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 | | Christianity is often portrayed as the religion of the poor and the slaves. | | | In so far as the Romans had a religion of their own, it was not based on any central belief, but on a mixture of fragmented rituals, taboos, superstitions, and traditions which they collected over the years from a number of sources. | | | To the Romans, religion was less a spiritual experience than a contractual relationship between mankind and the forces which were believed to control people's existence and well-being. |
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http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/religion.html
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| | Church and State, Politics and Religion |
| | The question of religion and politics is not the same as the question of church and state. | | | Should a Christian be expected to shed his/her particular identity in order to be an exponent of the "religion of the Republic" (Meade) with its broad identification with the Semitic traditions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity but not congenial to conceptions of Ultimacy in the great religions of the East conceive of Ultimacy. | | | Below are two brief articles that pursue further the issues of religion and politics and church and state. |
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/relandpo.htm
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| | Read Shelton’s "The Gods of the State Religion" on p. | | | Explain the difference between the deities of early Roman religion and the Greek gods. | | | What was the only eastern religion that demanded rejection of all other religions (see footnote #229 on p. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/courses/religion.htm
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| | Constitutional Topic: The Constitution and Religion - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
| | Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, [the people, in the 1st Amendment,] declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. | | | Whereas in Europe, the "establishment of religion" did mean a state church, it took on a whole new meaning in America. | | | In the end, the 1st Amendment not only prevents the establishment of a national religion, but it also prohibits government aid to any religion, even on an non-preferential basis, as well as protecting the right of the individual to choose to worship, or not, as he or she sees fit. |
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http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_reli.html
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| | State Sponsored Religion - Access to Energy - Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Freedom |
| | The Oregon State Religion being promulgated here is indeed different from other religions. | | | The Oregon religion is based primarily upon the lowest aspects of human nature. | | | Arynne was told to drop one of her science or math courses and take the religion course - or else be expelled from the University after one term. |
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http://www.accesstoenergy.com/view/ate/s41p889.htm
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| | State authorities claim that students are permitted to decline to attend these classes or to request a teacher of their own religion to provide alternative instruction. | | | Most Yorubas practice either Islam or Christianity, while others continue to practice the traditional Yoruba religion, which includes a belief in a supreme deity and the worship of lesser deities that serve as agents of the supreme deity in aspects of daily life. | | | The Catholic Church in Zamfara State was unable to retake possessions of property confiscation in the 1970s during the period covered by this report. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23745.htm
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| | Religion and State in Nigeria International Humanist and Ethical Union |
| | The separation of religion and state in Nigeria | | | Subsection (5) – Religion shall not be taught, and proselytizing shall not be practised, in public schools, hospitals, and institutions. | | | Whether carried out by the Nigerian government or by the messianic religions (Christianity and Islam), the mixing of Religion and State is morally wrong. |
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http://www.iheu.org/node/1759
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| | Religion Resources on the Web |
| | Religion Religions Religious Studies: Information and Links for Study and Interpretation of Religions -- Links for the study of comparative religion. | | | Philosophy of Religion -- Well organized page devoted to exploring all of the central topics in the philosophy of religion, including attempts to prove the existence of God, arguments for atheism, discussions of controversial Christian doctrines, and religious ethics. | | | Religion News Service : RNS -- For nearly 70 years, Religion News Service™ has covered news about religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. |
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http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/eresourc/religion.html
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| | Religion and the State Governments (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | Advocating such a policy--on the grounds that religion was necessary for public happiness, prosperity, and order--were the ministers and most members of the Congregational Church, which had been established, and hence had received public financial support, during the colonial period. | | | In the revised creed, adopted by the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1788, "nursing fathers" was elevated from an explanatory footnote--(note f), as it appears here, to the body of the text in the section on the duties of the civil magistrate. | | | The concept of the state as a nursing father provided the theological justification for some American Presbyterians to approve the idea of state financial support for religion. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel05.html
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| | The State Religion, by Ernest Partridge - Democratic Underground |
| | The State Religion: Of course, "the Gospel of the Market" is not similar in all respects to the Western theistic religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. | | | Moreover, it has taken on many of the qualities of an established religion, complete with sacred texts, a priesthood, seminaries, a credo, and the condemnation of heresies. | | | And like an evangelical religion, "conservatism" commands a faith that prevails, in the mind of the true believer, over experience, reason, and scientific proof. |
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/01/10_religion.html
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| | The Anabaptists and State Religion |
| | Rejection of coercion in religion is yet another salutary hallmark of Anabaptist theology. | | | My Anabaptist forefathers believed that the assimilation of the church to the state was worse than the corruption of Christianity; it was a denial of the very essence of the church. | | | I agree with the Anabaptists that Constantinianism – the alliance of church and state – while claiming to advance the kingdom of God, actually obstructs its fulfillment. |
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http://www.daveblackonline.com/anabaptists_and_state_religion.htm
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| | Pharyngula::Our official state religion |
| | In the American colonies the Congregational Church was the semi-official religion of the upper classes. | | | She was catholic before and after I was and she knows and loves the difference between science and religion. | | | If we've got to have an official religion in this country, Unitarianism isn't a bad choice since at least some of the congregations have decent coffee and one god at most is more economical than three gods at least. |
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http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/our_official_state_religion
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| | Positive Atheism's Big List of James Madison Quotations |
| | Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Govt in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. | | | The general government is proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting religion; and it may be thought to do this, in ascertaining who, and who are not, ministers of the gospel. | | | James Madison's definitions of an "establishment" of religion include: the use of tax money for support of teachers of the Christian religion, the donation of a piece of federal land to a Baptist Church, congressional chaplains. |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/madison.htm
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| | Islam: State/religion |
| | It appears that by their sheer vocality, the proponents of a strict linking of state and religion, based on a literal interpretation of the scriptures are prevailing. | | | If linking state and religion is seen in terms of moral underpinnings of politics then it can definitely be a strength. | | | However, if we take it in a narrow sense -- the way it is done by the "literalist-scripturalists" (a kinder word for fundamentalists, whom -- it should be pointed out -- we have in all religious traditions) then I believe linking religion with state is detrimental. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/Islam-947/State-religion.htm
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| | Bush's State-Based Religion Is a New Fascist Movement |
| | Bush's State-Based Religion Is a New Fascist Movement | | | There was a history in the world as a whole, of religions which were created by government in order to control people. | | | Think of the effort by the Anglo-Americans, to intimidate the Catholic Church to abandon its resistance to that evil which was and is the Enlightenment: another case of the effort to impose state-based religion as an instrument of Anglo-American imperial tyranny. |
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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3215_state_based_religion.html
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| | Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome |
| | Religion, State and Society also addresses subjects of world-wide concern to religious believers and religious communities such as legislation on religion, religious rights and freedoms, ecumenism, religion and national identity and the challenges of globalisation. | | | As well as authoritative and provocative articles, Religion, State and Society includes book reviews, bibliographies and translations of important documents. | | | What problems are these religious communities now facing in their own countries and in a rapidly changing world? |
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http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09637494.html
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| | Canadian State Religion is Secularism |
| | That state religion, says Byfield "is secularism, which proclaims that if there is a God, man could know nothing about It. | | | The chief enemy of this state religion, says the founder of Canada's most notable social conservative magazine for 30 years, is Christianity. | | | Byfield says "Canada has an implicit state religion" that is "complete with dogmas, moral absolutes, legislative programs, priests and prophets, allies and enemies". |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jul/03070403.html
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| | Rome Exposed - Roman Religion |
| | The rex sacrorum, the three flamines, and the college of high priests, and the Pontifex Maximus, controlled and led the State religion. | | | Although Christianity opposed emperor worship for political reasons, this religion gradually replaced all religions. | | | The sacred fire in the Aedes Vestae, Temple of Vesta, symbolized continuity of life of state. |
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http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/religion.html
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| | Alcoholics Anonymous: America's State Religion? |
| | To a nonbeliever, however, religion and spirituality are the same thing; we really don't want any part of it -- if we can help it. | | | This dance with semantics implies that religion is stuffy, hierarchical, or phony, whereas spirituality is spontaneous, personal, honest, and genuine. | | | An atheist denies the existence of God; an agnostic holds that the human mind cannot know whether there is a God. |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/rw/alcohol.htm
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| | LewRockwell.com Blog: State and Religion |
| | In fact, several states had state-supported religions at the time of the founding and for years after the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. | | | For example, "Congregationalism remained the official, state-supported religion in Massachusetts until 1833," and Virginia collected taxes to support the Anglican church; see also As post 30 by Kevin Curry here. | | | Most mainstreamers and even libertarians just assume, for example, that a state law establishing religion would be "unconstitutional". |
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http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/006436.html
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| | I cannot see how an "official religion" is established by letting those who want to say a prayer say it. | | | On the contrary, I think that to deny the wish of these school children to join in reciting this prayer is to deny them the opportunity of sharing in the spiritual heritage of our Nation....--Mr. | | | The founding fathers prohibited Congress from interfering in the religions of the States and citizens, to guarantee the free exercise. |
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http://www.liberty-ca.org/articles/index_religionstate.htm
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| | Americans United: Home Page |
| | 'National Day Of Prayer' Events Politicize Religion, Divide Country, Says Americans United | | | Dobsons, Politicians Are Using Religion To Further Political Agenda, Church-State Watchdog Group Charges | | | AU.org - Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
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http://www.au.org
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| | Golden State: Religion |
| | December 16, 2005 in Blogging, Film, Religion, The Arts | | | December 13, 2005 in Current Affairs, Film, Religion, The Arts | | | Turning this movie and its likely sequels into banners for evangelical Christianity could turn off millions of people who might enjoy the films and the books on their own terms, but who will be disgusted by an attempt to convert yet another property we can all share into a proprietary weapon in the culture wars. |
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http://goldenstateblog.latimes.com/goldenstate/religion
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| | Department of Philosophy and Religion - Appalachian State University |
| | Department of Philosophy and Religion - Appalachian State University | | | Some graduates have gone on to complete advanced degrees in philosophy, divinity, law, religious studies, education, history, and psychology. | | | The thinking and communication skills acquired through an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Religion are important in all career pursuits and appeal to a variety of employers or may be used as a further specialized study. |
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http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/phil-rel
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| | New York State Labor-Religion Coalition |
| | Uniting the power and the passion of two traditions, the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition supports campaigns addressing corporate accountability, living wages, and recognition of the inalienable worth of all human beings. | | | Traveling exhibit of winning posters say no to c |
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http://www.labor-religion.org
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