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During the week ending 2007-APR-28, our twenty most-visited essays (starting with the most popular) are listed below. The most popular 14 essays were unchanged, except for order, from 2005-OCT-11. The ˉ ˆ ˇ symbols indicate whether the essay's popularity is the same, higher or lower during the past six months.

1. - Abortion access: all aspects to this apparently unsolvable conflict, which is grounded in disagreement over when human life becomes human personhood.
2. ˆ Buddhism: The world's fourth largest religion which is also becoming very popular in North America.
3. ˆ Wicca: A recently reconstructed, Neopagan religion based on elements of belief from the ancient Celtic people; a.k.a. Witchcraft. Wicca is doubling in numbers about every 30 months.
4. ˆIslam: The second largest religion in the world, and perhaps the most misunderstood by westerners. A religion of peace, with an attached small minority forming a death cult.
5. ˆ Same-sex marriage -- Now available in the state of Massachusetts, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, and South Africa, and being proposed in New York State
6. ˆ The Death Penalty: A rare phenomenon in democracies, except for the U.S.
7. ˇ Hinduism: The world's third largest religion.
8. ˆ Christianity, the largest religion in the world by far. A highly fragmented a group of religions which share the name "Christianity," the Bible, but which disagree on many beliefs, practices and social policies.
9. ˆ The major religions of the world, and a few minor ones.
10. ˇ Stem Cell research: A very controversial field of medical research with phenomenal potential.
11. ˇ Physician Assisted Suicide: Do people who are too sick to arrange their own death have the right to ask a physician for help?
12. ˇ Taoism: Another Eastern religion gaining in popularity in the west.
13. ˆ Judaism: A relatively small, widely hated and influential religion.
14. ˆ Statement of Belief: We have more than one set of beliefs because we are a multi-faith group.
15. ˆ The People's Temple, mass murder, and James Warren James.
16. ˇ The Ten Commandments: Curious conflicts over what are really about 24 commandments -- about 4% of the Mosaic Law -- from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) of which relatively few people know the contents.
17. ˇ About us: Information about the ReligiousTolerance.org website and the people who maintain it.
18. ˆ The Amish: Their history, beliefs, practices, conflicts, etc.
19. ˆ The millennium and end-of-the-world prophecies
20. ˉ Homosexuality and bisexuality: These are behaviors (according to some people) or sexual orientations (according to others) involving same-sex activity and/or attraction.

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