Sentences with phrase «for nonreligious»

Employment v. Smith 494 US 872 applies this to criminal acts, holding that «The Free Exercise Clause permits the State to prohibit sacramental peyote use» and «the [Free Exercise] Clause does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a law that incidentally forbids (or requires) the performance of an act that his religious belief requires (or forbids) if the law is not specifically directed to religious practice and is otherwise constitutional as applied to those who engage in the specified act for nonreligious reasons».

Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.

For the nonreligious, things get a bit harder.

Instead, Eisgruber and Sager suggest that an exemption is warranted because, in all likelihood, other officers are exempt from the grooming rules for nonreligious reasons, and so to fail to accommodate the Muslim officers would amount to discrimination against them.

The unanimous 1987 decision in Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos revised a lower court's holding that Congress violated the establishment clause when it permitted churches to hire their own members in preference to others for nonreligious jobs, a form of religious discrimination prohibited for other private employers.

After all, it was Augustine's narrative of spiritual blindness followed by illumination that became foundational for nonreligious self - presentation.

Not exact matches

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

To argue that historians might judge such and such to be a miracle because they believe antecedently in the religion that regards such miracles as signs of the intervention of its deity is to open the floodgates for all religious claims to miracles and, indeed, even to nonreligious «miracles» such as the widespread reports that people have seen Elvis Presley.

The Jewish return to Jerusalem, the crucial event of destiny in two millennia of Jewish history for the «religious» and the «nonreligious» alike, has yet to be accepted, with the fullness it both requires and merits, by the world.

Specifically, it's far less common to hear about how a student who finds their way to or from Christianity, Islam, or Judaism (or even Atheism for that matter) while attending a university.Taking classes and sharing experiences alongside classmates from varying backgrounds can cause even the most religious or nonreligious person to inspect, analyze, and even question their beliefs.

was so vital for Bonhoeffer that he lost interest when the two elements were separated: Christology not qualified by something like non-religious interpretation became an unrelated entity and suffered a fatal loss of reality; nonreligious Christianity without Christocentrism became a Sisyphean endeavour of modem man to adjust to a newly discovered self and world.24

So the real question for us today is What kind of God could be the Lord of a nonreligious Christianity?..

Whether SR is compatible with nonreligious reasoning remains an open question for some.

Ultimately — and this is quite a bonus for a group claiming to be nonreligious — one arrives at «God - consciousness.»

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism appears to mix with more traditional beliefs and practices in different ways for conservative Protestants, mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, Mormons and the nonreligious.

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

All religious groups seemed equally at risk of losing teens; no single religious group stood out as responsible for producing nonreligious teenagers.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

What does this mean for the actual, on - the - ground experience of living alongside the plurality of religious communities — and nonreligious ones too — that we can not escape or ignore in our world?

The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators — one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.

It is unique in human history, for although this Muslim state was fundamentally religious, it established two principles which are not found elsewhere except in a nonreligious state or in a religion which has no state government associated with it.

With the dramatic growth of the nonreligious in the last few decades, more atheist leaders are emerging as spokespeople for atheism, but the Christmas rift speaks to growing disagreement over how atheists should treat religion.

Religious and nonreligious insti - tutions have both at times taken the second tactic, and both of them were wrong for doing it.

This does not mean that religious persons can not crusade for Capitalism; but it does mean that nonreligious persons, like myself, can not crusade for religion.

For many of us — male and female alike, religious and nonreligious, churched and unchurched — pregnancy and the birth of our children are the most graphic illustration of otherness we will ever know.

The underlying premise seems to be that for any Church teaching, there can not be a nonreligious argument, simply because it is Church teaching.

The teaching that there this is an eternal everlasting tormenting hell is unbiblical and in my conversations with nonreligious people the number one reason for their unbelief.

America's «Nones» — the nonreligious — are at an all - time high, now comprising nearly one in five Americans (19 %), according to a new study by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.

For Cox the main thesis of The Secular City is still valid: that the secular, «nonreligious» world is also the sphere of God's judging and freeing action.

«This underscores what American Atheists has been saying for years - that every person in America knows more nonreligious people than they think they know,» Silverman says.

Many groups will consist of nonreligious as well as religious people, but all will function as little churches, with members coming together for refreshment and going out to serve.

For me the main thesis of The Secular City is as valid today as it was then: the secular, «nonreligious» world is also the sphere of God's judging and freeing action.

I think that preachers should avoid recommending or endorsing specific candidates for public office even though they should have the right to do without jeopardizing their tax status if nonreligious nonprofit organizations can do so.

One hopes that they will serve as well to make us — religious and nonreligious people alike — increasingly aware of the inequities and oppression created and perpetuated for nations of the «underdeveloped» Third World by the «overdeveloped» nations East and West.

Churches» limited exemption from antidiscrimination law is not and can not be justified as a special privilege for religion but simply as an instance of the autonomy, privacy, and «freedom of association» enjoyed by all members of the constitutional community, religious and nonreligious alike.

Equality between religious and nonreligious, however, is simply not the only, or even the most important, value for American Jews.

Advocates argue that, like it or not, the multiverse may well be the only viable nonreligious explanation for what is often called the «fine - tuning problem» — the baffling observation that the laws of the universe seem custom - tailored to favor the emergence of life.

Washington — A broad coalition of education and legal groups has drafted guidelines for the implementation of the Equal Access Act, which the Congress passed in August to guarantee student religious groups the same access as nonreligious groups to public - school facilities.

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in a series of surveys conducted between 1993 and 2012, reported on parental satisfaction with assigned public schools, public schools chosen by parents, private religious schools, and private nonreligious schools.

I analyzed earnings data only for private school teachers in nonreligious private schools.

Erika Armstrong started the Divorce Club Warriors to provide a nonreligious forum for women dealing with divorce.

Maybe it's bad for federal law to impose such an obligation on employers, whether because the law is too vague, imposes unduly on private employers, imposes unduly on coworkers, gives an undue preference to conscientious objectors (it has been interpreted to apply to nonreligious conscientious objectors as well as religious ones), or something else.

In the face of these patchwork gaps, American human rights groups have been advocating for the adoption of a federal bill titled the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity by nonreligious employers with over 15 employees.