Sentences with phrase «because secular people»

If Jews are more successful than most people, it's because a secular person has an advantage over a mystic, which would be true of any secular person, of any ethnic background.

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Government should be kept completely secular because it has to serve people of all religions (and of none).

Any call for massive cuts to education by the same people who push for «vouchers» so they can send their kids to private Catholic schools and such, are the Christian Right seeking to gut secular education because they hate it.

But a religious person needs him as much as the secular person, because the modern Protestant or Catholic or Jew has plenty of trouble hearing God's voice.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... we need believing people.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

There is no secular, biblical, psychiatric, medical or legal reason to deny people full participation in society or to deny them the full exercise of their rights because of their sexual orientation.

But it is easier than watching people slink away ashamed of their ignorance because they don't know what a «secular humanist» is and what they «stand for».

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

It is so because first - rate art makes imagined people, in all their ordinariness, real and therefore mysterious and transcendent, while our secular wisdom tends to make real people seem shallow and artificial.

They imposed the idea of secular nationalism on the Indian peoples because they were convinced that it was the best basis for unity of pluralistic India and the best path towards building a new society based on the values of liberty, equality and justice.

We actually started as a secular nation, we went along for a little, had a civil war which killed a bunch of people, went merrily along for a few more years, got mired in 2 more world wars, then inserted GOD int he 1950's into the pledge and on the money to protect ourselves from communists (because that somehow protects us from communists) and then we've been going along ever since.

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

Yeah, right... he «unintentionally hurt» people... he accidentally said parents should hit their kids if they THINK they might be gay... sure, it was a typo... he couldn't actually have MEANT it... and it was secular liberal media's fault... because all real «fair - minded» people know what he meant... and that he didn't mean it... and someone else was to blame if he did... not that he did... but still he was the REAL victim...

And religous people are more likely to violate the rights of others in our secular society because their beliefs are often held to be «above human law».

«Here is some helpful reading that will shed the light on what is happening to so many people of this generation, especially because of our secular, humanistic society, which does not acknowledge God!»

So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.

«I am basically addressing a secular, agnostic congregation of people who are drawn to the church because they find themselves with children and suddenly begin to sense that they want to give the kids some kind of background.»

«I never thought, as a first - generation American, whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn't want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe... that we'd have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.»

You hide behind religion when it is convenient so that you don't have to follow secular law (i.e. not subject to workplace regulations because your hospital is staffed with religious people).

It really was a matter here of a great intellectual and moral reformation of the French people, more complete than the German Lutheran Reformation, because it also embraced the great peasant masses in the countryside and had a distinct secular basis and attempted to replace religion with a completely secular ideology represented by the national patriotic bond.23

«Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

Remember, I'm from Airmont, you know, and the religious community is growing in Airmont and you have neighborhoods where no secular people will buy in those neighborhoods because they know the direction those neighborhoods are going in.

Because people don't seek reassurance only one time in a secular bear market (there are always multiple price crashes in secular bears).