Sentences with phrase «process for every religious person»

Not exact matches

Walshe also critically flags how — again, at the point of consent — Facebook's review process deploys examples of the social aspects of its platform (such as how it can use people's information to «suggest groups or other features or products») as a tactic for manipulating people to agree to share religious affiliation data, for example.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Even this test would be somewhat unfair to process theism because of religious conditioning by traditional theism, which makes it difficult for many people to take seriously the idea of a God without omnipotence in the traditional sense (see Griffin, God 258 - 59; Griffin, Evil 209 - 13).

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

The process is very similar to divorce and some people choose it for religious or moral reasons.

Friends, family, church and religious groups can all provide a network of people for parents and kids to talk to during the divorce process.

I am not an overtly religious person but I pray that all the children find safe and loving homes and the process for their adoptions runs smoothly.