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If something is religious, it is related to or about religion. Religious beliefs can be very important in choosing a marriage partner. All of the major religious traditions regard theft and murder as evil. If someone is religious, they believe in a religion and follow its rules. Because Buddhism forbids the wearing of shoes on pagoda grounds, the deeply religious Mon troops remain barefoot while climbing a rocky cliff there. If someone is religious about doing something, they do it on a regular schedule or every chance that they get. We have been less than religious about our daily exercise.

religious

(= spiritual) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church religious texts a member of a religious order lords temporal and spiritual spiritual leaders spiritual songs having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity a religious man religious attitude of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows the religious or regular clergy conducts the service extremely scrupulous and conscientious religious in observing the rules of health a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

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Simple sentences

I didn't know Tom was so religious.
You don't need to be religious to believe in God.
I'm not that religious.
The recent scandals involving altar boys and religious leaders have undermined the faith people have in the Church.
I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
The cathedral had a religious painting on its ceiling.
The Inca were religious people.
I've lost my religious faith.
Keep off the religious issue when talking with him.
He is tolerant in religious belief of others.
The Inca were a religious people.
Atheism isn't a religious belief.
Tom has a lot of religious books, but he has never read them.
Tom doesn't appear to be very religious.
I've never been religious, but hearing the Lord's Prayer in Latin makes me shudder.
Full religious freedom is assured to all people.
But it was not successful for long because everyone, even religious people, had a strong attraction to the game.
I'm a deeply religious man and believe in life after death.
The new law will deprive religious minorities of their right to vote.
He has no religious mind.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
They also promised religious freedom.
Tom isn't religious.
For many years, the abbey was turned into a fortress, happily joining in itself martial and religious architecture.
She listens to religious music.

Movie subtitles

Shelagh, the religious sister.
How these religious women must have suffered, before their nerves abandoned them and insanity broke out?
The religious wars of the fanatics burned from morning to night The war fanned from east and west among the people.
Despite the misery in which the Hurdanos live their moral and religious sense is the same as anywhere else in the world.
And by prayer I don't mean shouting and mumbling. and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment.
And right on top of that you got to go and tell Sister Bessie, a religious woman that you didn't steal no turnips.
Now, just a minute, Sister Bessie. Is all that necessary? I'm a religious man.
It, too, has it's degrees and it's secrets as well as it's religious, or should I say, philosophical background.
The rehabilitated nuns have the same rights, commitments and religious honor as you.
I could find a religious home to protect her and give her work.
Are you religious?
I'm not exactly religious.
Naturally, being a religious man.
Nothing but religious pamphlets.
It's a religious thing.
And by prayer I don't mean shouting and mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment.
I'm a religious man.
A religious shiver runs through him and makes him recognize the visualized fantasy of his belief.
Very religious, burns candles.
I've never been religious or anything like that but now there's only a few hours left and I've been thinking about what you said about standing out there alone tomorrow up against that wall, no priest to turn to.
As a matter of fact, you sound like a very religious man who doesn't believe in God.
Is she still active in her religious work?
My family devoted their lives to a kind of religious work.
Religious ceremony for the flags.
It simply is an act of self deception to put that kind of religious interpretation on out of thought.
But to relate that directly to religious belief, to religious revelation, if you like, should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Then, Corpus Christi - the greatest religious and military celebration of the year.
I'm prudent, religious too.
The jaguar, in fact all the cat family were considered the personification of force and violence in their religious rights.
It's quite natural that he should read books on the history of old religious societies.
They're holding religious services too, if you listen.
But I believe I'm quite as religious as you are, Norbert.

News and current affairs

At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
This is not to say that the economic concept of politics is utterly strange to the Chinese - or, for that matter, that the religious notion of politics is unknown in the democratic West.
Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu's ideals are unlikely to take root.
Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.
Ideological hawks usually come from the National-Religious Party and from members of the Likud.
Although he strengthened religious freedom and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians, the human-rights situation in Ethiopia remained poor.
Beatrix, like Franz Joseph, refuses to make ethnic or religious distinctions between her subjects.
The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious altar (so that they would fear pre-marital sex).
The spread of conflict throughout the Middle East is currently precipitated more by the rise of religious sectarianism than by American interventionism.
Those who believe - often with quasi-religious conviction - that we need even more Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and should ignore government debt, seem to me to be panicking.
Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.
Tolerance and religious freedom must be mutual.
Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iranians are growing demonstrably less religious and more liberal.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism - and in some ways far more profound and humane.
Nigeria has been convulsed by religious violence triggered by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper months ago.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
Hindu religious law, for example, allows a woman to claim an equal share in her parents' wealth, but few exercise this right.
The liberalization process has exposed the country's long-standing religious divisions, leading to a wave of sectarian violence aimed primarily at the minority Muslim community.
On the same day, the US State Department released its annual report on religious freedom, in which Myanmar was included among the world's eight worst offenders.
Although Myanmar is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, dozens of religious and ethnic communities have long lived there side by side.
Many of these women are socially conservative, strongly supportive of the armed forces, and religious - and yet they crave equality as strongly as any leftist vegetarian in Birkenstocks.
China has changed a great deal in the last century, but it has remained the same in one respect: it is still ruled by a religious concept of politics.
Instead, the foundation of religious politics is a shared belief, imposed from above, in ideological orthodoxy.

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