Sentences with phrase «of a national religion»

I agree for the most part that politics should not be a focal point for a church, but the separation of church and state is to prevent the formation of a national religion.

We see here the intentional and deliberate establishment of a national religion in the service of the state and for the purpose of unifying national sentiment.

Here we were inducted into the mysteries of our national religion, reasonable, surprisingly masculine for a faith that might at first glance seem soppy and weak, confident, and perhaps above all things unself - consciously beautiful.

[1] The Establishment Clause has generally been interpreted to prohibit 1) the establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference by the U.S. government of one religion over another.

But since our particular variety of national religion usually employs terms identical with those of the Christian ethic and even with the faith itself, the issue is extremely confused.

The standpoint of national religion appears in the utterances in which God's interests are identified with those of the people, when for example Israel's war is assumed to be God's war, Israel's honor God's honor, Israel's country God's country.

Furthermore, even when «civil contract» terminology is used in statute, it can not drive a wedge between the general and the ecclesiastical law of marriage: a union authorised by law must be recognised equally as a lawful union by the officers and tribunals of the national religion (Thompson v Dibdin [1912] AC 533) except to the extent that parliament limits parishioners» rights in order to protect individual clerical consciences.

The Constitution of the United States forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.»