We don't need God or government telling us what to do.

In Christian Ethiopia theft is an abomination, now corruption has turned to be a national culture.

These discoveries became known as the Four Noble Truths , which are at the heart of Buddhist teaching.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

He had a great ambition to promote Christian teachings and Bible reading among medical students.

And the goals from the perspective of Muslims are, in principle, peace, justice and equality, but on terms that correspond to traditional Muslim teachings.

Even if one religious tradition still claims a majority of a population as its nominal adherents, individuals can still choose to disaffiliate from the institution representing that tradition (as in the Catholic majority countries of Europe).

But this Hindu tradition, along with Islamic law, was supplanted by the common law when India became part of the British Empire.

Equality is a cruel illusion people are happiest if rightly placed in a hierarchy legitimized by Catholic teachings.

The absence of no money down mortgages might be more important than Confucian ethics in explaining China s high savings rate.

But we cannot allow the distortion of faith or long standing custom to be used as an excuse to ignore the rights of girls and women, and to hold their communities in poverty.

One can behave in such a manner, many Europeans outside of Scandinavia say, only if one has been raised according to the Protestant ethic.

For the reformers, normality meant the progressive development of Muslim societies, and they tied this to the interaction of Islamic teaching with relevant, worldly ideas of the time.

However, she was requested to be the Vice President instead due to stereotyped socio cultural attitudes as well as misinterpretation of Islamic teaching.

There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the Sermon on the Mount.

But the market system relies on a particular motive for action Keynes called it love of money which tends to undermine traditional moral teaching.

This was a polemical exaggeration, since both schools were derived from the same tradition, and the so called Southern School incorporated many teachings of the more influential Northern School.

Later, regulation of social conduct incorporated in Islamic law spread across three continents and still forms an important element of many countries' judicial systems.

Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.

Traditionally, under Bengali Sufi mystical teachings, the majority Muslim population lived peacefully with other religions, and Bangladesh had a good record on education and civil rights for women.

There has been particular interest (most specifically in the case of Islam) as to whether specific religious traditions are compatible with the institutions and values of liberal democracy.

You'll discover compassion and also slowly a relative compassion, and slowly, perhaps if you get the right teaching, you'll discover compassion is a dynamic manifestation of the reality of yourself, which is oneness, wholeness, and that's what you are.

Defenders of Catholic teaching would answer that in the latter case, the patient intends to end his life, and that is wrong, whereas in the former case, the patient merely intends to avoid the additional burden that treatment brings.

Likewise, there are hard line Jews, such as the settler groups who drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and Hebron, who have forgotten the early teachings of Jewish scholars who argued that strangers should be treated like your own people.

I suspect he never really said this, because we don't know what Hippocrates really said, but we do know for sure that one of the great Greek physicians said the following, and it has been recorded in one of the books attributed to Hippocrates, and the book is called Precepts.

This threatened the authority of the King, who had overseen the religious establishment, as well as feminists efforts to moderate Morocco s Family Law, which had been based on a rigid view of religious teachings.

When this view is combined as it typically is in Catholic teaching with the claim that every offspring of human parents is a living human being from the moment of conception, the implication is that abortion is never permissible.

The independent expert discussed this issue with, amongst others, women's groups, and assured them that he would continue to advocate against this practice, which is detrimental to the health and well being of those affected and is often mistakenly attributed to Islamic teaching by its practitioners and defenders.

Al Qaida is a Takfiri movement which claims that it alone embraces the true teachings of Islam and it justifies its violence as a holy duty of defence against all who disagree, who are therefore infidels and may be attacked.

As one highly educated Turk, working for an international organization, put it to me recently We play football with them, sing songs with them on TV, do business with them, improved our human rights, and democratized our politics.