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Lots of good humor and intentionally broad strokes make the holy teachings vivid and entertaining--and still their message comes through clearly.
The heroine addict lead singer of Nirvana who killed himself), begins to create a new religion based on his teachings.
Jim 'You Don't Have to be Blind to See' Stovall is an inspirational writer who in 2001 published a little book by the name of THE ULTIMATE GIFT in which he transposed many of his motivational teachings into a novel form, a story of how a tape of a dying man can alter the life of a crassly money-centric young grandson leading him through trials and challenges to teach him the meaning of life.
Conservatives, by contrast, are unyielding on this point, believing that there is but one path to God, and that salvation comes only through following Islamic teachings.
But Gaddafi now seems to want to reconcile his teachings and rule with a more open economy, including foreign direct investment and market-based competition.
This threatened the authority of the King, who had overseen the religious establishment, as well as feminists’ efforts to moderate Morocco’s Family Law, which had been based on a rigid view of religious teachings.
What I said, instead, was this: I might, as a practicing Roman Catholic who adheres to his Church’s teachings, think that homosexuality is a sin.
This wealth of experience all points in one direction: Keynes's teachings are still very much alive, and Argentina today would be in far better shape if his lessons had been taken to heart.
These instructions casually referred to Kim family business, indicating that “the teachings should be executed by Kim Kyong-hui” (Kim Jong-il’s sister), that “Kim Kyong-hui and Kim Jong-un should take care of the family,” and that “Kim Kyong-hui should handle management of all assets inside and outside the country.”
When Kim Il-sung (the “Eternal Great Leader”) died in 1994, Kim Jong-il relied on his father’s teachings to reinforce his authority.
But the North is itself being pushed around by the teachings of a ghost, conveniently used by the people who remain in charge in Pyongyang.
Would the revolution follow the teachings of Luther, Zwingli, or Calvin, or would it embrace an even more radical vision?
In Iraq’s second largest city, Basra, a stronghold of conservative Shia groups, as many as 133 women were killed last year for violating “Islamic teachings” and in so-called “honor killings,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Catholic Church has abandoned its anti-Jewish teachings, but this does not that mean that the culture engendered by Christianity can easily redefine its premises.
So the Church’s teachings about the evils of Nazism were crystal clear to everyone.
But the retention of such laws is easier to understand in the case of countries that incorporate religious teachings into their criminal law – no matter how much others may regret it – than in a secular democracy like India.
Sufism comprises a variety of independent orders with distinctive beliefs and practices that are derived from numerous saints’ teachings.
By demonstrating their personal agency against ISIS’s dictates, women freed from its control remind the world that the group has hijacked Islam’s universal values and perverted its teachings.
We must be free to deny the existence of God, and to criticize the teachings of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, and Buddha, as reported in texts that millions of people regard as sacred.
Al-Qaeda’s terrorist network is seen as arising directly from fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings, which constitute an integral part of the Saudi regime.
For the Communist Party, the anniversary is a clear opportunity to present itself as the successor of a great and enduring anti-capitalist tradition, albeit one that now brings together Marxist-Leninist teachings and the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Hamas believes that the deal vindicated the teachings of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nassrallah, who has defined Israel as nothing but a “spider’s web” that can be destroyed with the whisper of a sword.
Another is the vulgarization of religious knowledge, with the Koran's teachings abused and taken out of context to support political ends.
What is dividing the Church is the return, thanks to the apparently final global triumph of democracy, of an ancient Catholic debate, with inherited moral teachings pitted against a faith supported by reason, the individual's conscience, and the personal pursuit of truth.
The Sunnis have four imams and the Shias have twelve; their teachings all differ.
We are also taught by our ulamas (religious instructors) that their teachings must not be questioned.
Likewise, there are hard-line Jews, such as the settler groups who drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and Hebron, who have forgotten the early teachings of Jewish scholars who argued that strangers should be treated like your own people.
Berlusconi carefully followed all of Machiavelli’s teachings on how to obtain and maintain power – all but one, and that lapse sealed his fate.
He was far less shaped by religious and biblical teachings than all of them, and the narrative of Jewish history and of Israel’s heroic emergence out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not the primordial sentiment in his attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Traditionally, under Bengali Sufi mystical teachings, the majority Muslim population lived peacefully with other religions, and Bangladesh had a good record on education and civil rights for women.
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