Sentences with word «irreligious»

Black, in dissent, wonders about the rights of irreligious people; are they protected by the First Amendment mention of «religion?»

During the service I occasionally thought to myself that I was most certainly the only irreligious person in this church.

Not only is the average modern not irreligious; he is also not anti-Christian.

They were also surprised in some cases to find that Americans were not as irreligious as they had thought.

In this collection of essays Heartney undertakes to expose the hidden Catholicism in the works of controversial artists ranging from Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano to Karen Finley and Carolee Schneeman, and to explain their perceived irreligious tendencies as misunderstood impulses towards the divine.

This history bears witness that regardless of religious or irreligious beliefs, religion or non-religion is not the problem.

The world, robbed of the haunting presence of the indwelling deity, becomes irreligious and profane.

Biblical themes may be used in a painting but for irreligious purposes.

It is static thinking that portrays God as a creator of fixed, static and immutable essences and which is the root cause of modern man's irreligious attitude.

Even more were technically aligned with a church but can be considered irreligious.

Obama is not a Christian or a Muslim (or whatever) he is essentially irreligious - he uses religious language to get votes.

As Paul Tillich used to suggest, a work of art may have religious content or subject matter and be quite irreligious in its form.

Some forms are more easily turned to idolatrous and irreligious purposes than others.

And yet landscape, especially with Cézanne's return to Catholicism, continued to operate as a secular parable, despite an increasingly irreligious atmosphere.

That simply irreligious society is all around us now.

If you prefer irreligious dating but nevertheless want to meet someone who believes in mindful, spiritual living, we can help.

Bilbro also makes a compelling argument that the presumed pioneers of environmental thought were not as revolutionary as their modern irreligious readers might assume.

Religious, bipolar Jason probably would not have lived much longer, so irreligious, medicated Jason will have to suffice.

Irreligious children have been called impressionable and vulnerable, while religious children are told to get used to it.

Apparently 34 pages of interpretations following this article, of irreligious nutjobs taking things way too seriously.

several have left because, as they say, it doesn't feel like they've been to church, that we're actually irreligious.

But our society, in effect, now imposes an «irreligious test.»

Everyone should be free from religious or irreligious pressure, to that I whole heartedly agree.

Just as important, he expected Einstein to counter the «agnostic attitude and irreligious approach of physicians.»

Given the zeal and passion with which Sullivan had presented and openly extolled the school's religious heritage and philosophy, I wondered how anyone could believe the school irreligious.

First, Kearney asks, «So what exactly did Bonhoeffer mean when he advocated an «irreligious Christianity?»

So, godless communist repressive regimes, Pol Pot and other utopian idealist groups, violent anarchists, and other irreligious, violent groups would simply cease to exist?

-- Alice in Wonderland Are journalists irreligious, and does this affect their coverage of religious news?

When she fell pregnant, Mary didn't go to stay with a young, irreligious branch of the family.

Isolation or estrangement is also relatively irreligious because it reduces the number and closeness of relationships upon which any value depends.

In order to avoid using religious instruments in irreligious ways (which block growth), they should be employed in counseling only after one is aware of their meaning to that person.

And those two people are also cited as being strongly irreligious.

Personally I find Bennington's irreligious leanings to be something in their favor, along with their education program.

In the shadow of such a strong religious symbol, students still manage to remain amazingly irreligious.

He is not so utterly irreligious as he sometimes seems.

Ian Dodd, a 50 - something camera operator in Los Angeles, had long been a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church; he enjoyed it, but wanted something more explicitly irreligious.

15 % of the US is irreligious according to the American Religious Identification Study (2008)

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.