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religion

A term which, in the UK, is defined as an organised belief system concerning the sacred and/or divine, which is based on the moral codes, cultures and subcultures, practices and institutions associated with such a belief system.

religion

An entity of wide human significance encompassing doctrinal, historical, literary, devotional, experiential, behavioural and transcendental elements. It is concerned with man's relationship to God, however perceived. Religion may be formalized in dogma or entirely free and individual. It may be a matter of indifference or of the most central importance. Its influence on health may be beneficial, negligible or malign. Religion has been one of the major causes of human suffering and a source of immense consolation to millions. It has brought out the direst cruelty and the most benevolent and altruistic conduct. By their nature, religious beliefs cannot be validated in the manner of scientific facts and must always be matters of faith and unsupported belief. Doctors have a duty to respect the religious beliefs of their patients.

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Patient discussion about religion

Q. Is Christian religion dangerous to your mental health? I think manic episodes can be somewhat akin to religious experiences. Perhaps searching for God can lead to either mania or depression. Maybe we are searching for an impossible dream.

A. I would say that in our life, the balance factor is important. everything that is over-rated will not be good anymore. example :
- if you're too obese, you have higher risk of having some metabolic problems; but if you're doing your strict diet too strong, then you can risk yourself of lacking some nutrition
- you are lazy enough to do some sports, you can't have your muscles built. you push yourself too hard in workout session, there's a risk of sport injury

and i will say the same in religion related to mental health. we need to be healthy not just physically, but also mentally, and spiritually. the problem is, some 'fanatic' believers -because the religion itself always teaches us how to live our life well- are exaggerating some beliefs inside the religion verses, and live it outrageously, and later it will manifest in some manic manifestation.

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Supreme Court Jurisprudence: Legislative Prayer & the Establishment Clause

(35) Chief Justice Burger observed that over time "the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become a part of the fabric of our society." (36) Thirty years later, the court tackled the question of prayer at local government meetings in Greece, finding that the town of Greece's practice of opening its council meetings with invocations by local clergy was consistent with the Establishment Clause. (37) Marsh and Greece have collectively established that sectarian legislative prayer is constitutional at all levels of government.

HUNT V. KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH: THE SEARCH FOR CLARITY IN LEGISLATIVE PRAYER SPEAKER SELECTION

(23) Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Rehnquist rejected the challenge, adopting a balancing test that weighed the burden the restriction imposed on the plaintiffs free exercise rights against the State's interests in maintaining its desired degree of church-state separation as reflected in its establishment clause. He concluded that the "historic and substantial" anti-establishment interests of the State outweighed the "relatively minor burden" placed on the plaintiffs free exercise rights.

Despite the Locke Court's rejection of Scalia's argument, in Trinity Lutheran Chief Justice Roberts essentially adopted it wholesale to invalidate Missouri's denial of the playground resurfacing grant based on the state's establishment clause. He opted to treat that denial as "odious" discrimination akin to the sect suppression in Lukumi, warranting the strict scrutiny review normally used when illicit government purposes are suspected.

EVISCERATING A HEALTHY CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION

At least under current Supreme Court doctrine, the extension of aid on a wholly neutral basis to a broad class of beneficiaries based on secular criteria does not violate the Establishment Clause. Even under earlier precedents, during the now-abandoned doctrine of no-aid separationism, it did not violate the Establishment Clause for the government to subsidize the inherently secular activities of religious institutions, such as bus transportation, (47) school lunches, (48) or standardized tests.

The Establishment Clause is not about exclusion of religious organizations from the benefits of neutral laws, but about favoritism toward religious organizations or a particular religious denomination.

Churches and Government Funding

In cases involving the permissibility of statutes that lift burdens on religious institutions and religiously motivated individuals, the Court has said that no Establishment Clause violation occurs if the government responds to severe, governmentally imposed hardships and "take[s] adequate account of the burdens a requested accommodation may impose on nonbeneficiaries." (10) This formulation may hint that the government must closely tailor any religiously-based preferences to the promotion of governmental interests of some kind, but does not say so expressly.

TIERS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE

But now a different question, which raises a different conception of the Establishment Clause: When are religious exemptions improper or unconstitutional because they burden third parties?

Religious exemptions, third-party harms, and the establishment clause

The district court found that the parsonage allowance violated the Establishment Clause. The district court invoked the test from Lemon v.

Is the parsonage allowance constitutional? The courts question taxpayer standing

(26) A comparable analysis of the Burger Court in its final decade shows it to have been a great deal more aggressive than its successors in its exercise of judicial review as to the religion clauses: in 1985 alone, it struck down four state laws as violating the Establishment Clause; altogether it struck down laws, policies, or practices as unconstitutional under the religion clauses in fourteen cases.

Constitutional contraction: religion and the Roberts court

therefore cannot contract around the Establishment Clause. (15) For

The challenge of co-religionist commerce

In particular, does church use of school facilities for religious worship services, which almost all community-use policies allow, violate the Establishment Clause by allowing a core and quintessentially religious activity on school grounds?

Schools, worship, and the First Amendment

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