Sentences with phrase «basis of religious values»

Political leaders have always been keenly aware that religious traditions represented a reservoir of potential support and frequently appealed to voters on the basis of religious values.

Not exact matches

Morality is relative to a value system, but religious values are based on the delusion of an imaginary god.

Kaine started out with a version of the «personally opposed but publically supporting» argument based on the specious claim that the First Amendment of the Constitution prevents us from imposing our religious «values» on public life.

The universality and centrality of value - experience give it a fundamental character just as with the experience of change, dependence and order, and fulfill two aspects as the requirements for a basis of religious experience.

This is the physical basis for Whitehead's principle of relativity and for the religious sense of the «value of the diverse individuals of the world» (RM 59).

Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis of the categoreal feelings and subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis of an alternative value judgment.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

A critical analysis of globalization, (within such global apartheid) and a reflection based on the religious and spiritual values of humanity would lead to an option for the genuine development and liberation of the people, especially the poor.

Yet it is essential to realize that religious communities are constituted by loyalty to an ideal or set of values which is the basis of their communion.

The only intelligible solution to this problem would seem to be to admit the relative religious value, based on experience, of each group's scriptures for its own corporate life, but to recognize that no book has final authority.

This means that television is itself becoming a kind of religion, shaping the faith and values of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious view based on that reality, for millions of viewers.

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.

Despite trends toward secularization, most Americans continue to profess religious faith, which, I suggest, enables them to understand the importance of faith - based practices and the value of accommodation.

This provides a metaphysical basis for the value of nature and is a part of the religious vision that nature is sacred.

Though of less exalted origin, and not of equal value with sruti, as a basis of religious dogma, it is perhaps quite as influential in the lives of the people in inculcating and nourishing religious faith and practice.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

The idea that Rick Perry, who has prospered politically and monetarily in perhaps the most politically corrupt state in the union (and I have worked in and observed the political systems of about half of them, including all of those considered among the worst) is some deeply religious, values - driven candidate is stupid beyond belief, and proof of either the gullibility or the hypocrisy of the base.

Perhaps the most challenging of these (sic) is the contrast (sic) between the Christian approach to education which is based on the understanding of all life as God's gift, and a general approach to education which does not openly acknowledge any religious values.»

but rather a vision of a social order based on explicit moral and religious values deeply embedded in the mental habits of the population and in social institutions.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

Yet the very dissension that has been produced by the religious right points up the difficulties of gaining any kind of broad consensus on the basis of traditional religious values.

He has taken on the monumental task of rethinking the principles of humanitarian intervention within an ethical framework based upon «universal» religious tenets — universal because they are core values in all these religious traditions.

It is the opinion of this author that this model is of significant value for the religious communicator because of its empirical basis, its comprehensiveness, its clarity, and its applicability in understanding the religious television situation.

The new rules in this area state: The Academy Trust shall ensure that principles are promoted which support fundamental British values, including: respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England; respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes; support for equality of opportunity for all; support and respect for the liberties of all within the law; and respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.

A Labour policy rooted in those values might be that no state - funded school should be allowed to select pupils on the basis of the professed faith of their parents, or privilege children of the same religious background over those whose parents do not believe in a god.

Public opinion surveys reveal that over 75 % of parents want their religious values reflected in school - based sex education curricula.

It is an irony that the development of secular art, which had begun to free aesthetic value from religious restraints, should find itself being turned to quasi religious imagery as in Thomas Moran's paintings, which are the basis of Joni Louise Kinsey's book, Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West.

In the dating world, when considering religious values or not, we are inundated with the way things should be or the way to do things, and the «he's just not that into you's» are floating around like ancient ghosts causing us to rush things or slow them down or stop them altogether based off of one eyebrow raise; one horror story.

Index Fund Advisors (IFA) has launched a series of target - date funds (TDFs) and risk - based funds aimed at meeting the needs of Catholic investors who want to maintain investment portfolios in line with their religious values.

Regardless of religious, ethnic, or economic background, these scholarships give deserving students a quality, values - based education in a safe environment.

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If the argument is that TWU graduates are more likely to act discriminatorily, then this logic would justify religious and values - based profiling of prospective lawyers — a dangerous and slippery slope.

Apparently creating a community of shared religious values counts as this sort of permitted preference, even if it results in the exclusion of people on the basis of their sexual orientation (See in general the FLS Special Advisory Report).

As to the proposal to formalize religious accommodation; the goal of clarifying concepts of reasonable accommodation and undue hardship on the basis of shared values and core community values in matters solely of a religious nature seems inconsistent with the current legal framework.

Justice Abella's dissent is not based on religious rights as a concept to be jealously guarded, but is based on Charter values flowing from earlier Charter cases on protecting the vulnerable members of our society such as children and women.

As the SCC noted in TWU, the charter values which protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (or race or gender) do not necessarily override those values favouring religious freedom, they must be balanced against one another.

If passed, HB 3859 would exempt faith - based organizations from being obligated to provide services to those whose values contradict religious standards of the sponsoring organizations, and would require the State to provide those refused services with referrals to other available agencies like Abrazo, which is not a church - related adoption agency.

You'll also learn how the core processes of ACT — such as commitment to change and values - based living — can be seamlessly tied into spiritual and religious counseling, no matter your faith or therapeutic background.

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