Following and Religion

Following

Following noun - A body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person.

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Religion and following are semantically related In some cases you can use "Religion" instead a noun "Following".

Nearby Words: follow, follower, followed

Religion noun - A body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities.

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Following and religion are semantically related in sect topic. Sometimes you can use "Following" instead a noun "Religion".

good	good following	good religion
certain	certain following	certain religion
current	current following	current religion
actual	actual following	actual religion
Other adjectives: entire, real, main, major, widespread, former, scary, mainstream.

The people adopted Islam early in the religion's founding, and during the 1500s, mass converted to the Shia branch following the precedent set by the Safavids.

Source: Useful Notes / Azerbaijan
One culture has taken over another, and in order to facilitate assimilation into the prevailing culture and stamp out rebellion, religion is among the many cultural aspects the other culture may outlaw, usually to force the populace into following the other culture's religion.

Source: Illegal Religion
For many, this excuse is abused where something technically is against their religion, but they wouldn't be following that stricture (every religion has a few rules that only the real diehards pay attention to) if they didn't dislike the thing anyway.

Source: Against My Religion

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