Religion
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While most central banks are inflation hawks, this stance is a matter of religion, not economic science.
I, too, come from an Abrahamic religion, Judaism, which shares strong roots with Islam.
People’s social allegiances are divided further by religion, race, occupation, gender, and even income bracket.
Islam as a
religion
of peace and human betterment is betrayed by anyone who commits atrocities in its name.
It is a broad and inclusive
religion
whose adherents across the world presently suffer from their lack of a unified voice.
It is time to put aside moralistic prejudices, whether based on
religion
or an idealistic form of feminism, and do what is in the best interests of sex workers and the public as a whole.
Politics, unlike religion, is a realm not of eternal truths, but of rational calculations.
I detest the implicit notion behind so much of our commentary that the Arabs or, even worse, the people of Islam, are unable to understand what a free society looks like, that they cannot be trusted with something so modern as a polity where
religion
is in its proper place.
Stealth laws that claim to defend local values, religion, or the traditional family have nothing to do with protecting society from scary, immoral gays; they have everything to do with protecting scary, immoral oligarchs from society.
Such leaders are using
religion
for their own highly modern political purposes; they use it to organize and mobilize their supporters - to commit individual or collective suicide, if need be.
In the West, extolling the virtues of democracy to others has long resembled proselytization of a secular religion, complete with the threat of fire and brimstone for those who do not embrace the democratic creed.
There is, however, one extraordinary clause: Article II proclaims freedom of
religion
in the Lutheran state, with the caveat that “Jews shall still be banned from entering the Realm.”
So the main issue was religion, not race – though the two could easily be confused.
To be sure, there are many other things that are crucial to the good life in peaceful, open societies: freedom of speech, religion, and association, and the power to choose – and remove – your own government.
As for religion, every
religion
embodies certain verities that are applicable to all mankind - justice, truth, mercy, compassion - and men often allow God to be blamed for their own sins.
The ancient Egyptians and the Incas practiced a
religion
of the Sun, believing it to be at the beginning of all life on Earth.
Known as “W,” Wirathu is the other face of a
religion
that is widely perceived as the archetype of peace, love, and harmony.
“To those seeing and hearing him, the ruler should appear to be all mercy, all faithfulness, all integrity, all humanity, and all
religion.
That ideology is based on a warped and false view of
religion.
What might loosely be called Islamism is based on a politicization of
religion
that is fundamentally incompatible with the modern world, for it assumes that there is one true religion, only one interpretation of that religion, and that this interpretation should prevail and dominate all countries’ politics, government institutions, and social life.
In the next section, there is merely a veiled reference to the szmalcowniks who “regardless of their origin, religion, or worldview – revealed their darkest side.”
They have asserted themselves in recent years by using the power of the ballot box to claim power on the basis of caste, religion, ethnicity, and other sectarian appeals.
These wicked acts, stemming from a distorted interpretation of a great religion, did not stop French voters from electing Emmanuel Macron, a man who knows that vigilance requires us to respect all members of our community.
Those who want to pin their problems on “the other” – as defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality – will always be in the minority.
As Columbia University’s Mark Lilla has persuasively argued, in complex and diverse democratic societies, political appeals based only on narrow identities – whether linked to class, religion, ethnicity, or, yes, ideology – ultimately are doomed.
To see what happens when politicians pander to religion, one need only look at neighboring Pakistan.
For the sake of free thought alone, it is time to stop branding as a bigot anyone who dares discuss the
religion
critically.
The Middle East suffers from too much intolerance and too little accord about either the boundaries between government and society or the role of
religion
within them.
When Henry VIII adopted the Statute in Restraint of Appeals to Rome, with its declaration that “this realm of England is an empire” – the first clear assertion of the idea of national sovereignty – there followed a brutal campaign to stamp out the old
religion.
Scroll down any day’s news summary and you find stories of terrorism and violence perpetrated in the cause of a false view of
religion.
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