What Is A Witch?
.... The Wicca acknowledge a supreme divine power, unknowable, ultimate,
from which the entire universe sprang,” (Cunningham, 9). This is a Witch's
concept of the Divine. However, it is a distant, powerful image that is not
easily understood. For the purpose of worship, the Wicca recognize the duality
of this power. It is both male and female, good and evil, and therefore is
worshipped in the form of a Goddess and a God. These are the primeval gods of
the ancient world, worshipped under names in many cultures: Odin, Freya, Ra,
Ma'at, Zeus, Diana, Apollo, Kali, Shiva, Pele, and countless others. Wiccans
believe that these are .....
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Women In Religion
.... in the Roman Catholic religion. The Bible states "Let your women keep
silent in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they
are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law" (I Corinthians
14:34). When a person receives the calling, whether man or woman, it usually
means that God is asking to become one of hisdisciples and spread his word.
Women receive this calling just like men, but because women have been denied
that privilege for so many years, they have no choice, but to serve only
between the boundaries that have been given to them. Since many churches have
finally given in .....
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What Went Wrong: An Examination Of Separation Of Church And State
.... state” when
referring to the religion clause of the 1st Amendment.
The 1st amendment's actual wording is “Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” (Barton,
America: To… p.15) But, because of the Supreme Court's continuous citing of a “
wall of separation” and “separation of church and state”, the public's idea of
the 1st amendment's religion clause has been shaped by phrases which do not
appear anywhere in the Constitution. The First Congress, which passed this
Amendment in 1789, intended to prohibit the establishment of a national religion.
In fact, they didn .....
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Who Is God?
.... with Africa through
networks of friends and traders. They sought the sacred cowries, seeds, and
beads of Africa for their religion." This example of perseverance of their
native ritual and worship practices, shows the magnitude that region held for
many Yoruba Africans.
They kept their own religion alive through many hidden tactics such as
unsuspected culinary art, by giving the gods the food they needed to be strong.
"But these were more than foods: they were writings in code. African system of
logic and belief flowed unsuspected from the kitchen, giving the gods the dishes
they craved."
The Altar was also maintained by ma .....
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Who Was Jesus?
.... Jesus' actions, however. Jesus never (as far as I
know) says to ignore to commandments of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; however,
constantly breaks the Sabbath (Matt 12:13 and others), and gives VERY flimsy and
unconvincing explanations for it. I am not sure what his message was in those
actions. Perhaps he didn't care?
In general, Matthew was a good, entertaining story to read, with a very
dramatic ending, and great character development (a little sarcastic humor
here)!
I was very surprised to find much of the Book of Mark a repeat of what was
written in Matthew, but with a little less detail, and a few stories omitt .....
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Abraham
.... Abram not only traveled with his wife on this journey, but he also
picked up his nephew, Lot. He lived his life in Canaan as a Nomad. Famine
eventually struck the land of Canaan , forcing Abram and his family to move on
to Egypt.
In Egypt, Abram was fearful that the Egyptians would kill him and take
his wife Sarai if they were to discover that the two were married. Abram
attempted to cover this up by telling everyone that he and Sarai were just
brother and sister. The Pharaoh demanded that Sarai be brought to his palace,
and as result, God sent down plagues which devastated all of Egypt. In a
desperate attempt to save hi .....
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A Non-Religious Contract In America
.... of divorce.
Therefore, we can conclude that religion has become less of an issue for many
Americans when marrying because most religions strongly discourage divorce, some
to the point of not allowing it at all. This leads to the question, "What is
today's basis for marriage?"
Some propose that the sole purpose of marriage be to bring life into the
world. If this were true, then it would be unacceptable for many in this
country to ever be married. There are many women and men who simply do not want
to have children. Should we condemn them and not allow them to marry just
because of this view? Should we not allow those .....
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Apocalypse
.... for you as the events
of our immediate future unfold. This is being done solely for
the benefit of others so that people may understand what to do
about the times now approaching humanity. What I'm about to
explain will strike many people as ridiculous, because this kind
of thing has been predicted over and over again and people are
not inclined to take things like this seriously. I am not your
average tabloid psychic. In fact, I'm not a psychic at all. I
am what could be called a modern day seer, but I prefer to be
thought of as just a human being with an important message. .....
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An Analysis Of The Jehovah's Witnesses' Religion
.... sung out of a
book of songs that they provided for us.
After the singing there was a guest speaker from Bagley, Minnesota.
The speaker spoke to the congregation about topics in the bible, his speech
lasted about three fourths of an hour. Afterwards the priest came to the
podium and thanked the guest for coming. Then the priest leaded another song,
sung from the song book. Next the congregation headed a bible discussion from
an article from a Jehovah's Witness weekly magazine The Watch Tower.
The article had to deal with what is paramount in our lives. The
discussion lasted for another hour and a fifteen minutes, with ques .....
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Arianism
.... to be the one Supreme
Deity), gave rise, between the years A. D. 60 and 200, to number of Theosophic
systems, called generally Gnosticism, and having for their authors Basilides,
Valentinus, Tatian, and other Greek speculators. Though all of these visited
Rome, they had no following in the West, which remained free from controversies
of an abstract nature, and was faithful to the creed of its baptism.
Intellectual centers were chiefly Alexandria and Antioch, Egyptian or Syrian,
and speculation was carried on in Greek. The Roman Church held steadfastly by
tradition. Under these circumstances, when Gnostic schools had passed away w .....
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Art In The Bible
.... of Eden. Michelangelo splits the picture like this so
that he can create the dichotomus world on which his painting will be based.
Although the whole theme is the non-dichotomusness of the world he must do this
so that people will have something to relate to. Once this has been achieved he
can continue to paint in the greyness whick joins the good and the evil. The
dichotomus world, however, serves a very important purpose in this picture. It
sets the defination of right and wrong. Michelangelo is trying to say that there
is not eivil and that there is no good. He knows that this cant be true. However
Michelangelo defines a bl .....
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Religion In American Life
.... and Protestants, there is a
trend toward less rigid attendance of religious services. If we examine the
figures from Stark and Glock's 1968 survey, 54% of Americans surveyed at the
time attended church more often than once a month. This figure shrank to 40.7%
in the 1994 survey. Though the Catholic church insists on weekly attendance of
church, weekly attendance dropped from 52% in 1978 to 49% in 1986. Then,
attendance plummeted, with only 28.3% of Catholics surveyed in 1994 claiming to
have attended church in the last seven days. Even among those who remain with
the traditional Christian sects, attendance is diminishing. C .....
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