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The Semitic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and the religions of Indian origin (Hinduism, Buddhism) are historically peaceful religions and thus will bring peace to the world today. Essentially, every world religion supports and professes ‘peace’ through their various sacred writings and scriptures. However, war and violence can certainly be recognised historically, and at present within religion. What is the notion of ‘peace’? And how exactly have these religions assisted in the
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church (or CCC) is the official text of the teachings of the Catholic Church. A provisional, "reference text" was issued by Pope John Paul II on October 11, 1992 "the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council" with his apostolic constitution, Fidei depositum. The new Catechism was first published in 1994 in French and was then translated into many other languages. Catholic tradition and doctrine holds that the Catholic Church was founded
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Comparison In the early years of Catholicism, worshippers with a common purpose banded together to create one of the biggest Christian entities. At the time the Catholic Church started all Christian beliefs that came before it were thought of as heresy. Even today the Catholic Church still does not recognize other denominations of the faith. The recent Second Vatican Council declared all baptized Christians to be "in a certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church."(Catechism
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unceasing respect for the sanctity of marriage and the preservation of the family as a basic institution of society. With Malta’s decision to legalize divorce, the Philippines thus earned the distinction of becoming the only country, other than Vatican City, that upholds the inviolability of marriage. Being citizens of a nation that protects the sanctity of marriage and protects the unity of the family is an honor that we all should be proud of. But divorce in the Philippines is planning to take over
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explain the world and peoples’ experiences of it. Bill Maher in Religulous demonstrates that religion today contradicts reason, and that religious followers need their consciousness raised. Having faith does not lead to the right path but instead leads one astray. He attacks scriptures
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conduct than attempt. (LexisNexis, 2013). Under RICO, a person who has committed "at least two acts of racketeering activity" drawn from a list of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period, if such acts are related in one of four specified ways to an "enterprise," can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering
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Case One: The Pope, Jordan, and Religious Tourism pg. 39 For JTB the best target market would be pilgrims from foreign countries, where there would be large amount of Christian pilgrims interested in coming to Jordan to see Jordan River where Jesus was baptized. Targeting Christians in Jordan would be not as effective as in Rome, because in Jordan there are only 4% residents with Christian religion. In my opinion Nayef Fayez should have a wider view on world and target people places where people
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The Evolution and Historical Significance of the Renaissance Where do we owe our modern approach to thought, identity, religion and science? One could explain it through evolution of thought process and knowledge, but then again, when were people inspired to think in that type of manner? It can be traced back to an age of enlightenment we know as the Renaissance. Although this period in our history is generally thought of as a reformation in how we as people look at the world around us, it was
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World Religion Report My New Experience with the Catholic Religion I am not a religious person and never really classified myself to be any religion. Growing up however, I did attend a Christian Church with my father every so often. I also attended vacation bible school every summer at Christian Churches so if I had to pick a religion I guess it would be Christianity. I believe in Heaven and Hell and I believe in Jesus Christ and God but I never attend church anymore. It is not that I would
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