Sentences with phrase «other religious convictions»

Christians make their witness in the context of neighbors who live by other religious convictions and ideological persuasions.

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Jeff - Most Catholics have no religious convictions about the other issues you named.

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

He is faithful in his religious duties and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion,» the law reads.

In Christianity as well as other religious traditions besides Taoism there is a fundamental conviction that «power is made manifest in weakness.»

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoreligious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoReligious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

Centuries of Christian religious legitimation of and support for Western imperialism was based on the conviction of a necessary Christian salvific mission towards others.

With all of God's first born son (s) being an established view among our many religious constabularies, many of one - God religions are dead - set against each others» claims as to which religious convictions are truly the most righteous.

An eloquent critique of secular rationality as the only basis for a discussion of a republic's virtues is Kent Greenawalt's Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford University Press, 1987), an appraisal of Bruce Ackerman, John Rawls and other philosophers.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.

Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.

«(On) the other side is finding the right balance... concerns about religious beliefs and convictions.

To take Mohler to point, I agree that religious convictions are not a private thing, but they are also not something that can be dictated to other people.

The argument more or less says that these hypothetical «good» people realize that what they're doing to others is harmful, but that their religious convictions, like love of God, trump their innate morality.

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

Our nation, no doubt, has some place in God's overall plan, but let's not assume that the we Americans will be the heroes of the story — or that Perry or any other man can claim to be able lead us to prosperity through the force of his religious convictions.

To force doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the health field who hold pro-life or orthodox religious views to choose between their careers and their convictions.

Can Christians plausibly continue to affirm the revelatory supremacy of the Christ - event and at the same time be fully open to other traditions that have their own unique convictions about religious meaning and truth?

CAT, but you must agreee that, on all of them, to the extent policy in the USA (and elsewhere) goes the other way, it is largely driven by religious convictions.

Modernity has given birth to the widespread conviction that religious symbolism can not truly reveal or disclose anything other than our own secret wishes and desires.

On the other hand, he realized that competition among religious groups of strong conviction could have disastrous consequences for civic life.

Cultivating the capacity to respect each other's religious convictions and abandoning the futile attempt to force the other to agree helps to keep differing religious backgrounds from blocking intimacy.

Achieving that goal will require coercion; that is, forcing doctors (and other medical professionals, such as pharmacists) to participate — even when it violates their religious beliefs and deeply held moral convictions.

But then having the other, the religious convictions and beliefs without the religious life — that's contrary to the Scriptures.

Without it we'd have far fewer atheists and agnostics than we have today, which would be a pity, and we would have much more sectarian violence like other places where religious conviction is allowed to go unchecked.

The «definitive» ruling of the Talmud is that «conversions, once performed, are valid even if entered into for reasons other than religious conviction.»

The reasons for this preference are partly to be sought in his own personal development (Hindu home, Christian instruction), partly in his primary interest in the intellectual expression of religious experience or, in other words, the philosophical bent of his nature, and, last but not least, in his often voiced conviction that we have to «get behind and beneath all outward churches and religions, and worship the nameless who is above every name.

«No one should be forced to choose between their religious convictions and their family businesses and livelihoods, particularly when the state allows referrals for just about any other reason,» she said.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

Central to the criticisms has been the conviction shared by many religious leaders that the exercise of social power should be directed by a concern for justice on a representative basis rather than a concern to impose one's own particular standards and beliefs on others.

t just seams wrong to me to push my religious convictions on others, these are the things I do, it's unreasonable to ask others to make that choice.

In declaring religion out of bounds, they surely sought not only to protect Romney from the criticism of conservative Evangelicals, but to protect the future Republican nominee, whoever he or she might be, from the religiously based criticism of the left, which has already argued that Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and others are unsuitable because of their supposedly extreme religious convictions.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

Their attraction to each other not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes» # 1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.

They are also anchored by deeply held convictions — be they around behavioral standards, educational models, or religious practices — even as the school changes in other ways.

Challengers will question the «sincerity» of a corporation's religious convictions by looking at their investments and other policies (this has already happened with Hobby Lobby).

It can serve as a temporary solution for couples desiring a «trial» divorce, or as a permanent arrangement for couples unable to divorce because of religious convictions or financial affairs, such as the need for one spouse to continue on the other's health insurance.

Despite their religious convictions and connections, Levine and the others say they welcome clients of all beliefs.

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