Sentences with phrase «like humanism»

The latest RE curriculum framework for teaching prior to GCSE level was produced last year and recommends the study of non-religious worldviews like Humanism alongside religions — a simple codification of the developing place of non-religious beliefs in RE which has evolved over many decades.

Not exact matches

Men like Hadjadj (a Jewish Arab from a far left atheist and anti-Catholic background) credit their own conversions to national authors like Bloy and Péguy, to the power of grand old churches, or, indeed, to the theological basis of French humanism and universalism.

Whatever the league tables might look like, faith - based education clearly isn't all about results, and has something to offer that secular humanism does not.

You expose your outdated beliefs and understandings in such a seemingly trivial mistake: no one uses a phone book anymore, but, a quick Google search will provide contact information for literally dozens of support groups, organizations and communities ready to embrace and assist those seeking to practice Secular Humanism with others of like mind.

And what would it look like, or how would it be represented: Beyond Secular Humanism and Secular Religion?

This seems like a good Blog to explain atheism and Humanism (at least what MY Humanism entails).

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Perhaps you are referring to actual ideologies that some atheists may hold, like secular humanism or animism.

things like the golden rule can be linked to humanism.

In his essay «A New Humanism for Europe: The Role of the Universities», to which Franchi and Davis refer, Benedict XVI puts it like this: «How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!»

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

Perhaps conservative evangelicals run the risk of being needlessly dogmatic on some issues, thereby alienating the next generation, while progressives are in danger of giving up so much historic doctrine that their faith is starting to look more like Campolo's humanism than historic Christianity.

I'm sure you also know that something like 10 % of atheists claim they belong to a religion (Buddhism, Secular Humanism, Church of Atheism)

In this respect the new atheism is very much like the old secular humanism that was rebuked by the hard - core atheists for its mousiness in facing up to what the absence of God should really mean.

Most religions are theistic but some like naturalism, humanism or buddhism are a-theistic religions.

I attend the local Unitarian - Universalist Fellowship so I can spend time with like - minded people, because I wanted my kids to have a connection with Humanism.

As will become clear as the argument proceeds, I am not subscribing to that type of humanism that asserts that religious faith amounts to no more than a projection of human hopes, aspirations, and the like.

For those, like Rod Dreher, who see no room for committed Christians in the nation's public square, Noonan's Erasmian life in law and literature provides a robust affirmation that yes, there is always space in secular America for truly gifted practitioners of a humanism that finds its center in the Incarnation.

As a consequence, «something very much like «secular humanism» is informally established as much as Christianity was in the 19th century.»

If you find yourself in conflict with someone like that, just imagine what the opposition is all about: secular laws vs religious laws, and racism vs humanism, to name but two of the many battlefields to be found here.

In the world that we are now entering there is a striking new source of false hope, in the «trans - humanism» of people like Ray Kurzweil, Max More and their followers.

Instead of each scene being its own whole that's also part of something larger, the entirety of The Wind Rises is treated with a combination of Miyazaki's humanism and the cold, existential fatalism of a director like Kubrick.

It's southern at its most gothic, a familial dysfunction piece set in Texas, wrapped in a rightwing nut - job crime thriller that plays like Mortal Thoughts in its mood and structure and Eye of God in its somewhat detached humanism and ability to wring suspense from Biblical Abraham's trial.

It's an unashamedly political picture but relaying its message — about the rotten lot of women in the country — through the personal and the specific, with a humanism that refuses to demonize difficult characters like Wadjda's father (Sultan Al Assaf) or the stern headmistress Ms. Hussa (Ahd).

Mark Ruffalo again bursts out of the screen as the twitchy, dog - with - a-bone Michael Rezendes, especially in his scenes with a genius Stanley Tucci, playing the harried, brusque DA who has been alone on the side of the angels so long in this devil's game that his humanism looks more like misanthropy.

The New Right's campaign against secular humanism in the schools often seems like an attempt to demonstrate that no one ever lost political power by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

The word snugly adheres itself to the late artist's work like skin, as though humanism could not be found, one way or another, in every portrait of a human.