1. "each religious sect has their own view and interpretation of the Bible."
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Nancy Chandler, Christian Wicca: The Trinitarian Tradition
2. "He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. You"
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Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity
3. "prohibiting use of state tax dollars directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
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Barry W. Lynn, God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality
4. "religious"
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Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
5. "The experiences which we have been studying during this hour (and a great many other kinds of religious experiences are like them) plainly show the universe to be a more many-sided affair than any sect, even the scientific sect, allows for. What, in the end, are all our verifications but experiences that agree with more or less isolated systems of ideas (conceptual systems) that our minds have framed?"
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William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
6. "The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people."
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Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
7. "*The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people."
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Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
8. "There’s an all-too-common assumption that non-religious means not adhering to the tenets of a specific religious sect. If you aren’t talking about Jesus, or Allah, or reincarnation — if all you’re talking about is non-specific ideas of some sort of higher power or some sort of afterlife — that’s typically seen to be non-religious. Atheism — or indeed, any sort of non-belief in supernatural beings or forces — is still so invisible in our culture that the possibility simply isn’t considered. So even supposedly inclusive, secular events end up with religious or spiritual content that leaves non-believers out in the cold."
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Greta Christina, Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God
9. "The experiences which we have been studying during this hour (and a great many other kinds of religious experiences are like them) plainly show the universe to be a more many-sided affair than any sect, even the scientific sect, allows for. What, in the end, are all our verifications but experiences that agree with more or less isolated systems of ideas (conceptual systems) that our minds have framed? But why in the name of common sense need we assume that only one such system of ideas can be true?"
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William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
10. "In the Judaic literature, one also finds portrayals of contemplative or meditative exercises. As in other religious literatures, the end purpose here is union with God. The earliest form of mysticism in Judaism is Merkabolism, which dates back approximately to the first century A.D., the time of the Second Temple. Practices of this sect included various forms of asceticism, including fasting. Merkabolism’s meditative exercises focused on body posture and the dwelling upon hymns and a magic"
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Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response