Sentences with phrase «for secular purposes»

Our guide pointed to many small details about the facade of the temple, including signs it was temporarily converted to a Christian church, thus sparing it from destruction over the years (later, during the French Revolution, it was used for secular purposes, once again thankfully helping it to avoid destruction).

Although India has adopted the Gregorian calendar for secular purposes, Hindu observances are governed by the traditional Hindu calendar.

I know: you're stunned — a day of joint thanksgiving for a secular purpose, and that I'll wrap my arms around.

You can't expect a large company who knowingly hires non-Christians to come together for a secular purpose, and then force your beliefs (or non-beliefs) on them.

Not exact matches

No, what poisons everything is atheism / secular humanism as evidenced by the fact that 93 % of all of humanity's wars were started for non-religious purposes.

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

Just because most wars are started for non-religious purposes doesn't automatically associate them with atheism or secular humanism.

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.

Although his prescriptions were regarded as odd, his descriptions of the new age as informed with secular beliefs in progress through the rational, scientific organization of societies, for the purpose of ever increasing industrialization and ever new technologies of control, was very typical of modernity.

Where the magisterium does not reject a secular doctrine as directly or indirectly opposed to Revelation, it can only note the degree of probability attributed to the theory by secular science, state this and take it into account for the purpose of its own reflections, but can not establish and pronounce upon it.

Rulers may have gone to war for their own secular purposes, but Islam has never justified a war except for defense of the faith.

It is too bad that some zealous theologians have tried to argue that this self - realization has been made (by those who talk in fairly secular terms) a substitute for the fulfillment of the divine purpose.

If these organizations are receiving aid specifically for purposes that have nothing to do with their religion but more to do with secular issues, which is what the standard is, why are we even entertaining the idea that they can discriminate on the basis of religion which, if they receive funding, should have nothing to do with what their organization is supposed to be doing?

These tools may be helpful in secular endeavors, but are not given primarily for this purpose.

For an important purpose of preaching is to identify the presence and activity of God in secular life.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

They oppose their devotees» seeking a higher secular education, except for vocational purposes.

The US is a secular country not a christian country.Our country was founded on the principles of freedom fo religion and seperation between church and state.I am a muslim, I can tell you that the reason men and women don; t pray in integrated environments is to avoid distractions and to focus on the prayer not because women are less than men.I personally don; t want to be praying next to a woman because all I'll be thinking about is her and not god.Jews also do the same thing in temples by seperating between men and women in temples.A house of worship is built solely for that purpose, worship!

You also have no problem using secular for tax purposes as a «non-profit» so that you don't pay taxes on what is clearly income.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

Virtually no one called for separation in the way that the Supreme Court understands it today: that legislation must evince secular purposes and effects, and foster no «excessive government entanglement with religion» (see Chief Justice Warren Burger's 1971 opinion in Lemon v. Kartzman).

«Religion» for legal purposes becomes simply «conscience,» and Congress, if it is to grant conscientious exemptions, «can not draw the line between theistic or nontheistic beliefs on the one hand and secular beliefs on the other.»

That is not what any of the major Reformers thought, even though they were sure that some secular music could legitimately be borrowed and adapted for religious purposes.

Thus, in response to any uncritical willingness to adopt for worship whatever music people favor in their radio listening, one might ask: Is it possible that musicians in our notably secular era have become especially adept at shaping music to specifically erotic, recreational and commercial purposes?

A decision coinciding with religious views is not invalid for that reason as long as it has a secular purpose and effect.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

The concern for the destination of these donations — whether they are robbed or used for non-religious purposes — is a secular concern, that is, characteristic of those who do not share the «enchanted» vision of the world.

I said, «One's faith should not be the primary reason for enacting a law,» This is based of the «secular purpose» portion of the Lemon Test (re: Lemon v Kurtzman).

For example, in 2013 the Indiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld a voucher law because the law served a secular purpose and the funds were allocated to parents.

The law would have a clear secular purpose — preserving high - quality education options for needy students.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals examined only federal Establishment Clause precedent and held that Louisiana's special education program did not offend the Establishment Clause because (1) the statute's purpose of improving educational opportunity for disabled students was secular, and (2) the statute did not have the effect of advancing religion because it provides no incentive for parents to select religious institutions.

Two Illinois courts of appeals held that Illinois» tax credit for educational expenses is constitutional because it has a clearly secular legislative purpose of ensuring a well - educated citizenry and relieving public expense, has the primary effect of effectuating those purposes, and involves no more government entanglement with religion than many other state tax laws.

Likewise, the lower court rejected the ACLU's Blaine Amendment claim, holding that it «was not intended to preclude any expenditure that has an incidental benefit to religion, where such is made for a primary secular purpose,» and that the ESA «was enacted for the valid secular purpose of providing financial assistance to parents to take advantage of educational options available to Nevada children.»

In the reign of Mangku Pastika (as a head of Bali Provincial Police), the campaign against cockfighting reached its peak, the secular tajen (cockfighting for gambling purpose) virtually vanished from the island but the Tabuh Rah (cockfighting for religious purpose) survived until present day.

With no support beyond its own ipse dixit, the Court concludes that the Kentucky statute involved in this case «has no secular legislative purpose,» ante at 449 U. S. 41 (emphasis supplied), and that» [t] he preeminent purpose for posting the Ten Commandments on schoolroom walls is plainly religious in nature,» ibid.