Sentences with phrase «for irreligious»

Biblical themes may be used in a painting but for irreligious purposes.

While I like the idea of a meeting place for the irreligious, I can't see how aligning ourselves in any way with the trappings of religion is a good thing.

Not exact matches

9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

O'Brien begins with a frankly apocalyptic charge: the Pope has created a «Rome — Riyadh axis» in order to unite «the religious of the world... for a final victory over the irreligious.»

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

It is not just the same thing as a nervous breakdown, for the latter comes to the religious and to the irreligious and may or may not have a relation to one's prayer life.

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

Or consider your freedom of religion; is it not the freedom to be religious or irreligious, to worship or not to worship, in accordance with your self - interest, whether you think it is good for you or not?

Heidegger began as a seminarian studying for the priesthood and made strong pronouncements against irreligious «modernism» as having no universal commitments.

For every person who disavows religion because some ancient and unrevised dogma outrages his intelligence, several become irreligious because the social impotence of religion outrages their conscience.3

He did not appear to need God, and he circulated smoothly in an often irreligious world of art, literature, and politics, yet he was a staunch Catholic who thanked God for the benefits of his life.

Walter Kasper explains that the statement that «God Himself is dead,» which goes back to an old Lutheran hymn, was taken back into theology by Karl Barth and Bonhoeffer, who agreed at least on this - that «the religious presupposition that is lacking in contemporary irreligious society» affords the human race the opportunity for a «true recognition of our situation before God.»

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go «all - in» for a secular education, by examining their opinions under the tutelage of an irreligious faculty; or else they must withhold something of themselves from rational inquiry, erecting a barrier between the performative requirements of their research discipline and their beliefs about the way the world actually is.

The sumptuously irreligious and misogynistic recent paintings of Masami Teraoka at Catharine Clark Gallery, through Feb. 20... an artistic Festschrift in honor of longtime gallerist Ruth Braunstein, a fixture on the San Francisco scene for 50 years, at Fouladi Projects through Feb. 27... Anglim Gilbert Gallery's touching tribute to David Ireland, «Dumbball,» through Feb. 27.

The need for belief in God say in the US, where it is almost impossible to become a political leader and be irreligious.

«The Israeli Army is an irreligious entity, and it is impossible for Orthodox Jews to fully practice their religion while in the army.