Sentences with phrase «pitted against faith»

Rights and development are pitted against faith and human life — increasingly, female life.

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«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

But the bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

When congregations are described as alternative service providers, they are pitted against secular agencies and even faith - based nonprofits.

It gives a model of competition where the alternative service provider idea pits the secular against the faith - based non-profits.

@GhostCollin There is popular misunderstanding that pits faith against reason.

«I think that language like «sky daddy» or «imaginary friend Sam» immediately and unnecessarily pits people against each other... I don't want the secular community to risk failing to engage with the faith community».

Those two are on the same side because both pit faith against reason.

Leaps of faith are perhaps acceptable in some theory of risk taking, but not when the huge global consequences for remediation of elusive «anthropogenic global warming» are pitted against them.

His wife Leslie's (Erika Christensen) newfound faith in Christ compels Lee to utilize his journalistic and legal training to try and disprove the claims of Christianity, pitting his resolute atheism against her growing faith.

Of course, as we all know, the great irony in More's life is that his master, King Henry VIII, raised in the Catholic faith, known as the Defender of the Faith for his writings against Luther (ghost written by More), breaks with Rome in order to expedite his marriage to Anne Boleyn and seize the massive tracts of English land owned by the church - thus pitting More against both the King and the new Protestant cfaith, known as the Defender of the Faith for his writings against Luther (ghost written by More), breaks with Rome in order to expedite his marriage to Anne Boleyn and seize the massive tracts of English land owned by the church - thus pitting More against both the King and the new Protestant cFaith for his writings against Luther (ghost written by More), breaks with Rome in order to expedite his marriage to Anne Boleyn and seize the massive tracts of English land owned by the church - thus pitting More against both the King and the new Protestant court.

Here, the action takes place in family court, where a successful judge faces personal challenges as well as a complicated case that pits faith against medicine.

Maybe you believe faith can move mountains, but I'll pit myself, plus a humble teaspoon against all the faith you can assemble, as far as mountain moving goes.

Leaps of faith are perhaps acceptable in some theory of risk taking, but not when the huge global consequences for remediation of elusive «anthropogenic global warming» are pitted against them.