Sentences with phrase «of irreligion»

The spirit of irreligion and forgetfulness of law in international affairs open an altogether readier way for the beginning of illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

It is equally interesting that after a period of irreligion or relative atheism there have been signs of a kind of perceptible religious renewal in certain changes in theology.

I suspect that the atom will be the totem of irreligion tomorrow, as the amoeba was yesterday.

Undemocratic conditions in any sphere of human affairs are symptoms of irreligion or idolatry.

Some claim violence in the name of irreligion has not occured.

Not exact matches

The difference between religion and irreligion is therefore measured by the depth and range of value experience.

In contrast, a secular state purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.

What is meant is the inner transformation of purpose and motive from self - regarding irreligion and the idolatrous service of limited goods to reverent service of the most high.

It follows that a democracy of desire strengthens and encourages irreligion and thus undermines the only foundations upon which any democracy can rest — namely, those of objective, impartial, and universal justice.

From the standpoint of the democracy of worth, the basic aim of public education is to inculcate reverence, propagate true faith, and expose and oppose irreligion and idolatry.

Querulousness of mind tends in fact rather towards irreligion; and it has played, so far as I know, no part whatever in the construction of religious systems.

[1] In contrast, a secular state purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.

Since matters of faith can not and should not be legislated, irreligion and idolatry as well as all forms of religion have a right to exist in democratic society.

While it is not within the province of government to determine who is religious and who is not, nor to discriminate between the different forms of religion, irreligion, and idolatry, except where public security is at stake, it is the function of the democratic state to persuade and encourage its citizens toward religious faith and away from irreligion and idolatry.

America is a religious nation, and our differences are not so much of religion vs. irreligion as they are of divergent understandings of what our religious commitments require of us politically.

Neutrality must not be allowed to degenerate into an establishment of secularism or a device to foster irreligion.

If we had a better quality of religion in our homes and churches, we would have a much smaller problem with irreligion outside them.

This gross oversimplification is full of error, failing to see how men pretend irreligion as well as religion.

We need men and women of all faiths who will recognize and emphasize these areas of agreement and possible co-operation, until what George Bernard Shaw once said becomes true: «Religion is that which binds men to one another and irreligion that which sunders.»

Radhakrishnan says, that secularism is based, not on irreligion or atheism, but on «the universality of spiritual values which may be attained by a variety of ways».

To unite all Religion against all irreligion, to make the Golden Rule the basis of this union; to present to the world... the substantial unity of many religions in the good deeds of the Religious Life; to provide for a World's Parliament of Religions, in which their common aims and common grounds of unity may be set forth, and the marvelous Religious progress of the Nineteenth century be reviewed... (The World's Religious Congress, General Programme (preliminary ed.; 1893), p. 19.)

Contrarily, the evidence of our century suggests that the totalitarian impulse is implicit rather than accidental in doctrinaire irreligion which adores its shrunken vision of humankind.

The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting inner struggle of the acute religion of the few against the chronic religion of the many, indurated into an obstructiveness worse than that which irreligion opposes to the movings of the Spirit.

Christianity — as would be true of any religion and any irreligion — is not necessary.

Without any stats to back my speculations, here are a few reasons why I would expect it to be that way: Stating the obvious but recent immigration to Europe included many people from countries where Islam is an important component of the culture (North Africa, West Africa, Turkey...) Christianity is on the retreat and losing ground to irreligion.

However, present times are quite different, as irreligion seems greater than ever in most of the developed countries (also see atheism demographics in Europe).