Sentences with phrase «giving religion respect»

«What I am doing is not giving religion respect that it wants but it doesn't deserve,» Silverman said.

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It's hard to «grow up and expand my mind» with respect to religion when many priests are giving up child molesting for lent.

I am * ASKING * to be given the same respect of MY religion as I give Christianity.

If you * CANT * respect my religion, then please do nt complain or feel persecuted when I do nt give respect to yours.

Given all this that I have listed above, which must necessarily be rather summary, religion brazenly stands up and demands RESPECT, and calls criticism not just blasphemy and heresy, but «hate speech» and demands protection from such criticism.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

I respect his education and passion in regards to religion and his being a scholar and author, but anyone can take a single verse out of the bible and attempt to give it individual meaning.

Emile Durkheim believed that the decline of religion was dangerous for society because it caused men to abandon laws which they had respected as God - given.

Our policies need to be open, inclusive, and generous, yes, but they also need to respect and promote the «givens of life,» family, religion, heritage, history, culture, tradition, and nationality.

If you admit that and believe you would rather use religion as a crutch to face the unknown future I can sort of respect that (I felt the exact same way just 5 years ago, it's what led me to admit that I didn't actually believe in religion as much as I liked the feeling of security that the belief gave me).

If Islam is not a religion like other religions, it should not be given the respect and privileges that we accord other religions.

It means among other things respecting other religions as well as other people and trying to learn from them, without giving up conviction in one's own.

Fishon... with respect to the examples (goals) that you give, I have little disagreement... but biblical religion and contemporary culture haves provided some believers with goals that often demonize the outsider and ultimately dehumanize the believer... what shld be the goal... Truth or biblical religion?

Muslims need to teach kids in schools love humanity and respect others, not if you are non muslim you are devil, you don't have to repeat it on tv or radio channels which religion is peacful, people are not dum they know all religions are for peace, but where is the peace in practically, showing hatred or having thoughts of islamization the world, stop evil thinking of conversion of anyone to islam that is not peaceful religion or thoughts.help the poor and needy, give equal respect to male and female respect democracy and more important develop tolerence.intolerence is the basic evil of human race.

The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).

No one should be required to assist in propagating the gigantic lie of religion by giving the illusion of taking part in a religious act or doing something out of respect for the lie.

It would be centuries before the Europeans would acquire a life - experience of non-Christian religions, before a theology of the religions of the world would emerge which would give due respect to the positive elements in those religions and their providential salvific role for millions of people.

But the price of this division of labour is that religion would have to give up any claims to truth, at least with respect to any facts external to ones own commitment.

This forum is giving me a very good idea what cynics and atheists sound like, and while I cant know if there is a God I do know a truly free society respects freedom or lack of religion and that believers of both should learn some respect and toleration.

In many respects both primitive religion and the quest for spiritual power and peace that underlies the other non-Christian religions give evidence of it.

Only when communities live with mutual respect, when they together eliminate all caste, atrocities, when they together remove and hunger, when all their religions sing the song of harmony, when they together celebrate God - given unity, then the Spirit is free.

Longo's interest in religions comes from a place of respect and childhood curiosity giving the works a sense of otherworldliness.

Section 2 of the CHRA provides that the purpose of the CHRA is to «extend the laws in Canada to give effect... to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered.»

An eloquent condemnation of this policy of repression was that of Chief Thunderchild, who queried: «Why has the white man no respect for the religion that was given to us, when we respect the faith of other nations?»