Sentences with phrase «for secular people»

2) authentication: create a circle of trusted and responsible people who will administer the ritual (including ID verification) and observe the affiant to ensure the veracity of their oath (oaths are a religion - related vestige and require a holy book; for secular people, there are affirmations — but check your jurisdiction for details).

We have had great sites like Match for years and whilst they are great for secular people, not so are the reports coming from Christians.

Reading this verse, we must take in account that it was written for devout Christians and not for secular people.

Not exact matches

As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.

They should try and find an imam with a respect for everyone and a grip on secular society instead of some macho bigot who is going to further polarize people on the issue of the Park51 project.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

Any call for massive cuts to education by the same people who push for «vouchers» so they can send their kids to private Catholic schools and such, are the Christian Right seeking to gut secular education because they hate it.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

A decade ago, the «war on Christmas», I'd have to educate many people that X-mas was a CHRISTIAN abbreviation for Christmas, based on Christ's true name, not a secular insult, the fact that it was based on many pagan holidays.

I somehow think that «God's righetous and perfect judgement» for crimes would have a few people upset and wanting to move over to the secular side.

Secular people are responsible for nasty things, too.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Ancient peoples were smarter and wiser than most secular people give them credit for.

It's a secular song, but someone once sang about love being more than words... Sometimes we Christians try to show care with our words, when we should be caring for people as well.

Keith Broomfield, 36, had been in Syria for four months with the secular Kurdish People's Protection Units.

Anybody else note the irony in flaming Obama for imposing his «secular values» on the American people, yet Santorum insists on imposing Catholic values on the American people?

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

This is a sort of religiosity that it is difficult for modern, secular people to understand and appreciate; she goes against the grain not only of the more obvious kind of rationalistic secularism embodied in Rayber but against all of the best in liberal Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.

In other words, they intended the U.S. to be a safe haven for people to practice their faith or lack thereof without government interference — as long as the religious didn't interfere with the secular.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

If you look at any political news magazine today, whether secular or Christian, you will read that what the president needs to focus on is the economy and getting more jobs for the American people, and the Gross Domestic Product.

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».

A lot of people are not, however, so the pope decided to collect the various secular mythos that have grown up around Christmas and debunk them — not for the first time, but simply in summary.

It was done with the best of motives, a desire to make the gospel meaningful to the modem person but it resulted in a systematic revision of an Christian categories and, ironically, an almost total failure to reach the secular person for Christ.

Similarly, his ideal version of secular education, though it allows for a «proportion» of persons professing other faiths, and for some disbelievers, recommends that these people conform to public Christian values, presumably as determined by the Community of Christians.

That is, the people who go to church on Sunday are also the people who are more likely to be active in the PTA and to be giving to the United Way and to be volunteering for soup kitchens in secular settings.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

Thanks for listing online Christian colleges and Bible colleges to help people continue their religious and secular learning.

But there are also altruistic reasons (which some people from differing theological and secular traditions share) for promoting concern for the common good and focusing on the welfare of the most vulnerable.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

As for secular scientists, Stark surmises that they «now take as a given and very frequently don't know the origin of the kinds of principles that people like Newton and Copernicus and others took from Christian theology.

Religious believers certainly cause their share of trouble, and can be obnoxiously close - minded to new insights and outsiders, but there're also not universally a den of vipers; religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for instance.

The people that take a stand for a secular government are trying to keep our country up to the high standards established by our Founding Fathers.

«Most of my time I'm speaking to secular people and I'm saying, «You know, you may think religion is for idiots, but...» «I've switched 180 degrees from where I thought religion was for children essentially — people who had no education, people who had this infantile relationship to the world and needed some sort of fi gurehead to help them,» he continues.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

But I suppose it has to be dealt with in this consultation from the point of view of its relevance and relation to the problems raised by the threat of Religious Communalism to the Secular Democratic character of Indian polity and the democratic struggle of the people for an egalitarian community.

Without question the larger problem today is for persons in secular roles — especially politicians — to engage in God talk.

They imposed the idea of secular nationalism on the Indian peoples because they were convinced that it was the best basis for unity of pluralistic India and the best path towards building a new society based on the values of liberty, equality and justice.

Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent, people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

Cardinal Pell did not specify who those people are or their alternative suggestions, but my mind turned to those theologians known as «correlationists» who for several decades have been trying to «correlate» and «accommodate» the Catholic faith to trends within secular culture.

To hold that the evil of this world will be redeemed by an agency beyond the human person and time is to destroy the motive for secular transformation.

For years I adopted, without bothering to think, the attitude common among secular, affluent, university - educated people who took the propriety of abortion for granted, even when it was illegFor years I adopted, without bothering to think, the attitude common among secular, affluent, university - educated people who took the propriety of abortion for granted, even when it was illegfor granted, even when it was illegal.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

«Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent,» Woodfinden writes, «people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

We actually started as a secular nation, we went along for a little, had a civil war which killed a bunch of people, went merrily along for a few more years, got mired in 2 more world wars, then inserted GOD int he 1950's into the pledge and on the money to protect ourselves from communists (because that somehow protects us from communists) and then we've been going along ever since.

In reaction to the fragmented, depersonalized, hectic style of the secular city, people are seeking community and evincing interest in a chosen discipline for their lives.

And my last chapter, «To Speak in a Secular Fashion of God,» would have had to take into consideration that employing exclusively male language for the deity has contributed to the marginalization of half the people of the world..

As well as campaigning for a more secular society, the BHA offers trained celebrants for weddings, births and funerals; for people who want meaningful but religion-less rites of passage.

Secular people can have those values also without any need for delusional and fake authority being involved.