... and others, even your enemies. Violence is not an answer. Must we kill another to achieve happiness? One must forgive and forget. Meditation is a key factor in the Buddhist religion. Meditation is a way of developing more positive states of mind. The awareness obtained from meditation helps one have a fuller understanding of oneself. Buddha taught "the Four Noble Truths." The first is "Life is Suffering," which means everyone suffers jealously, pain, sickness, etc. even enlightened ones. The second is "Suffering is Caused by Attachment," which basically says one must accept responsibil ...

... that person could contact their local Catholic Church and began taking instruction from a Priest or Sister. The church is a very Holy place and it is taken very serious. There is a lot of praying before mass. Many people pray the Rosary Prayer that is well known among Catholics and many Non-Catholics. There are a wide variety of positions in the Catholic church. You have the Pope and the Bishop and the Priest and many more. Many positions can be taken by parishners. You need only be a faithful Catholic in the church. For example, and alter boy or server can be a young person in the church. THeir job is to a ...

... charged with killing babies, celebrating “black masses,� and having sex orgies with Satan. The modern Wiccan; a practitioner of the religion known as Wicca, Witchcraft, or simply The Craft; resembles these “Witches� as much as a straw broom resembles the Dirt Devil Upright. The Craft is a religion based on the worship of a supreme divine creator, the practice of magic, and a reverence for the earth and all her inhabitants. Deity Concepts and Worship Practices "All religions are structures built on reverence of Deity. Wicca is no exception. The Wicca acknowledge a supreme divine power, unknowable, u ...

... religion, as well as all of Rome's culture. Christianity was widely spread throughout the Roman Empire by groups of missionaries led by the Apostles Peter, Paul and John. All of the people who had previously practiced the Roman religion now would practice Christianity. The expression, “Love thy neighbor� was a very essential lesson for the Christians. It formed their bases of living (Fenton 34). The Christians were using maintainable operations. Many people who had learned about it through missionaries were following this religion. The missionaries spent long hours and put forth much effort in their attem ...

... effort and listen everytime a lesson is presented, he will not learn anything, therefore failing the course. This depends on the degree of effort, if the effort is high, and the student is somewhat oriented towards attaining a good grade, a high grade of effort will be presented. Effort is the best way in determining a student's will to learn. The course of religion consists of 6 units, some of them concerning what we believe in, why we believe in it, and what can be observed in the future. The religion course encourages us to explore our heritage and our beliefs, something we may never had fully under ...

... - one a former professor at Yale University - have discovered that a whole day has been unaccountably added in time. The positions of the moon, sun, and planets have to be calculated precisely for all space shots to avoid problems in establishing the satellite's orbit. The orbit has to be calculated for the life of the satellite to avoid its running into something else in space. Using computers, scientists can tell the exact location of the planets and their moons for years into the future. By the same means, they have been able to backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past. It was during one suc ...

... abandonment officially began in 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education, when the court announced, “The 1st amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.� (Barton, Original… p.13) This exact case began the reversal of Supreme Court trends and opinions that had lasted for one hundred and fifty years. Now, for almost fifty years, the Supreme Court , and the United States population in general, has used the phrase “separation of church and state� when referring to the religion clause of the 1st Amendment ...

... of faith seem rather unsubstantiated to me. And yet, this seems to displease many people taht I am close to. My parents are quietly disappointed, and some friends have acted self-righteous about their unwavering faiths, while as far as I can see, they preach Christianity, but don't come close to practicing it. Strangers I have met at work ahve invited me to join them in their worship. I get pamphlets on my car, and messages on my answering machine. It seems taht everyone is trying to "save" me. From myself? From eternal damnations? I have a lingering suspicion that I am supposed to bleive in "something", s ...

... uncovered the reality of American sexuality. This sexual underground shocked the church going populous of America. The percentages of homosexual activity, sado-masochism and bestiality, were over-whelming. The bedroom door had finally been opened. The church became the origin of American society through the settling of Puritan and Pilgrim societies. The strict line on sex as a sin was followed to the letter. The Puritans and the Pilgrims fled England to create an utopian society of Christian purity in North America. Literal interpretation of the Bible limited many sexual behaviours. Since the middle-ages, the chu ...

... author of the Gospel of Luke is believed to have been a physician who was a well-educated gentile who had converted to Christianity. This is not definite but it is the accepted thesis. But if this is true then the author of Luke is probably the only non-Jewish writer of the New Testament. As difficult as it is to date Luke's writing it is known that he had marks writing's at his disposal. And with this knowledge it is suggested that the date for the writing of Luke's Gospel is sometime after 70 C.E. and more than liking the unsettled date of 85 C.E. Luke's primary audience was a man named Theophilius who he ...