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What Is A Hindu?

... to be generous and giving and includes the sub-principal Dharma. Dayadhvamh says to be compassionate and includes KaruNa. There are also many sub-principals within these principals. These are Ahimsa, satya, Brahmacharya, Maitri, Dharma, KaruNa, Viirya, Dama, and Shaucha. Ahimsa means nonviolence and in strict Hindu households may include vegetarianism. Satya is truthfulness and honesty at all costs. Brahmacharya is often translated incorrectly as sexual continence, but actually means the state of incessant search for the truth; the trut ...

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God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets

... understanding of our creator. If we are seen as the lambs of God, meek and tender, can we really understand the generosity and glory of a God who gave us life? He did give us life, and Blake tells us that we take this great gift for granted. So, he asks "Dost thou know who made thee?" So God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female, He created them. Genesis 1:27 Anyone who has seen a lamb knows that it is a weak creature; unable to protect it's self from the strength of an evil predator. If we are the ...

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Religions

... can be said of any group of civilizations. To say that all religions are spread by violence is equally unfair and untrue - because contrasted religions has been spread in exceedingly diverse regions of the world, by vastly different cultures. Islam, as a prime example, has been characterized inequitably by historians and the media as a religion of violence. To put it bluntly, as this article does, "Islam was mainly spread through Arab territorial conquests (Sudo, 4)." However, upon examination, it is not fair to make the generalization that ...

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Religion And Discrimination

... or ‘faiths' which claim to be religions that are prevalent today are, in actuality, forms of cults. Although most of the practices and elements common to cults are legal, they are, at best, suspect. The following should constitute the line of telerance society should not cross. Firstly, what distinguishes cults from religions is the manner in which they operate. Cults are designed with a view of insulating the individual from the rest of society. Once a member of a cult, in most cases, the individual is removed of most (if not ...

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Religion In School?

... lunch are not criticized. Religion is not forced upon people in an overwhelming manner. If a Christian decides to wear Christian apparel or accessories, they should not be treated any different. They have just as much a right to pray before school, or at lunch to show their individuality, as those around them might through clothing, attitude, and word of mouth. As long as they follow the school codes as expected, they should be treated just as their non-Christian equal. No place in the constitution does it say Christians should be t ...

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Roman Religion

... over the fireplace were icons crowned with flowers representing the gods and spirits of the family. The two faced god Janus who sat over the doorways watched the entry and exit of every door in the house. Penates, god of the interior, protected accumulations of the family in its storerooms, cupboards, and barns. The father and mother, the child was taught, are the embodimentof Genius and Juno, respectively. Both had to be treated and nourished divinely. Hung on the walls were death masks of the Di Manes, warning him to stick to tradition. ...

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Sophist Teachings

... know that probability in favor of a God, and yet with little or no empirical proof all claims of faith seem rather unsubstantiated to me. And yet, this seems to displease many people taht I am close to. My parents are quietly disappointed, and some friends have acted self-righteous about their unwavering faiths, while as far as I can see, they preach Christianity, but don't come close to practicing it. Strangers I have met at work ahve invited me to join them in their worship. I get pamphlets on my car, and messages on my answerin ...

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Existentialism

... that man is full of anxiety and despair with no meaning in his life, just simply existing, until he made decisive choice about his own future. That is the way to achieve dignity as a human being. Existentialists felt that adopting a social or political cause was one way of giving purpose to a life. Sartre is well known for the "Theatre engage" or Theatre 'committed', which is supposedly committed to social and/or political action. On of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre had been imprisoned in ...

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Art In The Bible

... percieved it a way more accoustomed to the modern world. He created a sense of greyness in a world that was previously percieved as only black and white. In his depiction of Adam and Eve being expelled from the garden of Eden he sets up a dichotomus world but through subtile and not so subtile hints he shows the observer that he doesn't percieve the world in this way. He creates this grey world to show the observer that the world is not all really black and white. The painting is really divided into two separate pictures. One depictng the â ...

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Brief History Of Buddhism

... wide range is due to two reasons. The tendency for religious affiliation to be nonexclusive is one. The other is the difficulty in getting information from Communist countries such as China. It's followers have divided into two main branches: Theravada and Mahayana. Theravada, the way of the elders, is dominant in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Mahayana, the greater vehicle, refers to the Theravada as Hinayana, the lesser vehicle. It is dominant in India, Tibet, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. ...

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Separation Of Church And State

... The court case of Engel versus Vitale went all the way to the Supreme Court whose verdict came to be an overruling of the district court. This case dealt with the public school district of New Hyde Park, New York. The problem in this case was that school officials were allowing a school prayer at the beginning of the day. A main political issue within public schools involves the First Amendment, how the school system enforces certain things and how schools can get around the separation between church and state. The First Amendmen ...

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Trito-Isaiah

... temple was still in ruins (Isaiah 64:11). The initial steps toward rebuilding it had been taken, but a lot of work still remained (Isaiah 66:1). In the city, the streets and walls were still in ruins (Isaiah 58-60). No significant restoration appears to have been done in the outlying villages (Isaiah 61:4). Here the Prophet directed his preaching to the Jews raised in the Exile and now united with the descendants of those who had remained in Palestine. (Life and Literature of the Early Period 3) used the form of writing that included a v ...

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