Sentences with phrase «about religious meanings»

His latest book, «Bombing without Moonlight,» is about the religious meaning of suicide bombing.

Can Christians plausibly continue to affirm the revelatory supremacy of the Christ - event and at the same time be fully open to other traditions that have their own unique convictions about religious meaning and truth?

Peter Beinart acknowledges that «the West is a racial and religious term,» but he says not one word about its religious meaning.

I largely agree with what Smith says about the religious meaning of the term «God.»

Not exact matches

How about we have the government kill all the religious leaders that do not up hold the true meaning of God.

Your little «on second thought» dig clearly insinuated something about my own religious commitments; your sarcasm was too weak to warrant recognition; and your choice to decry me as «emotional» is a really tired tactic which mean who don't respect women use against women when they've been cornered.

For those Jews who do keep kosher — about 21 percent of the 5.3 million American Jews overall, according to the most recent National Jewish Population Survey — hard times mean particularly scant options for feeding a family, which, among the most religious Jews, tend to be large.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

She talks about religious persecution by state churches yet like so many evangelicals she really means that the evangelicals should be the state church in America.

Survey results would have been much more useful if the students were asked about their own «religious» (whatever that actually means) behavior.

you sir are practicing a religion one that means so much to you that you use it as your online name also please show me where I call you a fool or is telling someone not to make a fool of themself the same as calling them a fool which would mean you are very religious as far as Colin he said nothing that related to the debate I was in with you... we are talking about Atheism as a religious view not debating the existence of God now look over the definitions I have shown you and please explain how Atheism does not fit into the said definitions And you claim that evolution is true so the burden of proof falls in your lap as it is the base of your religion.

Attaching meaning to mundane coincidences seems to be what you religious types are all about.

How about all lbg people and especially athiests just stop eating anywhere that has a history or management that is from a religious faith that means almost no grocery stores no restaurants 98 % of the world believes in a religion the other 2 % can just not interact with the rest of us if thats what they want no skin off our backs make the world a better place just become reclusive your already hateful, distrustful and judgmental

My guess is that means about 20 % of Americans attend a religious service at least once a week (and 27 % of us lie to ourselves about how often we attend a service).

Feeling uneasy about a particular candidates religious background means that some Americans are still holding on to discriminative values.

Your religious war figure would be about right for a mean of straight up religion driven wars and genocides... source: Wikipedia.org war and genocides combined.

I meant to say «There «really seems to be no connection whatsoever» between your claims about your religious nonsense and reality, just like you see between Catholic claims and reality.»

It was not meant to be a proposal for an all - encompassing theory for making religious truth claims but, rather, an intramural Christian conversation about secondary matters of faith.

Of course now some religious person will want to defend their belief and say, «That is not what [fill - in - the - blank] MEANT... it's really all about peace and love and...»....

He writes, for example: «The fact that our author can persistently talk about sacrifice as if it meant a joyless, unwilling and hesitant gift shows that not even the faintest spark of religious inspiration can have glowed in his heart» (p26).

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).

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

Also I said I am not a religious person and that means I do not believe in any of this stuff but I am not going to say it is impossible because I think almost anything is possible so calling me a religious anything is about as empty an insult as anyone can toss my way, read before you insult, oh yes and make sure you retain what you read, that might help you a little.

ops sorry i meant Amniculi... blah blah blah about Poe's Law,, its hypocrisy!!!!!! talk trash about Christianity should be able to do the same about Islam, not encourging it just saying do nt be scare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do it will its not a felony yet, cause soon you wont be able too... Let me be clear, I meant express your opinions, comments about any religion as you do about Christianity, plus Im not religious, i just believe in jesus christ son of god and the word of the bible which is difference religion is made by people...

’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.

Finally, the fact that religion - at least in the West - learned something about human rights from democratic experience does not mean that «human rights is not a religious idea,» as Schlesinger dogmatically asserts.

, I was concerned about the rise of the religious right, the moral majority — not because of the politics, but because a lot of people think that's the way to make America a Christian country again, whatever that means.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

But if you say, «We're here with lots of questions, wanting to learn about religious traditions, wanting to think about the meaning of faith for our lives, and we hope you'll join us,» it turns out you can draw a crowd.

I agree, but I guess you would have to explain a little more about what we mean by religious.

But let's be fair about the 10 questions; being a Christian doesn't mean you are an expert on comparative religious studies.

Moreover, the depth and duration apparent in Heidegger's attraction for fascist «religious» thinking raise questions about the meaning of official Nazi party membership: if this was a «compromise,» what kind of compromise was it?

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.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

There is a lot of talk these days about «respect for religious beliefs», but does this really mean that nobody should criticize a religion in any way?

They had some important things to say, but both repeatedly talked about «religiosity» when they meant religious knowledge, commitment and practice.

Which leads Eberstadt to this: «There is plenty of reason for pessimism about what the future holds for religious belief if by «pessimism» one means further decline.

Still less do they mean that men could be «cured» of their religious beliefs by proving them false, as men might possibly be cured of drug addiction by lectures about the injury it does to them.

I'm by no means a religious person, but if he has the balls to display his faith like he does in front of millions of viewers and never says a single negative thing about any of the horrible things that people say about him or his faith, then he is more of a man than anyone who mocks him or what he believes in.

This means that television stations may sell unlimited time to religious broadcasters without worrying about usual restrictions on commercial time.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

Think about it — your religious uncle and irreligious neighbor could both call themselves Christians, but mean different things.

Really incredible take on the STORY Jesus tells in Luke 19 about a king rejected by his servants — interesting because Sam applies it to unbelievers when it was meant to be applied to the religious crowd who were rejecting Jesus — not the pagans like Zacheus's crowd that Jesus had just had a party with.

Anyway, since most people think of the first kind when talking about religion, it is easier to say «I'm not religious» than to say, «I am religious, but here is what I mean by that...»

Theologians began to ask if there was something profoundly secular, and by no means simply «religious», about the Gospel itself.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

you sit there in your home having nothing to do with anything that happened, then blame someone else who is in that same position for what happened, and he has to condemn it, and apparently he's guilty because of his religion... and about «no other religious freedoms in muslim countries»... you cant name a SINGLE muslim county that denies religious practice... not a single, including saudi arabia... just because they don't premit building religious buildings doesn't mean they don't respectively let you practice whatever you want to practice... unlike in some WESTERN countries they are banning religious practices such as; the headscarf!

Within the great Christian tradition, revelation does not primarily suggest the disclosure of a set of truths — be they ethical or religious or philosophical — that give information to men about their actual behavior or their ideal behavior, or even about the nature of the universe and the meaning which it may possess.

They are looking for a religious grounding for their children and for answers to their own questions about life and its meaning.