Sentences with phrase «lives by their religious beliefs»

Forcing others to live by your religious beliefs is akin to rape.

Aren't people allowed to live by their religious beliefs in the country anymore?

This point has been contested by Bergin (1991) who found that 76 % of professionals agreed with the statement, «I try hard to live by my religious beliefs».

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@truth If you live in one of the more devout bible belt states you would find many of the state laws are greatly influenced by the religious beliefs that are prevelant.

You believe that life doesn't continue, and you should be left alone by the religious as well, as that belief is your choice.

The religious students I knew learned life lessons by experience, but they learned by socializing their religious beliefs and interacting with religious and non-religous students.

The religious right won't be happy until every person in the US lives by their beliefs.

I say this, and I do so in capital letters with exclamation points, because of a survey released Thursday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life regarding voter perceptions of the religious beliefs of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Your belief that this young man cut down in the prime of his life by religious zealots is somehow «safe from evil» is just silly.

In days past, we could regard these persons and beliefs as «esoterica,» suitable objects of scholarship by odd professors but otherwise of not much concern to our own religious life.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

He believed, by contrast, that, whatever our own religious beliefs, we should be studying the growth and development of Christian culture (in its broadest sense) because it was Christianity which had created and shaped the culture we still live in today.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

here's the argument to your stupid hedge bet... which is a weak reason to believe by the way... if there is a god, he is the all knowing, all loving, all accepting kind of god and he will recognize those that led good lives and those that led bad ones and regardless of their religious beliefs will judge them on their actions and be allowed into this heaven.

The moral codes people live by come from somewhere, often from religious teachings or beliefs.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Our analysis suggests that one of the emerging coalitions will be united by belief in God, an understanding that such belief has implications for public life, and a preference for religious language in political discourse.

As for Pastor Mike and his atheist registry, like so many other strongly religious people I've encountered, he's equating religion with morality, as if, without religious belief (the right religious belief), you are incapable of possessing and living by a moral / ethical code.

No, the desire to win over shows that we just want to enjoy the one life we have and not have it ruined by religious people forcing their beliefs on us.

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.

There are very few thing sin life that bother me other than bad drivers abnd religious believeres who though some fault of their own think I should be bound by their beliefs.

After all, if we «swallow the camel» by not challenging the notion that unplanned natural forces gave rise to all living things, starting from nothing but nonliving chemicals, and «strain out the gnat» of man's consciousness as the sole exception to an otherwise completely natural explanation, are we not allowing religious beliefs to interfere with scientific explanation?

Secularism may also describe a change of mood by which people no longer seek to explain life by reference to religious beliefs.

A catholic university is perfectly within its rights to insist that it's religious beliefs are respected by students living on its campus.

As Friday's historic final shuttle launch approaches, Shepard's Prayer speaks volumes about the wide spectrum of religious beliefs among the relatively few men and women who've risked their lives by traveling into space.

Having grown accustomed to having the finer things, her religious and moral beliefs are tested by Nucky's business practices as she learns more about the man she and her children live with, but as we discover she too can be tricky and cunning.

«Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan, Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci star in this riveting, complex drama of a family - court judge facing a personal and professional crisis when she's asked to rule in the case of a teenager who is refusing a life - saving blood transfusion due to his family's religious beliefs.»

Indeed, for many people in Montenegro, religious beliefs are central to their culture and provide the moral codes by which they live particularly rural areas.

Here was a land peopled overwhelmingly by mestizos (people of mixed descent) and Indians, with dozens of pre-Columbian languages still spoken, syncretic religious beliefs and rituals reinforcing fatalism, with the dead seemingly more revered than the living... Yet, for all the fascination that foreign artists felt for Mexico between 1910 and 1940, their influence on the country was minimal.

For the majority, a chink in the self - sufficiency of the community poses little threat to the ability of the members of the community to practice their religion (or it constitutes a test of just how coherent and significant their religious views are); for the dissent, this religious community must be seen as holistic with the result that all aspects of life are infused by religious beliefs and practices.

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.

For example, the failure by persons holding certain religious beliefs in the wider Australian community to live up to those beliefs did not necessarily mean that those beliefs had been abandoned.

Likewise, common religious beliefs shared by many faiths help explain why connection is so vital to our lives.

The court said, «One who earns a living through the return on capital investment in rental properties can, if she does not wish to comply with an antidiscrimination law that conflicts with her religious beliefs, avoid the conflict without threatening her livelihood by selling her units and redeploying the capital in other investments.»

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