Thanks to the dominance of the Christian religion, Sunday, for the most part, remains a day off for school sports.
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How do you expect to help a pluralistic society where large groups of Americans do not frame their religion, faith or belief on the Christian religion?
The most compelling evidence came from the Kenyan study, where circumcised men could be compared with men of the same Luo group and Christian religion who were not circumcised but who had similar numbers of sexual partners and rates of condom use.
Focusing on early 20th-century Britain, he describes in scholarly detail different strategies for harmonising faith and knowledge: the sought-after alliance between liberal theologians in the Church of England and religious-minded scientists, and the rather different efforts of science-minded writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw to foster a modern, non-Christian religion.
Even non-Christian founders thought religion essential.
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Not surprisingly, Republicans were more likely to support Christianity as the official state and national religion with 55 percent supporting the idea for their state and 46 percent in favor of making their Christian faith the official religion of the United States.
He went on to suggest the patient might benefit from a Christian faith above his own religion.
Despite a declaration by the Second Vatican Council three decades ago that all good-willed people could be "saved" regardless of their religion, the Christian notion of salvation still relies on evangelism.
What of those who are neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor believers in any religion?
The action-packed tale of nonbelievers finding religion is the eighth Christian flick created by Peter Lalonde and his brother Paul .
Lorraine Barrett, a former Welsh assembly member who now works as a humanist celebrant, said it was interesting that people had the confidence to declare themselves of no religion or non-Christian.
The Christian Church is now the official religion of the Roman Empire, many of its early doctrinal struggles were settled at the Council of Nicea, and the Church itself had a mighty philosopher in the form of Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, who had successfully waged a theological battle against the Donatist heresy, among others.
Ratzinger also argued Muslim Turkey did not belong in Christian Europe and issued a document saying that Catholicism was the only true religion -- questioning the validity of other religions, even Christian ones, even as his Pope John Paul II was trying to reach out to other faiths.
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In this excerpt, you frame religion and faith in uncompromising Christian terms.
Of course, this tension between religion and science exists not only among Christian sects, but also between sects of many different religions.
The sharp decline in the number of people in England and Wales identifying themselves as Christian to 59% is a sign of the religion's weakening influence in society.
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Thus, while Christian teaching draws deeply on the mysticism in the religion of Israel, the modern expression of Judaism has been influenced by patterns of thought which come from the secular or post-Christian West.
Only about a third of all Americans say he is a Christian and 43% say they do not know what religion he practises.
But the Democrat, who is Christian, has made it a point to discuss his religion on the trail this year and launched an ambitious outreach effort targeting these voters, including private summits with pastors and a major campaign aimed at young evangelicals.
The Nongkrem dance is hosted by the Syiem of Khyrim, custodian of the original animistic religion in a society that is now mostly Catholic Christian.
But this is meaningless since the constitution has already, in its text, broken good faith with organised religion by deliberately failing to mention Europe's Christian roots and identity.
Huckabee is popular with Christian conservatives, who tend to like his positions on social issues and religion.
It's about the fact that he is an Evangelical Christian and those polls were mainly taken before Romney's speech about religion.
And then he talked about the murder of George Tiller and failed to mention the religion of the man who shot George Tiller, which was Christian.
The BBC's correspondent in Cairo, Heba Saleh, says the Egyptian authorities have always argued that a party based on religion would deepen sectarian divisions in a country with a sizeable Christian minority.
You see, leaders of the Christian Science movement realized that if they continue to resist vaccines, their very religion is at stake.
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Research carried out in the same month by a secularist foundation suggested three-quarters of people who describe themselves as Christian in Britain displayed only a low level of belief and practice of the religion.
The pontiff called on Christians in the Middle East to persevere, an acknowledgment that the Christian population has declined sharply in the past 50 years in the region where the religion was born.
Religion is more diverse, unlike in the East, which is almost exclusively Christian Orthodox.
The church is run by a campaigning Christian online magazine, Ship of Fools, which takes a light-hearted approach to religion.
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