Sentences with phrase «more particular religions»

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more and more people DO NOT align them themselves with a particular religion.

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

I have no data to back this, but I presume that if someone were indoctrinated into religion and then escaped from it, they may be more likely to self identify as an atheist or agnostic and still score better than someone never exposed to it in the first place, who might self identify as «nothing in particular.»

It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with other revealed religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve more to obscure than reveal the truth.

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

The more strictly the tenets of a particular religious sect are pushed on us, such as by Christian fundamentalists, the more we see conflict between democracy and religion.

You don't have to believe in God or practice the various rites of a particular religion, but you would live a much more full life if you are exposed to those teachings.

but even if you were right, the simple fact that only one can be right, doesn't make the existence of God any more or less likely — your leap from a particular religion might be wrong to God does not exist is not maintainable.

This chapter deals with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range of human concerns.

There can be no laws respecting the establishment of a particular religion, which means that it's not a matter of conservative Christian beliefs carrying more weight than anyone else's, except on matters about which we can work for general agreement.

It's clear from these results that agnostics are much more likely to move away from organized religion, while Americans with no particular faith stand as a bridge between some faith and no faith.

Conversely, young adults ages 18 - 29 are much more likely than those age 70 and older to say that they are not affiliated with any particular religion (25 % vs. 8 %).

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

Because morality is relative, adhering to one particular religion, or no religion at all, doesn't make one any more or less «right», or «moral», than an adherant to any other.

And more mystifying still, while the one (the necessity of a Christian Word to a culture in mortal distress) seems to call for a sure, a clear and a well - founded Christian theology of history, the other (the necessity of dialogue with other religions) seems to relativize, though it can not in the end dissolve, any particular religion's answer to culture's problems.

It's my experience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

It is impossible to achieve more than superficial correlation of studies in the history and philosophy of religion, in psychology and sociology, with the older disciplines, unless the relations of the Church to religion in general, to the particular religions and to secular culture have been intelligibly defined.

You didn't know much about any of them, and so decided to interview various members of each particular faith, and ask them why you should join their religion, and more importantly, why they believed their particular religion was true.

He theorized that religious thinking evolved at some point (ironically, you might say) and that in some cases tribe leaders were able to use this to get people to stop fighting and to form bigger, more powerful political units, which in turn won out over isolated tribes, thereby facilitating the spread of a particular religion.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

Statistically, if there even is a god, it is far more likely that one of faith has chosen (or been taught without the benefit of making an actual personal choice) the wrong god to believe in or the wrong set of tenets ascribed to that particular god or that the one true religion has either gone extinct or hasn't been formulated yet.

your particular belief can not be any more valid that any other religion, as you have absolutely no proof.

My concern is not only with grand cosmological interpretations of how the universe came to be and what it is likely to become, nor only with sociobiological interpretations of the basis of morals and religions, but also with more particular biochemical genetic research and neurosciences.

But I tried to avoid any discussion of whether it is or is not a good idea for voters to select based on religion by considering simply «a class that shares an opinion on any particular issue», and show that this simple model was already enough to explain non-proportional representation, before discussing any more complex model.

Christian religion has been popular in the America and other countries, so more Christian dating websites emerged that they focus on this particular religion.

The above two approaches should not be confused with schools allowing religious instruction classes where students of a particular faith have the opportunity to learn more about their religion.

I am rather better and more broadly educated in logic, science, and religion (your trifecta of the classical scholar) than most humans (a simple fact that I offer without any particular pride in it) and yet I find that I must turn to my wife the physician constantly lest I speak my beliefs about almost any aspect of medicine and have those casually founded beliefs turn out not to be the best beliefs, the things you want to perpetuate by passing them on.

Membership in an association affiliated with the interests of a particular race, nationality, religion, or language is not, without more, a basis for concluding that a perception of bias can reasonably be said to arise.

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