Sentences with phrase «determined by any religion»

But the laws we live by can not be determined by ANY religion.

I can tell you one thing though, I am not comfortable with morality being determined by religion, religion has failed far too often for that.

Not exact matches

If you can't determine right from wrong (dictated by your culture / society), then you lack empathy, not religion.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

The particular version of religion that someone is taught is determined by their geographical location.

I'll give you a primary example — in most «primitive» religions, your afterlife was most often determined by the nature of your death, not your beliefs / conduct in this one.

Him posting as an atheist then suggests that how he sees things is not dictated by a religion, and his beliefs have been determined from life observations, educational background.

[73] An earlier study by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research determined U.S. Protestants to have an abortion index of 0.69, Catholics 1.01, Jews 1.08, and non-Judeo-Christian religions 0.78.

Even the most determined attempts by powerful states to repress and extinguish religion (in Russia, China, Revolutionary France, Albania, and North Korea, for example) have failed.

The high court has generally taken a case - by - case approach on determining just when the state intrudes unconstitutionally into religion, while generally allowing faith to be acknowledged in a limited basis in public forums.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

Some people conclude that the teachers of other religions are included in the «some others» that God has not told about, but other people say that only by studying the spirit and fundamentals of those religions can one determine whether or not they are of the same spirit as Islam, and their founders might be considered to have been prophets.

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

God could make his will / plan as knowable as chemistry and math (since he made chemistry and math as knowable as he made chemistry and math), but he doesn't, and so there's no way to determine what is or is not his will / plan so religions and cults and private individuals continue to debate which books (written by men) are or are not part of his plan or will.

the religion you adopt is determined by where you live, not the rationality / truth of the religion itself.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

Though it seems by no means necessary to have identical concepts of the nature and function of religion, it is desirable not to be determined by antipathy or sympathy to the degree which would make an objective investigation impossible.

The French sociology of religion was characterized all through the nineteenth century by the dominance of the tenets of the philosophy of history as sociology, as developed by Auguste Comte and his successors.2 Its course, methodology, and aims were determined by students of sociology, not by those of religion.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

In this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalization.

Feeling is necessary in religion, but it is by the content or intelligent basis of a religion, and not by feeling, that its character and worth are to be determined.»

If that typical product of the modern age, the newspaper, can be considered an adequate mirror of the life of modern society, the world of religion has now been relegated to an insignificant corner in the existence of man, which is otherwise determined by the events and decisions in the fields of politics, business, sport and art.

His religion has been made for him by others, communicated to him by tradition, determined to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit.

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

And by the way, religions do not have a monopoly on determining what is right and what is wrong, anyone with any amount intelligence or compassion should and does know the difference.

Yes, it is determined by the culture of a particular society, not from religion.

It can not be said however that the religion of later Judaism was determined by the prophetic preaching.

It is actually a double option which determines Professor Radhakrishnan's explicit and implicit evaluation of religion: his preference for the apprehension of ultimate reality as proclaimed by the seers and sages of India and, within this tradition, his preference for the teachings of the Upanisads in the peculiar interpretation of the Advaita school.

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Our ability to follow Jesus is not determined by the laws of religion within our country, but by the example of Jesus and the values of the Kingdom of God.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

Rather than stimulating Jewish identity, observance, and pride, the national Jewish organizations have promoted Jewish ignorance, indifference, and insecurity by their determined campaign to eliminate religion from public life.

The more a person (knows) what they are looking for in mate the easier it is for them to determine which site to join by studying the demographic of it's members gender ratio, education, income, race, religion and so on.

Based on the multi-million selling novel by Kate Mosse, LABYRINTH is a Ridley Scott & Tony Scott Production, featuring an all - star cast including; John Hurt (Harry Potter) as Audric, a specialist on Ancient Egypt; Vanessa Kirby (Great Expectations) as Alice, a modern - day fearless girl, who experiences dramatic flashbacks from the 13th Century; Jessica Brown Findlay (Misfits) as Alaïs, a 13th century courageous young woman, determined to protect the «secret» along with Tom Felton (Harry Potter) as Trencavel, a leader of the Carcassonne religion.

in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or age or is otherwise objectionable, as reasonably determined by Edutopia;

Eligibility for benefits under the amended MPCP is determined by «neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion,» and...

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

By this order Frontier Airlines (Frontier) is directed to answer certain questions, provide information and / or produce documents that are necessary to enable the Department to determine whether Frontier on a particular occasion violated federal statutes prohibiting air carriers from discriminating against passengers based on their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or ancestry.

When a one has naturally achieved, by one's natural capacity of reason, a metaphysical / epistemological system that has determined that to live a life of reason then one by necessity must exclusively exercise one's natural free volition to exclusively use man's natural capacity for reason exclusively on the natural world then one does not even reject religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism... one then has achieved the capability to say religion's supernaturalism and superstitionism is irrelevant to their metaphysical / epistemological system.

Socialism is an ideology / religion where the «ideal» is that each person's social status is entirely determined by their ability to manipulate their social environment.

I must take it as authoritatively determined by the guarantee of the fundamental freedom of conscience and religion in s. 2 (b)-LSB-

This states that differences in treatment based on religion can be justified where «by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out, such a characteristic constitutes a genuine and determining occupational requirement, provided that the objective is legitimate and the requirement proportionate.»