In the 18th century, a poet like Christopher Smart could be driven to the asylum by virtue of religious experiences that were at odds with the dictates of the rational fashion of the time.
(Scholars still can't agree if Euripides was at last extolling the virtue of religious belief in this late play, a view at odds with his more skeptical attitude in earlier works.) Because Pentheus reviles the feminine, Dionysus wickedly draws out just this element in his nemesis' nature — in human nature — to exact his revenge.
There is no difference between the appeal to virtue of religious fanatics in parts of the Islamic world and that of their opposite numbers in and around the Bush administration.Walter ZwickLondonNot far northSIR – While there is no question that Fort McMurray may be a tad on the chilly side on a cold day in January, it is hardly an Arctic community ("There's oil in them thar sands!", June 28th).
We need at the G20, or some other appropriate forum, as soon as we can, to raise this issue as a matter of urgent global importance and work on a common charter to be accepted by all nations, and endorsed by the UN, which makes it a common obligation to ensure that throughout our education systems, we're committed to teaching the virtue of religious respect.
In the prefigurative London of the 18th century, sexual experiments required the cover of break-away churches such as the Moravians and surreal Swedenborgians (for whom "love for the holy" was best expressed in the "projection of semen"): both preached the virtues of combining religious and sexual ecstasy.
"What is not acceptable," he concluded, "is to prejudge any group, or to let fear and bias trump the towering American (and for us Catholics, the religious) virtues of hospitality, welcome, and religious freedom".
Garai's Isabella has the scrubbed purity and shining virtue of the religious novice, and her initial reaction to Angelo's assault on her virtue is one of baffled incomprehension followed by moral outrage.
Towering above all these, however, was Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ, nicknamed the "Mutanabbī of the West" (Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī was a 10th-century poet of Iraq), who by virtue of his religious ideas was obliged to forsake his native land and enter into the service of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Muʿizz.
Some group-differentiated rights are held by individual members of minority groups, as in the case of individuals who are granted exemptions from generally applicable laws in virtue of their religious beliefs or individuals who seek language accommodations in schools or in voting.
She calls upon the political authorities to exemplify the Christian virtues in their treatment of religious dissenters.
