Sentences with phrase «on nonreligious»

Whereas separational performers are primarily marketed through explicitly Christian bookstores, «integrational» performers seek to address wider audiences, thus «crossing over» to distribution through such mainstream outlets as Tower Records and airplay on nonreligious radio stations and MTV.

Not exact matches

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

The idea here is very clear: If a person is nonreligious, then TM presents itself as being nonreligious, too, so as to meet him on his own turf; then it draws him to a «unified, monistic, cosmic God - consciousness» typical of Hinduism, never indicating in advance where he is headed.

Oh, and from a totally nonreligious standpoint, helping our citizenry get a strong education and stay healthy so they can continue to be productive members of society instead of winding up on disability or on unemployment due to limited job skills happens to make economic sense as well.

So if someone wants to use the law today, it would be wiser to use it toward pastors and seminary professors, than to nonreligious masses on the streets and at work.

The independence of those vehicles in turn depends upon whether church personnel are willing and able to relinquish their monopoly on God talk about the nation and whether other persons (in nonreligious roles) are willing and able to adopt such theological rhetoric.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

What does this mean for the actual, on - the - ground experience of living alongside the plurality of religious communities — and nonreligious ones too — that we can not escape or ignore in our world?

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

Religious individuals or groups are quite free under our Constitution to advocate or oppose policies on religious grounds or nonreligious grounds.

The answer does not lie in transferring their narcosis from nonreligious to religious programs; it lies in liberation from dependence on mediated experience and escapist material.

We are trying to make a big, beautiful impression upon the affluent nonreligious American who is riding by on this busy freeway.»

On the other hand, postmodern interpretations of the human self, language, and textuality, while often couched in nonreligious terms, call into question many assumptions of critical exegesis and suggest sympathy with the themes and sensibilities of the premodern Christian tradition.

Some of my nonreligious computer science colleagues, like Ray Kurzweil, hope to cheat death by backing themselves up on a computer, along the lines described in the first thought experiment.

Respondents who scored high on church attendance and «intrinsic religiosity» were only 31 percent likely to treat underserved populations, compared with 35 percent among the nonreligious; spirituality and youth were better predictors of service.

The children from nonreligious households left 4.1 stickers on average, a statistically significant difference from Christian children (3.3) and Muslim ones (3.2).

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in a series of surveys conducted between 1993 and 2012, reported on parental satisfaction with assigned public schools, public schools chosen by parents, private religious schools, and private nonreligious schools.

And nonreligious private schools might not be able to draw on the community sources of social capital that Coleman deemed vital to Catholic high schools» success.

Thus, religious scholarship groups would face the choice of giving scholarships to promote other faiths or totally nonreligious schools — which violates their religious freedom to focus on advancing their own faith.

I think that's why the religious element of Room doesn't seem to bother nonreligious readers; they can just put it on a par with Santa.

Maybe it's bad for federal law to impose such an obligation on employers, whether because the law is too vague, imposes unduly on private employers, imposes unduly on coworkers, gives an undue preference to conscientious objectors (it has been interpreted to apply to nonreligious conscientious objectors as well as religious ones), or something else.

In the face of these patchwork gaps, American human rights groups have been advocating for the adoption of a federal bill titled the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity by nonreligious employers with over 15 employees.