Classic symptoms of pregnancy. In addition to a missed period, the earliest signs and symptoms of pregnancy might include: 1  Tender, swollen breasts. 2  Early in pregnancy hormonal changes might make your breasts tender, sensitive or sore. 3  Or your breasts might feel fuller and heavier.4  Nausea with or without vomiting. Tender, swollen breasts. 2  Early in pregnancy hormonal changes might make your breasts tender, sensitive or sore. 3  Or your breasts might feel fuller and heavier. 4  Nausea with or without vomiting. 5  Morning sickness, which can strike at any time of the day or night, sometimes begins as early as three weeks after conception.
Clifford Geertz (1966-2002) Religion is: (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men [sic] by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah (Christ). Christians believe that Jesus, as the Messiah, was anointed by God as savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus' coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament.hristianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the mid-1st century. Originating in Judea, it quickly spread to Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, and India and by the end of the 4th century had become the official state church of the Roman Empire.