Sentences with phrase «people of a particular religions»

What troubles me is how easy it can be to go from opposing evil and injustice to opposing people of a particular religions and / or political viewpoint.

«The new memo also defends applying statutory protections for «hiring persons of a particular religion'to include protection for religiously based standards of conduct for employees, including in the funding context — and potentially (although this is not said explicitly) when the category of prohibited discrimination that's asserted is sexual orientation, not just when it's religion.

Not exact matches

This particular demonstration of ignorant and child - like thought is one of those times (which are far too often) that religion and conservatism walk hand - in - hand... over other people.

Remember your religious rules do not apply to people who do not follow your particular brand of religion.

I think a fast from verbosity about religion may help the religious people to see how religion - free people may indeed lack nothing, but instead, their «envelope» is just a particular sort of clothing — not necessary but fun for them perhaps.

Christianity in particular, seeks vulnerable people, beats them down like a brutal abusive spouse, by telling them they are evil and sinful, and can not be strong and good by themselves, and then gives them a prosthetic of religion to prop them up again — the very weapon used to beat them with to begin with.

Falsely linking morality to a particular religion or to some political or military ideology is a time - tested «three card trick» uses to stop people from asking the hard questions which might lead to an abandonment of the relevant faith.

The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing in your particular brand of religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

It must be remembered that religion (s) are one of the largest service industries on earth and millions of people make their living off of peddling their particular brand, including the author of the article (what earthly use is a professor of theology).

A religion by definition imposes a particular set of beliefs on people.

A refugee is, by definition, a person who, owing to a well - founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the...

I may not believe in any one particular religion, and I certainly don't believe in god, but even I believe that most religious people have common sense enough to avoid the type of hystaria that doomsdayers espouse themselves to.

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

Many of these same people bring children into the world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children in their particular brand of religion when they don't plan well and don't want to violate their beliefs.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

If you are convinced that your particular religion or belief system is superior to others and people need to be converted to your particular way of thinking, then you are not part of a religion, but are part of a cult.

But in a country that promotes freedom of religion, what makes those positions valid to people who do not share your particular belief system?

I didn't even read it because the first line gives away the flawed premise of this article: people who are «spiritual» are missing something by not subscribing to a particular brand of religion.

I feel this piece is insulting, and shows very little understanding of what people who don't ascribe to a particular religion really «feel» (since this seems to be a bad word with this guy).

Every eligible person who can make an intelligent judgment can derive particular applications of religion from the sources.

and about hitler, he was against a particular religion because he believed that religion was wrong and rallied people against the followers of that religion... does nt that sound like republicans today?

Panikkar's oeuvre can be read as an encouragement to religion especially for Western, religiously insecure persons who are willing to draw from the Christian tradition, but decline to fit themselves into a particular form of Christianity and ecclesiality.

Most of the differences among the religions have to do with their understandably one - sided attachment to the particular sacramental images, events, experiences, or persons that they choose as representative of mystery.

Many of these same people bring children into the world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children in their particular brand of religion when they don't plan well.

We see in his example how He lived aboved the Synagogue and spread the Goodnews of God, not bound by the Synagogue but the TRUTH — doing good all over the world and making Himself example, but today people preach what they don't do and brain wash people to be and remain in a particular organisation called religion.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

On the other hand, religion implies a certain binding (Latin: religare) of the person to a particular path of obedience not set by the person herself.

It's easy for us to see that Christianity is, in some ways, quite the untraditional religion, depending as it does on wonderfully spectacular unprecedented events — such as creation, the Resurrection, the unique irreplaceability of each of our created personal lives, and the grace and the salvation given to particular persons.

Saying that you are a member of a particular church, or that you attend church with a certain frequency, or that you see religion as important does not necessarily indicate that you are a truly religious person.

He theorized that religious thinking evolved at some point (ironically, you might say) and that in some cases tribe leaders were able to use this to get people to stop fighting and to form bigger, more powerful political units, which in turn won out over isolated tribes, thereby facilitating the spread of a particular religion.

To the credit of the authorities, and in part because of the international sympathy aroused by an unusual amount of publicity, significant steps were taken to, ameliorate the plight of the victimized women; nevertheless, the incident clearly dramatizes not only the vulnerability of women to this particular form of violence but also the injustice of a culture, sanctioned by religion, which regards the woman's sexual integrity as primarily the concern of husbands and male relatives whose honor is at stake: bluntly, she is property, not a full person in her own right.

Religion and the supernatural have not been able to generate one single testable hypothesis, nor has it ever been able to enhance the social well being of all people... only the few that support the religion that dominates that particular geographical region, and that's because historically they've been free to kill those that disagree.

As for the dangers, I think religion in general, and Christianity in particular, is ill served when leaders of the Religious Right proclaim what Christians as «people of faith» are going to do if a President or major party disagrees with them, as if they have been empowered to speak for all Christians or all people of faith.

For other persons, the encounter of world religions has led to the adoption of a total relativism in place of exclusive claims for a particular tradition.

There are many examples of failure which should lead people to be very skeptical of any of the thousands of religions / sects and their particular Gods.

At the same time, a growing number of people have shed their particular religious affiliations, saying they are just «religious, spiritual» or have no religion at all.

And every religionists secretly thinks that the people who believe in their particular religion are the most moral of all — even Muslims.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

There are many cultures, people, employers, and laws that actively discriminate against people for not being a member of a particular religion.

These gain their distinctiveness not from their rejection of the marketing approach in the name of religious faith but from their almost total integration of modern consumer marketing with religion, producing what Virginia Stem Owens identifies as a range of prepackaged, certified Christian life - styles to meet one's particular demands and aspirations, with appropriate seminars available to show a person how to fit into that life - style.

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.»

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

(if I take in consideration the comment made by phoog: How can the French government act (in any way) on a particular religion (and so, the people practicing it) while it has an obligation of neutrality towards its citizen?)

The two statements can co-exist quite happily - that some people disagree on what religious truth might look like, doesn't therefore mean that there can never be such a thing as religious truth, and that a particular religion can't be the the most faithful expression of it.

As to the women concerned, they were thus obliged to give up completely an element of their identity that they considered important, together with their chosen manner of manifesting their religion or beliefs, whereas the objective alluded to by the Government could be attained by a mere obligation to show their face and to identify themselves where a risk for the safety of persons and property was established, or where particular circumstances prompted a suspicion of identity fraud.

«A. For the purposes of the present Convention, the term «refugee» shall apply to any person who: (2) As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well - founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.

The asylum appeal was made under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which aims to protect people from persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

Freedom of religion was the foundation of our nation, so it is atrocious that people are committing crimes against particular religious groups.

Niche sites are those dating websites devoted to a particular group of people, such as individuals over 40 or singles with children, or those of a specific religion.