Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote, says the phrase "spiritual but not religious" has become a bit of a joke.
He's, of course, a Mormon, but he's not a religious leader, and that if he were president, the oath he took to the Constitution would supersede his faith.
He said he was not religious, but added that "maybe that's just more a matter of my family background than that there's any fundamental difficulty about reconciling the two".
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Often entirely and deeply religious, but not this petty.
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They are not Islamists, they are Muslims, religious people, but the party is not an Islamist party.
Or Kwanzaa for that matter, which in fact is not a religious holiday but a cultural celebration, created in 1966.
He is not a religious officer but, supremely, a servant of what will become the modern state, for good and ill.
And he talks about this in a -- not about religious sacraments, but civil marriage.
The issue, they say, is not one of civil rights but of religious freedom.
Officers said he was carrying a religious book, but had not determined what it was Tuesday afternoon.
"This is not a religious experience, but in trucking it's as good as it gets, " he said later.
Their goal was not navigation and accurate knowledge but rather religious instruction.
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They came, not for religious freedom, but to get rich from digging sassafras, a commodity prized in Europe as a cure for the clap.
But to win the White House, you need independent voters -- and they are not only the largest but the least religious segment of the electorate.
Two U.S. officials said preliminary evidence from the younger man's interrogation suggests the brothers were motivated by religious extremism but were apparently not involved with Islamic terrorist organizations.
That logic applies not just to the religious right but, increasingly, to other sections of the Republican Party.
I'm not necessarily a religious man, but I do believe in much of the wisdom from the good book, like Proverbs 12:10.
Mr Bush's foreign wars do not accord with Amish pacifism, but his religious conviction and his stance on social issues have got their hearts aflutter.
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Unionists accuse the team who produced the report of taking a selective approach to "parental choice" - respecting it when it comes to providing a range of schools with different religious or cultural identities, but not when parents back grammar schools.
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That permission would not make them a religious order, but it would give them some protection from the charge of heresy.
An employment tribunal found she had not been subjected to religious discrimination, but BA later altered its uniform code to allow symbols of faith, including crosses.
Both books under review are to some degree dirges for the sort of Jew who could be recognised not from overt signs of religious observance but from mannerisms, tastes, affiliations and habits of mind.
But churches will not have to take crucifixes and other religious symbols off the walls and will remain able to favour members of their own faith in hiring, even for social programmes paid for with federal money.
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The rationale for this rests on two prongs. (A) The Shariah authorities are not mere advocates of theory or theology but authorized religious leaders who have been retained by the U.S. company precisely because their legal rulings and pronouncements are authoritative and respected.
Many epidemiologists have argued that, if there is a relationship, it is not a matter of the removal of the foreskin but of the sexual behaviour of the cultural, ethnic or religious groups that are either circumcised or not circumcised.
Mosque attendance is not the only measure of religious observance, but Muslims are experiencing other signs of secularization as well.
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And like the Puritans before them, their secession was not merely born out of politics, but out of religious fervor.
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Religious faith was not rationally defensible, but he thought that some dogmatic beliefs (preferably Roman Catholic) were necessary for social cohesion.
This fluid mercantile society was not necessarily less religious than medieval Europe, but it was less hierarchical and more concerned with secular objectives.
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