Sentences with phrase «by humanists»

Organised by Humanists UK, the letter states that removing the cap on religious selection betrays schools» duty to emphasise «the common values that we all share».

November 2016 — Claims made by the Catholic Church that «canon law» prevents it from opening schools under the 50 % cap are exposed as disingenuous and misleading by Humanists UK, which briefs MPs.

March 2018 — Over 70 religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts, and public figures, spanning from Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson through to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, write an open letter organised by Humanists UK calling on the Education Secretary to keep the cap in place.

The Government, breaking a manifesto commitment, has announced that it will keep the 50 % cap on religious selection by new religious free schools in England, in a move welcomed by Humanists UK, which has led the campaign against efforts to lift it.

Humanists are free - thinking individuals and the views expressed in these items are not necessarily shared by all humanists or reflected in British Humanist Association policy.

The case, backed by Humanists UK and its section Northern Ireland Humanists, seeks to change the current unjust situation where religious people are able to have legally recognised marriage ceremonies in line with their beliefs, but humanists are not.

The moral values held by humanists are weighed and considered.

The couple, backed by Humanists UK, won their case at the Belfast High Court in June, and had a legal humanist wedding ceremony later that month.

Previous claims by the CES that canon law prevents them from opening new schools under the cap were exposed as false by Humanists UK late last year.

Now, anyone who has a funeral conducted by a Humanists UK - accredited celebrant is eligible to have their story lodged in the Archive, with scripts submitted at the request of families.

The letter, organised by Humanists UK, states that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection betrays the duty of schools to be «open, inclusive, diverse, and integrated».

Following extensive campaigning by Humanists UK and its supporters for greater action against illegal, unregistered schools, the Government has finally indicated that it will look to close the legal loopholes that allow them to continue operating.

A fundamentalist need not be communalist at all... On the other hand a communalist need not be a fundamentalist at all... Fundamentalism requires to be opposed by all Humanists and Democrats, but that opposition should not be mixed up with an opposition to communalism.

It is what all are supposed to be opposed to, not only by Marxists, who spent more than a century vilifying (and misdefining) the term, but also by humanists, poets, playwrights, churchmen, journalists, and all sensitive spirits.

Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the reports with a grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.

Sponsored by the Humanist Community at Harvard, evangelical Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Zoroastrians, along with a number of atheists, were among those represented at a recent meal packaging event for hungry kids in the Boston area.

So, Jordan, you think David has been tricked by humanist delusions and has lost his humility to see God's truth?

But what really puzzles me is the attitude of mind adopted by the humanist who denies the existence of God.

Copies of Luther's theses were soon distributed by humanist scholars all over Europe.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «Paul was a great example of a politician and a campaigner inspired by the humanist perspective to make the world a better place.

His funeral was the first Welsh national funeral, akin to a state funeral, as well as the first national funeral led by a humanist celebrant.

Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision of the older generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind of high - seriousness and obdurate self - belief often found with other painters working «after the fall.»

That connection concerns the Hull House, a south side organization run by humanist reformers focused on equality and justice.

My work is guided by humanist principles that foster the growth of individuals in a therapeutic milieu.

Not exact matches

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

Foundation Beyond Belief: The humanist group, also recommended by Montano, is evaluating how best to use the funds it collects.

The coalition, which is made up of a collection of atheist, humanist and agnostic organizations, set out to grade the candidates by first identifying the criteria it deemed most important.

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

Also if I do not follow the canon believed by most Christians (give or take some duterocannonical books) I might as well be Baha'i, Muslim, or Secular Humanist.

It was being worked on last summer to coincide with a book signing by Harvard humanist chaplain Greg Epstein.

secular humanists always conveniently forget that more people have been murdered by evolutionists in the last century than then entire dark ages put together, i.e.: Hitler, Stalin, Mao

For that they would be variously represented by ethical groups to which they might be members, such as humanist or Unitarian organizations.

Why not establish a humanist set of rules we can all live by and call it a day?

Louis Bouyer, himself one of the great Christian humanists of our own age, wrote in 1959 a book about Erasmus and his times that remains as good an introduction to later Christian humanism as any I know; another good introduction is the book by Henri de Lubac about the times of Pico della Mirandola.

The co-host of Fox's «The Five» was referring to a suit brought by the American Humanist Association in Massachusetts, where the state's Supreme Judicial Court heard a challenge to the pledge on Wednesday.

His comments drew fire from secularists, with a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by 50 public figures headed by the president of the British Humanist Association, Professor Jim Al - Khalili saying: «We object to his characterisation of Britain as a «Christian country» and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.»

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal secular society.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

It is naturally argued by our scientific humanists that this is good and normal human behavior.

We who are middle - aged may have jogged along, content with those liberal humanist values left to us by preceding ages of faith.

The Humanists, or the militants among them, and the neo-modernists who run by their side, are the most active in calling for the abolition of «divisive» schools.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

They must not join others in passionate condemnation (or support), in the name of fifty humanist motifs put forward by non-Christians, of such a politics conducted by a statesman who calls himself Christian.

This country was founded by Free Masons, enlightenment Humanists, and Unitarians.

One of Pagels's goals is to indicate how profoundly the Western world has been influenced by the patristic period, an acknowledgment resisted by many «secular humanist» historians.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

I accept Rorty's defense of the value of literature as a means of sensitizing us to the predicaments of life, but would expand upon it by reiterating my original call for a truly interdisciplinary conversation, one that includes humanists and scientists, theoreticians and practitioners, students and educators.

It should be abundantly clear that agnostics, atheitsts, humanists, etc. derive great great meaning from life by knowing that death is final.