Sentences with phrase «of secular people»

[T] he number of the devout people in the country is increasing, as well as the number of secular people.

But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.

If Jews are more successful than most people, it's because a secular person has an advantage over a mystic, which would be true of any secular person, of any ethnic background.

Not exact matches

As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.

From the perspective of secular stagnation theory, much of what people worry about in monetary policy is endogenous rather than exogenous — such as zero rates, conditions that give rise to negative long - term rates, decisions to expand balance sheets.

Those who would stop them need first to understand that the absence of the word «God» does not mark a person, a discourse, or a policy as «secular.»

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

and they say the so called secular liberals are tolerant.I see allot of secular Jews here are very intolerant of people wanting to practice their religion the way they practiced the last 3000 years

They should try and find an imam with a respect for everyone and a grip on secular society instead of some macho bigot who is going to further polarize people on the issue of the Park51 project.

The history of many secular people is far less bloodstained than their christian counter parts.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

Government should be kept completely secular because it has to serve people of all religions (and of none).

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

Well, none of these secular organizations have, or have ever had America's best intentions, or that of the American people, in their hearts and minds.

As a secular - living and thinking person, I found this article a worthwhile alternate perspective of the end - of - life process.

They don't help us secular people, all they do is give ammunition to the Sarah Palins of the country.

= > You're the secular naturalist and should know people progress over generations not by waves of a hand.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

But a religious person needs him as much as the secular person, because the modern Protestant or Catholic or Jew has plenty of trouble hearing God's voice.

Hence, part of the reason of the concept of the «separation of church and the government... or church and the secular,» so, no religion including Christianity can stomp on the rights of people to express themselves fully and in their own way... whether you agree, disagree or don't have an opinion one way or another on others view and comments... yes...?

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

It's when people of faith present their beliefs as facts, be they religious or secular beliefs.

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

But most secular journalists have a tenuous grasp of what religious people actually believe.

Students have the right to air extremist political «doctrine,» secular philosophical «doctrine,» even, presumably, the «doctrine» that God is dead and that religion is the opiate of the people.

Secular humanism is my ideology and I make of it what I will according to my ideals of how I think people should act towards each other.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

This trend is the same within the borders of the United States, the more secular states have lower unemployment, better education programs, healthier people, and safer cities, but than you have all the states in the bible belt sitting on the bottom of the list together in almost every category except religion.

Instead of having a variety of options, poor people dependent on government funding will be confined to a homogenously secular set of alternatives.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

Persons of homosexual orientation have a unique calling in secular culture.

I believe a lot of the anxiety religious people feel toward some secular ideas is that they will have to completely abandon all their current beliefs at once (like this pastor) before they can embrace new ideas.

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

Young people whose pattern of thinking is historical and secular no longer find the traditional explanations of belief as formulated in the context of a static universe significant and meaningful.

This is a sort of religiosity that it is difficult for modern, secular people to understand and appreciate; she goes against the grain not only of the more obvious kind of rationalistic secularism embodied in Rayber but against all of the best in liberal Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.

Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).

There are groups who are non-profit and secular, but the consti.tution requires that all people must be hired regardless of race, RELIGION or creed.

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.

In this complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint about rendering judgments on people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

He was also the secular and military head of the people.

Please note that this is the Christian way is not a valid argument due to this country being secular and composed of people of all faiths, creeds and even of those that choose not to believe in deities.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

The program of these seminars has been directed by qualified persons able to win support and cooperation from the religious and secular leaders of the region concerned.

This little secular community of unemployed people who meet in a church once a week is discovering spiritual truth more deeply than many of them ever had.