... all emphasis is on the community. The Amish society is one that is separate and intent on keeping the outside world out of their lives. The Amish believe in a strict and literal interpretation of the Bible. They choose to keep their lives simple and plain, and examine change very carefully. The Amish religion and worldview is based on Christian morals, traditions, and ... black buggies are built to last a lifetime. Although buggies may look similar to an outsider, they are built differently depending on the rules and customs of the owner's church. Their strict dress code stems from the ...

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... abandoning religion altogether.# The older generation saw their precious Victorian values slipping away. With no other solution in sight, they adopted the strict and quite over-bearing doctrine of fundamentalism. The central theme of their new movement was the literal interpretation of the Bible and, accompanying the movement, were ideals of temperance, gentility, and sexual repression.# With a large following, Fundamentalists easily ... interpretations that it was impossible for anyone to really know what the true understanding was. Therefore, the theory of Creation as stated in the Bi...

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... as Christine de Pizan and Olympe de Gouges (Declarations of the Rights of Women) have called for the emancipation of women and female education. While arguing for the Biblical re-interpretation of female roles based on a new understanding of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, they didn't get much farther than public ridicule and unfortunately for de Gouges, the guillotine. Even with ... Ninety-Five Theses to the Wittenburg Church, the unique autonomous authority that was introduced by Hebrew monotheism was re-established. The Vatican's strict interpretation of the Church's authority and th...

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... the Massachusetts Bay colony. The colony became a Bible Commonwealth. This meant that every aspect of the colonist's lives was directly affected by the Bible. Due to their literal interpretation, some customs were absurdly strict. They didn't accept any compromise, they jumped on any heretic, and persecuted them to the same extent as to which the Church of England persecuted the Puritans. Much ... . For such a heresy, the only punishment suitable was banishment. Puritan values were clear about status in society. Women's status was at such a level, that even when Anne Hutchinson started s...

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... also dramatises the mercy of Christ's teachings. Initially Angelo is presented as a sexual puritan who shows a staunch dedication to severe laws. Shakespeare has used him as an example of the strict laws of the Old Testament. However, by allowing him to give in to temptation and strong sexual urges he becomes treacherous, hypocritical and adulterous (in the eyes of the New ... the laws of the Old Testament. "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, foot for foot" Exodus 21:24. He does not achieve the balance between mercy and law. Angelo's rigid interpretation of the law with no understanding of h...

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... comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" (1977:155). This sort of proclamation is really not science, but a particular extrapolation of then current scientific thought, but certainly not the only interpretation possible or plausible. This results often in an arbitrary and artificial reductionism that trivializes reality more than explains it and seems more a psychological projection than empirical discovery. R. Catell had said ... . In a fuller intelligence ambiguity is not only better accepted, it is accepted as fully necessary for reality to become real and to avoid the modern...

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... books in the Writings are supposed to be the work of prophets working in a normal manner. (Rosenberg pg. 36) Although most Jews lived by the laws of the Torah, the interpretation of the Torah is what caused the Jewish people to divide into three major sections: the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees. The Sadducees believed in the Torah and only the Torah ... in an oral Torah (which would later become the Talmud) that consisted of various laws and observances and methods of interpreting the written Torah. The Pharisees prided themselves on their strict conformity to the law as they interp...

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... through the teachings of its 10 Gurus enshrined in the Sikh Holy Book and Living Guru, Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The name Sikh' signifies disciple', and in later days the strict observers or elect were called Khalsa. The founder of the sect, Nanak (now known as Sri Guru Nanak Deva) was a Hindu belonging to the Kshastrya caste. He was born near ... not many. They baptize their infants, and their services range from Spartan to ornate, and from liberal to conservative. They worship based on the Book of Common Prayer and an interpretation of the Bible using a modified version of the Thirty-Nin...

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... was not accepted until much after his death, when science started to become more accepted.3 The religious evolutionist must not read the Bible as Gods word but rather as man's interpretation of God's word. A realization that God only wants us to be good people and for us to know that he loves every single one of us is the true meaning ... with even more than current beliefs. Religion is different for every person; finding God is an individual and spiritual experience that needs not be tainted by things like the Bible, strict church interpretations, and the dilution of society into relig...

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... , the first thing to be built was the school, and not the Church. These Catholic schools had a very important role in teaching catechesis, prayer and practices to Catholic children, with strict discipline and little personal freedom. These schools held a doctrinal and devotional approach in their curriculum, with rote learning and practice devotions, utilising workbooks, Bible history, stories of the lives of ... fruitful reading. The reason for this is because of the following points that have been found in Religious Education bible stories after being critically analysed: i) many are s...

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