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… RELIGION         Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothin…

… other evangelists used basically five ways to change, edit or enhance Jesus' sayings to reflect their own views of Christianity. According to the Five Gospels Book, plagiarism and changing of writing was not a crime, but actually very common Mark's…

…         When an individual experiences movement, or a change from an affixed position in society to another position, that individual can easily describe their change as a passage into a new realm of living. A new realm of living is the way…

… sense deals with a common factor which is sin. The definition is a making at on which points to a process of bringing those who are enstranged into a unity(Douglas, 107). It is a theological term which derives from the Anglo-Saxon. The word atonement…

… Religion? It seems as if there has never been a time known to man when there has never been a religion in some guise or another. Nor has there been a race of people who have never tried to practice it in some shape or form. The study of…

… concerning the life to lead and salvation. In Matthew 5-7, he lays out what will later become the basics of Christianity. Jesus' teachings are very metaphorical and hard to find true meaning. I may be taking some of this too literally but, I found…

… self to the Tao. A better translation of wu wei in English is pure effectiveness. "Wu wei is the supreme action, the precious suppleness, simplicity, and freedom that flows through us, when our private egos and conscious efforts yield to a power not…

… easily be split up into two groups: Eastern religions and Western religions. The Eastern religions consist of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. The Western religions consist of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Almost all of these religions have come…

… of our lives. In the United States, the political mainstream describes a "separation of church and state," in order to separate this profound force of religion from the public lives of its citizens. Thus, the freedom to worship any religion remains…

… Primal religions were the first religions of man and few remnants can be seen in religions of today. They show us that the major historical religions of today aren't the only way things have been done. These "modes of religiosity" were tribal…