I'm not religious, but A. and his family are Jewish.
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"I'm not an absolute person, I'm not religious," he said.
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"I'm not religious, but I miss the food," he said.
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His mother raised them Catholic; his father was not religious.
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But the Nazis cared about Jewish blood, not religious identity.
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I'm not religious but who doesn't want to live forever?
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While I'm not religious, I revere my family's history and traditions.
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Now, I'm not religious, but this certainly gets you thinking. pic.twitter.
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"He is quite substantially not religious," Larry Sanders would later say.
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I'm not religious, because I can't tell you what to do.
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Only about 12 percent of respondents viewed Cruz as not religious.
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Jihadists are not religious people; they are driven by political motives.
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AA can be intertwined with God, but I am not religious.
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He is feminist and agnostopagan (his word, meaning spiritual but not religious).
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The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief but not religious practice.
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I am not religious in the sense that I go to church.
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Let's call it by its true name: religious privilege, not religious liberty.
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I'm not religious at all but I am 23% convinced that it happens.
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No, you're not religious and you're not saying that God created the universe!
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Whether Trump wins or not, religious conservatives will come to thank Ted Cruz.
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And generally speaking, I'm not religious public/private, there are benefits to both.
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Muslims were excluded, officially because they are not religious minorities in those countries.
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Those who identify as spiritual but not religious are likewise on the rise.
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Discriminating against patients based on their gender or gender expression is not religious liberty.
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Even if you're not religious, you could find something of a spiritual experience here.
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Our ad is not "religious or lewd" and does not portray "guns or ammunition".
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But I'm not religious, so that aspect of marriage doesn't mean anything to me.
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There's a kind of sacred solemnity to that realization, even if you're not religious.
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My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady.
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As I'm not religious, for me, this God's Book thing is a powerful story.
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I'm not religious or even spiritual, but I do work a 12-step program.
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I am spiritual but not religious in any way that my family would recognize.
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"I love being Jewish, but I'm not kosher and I'm not religious," she said.
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And that also meant that they're not religious, they're not pushing a narrow morality.
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"We're not religious but we're spiritual, and the ceremony embodied that," Ms. Rubio said.
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Our ad is not 'religious or lewd' and does not portray 'guns or ammunition.
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For many, opposition to the Indian government's actions in Kashmir is political, not religious.
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Although Michele is not religious, the habit of visiting places of worship has endured.
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Disclaimer: I am not religious anymore but I grew up in the Catholic Church.
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Decker, who was not religious growing up, has embraced Jewish humor more than anything.
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But if you're not religious, like me, a game like this won't suddenly change that.
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Another 25% of Republicans either had no opinion or said the President is not religious.
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She was spiritual but not religious—into a lot of new age stuff, witchcraft, Ouija.
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And if it does, legalizing recreational use but not religious use clearly discriminates against religion.
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And some have parents who are not religious, but others have parents who are religious.
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Just three in 10 religiously unaffiliated Americans ranked as spiritual but not religious, suggesting that most spiritual-but-not-religious Americans maintain links with a more formal religious identity; the largest groups of these identify as mainline Protestant (18 percent) or Catholic (18 percent).
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If you're not religious, you might start thinking there must be some divine hand at work.
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For many people who are spiritual but not religious, spiritual experiences can come from unlikely places.
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"Some of them are very religious, some of them are not religious at all," she said.
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If you're not religious, you don't have to buy into what some see as religious overtones.
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Our American values embrace people of all faiths, as well as those who are not religious.
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Hecht was not religious in any way, and ignored Jewish organizations and political causes in general.
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If you're not religious and want Disney World, M.B.S. is ready to build that now, too.
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I'm not religious but I believe that the Bible has great stories that belong to humanity.
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More than a quarter of Americans now identify as "spiritual, not religious," according to Pew data.
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The Little Sisters, Catholic nuns who minister to the elderly and dying, are not religious enough?
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They were less likely if they were young, students, not religious or registered as an independent.
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I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.
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I'm not religious, and I have no family in the area, so it's just another regular day.
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I'm not religious at all, but I do believe that the universe is a very interesting place.
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They could tell that I was not religious, and they wanted to get me back into it.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, is second, with 43% seeing her as not religious.
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And unlike either Courbet or Manet, although he himself was not religious, he painted many Christian subjects.
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" Christian conservatives in the age of Trump seem to be saying, "It's not religious, it's strictly politics.
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I'm not religious but I do think that's kind of an interesting way to think about it.
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Not the nation state; not religious worship; not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred.
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"She was not sure it was O.K. to sing gospel because she was not religious," Kohei said.
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The share of Arabs describing themselves as "not religious" is up to 13%, from 8% in 2013.
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But he sets this "sin" above all others and seeks not "religious freedom" but permission to discriminate.
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I'm not religious but I do wonder sometimes if all my blocked exes keep each other company.
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""I preface this by saying that I am not religious and I do not believe in the paranormal.
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As it turns out, they're all not atheists, or even members of the "spiritual but not religious" crowd.
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Similar data from the Public Religion Research Institute puts the spiritual but not religious group at 18 percent.
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I personally am not religious and never have been, but I respect his faith and his belief system.
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Its four sides, they say, are marked prominently with patriotic, not religious, virtues: valor, endurance, courage and devotion.
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They are most prevalent among the same cohort of educated white liberals as the spiritual-but-not-religious.
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I'm not religious, and in that I'm not alone: 2200 percent of American adults now consider themselves unaffiliated.
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DOUTHAT: Well, then let's discuss again under the spiritual-but-not-religious theocracy of Her Most Holy Oprahness.
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In these states, it's not religious freedom laws that allow discrimination; it's the lack of civil rights laws.
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During the initial exchange the American user explained that he was not religious, but had an interest in Islam.
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"If you define religion as just belief in god(s) or supernatural beings, then it's not religious," he says.
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Not politicians, not academics, not religious figures, not the Bank of England, not economists, and certainly not international officials.
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But Jackson's refusal to lead the family in prayer, since he's not religious at all, leads to a fight.
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In jail, Mr. McGarry, who is not religious, sent a foxhole prayer to any higher power who would listen.
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The country's devastating 26-year civil war, which ended in 2009, was fought along ethnic lines, not religious ones.
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Although I'm not religious, I am a deep believer in ritual and how that can heal and provide context.
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" As Emilie, who's "not religious at all," said, "I had a really hard time with the whole God thing.
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"My family isn't conservative, not religious and I saw my mum as a person who's very liberal," she added.
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More than a quarter of adults in the United States say they think of themselves as spiritual but not religious.
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"These differences confirm that the Proclamation is based on national-security and foreign-affairs objectives, not religious animus," he wrote.
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The teachings that shape their values as people of faith may function in public space as ideas, not religious truths.
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I'm not religious, but I do understand that I have to find a way to come to peace with this.
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"I had a really hard time with the whole God thing," Cote, who's "not religious at all," previously told me.
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"I was surrounded by language and lexicography, and quite enamored by it," Ms. Lee, who is not religious herself, said.
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Mr. Bawnik, who was not religious, attributed his survival in the German camps and on the Cap Arcona to luck.
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West's weekly services are usually celebrity studded and are not religious in a traditional way, but instead focus on music.
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"Even if you're not religious, the pastor of that church is going to know what resources there are," he said.
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Years later, when I began to hear the phrase, "I'm spiritual, not religious," I did not think much of it.
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" Another attendee, a thirtysomething man, told Williamson before the event, "I'm not religious, but I like what you said about spirituality.
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Officials chose to disclose figures about attacks committed by left-wing extremists but not religious-based crimes or violence against journalists.
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Specifically, those who were older, had graduated from college, and were not religious were more open to having a trans partner.
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But this time, those parties have taken a new line: that alcohol should be banned for health reasons, not religious reasons.
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"It's not religious, not a church," Stan's new girlfriend, whom he met in EST, tells the Jenningses at dinner one night.
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But then I saw the different socioeconomic backgrounds, different races, different religions — and people that were also not religious at all.
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I'm not religious but I'm trying to say a novena and think it would be best to do it in church.
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She conceded that Trump was not religious and hadn't shown a commitment to any of the social issues she cared about.
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Another 24 percent found the thrice-married real estate tycoon not too religious, and 23 percent found him not religious at all.
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" He added that "it's not religious nor a cultural issue" and said women "used to use transportation means during my grandfather's era.
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I, a lifelong "spiritual, but not religious" type was ready to sign up for one of New York City's many prayer shrines.
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Whatever sociologists may say about football as a cult, many people alive today are not religious in the way their forebears were.
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I am not religious — it simply sickens me that children are terminated before there is certainty if they will survive or not.
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The Trump administration said it would grant exceptions to the ban — evidence the policy is motivated by national security, not religious animus.
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Symbolism emphasized the spiritual (if not religious) in art, music, and literature and favored a hermetic sensibility of art for art's sake.
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NITIN MEHTALondon It is a mistake to conclude that America's young are not religious ("To be young is not quite heaven", April 19483th).
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A full quarter of Americans now identify as "spiritual but not religious," according to an analysis of Pew Research Center data from September.
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Image and artwork by Lowkey Lxvish Jake Kivanc is not religious with it but will happily take any blessings you send his way.
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The growing number of Americans who define themselves as "spiritual but not religious" often take a grab-bag approach to faith, Thompson says.
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Just 41% of Republicans who say Mr Trump is not religious at all think he would be a good or a great president.
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The elder brother, Driss, spoke perfect Catalan as well as Spanish and was not religious, according to a childhood friend, Raimon Sánchez, 250.
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"Spiritual but not religious" identifiers, who now constitute a quarter of the United States population, are disproportionately made up of well-educated liberals.
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The US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage throughout the nation in 2015, but that decision applies only to civil, not religious, services.
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Significantly, however, the state supreme court did not hold that the state may offer scholarships at secular private schools but not religious schools.
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Because they seem to be growing, demographers, marketing strategists and political consultants will probably pay particular attention to the "spiritual but not religious" segment.
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Four in 10 of the spritual-but-not-religious (let's call them SNR) identify as liberal, compared with a quarter of the total population.
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Dev takes this advice to heart and announces he's not religious and loves pork during Eid dinner in front of Navid's very pious parents.
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What the pontiff said, in sum, was that these ghastly deeds are symptomatic of a wider global conflict, whose root causes are not religious.
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Justice Bea held for the 2 to 1 circuit court majority that the phrase "under God" was not religious language but a civic invocation.
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Most of the rest—including Malaysians of Chinese and Indian descent, as well as various indigenous tribes—are Buddhist, Christian, Hindu or not religious.
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" She continued, "I'm not religious, but I am spiritual, and I have this belief that when God blesses you, it's to bless someone else.
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Not religious in the sense of apologetics — I'm thinking of Muriel Spark, who is a writer who is very much informed by her faith.
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Our family is not religious and feel that anyone who is should not use these options, but shouldn't interfere in the lives of others.
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Arabs who describe themselves as "not religious" were 8 percent of those polled in 2013, and have risen to only 13 percent in 2018.
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Bookshelf The swearing-in ceremony of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who describes himself as "spiritual," not religious, spoke to the Roman Catholic Church's decline.
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"Medical standards, not religious belief, should guide medical care," Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
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One of his neighbors told BFM-TV that he was not religious and had only received his truck driver's license in the last year.
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" Moore even said that 9/11 might have happened because Americans were not religious enough; God was unhappy that "we legitimize sodomy" and "legitimize abortion.
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The survey, which profiled about 2,000 American adults in the early months of 2017, found that 18 percent of Americans identify as spiritual but not religious.
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"Religious liberty arguments can marginalize people who are not religious, and we know that atheists are actually among the most despised groups in America," Sepper said.
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"The fact that the order only encompasses some Muslim countries, I don't think, means it's not religious discrimination," he told Justice Samuel Alito during one exchange.
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We're not religious, and we don't plan to have children, so the symbolic resonances of marriage have dwindled to a vague sentiment about unity and commitment.
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And for the 20 percent of Americans who identify as "spiritual but not religious," rituals can provide a framework for finding meaning in trauma or pain.
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A spiritual but not religious film The filmmakers' aim was to "rescue" the title character, telling Jesus' story from a feminine (and feminist) point of view.
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He took office in January, faith communities — from Christian evangelicals to Muslims to the spiritual but not religious — have been reckoning with the aftermath ever since.
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The directive refers to the Supreme Court's decisions in Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Cakeshop, which concerned closely held, for-profit businesses with religious owners, not religious corporations.
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And should it ever become a crime to speak your mind, as it has in some countries around the world, is not religious freedom also in danger?
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His sister, Marya, is a kindhearted soul who weeps on command and begs him to wear a Christian icon on the battlefield even though he's not religious.
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Would the exclusion of Muslims be limited to active practitioners of the faith or extended to descendants who were only vaguely religious or not religious at all?
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"I grew up not religious at all, and not even knowing what Islamophobia was, or realizing that I was receiving Islamophobic comments throughout my childhood," she said.
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Even if you're not religious, the vespers sung here every evening at 216 offer a meditative bridge to day's end (and a nice antidote to jet-lag).
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Many protesters, even those who are not religious, have embraced the teachings and messages of Christianity to denounce a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Some of what Mona did made me cringe: She used gang symbols without the accompanying realities of gang life; she wore rosaries though she is not religious.
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In the '70s and '80s, the interstellar saga explored Eastern traditions, mainly Buddhism and Taoism, just as many "spiritual, but not religious" dabblers were doing the same.
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"I stopped doing research [on world religions] because I realized it's about versions of ethical behavior, not religious salvation," he told the Hollywood Reporter before the show premiered.
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" Reliable data about the number of pagans globally doesn't exist, nor does solid information on the growing category of people who count themselves as "spiritual but not religious.
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"Place" is funny and gentle (and not religious, if that's something you wonder about), and once the premise establishes itself, the ensemble settles into an easy, cartoony rhythm.
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Ahistorical familiarity with the practices of one's church and some passages from the Christian Bible is not religious literacy, and in isolation may lead to myopia about religion.
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The spiritual-but-not religious identifier and the political hobbyist share a mentality that is deliberately powerless, rejecting community to avoid the hassle and to avoid getting burned.
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They are not alone, and are allied with countries and groups who, though not religious fanatics, share their hatred of the West, particularly the United States and Israel.
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However, none of the court decisions cited by the agency at the time dealt with employment discrimination, and two of the cases involve for-profit corporations, not religious groups.
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Built by two German Catholic brothers for an Orthodox Jewish congregation from Eastern Europe, it is an ode to architectural, if not religious harmony, incorporating Moorish, Victorian, Gothic styles.
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A growing swath of the American electorate describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious," and spiritual practices, such as yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, are now part of mainstream culture.
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The data reveals that the percentage of black people who were deemed "not religious" (based on how important attending church was to them) was 603 percent in the South.
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The militancy is minuscule — fewer than 300 armed fighters by most estimates — and much of the combatants' ideology turns on political differences with the Indian government, not religious ones.
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Swift wrote in a motion for her release that Salman is not religious at all and that her connection to the crime was only through "her tragic marriage" to Mateen.
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The draft rule released Wednesday refers to the Supreme Court's decisions in Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Cakeshop, which concerned closely held, for-profit businesses with religious owners, not religious corporations.
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Leaders of communities in the US and other countries where FGM is illegal, however, issued letters advising members to follow area laws—not religious edicts—after Nagarwala's arrest last month.
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It was hard in elementary school because I was embarrassed about the fact that my mom is not religious and I felt like I wanted to keep the status quo.
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A growing number of Americans identity as "spiritual but not religious," a trend that tracks with the explosion of interest in practices like meditation and astrology that transcend traditional religion.
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As recently as 2008, Hawking had described himself as "not religious in the normal sense" in that he viewed the universe as governed by the laws of physics first and foremost.
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Half of Americans feel religious conservatives have too much control of the Republican party, while 44 percent think that liberals who are not religious have too much clout with the Democrats.
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First, there is a tradition of intellectual and aesthetic pantheism that includes figures like Spinoza, Nietzsche, Emerson and Whitman, and that's manifest in certain highbrow spiritual-but-not-religious writers today.
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The civil suit is notable for its unusual approach: It accuses church leaders of violating a consumer protection law, a statute that is more commonly applied to companies, not religious institutions.
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Mr Curtis: No. I'm not religious but I don't share the liberal dislike of religion because I think its fundamental point is to reassure us in the face of our own death.
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The treatment of the asylum-seekers was a "disgrace," the mother told me, a betrayal of the very Jewishness ("and I'm not religious," she said) that Israel was supposed to stand for.
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In the book, Skloot, who is not religious, describes this sequence as akin to an exorcism; as Wolfe films it, it mostly reads as though Rebecca has just never been to church.
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Not religious, and certainly not Muslim, she found herself uttering the first part of the Islamic proclamation of faith — La illaha illa Allah: "There is no God but Allah" — again and again.
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They still embrace the Iliadic mythos that grew up around the Civil War, prefer the melting pot to multiculturalism, assume a Judeo-Christian civil religion rather the "spiritual but not religious" version.
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And while Mr. Navarro is not religious, it's hard not to think of the biblical passage in which Ezekiel eats a scroll so he can internalize and speak the word of God.
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"The survey finds less overlap between Americans who are spiritual but not religious and those who are religiously unaffiliated than is often assumed," said PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones, in a press release.
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We cannot persecute people for what they believe, no matter how much it disgusts us, and simultaneously maintain a free and open democracy … If diversity is our dogma, call me "spiritual, not religious".
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My 18-year-old son was telling me that just the other day, that he keeps getting into arguments with other teenagers who tell him he can't be Jewish if he's not religious.
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I'm not religious now, I would say, but there's no way that you are raised in that environment, and also grow up singing that music, without it having an impact on your life.
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I'm not religious, but the point you reach here, there's a sense of going over to the other side: You've got to the end of this particular road and then something else opens up.
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Ms. Litovsky, who is not religious — and who calls herself an "occasiotarian," meaning that she eats meat occasionally — focused her camera on the animals as spectacles, treating their owners and the clerics as support figures.
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My initial assignment was as a researcher for CEP&aposs Conversion Information Center — not religious conversion, mind you, but the conversion of the US economy from its deep dependence on Pentagon spending to something better.
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"Whether taken at face value or not, religious narratives are often rich in their intricate examinations of morality, which is something to be appreciated with or without god," Catanese says of his choice to include them.
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"If you get challenged, you can say that you're not religious in the sense of being a regular churchgoer, but that you have things that you need the time and space to think about," she said.
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Because most 501(c)(3) organizations are not religious congregations, any complete abolishment of the Johnson Amendment would also lift restrictions on other nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) designations that wish to endorse a candidate.
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Just 23 percent of European Christians believe with absolute certainty that there is a God, whereas 27 percent of American "nones" — the religiously unaffiliated, which includes atheists and agnostics but also the "spiritual but not religious" — do.
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She has since written about a dozen books, multiple of which have been New York Times best sellers, and her rise is a sign of the increasing number of Americans who consider themselves spiritual but not religious.
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"Lots of Americans tell us, with respect to the presidency, that it's important to them that the president share their religious beliefs," he said, emphasizing that being someone who is not religious could be a political liability.
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" Later in that same book, she noted, "It should not be left to every district whether or when to teach science, the arts, civics and history; state curricula should reflect modern scholarship, not religious or local opinion.
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Alaa al-Jibouri, a Sunni from Salahuddin Province who has joined a government-allied militia, said that his uncle, a member of the Islamic State, was not religious before he spent time in an American prison in Iraq.
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" Official banners proclaiming that "America is a Christian nation" could be posted at the White House and some state capitols, while public government banners in other states could proclaim that "We Believe Americans Should be Secular, Not Religious.
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And since we ourselves have been known to use this word for everything from horoscopes to Catholicism, we decided to put this question to our readers: What do you really mean when you say you're "spiritual" but not "religious"?
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They get their miles in, but they're not religious about it — to them, running is more about clearing the mind and getting some cardio in than scoring a PR. I'd put myself more in that category than the former.
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" On June 13, Mr. Trump offered a slightly new formulation: The ban would be geographical, not religious, applying to "areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies.
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Our top 10 pop songs of 2015 When Elvis met Nixon, one of his goals was to take down the Beatles Frank Sinatra was spiritual but not religious before it was cool And then it was time for the final act.
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Officials in the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tracked many types of crimes, but they selectively released results, choosing to share figures about attacks committed by left-wing extremists but not religious-based crimes or violence against journalists.
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On the other hand, the emergence of "spiritual but not religious" as an ever more popular metaphysical stance means that lots of people now admit to not knowing much about any of the Abrahamic faiths, either their differences or commonalities.
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It's my interpretation, but I feel like what I'm saying and feeling is life is not spiritual, life is so much more than the word itself … People are so afraid of talking about spirituality or religion, but I'm not religious.
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The category of the "none" includes atheists, to be sure, but also the "spiritual but not religious," and a number of people who may feel alienated from the culture or politics of their birth religion but still retain its spiritual practices.
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While not religious, both of us had found spiritual meaning in outdoor adventures and physical challenges in the past, and a long walk into the unknown together struck us as the perfect way to cement the start of a marriage.
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Outside the door of Mr. Siddig's apartment on Brunswick Street in Jersey City were piles of a treatise that urged Muslims to stay out of the democratic political process, saying it was based on compromise and rationality, not religious revelation.
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"I told her about the side effects and I also made her listen to Islamic scholars that are against the practice to show her that FGM is not religious," Khadar explained to VICE Impact while sitting inside a coffee shop in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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It created a political order that precluded interference in other states' domestic affairs, enshrined secular and not religious authority as the basis for state sovereignty, and attempted to prevent aggression and war through the maintenance of a balance of power between those states.
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The second implication is more difficult to parse: Because most 501(c)(3) organizations are not religious congregations, the abolishment of the Johnson Amendment would also lift restrictions on other nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) designations that wish to endorse a candidate.
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In particular, Lighthizer advocates that "WTO commitments are not religious obligations, [and] do not (and should not be construed to) impinge upon national sovereignty," arguing that the U.S. has been far too weak in its acquiesce to WTO obligations when crafting domestic law.
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His parents were not religious, in part because their parents had felt the church's heavy hand in Sicily, but for him the church — a malign force in so many coming-of-age stories — was a portal to the world beyond family and neighborhood.
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For the players who are not religious, he offers a confidential, independent sounding board; for those who are, there is the chance to tap into the network that O'Boyle, a vicar in the Church of England, has among all faith groups in Nottingham.
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Nadia is not religious, lives alone, drives a motorcycle, and wears a black robe — "so men don't fuck with me" — while Saeed, who thinks about being more religious from time to time, lives with his parents, who tease him gently about his girlfriends.
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If it's unconstitutional to ban Muslims on religious grounds, then let's adopt the Left's position that the radicals we are trying to prevent from coming here are not religious at all, and therefore can be banned without a chance of constitutional challenge.
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Almost 20 percent of Americans overall identify as "spiritual but not religious" (although many of these still are not "religiously unaffiliated," but rather vaguely identify with a faith tradition, such as mainline Protestantism or Judaism, even if they do not actively practice it).
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If you're not religious, online dating might be your best betWhile 93 percent of people in the United States identify as neither atheist nor agnostic according to the 2015 Pew Religious Landscape survey, only 76 percent of OKCupid daters put themselves in the same category.
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"I think it's hard for her to digest [that I'm not religious], and I don't really like to talk about it a lot because when I'm talking about it all I feel is that I'm disappointing my mother, which is an awful feeling," Bell said.
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"I'm not religious but when I heard about this, I said to my husband, 'Don't be shocked, but I want to go to church,'" said Florine Kuethe, a public relations consultant who later agreed to help the church deal with the heightening news media interest.
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"Me, myself, I'm not religious, but forcing our women to take off their head scarves is an affront to their dignity and makes many people angry," said one of the men, who, like others interviewed, asked to remain anonymous for fear of punishment by the authorities.
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Human nature being what it is, a social network managed and maintained by people who tend to share a particular worldview — left-libertarian and spiritual-but-not-religious, if I judge the biases of Silicon Valley right — will tend to gently catechize its users into that perspective.
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In different versions, the couple was either same-sex or interracial, the photographer was self-employed or worked for a chain, and his reasoning was either explicitly religious or non-religious ("although he is not religious, he does not approve" of gay rights or interracial marriage).
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The new study follows a major Pew survey of American Jews published in 2013 that found a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith and are not raising their children Jewish, resulting in rapid assimilation in every branch of Judaism except Orthodox.
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Douthat: And then to you, John — I take your point about not underestimating the importance of policy wins, but the policy defeats of religious conservatism have been bound up in cultural defeats, particularly the secularization or spiritual-but-not-religious turn of younger generations in America.
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In a study of recent terror plots that Mr. Koehler published in 2018, he found that plotters who sought to use poisonous gas, infectious diseases or radioactive material were generally middle-aged, middle-class and fairly well educated, and espoused far-right views that were not religious.
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The Justice Department is arguing the president has broad discretion to halt the entry of foreigners into the United States, and that the travel ban was the result of an extensive, multiagency review process analyzing how foreign governments share information about their citizens with the United States — and not religious discrimination.
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According to the study, 61 percent of spiritual but not religious people and 70 percent of spiritual and religious people reported being "very" or "completely" satisfied with their life, compared to just 53 percent of those who were religious but not spiritual, and 47 percent of those who were neither.
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Now, it's a towering fly ball away from piraguas and chicken Marengo, and navigating the new paywall is difficult even if you're a subscriber, but New York Magazine has a fine new profile of the NPR host Krista Tippett by Amy Larocca, an exploration of the spiritual-but-not-religious scene.
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Many of the "spiritual but not religious" people I interviewed this year, or those who practiced alternative forms of spirituality, cited the need for inclusive, LGBTQ-affirming spaces as something that had alienated them from the religions they had grown up near, and left them in search of something different.
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Similar "hand" works blended by a quasi-magical or alchemical operation appear in Berman's marvelous underground film "Aleph" (1956–66), in which, as in the collages, he uses Hebrew letters (though he was not religious and did not read the language) to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire noise montage that conjures up the gritty energy of the '60s underground.
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She did it by uniting nonreligious longtime residents angry about being turned into minorities in their own city, English-speaking Orthodox immigrants impatient with inadequate government services, and forward-thinking ultra-Orthodox who were both sick of being denigrated as not religious enough and embarrassed by the bad press that Beit Shemesh has earned as a hotbed of religious fanaticism.
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" When a Philadelphia nonprofit attempted to open a safe-injection site for drug users as an exercise of its board members' faith, noting on its website that "[a]t the core of our faith is the principle that preservation of human life overrides any other considerations," the DOJ claimed the board members' "true motivation is socio-political or philosophical — not religious — and thus not protected by RFRA.
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But the rapaciousness of Henry VIII and the police state of Elizabeth I, the evisceration of the old Catholic culture and the suppression of popular protest and dissent, the ethnic and religious cleansings carried out on England's Celtic fringe — these were very modern projects, and their purpose wasn't liberty but subjugation, not religious tolerance so much as the elimination of any religious challenge to the state.
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