Sentences with phrase «do religious values»

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If you donate appreciated stocks that you've held for more than a year to a «public» charity — such as a religious or an educational institution, or an organization that does medical research — you can typically take a tax deduction for the full fair market value of the stocks, up to 50 % of your adjusted gross income for that year.

What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

What I do find odd is that the religious right is so quick to accept a Mormon for his «values» yet they don't seem to understand or care that he doesn't believe as Christians do concerning who Jesus was.

I value the freedom to examine the evidence and come to my own conclusions, rather then having conclusions force - fed to me like so many religious people have had done to them.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare in any way with the consequences which are visible in the destruction of our common religious and ethical values.

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

Man's call to majesty on the one hand and to humility on the other, to take Ziegler's title example, do certainly conflict, and a religious personality loyal to both will experience considerable tension in his struggle to achieve balance between the two values.

If you don't like the values of America, please move to a country run by religious zealots and see what joy they have there.

how would you feel if you were a janitor at the company, didn't share their religious values and found out your son needed a blood transfusion - but the company is jehovah's witness?

The presence of such a nonrational element does not disqualify religious values from consideration in lawmaking, however.

What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that ultimate meaning and value rests «in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.

It did not occur to many people in the 19th century that there might be truth, integrity or value in a religious tradition other than Christianity.

Schaeffer could be considered an agnostic theist or an SNR (Spiritual but Not Religious) I suppose, but I do think that his contradictory slogan is for shock value.

«Congregations can change people's values, but they do so in a religious way,» he says.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

Religious ideologies of modern post times do not ruin worldiness values but only strengthens communal resolve.

In an article entitled «Starbucks Does Not Equal Savvy,» Gerson compares Palin's small - town values and religiously - charged rhetoric to that of Bryan, claiming that «the closest I have ever come to witnessing a Bryan moment was Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention — the triumph of another backwoods, highly - religious populist.

My inbox is filled with messages from young evangelicals who feel angered and betrayed as they watch their religious community align itself with values they don't recognize.

I do get frustrated when other religious groups, mainly Christians, really pound us with phrases saying we're the anti-Christ and that we have no moral values, but putting something up like that is just giving them more reasons to lash out hatefully.

This is isn't because we don't value other books, but because the Bible is probably the only «religious» book respected by nearly everybody.

Just because you personally need and find value in religious structure doesn't mean others do.

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Religious indoctriniation does instill some good values, but I feel that it lacks the component of personal integrity and responibility, and defaults to an unquestioning and unwavering defference to an outside authority, «god», but since «God» doesn't really interact with people, they tell you to listen to the church in his stead.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

While such a suggestion may have theoretical value, it does not help much practically, since the word «god» continues to be widely used and to serve as more or less useful means of communicating religious ideas.

And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

Some of my best friends are republican... But the «religious right» do tend to promote prejudice, which is in no way a «Christian Value.»

I don't think he had anything to do with «religious values» or compromising positions.

Even though they are clearly against any belief in the supernatural (including both Christianity and Satan - worship), they do, believe it or not, have some values in common with proponents of religious liberty.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

I would hope everyone would be interested enough in the values (religious practices, beliefs) of our future president to do a little self - educating on the values and beliefs before making your choice.

It can do so if the religious quest is regarded as an end - in - itself, as the value underlying all things and desirable for its own sake.

The «Religious Right» didn't get it wrong by talking about values and public policy.

Perhaps the most challenging of these (sic) is the contrast (sic) between the Christian approach to education which is based on the understanding of all life as God's gift, and a general approach to education which does not openly acknowledge any religious values.»

In the 17th and 18th centuries, as we will see, freedom was part of a whole articulated framework of moral and religious values — it meant freedom to do the good and was almost equivalent to virtue.

They do so most openly in every claim they make that religious faith is bad, and that for the sake of true values moral people must rid themselves of it as soon as they can.

Providing for the spiritual needs of the non-religious not does not include trying to force them into some religion or participate in public prayer ceremonies, it means helping these soldiers identify, live up to, and find inner - peace with their values and principles, same as what it means for religious soldiers.

He thinks the growing movement to defend human rights and religious liberty, and the Christian - Islamic dialogue in particular, can produce something of real value, as the Christian - Jewish dialogue has: «Just as Christianity has evolved, then, there are reasonable grounds for thinking that Islam will do so, too.

We expect the student to develop the kind of religious understanding which quietly bears witness to its value and reality and hence does not have to be compulsively sold to others.

Therefore, God has nothing to do with 1) people deciding to drive drunk and killing someone in a crash 2) Family values Republicans and John Edwards sleeping with their girlfriends 3) Religious nuts blowing themselves up in the name of God, etc. etc..

If a woman decides that they want to follow their own religious values, then yes, they can certainly do so.

The point of the exercise is to attack the values of Catholics, to bully them into being obedient to the secular messiah; to do the very thing that you all claim religious people are doing.

I believe it makes some great points on the fact that if humanity is to succeed we need to teach first that morals, values, and ethics are most important and that our deep religious or non-religious beliefs should be private, personal and something we don't push onto others.

I think much more needs to be researched on this question, but if she actually perpetuated or failed to alleviate the suffering of others when she had the means to do so, in the name of a twisted view of the religious value of suffering, she is very much in reproach in my opinion.

You can not legislate morality or religious values — all that you end up doing is oppressing the people instead of promoting liberty.

If I don't believe in gay marriage, I will not participate in it and will teach my children WHY I don't believe in it, being certain to clarify that the values that I hold dear, and the religious commitments that I have made are NOT transferable to others.

But aside from that, I do not support any commercial enterprise which overtly upholds religious values.

Although the professors think politicians pay much more attention to religious values than do business leaders, they wish both groups would heed religion more.

A religious system which provides significant ethical norms (that is, having to do with the maximizing of personality values) gives growing individuals guidelines in developing their own value systems.