He is always in alliance with the despot...they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

Most ancient religions and tribes did not preach good will to strangers, as Matt Ridley notes in his history of human niceness, "The Origins of Virtue."

While other major religions, like Buddhism and Daoism preached humility, acceptance and passivity, Mr. Murray writes, Christianity fostered intellectual independence and drive.

It was at Temple No. 7 that Malcolm X, the movement's most famous convert, preached the new black man's religion and nationalism.

And as the Garden rumbled with that old-time religion preached only in the playoffs, the Knicks celebrated a throwback to the best of New York basketball.

Mr. Andrews was tried by an all-white, predominantly Mormon jury at a time when that religion preached that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

The religion preaches "enjoyment of life" and relatively few food prohibitions: they can eat all kinds of meat, fish and poultry.

Throughout history, most religions and individuals like Mahatma Gandhi have preached that humans are capable of eliminating individual violence and organizing societies through purely nonviolent means.

"I believe if any religion preaches supremacy or unequalness, they are not true believers in God," he said.

"Some religions preach poverty, obedience and chastity," says Olivia.