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Religious Literacy
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful empire this planet had ever seen… And all through the remains of this great civilization, one sees evidence that people of different religions lived together in harmony.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Millions of people across the world, including myself, followed this saga as it unfolded with bated breath.
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Everyone knows the heart pumps blood in the human body, circulating it throughout the system over and over. Right? In the 2nd century, however, Galen,—a noted philosopher, physician, and surgeon in the Roman Empire, believed the liver was the source point of blood, being created by eating food.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I’ll end with my hope that the people of Indonesia will find an inclusive and fair way to treat all of its rich religious traditions and thereby set a new and positive example for other countries grappling with similar problems.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The composition of a society is rooted in the purposes of its individuals. Intertwined, those purposes fuel the dynamic evolution of a culture. They comprise its life-force; establishing, and then reflecting, its mores, values and goals.
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And the war between universes—the spiritual and the physical—continues. So many people are looking for the answer. Well, I am here to tell you that the answers have actually already been found.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
“Life is short—live it up.” This seems to be the mantra I hear more and more every day. Now, I’m all about fun. I think things should be fun. I think everyone should have some, I really do. But, there’s more to life than that.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I say: bring on more of these spiritual/religious messages. If it is difficult to get young people to come into church then certain very well-known artists are bringing God to their fans’ ears through those ’ear buds’. And that works for me.
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The dead were also removed from view, literally, when Reformation iconoclasts whitewashed hundreds of colorful religious murals inside Medieval churches to remove any trace of Catholicism.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
A U.S. Appeals Court has recently ruled that a 40-foot high cross located at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution because it is located on public land and maintained at government expense.
