Theseus risks death several times to do what he believes is right according to his faith, like when he fights the king of Eleusis, when he fights Xanthos, and when he becomes a bull dancer. ... The best example of Theseus having strong trust in the gods, especially Posiedon, is when the lottery is going on and Posiedon comes to him and asks him to go to Crete and be a bull dancer. ... And Bert Cates, the main character in Inherit the wind, by Jerome Lawrence, was persecuted in a modern society for teaching that god had not created man, but man had created god. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In modern usage, religion covers a wide spectrum of meanings that reflect the enormous variety of ways the term can be interpreted. ... Religious experience may be expressed in visual symbols, dance and performance, elaborate philosophical systems, legendary and imaginative stories, formal ceremonies, meditative techniques, and detailed rules of ethical conduct and law. ... Considered together, these approaches offer a representative picture of the ways in which modern investigators have understood the place of the sacred in human life. ...

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Regarding the theme of sex, prostitution, and social hypocrisy, we find two places where prostitution is being carried out – one, in the "dancing cars", and another, in brothels. ... Modern day religion is also an excellent way to make money and to gain power. ...

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