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Skip over all the pages reassuring religious people.
And I was doing some rather controversial religious programs.
And there, for the first time, I encountered the other religious traditions: Judaism and Islam, the sister religions of Christianity.
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.
Indeed, some of the world traditions think very little of religious orthodoxy.
And religious doctrines are meant to be summons to action; you only understand them when you put them into practice.
There's also a great deal, I think, of religious illiteracy around.
People seem to think, now equate religious faith with believing things.
I wasn't raised in a religious Jewish home, but when I was young, my grandmother used to tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible, and one of them stuck with me and came to define much of what I care about.
Those prisons were eventually shut down, but only through the campaigning of religious groups and human rights advocates, like Amnesty International.
Today, civil rights lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging CMUs in court for depriving prisoners of their due process rights and for retaliating against them for their protected political and religious speech.
So when we started the exploration, we had to explore with a great respect, both because of the religious beliefs of the indigenous people, but also because it was really a sacred place, because no human had entered there before.
It's a rich country filled with stories of rebellion, stories of civilizational triumph and downfall and the rich, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity.
And, yeah, there are some people out there who do it and they feel that they are doing a religious obligation.
We accept things in our religious lives that we do not accept in our secular lives, and I know this because I've been doing it for three decades.
My father's actually a religious leader in the community.
I was the kind of religious where everyone I know donated 10 percent of everything they earned to the church, including myself.
I was the kind of religious where I heard parents tell children when they're leaving on a two-year proselytizing mission that they would rather have them die than return home without honor, having sinned.
I was the type and the kind of religious where kids kill themselves every single year because they're terrified of coming out to our community as gay.
But I was also the kind of religious where it didn't matter where in the world I lived, I had friendship, instantaneous mutual aid.
But what utterly shocked me was throughout all of this work I received equal measures of vitriol from the secular left, the same vehemence as the religious right.
And what my secular friends didn't realize was that this religious hostility, these phrases of, "Oh, all religious people are crazy or stupid."
What they didn't understand was that that type of hostility did not fight religious extremism, it bred religious extremism.
How do we respect someone's religious beliefs while still holding them accountable for the harm or damage that those beliefs may cause others?
The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox and the religious right, what they all don't understand was why even care about religious activism?
It's the story of the power books have to connect us across political, geographical, cultural, social, religious divides.
Traditionally, it's been done by private and religious organizations, like churches and mosques and synagogues.
But any remaining panic subsided as I walked into the courtroom and looked around at a sea of friendly faces: our individual women clients who had shared their deeply personal stories, the geneticists who had taken huge chunks of time out of their busy careers to dedicate themselves to this fight and representatives from a diverse array of medical, patient advocacy, environmental and religious organizations, who had submitted friend of the court briefs in the case.
It was thanks to Napoléon that the continent was reshaped from a chaotic patchwork of fragmented feudal and religious territories into efficient, modern, and secular nation states where the people held more power and rights than ever before."
And if you are one of those people who is sitting out there right now already coming up with a list of reasons in your head why this is not a priority, or it's too expensive, or telling yourself that giving a trans person a safe place to pee or get changed in supports a lifestyle choice that you feel offends your morality, or your masculinity, or your religious beliefs, then let me just appeal to the part of your heart that probably, hopefully, does care about the rest of the population.
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