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Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.

Apologists for religion point to the Sistine Chapel and Bach's Mass in B minor as some sort of justification for it.

Asked Obama's religion, 34 percent rightly said he was Christian, but a plurality of 43 percent said they did not know.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

Only the sannyasi does it in the name of religion, or God, and the competitive man accepts it as a part of the social structure.

In the old days, Nalanda was a Buddhist university, but it was remarkably open to many interpretations of that religion.

To him, his religion was a warmth and a consolation; but to the rest of his family it was something rooted in fear.

The star nations will approve of any form of peaceful compassionate and insightful contact with humankind of any race, culture or religion.

Such a being might every instant forget his Creator; God has therefore reminded him of his duty by the laws of religion.

But the worst thing of all was that his religion like the outer world, seemed to be slipping away from him as the days went by.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this one's religion is vain.

George Eliot was one of the most famous British novelists of the 19th century Religion has been a main concern in her literary works.

Buddhism in this country is not really understood; it's regarded as sort of quaint , it seems to be an old-fashioned religion.

I remember, too, that Lou Salome referred to Nietzsche as a religious thinker with an anti-religion perspective.

not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect.

Although I found some parts of the Watch Tower system to be interesting and good, I could not and did not share hex religion .

No one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.

It has nothing to do with religion, but just a formal way of saying short-term vs. Long-term.

Make of it a religion for only thus will its essence remain.

Religion, with its belief in watchful gods and extravagant rituals and practices, has been a social glue for most of human history.

Shamanism was not a religion; it was a spiritual discipline and is still utilized today.

The other is that too many Islamic clerics seem to sanction or at least tolerate violence in the name of religion.

It was not a religion that attacked that September day. It was al-Qaida, a sorry band of men who pervert religion.

A sort of affectation prevents some Christians from seeking religion, as if its sphere lay among the commonplacesof daily life.

Apple has been a leader of its kind and has been able to arouse great enthusiasm like religion in its users.

Confucian tradition is not the religion as monotheism in West Asia but it has a unique and marked nature of religion.

Religion sometimes revolted him and his fellow men seemed to him "more like the image of a brute beast than of that omnipotent deity" .

Now, we also differ in the sense that you feel that religion has been a bane, B -A- N - E, to civilization, and I feel atheism has.

The pope said terrorism is all the more deplorable when it "hides behind religion, bringing God's truth down" to the terrorists' own level.

He said those who called for the voice of religion to be silenced failed to understand the legitimate role of religion in public life.

Still, it would be naive to try to understand the spread of a 500m-strong religion without reference to sociology.

If the pictures are part of a history, then they should be referred to as a history not as a part of Islam as a religion.

You are born to such a family of the faith and then you are brought up within that faith, just as you'd be brought up in any religion.

Thus, the trials did not result from Puritan religion; they proceeded for a while despite protests from leading pastors.

These grassroots movements have differed from previous protests in that religion has not been a driving force.

Are we able to help ourselves and encourage others in pursuing truth, goodness and beauty by the power of religion?

Marx, he said, did not mean to imply that religion was a bad thing when he referred to it as the opium of the people.

But primarily, Hawking is being interpreted as vocalizing the point that religion has no place in a scientific field.

This is almost surely apocryphal because anyone who knew Rand's work would know how much she disliked religion in almost any form.

I continued to read about Hinduism and Buddhism when I stumbled upon a lesser known religion called Jainism .

I consider it most objectionable when they insist on talking religion with you as if you were a common person.

Sheldon: This has nothing to do with religion. This has to do with the fact that you're a tiny, tiny man who still lives with his mother.

Belief in God and subscription to a religion are not quite the same thing, although both books treat them as if they were.

Establishment Religion, in many ways, seems to be rooted in a perceptual misunderstanding about life's processes.

And pitiful old Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, decides that discrimination on the basis of religion is all right after all.

Religion is an attempt to make sense of the world, but it does not try and do this in the way science does.

Small details, perhaps, but were these not grounds enough on which believers could found a new religion?

Edgell also maintains that atheists seem to be outside the limits of American morality, which has largely been defined by religion.

"Genesis mentions nothing but a serpent, " says Kevin Dunn, chair of the department of religion at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

As in other great novelists " novels, symbolism in A Farewell to Arms tends to be taken from nature and religion. "

In the UK, too, religion seems to be generating an animosity not seen since the seventeenth century.

She knew there was no way she could make her mother understand that Jesus Christ was real, He wasn't just another religion.

Masks have been used in art and religion since the Stone Age.

People agonized , prayed, and even sacrificed their children to keep the gods happy. All that religion has been a waste of time and emotion.

Over his 95 prolific years he had been a true Renaissance man and teacher of religion philosophy and political science.

The laws of men or the laws of religion have no longer sufficient power to check depravity of manners and the triumph of the wicked.

The most dominant institutions which perpetuate this paralysis seem to be Theistic Religion and The Monetary System.

It is not polite to ask people questions about politics or religion either unless you know them very well.

He had no intellectual respect for religion, but songs of Shy[=a]m[=a], the dark Mother, would bring tears to his eyes.

In both Mexican and Peruvian ancient religion, the Sun occupied an important place in myth and ritual.

A dictator is somebody who forcibly whether it's free press or free religion now you are beginning to come a little closer to that.

It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion.

The principle of private judgment in matters of religion had not run its full course in accepting the Bible as the Word of God.

But living a better life now through a wedding of social science and religion appeared to be an ingenious idea.

To set the stage, in India some might argue that the sport of cricket is nothing less than a religion.

Nucleic acid protein, does not the United States and produce no sense of religion.

Over his 95 prolific years, he had been a true Renaissance man, a teacher of religion, philosophy, political science.

Instead, the Grande Mouff Tarkin was a holy man of a religion native to Aquilae, and an extremely minor character.

Though known as a devout Hindu, Gandhi rarely visited temples, and was generally repelled by the rituals and customs of organized religion.

This is often taken to be the starting point of a position that ends with the slogan that "religion is the opium of the people" .

You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

I always say that religious faith is essential in life. Regardless of the religion, everyone needs to have some sort of religious belief.

His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul.

He said the plan failed to address real issues, including illegal detentions and curbs on freedom of religion and speech.

We are a hard-working family trying to practise our religion whilst living in a Western society.

Far from moving towards a world in which religion is absent or marginal, it would be truer to say that the secular era is in the past.

From the start of the modern Olympics, male athletes of every race, religion, and nationality have been allowed to participate.

Therefore, Buddhism is not intended to meet the man of habit, freely-made products based out of religion.

They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization.

It is a great and essential part of the religion of humanity. It is a step into a higher - and a less selfish - plane of life.

His mission was to administer the consolations of religion to any of the prostrate figures in whom there might yet linger a spark of life.

To me, religion has always been belief in God, with the whole complex of dogmas, rituals, traditions and ideals that go with it.

All in all, it has maintained a grip on its adherents which perhapssurpasses that of any other religion, even Judaism.

But the number of satisfied customers is no guide to scientific validity; if it were, religion would come out way ahead.

It is often in the centrality of celebration and sacrifices, witnessing and participating in people' s secular life of religion and belief.

Here religion demands but little of him; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these?

The Founding Fathers did not intend to banish religion from the public square any more than they intended to create a Christian nation.

"How, " said the Rector; "So young, and already unfortunate enough to have doubts upon the duties of religion! "

Mr Grant says his views on the death penalty have nothing to do with religion, but many who agree with him do so for religious reasons.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the view that it is possible to have religion without primitive superstition.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the view that it is possible to have religion without primitive superstition.

So I asked Mr Wau how much religion was a factor when he was recruiting new staff.

To think of anything in religion, or to pretend to real holiness, without totally dying to this old man, is building castles in the air.

Christians, or adherents of any religion for that matter, should refrain from using holy text to fight politically over human concerns.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.

The monument does not demonstrate that New Hudson is trying to force religion upon its citizens or that it even supports religion.

" Religion, " like " the arts, " is nothing but a basket category, for there isn't the slightest homogeneity therein.

All this analysis and theorizing was used to explain the fact that the elements of religion was subordinate to the link of belief.

As a prelude to these contestable claims, Mr Dawkins examines the interesting question of why religion is so widespread.

Because religion is often the existing social system as a divine manifestation, as sacred things.

The father, the embodiment of the traditional spirit as expressed in religion or a general philosophy of life, is standing in his way.

People will continue to wrangle over relations between the state and religion in the Arab world, just as they did for centuries in Europe.

Although her religion did not hold an important place in his early life, Christianity never totally lost its grip upon him.

What all this indicates is the extent to which magic and mystery and obfuscation are part of the ideology of religion.

There was on his face an expression of solemn and holy rapture, as if he were revealing to me the mysteries of his religion.

This point gets to the heart of the difference between science and religion.

True Religion is one of the industry's giants, making four million units of clothing a year.

Dr Henrich also, however, found that the sense of fairness in a society was linked to the degree of its participation in a world religion.

After Cold War, conflict between race and religion which had been concealed for a long time became heated suddenly.

Subsequent court decisions on religion in public schools, had they been law then, might have taken us prayer leaders off the program.

I agree totally with Karl Marx on this point, that religion has been the opium of the poor.

Granted, religion is all about forging the perfect man, or at least ensuring that, as far as possible, he lives up to divine expectations.

Government may not condition her attendance at the ceremony, an important event in her life, upon her demonstration of respect for religion.

The defence and salvation of the body by daily bread is still a study, a religion, and a desire.

but such a man does not know the immense significance of what may be called religion.

How you organize the files of your project is often a matter of religion.

His affiliation with the Jewish people was the strongest bond in his life, even though he did not adhere to the rituals of the religion.

There is a question about the extent to which any one of us can be free of a prejudiced view in the area of religion.

There's a bit of politics and religion in the last few minutes, but the underlying message is universal. Happy Father's Day.

African religion is not a world religion; it's just a certain different kind of paganism, they thought.

Nevertheless, there seems to be a cluster of things which collectively give substance to the phenomenon we call 'religion'.

So far as I knew, my mother, though not a professed atheist, had never given a thought to religion in her life.

When her school district told her that she couldn't wear the hijab, she protested that it was a part of her religion.

Religion is useless if it does not prevent evil, encourages morals, and destroys the desires of arrogance and for oppression.

It is possible to put aside deep divides of language, culture, religion, centuries of conflict and war.

Apologists for religion point to charitable works as some sort of justification for it.

The only religion that could be credited was the religion of morality or perhaps the religion of intense religious experience.

primitive mythology and religion, in fact, were different form of same ideological system, which ought to be traced back to the same origin.

However, he chooses the idealized science as the way for England after his attempts on religion and socialism turn out to be a failure.

It seemed that the respondents' decision to have the operation or not was affected by their religion, particularly if they were Muslims.

The poem selected here reveals the true nature of religion which helps bring misery to the poor children .

In our evolution from tribes to the societies of today, mankind has never been able to forsake religion.

In her study, Lam quoted one fan saying, "For me, the Mac was the closest thing to religion I could deal with. "

In the Bombay I grew up in, your religion was a personal eccentricity, like a hairstyle.

We are going to talk about all that together. And about what place religion has in modern life.

Also, if I chose my "religion" by my favourite programming language, I would be a Neo-Pagan. . . slightly odd eh?

A typical example might be a family member who has chosen to follow a religion other than that of the rest of his family.

Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion.

Although EVEN THOUGH I believe in the existence of God, but why DON'T I PRACTICE ANY RELIGION? do not be a religious follower?

Mr. Brilliant spoke for a while about religion and different paths to belief, and then asked Mr. Jobs what was wrong.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

By now Obama had abandoned the agnosticism of his father and the eclectic, pick-and-mix anthropologist's view of religion of his mother.

Religion can meet the spiritual needs of our people and is in the interests of the nation as well.

Conversion from a religion to another is not a matter of freedom, it is rather a public issue related to the very nature of religions.

The question is bound to arise when so much of Rome's art, literature and religion was derived from Hellenic sources.

But during his lifetime, and for several years afterward, the followers of Jesus did not see themselves as creating a new religion.

yes, the lack of any religion, that's quite true. After visiting China You begin to understand importance of religion.

It may be one of the main reasons why humanity so universally has religion, since religions do aspire to provide explanations.

He said the key issue was how to address radical figures from any religion.

In the melt together with the wish word before the word is to emphasize the functions of his politics and religion.

You are just practicing your religion, and while you are at it, why not do some multi-tasking? You want to find the person of your dreams?

The First Amendment of our Constitution established the freedom of religion as the law of the land.

Meditation is to get rid of your anger and your restlessness. It has nothing to do with belief in God or religion.

He called it "a crime against religion and the entire Muslim umma [community]" .

The United States is a multi-religion country with a strong religious atmosphere.

But it seems to me better to have a little religion and practice it than think piously and do nothing about it.

In some cases it was their religion, or lack of it, that was significant, and they were referred to as pagans, heathen, or gentiles.

There was a "perception of the conversion event as a spiritual battle, " writes Karen Jolly, an authority on Anglo-Saxon popular religion.

He had been writing books against religion and had brought up all his children to be atheists .

which religion did not address, or explained in simplistic, straightforward assertions and imperatives.

Open competition is a boon to religion: American Evangelism has flourished precisely because America has no official church.

In arguing that "religion's power" has "continued to increase, " they contradict considerable evidence to the contrary.

As one who has moved beyond organized religion, it is easier for you to be discerning where they are concerned.

Hegel considers art to be one of the supreme developments of spiritual and absolute knowledge, surpassed only by religion and philosophy.

True Religion is one of the industry's giants, making 4 million units of clothing a year.

Some of the Indian partners, members of the Hindu religion, did not receive this expression well!

As one of the earliest form of the original religion of humanity, totemism was recorded in the "Book of Mountains and Seas" .

What happened was a rare case of the religion of the defeated spreading among the victors.

And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Located in the door at the top of the arch part of the story of God engraved in to the visitors spread the spirit of religion.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I recognize that many people derive their morals from religion, but I insist that religion is not the only fountainhead of morality.

The deistic fantasy of a universal religion is not about to be realised any time soon.

The relationship between religion and the state is not an abstruse question of political philosophy.

Abroad, these values have been claimed by people of every race, region, and religion.

Like the other Muslim House member, Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, Carson converted to the religion as an adult.

The Truth is the only one that is valid everywhere. The truth has no label, no sect and no religion, which is Tao.

On the fact that the Christian religion is not the only religion.

But if he meant that religion and science are very different kinds of attempt to understand the world, then he was certainly right.

A judge should not join any organisation with a nature of evil religion.

It took all my philosophy, all the religion I had been taught, all my courage, not to collapse in a paroxysm of fright.

Well, today one could speak again of religion, but in the sixties and seventies it was maybe more a question of ethics.

And I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little tired of this freedom of religion thing.

It combats the ridiculous frothiness of reality TV and the consumerism that has sort of become our national religion.

Chinese ancestor worship has already been called a religion by certain writers, and I believe this to a very great extent is correct.

Far from fading away, or retreating into private life, religion is once again at the heart of politics.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religious and political group founded on the belief that Islam is not simply a religion, but a way of life.

Today, it's easy to find goals for those who want a fairer world for all children, regardless of race or religion or nationality.

"This kind of assault on religion will end if I'm president of the United States, " Mr Romney said.

He is the only mimo [a shaman in the traditional animist religion of his ethnic minority] in Wenhai and also the best in Lijiang.

You see, I discovered that the beliefs and practices of this religion fit my personal theology and intellect as well as basic human logic.

Second, does religion actually provide a sense of purpose and significance to life which cannot be gained without God?

One of Mr Dell's first moves upon resuming his CEO post was to state that the direct model was "not a religion" .

Critics of religion might say that this just shows the manifest irrationality of religion.

And its history is over 1000 years. Just as other Fork Arts, it was combined with the sortilege, religion and folk-customs when it was born.

But I think you should first make a very careful evaluation of that religion before you do so.

Schooling, the reverence for religion, and decorum plus reverence for the elders are the prime movers in developing the child from infancy.

He said, "Talk to her about religion and philosophy. That's what she's really interested in. "

However, when Constantine the Great became emperor in 306, he legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire.

This is how so many religions came into existence. I beg you not to call us the Ching Hai religion after I die!

Religion is bound to the ultimate demise of a long historical process of the world, than the demise of the class and the state also be long.

As with the broader Arab-Israeli conflict, religion, history, and land are at the heart of this dispute.

ord Buddha came to this world had no intention to create another Religion or another GOD. He was an Enlightened being.

As a general rule, it's best not to talk about politics or religion with your business colleagues.

Therefore, I am trying to explain the concept of interspace from the idea of the Chinese religion.

Although there still are cultural differences across the United States, factors like religion, language and government programs are similar.

Another 'spoke' by tapping letters of the alphabet with his paws and was said to have speculated about religion and learnt poetry.

So I don't see why there should be any problem with compatibility and mutual supplementation with Christianity or any other major religion.

Although sun worship has been used frequently as a term for "pagan" religion, it is, in fact, relatively rare.

It has often been said, and with truth, that Christianity is the only religion that can deal with man's past.

And its fate may be part of a larger debate over the place of religion in Egypt's future.

and he provides by his authority that nobody shall either act or believe in the business of religion otherwise than the Church teaches.

A Buddhist temple had once occupied the site and Qingzhou was an ancient stronghold of the religion that had spread from India.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations. Of republicanism and of all free government.

Lijiao is a sort of civil religion that first entered into Shanghai and that had the longest history and extensive affect.

The blue shield that looks like the square face up inset ten words of a white, white ten words symbol religion and faith.

Whereas, the theological, and the point to marriage for another religion or someone who's an atheist could be completely different.

Unquestionably the idea of a universal confederation and a perpetual peace is commended both by common sense and religion.

Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, quite a few writers resorted to the standpoint of religion culture.

Relative to the Concept of Life and Death of religion spirit, however, the education of this concept of Marxism is not very enough.

It does not pay much attention to any particular school of religion, theology, philosophy, natural sciences or other new and old doctrines.

"Anything that's R-rated or X-rated, against religion or anything racist would never get on my face or head, " he said.

Religion, land, and local Lordship were to be the great trio of Irish wrongs.

is not much ~ in a lion; he has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility.

Missy was not amused at this nickname because she was a good Catholic and didn't like clowning around about her religion.

It was politics and not religion that most occupied Americans' minds during the War of Independence and for years afterward.

There's a tendency among worshipers of every religion to take on the character of their God.

Several sources claim that during his studies he was more interested in religion than joining the military.

Part I: The author tries hard to understand the current situation and problems of the religion belief of college students.

Because he felt deeply about his religion and consistently defended the ordinary American, people called him "the Great Commoner. "

His notion of political religion is one of a great regression to paganism and idol worship.

"Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion, " Hawking replied.

But, mainly, he thought the relative decline of religion was due to an increase in materialism.

And he supported Obama as the young man developed from a questioner of religion to a practicing Christian.

Hsu Li-ming, speaking for Chen Chu, mayor of Kaohsiung, said the invitation "transcends religion, politics and other factors" .

But there are many Christmas celebrations and religion do not have the slightest bit of relevance.

Be careful when expressing ideas about race, religion or other sensitive topics: The United States is a multi-cultural society.

Instead , they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive .

It says people should treat others the way they themselves would like to be treated. Every major religion has its own version of this idea.

Older Norman: [narrating] In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing.

In fact, there was no "old religion" and modern day Wicca originated in the 20th century and was popularized by Gerald Gardner in 1954.

In history, system in worldly society was an important condition that led to the transition of religion from polytheism to monothem.

"Their religion had nothing to do with politics, " he said.

"Explaining Religion" , as the project is known, is the largest-ever scientific study of the subject.

The only sensible explanation for this distinction is government hostility toward the Utopian religion.

The minister took the boy into his office, thinking that he would teach him a little bit on religion and virtue.

Simultaneously also is a world that religion falls from the sky, that the value is nihility, and that the significance loses.

Protecting citizens from being forced to believe in or not to believe in any religion, and from discrimination due to religious belief.