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" Another friend described Houssaine as changing abruptly, and suddenly starting to talk only about "religion, religion, religion.
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"The government is not allowed to favor one particular religion over another or favor religion over non-religion," Seidel said.
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If he's really into religion then it's only right, from the ideals of his religion and the traditions of his religion.
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The free exercise of religion, but no establishment of religion.
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Is Astrology Religion for Those of Us With No Religion?
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That is the religion that my book seeks to slay, is the religion of win-win-ism, which is a false religion.
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The 2014 constitution guarantees "absolute" freedom of religion -- but also declares Islam the state's official religion and prohibits conversion to any other religion.
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Is astrology a religion for those of us with no religion?
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" "There are people who work for religion and those who earn from religion," he added, saying those in power were only "earning from religion.
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Living inside the gap is excruciating, but it is what religion -- real religion, not the religion of complacency and self-satisfaction -- requires of us.
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But where religion is involved, freedom of religion, religious freedom takes priority.
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Our religion is not the religion they practice in the Middle East.
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Freedom of religion in the United States also means freedom from religion.
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Religion Islam may be America's No. 2 religion in a few decades.
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So I do not believe that Islam is a violent religion, and I have no distinction, no discrimination against anybody of any religion or no religion.
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All of which presents an opportunity for religion to flourish and for government to maintain independence from religion and religion to maintain its independence from government.
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"The problem here is not religion, it's patriarchy masquerading as religion," Soman said.
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This is most clear in the case of religion, especially other people's religion.
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Iran is about the religion, and Moqtada al-Sadr is about the religion.
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Our religion is consumerism and Trump is a patron saint of that religion.
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Art had become a kind of religion, I mean a substitute for religion.
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Instead, I have confused religion with drugs, drugs with music, music with religion.
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Because the religion of austerity was the religion of a lot of European leaders.
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He says Islam is neither a religion of war nor a religion of peace.
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Her interviews on religion have appeared in The Washington Post and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
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How can we convince others that Islam, our religion, is a religion of peace?
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Taoism, the religion, really has the same value structure as any other Chinese religion.
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He was a champion of protecting religion from the state, irrespective of the religion.
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We are free to exercise religion precisely because the government refrains from establishing religion.
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Perhaps you're wondering: If the government can't promote religion over non-religion, doesn't that mean that it also can't promote non-religion over religion, and doesn't that in turn mean that public schools can't do things like teach evolution or give out condoms?
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Factors like religion become more controversial; am I going to fight the Church to establish a place in it, am I going to shun religion, is religion shunning me?
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" In it she writes, "If it is a religion it is not a religion only.
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Many universities have classes in the "philosophy" of religion, fewer on the "religion" of philosophy.
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But, he added, that doesn't mean the government has to favor non-religion over religion.
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His Facebook posts were aggressively anti-religion, but did not single out a specific religion.
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Some atheists think religion is ridiculous or generally awful, while others don't think about religion at all, and still others think religion is fine, or even a force for good.
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"Some may view the religion as a satirical version of standard religion," Corbett told USA Today.
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Beck: Talk about that law and your view of freedom of religion -- and freedom from religion.
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Many issues don't come up as issues of religion until the story is actually about religion.
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"We wanted to create an action: visible and easy — to proclaim our commitment to freedom of religion and to the constitution…religion or no religion," Najimy adds in a press release.
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"Ibnu Mas'ud ensures that Muslim children are preoccupied with efforts to understand their religion correctly so they become a generation that understands the religion and will fight for the religion," he says.
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No religion In the survey, which had a 95% response rate, more Australians didn't identify with a religion than any single religion, a first for the country which had been predominantly Catholic.
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When you see young Muslim men murdering innocent people across the world in the name of my religion, how can I convince you that Islam, my religion, is a religion of peace.
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To the court, the new executive order says nothing about religion ... but it discriminates based on religion.
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It is a religion of liberation, a religion that says God created all people to be free.
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He went on, "If a religion is incompatible with its society, this religion cannot survive and develop."
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I would say that there is a religion that encourages harm, and that religion is white nationalism.
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AZ: Simone Weil used to say that atheism is necessarily the new religion because it purifies religion.
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"The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of religion and promises the free exercise of religion," he wrote.
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"She believed in her religion and tried to follow the tenets of her religion," Kelly Golightley said.
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Religion in this country and religion all over the world, certain religions in particular, are under siege.
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"Our elite didn't have any religion, and so religion was literally preserved by the clerics," she said.
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"Sixty percent of the French have no religion, so give us a break with religion," he said.
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The book I Don't Believe is about religion or rather how religion is used as a control tool.
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It's very hard for the government to say you're not a religion if you say you're a religion.
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According to a new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey, millennials are still leaving organized religion in droves.
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" That kind of thinking feeds notions of Islam as a "foreign" religion, Huda said, "a religion from overseas.
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While Hubbard had turned science fiction into a religion, Heinlein was trying to turn religion into science fiction.
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Religion has always been part of the cultural appropriation debate, since religion is an important part of culture.
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I do believe spirituality and religion should be separate and I think that's a big problem with religion.
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But if religion was good for the movement, Woodward argues, the movement was not so good for religion.
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"Religious liberty is essential not only to protect religion but because religion helps strengthen our nation," he said.
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"In democratic countries there's a freedom of religion, but there's also a freedom from forced religion," he said.
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If its greedy people or people that want world domination, or even people are fighting religion vs. religion.
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It's not just freedom to practice whichever religion you want, it's freedom from having religion imposed upon you.
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" He said, "I uttered those words out of respect for the religion from which they come, and for the religion that I still hold in high regard, particularly the Irish members of that religion.
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In the United States, the government represents all its citizens, which means that it should not and (if the Constitution is interpreted correctly) cannot promote one religion over others or religion over non-religion.
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In other words, a man of religion and a person who gives a platform to those who question religion.
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Muslim Turkey's constitution strictly separates state and religion but its penal code makes it a crime to insult religion.
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Such legal language is not exactly the same as "freedom of religion" or the more recent freedom "from" religion.
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Detainees who practice the Sikh religion said they were not allowed to wear turbans, a tenet of their religion.
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This "hostility" toward religion, the court held, violated the baker's First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.
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I was referencing the idea of religion, because I felt in those days that religion was important in society.
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Losing My Religion Losing My Religion: One of the many benefits of adulthood is that adults get to change.
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" Later, she clarifies for those who questioned whether the book is against religion that it's not anti-religion — "It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different thing altogether.
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The rule does not favor one religion over another, or religion over no religion at all, because it includes an accommodation for those who oppose services for "moral" reasons, which Engelmayer said is a secular concept.
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I've always been interested in religion, religion in public life, and how spirituality affects people and their approach to politics.
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But for the psychologist and religion professor (and Episcopal priest) James W. Jones, the author of CAN SCIENCE EXPLAIN RELIGION?
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If innovation is the religion of the technology industry, then industriousness is the religion for the rest of America's workforce.
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We now talk of atheists being protected by the First Amendment as if their "sect" were a "religion-less" religion.
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The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion under the First Amendment and forbids government endorsement of a specific religion.
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Since you are a PhD in theology, and Vox's religion writer, how do you see religion functioning in this world?
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Cohen said that he wasn't looking for a new religion, that he was well satisfied with the religion he had.
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When Wear says the party has a "religion problem," what he means is that the party has a white religion problem.
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K., these are people who have this one identity category, religion, and the religion they identify as is overstepping its bounds.
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This special class may practice freedom of religion, but those who wish to have freedom from religion have no special protections.
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But whereas in most places this implies the separation of religion and state, in Turkey it means state control over religion.
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"I definitely have no interest in replacing my former religion with a new religion," he says of his own current beliefs.
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That's certainly true of wearing hijabs and religion, or celebrating mass and religion; likewise of same-sex weddings and sexual orientation.
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"He talked about religion as like art; that religion was an act of imaginative construction that had material effects," she said.
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"Marks favorable to religion are allowed, but marks critical of religion or likely to cause religious controversy are prohibited," they wrote.
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Under the First Amendment, there should be no laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.
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Religion in my mod is simply a tool through which I deepen the Jewish representation, but my goal is not just to deepen religion, but to deepen the broader Jewish experience (and that just so happens to include religion).
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The overly politicized Islamists not only kept the traditional view that religion and state are inseparable, they even recast religion as state.
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And also because the story, as I envisioned it, challenged my ideas about religion, religious identity, what religion is and could be.
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France doesn't just keep religion out of political policies; it believes that religion should be separate from the national identity all together.
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He also is the Henry R. Luce fellow for religion in international affairs at New York University's Center for Religion and Media.
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"I wanted to demonstrate that, while religion may be important, don't let people use religion to take over your mind," Pitsiladis said.
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Whereas American religion has always included an element of ethnic community, it has usually not actually made the religion about the ethnicity.
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"We don't want to challenge their religion by stopping them," said Ahmad Zainal Mutaqin, a social worker who also teaches religion classes.
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We want to make sure that when you're in office, you're speaking for people of any religion and of no religion equally.
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The religion exploded into the mainstream in 2001, when fans in several countries listed Jediism as a religion on their local census.
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In this way, political maneuvering in post-Saddam Iraq that was not primarily about religion came to be expressed as about religion.
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The documents allow for content that attacks a religion or a country, though attacks on individuals based on religion or nationality are removed.
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My lyrics are mostly metaphorical, so this song isn't about religion in general, more the relevance of religion in this day and age.
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" Morris is no fan of religion itself; he's called himself a "secular anti-humanist," saying that "religion is nasty and so is mankind.
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You probably haven't even heard of civil religion — the concept of a religion-like unifying force that creates cohesion among relatively disparate people.
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"South Park" has, notoriously, not shied away from addressing religion, though it engages with the idea of religion from a strictly secular gaze.
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In the case of Little Richard, what we have left is a man that designed something bigger than religion, being tamed by religion.
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I grew up feeling like the people who were elders were making a distinction between religion as faith and religion as a club.
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The move raises wider, more difficult questions about the relationship of religion — particularly minority religion — to politics and national identity across Western Europe.
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" Yoo said such an order would "violate the Constitution's protection for freedom of religion or its prohibition on the state establishment of religion.
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Mr. Anderson's theme was that his religion was the only true religion while others, specifically Catholicism and Judaism, were false, the neighbor said.
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When it comes to matters of faith, Lennonists believe that religion must not separate humanity, and that Islam is a religion of peace.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a complaint to Clemson in 133 because religion was way too indoctrinated in the football program.
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In order to understand the game that Christian nationalists are playing, it's important to remember that the First Amendment has two clauses concerning religion: one that guarantees the freedom to exercise religion and one that prohibits the government from establishing any religion.
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When people falsely claim religious exemptions, an era where fewer people are affiliated with a religion (and no dominant religion is opposed to vaccines), they make a mockery out of those who have legitimate religious objections and jeopardize their freedom of religion.
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But TST, with its codified opposition to organized religion, may prove an even more alluring option: a chance for those who have been disillusioned, excluded, or left behind by mainstream religion to create intentional communities — a religion, even — that speaks to their needs.
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Diane Winston, MS, PhD, professor of media and religion at University of Southern California, calls Catholicism a sensual religion in the most literal sense.
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America's decision to make religion a matter of free conscience created a vital alliance between the "spirit of religion" and the "spirit of liberty".
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Meanwhile, for people who don't believe in organized religion, the story marks yet another instance of people acting dumb in the name of religion.
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Wehner depicts the flipside of religion: the unwavering belief in religion that spreads to an unwavering belief in priests, even when they're hurting you.
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The link between religion and nationality is of greatest consequence to those Americans for whom religion plays a very important role in their life.
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Pullman's appeal seems to have at least something to do with our hopelessly complicated modern relationship to religion—or, particularly, the war against religion.
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In fairness, contemporary American atheists may be inclined to wage war on religion because religion has been waging war on them for so long.
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There are a plethora of reasons young people say they are turned off by the religion they were born into, or religion in general.
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Religion as art, art as religion: This is the dual ethos of the modern encyclopedic museum, preserving objects of devotion in a secular age.
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That year he received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University, where he studied in a joint program in religion with Union Theological Seminary.
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The baker is not being asked to do anything that violates his religion, unless his religion prohibits the baking, decorating and selling of cakes.
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Schaefer cannot see that his god is an idol and the religion he is practicing is American Civil Religion, not the way of Jesus.
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" At the second, a commissioner observed that religion "has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history" and proceeded to label religion "one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to — to use their religion to hurt others.
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A child shouldn't have to stand in front of their class to explain their religion after 9/11 because the media generalized our entire religion.
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So, if Satanism is a religion, is the Satanic Temple a religion first and a political movement second, or is it the other way around?
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Seventy-one percent of Wyoming residents practice some form of Christian religion, including Mormonism, according to the Pew Research Center for Religion and Public Life.
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One, of course, is the First Amendment, which guarantees "the free exercise" of religion and also prevents government from favoring one religion over any other.
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A non-religious business, in this case a craft store, may have freedom of religion, but individual tax-paying citizens have no freedom from religion.
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Then we saw very weird craziness around racism and religion: How a certain race or religion can be more protected... and now is about testing.
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I think the company's trying to get religion about growth, and if they try to get religion about growth, then the stock can go forward.
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On co-opting religion for a political agenda Beck: Do you see religion being weaponized sometimes as just personal agenda and to make political points?
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The reality is that all of these things, like a layered cake, play a role: Tribe, religion, monarchy, nationalism, religion are all parts of identity.
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"The Last Jedi" seems to reflect many millennials' ideas about religion, namely their waning interest in "structured religion" in favor of "unbounded spirituality," he writes.
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But if the development of "muscular Christianity" shows us anything, it's that culture and history shape religion just as much as religion shapes everything else.
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Her chant inspired the masses Salah chanted these lines during Monday's protest, as the crowd responded, "Thawra" ("Revolution") after each line: Their nonsense (Revolution) They burned us in the name of religion (Revolution) They killed us in the name of religion (Revolution) They jailed us in the name of religion (Revolution) But religion is not to be blamed (Revolution) CNN's Nada Altaher contributed to this report.
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Almost 50 percent of Muslims identify with religion before their U.S. identity (nearly half of U.S. Christians polled by Gallup also identified with their religion first).
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Post-ruling, it will be worrying if this becomes a precedent for imprisoning those who talk about their religion or the religion of others, she added.
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"I don't think this is a good move... I am religious, Roman Catholic, and (the government) should promote our religion not a foreign religion," she said.
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Pew's study on religion around the world shows significant generation gaps, with younger people less likely to consider religion a very important part of their lives.
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" The order was almost immediately challenged in federal court by the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation, which said the order gave preference to "religion over nonreligion.
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Organized religion may be anathema on the political left, but the need for the things religion provides — moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community — are not.
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They turn politics into a secular religion and ultimately an apocalyptic war of religion because they try to impose one correct answer on all of life.
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"I wanted to look into the extent to which religion shapes the lives of women, and also the extent to which women influenced religion," she said.
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"It is undisputed that the executive order does not facially discriminate for or against any particular religion, or for or against religion versus nonreligion," he wrote.
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His past rhetoric about the religion strongly suggests that the words he would use after an Islamist attack would directly target the religion and its adherents.
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"Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust…I mean we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination," Commissioner Diann Rice said.
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American 18-29 year olds have the highest share of people who say they are "unaffiliated" with religion at 38%, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
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Mustafa Akyol ISTANBUL — We Muslims like to believe that ours is "a religion of peace," but today Islam looks more like a religion of conflict and bloodshed.
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And for those who don't believe in religion, the boycott and its backlash will give them fodder to say that religion can make people act like idiots.
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The directive gives priority to refugee claims based on religious persecution but only "if the religion of the individual is a minority religion" in his home country.
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Women in India may not be equal with men but again, that is not because of religion but culture and people using religion to keep women down.
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Although Masonry is not a religion and does not promote one religion over another, members must believe in a higher being also known as a Great Architect.
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The religion was the celebrity spiritual moment du jour during the 2000s, and everyone from Madonna to Ashton Kutcher to Lindsay Lohan dabbled in the mystical religion.
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Well, my book is pretty hard on the religion too, but it's not about telling people their religion is bullshit — it's about how you tell them that.
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And regardless of what you believe, the 'religion of tech,' if such a thing exists, would likely have more followers than any other religion in the world.
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In 2011 almost 177,000 people declared themselves Jedi under the religion section of the census — making it the seventh most popular religion ahead of Rastafarianism and Jainism.
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Violence in the name of hatred or religion, whether in Nice, Orlando, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Chicago or Munich, is an affront to humanity and to every religion.
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The court said the monument has the primary effect of endorsing religion and the commission's ownership and maintenance of the cross excessively entangles the government with religion.
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Religious liberty, as specified in the First Amendment, allows the free practice of religion — so long as the practice of that religion does no harm to others.
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The United States of America must remain a nation where we have freedom of religion, not a nation where any one religion can be imposed upon us.
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As long as religion is used to fuel hatred and violence, regardless of which religion it is, we will all lose and we are all at risk.
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Black people are born into an Abrahamic religion but often these men's artistic curiosities contradict the laws of that religion, but it still needs to be expressed.
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They worry not only about freedom of religion but also freedom from religion — a commitment to limiting religious influence on public life and in the public sphere.
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" Instead of viewing religion as a particular organized religion, the government would now include "all aspects of religious belief, observance, and practice as understood by the employer.
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This immanent civic religion, Smith argues, is gradually replacing the more biblical form of civil religion that stamped American history down to the Protestant-Catholic-Jew 1950s.
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He said the deterioration of religion in the country is an "organized destruction" by secularists in an "unremitting assault on religion and traditional values," according to CNN.
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Religion, which is universal (because God is), can never be captured by a national culture; nor can true religion ever be the cause of terrorism and violence.
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I started studying religion, and I quickly discovered what everyone who studies religion discovers: Underneath the externalities of these religious traditions, they're all saying the same thing.
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ELLEN G. RAFSHOONBROOKHAVEN, GA. To the Editor: Daniel K. Williams accurately maps out the Democrats' problem with religion, except for one thing: They do have a religion.
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Episode 23 — "Religion" In the same way that season 1's "Parents" was for all those first-generation American kids out there, "Religion" is for all of those millennials who were raised in a religious household only to grow up and realize religion… might not be for them.
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I suppose that's why it's best to keep religion beliefs out of politics, because religion has been used for so long to justify horrible deeds by the state.
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That means that Islam -- currently the world's second-largest religion -- will surpass Christianity as the world's biggest religion by the end of the century, the study projects. Why?
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Our community standards strictly prohibit attacking people based on their protected characteristics, including religion, and we prohibit advertisers from discriminating against people based on religion and other attributes.
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Seven of Germany's 16 federal states offer some form of Islamic religion classes in their schools, similar to the Catholic and Protestant religion classes they have traditionally had.
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"Perhaps not surprisingly, the link between religion and nationality is of greatest consequence to those for whom religion plays a very important role in daily life," Pew writes.
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To pass the test, a law must have a secular purpose, neither advance nor inhibit religion, and refrain from so-called "excessive entanglement" between religion and the government.
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And it makes people who fall into those categories — no religion or other religion — feel like second-class citizens in the state of Arkansas, which they are not.
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Journalists and scholars have spent decades examining the influence of conservative religion on American politics, but we largely missed the impact conservative politics was having on religion itself.
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Unlike previous secular tributes to religion that praise its ethical and civilizing function, I think we need religion because it is a road-tested form of emotional management.
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The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion; the nation's chief law enforcement officer has no business denouncing those who exercise that freedom by choosing not to endorse any religion.
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Looking for Chinese religion one autumn afternoon, I rode my bike for an hour down to the White Cloud Temple, the national center of China's indigenous religion, Taoism.
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There's nothing about the holiday that reserves it for believers in any particular religion, or in fact any formal religion at all, and it's open to all cultures.
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Part of what I want to say in this book is that religion can take many forms, and the same religion can take different shapes in different places.
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Catholic religion classes are part of the school's curriculum for all students regardless of their religion and Laachraoui would have attended those classes as any other student, Pellegrini said.
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Officially a state religion since 1996, Voodooism is practiced by 17% of the population, with many outside of the religion professing a cultural link to some of its rituals.
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More clearly than any European country except France, the American constitution lays down a rigorous separation of religion and state and excludes the idea of a nationally established religion.
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Catholic religion classes are part of the school's curricula for all students independent of their religion, and Laachraoui would have attended those classes as any other student, Pellegrini said.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which brought the complaint, said it sees the banners as violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution regarding government prohibitions on establishing religion.
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"My religion is Canadian; that's what gives me the strength to stand up and fight now," said Ram Subrahmanian, a founder of Keep Religion Out of Our Public Schools.
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The notion that there are guideposts pointing us in the direction of our better selves is as old as religion, and yet it doesn't need religion to perpetuate them.
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" Trump referenced religion multiple times throughout his address to Congress, pledging to protect people of every creed and religion, and referencing the official U.S. motto "In God We Trust.
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"If you mention a religion in the same sentence as terrorism, then the followers of that religion — in this case two billion people — will be offended," Mr. Yildirim said.
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The religion spread during the chaotic 1990s, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, when religion was finally no longer taboo, and people started asking questions about God.
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Known for his controversial comments about religion and sexuality, Moore is also the state's former chief justice, who was removed from office twice for putting religion before the law.
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In this context, black nationalist Muslim movements' critique of Christianity as a "white man's religion" and their appropriation of Islam as the national religion of African America proved very appealing.
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In our religion class, we avoided any sexual education other than a scant week on "natural family planning," the method our religion teacher, with eight children, told us he used.
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They're not just about LGBTQ issues or discrimination, but rather about the extent to which free practice of religion includes, by necessity, practice of that religion in the public sphere.
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In other words, be careful what you wish for: an America where religion plays less of a role isn't necessarily a better one, if what replaces religion is white nativism.
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The original line "did not provide a basis for discriminating for or against members of any particular religion", the order reads, and "was not motivated by animus toward any religion".
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"We want to show the world that Islam is a tolerant, peace-loving religion, not the religion of burqas and bomb-throwing that people see on the news," he said.
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"Our community standards strictly prohibit attacking people based on their protected characteristics, including religion, and we prohibit advertisers from discriminating against people based on religion and other attributes," said Facebook.
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While more than three-quarters of Americans identify themselves as faithful to one religion or another, fewer than 40% of Americans feel religion is an important part of a funeral.
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But penalizing individuals because they belong to a particular religion -- even when the government tries, as a proxy, penalizing countries with populations overwhelmingly of that religion -- falls outside that leeway.
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To survive judicial scrutiny, a law or official act must have a secular purpose, must not "advance or inhibit religion," and must not amount to an "excessive entanglement" with religion.
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That's why the very first line of the very first amendment to the Constitution imposes government neutrality in religion and guarantees the freedom to exercise the religion of one's choice.
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Melanie Israel is a research associate for The Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society, examines the role that religion, family, and community plan in society and public policy.
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In The Americans, organized religion is just one category of religion — though it's one that poses a real threat to the other prevailing religions in the show: communism and capitalism.
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Twenty-four percent of Americans don't affiliate with any religion, according to a 2016 Public Religion Research Institute survey, which is up 8 percentage points in the past five years.
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Williams is an inconvenient figure for today's religious right, which asserts that the only purpose of the "wall of separation" was to protect religion from government — not government from religion.
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Jesus had some problems with religion and religious people as well and actually spoke against those who tried to follow the rule of a religion rather than focusing on God.
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"Any religion-based legislation must not violate human rights, including the rights of those belonging to the majority religion as well as of religious minorities and nonbelievers," Ms. Bachelet said.
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In the seventh century, the banner of Islam charged across the east of the former Roman Empire, and a religion of images gave way to a religion averse to icons.
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Classically, the Supreme Court invoked the religion clauses of the First Amendment — the protection for free exercise and the prohibition against government "establishment" of religion — on behalf of minority religions.
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I find it a really offensive use of religion when you have somebody in there who's clearly corrupt, and he's destroying the environment, and he's using religion to justify it.
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" But it also gives Indians "the right to freely profess, practice and propagate religion" and allows every religious denomination the right "to manage its own affairs in matters of religion.
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A search of cases and other material reveals that we've never excluded a group of people based on their religion, nor have we removed nonresident aliens based on their religion.
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Grafton Thomas, 37, was indicted with willfully causing bodily injury to the five victims because of their religion and obstructing the free exercise of religion in an attempt to kill.
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" He wrote that "modern states now accomplish by other means many of the early roles performed by religion, which is why religion has become of less relevance in some societies.
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For December, the show will revolve around religion, with a panel of comedians — Subhah Agarwal, Lux Alptraum, Mo Fathelbab and Akaash Singh — gathered to discuss religion and the coming holidays.
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And it's not religion by itself that worries Beijing most, but the potential religion offers for resistance — especially among a fiercely independent people sitting on a critical strategic border region.
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Secularism is a staple of American society: It is the right of every American to practice the religion of his or her choice or to have no religion at all, all the while living under a government that protects that right and does not rely on any religion for its policy-making decisions.
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More than most liberals, he is insistent on the role of religion in American public life and American history, and he takes liberals to task for a certain prejudice against religion.
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" Buttigieg told NBC that he talks about religion in an effort to convince people to "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party.
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Wright has taught in the psychology department at Penn and the religion department at Princeton and is currently visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
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Arunanondchai suggests we're creating a new religion based on digital memory and experience — a religion based on the datafication of everything, leading to new value structures, digital mysteries, and digital gods.
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Cory Booker (D-NJ) explains how he used a Bible verse to support his idea that religion and LGBTQ rights can coexist after saying people use religion as justification for discrimination.
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"My relationship with everyone who visits this place is good, they have their religion and I have my religion," added the guard, who has worked in the synagogue since seven years.
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MY FIGHT IS NOT AGAINST A RELIGION, MY FIGHT IS AGAINST THE POLITICAL USE THAT IS MADE TODAY OF THIS RELIGION, FOR THE NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE COME TO FRANCE.
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Considering the role that religion so often plays in fueling conflicts abroad and inspiring bigotry at home, it is not always so easy to defend the value of religion in society.
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But many Europeans are understandably wary of defining themselves in terms of religion when Europe is secularising rapidly, and when many of its enemies use religion as a badge of identity.
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But I think that if you want to support Islam as a religion, or any religion for that matter and its philosophy and ideas then you should support it by ideas.
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Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness, and yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.
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It's only at this point in the pathway that religion enters the picture, or rather an absolutist, all-explaining political ideology that is the weed that grows up next to religion.
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We don't know this, but there were non-Chinese members of the religion from the beginning and Taoism is an important religion among ethnic minorities in China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
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On a very fundamental level, I would say that science and religion clash if you suppose that science and religion are reaching different competing answers to the same questions of life.
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Indeed, the democratic ideal of freedom of religion and the free expression of religion, which are cornerstones of the Indian constitution (Articles 15 and 85033) are under attack from within India.
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The court held that the exclusion amounted to discrimination against religion that was "odious to our Constitution," a violation of the church's First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.
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"This is an interference to personal rights and a discrimination based on religion," Angkhana said, adding that freedom of religion and the right to privacy were guaranteed by the Thai constitution.
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" He urged the gathered leaders to resist a "recurrent temptation" in religion to judge others as enemies, and to insist that "no violence can be justified in the name of religion.
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Paul A. Djupe is an associate professor of political science at Denison University, an affiliated scholar with Public Religion Research Institute, and co-editor of the Cambridge journal Politics and Religion.
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He worked religion into his remarks constantly — and creatively.
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Race, religion, heritage, gender — the more factions the better.
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" Kennedy wondered if that showed a "hostility to religion.
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Maybe they -- it becomes sort of a religion, right?
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" He added, "This had nothing to do with religion.
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Everything came to an end — history, literature, religion, God.
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" Robinson's institute dismisses climate change as a "false religion.
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" Jeffress has also called the Mormon religion a "cult.
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Race, religion, heritage, gender – the more factions the better.
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