Sentences with phrase «from religious ideals»

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When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

These countries have both a strong religious belief, mainly catholic, from the conquering Spaniards and Portugese, and weaker legal systems, which is ideal for the perpetrators.

To the strict separationist, these religious - governmental interactions are, at best, tolerable deviations from the separationist ideal.

Among other things, if the bill forbids colleges to engage in discrimination based on religious belief, they will be the only belief - based organizations barred from demanding that their employees commit to that underlying belief (an institution based on a secular ideal would not face the bar).

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of love as action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).

In developing a theism which conceives of the supreme instance of goodness in terms of perfect love, Hartshorne argues that this «religious ideal of love» is «not a mere emotional glow toward others,» but rather, love is «action from social awareness» (MVG 166).

Although it might be claimed that Dewey was simply giving democracy a religious dimension and seeing it as some kind of final spiritual community, the point I want to emphasize is that for Dewey democracy is a moral ideal for this life, an ideal that we are still far from attaining.

Other aspects of Christian teaching have checked the pursuit of justice in all these senses, but when one of its meanings, the ideal of equality, is separated from its religious context, it can have destructive consequences.

The author clearly hopes that the ideal of male and female religious who move beyond gender roles to form small faith communities liberated from a centrally organized clergy is something we can finally realize.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

Even if we can separate «the ore of the ideal from the dross of habit of behavior,» the ideals can not be lived outside the cultural, religious, and social life in which they developed.

The perceived environmental ineptitude of theology and religious education is accentuated now by the many accusations, often well - founded, that «revealed» religions are themselves partly responsible for promoting ideals of cosmic homelessness that have set us adrift from, and made us indifferent to, nature.

In such cases religious regression has replaced alcoholic regression, which, though not ideal from a standpoint of mature religion, is a relatively constructive substitution.

There was a streak of radicalism in the South» secessionism was itself a radical act» but Southern religious leaders generally inclined toward organic models of social change, the ideal being a gradual civilizing process emanating from traditions of civility and gentility.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

Thus the university ideal is a religious ideal, as Protestant reformers insisted in attempting to establish its relative autonomy from church authority.

This was the only one of the 13 colonies founded by Roman Catholics - the Calvert family - and its embrace of religious tolerance came less from high - minded ideals than from the Calverts» desire to protect their property from religious attacks.

However, with an excellent script from Gregory Burke, ’71 is instead both a sensory survival story and a surprisingly subtle look at the clashing ideals that fuelled the conflict, from the unthinking religious hatred underpinning it all to the vying factions within the IRA itself, spurred on by an undercover British unit intent on de-stabilising the city even further.

Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war — from the tedium that breeds violence and vicious words among American comrades (black against white, black against black, white against white, and man against man), to the sudden shock, the pain, the confusion, and the stark terror that brings soliders face - to - face with their ideals, their religious beliefs, and their morality — in a world where a mother turns her child into a human bomb, an officer sends men into combat only to reap honors for himself.

Publishers of religious and inspirational books, including collected stories from Guideposts Magazine; adult fiction and non-fiction; and Ideals illustrated children's books.

Among them will be never - before exhibited altarpieces from the churches of Bergamo and paintings made for private devotion that reflect the new religious ideals of his time.

If this is indeed the case, then every human system, from family life to governments to economies to religious ideals should be far more closely concerned with the health of the planet's ecosystems.

But with Dorfman's unique combination of skills — as a former rabbi and commercial litigator — it seems that he might have an ideal niche in representing religious organizations in a variety of matters, from forming non-profits to litigating First Amendment issues.

Looking at everything from race, gender, and socioeconomic status to religious ideals, family rituals, and external support systems will help you get a good picture of a family's culture.