Sentences with phrase «predominant religions»

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

Just like how people today look at slavery in the United States as unacceptable and barbaric, centuries from now children being educated will read about the once predominant religions in our society and think the same thing.

You can't just have Christianity and Judiaism, the predominant religions.

You'd think that Christianity was the predominant religion in America or something — or that fundamentalist Christians were a vociferous, politically and socially influential group.

As a western culture, our predominant religion in this country is Christianity, but there are certainly others.

The study, conducted at the University of Georgia and Southern Methodist University, found that the predominant religion in a community affects the decision - making process of mutual fund managers in that community, specifically when it comes to risk.

Though Christianity made great success in Central Asia, it did not mean Christianity was the predominant religion there.

Wouldn't you be angry too if you recognized that the predominant religion in your country was nothing but a Bronze Age fairy tale but it was so widely accepted that it intruded into your country's politics, laws, educational system, medical science, and nearly every other aspect?

So why do you dirt bags get a free shot at insulting the predominant religion in this country / world and you think you can get away with it?

Bali people respect their religions and traditions a lot, the predominant religion is Hinduism.

Muslim is the predominant religion on the Gili Islands.

Al - Ani, Amer, and Hatoum were born in countries where Islam is the predominant religion — Iraq, Egypt, and Lebanon, in 1966, 1963, and 1952, respectively — and, like a number of other artists from the Islamic world under consideration here, they no longer live there.

Christianity, the predominant religion in Canada, is undoubtedly woven into the fabric of Canadian society.

The predominant religion is Roman Catholic.

Not exact matches

I have cautiously watched, with interest and support, the assault on the overtechnologized concepts so predominant in Western medicine and religion.

It is no wonder therefore that they paved the way for establishing Christian and Muslim philosophy of religion, and that their influence in Muslim religious thought in particular was predominant.

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

Today I judge that on a national and global basis, the predominant social reality of religion, and I focus on Christianity, is pathogenic, contributing more to the illness of the world than to its health.

The principle, in this context, merely constrains government officials not to make decisions with the predominant purpose or primary effect of advancing religion; in other words, the predominant purpose and primary effect must be nonreligious or secular in nature.

Much of the content of the collection has little or nothing to do with religion at all and popular religion may not have looked to it as the final authority, but higher religion in China has found in it a secure foundation, and morally it has been the predominant influence upon the Chinese people for more than two thousand years.

Although the practices of FGM have been preserved and promoted as part of a society's predominant culture and religion, it is a fact that there are not religious documents or holy books referring to any kind of obligation of a woman to be subjected to FGM (Preston D. Mitchum, 1993, p. 593).