Episcopalianism / Anglicanism
.... a missionary, saw some white skinned, blue-eyed, blonde haired slaves for sale in Italy. He then sought permission to leave Rome and devote himself to missionary work among the heathen English. He was not allowed to leave until years later when he became pope. He then chose his friend, Augustine, a monk, to be the one to go to England. Augustine and his group met the King of Kent and were allowed to make converts. Eventually, the King even allowed himself to be baptized, and Kent became an independent .....
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The Existence Of God
.... from the first two statements. Now he moves to the conclusion that a greater being than God can be conceived. This is evident from his third and fourth statements. By the definition of God no greater being can be conceived. Hence it is false that God exists in the understanding but not in reality. This is evident from all of the previous statements.
By granting the fool's statement as true he's setting up the fool to contradict himself. He then leads the fool to a statement that he cannot deny. .....
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Trito-Isaiah
.... who had remained in Palestine. (Life and Literature of the Early Period 3)
Trito-Isaiah used the form of writing that included a variety of literary types, such as laments, oracles of promise, and condemnation to convey his messages. He used these forms of writing because he needed to shock the people into attention. Trito-Isaiah’s life and ministry comes to the central message that all human activity motivated by the fear of anything but God is contrary to faith and will almost always lead the faith .....
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An Essay For Humanities Courses: The Bible
.... Mark's writing style.
Mark seems to "tack-on" sentences to Jesus' teachings to make them more
"Christian." This really changes the meaning more than any other tactic! Who
knows what Mark may have edited-out to accomplish what he wanted to impress upon
his readers? In this, he tries to interpret the meaning of Jesus' actions ...
and does this in a misleading way! For example: Mark 2:19, Jesus regarding
Fasting. Jesus makes a strong statement against importance to fasting, but Mark
(in 2:20) ta .....
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What Is Satanism?
.... mans relationship to others. Young
Satanist's believe that the strong will rule with Satan. Power has become an
obsession with young Satanists. It is sought after on the physical, mental, and
spiritual levels.
Gaining knowledge that others do not posses is another aspect of the
occult. When an individual has more knowledge it allows them a degree of power
over those who do not have access to that knowledge. The Ouija Board has proven
particularly useful. The Ouija Board is an instrument for communicat .....
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Genocide
.... in the English Civil war, lead the
Puritans into a bloodbath against the Catholics (Lewis 9). "He did it brutally,
massacring the Irish without mercy and called the large scale killing ‘the
righteous judgements and mighty works of God'" (Meyer 78). Thousands of
Catholics preferred to suffer and die than deny their faith (Firth 10). By the
middle of the seventeenth century, the Protestants settled on the land they
seized from the Catholics and the Catholics were forced to colonize in towns
which clung t .....
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Hinduism
.... Hinduism incorporates all forms of belief and worship
without necessitating the selection or elimination of any. It is axiomatic that
no religious idea in India ever dies or is superseded-it is merely combined with
the new ideas that arise in response to it. Hindus are inclined to revere the
divine in every manifestation, whatever it may be, and are doctrinally tolerant,
allowing others - including both Hindus and non-Hindus - whatever beliefs suit
them best. A Hindu may embrace a non-Hindu religio .....
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Religion And Discrimination
.... rest of society. Once a member of a cult, in most cases, the individual is
removed of most (if not all) of their personal autonomy. Most decisions are
made by the cult leader, access to the outside world is often denied, and all
information about the outside world is distorted by the leader. These types of
operations should be intolerable by society.
Second, there should be no tolerance for ‘religions' that espouse any
form of sacrifice, be it human or animal. Although historically, these
practices we .....
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Egyptian, Babylonian, And Hebrew Religions
.... of the ground. God gave him the breath of life and the
man became a living soul (Moses 1:1-2:7). With the background of that story,
one should look at the Egyptian interpretation of the beginning. At first there
was nothing but chaos that contained the seed of everything to come. In this
confusion the sun god dwelled. By an effort of his will he emerged from chaos
as Ra and gave birth to Shu, the god of air, and Tefnut, the goddess moisture.
Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Geb and Nut, the earth god and .....
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Mayan Beliefs
.... and Chiapas, British Honduras, Guatemala,
Honduras, and El Salvador (Burland 1770)
By 1200 B.C., they had dominated trade routes. The trade routes
extended from the modern Mexico state of Guerrero to Costa Rica (Miller "Maya"
Grolier). The Mayans had constant cultural and commercial contact from other
tribes such as the Aztecs. They were with the central and coastal Mexican
civilization that had influenced them and influenced other cultures (Harrison
"History of Latin America" Grolier).
The Maya .....
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Old Testament Vs. Hellenic Divine Intervention
.... his family to be the only survivors after the flood that wipes
out the earth. His destiny was to build the ark and take a pair of every living
creature to help repopulate the earth after everything is wiped out. This is
similar to Oedipus at Colonus, in the Hellenic texts, because the gods choose
Oedipus to save the city of Colonus from his own sons. They differ because God,
in the Old Testament, chooses rather blindly. He does not choose people for any
reason except that is who He wanted. If He doe .....
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Roman Religion
.... The Romans called the gods Numina, or spirits. Sometimes
they were representative of Health, Youth, Memory, Fortune, Honor, Hope, Fear,
Virtue, Chastity, Concord, Victory, and other abstractions. Never was there
before a religion with so many dieties. There have been thought to be over
30,000 different gods, others say there were more gods in some towns than men.
(Information sited from Caesar and Christ by Will and Ariel Durant.)
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Amen: Does Prayer Play An Important Role In Our Lives Today?
.... First Amendment didn't separate God and government but actually
encouraged religion. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free exercise thereof,” (Encarta
96). The first part simply says that the federal government cannot establish
one religion for all of the people. The simple idea of everyone in our nation
being limited to one form of religion is inconceivable. The second section
insists that the government should do nothing to discourage r .....
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Argument About The Exist Of God
.... would be no atheism. An Atheist wants to believe in laws of
logic which are universal in application, but in order to escape the ultimate
implications of this idea ( there is a God who imposes universal standards of
reason.), the Atheist will try to maintain that the “laws of logic” are merely “
conventions” of general agreement amongst them. This is philosophically non-
acceptable, if logic were simply a matter of convention, it would be impossible
to have any kind of rational debate because either s .....
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If Buddha Were Alive Today, How Would He Answer The Question: "How Should One Live"?
.... suffering
all of this time. My definition of suffering would be anything that causes any
pain, not anything that doesn't cause pleasure. There is a huge difference
between the two. With Buddha, you are either suffering or in pleasure. I think
that there is a middle ground. There are many times when people are not
suffering and also not feeling pleasure.
The origin of suffering, according to Buddha, is craving. Craving comes
from anything that is agreeable and pleasurable. Sights, sounds, mental picture .....
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