Sentences with phrase «hold religious values»

But McDonagh is nothing if not even - handed, and he has made a film which gets to the heart of what it means to hold religious values in the 21st century.

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If you donate appreciated stocks that you've held for more than a year to a «public» charity — such as a religious or an educational institution, or an organization that does medical research — you can typically take a tax deduction for the full fair market value of the stocks, up to 50 % of your adjusted gross income for that year.

Feeling uneasy about a particular candidates religious background means that some Americans are still holding on to discriminative values.

The religious right in America vote against their own values and liberties, so they hold the hand that holds them down.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

Most African Americans and hispanics hold conservative religious values and although outwardly due to undue pressure might toe the liberal line, will certainly choose the lesser of the two evils.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

It is one thing to hold a mild moral objection to a government program; an objection that is peripheral to one's fundamental beliefs and values, not central; an objection grounded on intuitive preference not closely tied to one's religious and ecclesial commitments.

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It is clear to me that the vast majority of the members of the various communities that enrich our wonderful NYC are wonderful human beings that are mostly consequent with the ethical and moral standards that they hold dearly and which may have been passed to them through religious education or through family values or acquired through rational thinking..

Just as plenty of religious folks can be quite rational when it comes to economics and decisions about their work, for instance, atheists can hold irrational beliefs in other areas such as politics, and social values.

What is needed is a Catholic theological interpretation of modern pluralistic democracy, one that insists on real space for the ideas and active contributions of religious traditions, while underscoring the value of respectful argument and even friendship among those who hold competing views.

Part of Bush's strategy was to promote a national moral restoration by holding out his parents and the Bush clan as exemplars of traditional values and religious commitment.

It is likely, therefore, that substantial research is being held by the major religious broadcasters which could be of value in addressing some of the persistent questions in religious broadcasting, if it were made available for wider use.

They crafted a constitutional order that intended to make a person's religious convictions, or lack of religious convictions, irrelevant in judging the value of his political opinion or in assessing his qualifications to hold political office.»

If I don't believe in gay marriage, I will not participate in it and will teach my children WHY I don't believe in it, being certain to clarify that the values that I hold dear, and the religious commitments that I have made are NOT transferable to others.

Of course, it would be an exaggeration to think that traditional religious values, such as justice and charity for the poor, have completely lost their hold.

Many singles get something from religious dating sites that they can't get from other online dating sites - like deeply - held values when it comes to dating and forming relationships.

The worst conceptual failing of Dracula 2000 (aside from its overwhelming poorness and desperately ridiculous Biblical denouement), however, is probably its confusion about whether or not religious images like crosses actually hold any kind of value in repelling these undead.

Opponents to the policy and proposed legislation, both in the federal and provincial realm, believe that they go against, in Ontario attorney general Madeleine Meilleur's words, «deeply held views on equality and tolerance for the religious beliefs of everyone in our society,» and are «inconsistent with Canadian values of inclusion and diversity.»