My friend, Erin and I were your typical, inseparable pair of friends "after I took the oath to accept Jesus into my heart of course. ... In order to play here you need to be saved and accept Jesus into your heart,"" she said sternly, though unsure of how I would respond. ... With every new weapon of mass destruction that is created and every new terrorist attack, the brink of extinction creeps closer and closer to our front door. ... At the heart of religious ideology lies the notion that every religion believes it is supreme to all others. ... After the attacks of 9/11, U.S. polit...

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Speaking very quickly and passionately, [the magistrate] told [Meursault] that he believed in God, that it was his conviction that no man was so guilty that God would not forgive him, but in order for that to happen a man must repent and in so doing become like a child whose heart is open an ready to embrace all (68). ... This response as well as the manner in which he appears to attack Meursault in order to scare him into believing causes the reader to question his motives. ...

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All of these are examples in which some forms of Christian beliefs are used to prevent the attack of the Dracula. ... It is said that you must let God into your heart, Dracula may not enter someones house unless they invite him. ...

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The Counter- Reformation, was basically an attack against all protestants to stop the Reformation and to keep the peace, power and authority within the Catholic Churches. ... Their purpose here was to strike fear into the hearts of non-catholics, and hope to slow the spread of protestantism. ...

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Of all the plagues that have infested theirselves in humanity, hypocrisy is the worst, for it attacks trust, faith, and goodwill. ... If one is evil at heart, there is no need for him to be an ambassador of Islam and represent the Muslims, for he has bigger problems to take care of. ...

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This rottenness was at the heart of the German monk's attack on the church with his piece "Ninety-Five Theses" which pressed the point that the church arrogated to themselves the powers that belonged properly to God alone: no human being had the power to absolve individuals of their sins and grant them admission to heaven. ...

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Prior to this, Mary had no idea of how the Indians lived, or the reason why they were attacking the colonist lands. ... Mary burst into tears and could not speak to them because her heart was so full (97). ...

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Before Christianity became a force in Europe, many cultures worshiped numerous "gods" and deities. The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all believed in more than one god and prayed to them for guidance, provision, health and safety. For instance, the Greeks and Romans were host to a multitude of gods; ...

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In addition, the verity that Grendel is attacking Herot, which is understood to be a city of "good", obviously displays that he is on the corrupt side in the ceaseless battle of good vs. evil. ... His jealous heart is revealed when he says to Beowulf, "You"re Beowulf, are you- the same boastful fool who fought a swimming match with Brecca, both of you daring and young and proud and at the end victory was his not yours." ...

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With Adam's fall from grace and God's judgement on man, Satan understood that the Adamic Covenant promised a Savior and seized the opportunity to attack man and wrestle him from the fulfillment of that promise. Mankind had progressively become worse, falling into continual sin and depravity, and "the Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain" (Genesis 6:6). ... After the waters receded, Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God, while He made a covenant with His faithful servant, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man,...

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During the first few days of captivity, Mary and her daughter were still trying to recover from the wounds inflicted by the Indians during the attack, with her daughter also having a fever from lack of nourishment. ... Eventually, "my heart began to fail: and I fell a weeping which was the first time to my remembrance, that I wept before them" (82). ...

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Dysart (smiling): You mean without his father's knowledge Dora: What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? ... Alan feels that because there is no control over him he can do whatever he wants and there may be no consequences, this is not the case however when he attacks the horses. ...

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'I may be wrong on indulgences,' declared Luther, 'but as to the need for faith diminished the role of the priests who may place awafer in the mouth but cannot engender faith in the heart" (Bainton 107). ... Luther's courage and boldness can be seen in his "Open Letter to Pope Leo X" dated: Wittenberg, September 6, 1520: "I have, to be sure, sharply attacked ungodly doctrines in general, and I have snapped at my opponents, not because of their bad morals, but because of their ungodliness. ...

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Some years ago a German scholar came under a terrible attack for describing the poor condition of the church. His article was titled "The Babylonian Captivity". In it Martin Luther pointed out that the church had fallen so far away from truth that it had spiritually become Bablylon: Apostate! ...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern...

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