Sentences with phrase «of religious abuse»

Although this display wasn government sanctioned, the us has a long history of religious abuse by Christians — take the current bigoted view of Muslims by our society.

An environment of religious abuse, molestation and manipulation?

Not exact matches

The only restriction I believe is appropriate on religious belief is to stop them from hurting other people or ritualistic abuse of animals.

That's an interesting position to take when religious indoctrination of children is child abuse.

Critics argue the law suppresses free speech and makes South Korea like its northern counterpart, known for its human rights abuses and oppression of religious and political minorities.

Another pitch of the religious establishment that shameless acknowledges the abuse they do on the weak and ill.

To be sure, in a sinful world religious freedom and freedom of speech will be abused.

The designation means the countries engaged in or tolerated «severe violations of religious freedom,» including persecution, harassment, abuse, discrimination and detention of religious minorities or activists and the prohibition of practicing religions not sanctioned by the government.

You could easily argue that religious indoctrination is a form of mental abuse that would be illegal if it didn't fall in the category of «religion».

MY gauge is a bit more accurate, those who abuse their religious doctrines as an excuse to commit murder and arson do NOT represent the vast majority of those who follow that particular faith.

Even if she hadn't made clear that this was a religious decision (which she did) I believe she would have to prove it was at the level of abuse and that the decision wasn't religiously motivated as shown by the existence of no worse names among all those she had previously let pass.

Religious indoctrination of children from birth is a form of child abuse.

Lets vote for Romney who talks about religious abuse and yet his religion is abusing the religion of others continually... bet he does nt suspend his money to them... they just wait till people are dead then baptise them... this is an extremist religion and not one we want for president

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

PS - I am a Catholic and religious person... and as a family member of two abuse victims I will no longer go to church.

He appeared to have little regard for womens rights and considering he had the ear of dad he blew a great opportunity to prevent the chronic abuse of women today in many religious countries.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

-- the only substantively new part of his book — ranges from religious fundamentalism to Middle Eastern politics to the sexual - abuse crisis, yet it mentions Jesus Christ only once.

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon....

There are just men of all political and religious stripes abusing the vulnerable.

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

Grab your hat and get walking back to Utah with the rest of the women / child abusing religious.

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

«[N] on - state actors, including rebel and terrorist organizations,... committed by far some of the most egregious human rights abuses and caused significant damage to the global status of respect for religious freedom,» according to the 2014 IRF report.

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

Too many of us following this conversation are keenly sensitive to abuses of religious power, which happens to be a central focus of David's work.

If anyone else wants to come here and «apologize» please don't embarrass yourself, or insult the emotional intelligence of the very bright and empathic people here, many who have faced real abuse at the hands of religious leaders.

And I'm not brainwashing children or abusing them physically like religious folks seem to be fond of doing.

In this parable, an at - risk Jewish man — having been mugged and beaten and left vulnerable to further abuse on the side of the road — is rescued, escorted to safety and loved back to life by his religious opposite, a Samaritan.

The act of condemnation is a necessary religious duty of the Shi'as, but whether it is real abuse or only unfavorable comment, it is difficult to say.

Major newspapers have begun to put the phrase «religious freedom» in scare quotes, as if everybody understands that it is just a cover for bigotry abusing the sacred name of liberty.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Priests who fail to tell police about suspected child sexual abuse should face criminal charges, even if they learn of abuse during a confidential religious confession, Australia's most powerful investigative authority has recommended.

«The right to practise one's religious beliefs must accommodate civil society's obligation to provide for the safety of all and, in particular, children's safety from sexual abuse,» the commission wrote in a report released on Monday.

They have also thereby provided a religious self - corrective for the abuses of religion by religious institutions, which is one of the main roles of prophecy in the Bible.

Emotional abuse --- religious concepts such as sin, hell, cause feelings of guilt, shame, fear, and other types of emotional «baggage» which can scar the psyche for life.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

Those who are familiar with it were taught that it was discredited because of the abuses to which it led, or simply because it was part of the religious baggage that a thoroughly secular society, such as ours presumably is, must leave behind.

For myself, I would rather run the risks of the occasional abuse of freedom than face the profanation of God and the degradation of people that religious persecution and intolerance create.

The state's intervention is justified only when it can show that rights beyond the realm of any religious community are being violated, as, for example, when people are being held prisoner in religious communities or being subjected to other forms of abuse.

However, abuses of religious freedom led three leading Virginians to draw an exceedingly bright line between the state and not only the church but even religion more generally.

«We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.»

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

In the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

NO SANCTIONS: Last year, Wolf found it a hard sell to get Congress to restrict trade as a way of punishing the Chinese government for its abuse of religious people (CT, June 16, 1997, p. 54).

However, the lawsuit — which claims the association of Reformed church plants discouraged victims» parents from reporting abuse to authorities and had victims forgive their abusers in person — has also prompted the denomination to cite its First Amendment right to religious freedom.

Finally, if you are experiencing abuse in the context of your religious community, please tell someone who will help you contact the civil authorities.

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

We need to honestly address what «Christ - like» means in the face of a religious leader facing some very serious accusations of abuse.

The just war tradition continues to provide helpful set of serious moral issues concerning war and peace The misuse and abuse of that tradition, however, are among the most terrible facts of political, and religious, history.