Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

According to estimates of the Word Religion Database 2005 the share of Muslims is 1. 2 %.

Religion is thus seen as orderly, unified, and progressive from age to age.

Uncharacteristically, Jefferson's first two recordings from this session were gospel songs (" I Want to be like Jesus in my Heart " and " All I Want is that Pure Religion "), released under the name Deacon L. J. Bates.

Religion that makes the words of its leader, be he Pope or other, equal with the Word of God is false.

In Thailand's constitutional monarchy, the monarch is recognized as the Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Upholder of the Buddhist Religion, and Defender of the Faith.

The rabbinical school of the Academy for Jewish Religion in California is led by Conservative rabbi Mel Gottlieb.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

: This subject is discussed in more detail in Religion and capital punishment.

), Kant's Philosophy of Religion Re-examined ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991 ); an argument against Kant as deist is Stephen Palmquist's " Kant's Theistic Solution ".

Anglicans adhere to a range of views although the teaching on the matter in the Articles of Religion holds that the presence is real only in a heavenly and spiritual sense.

Although details are unclear, there is evidence that in 1577 Oxford attempted to leave England to see service in the French Wars of Religion on the side of King Henry III.

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

Religion is an integral part of the history of this concept.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

Calvin developed his theology in his biblical commentaries as well as his sermons and treatises, but the most concise expression of his views is found in his magnum opus, the Institutes of the Christian Religion.

* Independent Religion – From the Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Jainism: "... Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, it is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence.

In Twelver Shi ' a Islam, however, Jihad is one of the 10 Practices of the Religion.

Karl Marx asserted that " Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

Thus, Wicca in particular is sometimes referred to by its proponents as " The Old Religion ", a term popularised by Margaret Murray in the 1920s, while Germanic neopaganism is referred to in some of its varieties as Forn Sed (" Old Custom ").

Those limits are expressed in Article XXI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, ratified in 1571 ( significantly, just as the Council of Trent was drawing to a close ), which held that " General Councils ... may err, and sometimes have erred ... wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.

In the Northwest Territory, various legal and property rights were enshrined, religious tolerance was proclaimed, and it was enunciated that since " Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

l ' Hôpital's dismissal had been urged for some time by the papal legate Ippolito d ' Este, and during the beginning of the French Wars of Religion which were the inevitable result of the massacre of Huguenots in Wassy ( on 1 March 1562 ), he found it necessary to retire to his estate at Vignay ( near Étampes ), from which he did not return until after the pacification of Amboise ( 19 March 1563 ).

" Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

As the ARTS and SCIENCES, properly so called, are far from comprehending every necessary subject of inquiry, a considerable proportion of the work is allotted to HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY, in all their branches ; so that the Compiler flatters himself, that it will be found upon consultation, that there is not a word in the English Language ; a technical term in any Art or Science, an event of any importance in the history of mankind ; a city, town, kingdom, republic, or empire, in the Known World ; an opinion in Religion ; an article in Mythology ; a system of Philosophy ; or a great or learned character in the annals of Biography, that is not mentioned or described in the Encyclopaedia Perthesis.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

The School of Religion includes majors for both men and women, although only men ( approximately 500 per year ) train as ministerial students.

In other respects, however, both the Baptism and Burial services imply a theology of salvation that accords notably less with Reformed teachings than do the counterpart passages in the Articles of Religion.

In 1993, California's Green Day and Bad Religion were both signed to major labels.

David Hume, in the mid-18th century, presented arguments both for and against the teleological argument in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

In his essay " Magic, Science and Religion ", Bronisław Malinowski contends that every person, no matter how primitive, uses both magic and science.

" During his tenure at Exeter, Buechner taught courses in both the Religion and English departments, and served as school chaplain and minister.

After Gurewitz had cleaned up his drug issues, both Epitaph and Bad Religion were revived in 1987.

Also in 1988, Bad Religion released Suffer, which was both released and distributed by Epitaph.

In 1994, Epitaph received widespread fame, both within and outside the punk community, when Bad Religion ( even though they had left Epitaph by this time ), NOFX, Rancid and The Offspring all released hit records.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre ( Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French ) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots ( French Calvinist Protestants ), during the French Wars of Religion.

Despite never garnering the amount of attention that Stranger Than Fiction received, it would score Bad Religion a minor U. S. radio hit with the song " A Walk " as well as the European release of " Punk Rock Song " ( sung in both English and German ).

Religion assails him both with her blandishments and terrours.

Political scientist Han S. Park in his book Juche: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom ( 2002 ) and theologian Thomas J. Belke in Juche: A Christian Study of North Korea's State Religion ( 1999 ) have both likened Juche to a religious movement.

Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens ( d. 324 BC ), who held that " it is the oath which holds democracy together ", religion, morality and political organization had been linked by the oath, and the oath and its prerequisite altar had become the basis of both civil and criminal, as well as international law. Burkert, Greek Religion, trans.

This was published in 1820 as Vindiciæ Geologiæ ; or the Connexion of Geology with Religion explained, both justifying the new science of geology and reconciling geological evidence with the biblical accounts of creation and Noah's Flood.

" Whereas the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers, employed by Him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom ..( b ) y assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without Consent of Parliament ....( b ) y causing several good Subjects, being Protestants, to be disarmed, at the same Time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law ...( a ) ll which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm ..... the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections, being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation, taking into their most serious Consideration the best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid, do in the First Place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ), for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ,.... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence, suitable to their Condition, and as allowed by Law.

The town was damaged in both the Hundred Years ' War and the Wars of Religion.

Religion in the United States is characterized by both a wide diversity of religious beliefs and practices and by a high adherence level.

As stated by McEvoy in ' Religion and Politics in Foreign Policy: Canadian Government Relations with the Vatican ', " Cahan, though a Presbyterian, had forged close contacts with the Catholic clergy both in his native Nova Scotia and later in Quebec.

Politique () is a term that was used during the sixteenth and seventeenth century Wars of Religion, to describe moderates of both religious faiths ( Huguenots and Catholics ) who held that only the restoration of a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse.

After a time, by the study of Origen and the other early Fathers, he became possessed with the notion of the importance of an allegorical or spiritual interpretation of Scripture, and advocated its use in the defence of Christianity both in his sermons and in his first book, while attacking what he saw as the shallow literalist interpretation of contemporary divines, The Old Apology for the Truth of the Christian Religion against the Jews and Gentiles Revived ( 1705 ).

The band toured extensively throughout the mid to late 90's, both as a headliner and opening for bands such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Bad Religion.