Sentences with phrase «of religious convictions from»

Franky Schaeffer decries neutrality as a «myth» which results in a freedom from religion and the exclusion of all those who operate on the basis of religious convictions from involvement in public life (Time for Anger, pp. 19 - 20).

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Supporters of the measure say it will protect people and business owners with strong religious convictions from government intrusion.

Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).

Of all the Lawmakers and Presidents we had, do you honestly think they were able to keep their Religious beliefs and convictions separate from Governmental Ideas?

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

From the responses, it seems that some of the participants in the survey may have had equal difficulty categorizing themselves by strength of religious conviction.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

In a word, the unity of the New Testament theology is a religious unity, derived from its fundamental and original motivation, not from the language or the ideas commonly used to set forth its convictions, inferences, and beliefs.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

Education based upon religious convictions is accused of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and critical consciousness.

I would be very curious to know how or why you believe my rather sarcastic use of the term «the religious» as a means of differentiating them from people of sincere faith (ANY sincere conviction btw — Not just Protestant) is «specious».

Washington (CNN)-- The White House Thursday condemned the conviction of an Iranian pastor, who may be executed in Tehran for refusing to recant his religious beliefs and convert from Christianity to Islam.

The Tennessee judge (in Mozert v. Hawkins County) ordered in November 1986 that public schools honor a request by a group of parents that their children be excused from using certain readers offensive to their religious convictions.

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.

And from raging debates about creationism to political candidates proclaiming their religious convictions, religion seems to be at the centre of American life.

While it received from Greek and Roman sources an important stream of influence which the Bible scarcely touches, it also rests on foundations in which both the events and the religious convictions recorded in the Bible have a very large place.

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

This Louie Giglio moment, and the Chick - Fil - A moment that preceded it, and the Rick Warren moment which preceded that, raise the question: Where do people of faith with long - standing traditional religious / scriptural convictions go from here?

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

Lillian Ladele, an employee in a government post in Islington, asked to be excused from registering same - sex marriage licenses because of her religious convictions.

This is driven less by personal religious conviction than by the need to amend the inevitable distortions that resulted from centuries of scholarship that failed to account seriously for a phenomenon as massive as religion.

I realized that the religious tolerance that we celebrate in the U.S. could be perceived by someone from a religiously homogeneous country as a lack of religious conviction or, worse, a shameful hypocrisy.

Self - criticism arises from the admission that all our formulations are partial and limited, coupled with the conviction that there are criteria in terms of which religious beliefs can be assessed.

In declaring religion out of bounds, they surely sought not only to protect Romney from the criticism of conservative Evangelicals, but to protect the future Republican nominee, whoever he or she might be, from the religiously based criticism of the left, which has already argued that Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and others are unsuitable because of their supposedly extreme religious convictions.

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

The religious conviction that the universe is at heart, in its transcendent depths, a graceful, caring, enlivening environment is in a different order of discourse from scientific hypotheses concerning, for example, how species evolved or how matter is converted into energy.

The original statement by Fanon, «Blind idealism is reactionary,» suggests that political and religious convictions stem from the situations from which they grow, not from the inherent nature of individual human beings.