as an atheist and democrat, I always saw Obama as basically a non-believer, who uses religion or
pays respect to religion when it is politically appropriate or expedient.
If burying Osama binLaden at sea with a brief ceremony that
pays respects to his religion is the most peaceful solution for all of society, than I am all for him being buried at sea.
Not exact matches
I have since noticed that people on a spiritual path of intention rather than
religion pay far more attention
to how they manifest in their lives an ethic which affirms life, how they behave in terms of
respecting the sacredness of the Earth and others in it.
We can
pay our full
respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong
to religion and its institutions.
It is a God that teaches us
to learn
to love,
to pay attention
to each man... and
to respect the others, even those who belong
to a different culture or
religion.
These historians
paid particular attention
to the Maryland Act of Religious Toleration of 1649, which provided that no Christian in the province would «bee any wais troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in
respect of his or her
religion nor in the free exercise thereof,» nor could any person be in «any way compelled
to the beleife or exercise of any
Religion against his or her consent.»
The conference will
pay particular attention
to the ways in which issues of race, class, nationality, sexuality, age, ability,
religion and ethnicity affect (positively or negatively) the ability of mothers
to advocate for and achieve authority, agency,
respect and empowerment.