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  2. Religious perspectives on tattooing - Wikipedia

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    [29] [32] Tattoos are also gaining popularity among young Muslims in the West. [33] [34] [32] Muslims believe that tattooing is a sin, because it involves changing the natural creation of God, inflicting unnecessary pain in the process. Tattoos are classified as dirty things, which is prohibited in Islam.

  3. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    A dysphemism for evangelical Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, particularly those from Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal denominations. [1] It is also a slang term for an evangelising Christian. Commonly used universally against Christians who are perceived to go out of their way to energetically preach their faith to others.

  4. Blasphemy law - Wikipedia

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    Blasphemy against Christianity was prohibited by the constitution and carried a maximum fine of €25,000; however, the offence of blasphemous libel, last prosecuted in 1855 in connection to an alleged Bible-burning, [70] was ruled in 1999 to be incompatible with the Constitution's guarantee of religious equality.

  5. Sicanje - Wikipedia

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    The pagan and Christian symbols were mixed together indiscriminately, with the first originating from nature and family in Illyrian times, and the other with later adapted Christian meaning. [ 20 ] [ 19 ] The most common areas to tattoo were the arms and hands (including fingers), and on the chest and forehead.

  6. Religious discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Religious discrimination against Christians ended with the Edict of Milan (313 AD), and the Edict of Thessalonica (380 AD) made Christianity the official religion of the empire. [8] By the 5th century Christianity became the dominant religion in Europe and took a reversed role, discriminating against pagans, heretics, and Jews. [9]

  7. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    A short video recorded during the making of a tattoo. Nitrile gloves are used during the process to avoid infections while perforating the skin. A sailor's forearm tattooed with a rope-and-anchor drawing, against the original sketch of the design; see sailor tattoos. An example of a tattoo design Application of a tattoo to a woman's foot

  8. Alexamenos graffito - Wikipedia

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    That was based on the misconception that Jews worshipped a god in the form of a donkey, a claim made by Apion (30–20 BC – c. AD 45–48) and denied by Josephus in his work Against Apion. [22] Origen reports in his treatise Contra Celsum that the pagan philosopher Celsus made the same claim against Christians and Jews. [23]

  9. Religious fanaticism - Wikipedia

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    Religious fanaticism (or the prefix ultra-being used with a religious term (such as ultra-Orthodox Judaism), or (especially when violence is involved) religious extremism) is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in ...