Religious group
* All religious groups are cults.
* Many religious groups are also against human genetic manipulation.
* Many religious groups believe in refraining from recreational drugs such as alcohol and tobacco
  - that cloning is giving mankind too much power
  - endorse abstinence among unmarried people
  - exercise unbiblical control over their people
  - follow vegetarian diets
  - meet weekly for worship, prayer, or study
* Most religious groups accept periodic abstinence.
* Most religious groups have long-standing positions advocating universal health care
  - their creeds, confessions of faith, catechisms and church manuals
  - teach some truth
* Some religious groups appear to have had considerable success in reducing substance abuse.
* Some religious groups believe gays can be cured through prayer and counseling
  - that they face societal pressures within their regions
  - count actual members
  - deny children the benefits of routine preventive care
  - prohibit autopsies
  - require self-privation and torture themselves as they do penance
* are by nature conserving communities
  - exempt from many civil rights laws
  - facilities
  - free from taxation
  - sect
* can also play an important role in rebuilding society.
* claim that cloning defies the rule or their belief that humans have souls.
* fret about conforming to secular federal rules.
* have a long history of helping the downtrodden
  - charity organizations as well
  - differing views on the legitimacy of polygyny
* make up the most common type of voluntary association in America.
* operate private radio stations.
* tend to avoid any involvement in internal political affairs.

### religious groups:

Christian organization
* are religious groups.
* have a long history of caring for the poor and needy.

Muslim organization
* can even contribute to legal defense funds.
* have business links with Islamic countries of the Middle East.

### religious holidays:

Jewish holiday
* are religious holidays.
* begin at sundown of the previous day.
* occur on different dates every year.
* tend to include strict fasting followed by feasting.

### religious schools:

Christian school
* are religious schools.
* build partnerships between parents, churches and the school.
* do discriminate on the basis of religious belief.
* strive to educate the whole person in body, mind and spirit.

### religious systems:

Christian denomination
* Many Christian denominations have their own societies
  - teach that they alone are the true church
* are religious systems.

### remarkably diverse:

Mitochondrial genome
* Most mitochondrial genomes are circular, although exceptions have been reported.
* are remarkably diverse.
* reflects geographic differences.

### remarks:

Gambit
* are remarks.
* can charge objects with energy to explode on impact.

### remnant:

Supernova remnant
* are among the most spectacular objects in the galaxy
  - extremely important for our understanding of our Galaxy
  - of interest to many areas of astrophysics
  - often visible as diffuse gaseous nebulae usually with a shell-like structure
  - the remains of a supernova explosion that exploded a long time ago
* exhibit that mass and energy as it interacts with the surrounding material.