Sentences with phrase «based upon religion»

@gnasher729 This would be true, e.g., in India and Israel, which apply different family law regimes based upon religion, but not in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan where Sharia law has constitutional status.

Thus, whether you are Christian or Druid, Jewish or Pagan, Muslim or Wiccan, you are still entitled to be free from discrimination based upon your religion.

Overall, there is much corruption and politics that is part of many religions, not to mention all the wars, including some current ones, that if not soley based upon religion intolerance, certainly fueled by it.

The law is not based upon religion, but rather upon coverage.

You can not abridge the rights of people in this nation based upon their religion.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

There's not much point to having a moral foundation based upon religion if it does not make you more moral in your actual life.

Not exact matches

Religions are based upon a set of beliefs that held dear to one's heart.

Science is not religion, it is a method of enquiry based upon direct observation which transcends religion (the laws of physics are the same for everyone, no matter how you name God or even whether you believe).

The difference between Islam and other major religions is based upon their founders lifestyles.

To force a Jewish or Muslim child to sit on the sidelines is to be treated in a discriminatory manner based upon their particular religion.

All religions are based upon SOME evidence.

I know you aren't a fool, so I am just trying to explain my take on all this based on my haphazard legal education and insistence upon the rule of law over that of religion.

Religious followers will willfully state that religion is based upon faith.

Based upon this story my guess is that religion's main problem is an acute lack of self - awareness.

You yourself made a claim that religion is based upon by region, however regions are changing Christianity is growing in China, Latin America and Africa, While Islam is growing exponentially in Europe.

The distorted concept of superiority based upon nationality or religion is what's to fear.

Rich the difference between christianity and other religions is that christianity is based upon a relationship with god, something there is not present in other religions making them completely different.

Dismissing religion as fairy tales doesn't address the fact that millions of people take their religious beliefs very seriously and make decisions and take action based upon those beliefs.

Joseph Smith Jr. founded a religion based upon his own writings.

3) There is no reason why religion should hold a monopoly upon morality, and I would go so far as to argue that any morality which is based on religion is always going to be weaker than a secular morality.

Do we not live in a country based upon freedom of religion?

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

The ruling is a start on the road to a theocracy based upon one religion.

In spite of this, it is still true that universal religion must be based upon universal experiences which can be successively illustrated in actual life situations.

I would say this the Christian religion is based upon the Bible if you don't like the words of the Bible and feel condemned why don't you go make your own religion instead of trying to basterdise Christianity.

Ideological purity, a fundamentalist view of scriptural literalism, tribal mentality, denial of science, a hostile fear of progress, demonization of education, the need to control women's bodies, severe xenophobia, intolerance of dissent, should not the foundations upon which a «tolerant» religion is based.

He couldn't disallow entrance into heaven to any of his creations, based upon them not following a religion that they never heard of to begin with.

Even if it is misconceived, though, the question is still pressed upon us: Is it permissible in our political community for public decisions to be based on moral values informed by religion?

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

I think it's not very «Chist - like» to believe you'll either get to heaven or hell based upon whether or not you follow one of the various social / cultural customs or religions on this planet.

The religion you follow is primarily based upon the cultural context in which you grew up in.

In direct proportion to its being deprived of the cultural props that have sustained it as the established religion of the western world, the Christian church is being cast back upon its rudimentary confessional basis.

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

It doesn't happen because their religion is not based upon this.

I am however not for the total and complete removal of religion from the site based on the atheist group, your infringing upon all those who do believe in a religion.

But obviously, his origins are mostly irrelevant now since the religion that was based upon him doesn't consider his race or national origin an essential part of his message.

On the basis of the foregoing analysis of Mexico and the United States, perhaps this explanation can be offered: Civil religion depends for its existence upon circumstances allowing persons and institutions to be «religious» and «political» at the same time.

This is the basis of Barth's attack upon nineteenth century religion and upon all self - centred, self - conscious pietistic religion.

Yes they have killed mostly Indians which is why you have to understand that the majority of Sikhs, who are moderate, despise these people and the anger, resentment and hate they have brought upon all Sikhs by using our religion and culture as a false basis for there war.

Feuerbach agreed with his theological teacher, Schleiermacher, that «[t] he basis of religion is the feeling of dependency», but went on to assert that «that upon which human beings are fully dependent is originally, nothing other than Nature.

It weakens a religion to hear it argued upon such a basis.)

The most drastic example of the application of this principle is to he seen in the view of religion which underlies the recently published report of the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions.4 In agreement with the opinions of a minority group among the missionaries, it implies the abandonment of the old methods leading to conversion, which are based upon the conviction of Christianity's possession of absolute religious truth.

That many Atheists are just as bad as all fundelmentalists of every religion, in that they believe in their own superiority over others based upon what they believe (or don't) in.

Atheism is decidedly not a religion because it is not based on faith, which all religions are based upon.

While the Nazi party and the various ethnic cleansings in Armenia, the Balkans, and Africa were not really based upon atheism (thus making his argument that atheism has killed more folks than organized religion a bit shaky), ALL of the instances he mentions are bona - fide examples of almost incomprehensibly large numbers of deaths, NONE of which can be blamed, even remotely, on «organized religion.»

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

I gave up a religion of studying a holy book for living a real life based upon navigating through life's experiences.