By all means let us have debates on religion, but let's do so without insulting each others' beliefs.
Mr. ABRAHAM: (Through translator) They used to come us and speak of religion.
In a society that teaches us to associate morality with religion, it is easy to assume that a strong relationship exists between piety and pity, between god and good.
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"While Malaysia is concentrating on doing so many things, other forces are using religion to pull us back, " says Tajudin Ramli, chairman of Malaysia Airlines and a conference observer.
The next worse or European Socialists and US liberals and they rarely cite religion for their position.
Just as, internationally, the Islamists give us the offer "say my religion is peaceful or I will kill you", so domestically we are told "say there's no radicalism or we'll be radical".
Whatever your own constitutional perspective may be when it comes to the propriety of either state or federal government establishing an official religion, each of us must consider the impact such a practice would likely have on the fundamental rights we have long valued as Americans.
And it's what knit us together -- regardless of race, regardless of status, regardless of religion -- that idea, that's what pulled us together.
The FJP said in statement that Ms Nuland's comments constituted "blatant interference" and meant that the US "welcomes and defends contempt of religion by the media".
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Instead, it convinced Western and US public opinion that "Islam is the religion of terrorists".
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So, not surprisingly, Gen Dempsey has ordered a full investigation into what other US military schools might be teaching about the religion.
Nowhere in the First Amendment to the US Constitution does it say that we must take religion or faith out of everything to avoid offending anyone.
The idea is to use Western sensibilities and civil liberties, notably, respect for the free practice of religion, to deny the rest of us our fundamental freedoms.
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Nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity.
Cultural Marxism broadened the group identification that supposedly defines us beyond class distinctions to include race, sex, religion, sexual proclivities, etc.
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Lori and I both see the same thing happening with Annie, our seven-year-old who came with us from San Diego, and are trying to teach religion to the new ones.
Business people should care, and care deeply, about the manner in which the media characterizes all of us whenever it does so using race, gender, religion, disability, national origin, sexual orientation or gender preference.
In woebegone Hargeisa, the dusty and crumbling capital of Somaliland, a young university student insisted on paying for our tea at a cafe, thanking us profusely for engaging with him in a discussion about religion, politics and America that was eye-opening for Levi and me.
And this brings us to the most contentious question in the scientific study of religion: Is religiosity -- including our tendency to believe in supernatural entities as well as our ability to lose ourselves in religious rites -- an adaptation?
In closing, let me say that for President Obama and those of us serving in his administration, protecting and advancing the freedom of religion will remain a foreign policy priority.
Even for non-Americans, those Muslims who are trying to resist Wahhabist efforts to hijack and radicalize their religion have as great an interest as the rest of us in figuring out how the Saudis and others are advancing their subversive agenda.
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With propaganda division is forced upon us, the war of all against all, ignorance, and the religion of consumerism.
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These arguments are old and abiding ones, as Peter Bowler reminds us in his history of earlier attempts to reconcile modern science and contemporary religion.
We stood face to face with those people and forces who hijacked not just airplanes, but a great religion and turned it into a creed of terrorism dedicated to killing us and eradicating us and our way of life.
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Creativity is about religion , it reflects a reverence for divine creativity in the world around us.
Such a warped view of religion is not just incompatible with the concept of peace, but the purpose of faith -- for the one rule that lies at the heart of every major religion is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
However, speaking on condition of anonymity, two US officials told the Associated Press news agency on Monday that the brothers had been motivated by religion.
Usually head and shoulders above the rest of us, they would have stood out regardless, but on a campus where basketball was a religion, they were gods.
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"July Fourth allows us to celebrate the freedom and the liberty we enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble peacefully, freedom of the press, " White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
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