The most pervasive authority over the institution is not the Constitution or the Bible but, rather, an impenetrable sixteen-hundred-page tome, by Floyd M.
Whether married or single, rich or poor, young or old, living in the West or the Bible Belt, almost every demographic group has seen a significant drop in people who call themselves Christians, Pew found.
The whole interview is peppered with references to God or the Bible and he makes a point of saying that his life is certainly not going to be defined by him being the Springbok coach.
Commonly called "the Hamburg Bible", or "the Bible of Bertoldus".
They include anyone who uses alternative medicine, or who buys organic food, or worries about genetic modification, or opposes nuclear power, or likes post-modernism, or doesn't vaccinate their children properly, or distrusts scientists, or believes the Bible, or dislikes global capitalism or thinks that human progress damages the environment.
To the average American, the Philippines is either an island near Hawaii or the guys in the Bible whose giant was slain by David.
Each pitch had to be based on a verse, character or story from the Bible.
You may be completely right in your interpretation of the Christian Bible but America is not a theocracy and neither the Legislature nor the Courts can base their legislation or their rulings on stories from the Bible anymore than they can base them on the various books that other religions contend state the holy and inerrant truth.
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Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as a part of a secular (public school) program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.
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One can argue about whether the Bible does or does not permit abortion.
OED, written citations tell us who used a word, not where or when (Shakespeare, the Bible, Milton and Spenser excepted).
A.M. choice of Catholic Mass or Bible study, the political analyst Charlie Cook gave a sober presentation about current demographic trends, demonstrating that the Party was doomed unless it started winning over Asian-Americans, Hispanics, and younger voters.
After I lost the element of trust be it trust in the Bible, trust in a church, or trust in the Pope I had no choice but to vindicate my own beliefs through research, literature, and countless hours of deep thought.
The course was rewritten to assume little or no faith, and only scant knowledge of the Bible.
Even for secular readers, the mysterious unfolding of the Hebrew Bible offers a glimpse of an implied or subtextual narrative of the development of God-consciousness.
To be sure, the Hebrew Bible is famous for the countless passages that leave gaps or generate inter-Biblical tensions, etc.
The Legislature provided little guidance, no funding for materials or teacher training when it passed the law in 2007 requiring Bible literacy to be taught starting in the 2009-2010 school year.
The Bible, not the Constitution or conventional jurisprudence, guides the curriculum.
Given equal weight in the exhibit, of course, are photographs of actors portraying biblical characters in "The Bible, " like a still of Delilah shaving the braids from Samson's head or a sequence of images of Jesus being baptized.
Certain books are famous--or notorious--for changing people's lives: the Bible, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Atlas Shrugged.
The Bible contains scores of references to Lebanon (or Phoenicia, as it is often called) and its complicated, love-hate relationship with the rulers of Israel to its south.
More than the NT, the Hebrew Bible has some unusually troubling, disturbing, perverse or weird texts.
Immediately, his passengers were made members of the Right Wheel Group or the Left Wing Club, and Mr Laker would appear at Gatwick with a Bible on which they would swear club allegiance if the airline snoops were watching.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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His shelves reproach him with volumes still, or perhaps never, to be read that unfinished Macaulay, the untouched William James, the Bible still to be gone through properly.
Revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad, The Koran, or Qur'an (recitation) is the sacred book of Islam, and is, with the Bible, the most widely read of sacred texts.
Moreover, the Bible offers very little detail about Jesus's daily life when he wasn't preaching or performing miracles.
Nativity plays or carol concerts in state primary schools are unthinkable, as would be the swearing-in of presidents over the Bible.
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