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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.
I didn't know that depending on which sect they belong to, priests don't necessarily have to shave their head.
Official Soviet propaganda called the Pentecostals 'savage sect'.
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Yes, they're American missionaries of the Protestant sect.
The sect is a secret one.
I hereby proclaim that the guilt of the burning of our beloved city rests with the foul sect which calls itself Christian.
You've heard of this new sect, these fanatics who call themselves Christians?
What did you say the name of the sect was?
AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution.
Are you of a religious sect?
The orange flag and trident are symbols of a religious sect.
The faithful are celebrating the anniversary of the death of a certain Rabidas, founder of a syncretic sect comprising low-caste Hindus, untouchables, Sikhs and Muslims.
They said that our sect was too small!
Sect! S-E-C-T!
Maybe this place is inhabited by a sect. Some kind of fanatics.
This convent has been corrupted by the Jansenist sect which has not yet been wiped out.
Are you a part of some new sect?
I heard you were too. Does this sect still exist?
Thuggees are a sect of Indian ritual murderers who strangle their victims.
Sect!
It's like. a sect. - Do you see what I mean?
Not those ones. -. can we talk about the sect?
I wanted to ask you. dialectics, the other. what might its role be. in a sect, for example?
A sect or a group of people who live and work together. But why a group of people who live and work together.
Are you suggesting a new sect has resumed the old rites?
Barbara committed suicide. She was the diabolical mind behind the sect.
And join a sect of devil worshipers.
According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, masquerading as a human being. OK!
Well. now, let me think. let me think. yes, they were some kind of sect.
Whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.
Eloim, warlock creator of the Panther sect.
My uncle was an expert in occult sciences and he told us about Eloim, the sorcerous creator of the Panther sect who was killed by Hector Pietrasanta, an ancestor of ours, using the sword of the druids.
He defended us against a sect of assassins in silence like it should be, meting out justice from the shadows, ignored by the whole world.
You're actually a sect from the East,.a band of mad dreamers!
The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra-left sect. creating political confusion. with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts. which the Communist Party does not endorse.
That woman is a member of the Otori Sect amongst the Gemonese.
Are you planning to found some kind of sect? Not at all.
They're based on an ancient Earth sect of unbelievable viciousness.
Have you heard about this new sect, the Christians?
News and current affairs
While the Wahhabis could yet be bribed again with oil money, the sect's power-hungry judges eagerly await the next beheading, stoning, or lashing in Riyadh's public square.
Of course, politicians incite many of these conflicts, using caste, sect, and religion--not political ideas--to build voter loyalty.
Moreover, national identities often compete with - and are increasingly overwhelmed by - those stemming from religion, sect, and tribe.
When, in April 1999, ten thousand members of the Falun Gong sect appeared mysteriously in front of Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership, to be arrested en masse, observers found it hard to explain what was going on.
By detaining thousands of sect followers the Party may unwittingly transform an errant spiritual movement into a dangerous political force.
The 100,000 members of this Muslim sect, which believes that Muhammad was not the last prophet, have been declared infidels, and the government outlawed their publications until the ban was reversed by the Bangladeshi High Court.
At the same time, Assad's loyalists, especially members of the minority Alawite sect, must fear that they would be massacred if his regime fell.
Explosions in Maiduguri, a large city in the northeast where Boko Haram, a violent Muslim sect, remains a threatening presence despite a 2009 government crackdown, forced many voters to stay home.
In Syria, what started as peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations deteriorated quickly into an armed insurrection of the Sunni majority against the hegemony of the Alawite sect, led by the Assad family.
As a result, we stand firmly opposed to discrimination against any society, religion, sect, culture, or country.
Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far resisted being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country's Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.
Some 2,000 Shia pilgrims gathered near the mosque that houses the Prophet's tomb for the commemoration of Mohamed's death, an act of worship that the ruling Saudi Wahhabi sect considers heretical and idolatrous.
Tibetan Buddhism, however, still serves as the common link, with the Karmapa's Kagyu sect a powerful force on the Indian side.