Sentences with phrase «justified by religious belief»

@eferg: I will agree on bigotry justified by religious belief.

Holy wars produce large numbers, but countless people have been killed throughout history by people who believe they were justified by their religious beliefs.

History is full of examples of people causing harm to other people justified by their religious beliefs and their «personal knowledge» of what God wanted them to do.

If that opportunity never presents itself (and I hope it doesn't) you could always go visit some female burn victims in the Middle East and talk about the violence suffered at the hands of their husbands, all justified by their religious beliefs.

Not exact matches

@Mark To be clear, I would see granting exemptions if the organization was expressly religious, like an actual church, but merely being guided by the religious principles of the founder simply doesn't justify preventing coverage to those within the organization with different beliefs, atti.tudes, and morals.

Camus suggested that capital punishment could be justified only where there was a socially shared religious belief that the final verdict on any person's life is given by God, not by us.

However, if one is delusional in the first place, it stands to reason that their religious beliefs may be skewed, misunderstood, and used by that person to try to justify their delusion.

People speaking out against bigotry and hate by people who use their religious beliefs to justify depriving others of the human rights the religious claim for themselves by virtue of their beliefs.

Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»

Bearing this in mind, section 60 (5)(a) could and would, if necessary, be construed and applied by a court or tribunal as permitting preferential decisions on grounds of religious belief, only to the extent that such decisions were consistent with genuine, legitimate and justified occupational requirements.»