Sentences with phrase «of irreligious»

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go «all - in» for a secular education, by examining their opinions under the tutelage of an irreligious faculty; or else they must withhold something of themselves from rational inquiry, erecting a barrier between the performative requirements of their research discipline and their beliefs about the way the world actually is.

Religious are the opposite of irreligious or the opposite of spiritual.

-- George Hedley, The Superstitions of the Irreligious

One of the older issues within this topic is whether modern «republicanism» (small R) has roots in orthodox forms of Christianity, at least in some important cases, or if it is primarily a product of irreligious and / or unorthodox philosophies.

In the 21st century we have numerous examples of irreligious governments running successful societies, like Ja / pan, Switzerland and my home, Canada.

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.

The attitude that nothing matters very much and that one thing is the same as every other thing — a feeling of «flatness» and of boredom — is in the direction of the irreligious.

Apparently 34 pages of interpretations following this article, of irreligious nutjobs taking things way too seriously.

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Iâ $ ™ ve been accused of having no moral standards, lawless and being irreligious.

It's enormously pleasing to note that everywhere in the western world the fastest - growing sector of society is generally the irreligious sector.

they didn't have to do it because of the content of the ads by the irreligious, but because of the reactions of the religious..

9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

O'Brien begins with a frankly apocalyptic charge: the Pope has created a «Rome — Riyadh axis» in order to unite «the religious of the world... for a final victory over the irreligious.»

The greatest drawback I can see is that groups like this will further the adsurd notion (held by religionists) that being irreligious is a religion in and of itself.

It is not irreligious; in fact, it is a form of religiosity.

Just as important, he expected Einstein to counter the «agnostic attitude and irreligious approach of physicians.»

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

Without grace, belief in immortality is irreligious because it reflects central concern with the selfish preservation of the self.

There are countless people who would resent being considered irreligious but who reject the practice of group religion.

But... let me tell that the results will also surely support mine in my post that 4 out of 5 irreligious are having abortion.

The world, robbed of the haunting presence of the indwelling deity, becomes irreligious and profane.

-- Alice in Wonderland Are journalists irreligious, and does this affect their coverage of religious news?

Again, this says nothing about the inherent ethical superiority of secularism, but it does dispel the myth that the irreligious are somehow less moral than those with a religion.

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

When she fell pregnant, Mary didn't go to stay with a young, irreligious branch of the family.

Any increase in the feeling of irrelevance and of loss of interest in life is an irreligious tendency.

Isolation or estrangement is also relatively irreligious because it reduces the number and closeness of relationships upon which any value depends.

Bilbro also makes a compelling argument that the presumed pioneers of environmental thought were not as revolutionary as their modern irreligious readers might assume.

You will to good deeds top others, how to witness to others of Gods «indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive» grace as you began to practice your new self with Gods power to His glory.

As Paul Tillich used to suggest, a work of art may have religious content or subject matter and be quite irreligious in its form.

Agnostics (regardless of whether they lean towards being religious or irreligious) are the only ones HUMBLE enough to admit that there is NO WAY OF KNOWING ANYTHING about an invisible man in the sky whom no one has ever talked to, heard from or seen... EVEof whether they lean towards being religious or irreligious) are the only ones HUMBLE enough to admit that there is NO WAY OF KNOWING ANYTHING about an invisible man in the sky whom no one has ever talked to, heard from or seen... EVEOF KNOWING ANYTHING about an invisible man in the sky whom no one has ever talked to, heard from or seen... EVER!

At the Johns Hopkins inaugural he joined in the critique, though somewhat more defensively: «A university whose officers and students are divided among many sects need no more be irreverent and irreligious than the community which in respect to diversity of creeds it resembles....

Or consider your freedom of religion; is it not the freedom to be religious or irreligious, to worship or not to worship, in accordance with your self - interest, whether you think it is good for you or not?

In the shadow of such a strong religious symbol, students still manage to remain amazingly irreligious.

Irreligious and idolatrous cultures may take many forms, from the pure self - seeking of irresponsible individualism, through the various types of more or less organized pursuit of advantage, to the collectivistic autonomy of a totalitarian «people's democracy.»

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

The irreligious life is directed toward the goals of satisfaction, acquisition, security, and power.

Irreligious & Atheist Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including Agnostics and Atheists) from Irreligion by country (as of 2007):

The newer, bigger Sunday Assembly now markets itself as a kind of atheist version of Unitarian Univeralism: irreligious, but still eager to include everyone.

Ian Dodd, a 50 - something camera operator in Los Angeles, had long been a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church; he enjoyed it, but wanted something more explicitly irreligious.

As Simpson says of the reformers» leader: «To postulate an irreligious or atheistic Juárez is to make him a consummate hypocrite, which he most assuredly was not.

15 % of the US is irreligious according to the American Religious Identification Study (2008)

While I like the idea of a meeting place for the irreligious, I can't see how aligning ourselves in any way with the trappings of religion is a good thing.

This makes religious, or irreligious, certainty a scarce commodity in the marketplace of ideas.

If we define God out of this world, we have little reason to wonder that so few are aware of his presence, and so must be counted as irreligious.

Besides, more religious people have killed in the name of god than the irreligious have in the name of nothing.

For every person who disavows religion because some ancient and unrevised dogma outrages his intelligence, several become irreligious because the social impotence of religion outrages their conscience.3

I started to notice that they lacked the whisper of self - doubt that is more or less necessary to both sound religious and irreligious belief.

It is static thinking that portrays God as a creator of fixed, static and immutable essences and which is the root cause of modern man's irreligious attitude.