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"Pope And Adult Web Sites Don't Mix."
Number of Words: 474 / Number of Pages: 2
... good name smeared.
Yet, times change. In modern times the Catholic Church has changed dramatically, and the view on religions has as well. Hopefully, there is no more adultery amongst bishops and torturing has stopped. For as long as the living of today remember, the pope has indeed been a symbol of spiritual uplifting. We have also learned to accept other people's beliefs, or at least tolerate them.
I feel strongly about this topic, and a lot of my feelings are mixed. We have learned to accept other beliefs, but that does not give us the right to degrade others. One can get his/her point across ...
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Jesus
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... reasons why people saw as a deviant, but in reality, why he was not.
People in the days of had every reason to think was crazy and deviant. Look at how we view people in our society today who think they are the chosen one, who have been sent down from God or think they are some kind of God. Society looks at these people as crazy and as a threat to our everyday society. These people could just as easily be God's second son, but society sees these people just as they saw back then.
For a man to be able to walk across water, move mountains, and make a blind man see, were unthinkable acts for the ...
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Aztec Religion
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... 1970 ).
Although the Aztec priests tried to unite in a single concept the different gods of the different tribes the people as a whole would not admit that their local god was subject to any other or that he was only an attribute of a superior being. An exception to this generalized thought was Huitzilopochtli, the Aztecs' own tribal god, and other deities associated with him in the national myths kept alive by Aztec pride. In later legends this god is associated with the creation of the world, occupying a space similar to that held by the traditional Toltec and Teotihuacan gods and by those ...
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The Bible And The Word "Inspire"
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... equipped for every good work." Here Timothy is
relating a charge given to him by Paul. As a story that is being told, it can be
easily inferred that Paul had confronted opposition to the belief that scripture
was in fact inspired by God, and therefore valid. Using literary criticism
allows us to stay on the surface of what is being said, and not necessarily have
to dig behind it to find the true meaning (we'll leave that to historical
criticism) and therefore by looking at the phrase "scripture is God-breathed" we
can further say that God breathed His word into the authors, and they recorded
it. God ...
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Noah's Ark And The Great Flood
Number of Words: 1700 / Number of Pages: 7
... with all the specialized requirements of food and environments for millions of creatures? 320 different species of hummingbird alone, for example, have very high metabolic rates and have to consume large amounts of nectar throughout the day. The Ark would have had to cater for 640 hummingbirds, requiring a constant supply of insects and nectar.
How could the ark cope with disposing of the waste products of all those creatures? It must have had an incredibly advanced plumbing and ventilation system, superior to anything to be found on modern ocean liners or large military vessels (e.g., aircraft carr ...
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The Existence Of God
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... of God no greater being can be conceived. Hence it is false that God exists in the understanding but not in reality. This is evident from all of the previous statements.
By granting the fool's statement as true he's setting up the fool to contradict himself. He then leads the fool to a statement that he cannot deny. He says that the existence in reality would be greater than the existence in understanding alone. This statement cannot be denied because through reason there are more advantages in reality than only existing in understanding. He then moves along the same line to get the foo ...
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Significance Of Ritual In North American Indian Religion
Number of Words: 1770 / Number of Pages: 7
... explanation into its religious significance, then draw some
parallels to the more common sweat lodge ceremony. If a recurring spiritual
theme appears in separate rituals, it can be considered evidence of a consistent,
structured belief system.
The use of smoking pipes in Native American cultures is a popular and
very ancient practice. Direct predecessors of the modern pipe appear 1,500
years ago, and other less relevant pipes can be found as far back as 2,500 years
ago. The distinguishing characteristic of the sacred pipe is that the bowl is
separable from the long stem, and the two parts are ke ...
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Hinduism
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... I like the fact that new dieties arise every day. The people choose what they worship for themselves. Hindus may be atheists, monotheists, or even polytheists - it is an all-encompassing perspective, as far as I can tell.
I believe the idea of Brahman, or the ultimate reality, to be very essential to the Hindu philosophy. Brahman can either be a god or a personal diety to a theist or a process or ultimate to an atheist. Hindus believe that when they go to Brahman, they lose their identity and become part of the whole force. The idea of Brahman in the human soul is called Atman - it is the ind ...
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Christians: Criminals Or Not?
Number of Words: 726 / Number of Pages: 3
... upon the ancient national religion and on the emperor's worship . I interrogated them and even tortured them to get them to admit to the crimes , only to find that they are an harmless group . I discovered nothing more than an innocuous superstition . Christians faced persecution with courage, a very large percentage with heroism, but they did not submit to it without opposition. They defended themselves with great strength by confuting the accusations of those crimes as being false and groundless and by producing the contents of their faith ( What they believed in ) and describing their identity (W ...
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Brief History Of Buddhism
Number of Words: 1391 / Number of Pages: 6
... Guatama was born in Kapilivastu. His father was the
ruler of the small kingdom near the Indian/Nepal border. As a child, his
future was foretold by sages. They believed that he would someday be a
fellow sage or leader of a great empire. He led a very pampered and
sheltered life until the age of twenty-nine. It was at that time that he
realized that he had led an empty life. He renounced his wealth and
embarked on a journey to seek truth, enlightenment, and the cycle of
rebirths.
In the first years of his journey, Siddhartha Guatama practiced
yoga and became involved in radical asceticis ...
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