YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Importance of Religious Stories
Essays 511 - 540
majestic, awesome, bedazzling, exalted" (Mack, 1995, p. 45; Pandit, 1996, p. 179). Similarly, the opening lines of Psalm 104 also ...
always existed whether it was called "Israel or Christian" (Snyder, 1997). Luther argued that it was not he who had broken away fr...
is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...
vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...
pertaining to religious persecution have never received as much attention in the US as other forms of discrimination (Wales 579). ...
can occupy the same country (Robinson). For example, Bosnia (which has seen a great deal of religious persecution) is home to Roma...
Interestingly enough, the Hindu religion is not one single religion per se, but rather, a collection of customs, traditions, belie...
5 percent are identified as Assyrian, Turkoman and other (CIA, 2005). These demographics must be considered when developing a new ...
pursuits out of fear of being contaminated by criticism of the Bible or by the increasing tendency of universities to turn away fr...
an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...
In four pages this paper examines the education law of the state of Wisconsin and religious freedom as they are addressed in the W...
perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...
of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...
form of sexual pleasure unlikely to result in a population increase (e.g. masturbation, homosexuality, oral/anal sex) has routinel...
be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...
represents often empowers citizens into believing their nations and peoples are the best and brightest in the world. It is believ...
impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...
of people may have a completely different set of beliefs from another tribe. We do not even need to know what their beliefs were i...
between the teacher and the students. In the book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Warren Nord and Charles Ha...
equal before God, including women. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intoler...
for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...
This sacrifice, however, did not require the sinner to relinquish his life, for God realized that would be too great a cost, so He...
lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...
Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...
there are two different types of magic as it relates to religions of the world. There is sympathetic magic and contagious magic. "...
one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...