Sentences with phrase «by religious»

Bultmann, then, must be taken seriously by all religious teachers, for even young children need to identify the kinds of language - games they are playing.

President Obama has approved legislation promoted by religious freedom advocates that should strengthen the United States» effort to combat persecution of Christians and other faith minorities.

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

Now we KNOW there are no gods and that all the terrorism put into people's heads by religious frauds is just a pile of lies so high and so deep that part of the game is to get you to get lost in the complexity of it.

People should respect each others for what they believes in and no one should feel threatened by any religious symbols.

It also declares that «several violent actions motivated by religious intolerance against non-Catholics have been committed» in Bolivia» giving as its only example a stoning incident from 1949 that was, according to «some witnesses» left unnamed in a local newspaper account, instigated by a Catholic priest.

She was killed by religious people who didn't like her lack of belief.

But their main direction and directive, at least under their current president, is to block the attempts by religious organizations to set precedence in law regarding religion or religious symbology or religious laws.

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

Government policies would not be criticized by religious leaders as long as religious organizations» finances were not questioned.

Religious groups can facilitate or undermine the legitimacy of alliances, and any such alliances may spell victory, defeat, or at least minor alterations in the opportunities of population segments, whose identities are defined by religious commitments.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

is so blinded by religious blasphemy that they simply should cease to exist for the greater good of mankind.

That the transcendent reality is experienced by the religious imagination as a commanding will may be conceptually problematic.

He had to face the threats of being killed by the religious and social leaders of the day.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of...

Shifts internal to religious organizations themselves are likely to focus on schisms and mergers, the resolution or reopening of conflicts between organizations, the assumption or abandonment of certain functions by religious organizations, or the emergence of new organizational forms.

That those words were added by religious folk.

I'm an atheist and if I were killed I wouldn't really want to be memorialized by a religious symbol that is meaningless to me.

In the course of the 19th century, as we have seen, moral uprightness tended to become more and more defined not by religious rebirth but by secular, — especially monetary — success.

I am a Christian, yet I recognize that moral values are not only Christian, not only Catholic, not only evangelical, and in fact are not defined by any religious body or individual for the nation as a whole.

What most rational people want is equality that is not defined by YOUR religious beliefs!

A country should not be dictated by Religious beliefs.

«God is dead» are words that may only truly be spoken by the Christian, not by the religious Christian who is bound to an eternal and unmoving Word, but by the radical Christian who speaks in response to an Incarnate Word that empties itself of Spirit so as to appear and exist as flesh.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

i've SEEN children treated that way, including my own, by religious zealots.

Observing the practice of a cultic group, the outsider may be inclined to compare the «control» exercised by a religious leader to that in political or economic organizations without realizing that obedience may in each case be very differently motivated, and that it hence may not be really the same thing.

A whole generation was reared on campus unrest in which religious experimentation played a significant role; then the phenomenon of an avowedly «born - again» president, Jimmy Carter, brought a different form of religion onto the national scene; and this was followed by religious resurgence in places as distant culturally and geographically as Tehran and Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Hebrews, taught by their religious leaders, regarded themselves as in some sense God's special people.

Even when the individual calls an absolute criterion handed down by religious tradition his own, it must be reforged in the fire of the truth of his personal essential relation to the Absolute if it is to win true validity.

This last one is incorporated into the Hamas Charter, but it is considered sacred by all religious Moslems including the imams of the mosques that Foxman is supporting.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

I was pleased when I read in The New Yorker that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the three members of the Russian feminist punk - rock band Pussy Riot serving time in prison for «hooliganism motivated by religious hatred ``, spends her time in a small four woman cell reading.

However, the moral prerequisites and purposes of democratic capitalism are rarely articulated, and are frequently ignored, even by the religious leaders of free societies.

So clearly written in the Bible, so obvious, so always blatantly censored by the religious conservatives.

What bothers me more than the ridiculousness of this article in general... is the mis - use of the phrase «Darwinian» by the religious person trying to take down sports AND Darwin at the same time.

Christianity becomes guilty of syncretism when critical, basic elements of the Christian faith are undermined or replaced by the religious elements of its host culture or the world around it.

Translation for this, 4 people getting blown up by religious whackos, terrorism.

Intergroup tensions and conflicts are based on hard vested interests, on ancient and newly invented hatreds, and on emotional and ideological needs, none of which is easily influenced by religious sermonizing, let alone by theological argumentation.

Every culture has its values, ethics and codes that are informed by its religious or indeed anti-religious views.

Some day, if the earth isn't blown up by a religious fanatic, people will shake their heads that anyone believed in a God.

The Czech «Velvet Revolution» was also stimulated to a certain extent by a religious event: a pilgrimage of ten thousand Czechs and Slovaks to Rome for the sanctification of Agnes of Bohemia.

There are two sides to this people... there have been atrocities commited by religious fanatics, but also by atheists, like the NaTsis and Bolshevics

It is a fact that charities that help the poor, sick, etc. were started by religious organizations.

Some of the best colleges and universities were founded by the religious orders because of their commitment to learning.

«Hatred» isn't ok from the secular side just because it was displayed by the religious side.

Millions of humans have been murdered by religious freeks because they (the murdered) didn't believe in THEIR religous dogma.

The intellectual milieu was further deepened by «cultural Catholics» whose intellectual and imaginative framework had been shaped by their religious training — writers such as Eugene O'Neill, John O'Hara, J. V. Cunningham, James T. Farrell, John Fante, Mary McCarthy, and John Ciardi, as well as — at the end of this period — John Kennedy Toole and Belfast - born Brian Moore.

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.

One possibility, suggested by religious right groups and the Catholics, is censorship.