Taken together, therefore, the two religion clauses of the First Amendment require the state to be neutral not only as between different groups of religious believers but also as between religious believers and nonbelievers.
Otherwise, it discriminates between two groups of religious organizations.
In his first State of the Union message after reëlection, in 2013, Obama repeated this last phrase, and it has since become a rhetorical signature, brilliantly signalling the common ground — love, an emotion anyone can understand and share in — that can be found between groups of citizens (gay Americans, religious conservatives) who might otherwise feel an unbridgeable antipathy toward one other.
Shami's novella, "The Vengeance of the Fathers," was inspired by an incident in the early 1900s at a riot between groups of Palestinian Arabs at a religious pilgrimage.
The Saudi Embassy in Sri Lanka reported a meeting between the Iranian ambassador and a group of religious scholars, noting that it began at 7 30 p.m. Elsewhere, the kingdom intervened against foreign officials it perceived as threats.
On Tuesday, the issue came up during a meeting between Ghani and a group of visiting religious scholars at the presidential palace.
There were significant differences between groups in age, sex, religious belief, and experience of impression of practicing inappropriate medical treatment.
We have been considering some connections between the phenomenology of religious experience and religious epistemology.
Watts also suggests encouraging rivalry between the criminal thugs gravitating toward the Islamic State and the group's core of religious zealots.
His research agenda focuses on understanding the historical origins of the socioeconomic differences between religious groups, the effects of state industrialization and public mass education on these differences, and the historical role of the Islamic tax system in the formation of religious groups.
