply entrenched by the illusory, fear-based concepts of infinite reward and infinite punishment. | | | McCain, unless he's a religious deist (which I enormously doubt), is, in effect, lying by omission. | | | Personally, I don’t share his belief, but let’s not put words in other people’s mouths. |
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http://pharyngula.org/index/P641
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| | George W. Bush and Religion |
| | This is the same exclusionary attitude, so offensive to those with different beliefs, that he showed in 1993 when he said that you must believe in Jesus Christ to enter heaven. | | | Life itself was sacred, said Bernardin; only God could bring it to an end, not someone as flawed as a man. That was a coherent and humane philosophy, whether you were religious or not. |
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http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush19.html
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| | Handbook on cultural, spiritual and religious beliefs |
| | Free Church patients may like to receive a visit from a Minister, a member of their own church or the Free Church Chaplain. Ceremony/sacraments, may not be observed as strictly as the Anglican and Catholic religions; however, they may welcome prayers being said with them. | | | The patient’s family may wish to call in a Hindu priest to read from the Hindu holy books and to perform holy rites. These may include tying a thread around the wrist or neck, sprinkling the person with water from the Ganges, or placing a sacred tulsi leaf in his or her mouth. | | | Central to Hinduism is reincarnation. Hindu religious practices vary a great deal, depending on areas of origin. Hinduism is a social system as well as a religion, therefore customs and practices are closely interwoven. Please refer to the individual and/or family/friends about particular requirements. |
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http://www.sdhl.nhs.uk/documents/cultural.html
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| | Other religions - the comparative differences between Christianity and other faiths |
| | Alongside it, the dominant religious viewpoint is New Age. | | | This is in no way to condone religious pluralism. | | | In this sense, the Gospel is the true fulfilment of the aspirations and hopes of other beliefs, and can be presented in this positive light, rather than "you are wrong, we are right". |
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http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/religion.php
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| | Islamic Patterns |
| | One explanation of this practice was that Mohammad had warned against the worship of idols; this prohibition was understood as a commandment against representation of human or animal forms. | | | An even more important reason is that geometric systems and Islamic religious values, though expressed in different forms, say similar things about universal values. | | | Careful observation of the illustrations here will provide an introduction to Islamic religious beliefs through its art. |
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http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000030.htm
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| | Religious Beliefs... |
| | Examine religious beliefs legislation and the impact on the classroom | | | Religious Beliefs and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education | | | This workshop will cover how to ensure equality of opportunity in the student experience and promote strategies to support staff in teaching situations. |
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/pd/m1m69/religious_beliefs.htm
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| | religion-home |
| | A person accepts and rejects the beliefs around him or her and in doing so creates his or her individuality. | | | For full or partial texts of many religious books see: | | | For information related to the world distribution of religious sects see: |
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http://www.gasi.org/diversity/religion/religion1.htm
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| | Battleground God |
| | Of course, you may go along with thinkers such as Kierkegaard and believe that religious belief does not need to be rationally consistent. | | | Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground? | | | But that takes us beyond the scope of this activity, which is about the extent to which your beliefs are rationally consistent, not whether this is a good or a bad thing. |
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http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm
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| | Views on Religion |
| | Although, I had enormous exposure to the Bible, coming from my years as a Catholic and a Pentecostal, my religious beliefs were not fashioned by the Bible per se, but from my personal investigations, observations and revelations from my Creator. | | | Based on the fallacy that the Bible is the ultimate Court on God matters, no one will accept having incorrectly interpreted the Bible's language - "somebody must be right and the other wrong" - religious tribalism I call it. | | | Also, being wrong would suggest that one is not in tuned with God and is a heathen or lesser Christian; so the war of supremacy in the interpretation of the Bible will persist. |
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http://users.candw.lc/marietus/religion.htm
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| | RELIGIOUS BELIEFS |
| | Our beliefs are: We are a Bible based, Christ centered Ministry. | | | Light of the World Missions and Outreach Ministries is over seen by 8 board members with a heart for the Lord and to serve others. |
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http://lotwmissions.truepath.com/gpage.html
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| | Obama says his beliefs say no to gay marriage |
| | ''I'm a Christian, and so although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman,'' Obama said. | | | Obama says his beliefs say no to gay marriage | | | Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama said Friday his Christian beliefs dictate that marriage should be between a man and a woman, although he supports civil unions that give legal rights to gay and lesbian couples. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-sen251.html
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| | GREECE - Mythology & History |
| | Ancient Greece, the cradle of western civilisation, was a land of small city-states whose people shared a language and a set of religious beliefs. | | | Here, for a brief moment in the long history of humanity, men of genius, men of spirit, men of vision lived, created and set foundations. |
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http://www.hol.gr/greece/grkpg1.htm
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| | Myth*inglinks AFRICA/Egypt: Religious Beliefs and Practices |
| | In our usual focus on ancient Egypt, we tend to forget the pivotal role played by Egypt in the formation of early Christian beliefs and practices. | | | This is Tour Egypt's "A History of Christianity in Egypt" -- it includes such topics as a look at Egyptian theologians and saints (including one of my own patron saints, Catherine of Alexandria), and offers a few related links and suggested readings. | | | It is a troubled, eerie history, but nonetheless fascinating, especially in its interplay with much more ancient themes. |
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http://www.mythinglinks.org/afr~egy~beliefs.html
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