Religion/Faith
.... stick together. We fight together,
we laugh together, we grieve together as Americans.
Terms like democracy, individuality, self-reliance are all words we
relate to as Americans. We teach our kids that we should be grateful everyday to
be Americans. In this country we can choose our own destination. We can be
whatever we want. I think that being a secular country brings us together and
makes us stronger.We don't have questions we can't answer. We don't hear
stories of people or things we can't prove exi .....
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What Is Religion
.... to be the
only true religion. To her, Christianity is the only way one person can attain
salvation. All other religions are false and those who do not follow
Christanity are misguided and will not attain salvation. It is only through
Jesus Christ's death on the cross that one can repent, be forgiven, and attain
salvation.
Melissa feels that others who are non-Christians believe that their
religion is true. Afterall everyone is brought up to believe in the faith or
religion they are taught. If th .....
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Religion In Public Schools
.... we pray that the human spirit will not be taught
by cynicism or despair, but rejoice in the
possibilities of every new day and accept all
Your blessings with thanksgiving. Amen.
For some people in the Congress this raises serious questions about when
prayer is or is not appropriate. One of the Representatives from Oklahoma made
this comment in the Congressional Digest on November 30, 1994: Ň It was fine
for Rev. James David Ford to offer this prayer, yet it .....
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Taoism And Buddhism
.... a presence that existed before the universe was formed and which
continues to guide the world and everything in it. Tao is sometimes identified
as the Mother, or the source of all things. That source is not a god or a
supreme being, as Taoism is not monotheistic. The focus is not to worship one
god, but instead on coming into harmony with tao (Hartz, 8).
Tao is the essence of everything that is right, and complications exist
only because people choose to complicate their own lives. Desire, .....
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Religious Meaning Of The Birthright Story
.... as He relates to each of the
characters involved. Exploring both the surface story and the deeper
implications it has as it relates to our own lives, we can hopefully derive some
deeper meaning which God working through the author intends.
On the surface, we see a story of rivalry that is typical even in modern
times, yet we can also look to some valuable truths that are revealed about how
God sees our personal motives and actions through the characters of Jacob and
Esau. Gaining an understandi .....
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Definition For Satanism
.... either as a deity or as a principle. Three main denominations exist: the
Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, and the Church of Satanic Liberation. Other
short lived Satanic groups currently exist and have existed in the recent past.
According to Statistic Canada, the 1991 census found 335 Canadians who
identified themselves as Satanists. The actual Number is probably significantly
larger. A United States Department of the Army pamphlet #165-13 "RELIGIOUS
REQUIREMENTS AND PRACTICES OF CERTAIN SEL .....
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Schwa
.... could be described as `sects' in
many different countries, with the highest concentration being in North America.
It wasn't until 1986 that Jeff Krantz, a 19 year old art student at the
University of Michigan, started came to be known as `The Union', a wave of
change that would sweep across the world over a period of two years, and would
result in united international Schwa religion.
"I had just been transferred from (the University of) Wisconsin in the
earlier part of that year," Krantz says. "I had atte .....
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Separation Of Church And State
.... the school system enforces certain things and how schools can get
around the separation between church and state. The First Amendment is being
violated by allowing public officials(teachers) to direct prayer in schools.
The reason that this is a violation is because prayer, bible readings and
moments of silence are prohibited in public school systems.
The First Amendment has many different interpretations that people are
attaching to it. People took this amendment to mean that the government was n .....
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Shintoism
.... : “the way or path”). The word for this in
Japanese is kannagara : "the way of the kami ."
Many things can be said about Shinto. First, it was a tribal religion,
not a state one. However, even when the tribes were organized into coherent
states, they still retained their Shinto beliefs. Second, all Shinto cults
believe in Kami (“the divine”) Individual clans worshipped a single Kami which
was regarded as the principal ancestor of the clan. As the clan spread, it
still worshipped it's Kami, but when o .....
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Buddhism
.... What obstacles would Siddartha
Guatama face had he been born in modern day North America. Primarily, it must
be recognized that rather than being born into the Hindu religion (which in
itself is mystical), Siddartha would have most likely been born into a Christian
family. This in itself presents the first obstacle, that being that
Christianity is a strictly monotheistic and non-mystical faith. Hence from the
outset, although in the traditional story Siddartha faced a conflict with his
father (Ludwig .....
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Significance Of Ritual In North American Indian Religion
.... offers a generous insight into Native American belief
systems. This essay will first look at the dynamics of the sacred pipe ritual
and offer some explanation into its religious significance, then draw some
parallels to the more common sweat lodge ceremony. If a recurring spiritual
theme appears in separate rituals, it can be considered evidence of a consistent,
structured belief system.
The use of smoking pipes in Native American cultures is a popular and
very ancient practice. Direct predecessors .....
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Jews
.... Ghetto uprising against the Nazis in 1943. But in fact
it was the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in the year 70
The destruction of the Second temple and the attack on the Warsaw Ghetto,
although separated by nearly two thousand years have and eerie sameness. The
Germans sealed off the Warsaw's Jewish population with and eight-foot brick
concrete wall. The Romans built a high earthen barricade around Jerusalem to
make certain the Jews could not escape. Germans shot, on the spot Jews
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Different Religions
.... began to develop
because the people didn't have to move around as much. With all this closeness,
the people developed moral views on what to think about thieves or murderers.
If certain civilizations didn't mind violence and killing, then they developed
into a Brutal civilization. Consequently, the religions of these civilizations
were evolved around sacrificial rituals and allegiance to brutal gods. The
Assyrian civilization worked around this principle. They used scare tactics to
overcome their ene .....
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Sufism
.... that love will help you in the
Day of Judgement. That the people who you truly love, will give you their good
deeds, so that you may enter Paradise. Normally these people who give their good
deeds away are known as dervishes (this is quite different from the belief in
Islam).
Sufi's also stress the remembrance of God, which is called Zikr. They
try to get close to God, to be one with God. They define God as something that
is close to you but you can't see it. That God is all around us, but His
presence .....
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Alcohol And The Church
.... in this classification) I don't feel I have an alcohol
problem just because I enjoy a drink now and then. I do not abuse it and would
never put myself behind the wheel of a car to take the risk of taking someone
else's life. You don't need to be drunk to cause an accident, it's been proven
in many cases only a few drinks can impair someone's stability. If more thought
of this there would be less tragedies on our highways. When it comes to food and
there are people starving in the world, when we could hel .....
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