The Holocaust had left many Jews with a crisis of faith: how could a caring God allow such a tragedy?

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This feast came around every year, on a day in November, and had been set up to allow shoppers to display their gratitude toward the god Production, who tirelessly satisfied their every desire.

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"We wanted to allow Freddy to pursue his dreams and develop his God-given talents, " said Adu's mother, Emelia.

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As a member of the Jesuit that embraces the principles of the Social Gospel, (putting the needs of the people first as a means of serving God) will he embrace inclusion to allow for women and married clergy?

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"Naively, I had assumed that the freedoms afforded in the United States, and the relative absence of political persecution, would allow for a Muslim intellectual rebirth, " he writes in the introduction to And God Knows the Soldiers.

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The alternative versions introduced more than 40 years ago allow Hindus and Buddhists to use the word "my Dharma" and Muslims "Allah" instead of God.

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