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.