Sentences with phrase «about religious lives»

The truth about religious lives is not so simple.

If this type of lay life is possible and actually lived out in the world, what exactly is different about religious life, and why would anyone choose it over a lay life equally, if not more, open to the possibility of holiness?

Lying to my kids about my religious life is no way to model the value of faith.

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Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

Now we have atheists worrying about the s e x lives of religious ppl.

A survey released Tuesday from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that among Catholics who have heard about the issue, 55 % support giving religious institutions that object to birth control an exemption from the federal contraceptive rule, while 39 % oppose exempting those institutions.

Hey Swine, show me one single post here where an atheist cares about the sex life of a religious person.

If you want to be religious SHOW it to me in your life and stop pontificating about it.

Keeping in mind that believing a dead man came back to life and ascended bodily into heaven is no more plausible than anything Mormons believe, you have to wonder what Barnum would say about all religious people.

Whether the critiques provided are correct or wrong, religious TV and media gives us the opportunity to reflect on our way of life and talk with others about religion.

To their credit, the American Catholic bishops, exercising their apostolic ministry, often boldly defend unpopular truths — about religious freedom, about the sanctity of life, and about the nature of marriage.

If the righteous «religious» folks spend half as much time worry about their own lives and morals instead of butting into other people's, we'd all be better off.

If this world of ours can come to grips and learn to scrap religious views and just serve one God and ONLY ONE GOD without making a such a BIG DEAL about messianic belief, it would be a much more peaceful world to live in.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

The story is about a man who found some friends to brighten up his gloomy life, not about religious hacks trying to pass pro-Jesus laws.

I think that for an atheist, unlike what many religious people seem to believe about them, life would be so very precious.

>> Nothing scares us about a cross but if you're going to place a cross then you must also place a religious symbol to represent the belief's of all the people who lost their lives that day.

I don't know about her religious practices and I certainly do not walk in her foot steps every day of her life.

There are legitimate criticisms about some religious influences on the President's life.

Osro, I live in Birmingham... I wish they would stop posting every single story about the devastation in my state in the belief section as well, but the fact is, this is the Bible belt, so yes there are going to be a lot of religious stories from here.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

As that woman was asked about what changed in her religious life after she «met» Yeshua, she said, «Not that much.»

His religious beliefs about family life were deemed discriminatory.

The core of this document is about the renewal of religious education along with wholehearted commitment to ongoing conversion through the sacramental life, personal prayer and Christian action.

About 40 % of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 % of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

«We have about 25 % of our graduates who enter the priesthood or religious life, whilst others work for bishops and run Catholic institutions.

The «religious» directed their white - hot anger at someone who dared challenge the prevailing story of what God and religion is all about and how it should be lived out.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

Sports superiority is obviously a light example, but on the deepest religious questions about life, we are bound to experience similar disagreements, aren't we?

CNN: My take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman, author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there is something unfavorable about nonbelievers.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent of techies are religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject matter is taboo among most modern scientists; it's not something we talk about in our daily working lives.

Perhaps, so far in this talk, you've been waiting for me to be more specific about the different types of vocation, such as priesthood, religious life, marriage and the single life.

«What HHS claims to be protecting is religious beliefs, when it actually is protecting a moral philosophy about the sanctity of human life.»

Along with this effort to provide a broader social understanding of religious institutions and a more sophisticated framework in which to explain the dynamics of religious life, practical theologians raise specific questions about education for contemporary religious leaders.

I'm not actually religious, nor part of a religious community, but I find your observations about life and your artistic eye intriguing.

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

Religious or natural - law notions about the sanctity of life, according to which a doctor may never take a life, even to salvage another life, can seem needlessly strict.

Helping him look at his life from a religious perspective can change his basic feelings about his problems.

I think the USA needs a second Mayflower and this time all those religious fundamentalists which cry out loud about Sharia law but are discriminative on their own should leave this country so the rest of us can have a normal life.

To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»

«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.»

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

As to your religious beliefs, you don't have a damn thing to say about what a person does in their private life, including their health - care decisions.

It is hard to say why clergy from theologically conservative denominations do not preach more about sanctity - of - life issues or religious liberty.

Im not talking about religion, or being religious, but believing in His word and applying it to your daily life, living it truly not by man's principle, but by God's Word, putting faith in Him just as a mother would to a babysitter who is going to look after her child, or just as you would trust someone with your money, or yet with your own life.

For the last two years I had heard about some believers whom God led to give up the religious structure they had become part of to live as the body of Christ together in this region of the world.