Sentences with phrase «personal religious convictions»

As of this writing, more than three - quarters of all state legislatures have seen in excess of 200 bills filed which would give anyone the right to deny goods or services to same - sex couples if providing them would violate their personal religious convictions.

Author states strong personal religious convictions.

According to a Pew study last fall, 49 percent of Americans said that all businesses should serve same - sex weddings, while 47 percent said business owners should be allowed to follow their personal religious convictions.

Nobody is absolutely neutral or can compartmentalize himself, so that he denys his personal religious conviction during he is public service.

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

This is driven less by personal religious conviction than by the need to amend the inevitable distortions that resulted from centuries of scholarship that failed to account seriously for a phenomenon as massive as religion.

Not exact matches

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

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

Clergy and laity will then experience themselves first of all as brothers of the same religious mind and conviction which all have acquired through many sacrifices in a personal decision and in conscious opposition to the mentality of their surroundings.

No Christian or Jewish theologian alert to the radical theocentrism at the heart of theology can rest content with the fatal social view that religious convictions are purely «personal preferences» or «private options.»

This last fundamental religious conviction is, to my knowledge, as much as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there is nothing essential in this which is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and immortal souls.

Historically, there has been a controversial relationship between boxing and religion, both with regard to the nature of the sport itself and the seeming contradictions between the religious convictions and the personal lives of the pugilists.

To be sure, the distinction between personal convictions and the religious story of the nation remains sufficiently sharp in evangelical teachings that militant religious nationalism is the exception rather than the rule.

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

Many who have tried to remain faithful to the church feel guilty that they are unable to reconcile their personal views or convictions with Christian teaching; they live a kind of schizophrenic religious existence.

The reasons for this preference are partly to be sought in his own personal development (Hindu home, Christian instruction), partly in his primary interest in the intellectual expression of religious experience or, in other words, the philosophical bent of his nature, and, last but not least, in his often voiced conviction that we have to «get behind and beneath all outward churches and religions, and worship the nameless who is above every name.

The judge obviously changed the name because of her own (personal) religious convictions, and her ruling will be overturned (and rightly so).

Garnering support for climate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, Febreligious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, FebReligious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, February 19.

Ignore the precise religious context and it stands perfectly well as a restrained look at personal convictions in the face of certain death.

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IMO, Patra is a negative example of a religious follower: someone who adopts a religion not by way of a personal spiritual journey and genuine conviction, but for social reasons, such as to please someone (in her case, Leo), looking outside oneself to find the answers, to be led and told what to do.

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

The applicant also argues that the niqab, as well as the burka full - body covering, accord with her «religious faith, culture and personal convictions.»