Sentences with phrase «living in a pluralistic society»

Catholics understand that because we live in a pluralistic society their tax dollars and government policy may be directed in a manner they find morally offensive.

Living in a pluralistic society that also grants freedom and civil rights protection to those with whom one disagrees is not the same as religious persecution.

However, we live in a pluralistic society where freedom of religion is the rule of law and where nobody has any right to demand that anyone change or cease performing their religious duties simply because of offensive implications, which are inherent to all Western religious practice.

Washington (CNN)-- Speaking at the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast inWashington on Thursday, the president said, «We know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can't dictate our response to every challenge we face.

CNN: Politics and Prayers Speaking at the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast inWashington on Thursday, the president said, «We know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can't dictate our response to every challenge we face.

The naked public square is necessary, they say, «because we live in a pluralistic society.»

The sophomoric nastiness regularly displayed in Charlie Hebdo most certainly does not constitute any sort of warrant for homicide; the incapacity of some Muslims to live in pluralistic societies and the rage to which those incapacities lead is a grave threat to the West.

1) multiple interpretations of the Bible exist 2) there are many ways to apply the teachings of the Bible to public life 3) no one denomination or spokesperson has a monopoly on how to accurately interpret the Bible and apply it to public life 4) because we live in a pluralistic society, we must learn to raise the level of public discourse so that we not only appeal to our specific religious tradition, but to a common sense of morality and justice

Christians seem to only now be waking up to the fact that we are living in a pluralistic society, a society in which there is a plurality (i.e., a manifold of religions, opinions, world views, cults and philosophies).

But we live in a pluralistic society where we need practical solutions to material problems, and not theocratic driven drivel.

Not exact matches

In a pluralistic society, while there must be certain standards by which everyone is regulated, there is no inclusive pattern of life for the society as a whole.

What I mean is the religiously atomized pluralistic society of our time of which all forms of Christianity are only a part and in which we live together with post-Christian neo-pagans, if I may be allowed to use this expression.

Or, better said, I want to be a part of finding a way to live together with deep differences in a pluralistic society.

And, even though it is very difficult in our pluralistic society, it is nevertheless the duty of Christian parents to transmit to their children the sacred inheritance of the Christian faith and also of a Christian life provided with practical guiding lines.

In a society which is religiously and ideologically pluralistic, this view has to be mediated to public life through the church and other voluntary groups committed to it.

It is an example of living together in the emerging pluralistic world society.

Seriously, though, isn't the whole point of our pluralistic society that we are enriched with the diversity of traditions and practices of all the people in our daily lives?

As a result, I think a Muslim and a Christian, simply by living and engaging in a pluralistic society like the United States, have the opportunity to get to know more about their respective faiths, just through experiencing life in a society that includes members of that faith.

As Americans in a pluralistic society, however, we must create a milieu for moral decision - making that is somewhere between value conferred by intention or relation alone, and the abstract mystical fetishism that deifies the substance of human life in and of itself.

If the former, the question would be whether they also prepare their students to enter the pluralistic society in which they will live.

Life and law in a pluralistic society such as ours do not move in a rigidly logical progression.

The program was developed with a variety of activities that encourage mutual respect among groups through social and cultural cooperation that underlies the creation of a pluralistic society lives in harmony.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.