Sentences with phrase «country than religious»

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Thank goodness that the supreme court has not been influenced to the same extent or we would be living in a country that would make you toe a religious line rather than a secular one, scary.

As it lifts, we're seeing that this country is more religious than people think, and a million times more than secularists would like.

It is more than clear that the man is pandering and trying to solicit support from religious few left in this country.

Keep ALL religious fanatics out of the White House — otherwise you are nothing more than the flip side of the same coin as the religious fanatic hardliners in Muslim countries.

For four years, until his departure for his present eminent position at Munster, Professor Barth remained at Göttingen, and during that time he saw his theology, set forth in further books and in lectures and addresses, sweep through the universities of Germany, and today there seem to be hardly more than two classes of religious thinkers in the country, Barthians and anti-Barthians.

A very high percentage of people here are religious, but you can look at the demographics of a great many European countries and see that overall, Western Europe is far less religious and more Atheistic than America.

More than half of European countries increased governmental harassment of religious groups between 2014 and 2015.

Over the past decade, more Christians have been admitted to the US as refugees than those of any other religious tradition, including many persecuted because of their faith from countries like Iraq and Burma.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

That Shakespeare was raised in a country where Catholicism had been the dominant religious and cultural tradition for more than a thousand years argues that he could scarcely have avoided some degree of Catholic influence.

Thomas added that the sentence was «clearly issued on a punitive rather than on a legal basis» and said: «The constant harassment of members of the Christian community ought not to be occurring in a country where the constitution not only recognises Christianity, but also states that no - one should be molested or taken to task simply for holding a religious belief.

Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»

They were the squishes, and the country - club types who imagined themselves better than the great unwashed pro-lifers, and the financial conservatives embarrassed by religious believers.

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.

Canada is far less religious than the US (way more atheists per capita), and yet has fewer abortions per capita, far less gun violence per capita (despite being just as ethnically diverse), is a peacekeeping country, less divorce per capita, has universal health care, more social safety nets, and Canadians are considered much nicer than Americans.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

We have a representative democracy which tends to validate religious belief instead of recognizing that they should have NO ROLE where religion is concerned other than to protect it's citizens, religious or not, and allowing all to live within the basic laws of the country which should have wide support and sound evidence supporting the need for them.

Muslims in western / Christian countries are more religious than at their home countries so they spread their cult fast and wants to impose sharia laws

Pastor Saeed, the Iranian - American Christian pastor who spent more than three years in Iranian prison for holding underground religious meetings in the country, took to Facebook to show a letter he recently received from President Obama.

I know some Christian Japanese that I feel theologically closer to than to most religious sects or most Roman Catholics in this country.

Christians are the victims of 80 per cent of all acts of religious discrimination and face persecution in more than 60 countries.

How does less than 1 % of this countries» resdients justify a religious holiday for the other 99 %?

I really am shocked how religious this country is... it amazes me that one of the top GDPs in the world has 42 % of its population think the earth is less than 10,000 years old.

Pew found that Russia and France were «the only two European countries with more than 200 cases of government force against religious groups» in both 2014 and 2015.

Indeed, he understands the country better than many American academics do and has some illuminating comments to make about American religion: «Although the European media chooses to ignore it, the US has an extraordinary range of religious public intellectuals....

Because of the slowing birth rate in developed countries which have a higher than average amount people who profess no religion (minus the united states), the developing countries, such as Brazil who are highly religious, account for an increase in religious profession.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

Philip Jenkins suggests («A New Religious America,» August / September) that current immigration policy «will inexorably make the country a far more solidly Christian nation than would have been dreamed of in the 1960s.»

Guess we should take an example of a successful country such as Turkey towards here multi cultured religious or non religious groups... how is that becoming more successful than those countries where confrontations are found as religions or in between branches of each religion or with secular groups...!?

That amounts to more than 300 million religious believers, an astonishing number in an officially atheist country, and three times higher than the last official estimate, which had largely remained unchanged for years.

Christopher Hitchens» atheist manifesto was subtitled «how religion poisons everything,» but a new polling analysis challenges that notion, finding that very religious Americans have higher levels of well - being than the rest of the country.

The striking fact is that the Jewish rate is much lower than that of any other religious or ethnic group in the country, with the one exception of Americans of Chinese descent.

I can't help but feel that those (left or right) who defame on religious grounds, are more concerned with their Special Interest than they are with the fate of our Country.

The latest global findings from the Pew Research Center, released two days before Religious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a closeReligious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a closereligious group (though Muslims are a close second).

Although the country may not have a reputation for religious landmarks, America is home to more than just secular city halls and strip malls.

There is no evidence that countries that are religious are more «moral» than those that aren't.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church aReligious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church areligious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church aReligious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Evangelical Christians in America enjoy incredible religious freedom, perhaps more than any other group in this country.

Despite a new proposal from the Obama administration last week, a battle over religious freedom and contraception continues as rallies in more than 100 cities across the country will take place today.

Colson e-mailed more than 500,000 people of faith Thursday afternoon and called the contraception policy «the greatest threat to religious liberty in the history of this country.»

That violated RFRA, wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion, because it penalizes the religious beliefs of the Green family, evangelical Christians who own Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain with 500 stores and more than 13,000 employees, and the Hahn family, Mennonites whose company employs more than 1,000 employees in five factories across the country.

Americans are more religious than most other industrialized countries, and it's holding us back, both as a nation and a culture.

That's hardly true Zippy, if anything most European countries do better than the US in the human rights dept., and they are less religious.

When the Broadcast Institute of North America surveyed religious programming in the country in 1971, they found that stations which had begun to sell time for religious programs averaged fewer network and locally produced religious programs than did those stations which did not sell time for religious programming.

as for «branding ourselves a suffering minority»... while its true that religious freedom in America has made life a lot easier here for atheists than in many other countries around the globe, pause to think... 80 % of Americans say they believe in God.

In addition, there are more than 1,700 religiously - affiliated colleges and universities in our country, the majority of which hold to religious traditions that celebrate sexual intimacy within the bonds of marriage between one man and one woman.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

Do you really believe that USA, a country that offers FREEDOM of pretty much everything to its people is no better than a dictatorship (Saudi Arabia) or a country run by religious fanatics (Iran)?

Many people who circumcise for religious reasons have a different method than what is preformed in the hospital in America or other western countries.