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 ).

Later published versions include " ye " instead of either " the " or " it ": " Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill – an ye harm none, do what ye will " ( Earth Religion News, 1974 ); " Eight words ye Wiccan Rede fulfill – An ' it harm none, Do what ye will " ( Green Egg, 1975 )

She also asked Louisa Adams in a letter dated January 3, 1818, " When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart, between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and tests?

In an interview at the KROQ Weenie Roast on June 4, 2011, Graffin stated that Bad Religion will record and release their new album in 2012.

A recent survey of American Christians by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that large-over 60 %- majorities of most denominations believe that Jews will receive eternal life after death alongside Christians.

Christian anarchists point out that this marked the beginning of the " Constantinian shift ", in which Christianity gradually came to be identified with the will of the ruling elite, becoming the State church of the Roman Empire, and in some cases ( such as the Crusades, Inquisition and Wars of Religion ) a religious justification for violence.

A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

A UFO Religion sometimes features an anticipated end-time in which extraterrestrial beings will bring about a radical change on Earth or lift the religious believers to a higher plane of existence.

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.

I swear that I will inviolably maintain and preserve in England and in Scotland the Settlement of the true Protestant religion as established by law in England and as established in Scotland by the laws made in Scotland in prosecution of the Claim of Right, and particularly by an Act intituled “ An Act for Securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government ” and by the Acts passed in the Parliament of both Kingdoms for Union of the two Kingdoms, together with the Government, Worship, Discipline, Rights, and Privileges of the Church of Scotland.

Religion is intended as a comfort, a solace, a necessity to the soul's welfare ; and whichever form of religion furnishes the greatest comfort, the greatest solace, it is the form which should be adopted be its name what it will.

The author responded Religion and art have collided for centuries, and will carry on doing battle long after my play and I are forgotten.

With very similar language between it and Article VII of the Manual, Article VIII states, " The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will " ( emphasis added ), language that was taken directly from Article X of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion adopted by the Church of England in 1563.

Islam, which has also enjoyed a long history in China, is today most commonly transliterated as Yīsīlán jiào ( 伊斯蘭教 ), but some Chinese will still refer to it as the " Pure Teaching " or Qīngzhēn jiào ( 清真教 ) or even Huí jiào ( 回教 ), " Religion of the Hui People ".

It is not to be wondered at therefore, if those who seek after power and gain, under the pretense of government and Religion, should reproach their fellow men, should reproach their Chief Magistrate, as an enemy of religion, law, and good order, because he will not, dares not, assume the prerogative of Jehovah and make laws to govern the Kingdom of Christ.

In 1738 Chubb published ‘ The True Gospel of Jesus Christ asserted ,’ which provoked various attacks and was followed by ‘ The True Gospel of Jesus vindicated ,’ and ‘ An Enquiry into the Ground and Foundation of Religion, wherein it is shown that Religion is founded on Nature .’ His doctrine is that true Christianity consists entirely in the belief that morality alone can make men acceptable to God, that repentance for sin will secure God's mercy, and that there will be a future retribution ; three points upon which he constantly insists.

Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel ", a collection of articles from 1964 onwards with an introduction by Thomas L. Thompson, will appear in mid-2011.

In February 2007 during the recordings for the next album New Religion the band decided after long discussions about the future of the band that Henny Wolter will return as 2nd guitarist and Tom Naumann will leave the band.

Her British and continental counterpart Brigantia seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena ( Encyclopædia Britannica: Celtic Religion ), goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of ' elevated state ', whether physical or psychological.

In the essay " Capitalism as Religion " ( 1921 ), Walter Benjamin said that the idea of whether or not people treat capitalism as a religion was a moot subject, because " One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to satisfy the same worries, anguish, and disquiet formerly answered by so-called religion.

Thus, in the beginning of the 18th century, a French travel writer, the Baron de Lahontan, who had actually lived among the Huron Indians, put potentially dangerously radical Deist and egalitarian arguments in the mouth of a Canadian Indian, Adario, who was perhaps the most striking and significant figure of the " good " ( or " noble ") savage, as we understand it now, to make his appearance on the historical stage: Adario sings the praises of Natural Religion.

The Practice of Religion: A Short Manual of Instructions and Devotions by Archibald Campbell Knowles, first published in 1908, refers to the Angelus as " the memorial of the Incarnation ," and notes that " In the Mystery of the Incarnation we worship and adore Our Lord as God of God, we honour and reverence Saint Mary as ' Blessed among women.

* Against Religion: Why we should live without it ( 1991 )

Hecht is an honorary board member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation where she told the FFRF 2009 convention audience: “ If there is no god — and there isn't — then we made up morality.

And such has been our laws and usages, and such still are, that Religion is considered as the first object of Legislation, and therefore what religious privileges we enjoy ( as a minor part of the State ) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights.

In addition, Aldrich ( 1953: 153 ) points out that Studies of Type-Images in Poetry, Religion and Philosophy is “ a sequel and supplement ” to Archetypal Patterns in Poetry and that the theme of both books is “ the current widespread idea that we have not wholly awakened out of the ‘ dream ’ of mythic consciousness, whose symbols are still exploited in great poetry and religion and even metaphysics .” Furthermore, “ both books were written under the spell mainly of C. J. Jung, but also of Albert Schweitzer and Plato.

" Religion may promise life everlasting, but we should grow up and accept that life has an end as well as a beginning.

The historical position of the Church of England is found in the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1571, which state " the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ "; and likewise that " the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ " ( Articles of Religion, Article XXVIII: Of the Lord's Supper ) and that " Transubstantiation is repugnant to Holy Writ ".

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

* 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 two-part song " Religion " refers contemptuously to Roman Catholicism ; Lydon came up with the lyrics when he was part of the Sex Pistols but he claims the other members of the band were reluctant to use them.

" In addition to their use of unusually sophisticated vocabulary for a punk band, Bad Religion is also known for their frequent use of vocal harmonies.

An article on the categorization of new religious movements in U. S. print media published by The Association for the Sociology of Religion ( formerly the American Catholic Sociological Society ), criticizes the print media for failing to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of new religious movements, and its tendency to use popular or anti-cultist definitions rather than social-scientific insight, and asserts that " The failure of the print media to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of religious movement organizations impels us to add yet another failing mark to the media report card Weiss ( 1985 ) has constructed to assess the media's reporting of the social sciences.

Caslon-old face, “ an eighteenth-century revival of a seventeenth-century typographical style ” became “ the type-face of deliberate and principled reaction or anachronism .” A type-face generally reserved for devotional and ecclesiastical work, its use in the pages of the Yellow Book at once identified it with the “ Religion of Beauty .” The use of catch-words on every page enhanced the Yellow Book ’ s link to the obsolescent.

Generally the English took great interest in the French Wars of Religion ; their literature came into commonplace use in English political debate, and Amyas Paulet made immediate efforts to find the Six livres for Edward Dyer.

HârnMaster Core Rules was published by Columbia Games and later supplemented by HârnMaster Religion, HârnMaster Magic, HârnMaster Barbarians, and HârnManor ( a set of rules for developing consistent medieval manors for use as role-playing settings or as settings for collaborative fiction ).

In his classic book The Individual and His Religion ( 1950 ), Gordon Allport ( 1897 – 1967 ) illustrates how people may use religion in different ways.

In 1889 he wrote his most important work, Religion of the Semites, an account of ancient Jewish religious life which pioneered the use of sociology in the analysis of religious phenomena.

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 ).

Proast attacked the Letter and defended the view that the government has the right to use force to cause dissenters to reflect on the merits of Anglicanism, the True Religion.

Each ritual has a key skill, Arcana, Heal, Nature or Religion, some rituals have multiple key skills, allowing a player to choose which key skill to use.

Hales describes it as ' a letter ,' and ' for the use of a private friend ,' probably William Chillingworth, then working on his Religion of Protestants ( 1637 ).

" Klemp has changed the use of words in the Eckankar vernacular from " The Ancient Science of Soul Travel " to a new term — the " Religion of the Light and Sound of God.

Predecessor to the Nazarene Articles of Faith are the Articles of Religion, which John Wesley adapted for use by American Methodists.

The franchise has been recognized for its innovative gameplay design which is easy to learn but difficult to master, its use of in-game advertising, and its soundtrack music provided by the bands The Offspring and Bad Religion.

Anglicanism's Articles of Religion forbade the use of reserved sacraments, solemn benediction services, or exaggerated displays of the consecrated host.