Sentences with phrase «others nonreligious»
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional MRI to evaluate brain activity in 15 devout Christians and 15 nonbelievers as the volunteers assessed the truth or falsity of a series of statements, some of which were religious («angels exist») and others nonreligious («Alexander the Great was a very famous military ruler»).
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It would be so much better if the good nonreligious people, who help other people and don't expect heaven in return, would rule the earth.
In my view, atheism is itself a religion, preaching there are no gods and trying to convert others just like any other religion, whereas the nonreligious don't mind other people practicing as long as they don't have to themselves.
There are other, functional, nonreligious ways to deal with the human condition.
In all probability, the majority of day - care centers will be secular; many others will be church - based but largely nonreligious; and a few will be overtly religious.
The unanimous 1987 decision in Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos revised a lower court's holding that Congress violated the establishment clause when it permitted churches to hire their own members in preference to others for nonreligious jobs, a form of religious discrimination prohibited for other private employers.
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.
As far as the relationship of the members of a religious group to each other is concerned, we might well expect to find a dimension of depth to which a nonreligious association will not — necessarily — aspire.
In other words, to avoid frivolous RFRA claims, Congress may need to preclude otherwise justifiable religious exercise concerns by severely limiting the availability of both religious and nonreligious - based exemptions and accommodations, potentially resulting in more draconian legislative drafting.
The complementarity between man and woman is a fundamental principle in Judaism, in other religions, in some nonreligious intellectual traditions, and in the organization of society, as well as in the opinion of a very large majority of the population.
The principle, in this context, merely constrains government officials not to make decisions with the predominant purpose or primary effect of advancing religion; in other words, the predominant purpose and primary effect must be nonreligious or secular in nature.
Instead, Eisgruber and Sager suggest that an exemption is warranted because, in all likelihood, other officers are exempt from the grooming rules for nonreligious reasons, and so to fail to accommodate the Muslim officers would amount to discrimination against them.
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.
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.
Congregations and other religious organizations often see religious education as an extension of their ministry and therefore, subsidize these schools, making them appear more affordable than other private, nonreligious schools.
Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.