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There is an undeniable appeal of AI in the complicated U.S. tax space that often overwhelms even tax professionals, let alone the lay person.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
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Being in the highest tertile (one third for the lay person) of cardio health, Bhatt said, will add close to a decade to your life.—
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Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.—
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
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Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).—
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Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
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Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.—
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Europe, as a whole, has become more secular, socially progressive and vocally hostile toward conservative ideology.—
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Some religious colleges and universities are doing fine and even posting enrollment gains — at least in part because of growing political divisions, campus protests and ideological attacks on secular institutions, said David Hoag, president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.—
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But a public school system could not authorize a daily prayer even if voluntary and nondenominational.—
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Jakes shared the change during a sermon at the nondenominational church on April 27.—
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In many states, laws are on the books that require charter schools to be run in a nonsectarian way.—
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The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way.—
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Symmetry through recurrent objects entered in the frame is common, with temporal match-cuts employed to take us from day to night, or even sunlight to surrounding snow.—
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The temporal system divides daylight into six variable-length periods that vary with the season.—
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“Nonclerical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonclerical. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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