Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

Most Jewish Israelis classify themselves as " secular " ( hiloni ), " traditional " ( masorti ), " religious " ( dati ) or Haredi.

Most outers target those who support decisions and further policy, both religious and secular, which discriminate against gay people while they themselves live a clandestine gay existence.

Most major religions accept the primacy of the rules of secular, democratic society but may still seek to influence political decisions or achieve specific privileges or influence through church-state agreements such as a concordat.

Most countries of the Middle East and North Africa maintain a dual system of secular courts and religious courts, in which the religious courts mainly regulate marriage and inheritance.

Most contemporary Unitarian Christians believe that one's personal moral convictions guide one's political activities, and that a secular society is the most viable, just and fair.

Most of these temples have secular features with broad themes depicted in their sculptures.

Most cathedrals were not monasteries, and were served by canons secular, which were communal but not monastic.

Most religions condemn the practice, and present-day secular laws treat it as murder.

Most French people are Roman Catholic Christians, however many of them are secular but still place high value on Catholicism.

Most Western countries and some secular Muslim countries like Turkey and Azerbaijan have no laws against fornication if both parties are above the age of consent.

Most holidays are secular in nature, but the two most significant for the majority of Japanese – New Year's Day and Obon – involve visits to Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples, respectively.

Most of his secular songs are rondeaux, which became the most common song form during the century.

Most notably their collaboration was on religious works such as the St Matthew Passion ( BWV 244, 1727 ), but they also produced secular works such as the Coffee Cantata ( BWV 211, 1732 – 1734 ).

Most of the surviving structures are sacred in nature, with secular buildings mostly known only through contemporaneous descriptions.

Most of Dufay's secular songs follow the formes fixes ( rondeau, ballade, and virelai ), which dominated secular European music of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Most surviving art from the Medieval period was religious in focus, often funded by the Church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals such as bishops, communal groups such as abbeys, or wealthy secular patrons.

Most Jews celebrated the event as a liberation of the city ; a new Israeli holiday was created, Jerusalem Day ( Yom Yerushalayim ), and the most popular secular Hebrew song, " Jerusalem of Gold " ( Yerushalayim shel zahav ), became popular in celebration.

Most of the information we have about him is found in the letters he wrote from 1004 – 1028, to both secular and religious figures of the day.

Most of them joined the much larger, secular communist organizations.

Most of the Jewish community adhered to Orthodox Judaism, and Jewish youngsters studied the Torah along with secular subjects such as geography, history, and mathematics.

Saint Louis University traces its origins to the Saint Louis Academy, founded on 16 November 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg, Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, and placed under the charge of the Reverend François Niel and others of the secular clergy attached to the Saint Louis Cathedral.

Most of the population was composed of secular Israelis who were attracted to the pristine settings near the Mediterranean and the low cost of housing.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

Most scholars, while willing to accept a survival ( revival??

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Most scholars consider this work to be that of Pseudo-Ambrose as well.

Most scholars believe that Amos gave his message in the autumn of 750 BC or 749 BC.

Most scholars hold that the Hebrew text underlying the Septuagint version is older than the Masoretic text and that either the Masoretic evolved either from this vorlage or from a closely related version.

Most modern scholars believe it was written around 95 AD, with some believing it dates from around 70 AD.

Most modern day biblical scholars assert that the Book of Lamentations was written by one or more authors in Judah, shortly after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC ; and was penned as a response to Babylonian Exile, the intense suffering of the people of Judah, and the complete and utter destruction of Jerusalem.

Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a " school " of later followers of the original prophet.

Most scholars of copyright agree that it can be called a kind of property, because it involves the exclusion of others from something.

Most scholars attribute the origins of this idea to futurologist Herman Kahn's World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond.

Most scholars believe that Cyril was born and brought up in Caesarea of Palestine but some say he may have been born in Jerusalem because of his early knowledge of the city's layout, but this could have been attributed to research or information he learned after moving there to become bishop.

Most scholars disagree with this account because Saint Jerome often made statements more entertaining than factual.

Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its geography being perfect for romance writers ; Arthurian scholar Norris J.

Most scholars date it to the early 2nd century, and distinguish in it two separate Eucharistic traditions, the earlier tradition in chapter 10 and the later one preceding it in chapter 9.

Most scholars hold that Ezra lived during the rule of Artaxerxes I, though some have difficulties with this assumption: Nehemiah and Ezra " seem to have no knowledge of each other ; their missions do not overlap ; and no reflection of Ezra's activity appears in Jerusalem of Nehemiah.

Most New Testament scholars believe Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work in many early manuscripts ( e. g., Codices Alexandrinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus ) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after Timothy had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessalonica (; ).

Most scholars believe that the community at Qumran that allegedly produced the Dead Sea Scrolls was an offshoot of the Essenes ; however, this theory has been disputed by some, for example, by Norman Golb:

Most modern scholars agree that Luke used the Gospel of Mark as one of his sources.

Most contemporary scholars regard Mark as a source used by Luke ( see Markan Priority ).

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Most modern scholars agree that the actual Greek fire was based on petroleum, either crude or refined ; comparable to modern napalm.

Most scholars reject the historicity of the later legends of King Arthur, which seem to be set in this period, but some such as John Morris see it as evidence behind which may lie a plausible grain of truth.

Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven.