Sentences with phrase «of nonreligious»

While the alleged truthfulness of nonreligious publications could ordinarily have been submitted to the jury, Ballard was deprived of that defense only because the First Amendment forbids governmental inquiry into the verity of religious beliefs.

Some of my nonreligious computer science colleagues, like Ray Kurzweil, hope to cheat death by backing themselves up on a computer, along the lines described in the first thought experiment.

Many groups will consist of nonreligious as well as religious people, but all will function as little churches, with members coming together for refreshment and going out to serve.

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.

There were the image barriers having to do with ministers, church, Bible, from the layman's side; and with images of laymen, of nonreligious, of preacher, from the preacher's side.

The idea of a nonreligious state is very modern and very doubtful.

Today the Jesus movement has enlisted the concern of thousands of modern youth, some of them within the churches, but more of them church dropouts or the products of nonreligious homes.

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

With the dramatic growth of the nonreligious in the last few decades, more atheist leaders are emerging as spokespeople for atheism, but the Christmas rift speaks to growing disagreement over how atheists should treat religion.

Spiritual gifts such as healing and teaching are examples of religious factors; age, social position, ethics, and background are qualifications of a nonreligious character.

One might well question, at this point, the validity of nonreligious interpretation, asking whether Bonhoeffer has given us any example of non-religious interpretation rather than speaking only of its importance.

«2 Therefore, let us begin our discussion of nonreligious interpretation, first by considering what actually Bonhoeffer meant by the term «religious».

So the real question for us today is What kind of God could be the Lord of a nonreligious Christianity?..

I am, however, disappointed at some of the comments of the nonreligious here.

Not exact matches

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

And if these revelations of common piety upset his nonreligious admirers, he, too, was somewhat upset by the experience: «My presence in such a place was disturbed / By my duty as a poet who should not flatter popular imaginings, / Yet who desires to remain faithful to your unfathomable intention / When you appeared to children at Fatima and Lourdes.»

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?

The court thus ruled that no nonreligious entity - even, as in the case of VHA, a membership organization whose members had raised a conscience objection to performing abortions - possessed the statutory right described in the exempting statute.

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

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.

After all, it was Augustine's narrative of spiritual blindness followed by illumination that became foundational for nonreligious self - presentation.

Social welfare activities typically involve interaction between government funding agencies and a variety of private service providers, both religious and nonreligious.

To argue that historians might judge such and such to be a miracle because they believe antecedently in the religion that regards such miracles as signs of the intervention of its deity is to open the floodgates for all religious claims to miracles and, indeed, even to nonreligious «miracles» such as the widespread reports that people have seen Elvis Presley.

The Jewish return to Jerusalem, the crucial event of destiny in two millennia of Jewish history for the «religious» and the «nonreligious» alike, has yet to be accepted, with the fullness it both requires and merits, by the world.

Stark's linking of impulsive, short - term gratification by young males to their nonreligious behavior appeared to draw a sympathetic hearing.

was so vital for Bonhoeffer that he lost interest when the two elements were separated: Christology not qualified by something like non-religious interpretation became an unrelated entity and suffered a fatal loss of reality; nonreligious Christianity without Christocentrism became a Sisyphean endeavour of modem man to adjust to a newly discovered self and world.24

As one of his more perceptive interpreters have pointed out, «It is much easier to grasp what (Bonhoeffer) meant by «religious than nonreligious».

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.

The idea here is very clear: If a person is nonreligious, then TM presents itself as being nonreligious, too, so as to meet him on his own turf; then it draws him to a «unified, monistic, cosmic God - consciousness» typical of Hinduism, never indicating in advance where he is headed.

In all probability, the majority of day - care centers will be secular; many others will be church - based but largely nonreligious; and a few will be overtly religious.

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.

Therefore a troubled teen like Tracy has few resources outside the immediate family According to research from the National Study of Youth and Religion, religiously active teens are much less likely to engage in risky behaviors than nonreligious teens.

Regardless of what he says, he is either nonreligious or a Muslim.

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

The unanimous 1987 decision in Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos revised a lower court's holding that Congress violated the establishment clause when it permitted churches to hire their own members in preference to others for nonreligious jobs, a form of religious discrimination prohibited for other private employers.

After Smith, the government would be free to penalize, punish, or prevent the exercise of religion without serious constitutional scrutiny so long as the law applied to nonreligious entities as well.

In choosing friends, teens tend to surround themselves with people who reinforce the shaping influence (religious or nonreligious) of their parents.

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

All religious groups seemed equally at risk of losing teens; no single religious group stood out as responsible for producing nonreligious teenagers.

The independence of those vehicles in turn depends upon whether church personnel are willing and able to relinquish their monopoly on God talk about the nation and whether other persons (in nonreligious roles) are willing and able to adopt such theological rhetoric.

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.

As far as the relationship of the members of a religious group to each other is concerned, we might well expect to find a dimension of depth to which a nonreligious association will not — necessarily — aspire.

What does this mean for the actual, on - the - ground experience of living alongside the plurality of religious communities — and nonreligious ones too — that we can not escape or ignore in our world?

The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators — one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.

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

They embrace not only the philosophies of the Judeo - Christian faiths and the many religions of the East, but nonreligious, ethical and moral thought as well....

«He communicated in images that both the religious folks and nonreligious folks of his day understand.»

The nonreligious or antireligious social analysis assumed by Indian «modernists» at least since Nehru failed to recognize the continuing power of ancient traditions and faiths.

Religious and nonreligious insti - tutions have both at times taken the second tactic, and both of them were wrong for doing it.