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... South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and Tamil cultures added to the mix. The boys at the school were mostly from these cultures and also came from nearby countries. The school was run along...

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... an example. As to the claims of 'caste' defining human quality, it is nonsense. The lower castes, Ezhava, Paraya, Pulaya etc., who converted into Christianity in the erstwhile Travancore kingdom, under the patronage of the London Missionary Society later relocated themselves to the Malabar forest region, where they took over the forest lands, in the lawlessness allowed...

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...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

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...ortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 6 71 From Luther to Jung: Broadening the Insights Chapter 7 82 We...

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...impaling and hanging, gouging out the eyes, cutting off hands, nose and ears, were inflicted for trifling offences.” Devasagayam Pillai, a convert to Christianity in 1752, was “taken from village to village riding on a buffalo, daily beaten with eighty stripes, pepper rubbed in his wounds and nostrils, exposed to the sun, and had only stagnant water to drink.” Severe fin...

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...d a child, she thought, she or he would not be allowed to be subject to this Christianity, which had the plagiarism of Ancient Egyptian Literature, th... ...you feel the need to follow the herd? In this country the herd eats from the Christianity trough-- the Bible is like ground up bone marrow and the lea... ...that justified one egregious proclivity or another in the natural state. In Christianity this was myriad: everything from manﾁOs god-given dominion ... ... like that which can get someone thrown out of here. AinﾁOt Catholicism and Christianity pretty? ThatﾁOs why I sleep in my own little hut in the wood...

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...nds that He believed in Kelly Butler. In fact, by the end of his life, the Christianity that his moms and pops had shoved down his and his six older b...

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...ans screaming Hell and Damnation. He had become eager to learn more about Christianity and found those in the group extremely open to his weird and ...

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... always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another frien... ...ly in her heart she thought that one could not talk about exaggeration where Christianity was concerned. What exaggeration could there be in the pract... ... and I consider it’s premature, but rational, and it has a future, just like Christianity in its first ages.” “All that I maintain is that the labor fo... ...to her to believe, in Part V — Chapter 23 485 that she almost turned him to Christianity—that is, from an indifferent and ap athetic believer she tu... ...nd. The question was summed up for him thus: “If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?”... ...n idea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, l...

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... scholars say about Muhammad.4. Complete valid information about Jesus.5. Proven facts about the great Jesus.6. A documentary book on science, Islam, Christianity & Judaism.7. A research project on Abrahamic religions. 8. Moses, Jesus & Muhammad in Islam & Christianity.9. Aramaic the true language of Jesus.10. Similarities & differences of Jesus & Muhammad.11. God definiti...

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..., rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It is our purpose to relate what will substantially be the same history, prayers, and chants that for innumerable centuries were recited by the Hawaiian...

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...ation than any particular passing persecution of Christians as such. It lay in the very fact that they did think they had a simpler and saner sort of Christianity, as do many modern Christians. They thought it could be made universal merely by being made uninteresting. Now a man preaching what he thinks is a platitude is far more intolerant than a man preaching what he adm...

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...them with adults in the family is the utter defeat of the vital element in Christianity. Christ stands in the world for that intuition of the highest ... ...ed on himself. This exclamation of Sam Weller is at once the nega- tion of Christianity and the beginning and the end of cur- rent morality; and so it... ...to the character and con- ditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity 97 Shaw which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and ...

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... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... the time when, according to Christian teaching, it had been superseded by Christianity. Many of the basic religious concepts of India had THE RELIGIO... ...ough about it to use in attempts to make converts, usually to some form of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the His... ...le for the content of the introductory chapters, the chapters on Buddhism, Christianity, Mysticism, and the Conclusion. My sister, Dr Marilyn Holly of... ...ritual, realm outside space and time. Religious systems such as mainstream Christianity have tended to emphasize the distinction between the secular a... ...inity and of predestination, discussed in Chapters 2 and 3 on Buddhism and Christianity respectively. The distinction between belief as an attempt to ... ...chings about God. Virtually from their beginning, main- stream Judaism and Christianity placed almost exclusive emphasis on this second meaning of “Go... ... Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic Judaism Christian Christian + Arab Christianity Islam Figure 1: An example of interrelated religious systems F...

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...sfied! Why weren’t they satisfied? Because they were comfortable in their Christianity. It is easier to work for the world than to work for God. It ... ... for demonic moral. This historic method is now considered a dark side of Christianity. The general and Christian public has been known to frown upo... ... crusades, Joan of Ark and other historic victories giving the church and Christianity such credibility. The angels continued; one wanted to bandage ... ...st the congregation and in the community, saying they were detrimental to Christianity. Karen hit the couple with every Bible verse she could lay he... ...stians where her heart truly lay. “Make your choice Anne,” Karen yelled. “Christianity or paganism!” Her husband added. “You can’t serve two masters!... ...es. Morris made it quite clear that this did not mean he had converted to Christianity. He just wanted to make her happy and see the church restored... ...e man joining the church, Morris was not ignorant that Tom only professed Christianity for self-gain. Although Morris’s heart was not open to the Lo... ...e toured as an evangelist. Caught up in all the hype, Morris converted to Christianity. The truth be known, it was for self-gain, but God still love...

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...hat's even worse is that my parents changed their religion from Buddhism to Christianity, just so that they could fit in with our church-obsessed nei...