Sentences with phrase «overreligionized society like»

An uptick in invention can also bolster cornerstones of Canadian society like universities and the health - care system.

And the role of politics is crucial: can democracies like the US match the capacity of authoritarian societies like China to absorb economic pain?

But in a society like ours that bombards kids with advertising and continuously pushes materialism and a narrow view of success, how can you encourage your children to stop wanting more things and start being thankful for the things they already have?

i think we are blessed to be a part of ebullient society like USA...

Making specific exemptions for specific religions is fun at first, but at the end of the day, just cough over the dues for a (somewhat) healthy and (somewhat) civil society like the rest of us.

So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

He went from something inconsequential like football, to something uselsss to society like NASCAR to something destructive and evil like «evangelist»?

And as in all things there exist extremes, and in society like these they are called fundamentalists.

And in a society like ours with news outlets like this, that seems to be less & less the case.

I guess if we lived in a «Bible-less» society like Abraham's, the job of bailiff might be more «interesting»: «Please step up to the bench, Miss Jones, and place your right hand under my thigh, and repeat after me, I solemnly swear... OOOO!

«Is there any way in a pluralistic society like ours to have any measure of consensus on right and wrong, good and bad, mental illness and spiritual vision?»

In order to avoid misunderstandings it may be said in passing that such rules must be different in a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belong.

Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

We as a civilized society need to keep a watch on rejects of the society like Mr Abbot and stop them from advocating genocide.

What is not being discussed is the negative social impact that increasing Islamification can have on a non-Islamic society like the USA or many parts of the EU.

He says, «the language barriers in relation to those who are outside the confines of theology and Christianity have consequently not been removed 5 Thus, the linguistic barrier is a problem not only between nations, but also a problem of a multilinguistic society like Indian.

A translator can not neglect the role of language in the process of translation, especially in a pluralistic society like India, which includes different religious and political ideologies, languages and culture.

Matters of belief should be discussed with care and an open view for the thoughts of others on all sides or someday we will live in a society like Pakistan where Ministers get shot for their belief and scharia is forced upon the people.

In the late eighties the Indian Theological Association explored the pattern of the church in a secular mode as herald of the Kingdom and servant of the world in a pluralist society like India.

Even in advanced Western societies like the United States, where the principle is well understood and established, the ability to buy more law than your neighbor is a ubiquitous source of inequality.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

A number of witnesses in the fifteenth century mention that they were a strong and well organized community, commanding respect among the Hindus and enjoying certain privileges in the society like that of higher castes among the Hindus.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

They are only possible in a society like ours, with its ubiquitous broadband and constant access to (and obsession with) social media.

That tactic doesn't resound in a decadent society like ours so you have to bribe young people with money for college.

... A society like a modern democracy can at best only deal with the question: What is my proper role in an association based on the rights of various, disparate wills?

To stop the moral decay in our society like what happened to Sodom which is a lesson we should have learned

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

Some Christians argue that these Old Testament laws do not apply to a secular society like ours.

But in an overreligionized society like the United States, people get nervous when they can not maintain the fusion of religion and culture.

On the other hand, Marsden offers convincing evidence of discrimination against excellent Christian colleges and universities, especially Catholic ones, by honor societies like Phi Beta Kappa, by various accrediting agencies and by the American Association of University Professors.

As a result, I think a Muslim and a Christian, simply by living and engaging in a pluralistic society like the United States, have the opportunity to get to know more about their respective faiths, just through experiencing life in a society that includes members of that faith.

Society like everything else was to be used instrumentally.

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.

If societies like the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Luxembourg, France, United States, and New Zealand are known in advance to be (1) highly complex, (2) highly developed legally, and (3) religiously plural, it is not much of a test to determine if legal development and societal complexity are strongly related in religiously plural societies.

In 1977 sociologist Daniel Bell, contemplating «the return of the sacred,» suggested that societies like ours are not so much secular as they are made up of persistent religious subgroups.

Our society likes to try to hide it away and pretend it doesn't exist, but that doesn't change the facts.

You can not have a society like America's: multiethnic, with fractured families, dog eat dog, win or lose, limited healthcare, and a history of violence — and then let people buy guns easily.

In a properly organized political society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.»

However, the Americanisation of Mexican cooking has seen this potential warped for the purpose of convenience in urbanized and capitalized societies like our own.

Should we have to face the scorn of society like the adulterous Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter for our very private sins?

There are some things that are rising with modern society like type II diabetes and autoimmune disorders, but still.

In societies like ours where extended breastfeeding is unusual, it is easy to assume it may be to blame for any problems we encounter along the way.

But breastfeeding absolutely does require preparation, learning, and practice, especially in societies like ours where bottle feeding is the norm, and where many functions of women's bodies, lactation included, are both stigmatized and poorly understood.

Society likes to have parents believe that having more than one child is the right thing to do.

Coalitions are often seen as a danger for policymaking, but from a consensual point of view, they are useful in protecting the interests of diverse groups in a divided society like Turkey.

Does this not render republicanism an anachronistic model for a society like contemporary Britain?

That letter made it clear that we respect the right of people to their religious beliefs but that in a very diverse society like today's we need to build an inclusive national identity not a narrow one.

Allegedly liberal societies like the Netherlands have their own issues.

As you say, the voters could be simply Labour members, it could be levy - paying union members and members of Labour - supporting societies like the Fabians, or it could be open to people who want to offer a minimum # 10 donation or so in return for a vote.