Sentences with phrase «different world religions»

Loyola High School v. Quebec (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 12 Administrative Law — Civil Rights Summary: As part of the mandatory core curriculum in schools across Quebec, the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports required a Program on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), which taught about the beliefs and ethics of different world religions from a neutral and objective perspective.
[1] Since September 2008, as part of the mandatory core curriculum in schools across Quebec, the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports has required a Program on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), which teaches about the beliefs and ethics of different world religions from a neutral and objective perspective.
Powerpoint on different world religions with a game starter.
This is a great resource to introduce children to the concept of belonging and the symbols related to different world religions.
I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.
However there are people who are polytheists who do willingly study and practice different world religions to get a deeper understanding of what is SPIRITUAL.
In social studies or literature class it is perfectly acceptable to study the different world religions as long as it is done academically, and there is no pressure to accept one or any of them as true.

Not exact matches

During this period, Mackey was overcome by the enormous diversity of thought in the world — the expanse of different religions and philosophies.
Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?
@Mike, Actually the spread of some religions does nothing to counteract the point that different regions began worshipping different gods, it simply displays the growth of cross cultural communications and reinforces what we already know, that the world is getting «smaller».
The world (and America) is full of many different religions.
This is no different then all other major Religions of the world.
There are a lot of different religions in the world, all equal when you get right down to it.
Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.
it's insane how you know so little of your own religion and how you go against your Christs teaching with such arrogant and disdain towards atheist and other religions your nothing but a bigot and hatemonger your world is only black and white and you can't fathom how a country can have so many different people with different believes that don't match yours and can live peacefully without your christs.
-- Under your world view, are you suggesting that every other religion indoctrinates people into seeing different gods and atheists indoctrinate people into seeing no gods whatsoever?
Under your world view, are you suggesting that every other religion indoctrinates people into seeing different gods and atheists indoctrinate people into seeing no gods whatsoever?
Their approach also prevents them from examining different constituencies within the various religious families and denominations that might suggest different ways of mapping the world of religion.
A growing number of people have by now found inspiration in the sacred scriptures of the world and have been willing to join together in prayer with members of different religions.
As the Nine reach their full potential they will surface through out this world in the different lands that govern the main religions of thought that all of humanity govern themselves by.
too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)
Marc Hauser, professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University, has just published a paper about additional studies showing that people's moral intuitions do not vary much across different religions all around the world.
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.
I grew up around religion and now I see the world in a different light.
This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?
Not only would a demonstration of the inconsistency of divine relativity make Hartshorne's thesis of divine relativity and all that depends on it incoherent and also make Whitehead's famous portrait of God as the fellow sufferer who understands inadmissible, but philosophers of religion would have to accept a different picture of the world.
the world is filled with many different people from many different walks of life who practice many different kinds of religion.
Faith in God is different then Faith in the world and religions.
Before the Word of God became man, the world orchestra was «fiddling» about without any plan: world - views, religions, different concepts of the state, each one playing to itself.
I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!
Being with someone of a different religion in such a closeknit friendship has enabled me to see the world around me and my own faith in a fresh, new way.
However, I've studied world religions and their are many similarities just different ways of believing.
More importantly, I have studied and thought a lot about religion (was raised a Protestant Congregationalist) and have travelled to many places around the world, encompassing many different religions.
As I indicated, the other religions of the world are different in their presentation of the Golden Rule.
Sure, there may be a afterlife, but many different kinds of afterlife have been presented by the world's religions.
Such a theology would be open to the positive values in the different religions and persuasions in the world.
It is not that television and religion are simply providing different ways of looking at the world.
This is radically different than anything you will find anywhere else in all the world, in all religions, throughout all history.
There are so many variations in the attitudes and behavior amongst people in different parts of the world and in different centuries who belong to the same religion, that it is almost impossible to compare like to like.
The fact a particular religion is abused by the ruling class of a third - world country versus condeming that religion are two different things altogether.
Where Christianity and Islam are very articulate as to their universal validity and as the only way for the entire humanity, the other world religions display in different ways a similar penchant for monopoly.
People of different religious traditions are today experiencing a changed world, where they discover the interconnectedness between religions.
What Max Weber saw in the sequence of Protestant developments was a remarkably different way to «ease tension» between religion and politics: «inner - worldly asceticism can compromise with the facts of the political power structures by interpreting them as instruments for the rationalized ethica1 transformation of the world and for the control of sin.
Christ is no longer an object of religion, but something quite different, really the Lord of the world.
The history of the great religions of the world displays different types of expansion.
This State religion was vastly different from the religion of Jesus» early followers, to whom he said: «You are no part of the world
In an increasingly shrinking world, its a belief that my friends of different religions can have an afterlife that is not doomed to eternal damnation, just because they do not believe the same things I do or because they grew up in a culture different than mine.
I have no reason to believe that the other world religions are much different from the Graeco - Judaeo - Roman melange in this regard, bearing in mind that the Jews, Greeks, and Romans influenced one another and that all were deeply affected by still earlier Asiatic world views like Zoroastrianism.
Groing up in the modern world where I have been exposed to many different religions and cultures it is evident that no one group has all the answers, all the truths.
Most of the problems of the world are caused by the different religions and their fanatics!
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