Sentences with phrase «makes established religion»

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful He (Allâh) has ordained for you the same religion (Islâmic Monothesim) which He ordained for Nûh (Noah), and that which We have revealed to you (O Muhammad SAW), and that which We ordained for Ibrahîm (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses) and «Īsā (Jesus) saying you should establish religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no divisions -LSB--RSB- in it (religion)(i.e. various sects in religion).

Making laws based on religious beliefs and voting for people just because they share your religious beliefs gives this nation an established religion.

Catholicism is earth - established and man - made religion.

The bible would have taken roughly a century to get into proper circulation, and only two and a bit centuries later, it's quite possible that maybe it grew on some of the Romans and out of remorse, re-considered that they actually were responsible for killing the son of God (in the sense they started to believe him to be), thus Constantine coming around and establishing it as a Rome's primary religion, and how closely apart the dates are, makes me think its considerable evidence than Jesus couldn't have just been a made up figure.

It solved two problems: (1) it prevented the conservative bent of established religion from defending any status quo uncritically, and (2) it made our high degree of religious pluralism compatible with our national unity.

The anonymous «Federal Farmer» in letters to «The Republican» joined in: «It is true, we are not disposed to differ much, at present, about religion; but when we are making a constitution, it is to be hoped, for ages and millions yet unborn, why not establish the free exercise of religion, as a part of the national compact.»

The very fact that mythology is only a form makes it even more imperative to establish the qualitative difference between revelation and religion.

With regard to Protestant Christian ministry, that might make sense when Protestant Christianity is the nation's established religion; but in twentieth - century America it is not.

In the Roman Empire it had to make its way against the competition of many other religions and cults, numbers of which were long established and were an integral part of the dominant culture.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

The Dutch and British made no attempt before the last century to interfere with established religion.

The Telecommunications Act of 1934 established: «For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world - wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting -LSB-...]

[xliii] In a stinging dissent, Judge Andrew Kleinfeld observed, «Discriminating against religious schools in a program of otherwise general availability makes no sense as a strategy for avoiding an establishment of religion, because treating everyone the same without regard to religion is hard to see as «establishing» anything — except equality.»

Focusing on the sacrifices animals make for man, Blood of Two centers on the former function of the Slaughterhouse and the customs of Hydra to establish connections between paganism and religion, ancient and modern, the ritualistic and familiar.

Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion.

I also regret that the Court... missed the opportunity to analyse in more detail the concept of a plurality of legal systems, which is linked to that of legal pluralism and is well - established in ancient and modern legal theory and practice... This general remark also applies to the assessment to be made of sharia, the legal expression of a religion whose traditions go back more than a thousand years, and which has its fixed points of reference and its excesses, like any other complex system.

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