Sentences with phrase «important than religious»

Roughly two out of every three parents polled said public schools were more important than religious institutions, businesses and the military in terms of providing important skills for their children.

the pope needs to be deprogrammed and told his family is more important than a religious cult.

We need to protect the innocents no matter what they believe or who they are, but to extend this protection requires the rule of secular law over religious law — and for mental health issues to be more important than religious issues.

4 Where he might have said, «Personal relations are more important than religious observance,» he makes a picture: «If, when you are bringing your gift to the altar, you suddenly remember that your brother has a grievance against you, leave your gift where it is before the altar.

Not exact matches

Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

In an important sense it is a greater violation of religious liberty to ban a ritual that is at the theological heart of a faith than to ban a peripheral celebration.

Those who seem to think their religious belief, or lack there of, is more important to their personal life than quitting drinking, despite likely hitting rock bottom, probably aren't ready to quit drinking.

«Among those who say it is important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs, most say that what matters is simply holding strong religious beliefs, rather than holding particular religious beliefs,» the survey said.

Just be sure, more important than anything, is you change the address to where you're currently sending your religious money to my address.

More important, however, for future religious development than this translation of holiness from primitive untouchableness into majestic greatness and exclusive sovereignty was the baptism of the idea into moral meanings.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

The use of numbers in ancient religious texts was usually numerological rather than numerical; that is, their symbolic value was more important than their secular value as counters.

We believe that the trouble is not that religious questions are inescapably involved in obscurity but that adherence to traditional doctrines is regarded as more important than clarity and universal intelligibility.

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

Werner Mark Linz, president of Seabury Press, identifies the challenge: «The center of serious religious thought seemed to collapse during the past decade, and nothing may be more important in the long run than rebuilding it.

The same can be said for other religious texts, but my point is that faith should never be more important than reason.

But while poor Latin Americans agree that gifts of food, clothing and other handouts are an incentive to convert, many say that the gifts are less important than the welcoming religious atmosphere in fundamentalist churches.

In thus explaining and championing religious pluralism on affirmative theological grounds rather than on negative or concessionary ones, liberal Protestants could make one of the more important of their distinctive contributions to the moral coherence «and consensus that our sprawling society needs but has found it difficult to maintain.

It is taken for granted that, whatever their own religious and other allegiances may be, they will aim at objectivity in their expositions and give adequate representation to viewpoints other than their own both in the articles and» no less important» in the bibliographies.

Similarly, there are no means other than denominational journals, most of which have limited distribution, through which a consensus may be developed with respect to important moral, religious, social, political and economic questions.

Normal adult samples can be distinguished from mentally and emotionally sick adult samples better than 99 out of 100 times on the basis of the degree of religious observance in the childhood home... the degree of religious observance in the childhood home plays an important role in the maintenance of mental health.

Even more important than this is the subjectivizing of the act of faith itself, for this latter has penetrated to the innermost depth of the religious life.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

The relationship to Judaism is more important than that to other religious communities because of its central role in the self - definition of Christianity and the long history of Christian persecution of Jews.

It is important to realize that, while process theology has recently received considerable attention in both religious and popular journals, this development, though lacking the organization of a movement, has been under way for more than forty years.

An important part of such development is to participate in the great historic faiths and in contemporary religious traditions other than one's own.

While faith today is treated as little more than a lifestyle option, in the past religious orthodoxy was equated with social order and security and thus became an important concern for any regime.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

The retreat of the humanities into the religious sector, important though it is, would mean abandoning too many students who yearn (whether they know it or not) to be more than cultural tourists.

As Alvin Plantinga has recently reiterated, citing Calvin's sensus divinitatis, religious experience more than theist argument may be the most important ground of belief.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

I hate to see creatures killed, but I know enough about my Native American friends and their religious practices, to know that this is really important to them, and that they treat animals with a lot more reverence than we do!

On the LGBT front, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce's decision to oppose any religious liberty expansion bills in that state's legislature is far more important to the future of Republican politics than Thom Tillis or Joni Ernst.

My point about the bible is that I don't necessarily think that it is MORE important than all other religious / spiritual texts.

The most important of these is that a religious body doesn't have the right, simply because it may be in the majority or be better organized than other groups, to bind its specifically religious doctrines upon others or to require that others help pay for the propagation of those doctrines.

This was has so much hatred for a religious symbol that not only symbolizes Christianity but it is also a huge part of Italian culture that she would go as far as taking the matter to court... why is her opinion, her feelings more important than the opinion and feelings of the rest of the Italian population?

Religious education was not a particularly important aspect of his work since conversion was far more important than nurture.

At its best, the religious right reminded all of us that there are realities more important than political or economic success; that we are a nation under God, one that can be weighed in the balance and found wanting.

More than that, it will mean a religious conservatism that sees the Church as more important than the state, the conscience as more important than the culture, and one that knows the difference between the temporal and the eternal.

So I know I got off track a bit, but what I was trying to say is there are more religious books than just the Bible and Koran, and even the followers of those two can't make up their mind what the most important teachings of them are.

The State's own constitution, the opinion then declared, «treats religious liberty as more important than the formation of government.»

I'm guessing the Mormon faith along with other religious faiths will be around and remembered much longer than the self important ramblings of the anonymous prophet DWN and his / her religious bigotry have died and return to dust.

More black and Hispanic millennials — ages 18 to 25 — said that it was important that a presidential candidate hold religious beliefs than white millennials, according to survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

Beginning to imagine the world as if religious solidarities were more important than national ones would inevitably divert imaginative effort from depicting and ornamenting the glories of the nation and of citizenship.

That all this is true of religious institutions, though, should not obscure the fact that churches are more than voluntary associations and are important not merely for being private.

Jesus» social location is far more important for Crossan than his religious location.

Mental images are more important than abstract concepts as vehicles for the transmission of a religious tradition.

It may, of course, require more than a leap of religious faith to argue that the actual composition of religious discourse is itself important.