Sentences with phrase «land of religious»
This is the land of religious freedom and I believe all religions should be treated equally.
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A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.
If you had to choose between a «law of the land» that is secular (no religious involvement) vs. one that is theocratic (medium to heavy religious influence) which would you choose?
Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that «America today begins to turn back to God,» - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.
Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.
Nevertheless, the paper is essentially guided by the language of the 1985 Vatican statement in which «Christians are asked to understand the religious ties [of Jews to the land of Israel] that have deep biblical roots.
It's full of unconscious pride that lands them in all sorts of ridiculous religious predicaments.
Can one truly blame Arab dissonance reprisals against the blunt taking of lands for the sole purposes of paying homages to the Jewry causes based upon religious venues for reclaiming an old times Jewish homeland?
Legally, the county's moratorium may violate a federal law — the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — which makes it illegal for local governments to place a «substantial burden» on houses of worship and their function.
The government department responsible for religious affairs has refused to recognise the Sudanese Evangelical Presbyterian Church's (SEPC) own building committee as the legitimate overseer of its land and property, recognising the now illegal committee instead.
Down is up and up is down,» said Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
All you religious nuts out there need to realize that you are not above the Supreme Law of this Land — The Constltution.
Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»
Same story when trained the Q - aida and Tali - ban to fight the so - vi - et troops who were considered non religious or infidels at that time and it was the pr - opa - ganda that was used to recruit islamic worriers from all over the Islamic world until they were driven out of afghani lands and until there was no use from them the plot was made to eliminate their presence and to pave the way for a new invasion by the west for those areas with out any fight but seems it did not work out as was hoped for and that's why their troops are deep down in the...!?
Americans in favor of the war, writes Ralph Frasca of Belmont Abbey College, favored it for several reasons: «that Mexico wronged Texan and American citizens, impeded the American «manifest destiny» of expansion, possessed land that pro-slavery forces coveted, or needed political or religious change.»
Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..
That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!
For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.
In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.
In recent years, certain religious Jewish and Christian communities have proclaimed that exclusive Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land is a theological fight and necessity, a condition for the unfolding of the messianic era.
If Israel views itself as caretaker of the land — its divine mission, in Buber's view — whose owner always makes space for those who need it (for those who choose to live with the same inclusive spirit), the religious precept of imitatio dei would require us as Jews to share that space, even the holy city of Jerusalem, to make it a «divine place» — the place «God intended to have made of it.»
I do not propose a solution to the complex problem of how the Holy Land is to be shared, but I do want to suggest that those who are concerned with the religious nature of this conflict should explore an alternative theological model, one that played a part in an earlier chapter of Zionism.
Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;
Why else would they have asked Greco «Roman Gentile believers to take on the status of quasi «criminals in a social and religious no man's land» not Jewish but nevertheless bound to refuse to participate in the official cults of their families and cities?
Christianity Today: Richard Land Announces Retirement From Southern Baptist Ethics Commission Richard Land, the outspoken president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), announced today that he will retire in October 2013 after 25 years of service.
There is a HUGE difference between attempting to legislate religious doctrine and well established, secular laws of the land.
He quoted the Qur» an and the Hadith in support of his contention that Islam never tampers with the rights of individual property in land or industry and therefore the state was not allowed, on religious grounds, to appropriate the lands of the big landholders.
He awarded lands and stipends to religious scholars, schools, and colleges and was charged with the duty of helping the needy.
Again, the Christian religious practice of going back to the Old Testament to relive the archaic events Yahweh performed on his people, a practice which was commanded by both Yahweh and Christ, is really a call for the people of God to move forward and continue the march toward the Promised Land.
There is something which could erode that religious commitment, however: the occupation of Arab land seized in the 1967 war.
The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.
Jim Wallis, the progressive CEO of Sojourners, and Richard Land, the conservative head of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, are two religious scholars with opposing politicReligious Liberty Commission, are two religious scholars with opposing politicreligious scholars with opposing political views.
Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.
Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..
We Americans flatter ourselves as citizens of a «land of liberty» where religious freedom is sacrosanct.
Effi Eitam, leader of the National Religious Party and a member of Sharon's cabinet, refers to all Palestinians as a «cancer that must be rooted out», and claims that Arabs must never be given any political rule or sovereignty within the Land of Israel.
But in this land of many religious minorities how are we to interpret the Catholic reality?
The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration of America's land and resources in the hands of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land values — ought to be high on our religious and public policy agendas.
We first connected through a mutual interest in religious freedom behind the iron curtain; within a few weeks, Bohdan was giving me private tutorials in the history and culture of his native land, including an in - depth introduction to the story of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC)....
I know, how about sending them where everyone is religious and determined to make their religion the law of the land.
So the clergy attacked the Quebec Act as a danger to religious and civil liberty, the frontiersmen attacked it as a sellout of their territory, and the merchants and land speculators agreed.
Do I get to ignore that law of the land based on my religious belief, too?
Religion News Service: Religious groups vie for Internet domain names Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains.
The social history of mankind exhibits great organizations in their alternating functions of conditions for progress, and of contrivances for stunting humanity, The history of the Mediterranean lands, and of western Europe, is the history of the blessing and the curse of political organizations, of religious organizations, of schemes of thought, of social agencies for large purposes.
Thus unto all of religious belief / the atheist be as the farmer whom having / cleared the land of weed stone through sweat as hard labour being now prepared in planting the seed.
It is part of a new land still struggling to find national, political and religious expression.
«While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is «a bridge too far,»» Land wrote in a letter to the ADL explaining the move.
For the mosque construction projections is has supported so far, the ADL's legal arguments revolve around the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a 1990 law requiring government to show a compelling interest if it imposes land use regulations on houses of worsLand Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a 1990 law requiring government to show a compelling interest if it imposes land use regulations on houses of worsland use regulations on houses of worship.
What the bigot Mr. Graham actually means is that his personal, individual religious belief should be the law of the land, and nobody else's.
As such, if the religious want it let them put it in one of their churches but DO NOT display it as an object of spiritual significance on government land using public funds in a memorial to commemorate a disastrous attack that affected the lives many, many people who do not share your beliefs in Christ and crosses.