It is not a missionary religion in the ordinary sense of the term. ... Its teaching has so far permeated people that an armed revolution has almost become an impossibility in India not because they as a race are physically weak, but because the tradition of ahimsa has struck deep root among the people (Nair 134). ... Gandhi believed that Christ belonged not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world, to all races and people Gandhi did not regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism were. ... Satyagraha has many different meanings, w...

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• Grade Level: High School

Religion seems to have lost the impact and importance in people's lives in today's world where science is the direction where people look for answers to their questions. ... Some prohibitions from the past used to be part of a civilization, but are prohibited now; and some ordinary daily activities from today might be prohibited in the years to come. This leads to "the external coercion eventually becoming internalized, and this turns people into the vehicles of civilization." ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach to these ideas the values they are claimed ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The foundation of Rome was its people, and its people were reliant on the gods they worshipped. Any disturbance to their stable social structure was unacceptable to the Roman people. The business of the state was also a major concern of the Roman people. ... This, though minute on detail, shows us of a glimpse of how important politics and the government were to an ordinary Roman citizen. For the state and people are one, as is immortalized by the Roman emblem "SPQR", meaning Senatus Populusque Romanus or the Senate and the People of Rome. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

So, by not reimbursing the parochial school children's parents, no rights are violated because by not giving them money neither establishes religion nor does not allow people to practice their religion. ... He states that "all school children are left to ride as ordinary paying passengers on the regular busses operated by the public transportation system" (Jackson) and that the reason that taxpayers complain about this is because it is stated that "intervals to reimburse parents for the fares paid, provided the children attend either public schools or Catholic Church school...

• Word Count: 3421
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like the Sufis, they also opened their doors to people belonging to all faiths. ... People belonging to other sects like Shi'ite, Mahdawi etc were persecuted for their belief and orthodox elements were promoted at the Mughal court. ... Following this, Satish Chandra writes that Akbar, exasperated by the resistances, ordered a general massacre in the course of which about 30, 000 people were killed. ...

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