Sentences with phrase «established religion of»

The established religion of England gets mentioned ten or 20 times, in every case negatively, though George Mason once neutrally quotes the Book of Common Prayer.

In direct proportion to its being deprived of the cultural props that have sustained it as the established religion of the western world, the Christian church is being cast back upon its rudimentary confessional basis.

According to the principles of American tradition and of basic fairness, such public institutions should not give the impression that some one religion is the established religion of the country, and therefore superior to all others...

Hmm... That sounds eerily familiar to something that happened about 2000 years ago when Someone else showed up and started criticizing the established religion of the day...

Hmmm... That sounds eerily familiar to something that happened about 2000 years ago when Someone else showed up and started criticizing the established religion of the day...

Evangelical - style faith was the de facto established religion of Graham's native South of the early - and mid-twentieth century.

The basic aim of the party is to establish the religion of Islam according to the Shafi'i school of law as it applies to the ordinances for worship and the shari`a and to establish the interpretation of the fundamentals according to the teaching of al - Ash «ari and al - Maturidi — whose teachings form the basis for the theology of the Sunnis.

Not exact matches

The 1948 declaration which established the modern state of Israel pledges that the country will «ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex,» and that it «it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.»

Established in 1948 with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world — without regard to politics, religion, ethnic identities, or ability to pay.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

After all, it has undercut efforts to establish a state religion that would play into the hands of the country's hard - line nationalists.

Unlike Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, who won the presidency in 1994, was a strong opponent of establishing a state religion.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Like John Rawls, she finally posits her universe as normative, refusing to recognize that this is a de facto establishment of religion imposed against the threat of establishing religion.

The gov» t may not ESTABLISH a specific religion and force us to practice it, but the gov» t has zero authority to stop the free, non-aggressive practice of it.

Moreover, many of the established religions around, are more centrally organized, with central training and control over the clergy.

These are men greeds and are unrelated to religion nor it is in favor of religions... religion is a direct spritual connection between the Servent and his GOD... that was what most of us knew before we were spoiled by the «Islamic Belt Idea» that the West had introduced and marketed it in our MidEast area towards encouraging youth to join militants in «Jihad» establishing that belt surrounding and fighting the communists in Afghanistan and some Asian countries... Well now that has spoiled our life coming back on us and you but I do not see why should we innocents pay for your «Political Games»...!?

In fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religion.

Even in modern times new religions that might compete with established order are typically under threat of persecution.

He longed, in fact, for the return of Roman Catholicism as the established state religion of England.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful He (Allâh) has ordained for you the same religion (Islâmic Monothesim) which He ordained for Nûh (Noah), and that which We have revealed to you (O Muhammad SAW), and that which We ordained for Ibrahîm (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses) and «Īsā (Jesus) saying you should establish religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no divisions -LSB--RSB- in it (religion)(i.e. various sects in religion).

But genuine Christianity is called «The Way» in the Bible (Acts 9:2; 19:9), establishing that there is only religion that teaches «the truth» of the Bible, not some 41,000.

Jesus now establishes what is to happen to the religions that «produces worthless fruit», saying:» Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire (of everlasting destruction).»

I think it's because they claim that «religion» (which is a pretty broad brush stroke) controls them through politics and established laws when, actually, religion is one of the few things these days that has any influences on any religion.

To establish the self as the center of a religion is to ignore our global interdependence and truncate our notion of self.

establish the substance of God as shown in the Bible to be the eternal state ----- The bible, and any religion, is 100 % unecessary to have a notion or belief in «God», or a higher spiritual / creative power.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Do you really believe that the testimony of people whose motivation is to establish a religion is objective?

kermit «and praying is NOT an agenda to establish religion at all» True for the most part, but putting on a public display of your religion at a government business meeting is.

It was the belief of all sects at one time that the establishment of Religion by law, was right & necessary; that the true religion ought to be established in exclusion of every other; And that the only question to be decided was which was the true religion.

Of course, liberalism is not literally becoming a religion — but it is approaching the question of society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarOf course, liberalism is not literally becoming a religion — but it is approaching the question of society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public square.

The idea of Secular Nationalism and Secular State were the creation of cooperation between Gandhi's reformed religion and Nehru's liberal humanist secularism and they succeeded to establish itself in India against the idea of Hindu and Muslim communalism.

And that's ignoring the agenda of the speakers, i.e. to establish a religion.

It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

Such a descent would immediately set its subject alongside those concerned to promote authoritatively the cause of religion and morals, and establish an immediate gulf between him and those of whom he spoke as «the lost sheep of Israel».

On the one side is the king, who is the normal and legitimate guardian of established and institutional religion, which is also willed by God (as we so often forget).

While the radical Christian tends to identify «religion» with the established beliefs and practices of the Christian Church, it is nonetheless true that a new form of Christianity appears in the radical Christian which establishes a new and deeper gulf between Christianity itself and the world of non-Christian religion.

H. Ability to establish and maintain training programs for clergy and laymen in religion and mental health including, where appropriate, accredited clinical pastoral education programs through the possession of educational and supervisory skills.

The social historians have shown that the official, dogmatic, established, and routinized religion of the churches was a very fragile creation.

The established religion that he critiques, however, «occupies public space [but] is essentially a parasitic destroyer of the public realm.

Writing for the court in Abington v. Schempp (1963), Justice Tom Clark held that public schools can not establish a «religion of secularism,» preferring «those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.»

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....

Thus, he has established a conforming religion by semiofficially inviting representatives of all the disestablished religions, of whose moral criticism we were naturally so proud.

The bible would have taken roughly a century to get into proper circulation, and only two and a bit centuries later, it's quite possible that maybe it grew on some of the Romans and out of remorse, re-considered that they actually were responsible for killing the son of God (in the sense they started to believe him to be), thus Constantine coming around and establishing it as a Rome's primary religion, and how closely apart the dates are, makes me think its considerable evidence than Jesus couldn't have just been a made up figure.

Pastor Richard Niebanck of Maywood, New Jersey, opines that there is an established religion in America.

A domesticated and tailored leftover from the wild and woolly frontier evangelistic campaigns, Mr. Graham is a key figure in relating the established character of this ecumenical religion to the sectarian radicalism of our evangelical religion.

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..