Sentences with word «nonreligious»

A new poll suggests that 78 percent of religious people display the American flag while 58 percent of nonreligious people do the same.

In a series of grant - in - aid cases, the Court held that students in religious schools had to be denied benefits offered to students in nonreligious private schools.

Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in a series of surveys conducted between 1993 and 2012, reported on parental satisfaction with assigned public schools, public schools chosen by parents, private religious schools, and private nonreligious schools.

The controversial program allows low - income students to enroll in nonreligious private schools at the state's expense.

Washington — A broad coalition of education and legal groups has drafted guidelines for the implementation of the Equal Access Act, which the Congress passed in August to guarantee student religious groups the same access as nonreligious groups to public - school facilities.

Of the 776 students enrolled in St. Louis charter schools, 21 percent came from private schools — 13 percent from Catholic schools and 8 percent from nonreligious private schools.

The churches, in their presentation of their answers to this query, have put forward aspects of religion which are expressed in terms either suited to the emotional reactions of bygone times or directed to excite modern emotional interests of nonreligious character.

The teaching that there this is an eternal everlasting tormenting hell is unbiblical and in my conversations with nonreligious people the number one reason for their unbelief.

We are trying to make a big, beautiful impression upon the affluent nonreligious American who is riding by on this busy freeway.»

The program began in 1990 with just 350 students at nonreligious private schools.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

In that sense, Hannah Arendt was one of many Jewish, Christian, and nonreligious intellectuals» of whom there were many, if not a majority, in Germany» as well as working people, whose spirit was dulled by memories of a deeply flawed national ambition and shattered personal expectations.

It should be a wakeup call to you just how polluted and discriminatory religious ideology is to nonreligious individuals, but you just keep peering through your keyhole.

There are plenty of other religions represented in America and plenty of nonreligious represented in America.

Comparing the candidates» supporters, the more diverse religious and nonreligious coalition that's favoring Obama tends to be younger and growing, which could make it easier for Democrats to win elections in the future.

My life is happy and fulfilled, and with the exception of a number of young nonbelievers who are the way they are because religion has somehow hurt them, most nonreligious people are good, upstanding people who want to further the human race.

Guantánamo calls these men «long - term nonreligious fasters.»

At OkCupid, being an atheist is a date - maker, not a deal - breaker — «I don't think there has ever been a place with a mixed environment of people from religious and nonreligious backgrounds where it is more comfortable and respected to be an atheist, an agnostic or a humanist.»

Listing community activities and nonreligious groups that you participate in is a good idea.

There are even nonreligious people today who think that the evil of men will eventually lead to annulation of mankind.

Nonreligious children tended to rank the incidents as less mean.

This stuff works to a degree: as Smith and Denton show «religion actually does influence positive outcomes» and religious teens tend to do better than nonreligious teens.

(CNN)- The number of nonreligious Jews is rising in the United States, with more than one in five saying they are not affiliated with any faith, according to a new survey.

Whereas separational performers are primarily marketed through explicitly Christian bookstores, «integrational» performers seek to address wider audiences, thus «crossing over» to distribution through such mainstream outlets as Tower Records and airplay on nonreligious radio stations and MTV.

Oh, and from a totally nonreligious standpoint, helping our citizenry get a strong education and stay healthy so they can continue to be productive members of society instead of winding up on disability or on unemployment due to limited job skills happens to make economic sense as well.

If that is not enough, more than 10 percent of American citizens declare themselves atheistic or otherwise nonreligious.

Even many of the most nonreligious folks finds Him admirable, wise and worthy of great respect.

Thus, the materialistic Picasso, and most modern art with him, can express an essentially nonreligious love of the world in all its materialistic carnality only within the framework of a highly «spiritual» — i.e., abstract — style.

Faculties feel constrained by the strictly nonreligious standards of secular «academic freedom.»

In the face of these patchwork gaps, American human rights groups have been advocating for the adoption of a federal bill titled the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity by nonreligious employers with over 15 employees.

Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder's demand that private yeshivas be exempted from meeting state standards for nonreligious instruction emerged as one of the last sticking points preventing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders from finalizing a $ 170 billion spending plan.

I mentioned Colonel John Bogdan, who oversaw prison operations and whose harsh reforms were said to have sparked a hunger strike involving over 100 detainees (the military calls them «long - term nonreligious fasters»).

«This underscores what American Atheists has been saying for years - that every person in America knows more nonreligious people than they think they know,» Silverman says.

The Student International Meditation Society (SIMS), active on more than 1,000 campuses, emphasizes the secular, nonreligious identity of the movement, calling it a «science» and compiling dramatic studies of improvements in metabolism, blood pressure, cerebral alpha and theta wave production under the influence of Transcendental Meditation.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional MRI to evaluate brain activity in 15 devout Christians and 15 nonbelievers as the volunteers assessed the truth or falsity of a series of statements, some of which were religious («angels exist») and others nonreligious («Alexander the Great was a very famous military ruler»).

The titles are funny precisely because they substitute something light and nonreligious where we expect something sacred.

Churches» limited exemption from antidiscrimination law is not and can not be justified as a special privilege for religion but simply as an instance of the autonomy, privacy, and «freedom of association» enjoyed by all members of the constitutional community, religious and nonreligious alike.

«I think that understanding how nonreligious scientists utilize religion in family life demonstrates the important function they have in the U.S.,» Ecklund said.

But when it comes to generosity, nonreligious kids seem to be more giving, according to a new study of 1170 children from around the world.

It's something that shows up in all religious and nonreligious areas of our lives.

I draw this line to distance myself from the views of my father, who practices the former form of relatively intolerant atheism, whereas I am a member of the more tolerant nonreligious.

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?