Sentences with phrase «current day religions»

Not exact matches

Athiesm doesn't come close to the numbers killed historically and in the current day in the name of religion.

In the pursuit of his mission he found himself obliged not merely to neglect some of the finer points of current religious practice (such as fasting on the proper days) but also to break some of the rules which were thought necessary to safeguard the religion of the Law (such as those of Sabbath observance).

Take a look at the current political landscape; it's not hard to see why religion was kept out of it in the «old days».

You yourself say that in America everyone is free to choose their own religion... that itself is a belief system, and one that these days more and more seems not to be shared by many Americans, especially in current politics.

Justice David Souter, for example, observed in one of the Supreme Court's recent Ten Commandments cases that «we are centuries away from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and the treatment of heretics in early Massachusetts, but the divisiveness of religion in current public life is inescapable.»