Several Hindu communities shave their men as part of religious rites, and scholars interpret the act as returning the participant to an infantile condition, without hair or gender.

好几个印度教群体将剃须作为宗教仪式的组成部分，学者们将此行为解释为送参加仪式的人回没有胡须不分性别的婴儿状态。

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Right. Of course, some of us count on faith as their spiritual guide. However, many youths have positioned a religious act as a custom.

是的，尽管有不少日本人是虔诚的信徒，但大多数年轻人只是把宗教仪式看成一种习惯。

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After his speech, religious leaders demonstrated to call for Congress to act this year.

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The only thing you can do now, the only religious thing you can do, is act.

你现在唯一能做的事情，你能做的唯一的宗教的事情，就是表演。

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It's in response to what was deemed to be the chaotic condition of English religious culture that the Presbyterian-led Parliament issued in 1643 the Licensing Act.

这是对被视为英国宗教文化的混乱状况的回应,由长老派领导的议会1643年,颁布的《权法案》

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"We are shocked and saddened by this development which is indeed a discriminating and hurtful act of religious intimidation, " he said.

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Henceforth, the guaranteed right of free expression will not extend to any criticism of Islam, on the grounds that it amounts to an abusive act of religious discrimination.

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Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.

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