Sentences with phrase «on religious ideals»

Similar myths were propagated in America, based on the religious ideals of Pilgrims.

Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

Most laws are based on religious ideals.

Not exact matches

It also was founded on the ideal of the separation of church and state so others could not force their religious views on others.

I have heard deeply thoughtful religious leaders acknowledge that they came late to an appreciation of the pandemic, that preconceptions influenced their initial reactions, that some leaders have taken harsh stances (for example, refusing to bury people whose families acknowledge that they died of AIDS), and that their focus on ideal behaviors can obscure what is real and live.

Rather than founding the nation on shared moral or religious ideals, the framers looked to economic self - interest and self - preservation to unify the new nation.

«Even our religious culture tends to focus on success and stability as ideals for religious growth.»

Secular implies the non-influence or acceptance of religious ideal on a subject.

Among other things, if the bill forbids colleges to engage in discrimination based on religious belief, they will be the only belief - based organizations barred from demanding that their employees commit to that underlying belief (an institution based on a secular ideal would not face the bar).

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

His charge that the intrusion of «theology» on religious studies has forced the abandonment of scientific ideals, making the AAR and its membership into a «religious mouthpiece» that confessionally endorses religion, is fundamentally mistaken.

Thankfully, our nations inception was due to people trying to escape religious persecution (aka, the church & the king forcing their ideals on everyone).

The premium placed on marriage as the ideal site for lifelong love and childbearing by most of the world's major religious traditions, the social value attached to the wedding rite, and the support accorded a wide range of marriage - friendly norms by most religious traditions all probably help to explain the religion - marriage connection found across much of the globe.

When the Sufis appeared on the scene, they came with another religious ideal.

Religious sects continue to attack one another and are not leading us toward the ideal of a heaven on earth.

I find it funny that atheists have much to say on the religious by pointing out the faults but lack the integrity to create a more ideal and truthful perspective of what is justice and the right way...

Our third religious type, represented especially by Buddhism, is based on the ideal of detachment, renunciation, and silence.

In the last of his three «part series,» Proposing Democracy Anew,» Richard John Neuhaus confusedly presents his position on the separation of church and state, pluralism, religious indifferentism, and the proper content of the public square such that one is unsure whether he is proposing a societal ideal, for which Catholics and all people should perpetually strive, or a merely provisional goal, for which we may now work temporarily, but only in lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideal.

If «marriage» is a religious concept based on Judeo - Christian ideals, then that word has no place in federal law.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

That said, I do not believe someone should be able to ban someone based on their political ideals anymore than they should based on their religious beliefs.

Now on top of this we have believers in our government and our educational systems that want to «filter - in» religious morals and ideals into laws for the common man and we're not going to stand for it.

The vandalism that has been reported on sacred religious ground as of late is appalling and runs contrary to the values and ideals of our state and our country.

The Republicans with religious right or Christian right ideals are strong conservatives on social policy.

How could the film makers preach or force their own beliefs and ideals of God on a world where there is such religious diversity.

The way he blusters at the forward nature of her advances seems so counter to his progressive religious and academic ideals, an ambivalence that clearly weighs on him despite his best efforts.

However, with an excellent script from Gregory Burke, ’71 is instead both a sensory survival story and a surprisingly subtle look at the clashing ideals that fuelled the conflict, from the unthinking religious hatred underpinning it all to the vying factions within the IRA itself, spurred on by an undercover British unit intent on de-stabilising the city even further.

Task: In the next few days you will be analyzing sources and taking notes on Egyptian religion and explaining how: • Religion / Religious Ideals have an impact on a civilizations politics, economics, and the way people live.

And in her address to the Alfred E. Smith Foundation on Wednesday morning, she appeared to hold private religious education up as the ideal.

Through life, death, and the possibility of reincarnation, these artists will create works that reflect on Eastern religious iconography that is rendered by Western ideals and personal experience.