Sentences with phrase «on secular people»

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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.

A decade ago, the «war on Christmas», I'd have to educate many people that X-mas was a CHRISTIAN abbreviation for Christmas, based on Christ's true name, not a secular insult, the fact that it was based on many pagan holidays.

So depending on the tolerance levels, IQ and self esteem, and the available support system, people will either make it thru and become secular or fall into religion.

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...?

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it ahd been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding and adding with an abacus.

While the modern secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.

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.

Anybody else note the irony in flaming Obama for imposing his «secular values» on the American people, yet Santorum insists on imposing Catholic values on the American people?

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.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... we need believing people.

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.

Predictably, the secular media has responded by reporting on the disparity in the responses between what the Church teaches and what people believe.

If you look at any political news magazine today, whether secular or Christian, you will read that what the president needs to focus on is the economy and getting more jobs for the American people, and the Gross Domestic Product.

religious people such as the owner of this business are permitted to have their opinion on almost any topic; however doesn't make what they say true or acceptible in modern secular society.

The course itself is in secular mindfulness, though most people on the course are active churchgoers.

I don't know how many times I heard,» their just going to spend it on beer», «that's the governments job»,» it's their own fault and God is judging them,» I have seen so many people healed by secular organizations, physically and Spiritually.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

They are just as good and bad as most people when they are doing secular activities, unless the activity and their actions are based on religious bias.

Some people pay hundreds of dollars to go buy books or go to seminars that teach on some of these things, and it is always a gamble whether these secular ideas will work or not.

That is, the people who go to church on Sunday are also the people who are more likely to be active in the PTA and to be giving to the United Way and to be volunteering for soup kitchens in secular settings.

Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.

But there are also altruistic reasons (which some people from differing theological and secular traditions share) for promoting concern for the common good and focusing on the welfare of the most vulnerable.

As a secular nation should we be expecting people to be experts on religion (s)?

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Girard starts on the horizontal plane with a secular account of the origin of religion among primitive people.

They imposed the idea of secular nationalism on the Indian peoples because they were convinced that it was the best basis for unity of pluralistic India and the best path towards building a new society based on the values of liberty, equality and justice.

I was talking to these churchmen about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular review of the Book of Daniel, the Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

We actually started as a secular nation, we went along for a little, had a civil war which killed a bunch of people, went merrily along for a few more years, got mired in 2 more world wars, then inserted GOD int he 1950's into the pledge and on the money to protect ourselves from communists (because that somehow protects us from communists) and then we've been going along ever since.

The main theme I want to communicate to you today (related to all of the above) is that reactions to the modern secular world are of two kinds: on the one side are those people who slowly but inexorably drift away from religion, becoming indifferent to it.

«The kingdom has drawn near,» Jesus» first proclamation, was followed by healing of bodies and minds; by freeing persons who felt bound; by challenging authorities, religious and secular, when they stepped beyond their limits (the cleansing of the temple; on paying tax).

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

I believe most gay people on this site believe God created them with sex organs and a mind that is contrary to their physical sexual identity... The argument comes when Christian or secular people define normal differently, namely that males can only be males and females can only be females.»

And Rick Santorum frets that Obama is imposing «secular values» on «people of faith.»

The secular people, well it's not just secular people, the people of this nation and other nations as well, spend so much money on nonsense that if it could have been used to help the unfortunate in this world, there would be no hunger.

A secular democracy recognizes that people differ in their religious commitments; secularism, on the other hand, requires them to pretend that they don't have those commitments.

William Warren, a member of the North Carolina Secular Association, says his group put the ads up on billboards across the state to let people know that patriotism and belief in God are not always synonymous.

On the one hand, therefore, a Defender of Faith for whom a national faith supports all people, of any faith and none; on the other, secular absolutisOn the one hand, therefore, a Defender of Faith for whom a national faith supports all people, of any faith and none; on the other, secular absolutison the other, secular absolutism.

I'm not angry, though I am displeased when people discuss the Bible in a public forum (like the internet) and promote conclusions based on opinion, speculation, and secular ideology, rather than clear reasoning from the Scriptures.

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

«Here is some helpful reading that will shed the light on what is happening to so many people of this generation, especially because of our secular, humanistic society, which does not acknowledge God!»

«I never thought, as a first - generation American, whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn't want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe... that we'd have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.»

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

Even in such a highly technological society like that of Japan it is reported that there are 81,511 Shinto shrines, 77,186 Buddhist temples and 6,446 Christian churches, well attended by people.22 Second, the strongest defense against the creeping tide of a secular global culture today is based on religions — Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim.

Given the secular climate of our age, the aspirations of this little book seem like the highest and steepest mountain to climb, yet for a young person setting out on life and seeking to understand more fully their own vocation, this is definitely a book to be read, to be treasured and to be used as a reference.