Sentences with phrase «by religious communities»

This proposal would be accepted by religious communities and animal welfare groups alike.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

Father Paul, currently serving for a second time as provincial in Great Britain, mentions attempts by religious communities in recent years to live in smaller houses without religious dress.

Nowhere does Bingham give careful attention to how soul and immortality have actually been used by religious communities, nor does he admit explicitly that Churchland's remarks on germs versus demons and the pitting of Ptolemy against Galileo amounts to saying that religious terms are comparable to pre-Copernican astronomical theories.

So why the judgmental condemnation and exclusion of homosexuals by religious communities claiming to be Christian?

look at the pain caused to g.ays by the religious community.

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

This claim that the future calls for corporate, interdisciplinary theological inquiry leads to the conclusion that futuristic research institutes and «think - tanks» are needed by the religious community as well as by secular agencies as we approach the twenty - first century.

Those were the labels used by the religious community, by the disapproving onlookers.

For example, most Christians I know agree that gays and lesbians have been horribly mistreated by the religious community, and that it's time for a change in attitude and approach.

It has been provided mainly by the religious community entirely outside any formal political structures.

Relative to the first four caliphs all Muslim rulers have been viewed as at least faintly illegitimate by the religious community.

the doctor was attempting to protect her patients during a time when the... i believe attorny general whom was anti-choice was investigating clinics and subpeoning their medical records which would have exposed these young ladies to harm by the religious community.

«Beyond the family is social capital... provided by the religious community surrounding a Catholic school... that has value for a young person's development....

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Recent research shows that participating in a community — specifically a religious fellowship of any sort — reduces the mortality rate of middle age individuals by half and reduces stress compared to non-adherents.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

No «Magic» in scinece ID proponernts Behe and Dembski have been thoroughly disenfranchised by the science community because their work is philosophical religious garbage designed only for the gullible and unreasoned.

I also can not see any real conflict caused by allowing religious groups to use the space like any other community group.

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

In other places, we have seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities tears communities apart.»

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

Within the vastly varied religious communities that are in some fashion engaged by the HIV / AIDS issues, there is a plethora of reactions.

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..

This is not surprising in itself, of course; what Roof and McKinney regard as significant is the fact that religious communities are increasingly distinguished not by theological beliefs but by «contrasting ethical styles and moral views.»

also not covered by medical insurance, though some have sliding scales for fees), and - Psychaitrists (medical doctors who have specialized in psychaitry, are able to perscribe medications, and generally are not as focused on talk therapy)- Religious therapists (may, or may not, have professional training)- Community / Volunteer therapy (may, or may not, have professional training)

There would be apostolic visitations of seminaries and houses of religious formation, led by seminary rectors and religious men and women from living and growing communities, who would recommend needed changes; the trustee agency would then mandate their implementation.

His successors welcomed Jews expelled by Spain in 1492, and for the next four - and - a-half centuries three religious communities» Christian Greeks, Muslim Turks, and Sephardic Jews» shared the city.

It is this false claim made by so many, particularly in more fundamental religious communities, that is being challenged by this simple illustration of the logical fallacy of such a view.

The IRF office carries out its mission by issuing reports on persecution, meeting with foreign government officials, partnering with NGOs, and reaching out to religious communities.

Successful ex-gay alumni can't come out as ex-gay, as they will likely be ostracized by their own religious communities and the gay community.

most atheists were raised by religious parents in a religious household in a religious community.

This understanding can be used by outsiders as a way of removing the beliefs of religious communities from serious consideration as to their truth.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

By participation in an ongoing religious community, particularly of the type we know in the Western world, an isolated individual is partly lifted above himself, not only because he may, in a group, be more recipient of God's help, but also because he there shares in the distilled wisdom of our race.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

How can our religious communities renew the culture of marriage in a society burnt over by the sexual revolution?

When you are extracted from a religious community for a while (your decision or theirs) and this game is no longer sustained by the crowd dynamic, the gimmick becomes even more obvious.

CNN: 2 communities linked to polygamous sect sued for alleged religious discrimination Two communities dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and its jailed leader Warren Jeffs have been sued by the federal government for alleged religious discrimination against citizens who don't belong to the polygamous sect.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

A report by the Woolf Institute - released to coincide with the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings - has found that religious people are more likely to feel connected to their community than their country.

There seems to be a keen understanding of religious experience here as an ultimately personal encounter, guided by community and ritual, but essentially non-dogmatic.

His challenge to communities of religious faith is to acknowledge and take the measure of that intelligence, while at the same time fashioning a constructive critique that can raise the standards by which we assess what qualifies as the best and brightest.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

The global market powers will battle against religious communities and spiritual powers of the people, by sapping their spiritual strength.

If «the reality of the religion of a people can be studied only through the empirical enquiry into the meaning appropriated by them as persons and community of persons in their life situations, «32 then Dalit theology needs to look carefully into popular level of Hindu - Christian religious encounter.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

«Contrary to popular perceptions, the vast majority of American adolescents are not spiritual seekers or questers of the type often described by journalists and some scholars, but are instead mostly oriented toward and engaged in conventional religious traditions and communities.»