Sentences with phrase «governed by religion»

Islam calls on followers to govern by religion.

Not exact matches

In Jesus» day, the Jewish faith was governed by the Pharisees, pious followers of the law who placed the tenets of their religion above all else.

Where freedom of religion is allowed but not governed by a public theology, the sharing at the communion rail has little chance of being translated into the sharing of bread and drink with the hungry and thirsty.

As the Nine reach their full potential they will surface through out this world in the different lands that govern the main religions of thought that all of humanity govern themselves by.

Where religion is independent of the state but confined to merely «private» questions and not governed by a public theology, social morality becomes merely opportunistic.

So at the last minute to try to get the rules to change and use the old adage of «religious persecution» if conformity to your will is not met does not hold merit as sport is not a subset of religion and shouldn't be governed by it.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

Making our religion relevant to modern problems deserves our best effort, but in all things we must be governed by the compassion and good will that lie at the heart of our faith.

I am saddened by all those who cling to religion and continue to endorse it as reality and insist that it somehow should govern morality and law - making.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Marriage is a holy sacrament, and the participants in that sacrament should be governed by the doctrines of the religion to which they subscribe.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

Who would better understand Harold Bloom's fear that «we are on the verge of being governed by a nationally established religion»?

Earlier, while introducing members of the Governing Council, the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem recalled that the CMC was established in 1999 as a unit under the Directorate of Citizens» Right of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice before it emerged as an entity by law in 2007 to provide speedy free legal services to the needy and residents of the State irrespective of tribe, race and religion.

Although this does not mean that the education system is religious, everything is governed and controlled by religion.

The academy, he explained, is governed by the same laws that rule public schools when it comes to religion.

Myhrvold says, «The way we treat wine is governed by an implicit set of rules and strictures that rival fundamentalist religions in their severity and intensity.

While religion is afforded a high degree of protection, the federal government's alienage policies are governed by the lowest level of judicial scrutiny.

Blasphemy laws are, by their very design, contrary to the idea of secularism — the separation of church and religion from the state and laws which govern people.

As a liberal, what I care about (and its a subject that I take great interest in as you can probably tell) is navigating the murky waters around between freedom of religion, freedom from religion (i.e. the rights of people not to be governed by others» religions), free expression, secularism, etc..