Sentences with phrase «for humanist»

The sculptor of stilled and silent bodies places his Cyberman - style statues in the sea off two south coast towns in an attempt to colonise yet more of the landscape for his humanist vision.

Other works in the same show played with gender: a male head on female bodies and a hermaphrodite pushed for a humanist interpretation that transcended feminist critique.

Commenting on the significance of these latest findings, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Ground - breaking initial research we conducted a few years ago with non-religious people in hospitals and prisons established a clear demand for humanist pastoral support.

On Friday, humanists Laura Lacole and Eunan O'Kane are taking their case to Belfast's High Court, in order to secure legal recognition for their humanist wedding.

It finds efforts to legislate for humanist marriage have been delayed, partly because of the huge backlash against the coalition government's bid to legalise same - sex marriage.

This summer, model and public speaker Laura Lacole and Leeds United and Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane have been taking a case to gain legal recognition for humanist marriages in Northern Ireland.

Raskin's PAC contributions, totaling $ 45,000, include permissible funds from fellow state legislators, $ 10,000 from the Center for Humanist Activism, and $ 10,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The BHA which has also been campaigning for four years for humanist representation at the national remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph very much welcome the news.

It is disgusting that the Government has consistently denied requests for a humanist representative to be placed with religious representatives.

Such thrice - chewed food was not for the humanist palate.

This is, of course, the cue for the humanist to appear and advocate his «human» values.

The religious humanism I endorse does not attack Christian theism with the critical apparatus of rationalism, science or positivism; nor does it seek to make these the foundation for the humanist perspective.

For our humanist friends, religion is not for grown - ups.

As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning.

April 14, 2012 at 10:30 am God has a long held tradition for all us humanists who do and whomever doesn't believe in Godly reconciliations!

org.uk asking them to make representation to the Rt Hon Hugh Robertson MP, who has responsibility for ceremonies, to ask again for equal treatment for those humanists who are current members of the Armed Forces and those who served their country in the First and Second World Wars.

During the Equality Act 2010's passage through Parliament, we worked closely with a range of organisations as well as our supporters in Parliament to have amendments made to the Equality Bill which sought to increase protection against discrimination for humanists and others, and to minimise the exceptions from the law granted to religious organisations.

It is also a significant victory for Humanists UK and its supporters, who have successfully led the national campaign against the removal of the cap and in favour of open, integrated schools.

Not exact matches

A former serial entrepreneur who founded Aardvark and Perspecta among others, Horowitz gave up the Silicon Valley dream for a new life as a philosophy Ph.D., flipping the current wisdom on the relative value of technical and humanist knowledge on its head.

While atheists and other secular Humanists may rejoice, this is not good news for the nation.

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

If you do ANYTHING for your own gratification it means you're a humanist... which is all Satanism really is.

BTW: In case I am not being clear, I do not «blame» secularists or Humanists for this situation.

We in Kenya are praying daily for this great humanist compassionate.humble.caring.humanist.

The humanists are destroying those rights for the sake of their agenda to remove God from society.

I've always thought it funny that religious people use the term «humanist» as a label for reality - based philosophies.

For that they would be variously represented by ethical groups to which they might be members, such as humanist or Unitarian organizations.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has come to the defence of Stephen Fry after Irish police announced they were investigating the comedian for potentially breaking...

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

For the Christian humanists, culture is a kind of tumbling ground for the spiritual, the social, the historical, and the psychologicFor the Christian humanists, culture is a kind of tumbling ground for the spiritual, the social, the historical, and the psychologicfor the spiritual, the social, the historical, and the psychological.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

To the extent that it promotes theist - humanist values, religion supplies moral qualities that capitalism needs for survival and that counter its dehumanizing tendencies.

For such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this truFor such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this trufor them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this trufor the defense and triumph of this truth.

His comments drew fire from secularists, with a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by 50 public figures headed by the president of the British Humanist Association, Professor Jim Al - Khalili saying: «We object to his characterisation of Britain as a «Christian country» and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.»

- what gives secular humanists the right to define morality for me, or for anybody other than themselves.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

This «non-religious» concept of Jesus as «the man for others» is certainly not a humanist or ethical reductionism.

He is not less concerned than the materialist or the scientific humanist for the welfare of men, but more so; for he has glimpsed something of man's value and potentiality in the eyes of God.

Today it is not the vague humanist who is regarded as the enemy of Communism in, for example, Eastern Germany; it is the Christian, who has standards and loyalties which are rooted in God.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

But, just a few clicks down I saw he is the Humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California and a speaker for the Secular Student Alliance (SSA).

The Humanists, or the militants among them, and the neo-modernists who run by their side, are the most active in calling for the abolition of «divisive» schools.

Several times recently Pope Benedict has spoken of the «urgent» need for a «new humanist synthesis» in order to resolve «the succession of crises that afflict the world today» (Caritas in Veritate, CiV, para. 21, cf. our last and current Road from Regensburg column).

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

Jesus was a humanist first — he wanted people to care for each other.

On the other side, humanists develop hermeneutical methods for the interpretation of documents with no regard for scientific thought.

But it is easier than watching people slink away ashamed of their ignorance because they don't know what a «secular humanist» is and what they «stand for».

It would be no difficult thing for an alliance of evangelicals, feminists, liberals and humanists to dry up the market for pornography in this country.

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Rehumanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Rehumanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the ReHumanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

That's why Nick Spencer and I wrote a report called The Case for Christian Humanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in Christianity.