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Meaning religion meaning

What does religion mean?
Definitions in simple English

religion

Religion is when a person or persons believe in a God or Gods. Religion is a set of beliefs about a God or Gods. His religion is Christianity. Mine is Buddhism

religion

(= faith) a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny he lost his faith but not his morality (= faith) an institution to express belief in a divine power he was raised in the Baptist religion a member of his own faith contradicted him

Synonyms religion synonyms

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Topics religion topics

What do people use religion to talk about?
  • What general words refer to an official religion?
  • What words refer to a religious group, which the official religion considers to be false?

Examples religion examples

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Simple sentences

This rite is part of their religion.
Armand the vampire's religion is henotheistic.
Gun worship is the religion which requires the continuing sacrifice of other people's children.
I never thought about my religion.
Religion causes war.
I am not going to promote any religion.
I am not biased against any religion. That does not mean that I support them, though.
It has nothing to do with religion.
Religion is a personal matter between the soul and God.
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallyzed; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
A person's religion is a purely personal affair.
Making money is his religion.
The two countries differ in religion and culture.
Do you believe in any religion?
We must separate politics from religion.
You'd better avoid discussion of religion and politics.
She has no opinion about religion.
I don't believe in religion.
Religion is the opium of the people.
My mother's religion helped her to come to terms with my father's death.
Some early religion's leaders were persecuted by their enemies.
The religion was in its glory in those days.
Japanese are not so particular about religion.
The settlers embraced the Christian religion.
What religion do you believe in?
That company hires people without regard to race, religion, or nationality.
I don't care about your race or age or religion.
Slaves find power in religion.

Movie subtitles

And our new religion is All-American!
Anything you say, anything you do, he turns it around and puts it into religion.
I guess it's kind of like when a fellow gets religion even when he don't want it.
By the way, what religion do you follow here?
Strength is her religion, Mr. Connor.
Major, what might your religion be?
He told me yesterday that duelling is against his religion.
Is it against his religion to go to a cafe?
You got religion suddenly, didn't you?
Be aware that he is sensitive about questions of spirituality or religion.
No respect for religion!
I don't mean believe in it like believing in a religion.
My religion is the best!
During my instruction, I referred to the one true and epistolic religion.
Curse your mother's religion!
All men will be equal, regardless of race or religion.
We want to help the Arabs, to protect their language and their religion. We wish to let them run their own country and help them gradually take in the values of modern Western civilization.
Anyway. religion is all that matters here.
Islam is a good religion.
It's a question of religion, which is sacred.
On behalf of my master, Emir Abd el-Kader, prince of the faithful, defender of the Prophet's religion, welcome.
We want to protect the Arabs' language and religion.
I'm fighting for you, the children and the Algerians, so people will respect your religion, values and the color of your skin.
They have different customs and values and another religion.
It's their damn religion that puts them to sleep.
You marry someone with the same religion and background.
For us Muslims, religion rules everything. You know that.
It's, let's say, about religion.
This game is like a religion to us, and they are denying our rights to practice our religion.
No scruples, no religion, nothing.
My home, my life, my religion.
Ephraim Wells took his religion without flinching, the way a strong man should.
Gisele, let me introduce Marvejoule.a man with religion.
Why, it's a sort of religion, isn't it?
Had Mrs. Girard followed, even if with fanatical fervor, a religion or political creed - but she hasn't.
It's against your religion.
Children need religion.
For me, the formula is: sex, politics, and religion.
There's religion, and politics too.
When I was a child, I was stuffed with religion like a Strasbourg goose with grain.

News and current affairs

Extremists who hijack religion threaten governments and people everywhere.
Mathematics was outlawed as irreligious and alien, and was later made subservient to religion.
Both agreed that reform must be slow, cautious and that it must never undermine established institutions, especially religion and the patriarchal family.
Until then, he and Bush shared a common worldview, emphasizing the importance of religion, the traditional family (as both countries understood it), social discipline, and the state's role in supporting these institutions.
Moreover, the popular appeal of radical religion, ideology, and misinformation should not be underestimated.
As for religion, every religion embodies certain verities that are applicable to all mankind - justice, truth, mercy, compassion - and men often allow God to be blamed for their own sins.
Indeed, more than religion divides the population.
Our study of religion and social inequality in Lebanon examined social mobility rather than overall inequality.
While this does not guarantee that no relationship exists between religion and discrimination against women, it suggests that if such a tie does exist, it is unrelated to female labor market participation or preference for sons.
On the contrary, it would be a grave mistake to assume that fanatical Islamism fully defines Saudi attitudes toward religion.
Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.
Now survey data, too, suggest that Saudis may well begin demanding a more transparent politics and a less interventionist religion.
Sonia Gandhi and her family should also take credit for putting at the forefront of their campaign a vision of an inclusive society, which rejects divisions on the basis of caste, ethnicity, language, and religion.
While polling suggests that attitudes are influenced more by ethnicity than religion, both help to define identities and mindsets.
One of his jokes goes to the heart of the failure of the ideology - the dogmatic religion - inflicted on our poor world by his namesake, Karl.
India and Africa have been linked over the centuries by trade, religion, and post-imperial political consciousness.
But one's state was not a fully formed nation, with its own shared and deeply ingrained history, culture, ethnic identity, and religion.
The pillars of the Thai state - nation, religion, and the king - struck a unifying, collective chord, and the resulting stability enabled economic development.
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but - to borrow again from Confucius - how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger, and the oppressed.
They define their religion as moderate and liberal, with many upholding gay rights and abortion, both anathema to evangelical Christians.
We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America.
Where can and should religion and ethics contribute to our political discourse?
But if we want to discover the role that a religion like Islam plays in determining a society's fundamental shape, we can indeed be led astray by making comparisons between different countries or global regions.

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