Sentences with phrase «for religious conviction»

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.

In the 1986 Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan Law School, Greenawalt defends a limited role for religious convictions in a jurisprudential culture whose ruling paradigm, called «liberalism,» is roughly identical to what I have been calling modernism.

Yeah, our system is more «just» because we kill criminals because they killed someone and not for their religious convictions, but it's hardly just to have the death penalty in anycase.

We beg you to remember, as we pledge to remember, those who are not free; those who suffer for freedom's cause; those who are poor, out of work, needy, sick, or alone; those who are persecuted for their religious convictions, those still ravaged by war.

Not exact matches

I'm just issuing one more call for cooperation between different religious and political groups, and perhaps for a little more respect for the convictions of those who disagree with us.

Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).

they are the nicest people and very religious we should tolerate that and respect the for their convictions.

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

Reports circulated over a draft of an executive order designed to expand protections for individuals, organizations, and corporations» religious convictions — including traditional beliefs on gender, sexuality, and marriage.

These are people of conviction, people whose faith is important to them and who long for the approval of their religious leaders and the favor of God.

And if many establishmentarian religionists were dragged screaming by the Enlightenment and practical necessity to grant religious freedom, some very firm believers, from colonial Baptists to Jesuit John Courtney Murray in the Second Vatican Council, also kept making the case for conviction blended with civility, commitment tempered with empathy.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

Being firm in one's moral convictions is not the same as being firm in your religious convictions (admittedly, there is room for overlap).

One may honorably aspire to becoming President, and one may even appeal for the support of those who share one's moral and religious convictions.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

Theology conceived in this manner is but a reminder that religious convictions are not explanations at all and that therefore no theory is needed to account for their meaningfulness.

It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»

Centuries of Christian religious legitimation of and support for Western imperialism was based on the conviction of a necessary Christian salvific mission towards others.

A widespread religious conviction that long - term help is no substitute for hard work will inevitably find its way into legislation, and so welfare will evolve into workfare.

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

The war on terrorism is a war against al - Qaeda, not Islam, he says, and the reason for the war is our foes» clear aggression against innocent people, not their religious convictions.

The conditions favorable for belief in miracle reports are several: a strong religious conviction, a vivid imagination, a pre-scientific or non-scientific view of the world, and discontent with the conditions of everyday life as a result of boredom, oppression, or want.

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

Doesn't the kind of religious dialogue that you are asking for, in which each would come, first of all, not to defend individual convictions but to share experiences, easily become reduced to a friendly chat?

Washington (CNN)-- The White House Thursday condemned the conviction of an Iranian pastor, who may be executed in Tehran for refusing to recant his religious beliefs and convert from Christianity to Islam.

The challenge for churches is to help channel teenagers» free - floating, often vague interest in spirituality into sincere religious conviction that grounds a life of faith.

An eloquent critique of secular rationality as the only basis for a discussion of a republic's virtues is Kent Greenawalt's Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford University Press, 1987), an appraisal of Bruce Ackerman, John Rawls and other philosophers.

People have the right to vote based on religious convictions, but there's no place for religion in legislation.

But, for many people, some religious conviction indicates a predictable and stable set of values on which the voter can rely when choosing his candidate.

And the real kicker is that the photographer who refused to take pictures at the gay wedding, for a couple who may have held deep religious convictions, would happily grab my money for the same service even though I think their religious beliefs are coo - coo for cocoa puffs.

For the notion that «error has no rights» is very much alive» and precisely in those quarters where religious indifference has indeed led to intolerance of religious conviction.

In Vermont, the federal court is now hearing a case in which a man is refusing to enroll in Vermont Health Connect, a state exchange, because a portion of his premium paid for abortion services and this violates his religious convictions.

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

Franky Schaeffer decries neutrality as a «myth» which results in a freedom from religion and the exclusion of all those who operate on the basis of religious convictions from involvement in public life (Time for Anger, pp. 19 - 20).

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

According to the court, she should have set aside her religious convictions and complied with Islington's «Dignity for all Policy.»

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

Our study is a reminder that alternative worldviews based on religious convictions can be an important resource for engaging with difficult issues and for challenging aspects of a culture that so many of us accept without question.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

This is driven less by personal religious conviction than by the need to amend the inevitable distortions that resulted from centuries of scholarship that failed to account seriously for a phenomenon as massive as religion.

The freedom to abide by religious convictions is not only a matter of individual liberty; it is also a freedom that ought to be encouraged for institutions in a pluralistic society.

It would seem that no thought - through secular substitute for the philosophical and religious convictions which once helped give society a reliable fabric of civility has as yet won widespread support.