Sentences with phrase «about religious groups»

He talks about religious groups being the oldest organizations in society, by far, and owning 8 percent of the earth's surface, begging the question of why wouldn't you work with them to save nature.

How Americans Feel About Religious Groups.

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

This would help students understand how to be critical and selective about the things they hear in the media about religious groups.

Not exact matches

«We are deeply concerned about all deliberate attempts to offend members of any religious or ethnic group,» said Stephen Engelken, the second - ranking diplomat at the embassy.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»

In Belfast there is also a pomo religious group called IKON, but the less I say about them the better, I think.

Why is the poorest religious group in America the one that thinks the most about what the Bible teaches about work, and what do they believe the Bible teaches about it?

Of course the mormon church is as internally inconsistant as any other religious group and has had just about every position on just about every issue over time.

If you're part of the TLS group, you'd have already heard about it, but I very recently joined a group of tarot card readers whose own religious beliefs range from secular to progressive Christian.

The school doesn't want you spreading your poison and you want to cry about not getting free money; just another example of the religious groups in this country wanting a free lunch while being able to hate on whoever they want.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

Kyle Haselden and Martin E. Marty were both members of the National Emergency Committee of Clergy Concerned about Vietnam, a group of religious leaders pressing the president to work toward negotiation and de-escalation (January 29, 1966).

Any group or religious community that is too deliberate about external form sows in itself the seeds of decadence.

I have nothing against christians at all until they get some burr on their ass about how their religious stuff overrules people not of their particular little group.

(CNN)- Muslim Americans are more optimistic about their future than members of any other religious group in the United States, according to a Gallup report released Tuesday.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

The controversy pits leaders of religious groups that sponsor about 1 million Boy Scouts against activists who want the organization to end its ban on openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders.

So he attended Group meetings and worked with alcoholics at the Calvary Mission, telling about his religious experiences and trying to induce it in them.

And finally, if any religious group in America had a right to complain about being marginalized in this election cycle, it would be Muslims.

Indeed, those who belong to the same religious group can be fierce in their disagreements, even though they have a great deal in common, as has been shown by the recent arguments in the churches about whether women should be ordained.

The intent of the group is to deal with the cognitive level of helping the patient to integrate what he is learning about himself with his religious values.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

When you reject a religious group because they are closed off about science, or teach you to hate people because they're different, or tell you that genocide is good and holy, or cover up child molestation to protect a pastor, God cheers you on.

Bigot traditionally hatred of a group of people, especially a racial, regional, or religious group, based on preconceived notions about said group.

We are able to talk only about the types of religious visions which today can minimize the damages of tribal warfare between religious forces, or of brainwashing or mind control in the intense groups.

«Daesh fighters have been systematically perpetrating mass atrocities, including killing members of religious groups such as Yazidis, Christians, Shia Muslims and others, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of these groups, deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.»

Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a deep and personal relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.

The other point, is that Graham, Cathy, and the other religious nutters want to legalize and legislate discrimination against a group of US citizens simply because the purposefully choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

And second this blog has often reported news bits about atheist billboard campaigns or atheist conventions that get protested by various religious groups or when atheists try to enforce legislation to remove offensive religious material from government and education.

About half of all group memberships are religious.

Without minimizing the difficulties, theological schools and the religious groups they serve must ask themselves the hard questions: Do we care about the quality of religious leaders we educate?

The 1948 Genocide Convention defines «genocide» as, among other things, «deliberately inflicting on» a religious group «conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.»

When television came in about 1950, each of these «faith groups» was given time each Sunday for their TV programs — programs which were broadly representative of the religious and cultural diversity of the country as a whole.

It actually makes sense that so many Americans, who as a group tend to be religious, are so ignorant about religion.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

So you are more concerned about a group of people trying to keep baby Jesus off the off the capitol lawn than about some religious fanaticals trying to fly an airplane into the capitol?

We shouldn't be fighting about whether a cross should be standing outside the monument, promoting the interest of any particular religious group.

If the issue is about other religious groups not being represented the fix is very easy.

This is not a criticism of the Baha'is, but a question about the financial priorities of most religious groups and as a parish priest one of my responsibilities has been to raise money to help preserve some of England's historic village churches.

If we took every holiday for every religious group in America and gave time of for each one it would make ths school and work year about ten days a year.

Of the 1,546 religious groups that existed before the annexation, only about 400 were able to meet the stringent requirements to re-register.

According to the 1951 convention, genocide involves an intention to wipe out a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another people group.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

Religious groups in the nine states I surveyed also registered few complaints about their government partners.

Some Net enthusiasts rhapsodize about the coming of McLuhan's Global Village, when in fact the fractures and fissures among religious groups are as strong as ever.

I totally agree with shawn about weak minded, easily manipulated people being bound up and controlled by religious groups.

But the main thing we discovered about this group of students was a sort of built - in timidity and inarticulateness about their own religious life.