Word: religione
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...really has gone through life as the good-looking theater geek who's also good at sports and with girls and who has mastered humility as a counterattack against schadenfreude, then maybe he can work this charm thing into a career. And, if not, he can join a weird religion, drive drunk or leave his wife for another woman. You know, the things adults do to hang on to fame...
...Profligacy is against the tenets of our religion," says Paramjit Singh Sarna, the president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. "Sikhism aims at doing away with meaningless social customs," he says, "but spending huge amounts on weddings creates serious social evils like female foeticide and infanticide...
...Neither the writers nor the producer behind the musical are Muslim. Therefore, they say they took great care to avoid offending Islamic religion and culture. Zoe Samuel, co-author of the musical, says that several Muslims attended test performances and were amused by the show's content. She also says that the script distinguishes between everyday people and extremists. "We're not satirizing innocents. We're satirizing terrorists, neocons and apologists - people who exploit other people's beliefs to shore up their own power...
...then-proposed measure would only exacerbate the problems it was meant to resolve. “That was why the West embraced the concept of a separation of church and state to begin with,” the Times argued. “Because every attempt by one religion or ideology to dictate its precepts on others led to only greater problems...
...certainly no shortage of possible explanations for the differences in American and French social policy. But what lurks behind the social science is a basic uneasiness on the American side of the pond about forcing individuals into any sort of public conformity. In a country where a single religion, Christianity, is overwhelmingly dominant, and where governments dabble in “faith-based initiatives” to make political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus of the state...