Sentences with phrase «official state religion»

Home of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), Costa Rica is the only country in the whole American Continent with a recognized official state religion (Roman Catholic), which has manifested its influence over public life on a number of issues, for example in keeping Costa Rica's ban of In - Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in place until 2016.

Beginning with the Han dynasty in 141 bc, it was promulgated as the official state religion.

The only thing it actually means, is that their is no official state religion.

It protects against creating an official state religion.

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

But after Constantine made Christianity the official state religion, Christians in Rome were less counter-cultural and more complicit in the acts of the empire.

Surely, no official state religion ought to be taught.

This does not mean that our governmental bodies should endorse Christianity as the official state religion, or that we should force all people to read the Bible and become Christians.

OK Chris an official state religion may be a stretch in the sense of officially sanctioned... but certainly not that much.

I'm frankly amazed at the number of people who say that this is a Christian nation; from the first amendment to the Constitution: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...» There is no official state religion.

Theodosius the first issued decrees that effectively made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.

Clearly no responsible Jew could be a supporter of an official state religion or anything like «Christian America.»)

Italy, as you might know, is a predominantly catholic country (catholicism was the official state religion until 1984).

The only people who can violate the separation of the church and state are the members of Congress, and they can only do it by establishing an official state religion, or making laws persecuting specific religions.

She convinced him to establish Christianity as the official state religion in the 4th century.

Where Catholicism was the official state religion, we assign a value of zero for this variable (even though the size of the Catholic population was quite large).

For example, Canada has a law against blasphemy, as do almost all countries which have an official state religion (which is called the «establishment» of a religion).