He was born in Philadelphia, began singing in church when he was seven, and was powerfully influenced by the religious faith of his grandmother Eleanor, who belonged to an evangelical organisation called the United House of Prayer for All People.
Moreover, the conflation of religious connotations powerfully embedded in the tree image led to interpretations that modern living beings can be less and more evolved and that the whole process was intended to "produce" human beings.
But otherwise their demographic profiles are broadly similar.Urbanisation may have driven the switch to Protestantism most powerfully by offering freedom of religious choice.
As the raft of new anti-gay legislation powerfully shows, arming businesses with religious rights would create a dangerous precedent that, in the words of one Republican mayor and Arizona gubernatorial candidate, would "give carte blanche for anybody to discriminate under the guise of religion".
Best of all on this impressive outing is Simmonds' powerfully topical Overseas, a story of religious intolerance from the Crusades to the present.
Despite Kant's explicit claim that one of the underlying drivers of Transcendental Idealism is to defend faith against theoretical reason, it is widely believed that his philosophical system powerfully challenges, if not outright bars, religious belief.
Mr. Biden spoke powerfully of his anger at God and religious alienation after his wife and infant daughter were killed in 1972 in an automobile accident.
To the annoyance of many, the alarm of some, and the satisfaction of others, the half dozen books recently published that powerfully set out the case against religion and religious beliefs - books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Michel Onfray - have all sold in large numbers.
In religious art, this cosmic dynamic is powerfully expressed in the half-Shakti, half-Shiva deity known as Ardhanari.
Religious bias and scientific illiteracy combine powerfully to restrict a technology with extraordinary potential for good, with little associated risk.
