Is death to be feared as an extinction of life or is there a place of torment that drives this fear? ... Within the context of the earlier discussions, the paper will also consider questions like "Is hell the place where a loving God would actually send the object of his affections? ... " Being outside is a perilous place to be where Christ will ultimately declare "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.... If the biblical teaching of hell as an eternal place of punishment is true, and that our understanding of it is to be...

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I can't come up with a concrete reason for why this is so, considering that there is an enormous variety between cultures, but an opinion is that we don't place a strong emphasis on religion today. ... Unfortunately that is quite small compared to the twenty five million Muslims and one hundred million Buddhists though . ... (Rodenbough 1) Some of these unfortunately are more of cults than Christian gathering places, but many of them are of the uplifting nature. ... They are being printed for as little as eighty five cents a piece, as opposed to over six dollars a piece if needed to ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Our conscience is our sanctuary/safe place, it is where we feel we are totally alone with God, a place where we can hear God and he can hear us. ... Abortion is also an issue as it is legal in many places around the world including New Zealand. ... The Catholic Church believes that life is a divine gift, which begins at conception, it is sacred and valuable and it is our duty to care and protect it no matter how small or fragile it may be. ...

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CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with the...

• Word Count: 8386
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• Grade Level: High School

Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and assoc...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, contact with religions such as the Mithraic cult, which was the state religion under Emperor Diocletian was unavoidable in any city because there were more than 100 places of assembly for the devotees of Mithra in Rome alone (Kofi Appiah-Kubi & Sergio Torres, 1979). ...

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HUMAN CLONING Human nature has taught us that scientific breakthroughs have resulted in evil and dangerous exploitation. These exploitations can be seen in reality in military science. These breakthroughs have been manipulated into weapons of death and destruction against humanity and the use of...

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Though the reports of piracy continued to show the moral side all through the century, such as drunkenness and swearing, because clearly those problems continue to be an issue in the colonies.14 The evidence of piracy and pirates" bad behavior has been often mentioned in newspapers throughout the colonies, but they do not give details of crimes such as murder and theft they just simply state an act of piracy was committed, but with smaller moral crime with details and explanation of what occurred. ...

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