Sentences with phrase «own religious convictions»

«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

Besides religious convictions, the pope gave an insight into why he is drawn to them.

Supporters of the measure say it will protect people and business owners with strong religious convictions from government intrusion.

Those with religious convictions could, in addition, obtain sanction from their personal religion.

His long life is the product of centuries of medical science pushing back the darkness of religious conviction.

Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).

So those positions would be just as wrong and the entire sport goes against his religious convictions.

Male and female bodies being forced to provide contraception and abortion pills against their religious convictions, females (Sebelius) rules

Both Tim Kaine and Mike Pence warmly recounted the importance of their religious convictions.

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

On the basis of this thin reed Stevens was willing to impose on protestors acting out of profound religious convictions the same draconian punishments that are ordinarily imposed on gangsters.

Another thing to remember... the US was intended to be a secular republic by the founding fathers, many of whom had religious convictions, and some of whom were deists or atheists.

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

Hillary Clinton has been very clear that people of religious conviction ought not to have those convictions.

I applaud your willingness to speak out; I respect your religious convictions.

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

(a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

The health care proposal was not forcing anyone to take the pills (or forcing them to not take the pills), but it was forcing people to provide the pills against their religious convictions.

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.

«It was, of course, a LIE what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

I'm glad he has deep religious convictions and actually turns those convictions into action.

From the responses, it seems that some of the participants in the survey may have had equal difficulty categorizing themselves by strength of religious conviction.

It's unsurprising, then, that despite the critical adulation received by Ashgar Farhadi's new film, A Separation, its reviewers seem to have missed that the film is work of sincere religious conviction....

If it is against your religious convictions or moral codes, then DO N'T HAVE ONE.

The people weren't guided by a star, but by their religious conviction.

But he has powerful religious convictions that bias him with premises that he treats as fact.

Sociology and psychology take up the subject of religious conviction and put a question mark around faith.

(CNN)- There's a misconception among many faithful folks that religious convictions, by their very nature, are set in stone.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

This kind of event is breaking news to only two kinds of people: those who have no inkling whatsoever of historic Christian theology, and those who expect religious conviction always to yield to pop culture.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.»

So the US Federal government got a state vying to entry into the Union to put aside their religious convictions.

They would like to be relieved of that compulsion, but that can't happen, they are told, because the larger society's understanding of the moral life overrules the understanding prescribed by their religious convictions.

If your going to judge anyone's religious convictions find out why they are so convicted to being religious.Oh, I forgot, atheist know everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

Reports circulated over a draft of an executive order designed to expand protections for individuals, organizations, and corporations» religious convictions — including traditional beliefs on gender, sexuality, and marriage.

The majority of Americans want a president with strong religious convictions, though fewer than did so in the past, Pew found.

When it's their candidate, however, they act shocked that anyone would dare question a person's religious convictions.

It will show how a religious conviction which begins with an almost spiritual commitment to religious principles or fundamentals soon descends into fanaticism and violence.

Loyalty to the state took precedence over acting on religious convictions.

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 short video.

Paul wasn't so stuck on some temporal identity, or even his own religious convictions, (see how he circumcised Timothy).

As a matter of theology, the word asserts that «whatever is divine» in Jesus, his deity, is as truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feel.

Atheism and religious conviction both spring from the same thing... the human mind.

«We support an executive order making clear that people of religious conviction will not be pushed aside by the federal government as we seek to serve our neighbors, including those who disagree with us.»

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

The notion of maturing he describes is religious maturing in general, regardless of specific religious convictions.

Unlike the gap within the old - line churches, evangelical laity and R&D professionals remain similarly orthodox in their religious convictions.