Sentences with phrase «organized religious body»

Yet another pathetic attempt to distract from the real issue — a global, decades long complicit relationship with pedophiles that the world's largest organized religious body has had.

At some point, however, charm alone won't be enough, because Francis will have to turn to the heavy lifting of actually governing the world's largest and most centrally organized religious body.

Yet she did not want to identify herself with a particular organized religious body.

So what separates the American Founding — a compromise throughout between Lockean (Cartesian) abstracted or isolated personalism and Christian or relational personalism — from the thoroughgoing «republicanism» of the French revolution is that our understanding of religious freedom is freedom of the church (meaning organized religious body).

Not exact matches

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

Well, this gets us into the realm of penultimate concerns, and organized bodies of religious thought have some value here, even for atheists and agnostics.

The Temple of Satan is less a religious body organized around rituals and regular meetings than a roving band of political provocateurs, according to Greaves.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

The most important of these is that a religious body doesn't have the right, simply because it may be in the majority or be better organized than other groups, to bind its specifically religious doctrines upon others or to require that others help pay for the propagation of those doctrines.