Sentences with phrase «influences out of religion»

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).

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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3 - Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be «casting out Satan» while in reality, he is only solidifying his own power and influence in the world.

In many places, the growing influence of other major world religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam has threatened to crowd out the proclamation of the gospel.

While three out of four Americans (72 %, a record high) believe that religion is «losing its influence on American life,» a majority of Americans (56 percent) also believe this shift has been for the worse.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Atheists crack me up when they speak of morality as though they figured it all out on their own with absolutely no influence from religion.

Eating the flesh and drinking the blood have overtones of the Lord's Supper, and many scholars have tried to point out in these words the influence of the mystery religions, which often spoke about eating the body of the dying and rising savior god.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»

The despised any influence from any religion, and at that time, the clergy was thinking the same — stay out of govt to prevent corruption of the church.

It should also be pointed Out that the memory - lane of dalits in re» member» ing their cultural values is blurred by the influences of world - view of other religions to which they converted later.

If she approached her conversion with logic, she would have seen enough evidence to influence her that Catholicism was the right choice out of all the other religions, and god does in fact exist.

Not only do the individualities influence the change of the images; it would be an important problem of the philosophy of history in the study of the history of religions to search out the influences, the categories, through which a precise «relative a priori» — to use Simmel's expression — acts upon the shaping of the «images»: national, tribal, race, class, sexmembership.

This lesson is focussed on Humanism; the objectives of the lesson are: - To describe what Humanism is - To explain the main beliefs Humanists hold - To analyse and debate Humanist beliefs Implicit objectives include: - To identify common humanist objections to religious influences on society, law and politics - To draw out (through debate) the motivations Humanists have for rejecting religion and religious beliefs.

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.