Sentences with phrase «if secular people»

Not exact matches

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

People must not debate in «SECULAR» logic to start with, to know if the chains» charity decision was appropriate or not.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

I do believe that most contemporary secular people are not asking if there is life after death, but if there is life before death.

he is there to forgive if people repent, but he is also is a just God and will punish sin no matter what secular society wants to teach

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it ahd been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding and adding with an abacus.

But if you watch people's lives, they are primarily secular in their approach.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

If you look at any political news magazine today, whether secular or Christian, you will read that what the president needs to focus on is the economy and getting more jobs for the American people, and the Gross Domestic Product.

After many years of street ministry I found that if people are in need help it's best to direct them to a secular organization, like women's safe houses, food banks, AA, community colleges, community counselors, etc..

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

If America has gotten as secular as people claim it to be, not too many students go off to Spring and Winter breaks thinking, EASTER!

If the secular transformation is to be achieved, people must destroy the foundation upon which religious illusion flourishes.

I suppose Rose is worried that people are looking to Taylor's A Secular Age as if it were some sort of encyclical issued by a progressive magisterium.

If Jews are more successful than most people, it's because a secular person has an advantage over a mystic, which would be true of any secular person, of any ethnic background.

Of course, you can always use something secular if you do not KNOW the person's religion.

The secular people, well it's not just secular people, the people of this nation and other nations as well, spend so much money on nonsense that if it could have been used to help the unfortunate in this world, there would be no hunger.

«If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and nerd subset of the population.

If you're a secular person today, Christianity will never demand that kind of intellectual schizophrenia.

Yeah, right... he «unintentionally hurt» people... he accidentally said parents should hit their kids if they THINK they might be gay... sure, it was a typo... he couldn't actually have MEANT it... and it was secular liberal media's fault... because all real «fair - minded» people know what he meant... and that he didn't mean it... and someone else was to blame if he did... not that he did... but still he was the REAL victim...

Even if a person says they are «secular», they still believe in materialism, worship money, objects, etc..

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

If you want to begin to understand why, although it is acceptable to be a «person of faith» in our secular culture, the Christian religion so often evokes a negative response this post may provide some insight.

Even in this more secular age, people in the western world tacitly, even if unintentionally, acknowledge Christian faith when they refer to a particular year by number, since the words Anno Domini, strictly speaking, are always implied.

And so if we want to prevent secular media from hijacking religious realities, we need religious people at the helm — using the ordinary avenues of media to present a compelling witness to truth.

If your Christian faith is important, and you'd like to only meet Christian singles, why try other dating sites that aren't Christian and you have to navigate through all the secular people to find, connect and communicate?

# 2: by 99 those same manipulators realized that CO2 will keep increasing; if they keep increasing the temp accordingly — secular» Skeptics & Warmist» people on the street will notice that: the real temp is still the same — so, the prudent Swindlers lowered the temp.

There is no doubt some anti-Muslim animus in the Quebec bill, but I think it's mainly a combination of a strong cultural preference to see people's faces, along with a strong (if recently acquired) preference for secular over religious statements.