Sentences with phrase «from humanists»

March 2018 — Over 70 religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts, and public figures, spanning from Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson through to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, write an open letter organised by Humanists UK calling on the Education Secretary to keep the cap in place.

Over 70 religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts, and public figures, spanning from Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson through to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, write an

The Government's announcement comes after 20 months of steady campaigning from Humanists UK for it to retain the 50 % cap.

Writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig is the face of a new introductory «massive open online course» (MOOC) on humanism from Humanists UK

The hearing came to an end today, after four days of submissions from his lawyers and from Humanists UK, who intervened in the case in his support.

The life stories of ordinary people who have their death marked with a humanist funeral are to be immortalised for all time, thanks to a new initiative from Humanists UK.

In response to calls from Humanists UK and others, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has today published comprehensive guidance on the law protecting and limiting free speech for students and universities.

You said, «From a humanist perspective God does not seem to make sense.»

The campaign features violent or sexist quotes from holy books, contrasted with more compassionate quotes from humanist thinkers, including physicist Albert Einstein.

«When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, and all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state» (Christian Manifesto.

Fromm wisely sees that even from his humanist perspective the issue concerning God can not be set aside.

A continuing movement was Socinianism, taking its name from two highly placed Italians from a humanist background, Laelius Socinus (1525 - 1562) and his nephew, Faustus Socinus (1539 - 1604).

Yet another file took its place on his desk cluttered with reports from the Augustinian friaries, sermons, Wittenberg Friary matters, University reform plans, letters from the humanist wing in Nuremberg, and much else.

In our state media, the BBC, sermons and prayers are broadcast but rarely any content engaging with questions of value and meaning from a humanist point of view.

In our state media, the BBC, sermons and prayers are broadcast but rarely contain any content engaging with questions of value and meaning from a humanist point of view.

Running alongside the posters will be a «rush hour» social media campaign featuring a wider range of thoughts from humanist writers, as well as quizzes encouraging people to think about life.

Avengers: Infinity War will not only be the grand slam home run attempt, it'll be the live - action debut of some of the most iconic imagery from the humanist comics that inspired the movies.

I find it incredible that other posters take issue with you when you clearly come from a humanist perspective.

The author will discuss the market - based approach to privacy and point out problems from a humanist perspective to conclude that a basic level of privacy rights is inalienable notwithstanding consent.

Though the session is part of the Technology and Production track, and I will touch on specifics of EPUB 3 markup and standards, I'll be approaching the intersection of accessibility and technology from a humanist perspective.

This theory derives partially from humanist ideas, the teachings of Buddhism, as well as from his core artistic concepts: «Keep Changing», «Connect with All», and «Goes on Forever».

While from the humanist perspective human beings determine the beginning and the end, a completely different narrative emerges from the perspective of objects.

The effect creates further distortion as the sounds are continually fed through the series of speakers; the resultant cacophony emulates a muddy symphony removed from a humanist dialogue through the insertion of the machine, yet it remains oddly warm and melodic.

Or perhaps they do understand, but, coming from a humanist / idealist place, see the difference between accuracy as usefulness as being minute.

To borrow a term from humanist therapy, parenting unconditionally is looking at your kids with an unconditional positive regard:

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There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

The memos that I received from my sociology hosts always began with this greeting: «Dear Visiting Humanist.»

In the twenty «four surviving letters written from his imprisonment in the tower in 1534 to his death a year and a half later, we are presented with More the Christian humanist and martyr in the richness of his spiritual and moral integrity.

The humanists are destroying those rights for the sake of their agenda to remove God from society.

The humanist witness of his fiction is to testify, negatively, that neither art nor life can be made from nothingness.

For such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this truth.

His comments drew fire from secularists, with a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by 50 public figures headed by the president of the British Humanist Association, Professor Jim Al - Khalili saying: «We object to his characterisation of Britain as a «Christian country» and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.»

The bitterness directed in our society against humanists, Muslims, homosexuals, communists and so forth is in the Old Testament addressed to the God from whom no secret can be kept.

Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal secular society.

In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the emancipation of Daedalus and Icarus in their winged escape from Crete.

Several times recently Pope Benedict has spoken of the «urgent» need for a «new humanist synthesis» in order to resolve «the succession of crises that afflict the world today» (Caritas in Veritate, CiV, para. 21, cf. our last and current Road from Regensburg column).

Now apart from the nonsense of the supposed «competition in goodness» both Christians and humanists believe that it is important to lead a good life.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

While the philosophical spirit stemmed from John Dewey, the results somehow satisfied theists as well as humanists.

l Meanwhile, every institution of every nation — starting with the U.S. — needs to be reclaimed for Christ from the grip of Satan and his humanist minions.

• Secular Humanist from Ohio The hotline is not about recruiting.

Nevertheless, religious faith often plays a prominent part in the discussion, differentiating liberal civil religion from purely secular or humanist beliefs.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

Humanists UK have highlighted how several MPs, including the new Education Secretary Damian Hinds, have received money from the Catholic Bishops» Conference in return for intern placements.

In the seventeenth century the humanist scholar Muretus, a fugitive from France, fell ill in Lombardy.

V.M. Tarkunde, himself a Radical Humanist, in his JPMemorial Lecture on «Communalism and Human Rights» (PUCL Bulletin June 93), clearly distinguishes Fundamentalism from Communalism.

Humanist though he was, Muretus had learned from the death of Jesus the intrinsic value of all human life.

It should be abundantly clear that agnostics, atheitsts, humanists, etc. derive great great meaning from life by knowing that death is final.

As I have already agreed with you, secular humanists (who act like the religious) and militant atheists who profess a categorical belief in the non-existence of God are indistinguishable from the religious.

His Faith Foundation was overwhelmed by the response: hundreds of entries, from Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, Sikhs and humanists, on five continents around the world.