religious tolerance
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What the Wonder of Stonehenge Has To Do With Religious Freedom
The news reminded me of my own visit to Stonehenge some decades ago. Like so many others, I was very curious about what drove a people lacking any sort of technology to haul 20-ton rocks many miles and place them in a precise order. The people who built it in multiple stages between 5,000 and 2,600 years ago left no written history of themselves, so we can only guess.
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What’s the Magic Word?
There’s a beautiful word that represents a concept, a viewpoint, a way of looking at things. I’ve been growing grey waiting for the world to pick up a Scientology book and learn this word and, I recently decided, I shall wait no longer.
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Where Do You Stand on Taking a Stand?
People are social creatures, and this is one of our greatest strengths and one of our greatest weaknesses, all at the same time.
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Libman Company—Enough of Your Support for Hate and Bigotry
I have been studying and practicing Scientology since 1981 and it has greatly benefited me and all those with whom I am in contact. Don’t we have enough hatred and bigotry going on in our country and the world today? I’m confident that you will withdraw your support of this show once you see how misleading and cruel it is.
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In This Time of Tragedy, Faiths Stand Together
In his speech last year at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Dalai Lama told the world what he thought of the term "Islamic terrorism." His words have never been more fitting. "Buddhist terrorist. Muslim terrorist. That wording is wrong," he said.
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The New Year
As 2018 launches and 2017 fades in the rear-view mirrors of our minds, STAND looks forward to a year of great strides in the fields of tolerance, mutual respect and religious freedom.
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UK Report: Religious Intolerance More Divisive Than Race—But There’s a Bright Side
Religion is the “final frontier” of personal prejudice, with attitudes to faith driving negative perceptions more than ethnicity or nationality—that was one of the conclusions of a recently published two-year study of attitudes toward ethnic, national and religious diversity in England and Wales.
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Why Religion and Tolerance Must Go Hand in Hand
The path taken by those who choose hate is the one true path to perdition.
