I happen to like Jesus, who was a real mensch, and wish that the Church followed his teachings more closely.
Both I and the cowboy John Wesley Hardin were named for the founder of the Methodist religion (though of the two of us, I've probably followed his teachings slightly more closely, having killed fewer people).
It pitted those who followed closely the teachings of classical antiquity against those who devoted themselves to fresh inquiry.
Thus, in Buddhist teachings, indifference is very closely associated with ignorance, confusion, and incorrect understandings of the way things are.
Islam includes fairness, honesty and politeness, as Islam is indeed very close to Christianity, and in fact Christians and Jews may be treated in a special way as they are called "The people of the book" and follow very closely some teachings of Islam.
The bishops are clearly urging him to examine the teachings of his faith more closely.
The Theravada branch of Buddhism, which claims to adhere most closely to the teachings of the historical Buddha, does not rely upon supernatural authority or the word of the Buddha.
In his book on the Scandals of the Esoterics (Fadâ'ih al-Bâtiniyya) he looks closely at those teachings that he knew and discusses which of them are merely erroneous and which are unbelief.
The Pilgrims, like the Puritans that would later found Massachusetts Bay Colony to the north, were a Protestant group that closely followed the teachings of John Calvin.
The sudden drop-off, which coincided with the onset of the recession, suggests that attitudes have changed since the days when older generations of Latinos prized large families and more closely followed Roman Catholic teachings, which forbid artificial contraception.
