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  • That's the piece of the puzzle Islam answers because, throughout human history, our human tendency has been to ignore all of our myriad faith's egalitarian leanings -- something you can find in each if you look for it -- and devalue and humiliate those following different faiths, or even following our own faith in what we think are different ways, whenever we've thought we could get away with it.

    Dr. David Liepert: Ending Slavery The Sharia Way Dr. David Liepert 2011

  • That's the piece of the puzzle Islam answers because, throughout human history, our human tendency has been to ignore all of our myriad faith's egalitarian leanings -- something you can find in each if you look for it -- and devalue and humiliate those following different faiths, or even following our own faith in what we think are different ways, whenever we've thought we could get away with it.

    Dr. David Liepert: Ending Slavery The Sharia Way Dr. David Liepert 2011

  • That would include the faith's involvement in the 2006 ballot initiative Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California and its efforts to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.

    Mormon church bars senior leaders from politics 2011

  • On the other hand, if such belief is creating too much fear, guilt, shame, restrictions, limitations, intolerance and a sense of grandiosity in thinking that one group's belief is better than another, then the faith's dose may need to be re-examined and modified.

    Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: How to Have a Healthy Dose of Faith Roya R. Rad 2011

  • It's not clear whether the statement is also a response to criticisms of the church's involvement in Prop. 8, but regardless, Burbank said it's in the faith's best interest to draw a bright line so its members and leaders understand the rules.

    Mormon church bars senior leaders from politics 2011

  • The letter reminds the faith's lay leaders that when they do choose to engage in political activity they are acting "solely as individual citizens in the democratic process" and should not "imply, or otherwise allow others to infer, that their actions or support in any way represent the church."

    Mormon church bars senior leaders from politics 2011

  • It ignores the promise of co-operative peace that exists when all three faith's revelations are examined together.

    Dr. David Liepert: Palestinians Are NOT An Invented People Dr. David Liepert 2011

  • It ignores the productive peace that those three faith's faithful followers once found

    Dr. David Liepert: Palestinians Are NOT An Invented People Dr. David Liepert 2011

  • We were fed five times a day each according to their faith's dietary laws and every time I would come back to my room in the evening, the bed was made and the room tidy.

    Kelly Figueroa-Ray: On The Cutting Edge Of Interfaith Work: An Open Thank You Letter To The Sultan Of Oman Kelly Figueroa-Ray 2011

  • On the other hand, if such belief is creating too much fear, guilt, shame, restrictions, limitations, intolerance and a sense of grandiosity in thinking that one group's belief is better than another, then the faith's dose may need to be re-examined and modified.

    Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: How to Have a Healthy Dose of Faith Roya R. Rad 2011

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