Not exact matches
Well, this gets us
into the realm
of penultimate concerns, and organized bodies
of religious thought have some
value here, even for atheists and agnostics.
The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal
of making
religious people
into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular
values.
While an individual's
religious values will certainly factor
into his or her perspective on this hot - button issue, the diversity
of opinions within the faith community should make us pause before claiming God is on one side or the other.
In
religious experience, interpreted within process thought, the physical emotions, purposes, desires, and volitions
of individuals are fused with conceptual insights
into the nature
of things for the purpose
of transforming the individual,
of enlarging his or her experience, and
of advancing the creative process whereby new
values emerge.
According to this thesis,
religious perception begins with self - valuation and broadens
into the experience
of the character
of the creative advance as a matrix
of interrelated
values, and, finally,
of ever - enlarging
value.
Many
of those ethical
values have migrated their way
into religious dogma, however, it is
religious dogma that greatly has been shaped by ethical valuations, not vice versa.
Second, it offers an inquiry
into the principles (causes, laws,
values), the forms (media, personnel, action, and atmosphere), and finally the general sociological categories
of religious communality, in virtual if not conscious agreement with the theories
of Scheler, Litt, and Mead.
Ely's more detailed analysis and discussion
of the
religious aspects
of Whitehead's God pertain to three central problems as they function in Whitehead's thought: [1) the preservation
of values (God's consequent or concrete nature); (2) the transmutation
of evil
into good (which includes the problems
of evil and God's goodness); and (3) the problem
of the relation
of God's goodness and the preservation
of the individual as such.
Many
of their followers were and are inclined to substitute for the questions
of meaning,
value, and truth, an inquiry
into the social origin, the sociological structure, and the social efficacy
of a
religious group or movement.
Working with
religious Americans from across the country, we will ensure that those
values are a part
of the political conversation heading
into this critical election.
Presently we are moving beyond any
religious expression so far known to the human
into a meta -
religious age, that seems to be a new comprehensive context for all religions... The natural world itself is the primary economic reality, the primary educator, the primary governance, the primary technologist, the primary healer, the primary presence
of the sacred, the primary moral
value... The primary sacred community is the earth community.
The conjunction
of the parties» goal to maximize votes and the desire
of religious communities to voice their
values made the aggregating
of diverse groups
into opposing coalitions both necessary and effective.
Thus, world consciousness is clearly related to Whitehead's idea
of religion, which is essentially an ethical notion: «The movement
of the
religious consciousness starts from self valuation, but it broadens
into the concept
of world as a realm
of adjusted
values, mutually intensifying or mutually destructive» (RM 58f.).
Providing for the spiritual needs
of the non-
religious not does not include trying to force them
into some religion or participate in public prayer ceremonies, it means helping these soldiers identify, live up to, and find inner - peace with their
values and principles, same as what it means for
religious soldiers.
Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic
values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the
religious conceptions
of the dignity
of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them
into their
religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework
of Materialism and Individualism.
So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting
into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «
value free» sociology, and (a special interest
of his)
religious humor.
The point
of the exercise is to attack the
values of Catholics, to bully them
into being obedient to the secular messiah; to do the very thing that you all claim
religious people are doing.
The absolute significance and
value of any bit
of religious experience we might hear
of would thus be given almost mathematically
into our hands.
This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops
of strangeness
into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception
of «reality», to question
values and beliefs whether scientific,
religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.
In the dating world, when considering
religious values or not, we are inundated with the way things should be or the way to do things, and the «he's just not that
into you's» are floating around like ancient ghosts causing us to rush things or slow them down or stop them altogether based off
of one eyebrow raise; one horror story.
Although old sugar tits just can't help but put his Christian
values and themes
of religious devotion
into this, it's hard not to be swept up in the combat and the man behind the astounding true story.
So comments like «[i] t prevents this segment
of the population from effectively getting married to begin with» are not that persuasive when the cost
of having secular courts wade
into what are essentially personal
religious matters is compromising secular
values.
The Our Whole Lives program can be put
into the context
of religious values with the addition
of the Unitarian Universalist and United Church
of Christ companion publication, Sexuality and Our Faith.
Many people incorporate
religious or spiritual
values and beliefs
into all aspects
of personal life — individual, family, social and marriage relationships are all impacted.
You'll also learn how the core processes
of ACT — such as commitment to change and
values - based living — can be seamlessly tied
into spiritual and
religious counseling, no matter your faith or therapeutic background.
The mode
of recognition
of customary law... must recognize women as having a role in the maintenance
of customary law, in the socialization
of children
into the
value system, in dispute settlement procedures and in the performance
of religious rituals, which maintain harmony and resolve conflict.