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…is in the dark because he is guilty of one of the seven deadly sins, Acedia. Some dictionaries give "sloth" or "laziness" as a meaning for acedia, but it is more than physical laziness to the Christian. Acedia is moral laziness, inertia of the soul…

…Ali, took over the Mount Lebanon region. The Egyptians, supported by the French and Bashir II, encouraged Christian equality with Muslims and sometimes even favored the Christians. Ibrahim Pasha, working with Prince Bashir, made changes…

…at a respectable position, until our religion was run down. We made a living, and made a comfortable one at that. Now we're in hiding with our Christian friends gathering us food with their own money. My father has promised to repay him, but that's only if we get out…

…sections or parties of the same country or nation. There is a holy war which is a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places…

…presence, the narrator uses his self-righteousness to try and use these instances as Christian charity. "Here I can cheaply purchase a delicious self-approval. To befriend Bartleby; to humor him in his strange willfulness, will cost me little or nothing…

…accept an invitation to dinner or go for a bathe in the Jordan," the river in which John the Baptist Christianized repentant sinners. Forster says that, "Property produces a men of weight," and by definition, "cannot move like the lightning from the East unto…

…. If the Christian faith did not exist, others and I would not be able to enjoy the season of Christmas. Sadly, the world would be one dull place, and our knowledge wouldn't be able to grow like a newborn baby. We wouldn't be able to go to other countries and experience…

…evolution deals with theologically sensitive problems, such as humanity's place in the universe, it becomes the particular target creationists. I'll just talk about the Christian point of view without bringing in other religions to simplify things and not turn…

…, Mater/Kybele, Isis and Serapis, in the emperor era followed by the religion of Mithras and Christianity. The religious meaning of the classical Roman gods was lost in the course of the emperor era ever more. However, important political roles came to them…

…of the earliest Christian churches. Hawthorne connects this with Dimmesdale's style of preaching by implying it to be just the same as the disciples: in "tongues of flame."…