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	Theology
		Religions, by which are meant the modes of divine worship proper to different tribes, nations, or communities, and based on the belief held in common by the members of them severally.
		Note: Religion, as distinguished from theology, is subjective, designating the feelings and acts of men which relate to God; while theology is objective, and denotes those ideas which man entertains respecting the God whom he worships, especially his systematized views of God.
		As distinguished from sanctity, religion is the means by which sanctity is achieved, sanctity denoting primarily that purity of heart and life which results from habitual communion with God, and a sense of his continual presence.
	www.tallpinetree.com /theology/theology.htm (1540 words)

	The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future
		It starts off: "‘Vanity of vanities," says the preacher, "Everything is vanity."’ The word translated as vanity literally means ‘thin air’, and it was used to describe whatever is ‘vapor-like’, ‘insubstantial’.
		Religion and culture are so closely interwoven that, though they are not one and the same, neither can exist without the other.
		Because religion arises out of the quest for meaning, and is a mode of interpreting life, it is dependent upon language.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=2735&C=2464 (5187 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Blending politics and religion
		Inventing a new religion with himself at its head was Henry's way of keeping turbulent priests in their place.
		Religion's ability to win people's hearts and minds should depend on force of argument rather than the argument of force.
		Religion, he says, has at its worst been responsible for genocide, tyranny, despotism and terrorism, but always and only when it has become confused with power.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/in_depth/3301925.stm (795 words)

	Religion, Nationalism, and Civil Society - Conor Cruise O'Brien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The wars had discredited religion, in the minds of the most intelligent citizens; they had also, though to a lesser extent, discredited the more manic forms of nationalism, for a time.
		It was generally taken for granted that religion was the source of all fanaticism and intolerance.
		Edmund Burke believed that the vanity of intellectuals, especially the vanity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was among the main causes of the French Revolution.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /publications/civilsoc/obrien.htm (3616 words)

	GLOBAL REQUIEM: THE APOCALYPTIC MOMENT IN RELIGION, SCIENCE, by Jack Miles in CrossCurrents
		The religions of the world have resources for either option; but whether we consider religion or art, the choice we face is an historic one, for step by step, the earth, which once seemed to abide forever, now seems to be dying around us.
		The fusion of religion and ethnicity must not be regarded as the root of all strife.
		The prospects for either eliminating religion as an exacerbating factor in national conflict or employing it for the mobilization of the species against a peril facing it as a species are decidedly modest.
	www.crosscurrents.org /milesrequiem.htm (5956 words)

	A Sermon by Dr. Annesley
		We may exchange one vanity for another, and the novelty may please us for a while; but when that is over, the vexation returns.
		Religion will teach us how to turn” worldly sorrow into sorrow for sin;” and” godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented” of.” It is serious godliness that teacheth how to mourn for the sins and dangers of the times we live in.
		12: ]1.) This, therefore is clogged with vanity.
	wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/christian_library/vol24/CL24Part10.htm (6880 words)

	Revivals Of Religion Outline: 1874 by Charles G. Finney
		With those of no religion, or of another religion, the question of faith in Christ as the true God and the only Savior, should be pressed and consented to.
		This is the religion illustrated in the 7th of Romans.
		From hence, it is the "royal law of liberty," and religion is a spontaneous love-service.
	www.gospeltruth.net /1874Rev_of_Rel_outline/revivals_of_religion_1874.htm (9193 words)

	User:Marcperkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was the religion of Albert Einstein who, influenced strongly by Spinoza's philosophies, saw the universe through an identical lens.
		It is ridiculous to call this a religion of one or a parody religion.
		We are viewing the religions from an external, explanatory perspective, not from the perspective of either members or critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Marcperkel (5178 words)

	FORGIVENESS
		Vanity and self-satisfaction are as much a general feature of human nature, as a nose and two ears are the normal parts of a human body.
		Every religion, every nation, every aggregate of human beings —small or big—prides itself as being at once the standard and accomplishment of all that is laudable under the sun.
		The pious peasant still devoutly goes round the sacred peepul and encircles the trunk with her coloured thread; the priest still mutters his mantra and tolls his bell in the temple by the Ganges but the form of faith is there; the lively inspiration and the glad vision of loveliness do not aminate the form.
	www.geocities.com /phillip_jain/no2julsep2000.htm (2052 words)

	Paul Tillich, The New Being
		There are the great religions beside Christianity: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and the remnants of classical Judaism; they have their myths and their rites - so to speak, their “circumcision” - which gives each of them their distinction.
		And I am only now beginning to realize it.) It is the spiritual power of religion that he or she who is religious can fearlessly look at the vanity of religion.
		Religion and Christianity are under strong accusation that they have not brought reunion into human history.
	www.thewords.com /articles/tillich1.htm (2912 words)

	Global Freemasonry. com - This site is based on the works of Harun Yahya.
		The manifesto underscored the idea that that it was high time to eliminate divine religions and replace them with a new age of scientific improvement and social cooperation.
		Masonic teaching wages a war against religion by means of the hoax of Darwinism, which is actually refuted by the science itself.
		Each one of the people, who hide behind the terms of modernism and civilisation while defending the vanity of religion, who claim that science and religion conflicts and who think that they could find their way without the guide of Qur'an are Masons.
	www.globalfreemasonry.com /articles_02.html (1891 words)

	religion
		There is little doubt he is necessary to some extent, yet it becomes the height of vanity for any man to imagine that the preservation of just his own selfish individuality ever entered into the Almighty's plans.
		Many theories of truth, clothed in symbolic garments, were attempts by undeveloped intellects combined with their crude knowledge of possibly explaining the universality of life adapted to existing social needs of the time in order to formulate rules of human conduct for restraint of men in their daily intercourse with others.
		Religion (based on various religious beliefs/faiths over time) has always represented the idea of those existing social conditions of the time.
	www.gerrymack.com /religion/religion.html (2392 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Vanity Fair \| William Makepeace Thackeray
		Vanity Fair has been one of my favorite novels since I was sixteen years old.
		Dobbin was the moral center of the story and needed to be played by an actor who was not afraid to be transparent about his emotion, yet not be boring in suffering.
		Amelia is lauded by the narrator as a paragon of womanhood, though he admits that some people, especially other women, don't see her charms.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/vanity_fair.html (1694 words)

	Pure Religion James 1:19-27
		The word "religion" is found five times in the Word of God, and "religious" two times.
		Religion was and is an enemy to the cause of Christ.
		The only real part of religion is that Christ died on the cross for all sinners, and all who believe in Him will be saved for all eternity.
	www.brandonweb.com /gbt/sermonpages/james6.htm (989 words)

	Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In its response filed last week, the state asked that the motion for a preliminary injunction be denied and requested that the lawsuit be dismissed.
		State regulations say letters or numbers that refer to any race, religion, color, deity, gender, sexual orientation, disability status or political affiliation are not allowed on vanity plates.
		That rule, according to the state's recent filing, "is viewpoint neutral" when it comes to religion by prohibiting both pro- and anti-religious sentiment.
	www.rutlandherald.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050425/NEWS/504250386/1024 (835 words)

	"‘Vanity Fair’ Writer Distorts Wolfowitz’s Words" by Cinnamon Stillwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He is alleged to have ''revealed,'' in an interview with writer Sam Tanenhaus for the Manhattan celebrity/fashion glossy Vanity Fair, that the Bush administration's asserted casus belli for war against Saddam Hussein--the dictator's weapons-of-mass-destruction program--was little more than a propaganda device, a piece of self-conscious and insincere political manipulation.
		It was simply one of several reasons: ''For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.'' Everyone meaning, presumably, Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		What gives is that Tanenhaus has mischaracterized Wolfowitz's remarks, that Vanity Fair's publicists have mischaracterized Tanenhaus's mischaracterization, and that Bush administration critics are now indulging in an orgy of righteous indignation that is dishonest in triplicate.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2928 (765 words)

	Absolute's Vanity Fair Magazine Offers
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		Submit your comments to share with other potential readers regarding this magazine, it's editorial content, and overall value.
		A journal of ideas that examines the most interesting and controversial issues of religion and public life today.
	www.absolutemagazines.com /vanity_fair.html (215 words)

	Book Bad Religion - Booking Corporate Event, Meeting, Private Events - Contact for Information - Bad Religion
		Bad Religion is one of the most influential and commercially successful American punk groups of all time.
		Along with Black Flag and the Descendents, Bad Religion made southern California one of the nation's hotspots for punk rock; guitarist Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records, originally Bad Religion's vanity imprint, has grown into perhaps the largest, best-known punk label in the world.
		Nearly two decades after forming Bad Religion remains one of the freshest groups around, as passionate now as when they were teenagers.
	www.grabow.biz /Contemporary/BadReligion.htm (410 words)

	Overview of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vanity Fair was a turning point in Thackeray's life and career.
		John Forster wrote, "Vanity Fair is the work of a mind, at once accomplished and subtle, which has enjoyed opportunities of observing many and varied circles of society.
		The people who fill up the motley scenes of Vanity Fair, with two or three exceptions, are as vicious and odious as a clever condensation of the vilest qualities can make them.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray (1284 words)

	Man’s Natural Blindness In Things Of Religion -- Jonathan Edwards
		And immediately upon it he observes that this vanity and foolishness of thought is common and natural to mankind.
		There are thousands of delusions in things which concern the affairs of religion, that men commonly are led away with, who yet live under the light of the gospel.
		They will be convinced of the vanity of the world, of the blessed opportunity they had in the world, and how much it is men’s wisdom to improve their time.
	www.biblebb.com /files/edwards/blindness.htm (11636 words)

	QCTimes.com - The Quad-City Times Newspaper Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rock the vanity carefully to loosen and remove without risking damage to the surrounding wall.
		Use a cordless screwdriver to carefully remove screws that attach the vanity to the wall.
		Position vanity and make sure it is flush against both walls.
	www.qctimes.net /articles/2006/02/26/features/home_garden/doc440153cab1096654503349.txt (392 words)

	Amazon.com: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion (Oxford World's Classics): Books: David Hume,J. C. A. Gaskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And, for this reason, his writing on religion provides a good illustration of his general philosophical method: he begins by pointing out the impotence of reason, and then he offers a naturalistic psychological explanation of why we continue to think as we do.
		Natural religion is the idea that we come to know and understand God (and, consequently, what God wants or expects of us, if anything) simply from nature and our sensory perceptions, as well as our interpretations (emotion and rational) of this kind of understanding.
		Revealed religion is primary what most religions base themselves upon - the burning bush to Moses, the resurrection and post-resurrection appearances to the Apostles, the Buddha's enlightenment under the tree - these are examples of revelation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192838768?v=glance (3148 words)

	James 1:15-27
		James is saying that these religious gossipers have a religion of vanity.
		Religion is an outward manifestation without transformation on the inside.
		Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
	www.scionofzion.com /james1_15-27.htm (4241 words)

	BibleGateway - Quick search: religion
		But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
		Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
		VANITY » The religion of hypocrites is (James 1:26)
	www.biblegateway.com /quicksearch/?quicksearch=religion&qs_version=31 (325 words)

	Pagan and Christian Creeds: Vi. Magicians, Kings And Gods
		As far as magic represented early superstition land religion it laid hold of the hearts of men--their hopes and fears; as far as it represented science and the beginnings of actual knowledge, it inspired their minds with a sense of power, and gave form to their lives and customs.
		In the matter of Religion the history of the Christian priesthood through the centuries shows sufficiently to what misuse such power can be put; and in the matter of Science it is a warning to us of the dangers attending the formation of a scientific priesthood, such as we see growing up around us to-day.
		The Egyptian religion was full of such divinities--the jackal-headed Anubis, the ram-headed Ammon, the bull-fronted Osiris, or Muth, queen of darkness, clad in a vulture's skin; Minos and the Minotaur in Crete; in Greece, Athena with an owl's head, or Herakles masked in the hide and jaws of a monstrous lion.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/pcc/pcc07.htm (2817 words)

	Honesty
		His works are the treasures (Mat 6:19-21) he stores in heaven--- a living religion where one accepts full responsibility for his actions, No One can help him or do it for him--His salvation is in his hands, free for the taking.
		Galatians 5:22-23 it is a religion of the poor not of the rich (Luke 6:20 and Matthew 19:23).
		The Atheist may be shocked to find that I may also disbelieve the religions he objects to and to his concept of religion.
	members.tripod.com /~alex_kruk/HONESTY.html (4189 words)

	VANITY FAIR : ROUNDTABLE : CONTENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And let us lament that there is no longer a need to imagine the consequences of the failure of imagination that is the consequence of a religiosity so pervasive that it has replaced that which is possible with that which is impossible.
		And that you may even lose your religion, because, as it turns out, the only people who are really tolerant of other people's religions are people who are really not that religious.
		And that if you think it is wrong to have a crèche in the town square, and you were wondering what would make it worse, then by all means insist that a menorah be installed alongside it.
	www.vanityfair.com /commentary/content/articles/041206roco03 (849 words)

	SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, religion would mean to me everything.
		I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity.
		Religion would be my first waking thought, and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness.
	www.southsidebaptistchurch.net /sermons/2002/081802.htm (1338 words)

	Deep Background
		And so began the drama that led to Vanity Fair's revelation yesterday that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was journalist Bob Woodward's famed anonymous source on the Watergate scandal.
		The problem for Vanity Fair, Friend said, was that O'Connor wanted the magazine to pay Felt and Felt's family for the story -- a condition the magazine would not agree to.
		About 15 Vanity Fair editors and staff people were eventually assigned to the story, which was code-named WIG (a corruption of "Watergate").
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053101588.html?sub=AR (800 words)

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Another case involving a vanity license plate took place in 2001, known as Paula Perry v.
		There are about 35,000 vanity plates issued in Vermont.
		The state's response to Byrne's lawsuit stated that vanity plates with three numerals cannot be issued, to avoid confusion with standard-issued plates.
	www.timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050425/NEWS/504250330/1003/NEWS02 (835 words)

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