Sentences with phrase «of a particular religion»

What troubles me is how easy it can be to go from opposing evil and injustice to opposing people of a particular religions and / or political viewpoint.

Contrary to popular belief, doing away with government endorsement of a particular religion is not the same thing as seeking government endorsement of atheism.

They insist on using government resources for private religious purposes and as a subsidy and apparent approval and support by the government of their particular religion.

And that ethos will inevitably have been born in the context of a particular religion.

It is the 1 % of each that make the rest of a particular religion look bad.

So all you can legitimately claim is that based on your imperfect partial understanding of some the world's religions none of those particular religions seemed to be true.

The study of «religion» is the key to a deeper understanding of a particular religion.

Someone on the panel points out a clearly insane tenant of a particular religion, everyone cheers, and nobody really learns anything or is inspired into action.

Those kind of issues can be decided on without actually knowing the theology of a particular religion.

This means that they do not subscribe to or encourage the philosophies of any particular religion.

The truth of no particular religion could be taught - only the fact that religions claim truth.

A belief in God does not prove or disprove one's intelligence, just as being a member of any particular religion does not prove or disprove intelligence.

All US politicians should have to state publicly which branch / denomination of their particular religion they support, and then explain why they don't support the other branches / denominations and what they disagree with in each.

And if followers of a particular religion, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, any of them, feel a dire need to have school calendars coincide with their religious calendars, then it's called a charter school.

Once you realize that the arbitrary dogmas of any particular religion / sect / cult are meaningless, you will have no need to participate in their empty rituals.

oh no wait that would be against separation of church and state and suppression of freedom of speech in defense / support of a particular religion

Thus it would tend to undermine the claims of any particular religion, although perhaps it was meant to give children an appreciation of «religion in general.»

Teachings are accepted by the authorities of your particular religion and handed down over time.

However, with very few exceptions that don't venture too far outside the lines of historically preeminent orthodox teachings, converts of a particular religion join with their mosques, synagogues, churches or communities in part due to some sense of heightened «rightness» in that particular way over other ways.

The interesting thing is that you do nt have to study any religous book (and by religous book I take that to mean the authoritative book of a particular religion, like the bible, koran, etc.) to get to the truth.

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.

The clergy of that particular religion are just a bunch of sycophantic self - aggrandizing whackjobs that live in a land of make believe in their head so far from reality they can't even guess at what it's like anymore.

This is part of the larger trend of what has been called «religicide» in the region: the intentional killing off of a particular religion within a given region or area of the world.

No one cares about the validity of any particular religion because it has no bearing on the (1) the validity of religion in general, (2) the existence of a god, or (3) whether there is a universal morality.

The book is interesting as a scripture of a particular religion, in that it includes so much material from poets who were never associated with the movement, though some of them deeply influenced Nanak.

«no one ever said he «had» to pray the only command was to bow your head and stare at the ground» The military is literally follwing a religious directive and forcing non beleivers of that particular religion to follow.

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.

What was still disallowed was any study from the point of view of a particular religion, especially of Christianity.

More than seventy - five years after the enactment of Bunreacht na hEireann, it is widely acknowledged that we need a Constitution that reflects the new multi-cultural Ireland, that reflects the diversity and pluralism of our population and that no longer bows the head in genuflection to the ideologies of a particular religion.

Users fill out a questionnaire about themselves (their hair color, for example, or whether they have children) and what they're looking for (say, someone of a particular religion).

That would be like saying that most preachers of a particular religion, believe in that religion.

While avoiding reference to the clothing of any particular religion, Bill 62 does reiterate the previous bill's requirement that government staff not cover their faces when performing their work, unless the work requires it.

«Nothing in this Part shall be read or given effect in a way which prohibits or restricts discussion, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions or the beliefs or practices of their adherents, or of any other belief system or the beliefs or practices of its adherents, or proselytising or urging adherents of a different religion or belief system to cease practising their religion or belief system.»

I don't think I have to be a member of any particular religion to be a Christian.

This subchapter shall not apply to an employer with respect to the employment of aliens outside any State, or to a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association, educational institution, or society of its activities

«The new memo also defends applying statutory protections for «hiring persons of a particular religion'to include protection for religiously based standards of conduct for employees, including in the funding context — and potentially (although this is not said explicitly) when the category of prohibited discrimination that's asserted is sexual orientation, not just when it's religion.