Sentences with phrase «influenced by religion»

Historically, Massachusetts has been heavily influenced by religion and most religions discourage divorce, so separation was a way for people to move on with their lives within the confines of their religious beliefs.

The proper analysis should be whether the state's choices and decisions are influenced by religion, how it treats other religions beliefs, and whether all religions are treated equally.

The end product arises out of a sculptural tradition based on the creation of works of art influenced by religion and literature, but simultaneously reduced to a secret level of identification — an art historical lingua franca.

Online dating can also be influenced by religion or culture.

some times i wonder it we human some how had been program are we are just following the script now you can't tell me if i was the manager of arsenal and i want to win the premier league are the champions league because I'm Jamaica i have never smoke i don't religious beliefs an i make decision based information observation Fact not influenced by religion race emotion back to foot ball.

A person's politics are heavily influenced by their religion and Mormonism is one of the whackiest.

However, I will say that in 2012 it is losing credibility by the day and less people are influenced by religion than I have ever seen.

That their decisions and their whole lives are informed and influenced by religion.

But in those institutions, the effort is made, as a distinguished spokesperson put it, to make sure that the «science of the students is not influenced by their religion and their religion is not affected by their science.»

While both parties may be influenced by religion, one party moreso than another relies more heavily on that; because of that reliance that party essentially CA N'T do anything positive for gay people because it would go against their religious beliefs.

The anger in some of these posts are perfect evidence of the mindset of the those who are trapped and influenced by religion.

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

When Jesus walked the earth, the culture was heavily influenced by religion;.

European colonization was undeniably, heavily influenced by religion, though it would be difficult to break down the percentages of how much each motive (religion, trade, greed for «free gold») influenced the event.

I just believe that as someone who wasn't raised with religion, my instinctual sense of morals is a lot more pure than those influenced by religion.

Do the conservative Protestants who were influenced by religion choose to earn less by becoming pastors or teachers at Christian schools or by taking jobs that allow them to spend more time with their family?

Influenced by religions, ritualism, appropriation and the neo-naive, Luciano began his art adventures with his oversized hand made pasteups on the streets of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Not exact matches

Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

Science is not influenced by belief as you suggest because many scientists with different beliefs validate the experiments, unlike religion which is pure belief with no evidence.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

What, then, should Supreme Court Justices do if they are convinced that the decisions of one or more of their colleagues are being influenced by disapproval of religion?

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

But many others are influenced by authority figures from such a young age that by the time they are old enough to think for themselves, racism (or religion) has already been deeply instilled.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

By the same token please let me know how the choice of another individual influences your own religion?

Other theologians, of course, have approached the study of the history of religions from a theological point of view, and their theology has been influenced by what they have learned.

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

Dara Shikoh, the son of Shah Jahan, was in his early life influenced by the liberalism of the Sufis, as distinct from the orthodoxy of the ulama, and later began to take increasing interest in the Hindu religion.

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

But Gujarat is an area of India which is much influenced by the Jain religion.

Though religion in general and lowest common denominator religion were attacked in the fifties as a modern perversion of traditional religion by neo-orthodox critics and those like Will Herberg who were influenced by them, actually such general religion has a long and honorable history in Christendom.

Look around and notice all the religions (or spirituality or beliefs, etc) that have been formed by virtually every tribe on the planet (some completely independently, others having been influenced by their neighbors).

The religion itself was not created by the influence of any culture at all which is why i follow this religion, especially since the Quran has not been changed ever.

An essay by the estimable Samuel Huntington in The Influence of Faith recounts the ways in which, for more and more governments in the world, religion is the chief source of, or threat to, their legitimacy.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

In suggesting the theology of religions as the essential integrating principle of missiology, I am influenced by a number of missiologists who made similar pleas for different purposes.

«My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers: its influence grew ¯ infiltrating schools and civic bodies as well as politics, and even religion ¯ before it was fully recognized for the monster it was.»

Neither the centuries during which India was successively dominated by Muslims and the British nor the arrival of other religions, including Christianity, succeeded in overcoming the influence of this caste system; indeed, the effect of Muslim and British colonization was to strengthen the status quo.

The Polish Church managed to link the popular religion of the masses with the advanced thought of the Catholic intellectual elites, influenced by French personalism, Thomism, and phenomenology: this was the environment that produced Karol Wojtyla.

Despite its influence in the discipline, The Sacred Canopy has been superseded by many contributions to the sociology of religion in more recent years.

May all Christians be encouraged by his example, and the Muslims who see his faith and peace (and hopefully love) and be influenced to question their religion's lack of forgiveness and grace, and turn to the Lord for salvation.

The wall of separation actually exists to PROTECT religious freedom by keeping politics and political influences OUT of religion and religious expressions, but the caveat is that religion has to then stay out of politics as well and not ask for political influence (such as public funds).

Even in Arab countries where shari'a (Islamic law) is not enforced by the government, Islam's influence prevents freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, and of conscience.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

I agree with the inference made by GAW, that both science and religion are capable of influencing good or evil outcomes — which leads us to the motives of the human heart... and back to religion.

New ground, not really covered by either historians or theologians previously, was broken when sociologists of religion asked about the influence of societal factors upon religion.

thus of a sudden to seduce the Church which was devoted to him, and hung upon him through admiration of his genius, his learning, his eloquence, his manner of life and influence, while she had no fear, no suspicion for herself — thus, I say, to seduce the Church, slowly and little by little, from the old religion to a new profaneness, was not only a trial, but a great trial.

Our theology and our practice of religion have been influenced by this cultural tendency.