Sentences with phrase «own religious values»

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

«I would not score very highly on religious value,» said Lee, then 82, still in good health, and a sort of Minister Emeritus.

Morality is relative to a value system, but religious values are based on the delusion of an imaginary god.

I am talking about their religious values / morals / laws and how they should be kept out of our nation's legal system.

Ted said: «I am talking about their religious values / morals / laws and how they should be kept out of our nation's legal system.»

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

«This action is yet another shocking breach of Iran's international obligations, its own constitution, and stated religious values,» the statement said.

Luther even extolled the religious value of housework, declaring that although «it has no obvious appearance of holiness, yet these very household chores are more to be valued than all the works of monks and nuns.»

Rather, we refer to recent attempts in sociobiology to account for the rise of human culture and religious values such as altruism.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

Without the control provided by the doctrine of creation, they devalued human experience, dismissing it as having no positive religious value.

Instead, he's the loyal, good - hearted friend whose religious values (no matter how weird they are) inform every part of his life and relationships.

Then he faded from the scene for a couple of decades, only to be picked up by the left wing of the Democratic party after their electoral disaster of 2004 in order to certify their sympathy for «religious values.»

Moral and religious values must be seen to be higher than material values.

An organization could only count as religious, the regulation asserted, if «the inculcation of religious values is the purpose of the organization,» if it «primarily employs persons who share the religious tenets of the organization,» and if it «serves primarily persons who share the religious tenets of the organization.»

What needs to be shown is not a mere filiation of concepts or the use of words, but the religious value men found in the concepts, the religious meaning they undertook to set forth in the words.

It says the group must have religious values as its purpose, primarily employ people who share those religious beliefs, primarily serve persons who share those beliefs and be a nonprofit organization.

The object of religious valuing, in other words, is «sacred.»»

While an individual's religious values will certainly factor into his or her perspective on this hot - button issue, the diversity of opinions within the faith community should make us pause before claiming God is on one side or the other.

While not overtly a religious film, Sorvino says «Like Dandelion Dust» contains religious values: forgiveness, love, and redemption.

In human and spiritual terms the focus on the family for any struggle between conflicting worldviews is obvious since it is here that cultural and religious values are primarily passed on.

The intent of the group is to deal with the cognitive level of helping the patient to integrate what he is learning about himself with his religious values.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

You shame us all when you seek to mingle religious values and secular values that have to work for other religions as well.

Sixty - three percent of political and religious conservatives support allowing women and couples in the developing nations to determine the timing and spacing of pregnancies in a manner that includes the voluntary use of methods of preventing pregnancy — not including abortion — that are harmonious with their religious values and beliefs.

I list some of my religious values, and explain which religion is my second choice, and why.

If all we had was the Book of Tobit, we might conclude that the religious value of almsgiving was conditioned by one's distance from the Temple.

The true debunker recognizes this and stands firm in the religious value it presents.

He is the author / editor of fifteen books, including Religious Values and Valuations and of more than fifty articles.

The debunker acknowledges a positive, religious value in anger; there exists an honest - to - God Christian anger, which is a virtue.

The HHS mandate allows religious exemption if the organization meets the following criteria: (1) its primary purpose is to promote religious values; (2) it primarily employs persons of the same religion; (3) it primarily serves persons of the same religion; and (4) it is a nonprofit organization under specific sections of the Internal Revenue Code.

how would you feel if you were a janitor at the company, didn't share their religious values and found out your son needed a blood transfusion - but the company is jehovah's witness?

Douglas Kmiec knows he is guilty of pushing his religious values on others (proselytizing), and that he has no choice to to resign — I.e. the Obama admin walks softly and carries a kahuna shtick!

The presence of such a nonrational element does not disqualify religious values from consideration in lawmaking, however.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

Our laws reflect those religious values even though they are unjustified in my opinion.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

If the latter are in the best sense religious they value themselves and others in principle in the same way, as fellow performers in the service of the supreme Director.

Most African Americans and hispanics hold conservative religious values and although outwardly due to undue pressure might toe the liberal line, will certainly choose the lesser of the two evils.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

In emphasizing the close historical connection between America and God, evangelicals and fundamentalists assert the importance of religious values which they themselves still uphold.

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

The liberal version of American civil religion draws on a different set of religious values and portrays the nation in a very different light.

It certainly will appeal more than the former interpretation to anyone who identifies himself, traditionally or on his own decision, with any one religious value or a system of religious values.

Peace on earth might be a religious value for some Muslims, but it will become simply a rule or ethic without being understood as a condition of the fulfillment of their being.

We may think of it as a religious value.

(2) The acquisition of religious values and attitudes toward oneself, others, God, and existence.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

The only intelligible solution to this problem would seem to be to admit the relative religious value, based on experience, of each group's scriptures for its own corporate life, but to recognize that no book has final authority.

Its purpose, as described by Paul E. Johnson is to enable persons to «come for psychiatric help where ethical and religious values will not be overlooked and religion thus aids in the acceptance of psychiatry.»