It so powerfully and intelligently describes the obligations of believers to nonbelievers and the obligations of nonbelievers to believers in a pluralistic democracy.
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Pew's latest report found that nonbelievers are gaining ground fast.
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It provides a place for nonbelievers to find each other.
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" For nonbelievers, he added, the choice will be "either Islam or death.
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"Eight state constitutions even prohibit nonbelievers from holding public office," Boot writes.
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Destroy the economy of the nonbelievers by withdrawing your money from their banks!
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The answers are in this alternative history of the country, focused on the nonbelievers.
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Award-winning writer and young-adult author Jason Reynolds aims his books at the nonbelievers.
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The contact instructed him to kill "nonbelievers" on New Year's Eve in a populated area.
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Judge Duffy cited several verses from the Quran, including one that offered tolerance for nonbelievers.
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And, the church hopes, perhaps even nonbelievers who are curious about the faith will watch.
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Al-Baghdadi personally promoted and participated in the systematic rape of women who ISIS considered nonbelievers.
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Even my best efforts to convert the most rigid nonbelievers — apparently, they exist — have proved futile.
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Self-identified nonbelievers were less biased than the average, but not by much, the study found.
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For them, the truth that God has revealed is the most important truth there is; therefore, denying or doubting this truth is extremely dangerous, both for nonbelievers, who lack this essential truth, and for believers, who may well be misled by the denials and doubts of nonbelievers.
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And best is not to use kuffar [nonbelievers] program with all the spy looking into your communication.
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With nonbelievers starting to assert themselves, believers began more aggressively protecting their faith from offense or scrutiny.
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"He tried to get the refugees to turn against NGOs because they were 'nonbelievers,' " Mr. Mayeur recalled.
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Awlaki: The believers, irrespective of their ethnicities, are one nation, and they are separate from the nonbelievers.
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On the other side, he anticipated a zealous adherence to the state on the part of nonbelievers.
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Miller isn't selling astrology to nonbelievers, because, as far as she's concerned, astrology doesn't need to be sold.
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Supporting a sports team is not — though it may seem like it, to nonbelievers — a straight consumer choice.
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Westwood's ability to inspire even the most nonbelievers of the power of fashion has served her well for decades.
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In coming forward with her story of ghostly haunting for the Netflix show, McGarry knew she would face nonbelievers.
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There's lots of nonbelievers out here, and the market just keeps going up," he told "Squawk on the Street.
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He found it difficult to accept that all the nonbelievers he met on the road would suffer eternal damnation.
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The servers acted less like ancient space aliens than like monks running a monastic retreat for stressed-out nonbelievers.
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The occasional outcry over the presence of nonbelievers from religious zealots was outweighed by a welcoming and hopeful majority.
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In any case, believers and nonbelievers alike can enjoy her latest endeavor: a zodiac-themed jewelry collection for Givenchy.
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For nonbelievers, "See conspiracy theory; mock" has become an ingrained response online—and we need to break the habit.
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It's true that more American men than women are nonbelievers, which invariably means more men than women attend conferences.
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"She rightly realized that it was a straight-up case of religious discrimination against atheists and nonbelievers," Mr. Katskee said.
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But she's also proud of her creations, testifying that some nonbelievers quickly change their views after meeting a Look Thep.
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" Jane from California: "I often read or hear that climate change believers are 'elite' and look down on upon nonbelievers.
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Some studies find that devout believers live more morally upright lives, compared with nonbelievers; others find no differences at all.
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Nonbelievers just put on their war wigs and their war gloves and pick from a fanned deck of brute facts.
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On this view, Islam is essentially committed to the imposition of religious law, or sharia, on believers and nonbelievers alike.
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Beyond that, arrogance finds its reward when it doesn't submit or concede, when it doesn't betray a fear of alienating nonbelievers.
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And it was here that he preached his ideology, calling for the killing of nonbelievers in Islam and even other Muslims.
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The mutual hostility between religious conservatives and liberals — and nonbelievers — that emerged in the 1960s also fuels these seemingly irreconcilable differences.
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Perhaps that explains its unwavering appeal for believers and nonbelievers alike (even if many Native Americans understandably choose not to partake).
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In 1969, the Vatican's Secretariat for Nonbelievers asked him to organize a conference on secularization for scholars of various religious backgrounds.
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They had previously quoted a verse from the Muslim holy book at a rally, which warns against Muslims allying themselves with nonbelievers.
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Federal attorneys describe the local police force and church's security operation as paranoid entities that worked to violate the rights of nonbelievers.
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It's pretty heartbreaking to see people who are maybe nonbelievers of the shooting or people who are internet trolls attacking them online.
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Mr. Shekau's recording said Mr. Barnawi and his followers believed that Muslims could live among nonbelievers and still be considered good Muslims.
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After all, if a man can wake up a beetle or a breast, why can't believers and nonbelievers metamorphize into each other?
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Previous studies had found evidence of broad-based public suspicion of nonbelievers in smaller samples within religious countries, like the United States.
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Accordingly, each character, even the nonbelievers, kneels before the Virgin of Candelaria during a festival in her honor and begs her for help.
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Gun shots to your police," one passage reads, with another referencing instructions from terrorist leaders to undertake attacks against "nonbelievers" in their "backyard.
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Legal challenges to the Pledge of Allegiance, in particular, persist, because nonbelievers are concerned about its prominence in the daily lives of schoolchildren.
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Denmark is an increasingly secular country — its percentage of self-declared nonbelievers grew to 48 percent last year from 31 percent in 2011.
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But don't most of us, nonbelievers and believers alike, often substitute one thing for another—which is to say, read the world allegorically?
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Those pics could be even more effective in drawing new congregants and the interest of nonbelievers than old-school evangelizing — the FOMO is real.
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The church does tend to define our community as a whole, so it can be difficult to connect with other nonbelievers for that reason.
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To many believers — and even to many nonbelievers — the story of Christianity seems monumental and unchanging, the stuff of oft-recited creeds and hymns.
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This was such an energy-sapping endeavor that Europe overlooked the other growing division: between Western believers in the European Union and Eastern nonbelievers.
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The great evildoers in the Notre Dame speech are nonbelievers who are apparently out on the streets ransacking everything that is good and holy.
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To McCreary and his new neighbors, Snowflake became an oasis where they could be free of judgment, nonbelievers, and most importantly, noxious chemical substances.
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Al-Baghdadi, by contrast, was directly involved in some of his group's most notorious atrocities, including the organized rape of women considered to be nonbelievers.
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Is the United States a mult-religious nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers," as Obama said in his first inaugural address?
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Many nonbelievers champion the idea that people can be "good without a god," and while they're certainly correct, it's not enough to just say it.
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The mix of newfound religion and a simplified politics that viewed Muslims as global victims of oppression at the hands of nonbelievers would prove intoxicating.
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It is a consoling relic, as surely as the crown of thorns that Father Fournier rescued, and this is so for believers and nonbelievers alike.
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Dr. Gervais, whose work explores bias against nonbelievers, had publicly backed off some of his own earlier studies, finding them too small to be convincing.
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The rise of nonbelievers is even more politically significant if white evangelicals are considered separately from their heavily Democratic black, Hispanic and other minority counterparts.
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Nonbelievers refer to this practice as tinhatting—as in, wearing tinfoil on your head to keep aliens from reading your thoughts—as in, being really crazy.
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In most accounts of the rapture, believers go straight to heaven, while nonbelievers are left behind to undergo a period of political chaos and personal torment.
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"Attractor," a work directed and choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin, was born out of desire for a ritual: a cathartic soul rinsing for nonbelievers.
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Believers and nonbelievers alike are forced to think through the coherence and implications of their views, instead of merely reaffirming them with sympathetic friends and family.
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" Since the country's founding, Jones says, "White Christian America" has provided believers and nonbelievers alike with a "shared aesthetic, a historical framework, and a moral vocabulary.
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Salvation could only come through defeat of nonbelievers, which to him included the American-allied Saudi royals, and the establishment of a vast pan-Islamic empire.
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She and other artists have been driving the rise of Hindutva pop music, a hyper-patriotic genre that promotes Hindu culture, nationalism and even violence against nonbelievers.
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Nonbelievers were either few and far between in Colonial America or understandably cautious about making themselves known; clergy and magistrates rarely bothered to mention them, even derisively.
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For some nonbelievers, this may be analogous to the gay rights movement: They may need to know one brave accuser personally before believing (and supporting) the others.
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However, the show has changed many plot points from the books, so some nonbelievers still cling to the hope that Jon's parentage will be different in the books.
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Seeger, despite an increase in the number of people who identify as nonbelievers, their standing before the courts and in the public sphere has been slow to improve.
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You may have known about these issues if Congress had an atheist member who stridently opposed discrimination against nonbelievers – just as Baldwin fiercely opposes discrimination against LGBT people.
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Bit by bit, the White House is becoming Trump's Emerald City: isolated, fortified against nonbelievers, entranced by its mythmaker, and constantly vulnerable to the risks of revelation. ♦
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Nor can we let the hateful ideology of Radical Islam – its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers – be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries.
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For believers who seek this benefit from God, as for nonbelievers who seek it elsewhere, grace remains a highly elusive but highly desirable state, especially in troubled times.
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Sunday's interfaith service at Emanu-El saw Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and nonbelievers gathering to offer comfort and unity after the shooting, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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In 1979, Mr. Pannella managed to upstage Pope John Paul II's Easter benediction by staging a reverential march of nonbelievers to St. Peter's Square on behalf of hungry children.
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The message the audience was meant to be left with was that if total nonbelievers and Muslims can find common ground, then everyone in between should be able to.
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So we walk for all our fellow citizens wishing to live in peace and harmony in Turkey: for believers and nonbelievers; for Turks and Kurds; for Alevis and Sunnis.
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The Islamic State, which regards members of other Muslim groups as nonbelievers deserving death, also claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistan in November.
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The faithful and the nonbelievers alike respect the Catholic Church because some of its most prominent leaders championed human rights during Pinochet's dictatorship, defying threats, death squads and persecution.
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His first sermon, in April, included a cautionary note about social media — "which is really built to encourage and reward shameless self-love" — and ended with a warning for nonbelievers.
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"Nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical Islam -- its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers -- be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries," he said.
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In the video, the militant suspected of being Dhar is featured with an English-speaking child, who says that ISIS will kill "kuffar" -- nonbelievers -- "over there," referring to the West.
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To many Tasmanian enthusiasts, mainland sightings are a frustrating embarrassment that threatens to undermine their credibility; they can be as scathing about mainland theorists as total nonbelievers are about them.
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"Any religion-based legislation must not violate human rights, including the rights of those belonging to the majority religion as well as of religious minorities and nonbelievers," Ms. Bachelet said.
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Mohammed Milhan, who studied at Kalmunai Zahira College, uses [phone number redacted], and as an ardent follower of Zaharan, has been observed as someone who has deep hatred towards nonbelievers.
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In order to revive a shared ethos of civic values and responsibilities, Republicans and Democrats, believers and nonbelievers, must come together and re-learn how to talk to one another.
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Spiritual impoverishment: This is the dimension of American life in 2019 that the Christians I spoke to captured so well, which the language of faith can help even nonbelievers articulate.
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As a matter of policy, we do not discuss religion — both so that nonbelievers feel welcome, and also since many believers become upset when others don't share their particular views.
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Two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah violated the constitutional rights of nonbelievers by denying them basic services such as police protection, building permits and water hookups, a jury said Monday.
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Next month, nonbelievers are headed to Washington to lobby Congress and hold a "Reason Rally" at the Lincoln Memorial to showcase their numbers and promote the separation of church and state.
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He flourished in Iraq's war, using tactics now associated with the Islamic State: videotaped beheadings, mass killings of fellow Muslims deemed nonbelievers and attacks meant to incite a Sunni-Shiite war.
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What led me to found Black Nonbelievers was the need to connect with other black atheists and other blacks who were leaving religion, because there are so few of us represented.
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Perhaps that explains why Notre-Dame seems to hold within it a quiet spirituality, even for nonbelievers, and attracts even more worshipers and tourists than Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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It's the next part — the interpretation of those results — that plunges astrologers into the realm of what they might call inference or intuition, and what nonbelievers might call memorized random associations.
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It's the rare series that seriously considers the perspectives of believers, nonbelievers, and those who are questioning their faith, and it's terrifically thoughtful about the strained relationships between parents and children too.
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Life isn't always that simple for believers or nonbelievers, but like with church sermons, it's the conviction in the message that resonates with a congregation or, in this case, a digital audience.
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"Too many believers and nonbelievers alike now read these sacred texts in a doggedly literal manner that is quite different from the more inventive and mystical approach of premodern spirituality," Armstrong writes.
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A brief truce was reached at the end of the Obama Administration, when Congress passed, and the President signed, a new version of the International Religious Freedom Act that officially included nonbelievers.
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For years, he writes, "short-sighted religious businessmen" had been "sentencing artists of faith to cultural obscurity" by marketing them solely to other Christians, creating an insular market that left nonbelievers untouched.
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Intolerance need not lead to violence against nonbelievers; but, as we have seen, the logic of revelation readily moves in that direction unless interpretations of sacred texts are subject to nonreligious constraints.
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They think they're terrorizing nonbelievers by pointing out that not supporting and believing in Coleneti (Apa and Sprouse's ship name) is only possible if you are willing to live a blinkered, heteronormative life.
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The U.S. Justice Department dealt a double blow to FLDS leadership on Monday: In Phoenix, a federal jury found that church leaders controlled the municipal governments of two cities that discriminated against nonbelievers.
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Much of the animosity and opprobrium directed at nonbelievers in America comes from the suspicion that those who do not believe in God could not possibly believe in anything else, moral or otherwise.
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In particular, Mr. Rahami cites a founding member of the Islamic State who called on Muslims around the world to take up whatever arms they could find and spill the blood of nonbelievers.
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But 19683 days earlier, a top police official had warned government security officials of possible suicide attacks at churches by National Thowheeth Jama'at, a group that aims to spread Islam by killing nonbelievers.
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Which it might have become had the producers (including Affirm Films, the faith-based corner of Sony Pictures), trying to appeal to believers and nonbelievers, extended their near-decade of tinkering and test screenings.
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In my conversation with de Botton, for example, we talked about the need, as nonbelievers, to think about God as more than an epistemological claim, as a kind of motive force in people's lives.
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Our film allows believers and nonbelievers to travel their journey with them, and in some ways, maybe affect someone who is on the edge of faith, and somehow give them the strength they need.
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Those espousing such views present Islam as an inherently hostile ideology whose adherents are enemies of Christianity and Judaism and seek to conquer nonbelievers either by violence or through a sort of stealthy brainwashing.
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For the believers and nonbelievers, supporters and opponents, riffs on President Trump's cherry-red "Make America Great Again" hat will undoubtedly go down as one of the fastest trends to ever catch on in fashion.
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Al-Baghdadi personally promoted and participated in the systematic rape of women who ISIS considered nonbelievers, including an American ISIS captive, Kayla Mueller, who al-Baghdadi kept as one of several of his sex slaves.
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The arrests are only part of the legal troubles confronting the sect and its home-base communities, accused in a federal civil rights trial in Phoenix of denying housing, utilities and adequate policing to nonbelievers.
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Every episode reveals new facets of the Meyerists' belief system, including some that can seem fairly interesting to even the nonbelievers watching the show, like a lengthy hike undertaken to let go of emotional burdens.
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Dependent on the Wahhabi clerics for legitimacy, the royal family has been slow to reform a religion that teaches that nonbelievers and wayward Muslims should be shunned or fought if they reject its strict message.
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They have resisted his efforts to bring back into the fold those Catholics who have fallen away from the church because they are divorced and remarried, or are gay or lesbian, or are secular nonbelievers.
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This perception of Westerners and nonbelievers justifies acts of extreme violence such as beheading foreign hostages such as Japan's Kenji Goto, persecuting of Coptic Christians and burning alive prisoners such as Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh.
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A civil rights trial against the twin polygamous towns of Hildale and Colorado City, Arizona, is underway in Phoenix, in which prosecutors say they discriminated against nonbelievers by denying them housing, water services and police protection.
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His decision to open a branch of Redeemer on West 83rd Street in 2012 — the first new church built in the neighborhood in decades — was a brick-and-mortar way of meeting nonbelievers where they live.
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In fact, there is a whole "Saturday Night Live" skit about it from 2014, which documented the fervent loyalty of her biggest fans, known as the BeyHive, and their tendency to seek out and expose nonbelievers.
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In the video, which has not yet been independently verified, the child says that the group will kill "kuffar" -- nonbelievers -- "over there," referring to the West, while the adult threatens and insults British Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Cosmologies, in other words, can make for strange bedfellows, and some of what Gray does best in "Seven Types of Atheism" is not only to draw distinctions among atheists but to make connections between nonbelievers and believers.
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Based on wiretaps and statements from informants, the F.B.I. reported that Mr. Young had made a number of other incendiary and perhaps even threatening comments over the years about Muslim informants, F.B.I. investigators and "kaffirs" — or nonbelievers.
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The Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, posted a statement online claiming responsibility for the attack, and said that it was aimed at Shiite Muslims, whom many fundamentalist Sunnis consider to be nonbelievers.
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PHOENIX — Two towns run by the polygamist sect controlled by Warren Jeffs routinely violated the civil rights of nonbelievers by discriminating against them in housing permits, policing and utilities hookups, a Federal District Court jury here found Monday.
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Lawsuits to end the recitation of the Pledge in public schools began almost as soon as the words "under God" were added, and while "ceremonial deism" long thwarted those challenges, nonbelievers have lately begun to pursue a different strategy.
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The clincher came a few weeks into the term, when he heard a guest speaker on campus address the importance of interfaith relations in this age of deep divides not only among religions but also between believers and nonbelievers.
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He thinks that believers and nonbelievers, secular liberals and conservative Christians, can coexist under a classical-liberal framework in which disputes are settled by persuasion rather than constant legal skirmishing, or else are left unsettled in a healthy pluralism.
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Similarly, the religious partisan can say something almost identical: You are a member of a great community of believers who have been traduced by nonbelievers; this betrayal has led not just to your impoverishment, but is a crime against God himself.
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With Mr. Warren's secular lens lending outsider credibility, "Let Hope Rise" attempts a delicate balance — glorifying the band onstage and off to please its faithful (potentially millions of ticket-buyers) while not coming off so uncritical as to alienate curious nonbelievers.
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I believe that human behavior is a major cause of climate change, but in some sense it does not matter who or what is causing it, as the impacts of our failure to act will be catastrophic for believers and nonbelievers.
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LEAVING THE WITNESSExiting a Religion and Finding a LifeBy Amber Scorah Though religious fundamentalism has surged globally in recent decades, the anti-intellectualism of these authoritarian movements, their staunch refusal to cede ground to reason and empiricism, often confounds nonbelievers.
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Elders in the town of Kattankudy had warned authorities several times over the past couple of years about the violent extremism preached by Zaharan Hashim, the suspected mastermind of the bombings on Sunday, who routinely called for the slaughter of nonbelievers.
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But the new Pope quickly won public acclaim -- from Catholics and nonbelievers alike -- for gestures like paying his own hotel bill, living in the Vatican guesthouse instead of the Apostolic Palace, and washing the feet of Muslim inmates during Holy Week.
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Nor could they have foreseen that the country's salvation might well depend on its ability to deprogram the Trump cult's acolytes—an effort that would require a level of sympathetic engagement on the part of nonbelievers that they have yet to display.
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In the 10-minute recording uploaded to YouTube Wednesday night, the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, referred to what appeared to be a split in Boko Haram over whether Muslims who live among nonbelievers are good Muslims whose lives deserve to be spared.
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In September 2013, Francis sent a letter to Mr. Scalfari, later published in La Repubblica, in which the pontiff wrote that atheists should "abide by their own conscience" and said that Christians should engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with nonbelievers.
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Memories of her powerful presence and great advice have been a North Star on my path to entrepreneurship, as well as the kick in the pants I have needed along the way to confidently go toe-to-toe with nonbelievers in my industry.
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Most people around the world, whether religious or not, presume that serial killers are more likely to be atheists than believers in any god, suggests a new study, which counters the common assumption that increasingly secular societies are equally tolerant of nonbelievers.
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But perhaps the most interesting part of the Midwestern convergence of faith and technology, the most salient for believers and nonbelievers alike, is the way people there have begun to question the culture of tech entrepreneurship—and try to make it more humane.
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But although both the opening "A Mother Never Rests" and "The Tree" itself are so well-put it would be simple-minded to slot them as cliches, their roots in truism run so deep that their considerable portion of actual truth will probably escape nonbelievers.
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They would, according to surveys, prefer a female, gay, Mormon, or Muslim President to having an atheist in the White House, and some of them do not object to attempts to keep nonbelievers from holding other offices, even when the office is that of notary public.
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In fact, even the soldiers who participated in the coup (many of whom were following orders, while being told that they were carrying out an anti-terrorism operation), were declared by the increasingly powerful minister of religious affairs as nonbelievers, not able to receive a religious burial.
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There is a striking contrast between the exquisite sensitivity for religious feelings that Justice Kennedy displayed on Monday and his casual rejection only four years ago of the notion that unwanted exposure to religious speech could be so offensive to nonbelievers as to violate their constitutional rights.
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What liberal "elites" — believers and nonbelievers — find objectionable is not religion, but rather a partisan twist on religious literacy that privileges one tradition, excludes historical-critical study, and maintains, against all evidence, that education and exposure to multiple perspectives creates religious ignorance instead of dispelling it.
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E Even though Zaharan has not specifically called on his recruits to directly attack Catholic churches or the Indian High Commission, he has, since 2016, preached to his followers that the murder of nonbelievers is a most noble religious endeavor and that Islam should be spread through such acts.
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They are also probing a notebook recovered at the time of his arrest allegedly containing jihadist tracts about killing nonbelievers, as well as praise for Anwar al-Awlaki, the deceased al Qaeda propagandist whose teachings have been linked to the San Bernardino shooters, the Boston bomber, and the Orlando shooter.
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Hindutva is a word describing a devout Hindu culture and way of life, and the music that bears its name sets traditional Hindu religious stories or Bollywood clips to dance beats — with added lyrics that in some cases openly call for the slaughter of nonbelievers, forced conversions, or attacks on Pakistan.
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But the Catholic Church has been so consistently embroiled by its predatory clergy scandal over the past year that far less has been said about its urgent need to engage young people—not only to try to stop them from leaving the faith, but to encourage nonbelievers to join as well.
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The problem is that Vought's perceived beliefs — despite Sanders's criticism — are perfectly in line with mainline Christian theology: the salvific nature of grace through Christ is the foundational cornerstone of Christian theology, even if the way in which that grace potentially finds its way to nonbelievers is up for debate.
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And while the chance to see old-school Steve Rogers and modern guy Tony Stark, aka Captain America and Iron Man, go mano a mano is inherently thrilling only to diehard fans, even nonbelievers who make it to that climactic moment will feel that something is at stake when the two face off.
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STACY SCHIERHOLZ Seattle To the Editor: Doubt and questioning are of course part of belief and faith, but I wish that William Irwin hadn't used so many "shoulds" in his essay, as if there is a battle to be waged between believers and nonbelievers with these "shoulds" as the rules of engagement.
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But part of their religion in the Quran that says it doesn&apost matter what you say with your mouth, is what&aposs in your heart, which means you can get close to them and lie -- tell these nonbelievers what they want to believe, and we&aposll just turn a blind eye because we take them at face value.
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The United Nations Human Rights Committee has repeatedly clarified that freedom of religion does not justify discrimination against women, adherents to other religions, nonbelievers, and other groups -- a point that the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, underscored at an event on faith and sexuality at the United Nations last month.
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During rebel infighting in the enclave, analysts and some residents say, the Army of Islam's main rival, Faylaq Al Rahman, has sometimes formed opportunistic alliances with H.T.S. Mohammad Adel, an antigovernment activist in Douma, said H.T.S. had endangered people in Eastern Ghouta, declared Muslims who disagree with the group nonbelievers, and soured residents on the other rebel groups.
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In Mumbai, nonbelievers are denied admission to sacred Parsi sites, including the fortresslike Atash Behrams, holiest of the fire temples, in the seaside Marine Lines district, and the great circular Towers of Silence in Malabar Hill, the city's poshest neighborhood, where the Parsis have historically left their dead to be stripped by vultures, an act of purification.
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The progressive response was that no, he was saying instead that (to quote the noted theologian Wiggum of Springfield) the Bible says a lot of things, nothing it says on abortion is definitive, and so even a polity influenced by Christian piety should leave both believers and nonbelievers alone to decide the fetal personhood question themselves.
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"To commemorate soldiers of a multitude of faiths with a sectarian symbol — especially one, such as the cross, that represents a promise of redemption to those who have accepted Christ and eternal damnation to those who have not — is to effectively compel nonbelievers to be associated with religious doctrines contrary to their own religious beliefs," the professors wrote.
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Since the 22014 raid on the FLDS compound in Texas, the US branch of the FLDS has faced intense government scrutiny, including charges of money laundering and food stamp fraud, and fines for child labor violations; earlier this year, a jury in Arizona found that the towns of Hildale and Colorado City had violated the civil rights of nonbelievers living there.
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With director Robert Schwentke returning to the helm, and a cast lead by Shailene Woodley suiting up for another sci-fi actioner where big ideas are often bottled down into resounding clichés, this handsomely made effects-driven vehicle offers more of the same and then some — a fact that will hardly bother fans who've already pledged their allegiance to the franchise, but won't convert any nonbelievers.
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A Mahalia Jackson: Moving On Up a Little Higher (Spirit Feel) In part because deciding that Jesus wasn't my savior was the toughest intellectual work of my life, I'm not much of a gospel fan, and that goes double for the kind of stately midtempo message singers I avoid in every genre—I don't even really get Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace, hailed as her very peak by many nonbelievers with their fingers crossed.
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To find out more about his career, read his welcome post; for four decades of critical reviews, check out his regularly updated website Homeboy Sandman: Veins (Stones Throw) Given how it signs off by wrapping "God" and "Speak Truth" around "Nonbelievers"' and its "light brown privilege" verse, 2016's 16-track, 40-minute Kindness for Weakness feels so much like a signature classic that this 10-track, 25-minute follow-up seems trifling despite its identical minutes-per-song ratio.
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