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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Other faiths have established institutions which afford women the opportunity to fully dedicate themselves to the celibate service of God -- the Roman Catholics have nuns, most of whom serve with distinction; even in the days of Lord Buddha there were Buddhist nuns who followed a regimen as austere as that of the Buddhist monks.
The Hindu religion is often criticized and even ridiculed by Uninformed or misinformed people, not just from other faiths but from among the Hindus themselves, for the type of symbolism employed in their worship and for the rituals they follow.
They transcend language barriers and can communicate an essence of their meaning even to people from different cultures and religious faiths.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Even as the organisers announced that the scheduled question-answer session with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani was being done away with, Nadira asked if the Vajpayee government was more favourable towards Hindus than Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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This is so true that even men who would be ready and willing to fight for the removal of manifest grievances within their own religious denomination will drop their own fight and turn their activities against the outsider the moment the abolition of such grievances is counselled or demanded by one who is not of the same faith.
Even Chaplains in the Armed Forces are not forced to go against their faith's teachings - though many of them seem to do it to advance their careers, as confessed by President Linderman of the Texas District.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Even the western notion of ‘belief’ does not make much sense in contexts where ideas about gods and spirits are taken for granted, and not challenged by other faiths or the conclusions of the natural sciences.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Even though I knew that salvation was by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, I was basing my salvation on the fact that my parents were missionaries and surely God wouldn't send me to Hell.
Even as Judas was attracted to Jesus on some level, as well as the attraction of the faith and the Spirit to Ananias and Sapphira and other hypocrites mentioned in the scripture, the Christian faith seems to have some appeal to the old nature.
Even more astounding is the fact that earlier in verse 16 of that chapter, Peter had given the confessional statement of faith on which Christ said He would build His church!
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Even if it is not yet a conceivable explicit aim of a democratic political programme to discourage divisive religious certainties, it is not constructive to pretend that religious conflict is to no degree the fault of religious faith as such.
What made the coming of immigrants even more difficult were literacy clauses and bills passed in the legislature that automatically cancelled out hard working, eligible Indians of all faiths.
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