religious

• “The expulsion stirs intense, opposing reactions in Anne and Howard: She begins ­cultivating a resentment ­toward religious ­self-definition, while Howard, absorbing the message that his son is not officially Jewish, wonders whether his own ­parents were right all along about the ­inadvisability of ­religious ­intermarriage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Yaddo in the Land of Yoda

• “Bosanquet distinguished religious beliefs about particular persons or events from ˜religion™ (or, what was the same thing for him, ˜religious belief as a whole™ or ˜religious consciousness™).”

  Fictionaut: My Recycled Soul

• “He aims to: ���build an alliance between secular, religious and ���spiritual but not religious��� progressives ��� in part by challenging the anti-religious biases in parts of the liberal culture (while acknowledging the legitimacy of anger against those parts of the religious world that have embodied authoritarian, racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic practices and attitudes).”

  Van Jones: Spiritual Activism: The Religious Left Fights Back ��� On All Fronts

• “And I'm sorry but some atheists, particularly, seem invested in making the definition of religion as narrow as possible, some of them do so with religious fervor... which isn't *religious* only because they've carefully defined religion so narrowly that it no longer can be applied to conscience or ideology or cosmology or essential and profound world-view.”

  Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency.

• “They would happily force their religious beliefs upon your children, and force you to live by their hypocritical “religious” rules and standards.”

  Printing: The Tree of Liberty is Wilting

• “It was exclusively a _commercial_ city, there was nothing ecclesiastical (Babylon _ecclesiastical_, the religious system had been destroyed, when all _religious_ head-ship had been summed up in Apleon).”

  The Mark of the Beast

• “For, what _religious_ action, -- _i. e._, action prompted and guided by a principle, a religious doctrine, -- is possible without that principle, that doctrine?”

  Catholic Problems in Western Canada

• “Professed objects of the emigration two-fold -- religious and commercial; chiefly _religious_, for "converting and civilizing the idolatrous and savage Indian tribes" 26”

  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816

• “American people could be made _religious_; consequently they might carry their _religious influence_ to the _polls_; consequently the religious would be able to turn all the profane _out of office_; and consequently, the American people would become a _Christian nation!”

  Diary in America, Series One

• “Writing in the January Atlantic Monthly, Steven Waldman and John Green identify five “Democratic tribes: ” the religious left (12.6 percent), seculars (10.7 percent), black Protestants (9.6 percent), those who are “spiritual but not religious” (5.3 percent) and the non-Christian religious left (4.6 percent) —Jews, Buddhists and Muslims.”

  Printing: Searching for the Democrats - Blue Clues

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