Our nation, no doubt, has some place in God's overall plan, but let's not assume that the we Americans will be the heroes of the story — or that Perry or any other man can claim to be able lead us to prosperity through
the force of his religious convictions.
Not exact matches
But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their
religious convictions on the subject, and some
religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves
forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement
of a moral code they are obliged to reject.
This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis
of ancient literature has become a very significant
force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works
of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations
of religious experiences and
convictions.
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.
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner
of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and
conviction, not by
force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise
of religion according to the dictates
of conscience, and that no particular
religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.
And as such, they owners have no legal grounds to
force all employees to live by the
religious convictions of the founders or chief executives.
Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to
force their views, their
religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members
of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»
The ineluctable connections between Christian violence, its global magnification through the West's colonial reach, and the hard quandaries
of religious conviction thereby slowly unleashed were in fact sustaining
forces within the evolution
of modernity.