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Buddhism
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... Among these astrologers, there was one who declared that if the prince were to see a sick person, an old person, a corpse, and a world renouncing ascetic, he would become dissatisfied with life and become a wandering monk in order to seek final peace.
King Shuddhodana decided to prevent his son from running into any of these four sights and surrounded him with pleasant diversions during his early years. Finally the prince convinced his father into letting him visit a part of the city that was beyond the palace gates. Before allowing the prince to ride out in his chariot, Shuddhodana firs ...
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Violence In Religions Such As Islam, Christianity, And Hinduism
Number of Words: 1854 / Number of Pages: 7
... a victim of circumstance - indeed it has been perceived by many as oppressive and cruel. This belief originated over a thousand years ago, when Islamic peoples first threatened the western world. As they slowly undermined Byzantine authority, Christians became terrified of their presence, resulting in widespread animosity and aversion. Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was a great warrior. This invariably lead defeated peoples to believe that he begot a cult of war and violence. Over the centuries, it also has developed the ability to instill a sense of holy purpose onto its believers and soldiers, ...
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Who Is The Christ Of First Corinthians?
Number of Words: 1220 / Number of Pages: 5
... God, he was branded a fool by these so called "wise men." Throughout his life, these people attempted to discredit all of his work and teachings. Eventually, he was taken by these rulers and crucified for his so called crimes. "To the world the wisdom of God is folly and weakness, but to those who are being saved, Christ crucified is the power and wisdom of God. (Matera, 94)" When Jesus was crucified, Paul discovered the paradoxical intentions of God. God intended that his wisdom and glory be revealed through the foolishness of the educated man.
"Rather we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, ...
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Genocide
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... it brutally,
massacring the Irish without mercy and called the large scale killing ‘the
righteous judgements and mighty works of God'" (Meyer 78). Thousands of
Catholics preferred to suffer and die than deny their faith (Firth 10). By the
middle of the seventeenth century, the Protestants settled on the land they
seized from the Catholics and the Catholics were forced to colonize in towns
which clung to wild coastlines with dangerous tides (Meyer 78). The differences
between the lives of the Catholics and Protestants were clear and the foundation
for their troubles had been laid (Meyer 78).
Anothe ...
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Religion In Schools
Number of Words: 332 / Number of Pages: 2
... they recognize religious
holidays or activites at public schools. Many people still argue that
public prayer in school would violate the 1st amendment and make some
children feel uneasy or stressed. William Torrey Harris began his teaching
career in St. Louis as a private tutor. He later became a teacher and
administrator in the city’s public schools. In 1867 Harris became the
superintendent of the St. Louis public school system, where he enforced his
belief that the influences of religion and politics should be kept separate
from schools. He believed that secular, politically independent public
school ...
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Saint Thomas Aquinas: Proof Of The Existence Of God
Number of Words: 1213 / Number of Pages: 5
... .
The views of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans have been well-documented. All three of these ancient societies believed in numerous Gods, who each held domain over certain aspects of that particular culture. These Beings were represented as being somewhat human, extremely powerful, and sometimes at odds with one another - even to the point of warring between themselves.
The rise of Christianity led to many new ideas about the nature of God. The Christians developed an off-shoot version of Judaism, which popularized the belief in only one God, who was more powerful than t ...
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Tuat, The Gods, Ceremonies, And Preparations For Coming To The West
Number of Words: 1976 / Number of Pages: 8
... it.
Tuat was originally a place through which the sun god Ra passed each evening after his setting, or death, on his journey to that portion of the sky where he would appear the next morning. Thus, came the phrase of "coming into the west". The sun sets nito the west as does Ra. Tuat was the realm of the great god Osiris, who reigned over all the gods of the dead as well as the dead themselves. Tuat was separated fro the world by a mountain range that surrounded it and formed a great valley. On oen side of the mountains divided the valley from the earth, and on the other side, the valley fr ...
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Good God
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... different. It's more like a carpenter
building a house or building. People can relate more to a building than a
universe, cause it's possible that one can experience living within a house.
It's not possible for anyone to live among the outside world, and think that God
created everything. This only proves Paley's downfall, and ideas that have no
back bone! The world to be created by God is impossible, only cause man seeks
more than his environment. God cannot be proven!
Belief! The question of believing, is a question of faith. This is a story of
faith. Jeremiah once entered a church full of greed ...
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Different Religions
Number of Words: 1119 / Number of Pages: 5
... developed moral views on what to think about thieves or murderers.
If certain civilizations didn't mind violence and killing, then they developed
into a Brutal civilization. Consequently, the religions of these civilizations
were evolved around sacrificial rituals and allegiance to brutal gods. The
Assyrian civilization worked around this principle. They used scare tactics to
overcome their enemies and treated their captives badly. They also believed in
powerful gods who they feared. If certain civilizations became peaceful, then
their religion reflected their peaceful nature and didn't ha ...
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Buddha
Number of Words: 2443 / Number of Pages: 9
... known as Nepal, lived King Suddhodhana and Queen Maya of the indigenous tribe known as the Shakyas. (Encyclopedia Americana, page 687) Queen Maya soon became pregnant and had a dream shortly before she gave birth. In this dream a beautiful, white elephant with six tusks entered her room and touched her side. This dream was soon interpreted by the wisest Brahmin, or Priest of Brahmanism, that she was to give birth to a son that would, if he were to remain in the castle, become the wisest king in the world, but if he were ever to leave the castle he would then become the wisest prophet far into futur ...
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