Sentences with phrase «on humanist»

The student profile in this document is based on a humanist profile which «means focusing on a person - centered society guided by the fundamental value of human dignity» (Martins et al., 2017, p. 6).

It takes a pragmatic approach to explain and apply Buddhist teachings and is based on humanist values.

Lesson focusing on the humanist critiques of the sanctity of life.

A year - 9 lesson on the humanist philosophy of justice in Plato's Republic.

A lesson inspired by philosophical enquiry and focusing on the Humanist response to belief in life after death.

Read the BHA's briefing on humanist marriage, gay marriage and «religious» civil partnerships.

Having chosen to withdraw its decision rather than defend it at the High Court, the Vale of Glamorgan will now have to review its policy on humanist membership of the SACRE, and take a fresh decision on the application of Kathy Riddick, which remains open.

She holds a BA and MA in humanist pastoral care from the University of Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands and is currently studying for a PhD on humanist pastoral care.

The Young Atheist's Handbook was written by science teacher Alom Shaha and tells the story of his upbringing in a Bangladeshi Muslim community in South East London, how he overcame his inner conflict surrounding his atheism, and the lessons he learnt in leading a good life, full of awe and wonder, based on humanist principles.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Drawing on the humanists» assumptions about teaching and learning, the Reformers viewed the catechism as a kind of classic text to be internalized through imitation and practice.

Not exact matches

A former serial entrepreneur who founded Aardvark and Perspecta among others, Horowitz gave up the Silicon Valley dream for a new life as a philosophy Ph.D., flipping the current wisdom on the relative value of technical and humanist knowledge on its head.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

Many conservative Christians, among them Roman Catholics, will be offended at such a vitriolic attack on a famous conservative humanist author, and I use the term vitriolic advisedly («just a little spiteful,» in Hart's confession).

The earth's population as a whole is failing on just simple «Humanist» principles.

As secular humanists we are typically «not» trying to enforce «laws» on you «believers» that take away your equal rights under the conti - tution.

Humanists, on the other hand, only change their stance based on new information and reason.

It was being worked on last summer to coincide with a book signing by Harvard humanist chaplain Greg Epstein.

You said, «The humanist morality is based completely on what is in the best interest of the human creation not what is in the mind of the creator.»

Evolution is on the way out, and intense religionists (secular humanists) such as Bill have no tenable hold on the realities of our existence.

The secular humanist public schools are always on about persecution, hoping to entice kids into believing that if they leave their faith they will be part of the «majority» and therefore safer.

Nowhere did I state I was a humanist, so your point on that is moot.

So, while I will say again that I am not an authority on either, I do know enough to be able to tell when a person belongs in the Christian camp or the Humanist camp, I believe.

Humanism is opposed to this ideology, not only because it's always based on unprovable religious superstition but because humanists believe strongly that the fate of humanity is not subject to divine whims but rests with humanity itself.

Those who are Buddhists will follow one set of laws, secular humanists on, Utilitarians on, Unitarian Universalists one (with a lot of variation), etc. «Atheism» in itself says nothing at all about one's ethical beliefs.

To continue to draw up — as many of our denominational leaders do — battle lines with humanists on one side and theists on the other is specious and still reflects the popular, but otiose, approach to the whole debate.

The co-host of Fox's «The Five» was referring to a suit brought by the American Humanist Association in Massachusetts, where the state's Supreme Judicial Court heard a challenge to the pledge on Wednesday.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

In the stormy sea of modern life, the Humanist (he used to be called the Rationalist) and the generalised agnostic is as much tossed on the waves as we are.

Gordon Kaufman (1925 — 2011) has called attention to an overemphasis on «God's tyrannical omnipotence» that offended many sensitive and thoughtful humanists who found it impossible to worship or believe in such a deity.

On the other side, humanists develop hermeneutical methods for the interpretation of documents with no regard for scientific thought.

In a sermon on Sunday, Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee advised atheists and humanists to «take your Walkman and stuff it into your ears» or just «leave the country»

As a secular humanist, we pride ourselves on the idea that we are «good for nothing.»

This remarkable Mississippian — soldier, farmer, lawyer, teacher, poet, civic leader and above all aristocrat — put his indelibly humanist stamp on his foster son.

«I just think the whole war on Christmas story is bizarre» said Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, who has emerged as another spokesman for the burgeoning atheist movement.

What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness of others» written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal discourse above the plainness of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...

As an agnostic atheist humanist, I still see no reason not to call a christian on not following what their leader commanded.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

Dr. Thomas More, the narrator who is also a lineal descendant of the Renaissance humanist - saint, envisions an America on the brink of a spiritual disaster whose reality few can doubt.

We rely on laws of the land for morality just as much as you do, but most atheists ascribe to humanist ideals.

On the «Humanist Manifesto 2000,» Newark Star Ledger, October 10, 1999.

Unfortunately, like the humanists whom Skinner criticizes, we sometimes confuse the strength and efficiency of a power with its undesired effects on us.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning.

Don't characterize me as a «hater» because I dare to object to the bigoted nonsense the godless humanists have posted on this blog.

Humanists and other secular groups, many of whom are religious, are fighting back against this assault on our educational and political system.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

The Rebirth of Democracy 300 years ago is thanks to Humanist Enlightenment principles and the rebirth of Ancient Greece's influence on thinking.

A fundamentalist need not be communalist at all... On the other hand a communalist need not be a fundamentalist at all... Fundamentalism requires to be opposed by all Humanists and Democrats, but that opposition should not be mixed up with an opposition to communalism.

V.M. Tarkunde, himself a Radical Humanist, in his JPMemorial Lecture on «Communalism and Human Rights» (PUCL Bulletin June 93), clearly distinguishes Fundamentalism from Communalism.