Sentences with phrase «about civil religion»

The burden of what I want to say is that the confusion about civil religion is rooted in a confusion about the nature of the American republic and that genuinely to clarify the nature of American civil religion would involve a reform of the American republic.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

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Nonetheless, Professor Evans has made a well - argued and civil contribution to the never - ending debate about religion and public life.

My whole point of this issue is that if they deny them their civil rights as Americans, they are unconstitutional... and yes, the framers of the constitution had plenty to say about freedom of religion applying to Muslims.

Frohnen, Kimball, and others are also concerned about the communitarians» instrumental approach to «civil religion.»

This also does not account for other recent wars such as WWII, WWI, Vietnam, Korea, U.S. Civil War, etc., though arguably religion played a significant role in affecting people's opinions about going to war.

It is also of importance to Muslims and people of other religions and of none, as we think about the future of an American experience in which civil tolerance and religious devotion are not enemies but allies.

CIVIL marriage, the kind where any consenting adult including murderers and rapists behind bars in prison, atheists, non-believers and any religion have the right to use... how is there any problem coming to a decision about civil marrCIVIL marriage, the kind where any consenting adult including murderers and rapists behind bars in prison, atheists, non-believers and any religion have the right to use... how is there any problem coming to a decision about civil marrcivil marriage?

We Americans, religious and secular both, have powerful fundamental views about religion that put radical Islam in a certain context, one that prevents us from understanding how unlike other American religious expressions it is — and how much of a threat it is to the civil order.

Rather than drawing attention to the distinctiveness of the Judeo - Christian tradition, liberal civil religion is much more likely to include arguments about basic human rights and common human problems.

Conservative civil religion also voices strong arguments about the propriety of the American economic system.

«The trouble with this approach, of course, is that despite the veneer of civil religion, most people in America aren't worried about whether they break one of the Ten Commandments now and then, and they certainly don't see the logic behind the claim that infractions of that sort warrant everlasting damnation.

The point is not to be arbitrary about definitions, however, but rather to reveal the following theoretical issue: All three kinds of ideologies in Table have been called civil religions, but there are obvious differences among them.

A youthful member of the Athaeneum later had an opportunity to do something directly about Mexico's civil religion.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Some exceptions: we are liberally treated to images said to depict civil religion, but we learn very little about the theology of civil religion.

The liberal regime never repudiated the civil religion that was already inherent in the Declaration of Independence and indeed kept it alive in our political life even though the Constitution was silent about it.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I'm a civil engineer in fact and religion is not just about praying!

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

Dr. Bellah clarifies the term «civil religion» and how the principle has worked out in our history, and he discusses the confusion about the nature of the American republic.

If one thinks of synonyms for «civil religion» — for example, belief in the good intentions of one's nation, optimism about the future of that nation, faith in the legitimacy of its historic institutions, conviction that its errors can and will be corrected — then it is obvious that many events could and did trivialize the American civil religion.

(CNN) A child custody battle in New York City is raising questions about freedom of speech and religion — and civil liberties advocates are sure to be paying close attention.

The 17 - year - old, who has been charged with possession of stolen property, says he would rather be reading about world religions or the Civil War.

In addition to encouraging student voice and civil dialogue, Face to Faith enables students to learn about religions and cultures.

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Loyola High School v. Quebec (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 12 Administrative Law — Civil Rights Summary: As part of the mandatory core curriculum in schools across Quebec, the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports required a Program on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), which taught about the beliefs and ethics of different world religions from a neutral and objective perspective.

Employers also must be concerned about Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations, which provide that obtaining criminal records inconsistently, whether based on the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the applicant, is unlawful under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.