Furthermore, shamanism emphasized Korea's unique role in history. ... Fourthly, Confucians looked forward to the final goal of history. ... Whereas Asians deny that history has meaning or purpose, the Biblical view is that history has a goal, we are told. Oriental philosophy of history is cyclical and therefore pessimistic while Western philosophy of history is linear and optimistic. However, Confucianism holds a very purposive interpretation of history. ...

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The holiday fell on the first of November, and marked the end to the revered "season of the sun." It was during this time that the ancient Celts believed that the veil between the spirit world and the mortal world was thinnest, and therefore performed rituals to honor the dead, keep evil spirits at bay, and to ensure that the sun could come back in the spring. ...

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Christianity is very practical. It is not a dead, dry, formal, human religion of rituals, outward form, and show, but a divine, living, vital, dynamic, liberating religion. The word Christian means, "Christ like", or "One follows Christ". Jesus Christ, who laid the foundation of Christian Church, was born in BC 4 in Judea. He is the foundation of the Church (1 Cori. 3:10,11). ...

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China has a long history of 5,000 years. So it has inherited a lot from the long history, except on religions. ... The main character Wukong,Sun, a monkey born in the rock, first learnt his magician with a god of Taoism. ... And there was not a single religious war in the history. ... Such believe made good effects in the history. ...

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Almost on cue, a vision of a sun with a cross came to him. The sun was an important figure to him, for he had a fascination with the god Helios. ... In the Edict of Milan, he declared Christianity to be one of the religions approved by the emperor" (Rand McNally, World History: The Rise of Christianity, McDougal Littell, Illinois, 2005). ...

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Hinduism is a major world religion, not merely by virtue of its many followers (estimated at more than 700 million) but also because of its profound influence on many other religions during its long, unbroken history, which dates from about 1500 BC. ... Most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn, but little agreement exists as to what other prayers should be chanted. ... One of the "four goals of humanity- (along with pleasure, profit, and release), dharma represents the belief that the way things are (descriptive law), for example, the sun rises in the east, is inseparable from the...

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In these highly competitive times where the other is increasingly perceived as someone who competes with me for a place in the sun, values ​​such as altruism, generosity and gratuity tend to disappear. ... An individual does not converse him or herself into history but he or she is destined to unite with God after death in a state of happiness which tends to be eternal. ...

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If the time is taken to look back at Christianity's history it is easily seen that Christianity has worked hand in hand with science to help promote its growth, not its stifle. ... "Early Christians also rejected belief in cyclical time, the conviction that history replays itself in great, ineluctably recurring phases" (Carroll/Shiflett, p.60). ... There defiantly weren't any conflicts as of yet in Christian history. ... Copernicus, an astronomer, came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth, and Galileo furthered this idea and published writing...

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Religions do not miraculously appear in history out of a blank space. ... As the story goes, "the first generation of Mesopotamian gods were the gods of light and darkness, the second generation were the gods of fresh and salt waters, the third generation were the gods of all forms of vegetation, the fourth generation were the gods of the sun, moon and stars, the fifth generation were the gods of the living creatures of the earth, and the sixth generation god Marduk created humans so that they could be slaves to the gods.... On this day, God created the sun, moon, and the stars; "th...

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Apollo is the god of sun, music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, darkness, beauty and enlightenment. ... " That person by definition in "The Sacred Quest" represents "certain persons is a characteristic of numerous religious traditions, most obviously those whose history points to a founder or great figure at the beginning of the tradition.... While others religions have focused on the earth, the sky and or the sun. ...

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First, there is the Celestial kingdom, which is comparable to the glory of the sun. ... Mormonism takes some of its history from North America as well as the Middle East. ... Because it is lacking history and proof, but maybe in a couple hundreds it will the predominant religion in our country. ...

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Education, science and religion would never be the same after the reformation - It was not long before the theory of the sun being at the centre of the universe was introduced by Copernicus, a theory which also defied the Roman Catholic Church. ... Ultimately, Martin Luther's criticisms of the theology and sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, the behavior of popes and the use of Indulgences, changed the course of history forever by influencing people in such a way as to not only create a new religion, but also a new way of thinking and a new view on life and society. ...

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A deeper look into the history of Christianity will tell that it was not always welcome; especially in its beginnings. ... This is caused by the sun reflecting off of ice crystals instead of rain in a rainbow." ...

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History books indicate that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (www.sharif.org.uk/ch8hamid). ... Who made the worlds, the earth, heaven, the sky, the moon, the sun, the stars, the animals the plants and who made everything that the earth contains, before the idols were created by men? ...

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The life, culture, and viewpoints of the Chicana on the border are impacted by a variety of experiences, a specific culture, proud histories, and the physical surroundings of the border. ... She was the mother of 400 according to the Aztec beliefs including Huitzilopochtli: the god of war, the sun and human sacrifice, as well as Coyolxauhqui who was a powerful magician. ...

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In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... Death even takes the players of the music slowly away, "Death stepped tacitly and took them where they never see the sun." ...

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Translated in many ways through history, the meaning of one god is called "Yahweh". ... Altogether, the main difference between the Koran and the Bible is that in the Bible Jesus is the sun of God born by the Virgin Mary. ...

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The specific context in which a biblical text was written, relating that text to the history and circumstances of the writers life.) something that is not done often. ... At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go sown upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it. ...

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