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housing a prisoner for life ("Revenge" 21). Social research suggests that support for the death penalty in the US stems from "vigi...
Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...
revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...
the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...
thee tribes have been encroached by modernity and some are now seeking more theological complexity. Robin Wright says that "cultur...
is linked is a fallacy. Fanaticism is associated with terrorism. Just the notorious murderer Son of Sam blamed his actions on his ...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism ...
prayers. This is very different in Islam. As most of us should know by now, Muslims pray five times each day, each time facing Me...
increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...
womans role in relation to her society in somewhat different ways. The differences between the Shia and Sunni sects are particula...
happen to good people?" is basically addressing the problem of evil, and why an omnipotent divine being would allow evil to exist...
Masses, the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. Jews follow the Torah. This is the same as the Catholics Old Testament. Judaism a...
numbers. However, early on, they read more like a church sermon that Mary had been conditioned to recite from early childhood. I...
it nearly incomprehensible to man. There are strong differences of opinion regarding what one must do to be saved but there is a...