Sentences with phrase «majority religion»

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

It's not that Christmas is under attack; instead, our society is becoming better at embracing its religious diversity and challenging the notion that a single majority religion should dominate public expressions of belief.

people get beat up all the time for various things, the vast majority religion is not one of them.

The easiest way to determine this is to ask: if an individual changes their faith to the majority religion, will things improve?

My issue comes in with the majority religions (Christianity, Islam...) that assume if you believe in god it must be theirs.

The label we have for that non-belief is «atheist» — a term invented to separate and label those who did not conform to the majority religion.

Unfortunately, while some sad creatures continue to focus on a small minority religion in our country (maybe 10 million tops, depending on the study) while a crazy branch of the majority religion has decided it wants to force everyone in our same country to adhere to THEIR bizarre and restrictive beliefs.

Muslim is not a religion... Muslims are people who follow the religion of Islam... Islam is a religion and the majority religion of Indonesia... Did someone proofread the questions?

The answer to the question about the majority religion in Indonesia is not «Muslim.»

Please do not forget that the reason that Christianity is the majority religion in the United States is because it was founded by Christians fleeing the tyranny and persecution of the Church.

From there it is an easy step to advocating a Hindu nation and implicitly a Hindu state or one which is in some sense affiliated to the majority religion.

In some countries that fear conversions away from the majority religion, church leaders are also working to expand and reframe Christianity.

There is also the redefinition of nationalism linking it to the majority religion.

Depending on the majority religion, we could potentially lose basic human rights that many died fighting for.

The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.

Bcoz in a country with a majority religion, it will automatically put people with religious convictions on top and then it will enter legislation.

After about three centuries Islam became the majority religion, and Muslims were free to vandalize churches, assault priests, and mock liturgies.

Philosophically, after the Enlightenment, Judaism as a minority religion had the same problem as did Christianity, the majority religion.

New York's «alien and demoralizing environment» was simply not conducive to a majority religion's performing its proper function.

As a young Muslim in the West, our community very intentionally defended me against Christianity, the majority religion.

The most absurd and unfair generalizations are made about evangelicals: George Bush's born - again Christianity is blamed for his military decisions; and in a special «Director's Statement,» supplied to reviewers, Jacoby actually asks, «Is there something in the DNA of Christianity ¯ the majority religion in our country ¯ that demonizes the other and is inclined toward violence?»

The only path available today is, either the domination of the majority religion or secular ideology as the established framework of the state suppressing the rights of others using state coercion or open democratic secularism in which a consensus is sought regarding the values and directions of the common life of society and the state policy related to that common life, through peaceful but active dialogue among religions and ideologies.

The only path available today is, either the domination of the majority religion or secular ideology as the established framework of the State suppressing the rights of others using State coercion or open democratic secularism in which a consensus is sought regarding the values and directions of the common life of society and the State policy related to that common life, through peaceful but active dialogue among religions and ideologies.

Love and families and happiness exist all over the World, but Christianity isn't the universal religion.It isn't even the majority religion.

Christianity being a majority religion means having a lot of people in the family of believers.

Many such states, for example, appeal to religious tradition in making the law, provide material and symbolic advantages to members of the majority religion, and enforce conservative laws in matters of sexuality and the family.

While a majority religion can be an ally of government or a tool of government, there are of course cases of a religion gaining control over government and effectively being government, and this often means religion policies dominating a society — especially «spread the religion».

The majority religion is Christianity (75 %), and French and English are the joint official languages.

Despite Islam being the majority religion in the country, the divide between Mosque and State is sternly enforced: all state employees including teachers and civil servants are strictly forbidden from wearing religious symbols (most noticeably the headscarf); alcohol is not as freely available as it is elsewhere in Europe, but beer and raki (a popular anise - flavored apéritif in Turkey) are still served in many restaurants and cafés, especially in the western part of the country.