Sentences with phrase «as issues of religion»

This is true even though very few Americans consider global warming as an issue of religion, social justice, or poverty.

Not exact matches

The protests started in late May in Istanbul initially as a reaction to the planned demolition of Gezi Park, but they rapidly grew into complaints about a broader set of issues including freedom of religion, press and expression.

Science is and should be seen as «completely neutral» on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, says Father George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that «science and religion are totally separate pursuits.»

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.

Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.

Hardly a cat's - paw of the pope — he describes religion as «a toxic issue» — Tiger has repeatedly emphasized the centrality of the sexual revolution to today's unique problems.

Instead of wasting time with these frivolous lawsuits, I wish the American Atheists would take issue with employers who require all workers to participate in group prayer (as one of my former employers did) or landlords who «casually» ask about your religion before they will rent you an apartment (that's life in the Bible Belt, eh?).

Just as every Easter long - falsified stories about Jesus are warmed up by journalists to increase the print - run of their magazines, so similar nonsense is brought forth whenever issues of science and religion are covered in the media.

These are very tho - rny issues we're talking about — a tangled mess of bad intentions, good intentions, misapplied intentions, and the whole range of psychological variations of mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and a bunch of other things not really complimentary to religions in general and to specific religions as well.

Not all religions believe life begins at fertilization, some put it later, otherwise there are also issues of even internal to religions there are debates as to when life begins.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

Now the relevance of Jesus to the issue of human rights, often missed as Christian religion, is touched upon by Durant quite interestingly:

«Liberation theology issues a call not only to Christianity, but to the other religions of the world as well.

But when the subject of civil religion became a minor academic industry, I became increasingly concerned, as conferences, panels and symposia on the subject proliferated, that the whole issue was bogging down into arguments over definition and that substance was being overlooked.

As we approach George Washington's birthday ¯ so often lost these days in the good shopping bargains of a long holiday weekend ¯ it seems fitting to celebrate the whole man Washington was in light of the hottest issue in the world just now, religion.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

The poll report, by the Public Religion Research Institute, identified Obama's religion «dilemma,» as the institute called it, as one of three significant emerging religious issues to watch toward the 2012 election cycle.

Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, religion choice is little if anything of an issue with holding the Presidential office.

Have you noticed any of those same issues that concern you about the religions of the world stemming from non-religious issues such as say politics or the love of money?

Blake and every radical Christian seer have not only issued a violent protest against the «Christian God,» but they have likewise condemned the mystery and repression of religion as a fundamental obstacle to the realization of a union with the life and Word of Jesus.

As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge of the role of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight for psychodynamic diagnosis, for evaluation of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.

as a christian, i agree that i'm tired of the anti-gay anti-choice rhetoric that ties together religion and politics and paints us «religious» folk with one colour... it's time we start moving on to issues we can solve politically, like providing for the poor and reducing corporate corruption

Since Vic and Theo keep blathering about their sky fairy, their supposed «creator» of the universe, it is now appropriate to point out that the foundation of their religion is complete nonsense, along with other issues regarding their sicko bigoted, se.xist supersti.tion known as Christianity:

That strikes us as an admirable description of a great deal that issues from the solemn assemblies of American religion across the denominational board.

I have observed that one way to approach the issue of Christology in Islamic context would be to seek out sources in Islam as it grew beyond the sanitized environs of Arabia and came in contact with peoples from other lands, religions and philosophies.

As I have never been a christian or an adherent of any religion, past experience is not an issue with me.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

I am personally more and more intolerant of religion and will point out the stupidity of religion if someone injects into my life in any way, but if someone wants to cling to their childish tribal myths, that is literally their problem, as in, in my opinion, their own mental health issue.

The future evolution of religion (from latin and means «link together again») and science will show that these two will also come together as one and the same issue.

As our review of Alister McGrath's latest book in this issue implies, he, along with many other contemporary science and religion writers, fails to make this discernment and thus, whilst making numerous helpful points, despairs of inferring properties of God from looking at nature.

Esther has hit on one of the two major issues as I see them; Christianity is not a religion and what the world has had enough of and is now looking elsewhere for answers is the institutional church, not Christianity.

Few issues are as important today as the protection of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the practice of religion.

The issue I have with religion is how it is often used as a basis for hate and the control and domination of others.

Notably for our purposes, at all stages of the Barnette litigation in the courts below — as in Gobitis before it — the issues had revolved entirely around the schoolchildren's claim regarding their free exercise of religion.

Much modern intellectual debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.

The issue here is really the same as the one which existed in Jesus» day — we can have plenty of religion (the dos and do nt's of the Pharisees) but what is really needed to be made evident is the life that comes from God through His living word (and that is something much deeper than just the «letter of the law»).

Since the issue of the relation between creation and evolution has been so prominent, and since the contribution of process thought is so distinctive in this discussion, I shall focus on it as paradigmatic of process theology's treatment of the relation between science and religion.

That's been confusing to some, as he is inclusive in a mainline way (on LGBT issues, views of other religions, etc.), but talks about conversion in an evangelical way.

Those who profess to be followers of Christ and who frequently invoke their religion as justification for their stands on certain issues need to be called out when their actions run directly contrary to the values and teaching of Jesus.

Of course, it is often said that religion ought to affect all phases of human life and that the church must therefore consider no issue of living as outside of its spherOf course, it is often said that religion ought to affect all phases of human life and that the church must therefore consider no issue of living as outside of its spherof human life and that the church must therefore consider no issue of living as outside of its spherof living as outside of its spherof its sphere.

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

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

Your own church could easily experiment with films as a way of opening the human issues in religion to full understanding and care in the community.

As Ogden puts it, «Once we presuppose the mode of reasoning proper to religion, however — and not to presuppose it is to leave religious issues in principle undecided — the question whether God is real at once becomes pointless» (RG 38f).

The difference is the gov» t is to be nuetral as to the issue of religion.

Studies of cargo cults, messianic movements, and Third World millenarianism, including widely read classics such as Peter Worsley's The Trumpet Shall Sound and Bryan Wilson's Magic and the Millennium, have paid close attention to the effects of international relations on domestic religious developments.2 In increasing numbers, books have appeared on the religious situation in strategic parts of the globe, such as the Middle East and Latin America, and with growing frequency articles on American religion refer to issues such as global consciousness, nuclear disarmament, and the effects of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachingAs we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachingas follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

Some of his good friends, as well as his critics, have chided him for a number of years for spending too much time on structural problems of the church and internal issues of ecclesiology; I would now predict a broadening out of various issues of religion and culture.