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Religion in sentence

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So what I want you to think about next time somebody wants to make some vast generalization about religion is that maybe there isn't such a thing as a religion, such a thing as religion, and that therefore what they say cannot possibly be true.
Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you, to raise your child in a religion that your partner lives by but leaves you cold.
However, in every religion, in every population, you'll find a small percentage of people who hold so fervently to their beliefs that they feel they must use any means necessary to make others live as they do.
I'd been raised to judge people based on arbitrary measurements, like a person's race or religion.
On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest with myself about my own bigotry and helped me to realize that a person's race, religion or sexual orientation had nothing to do with the quality of one's character.
And with that simple fact, I stand here as proof that violence isn't inherent in one's religion or race, and the son does not have to follow the ways of his father.
Indeed they would say religion is based on faith or maybe the calculus of Pascal's wager.
I cite the definition given by the Algerian sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas, and she says that fundamentalisms, note the "s," so within all of the world's great religious traditions, "fundamentalisms are political movements of the extreme right which in a context of globalization manipulate religion in order to achieve their political aims."
They seek to curtail the freedom of religion of everyone who either practices in a different way or chooses not to practice.
This is at complete odds with how Abdirizak Bihi understands what he is trying to do by exposing al Shabaab recruitment, which is to save the religion I love from a small number of extremists.
When I reflect on the issues of race, religion, identity, a lot of painful memories come to mind.
This is just a fact of human nature that has been recognized in social science and in literature and in religion and in virtually every field of discipline.
And from literate populations, new forms of collective action emerged in the spheres of knowledge, religion and politics.
You become your religion.
Are science and religion compatible?
In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.
In the 1880s, anthropologists began to collect them as evidence of American Indian religion.
In the wake of war, stolen land, boarding schools, laws banning religion, anthropologists collected sacred objects in the belief that Native peoples were on the cusp of extinction.
I don't see race or religion or sexuality.
And I was like, "Peacebuilder?" (Laughter) Every day, I work to amplify the voices of women and to highlight their experiences and their participation in peace processes and conflict resolution, and because of my work, I recognize that the only way to ensure the full participation of women globally is by reclaiming religion.
But I can't overlook the damage that has been done in the name of religion, not just my own, but all of the world's major faiths.
I was never subjected to religion through a cultural lens.
I very quickly became introduced to the cultural aspect of religion.
Liberals will say you're using religion and call you a bad conservative.
And I remain a very strong believer that women's rights and religion are not mutually exclusive.
He hated American politics and American religion and American culture, but he had no objection to American dollars.
And I'm also rather surprised, because when I look back on my life the last thing I ever wanted to do was write, or be in any way involved in religion.
After I left my convent, I'd finished with religion, frankly.
This went down very well in the U.K., where religion is extremely unpopular.
And it has been the study of other religious traditions that brought me back to a sense of what religion can be, and actually enabled me to look at my own faith in a different light.
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