41.   The religious groups have a right to retain their religious character by displaying religious symbols or using religious criteria in selecting employees.

42.   The tree and menorah are not religious symbols, but rather seasonal symbols, said Michael Renner, chief counsel for Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery.

43.   There is substance in the wearing of religious symbols, said Aurora Lopez, a co-owner of Borealis.

44.   They fear that the government is trying to surround Turks with religious symbols in the hope of undermining secularism.

45.   They are most often small, intimate rooms that display few overt religious symbols.

46.   Thus, while this unattended, freestanding wooden cross was unquestionably a religious symbol, observers may well have received completely different messages from that symbol.

47.   To be sure, the cross appears to serve as a religious symbol of Christianity for some Klan members.

48.   To convince converts, the church attributed negative qualities to the deities of non-Christian cultures, turning old religious symbols on their heads in order to demolish old faiths.

49.   Under the first interpretation, the cross is plainly a religious symbol.

50.   Water is a powerful religious symbol that expresses cleansing, washing away of sin, immorality or impurity, and also death and rebirth.