that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe ) means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion.

The anachronism of Noah's distinguishing between " clean " animals ( seven of each ) and " unclean " animals ( two of each ) when loading the animals onto the ark, which was only established under the later Law of Moses, supports the Documentary Hypothesis which posits that the authors of the Bible retroactively applied laws to older myths to tie them into a unified religion Judaism.

They are free to engage in empirical research, which the Church generously supports, but in matters of morality and religion, they are subjected to the teaching office and authority of the Church, the Magisterium.

Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance ; the concept is generally recognized also to include the freedom to change religion or not to follow any religion.

It also supports the presence and activities of religion in the public sphere.

Historian David Engel supports this, writing that " there can be no logically or empirically compelling grounds for declaring that some particular episode does or does not merit the label ," but he offers that the majority of the incidents " habitually " described as pogroms took place in societies significantly divided by ethnicity and / or religion where the violence was committed by the higher-ranking group against a stereotyped lower-ranking group against whom they expressed some complaint, and with the belief that the law of the land would not be used to stop them.

They suggested that Schaeffer supports pluralism because he sees the First Amendment as freedom of religion for all ; and they themselves reject pluralism ( pp. 128 – 29 ).

Athos was founded and maintained as an exclusively male-populated planetary colony, and a planetary religion and ideology supports this single-sex structure.

The Workers ' Party supports the right of the Palestinian people to the nation, sovereignty, to a republic of secular and democratic Palestine, in all territories of Palestine, guaranteeing equality between all citizens regardless of their origin, or religion and the return of all refugees since 1948.

Civil Liberties: The Party supports the unrestricted rights of freedom of expression, religion, the press, voluntary association, and peaceful assembly.

These two examples, although not directly associated with the core of the Western mystery tradition, demonstrate a pattern which supports the claim that the Soviet-controlled states were negative not only to mainstream religion but also to mysticism and occultism.

Secularization supports the separation of religion from politics, ethics, and psychology.

" The World Pantheist Movement, which supports a naturalistic view of religion, endorses the plan.

The party supports a separation of religion and state.

He has been described as “ the only Muslim member ” of the London Assembly, although he supports Amartya Sen ’ s theory of plural identities and has criticised the practice of individuals " defining themselves simply by their religion, without taking into account other key aspects of their identity ".

Mehdi Karroubi, an ethnic Lur, supports an approach where all people regardless of their gender, religion, or ethnicity can feel that they are part of Iranian government.

Boyer supports this naturalistic origin of religion with evidence from many specialized disciplines including biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and information processing.

Against the " contamination by Jewish ideas ", mainly from the Old Testament, the Churches and Germany should ( he argued ) be " mutually benefits and supports ", and then Christianity would win back its status as " a religion of the Volk and of the struggle " and " the great exploiter of humanity, the evil enemy of our Volk finally be destroyed ".

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

)... The argument for a negative connection is that religion supports politics, the Church supports the State, opponents of political authority also oppose religious authority ".

The SSPV maintains that much of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church no longer adheres to the Catholic faith but instead profess a new, or Conciliar religion.

It maintains that there is good in every approach to God and in every religion that is filling someone's needs.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, after examining the philosophical works of Khayyám, maintains that it is really reductive to just look at the poems ( which are sometimes doubtful ) to establish his personal views about God or religion ; in fact, he even wrote a treatise entitled " al-Khutbat al-gharrå ˘" ( The Splendid Sermon ) on the praise of God, where he holds orthodox views, agreeing with Avicenna on Divine Unity.

His greatest work, Aglaophamus ( 1829 ), maintains, against the views put forward by G. F. Creuzer in his Symbolik ( 1810 – 1823 ), that the religion of the Greek mysteries ( especially those of Eleusis ) did not essentially differ from the national religion ; that it was not esoteric, and that the priests as such neither taught nor possessed any higher knowledge of God ; that the Oriental elements were a later importation.

His later essay on Natural Religion, which denies that supernaturalism is essential to religion and maintains that the negations of science tend to purify rather than destroy Christianity satisfied no one and excited far less interest than his earlier work.

It also maintains resources on LGBT parenting, religion and faith issues, immigration, and outreach for youth.

Nova Roma has adopted the ancient Roman religion as its state cult, but also maintains the freedom of religion of its citizens.

The book version that was published nonetheless maintains Twain's criticisms on what he believed to be the hypocrisy of organized religion that is the subject of much of Twain's later writings.

Goshen College maintains a distinctive Christian Mennonite environment, but admits students regardless of race or religion.

CRG maintains the website GlobalResearch. ca which is critical of United States foreign policy and NATO, as well as theories concerning the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the war on terror, media disinformation, poverty and social inequality, the global economic crisis, and politics and religion.

Although Torah UMadda regards science and religion as separate, where the " wisdom of the world " maintains its own domain of significance, it nevertheless conceives of a " synthesis " between the two realms.

Yet another theory maintains that the name ' Khereed ' derives from the Mongolian word ' Kherees ' meaning ' cross ' and is connected to their Christian religion.

He maintains that religion has as its central task to help calm our human anxiety and to stop its devastating effects on all levels of human life, in its personal, social, and global manifestations.

The Free Church is a pattern that evolved in the Americas, while much of Europe maintains some government involvement in religion and churches via taxation to support them and by appointing ministers and bishops etc., although free churches have been founded in Europe outside of the state system

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

This region's distinct religion, art, and food are some of the fundamental features that define Arab culture.

Roosevelt mentioned four fundamental freedoms, which ought to be enjoyed by people " everywhere in the world "; these included the freedom of speech and religion, as well as freedom from want and fear.

The preamble of the charter provides that the members " reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the equal rights of men and women " and Article 1 ( 3 ) of the United Nations charter states that one of the purposes of the UN is: " to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ".

The unequivocal monotheism of Islam ( often described as the foundation of the religion and its most fundamental article of faith ) arose as a reaction to this belief system.

# To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ; and

Other proposed goals of philosophy include " discover the absolutely fundamental reason of everything it investigates ", " making explicit the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs ", and unifying and transcending the insights given by science and religion.

It also saw the growth of Fundamentalist Christianity ( a movement of those who believed in the literal interpretation of the Bible as the fundamental source of the religion ) as distinguished from Modernist Christianity ( a movement holding the belief that Christianity needed to be re-interpreted in light of modern scientific theories such as evolution or the rise of degraded social conditions brought on by industrialization and urbanization ).

Skeptic Carl Sagan asked the Dalai Lama what would he do if a fundamental tenet of his religion ( reincarnation ) were definitively disproved by science.

A fundamental principle of the Bahá ' í Faith is the harmony of religion and science.

The United Nations Charter " reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person " and committed all member states to promote " universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ".

Promote and develop sustainable tourism so as to contribute to economic development, international understanding, peace, prosperity and universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church denomination of the Christian religion believe this date to be the starting point of the Investigative judgment just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus as declared in the 26th of 28 fundamental doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists.

Durkheim saw religion as the most fundamental social institution of humankind, and one that gave rise to other social forms.

As a fundamental element of religion, the term " dogma " is assigned to those theological tenets which are considered to be well demonstrated, such that their proposed disputation or revision effectively means that a person no longer accepts the given religion as his or her own, or has entered into a period of personal doubt.

The freedom to leave or discontinue membership in a religion or religious group — in religious terms called " apostasy " — is also a fundamental part of religious freedom, covered by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Freedom of religion is considered by many people and nations to be a fundamental human right.

In Stunden der Andacht ( Hours of Devotion, 1809 – 1816 ; 27 editions in Zschokke's lifetime ), which was widely read, he expounded in a rationalistic spirit the fundamental principles of religion and morality.

Freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established.

Freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established " ( Section 10 ).

# To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ; and