Sentences with phrase «based than religious»

Mostly his letter seemed more political based than religious.

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That's what this concert is, and it has no more military support than all those other religious practices being performed on the base every day.

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

The religious experience in the movement is more experiential, rather than based in intellectual expression.

You are of the opinion that it would have been a better in some way to simply deny this woman employment based on her religious beliefs than fire her for her religious beliefs?

We are seeing more laws proposed based on politicians religious beliefs in the past ten years than any other time period since our founding in 1776.

It has multiple meanings 1) complete trust or confidence 2) strong belief in a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof 3) a system of religious belief

Wow, you don't even make any real sense, so I can't respond other than saying look outside of yourself instead of basing your whole experience on your own religious experience.

While mainline publishers of religious books and church - school curricula have been virtually silent on the subject, there are currently in print more than 350 books challenging evolutionary science and advocating a «creation science» based on six 24 - hour days of creation, a «young - earth» dating, and a worldwide «flood geology.»

Beliefs that hinge on a guess can't be taken lightly, but we have a lot of people making their own bad decisions that are based on their treating their religious path as fashion or a trend rather than something to be lived.

In AA, religious resources are made available on a more temperate basis and are utilized more for maintaining than producing sobriety.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

Since religious freedom is based on the inherent dignity of the human person there is no question of it permitting the treatment of individuals to be based on the view that some are of a lesser dignity than others.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

The Earth being younger than the radiometric age of 4.5 billion years old is based on the Young Earth Creationism religious belief.

For more than three decades, Baltimore - based World Relief has resettled tens of thousands of refugees, many of whom fled religious or political persecution in their homelands.

Thomas added that the sentence was «clearly issued on a punitive rather than on a legal basis» and said: «The constant harassment of members of the Christian community ought not to be occurring in a country where the constitution not only recognises Christianity, but also states that no - one should be molested or taken to task simply for holding a religious belief.

Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»

@cw You've just committed a genetic fallacy by discrediting and organization based on its religious background rather than the substance.

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

Less than a year later, however, he told a meeting of religious broadcasters in Washington that he was supplying «chaplains» and Bibles to the Honduran - based contras, thus admitting a direct link to them.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

One is a religious story with no basis in fact other than faith.

When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

It seems to me that we can do this more easily based on our own sound reasoning than based on instructions by religious leaders who always seem to end up compromising one group or another on our planet.

Historically, Jesus WOULD have been considered more of a political figure than a religious figure and study, based on facts, would prove this.

Normal adult samples can be distinguished from mentally and emotionally sick adult samples better than 99 out of 100 times on the basis of the degree of religious observance in the childhood home... the degree of religious observance in the childhood home plays an important role in the maintenance of mental health.

Some of the hardest problems of our day are moral problems; rather than economic or political ones; but, moral problems as they are, many of them can not be solved except on a religious basis.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

There is some basis for this charge, it appears, given the fact that Berger seems to treat plausibility structures as somehow prior to or more basic than the religious beliefs they make plausible.

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

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?

Whitehead offers his abbreviated argument for a religious dogma based on a rational metaphysics rather than historical investigation.

This mis - perception has led to an un - balanced support for paid - time programs on the basis that they are more effective in their use of television than the earlier religious programs were.

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

It is because of this impending failure of the religion of law that Moses predicted a better covenant would come which would be based on relationship rather than religious laws and regulations (cf. this article on Deut 30:11 - 14).

Who better than he knew what base things can come from the black depths of the human heart, dealing as he did with extortioners and prostitutes, the cruelty of the strong and the bigotry of the religious, and feeling over all the tyranny of a vast military empire?

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

It is a matter of serious consequence for theologians when a film based on religious subject matter is made, because more people will be likely to view that film than have read the New Testament in all history.

The basis of the SSPX's rejection of religious freedom is of less importance than the fact of it, however.

This is consistent with the research on Catholic and other faith - based schools, suggesting that religious instruction provides a better standpoint for critical engagement with the dominating culture than does a public school immersed in that culture.

On the basis of scientific realism, so the claim runs, these questions can now be answered more concretely and often more satisfactorily than was possible with the help of the old religious world - views.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.

If he had made his decision based upon his religious beliefs (Or those of another) rather than the merits of the case then he would be in the wrong, absolutely.

That original conception, which has never ceased to be operative, was based on an imaginative religious and moral conception of life that took account of a much broader range of social, ethical, aesthetic, and religious needs than the utilitarian model can deal with.

Many religious liberals, historians, and secularists have concluded that the Hebrew Scripture's Ten Commandments were based on this earlier document, rather than vice-versa.»

Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

To respond to the ecological crisis it may help us to go deeper into our own religious tradition to see different bases other than what we already found.