Sentences with phrase «defined by religion»

Mead says it's unclear how the U.S. Supreme Court would side on states neglecting more stringent discrimination protections, given that the high court's 2002 decision upholding Ohio vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons - Harris stated that voucher recipients can not be defined by religion and that they have a «genuine choice» between religious and non-religious schools.

Neither is it acceptable to utter demonising and discriminatory remarks against groups defined by their religion, race or nationality, as Trump has done over Muslims, Mexicans and refugees.

Public Policy should not be defined by religion.

The important question is whether a right, defined by religion, has for the world good news.

If you have accepted God (as defined by any religion) as you're Saviour, I'm happy for you.

An encyclopedia defined by a religion raises these questions in an acute form.

@capslock - so far the only person that has defined themselves by religion or lack thereof is you.

Your «Americaness» isn't defined by your religion — and part of being American as you so frequently harp on, is democracy, freedom of speech and belief.

Not exact matches

Organized religion by trying to define «the right way» of having faith shoots itself in the foot.

European religion was traditionally fraught with divisions among different churches, each defined by its own distinctive doctrine.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Hart distinguishes between God as defined by the classical religious traditions and the gods who decorate the pantheons of most of the world's religions.

That has how it has been defined by those in and out of religion as long as I have been alive.

CNN: My Take: McCain takes down Bachmannism and stands up for America Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» praises Sen. John McCain for defending Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, after accusations were leveled against her by some congressional Republicans.

Whatever the answer to this question, we shall certainly be able to develop certain less complete implications of each of the basic experiences by which religion will be defined.

That we can see beyond the actions of terrorists, since any religion, Islam / Judaism / Christianity / Buddhism / tribal / etc, is not, or should not be, defined by the actions of a few.

Even the modern Unitarian, insofar as he or she would make claim to the Christian name whatever may be thought about theological definitions of Jesus Christ's significance, will say that his or her religion is toward God as God is defined by Jesus Christ — which is to say that the specifically Christian understanding of God must be in terms of what Whitehead styled «the Galilean vision.

Contrary to long - entrenched expectations, we witness a world in which different civilizations — defined by different cultures that are typically defined, in turn, by cult or religion — are the deciding factor in collective allegiances and conflicts.

Teddy Roosevelt observed that «from Micah to James» the religion of the republic «has been defined as service to one's fellowmen rendered by following the great rule of justice and mercy, of wisdom and righteousness.»

Inspired by the former but drawn from the latter, we use witness across religious boundaries as the defining principle of mission and from which we draw the theology of religions as the integrating principle of missiology.

in other words worshiping the idea's (or the one providing them) presented by any organization regardless of religion or be (lie) f system is incorrect since they can not absolutely define what they are pointing at.

The nature of this Koinonia in Christ is that it transcends all communities defined by nature, culture and even ideology and religion and opens people for inter-personal communication with each other.

The progress of religion is defined by the denunciation of gods.

Many X-tians and, in fact, a lot of organized religions promote this kind of anger / hatred / whatever - you - want - to - call - it tacitly simply by defining everyone who isn't with you as against you.

An examination of other sacred writings would show their peculiar fitness for expressing and inspiring the fundamental experiences by which we defined universal religion.

My point is that the Jewish and Christian religions, like all religions, are defined by their Scriptures, and that those Scriptures are clear on their consistent condemnation of homosexuality.

Also, I thought Christianity as a religion is defined by its founder, not its scriptures.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Atheism is a religion by at least a few official definitions, by definition «faith» has nothing to do with religion, its loosely defined as «a group of people with the same beliefs».

Have you ever noticed that three of the biggest movements in human intellectual development, the Enlightenment, the Reformation and the Renaissance, are all defined by their movement AWAY from religion and supersti.tion.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

All three are defined by their rejection of religion and religious dogma in favor of science, free thought and reason.

Since different religions by and large promote the same morals expressed in different wording, I think it's natural for someone to pick and choose religious expressions to help define their beliefs.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

When the word «Christian» is used in the following pages it is used to define the religion characterized by the above assumptions.

The study, which is a snapshot of world religions in 2010 and does not show trends, brings to light a unique religious landscape that's defined by a burgeoning Islam, a shifting Christianity and a large group of religiously unaffiliated.

Whereas the old Marxists believed in something, albeit something absurd and dangerous, New Labour believes in nothing; «nothing» as defined by John Lennon in his sentimentally pernicious imagination: «No heaven... no hell... no countries... nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.»

First of all, one can differentiate among religions by comparing their cognitive assertions and belief systems, and by defining absolute religious truth in propositional statements.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Moreover, every legitimate celebration of the Eucharist is regulated by the bishop, to whom is confided the duty of presenting to the divine majesty the cult of the Christian religion and of ordering it in accordance with the Lord's injunctions and the Church's regulations, as further defined for the diocese by his particular decision (48 - 49; 54 - 55).

Without an objective view of morality (provided by one's religion), you really have nothing to stand on when defining what makes an action moral or immoral.

As the essays collected in the Martin Buber Reader clearly show, Buber's central preoccupation in his remarkably broad and vast writings was the modern meaning of religion, defined precisely as (to use Strauss» description of Guttmann's position) a field of culture that is marked by a «turn of consciousness.»

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 and state.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

Even without religion, human history would still be defined by just as many wars and events marked by violence.

And by religion we mean Christian, specifically Catholic, theology based on the truths revealed by God in Christ and defined by the Church.

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

In recent years we have been fascinated by the models of health defined by Freud, by Eastern religion, by technology, by philosophy.

And this is why true religion defines itself by reference to him.