Mann's paleoclimate reconstruction remains the most visible
public symbol of the opinion that recent warming is a very distinct anomaly in the historical climate record.
The intolerant ones are those who can not live without having
a public symbol of the very intolerance that caused this attack, religion.
To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at
public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.
Not exact matches
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1) Approval
of Charter: «Quebec has proposed a Charter
of Values to promote secularism, which would prohibit
public servants from wearing religious clothing and
symbols.
At the height
of the crisis, AIG became a
symbol for excessive Wall Street risk - taking and a touchstone for
public anger.
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After two years
of transforming the strategy, financial profile, and culture
of the company, ING U.S. began trading as a
public company on the NYSE under the ticker
symbol VOYA, which represents its future brand identity, Voya Financial.
Canada's
public service shifted from a widely respected institution into a
symbol of waste and inefficiency - as if bureaucrats alone (and not their political overlords) were the cause
of the problem.
And now our current president has brought the spirit
of the private plane — the great
symbol of extreme excess in isolated and theoretically productive comfort — to American
public life.
However to privelege one belief system above another is not; this would include the display
of religious icons /
symbols on
public property maintained with taxpayer dollars.
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation
of church and state by making people recite the pledge
of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious
symbols and displays on
public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal
of prayer in
public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
The murders have reignited calls for the Confederate flag - a
symbol of slavery and white supremacy - to be taken down from
public institutions.
My 7 year old daughter (non-christian) felt the same way going to her
public school in Texas where all she would see in December were christmas trees and veiled holy
symbols, at the exclusion
of any other belief (or non-belief).
The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious
symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in
public buildings is «part
of the historic heritage
of the Italian people.»
The culture
of consumerism and the chase for material
symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit
of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit
of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse
of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network
of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in
public life, have come to be corroded by a culture
of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit
of substantive justice.
Every day, especially in Europe, churches and cemeteries are desecrated; blasphemy pretends to be an art for the general
public; activists like Femen attack
symbols of religion, and the media rarely miss an opportunity to belittle Christians and the Catholic Church.
Torture and
public trials resulted in burnings at the stake
of poor and working - class women viewed as
symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.
This essentially metaphysical order
of the world which humans look for is perceived and understood largely through concrete, accessible
public symbols.
There is certainly no dearth
of private spaces readily available for the
public display
of sacred
symbols» churches, synagogues, religious schools, private lawns, and store fronts...
One should not display
symbols of a single religion on
public grounds.
They will sue to block a religious
symbol from being put up on
public grounds (the WTC is owned by the Port Authority
of NY and NJ, therefore,
public grounds).
You can't have freedom
of religion if you allow one
of them to erect their
symbols in
public space.
The point is that if it is a
public space then it should be free
of government funded religious
symbols.
The
symbols of all these cults should be removed from
public display.
Symbols and images
of this kind cluster thickly in the scenes
of the «Christmas story» which in Matthew and Luke is the prelude to their account
of the
public career
of Jesus: visits
of angels, prophetic dreams, the marvelous star in the east, the miraculous birth greeted with songs from the heavenly choir, all the appealing incidents so familiar in the appropriate setting
of Christmas carol and nativity play.
Unlike Mexico, however,
public education was not inhibited in this promulgation from using religious
symbols as long as they were thought common to all, which again meant politically defined, not denominationally defined, units were the units
of reference.
In the manner
of Paul Ricoeur's attempt to show the relative adequacy
of the Adamic myth
of evil over the Orphic myth or
of Reinhold Niebuhr's still masterful if methodologically muted attempt to show the relative adequacy
of the Judeo - Christian understanding
of historical passage, the contemporary revisionist theologian can find
public ways to articulate the relative experiential adequacy
of particular
symbol systems.
A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display
of the cross, arguing that a religious
symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by
public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims
of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.
The separation
of church and state has to exist, but look how angry everyone becomes, when prayer and other religious
symbols are removed from
public displays and functions?
Public culture is composed
of ideas and
symbols that are widely shared, found in major societal institutions, and do not depend on any one person or one group for their existence.
In a thousand cases across America, in incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings,
public prayers on the Fourth
of July, and the display
of religious
symbols on
public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protests.
The reception
of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect
of the Catholic faith, and when the likes
of such
public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery
of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere
symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign
of personal transformation through the Cross
of Christ and the «renewal
of the mind» (Rom.
The religions
of Canaan, ornate as they were with divine
symbols in
public worship and private shrines, were in large measure characterized by the features
of so - called nature worship.
The woman lives in a building owned by someone else and decides to hang religious
symbols in an area not part
of her rented space in
public view and them asking her not to is interfering with her «private» life.
Essentially, part
of the point
of the campaign is to let «secularists» know that (in AiG's opinion) when creationism is removed from the classroom or «Christian
symbols from
public places,» the First Amendment is being violated.
Because with your thinking we should let the muslim's put their star and crescent
symbol of their religion all up and down the roads... then you christians and muslims can fight to see who can just infest
public land with «your»
symbols.
But in the end we must try to think together in the mode
of a
public theology: that is, a form
of discourse which uses
symbols of ultimacy but also seeks publicly negotiable warrants for its assertions.
in the
public domain, then I'm sure you are o.k. with the Muslim's putting up their *) everywhere they want, and the Jews putting up their «star
of david» and the Buddhists, putting Buddha everywhere, and the Hindu's putting up all
of their gods, and goddesses, along with all the rest
of the religions
of the world and their religious imagery /
symbols / texts, etc...
Indeed, most students feel that Union's location in New York city is in itself a visible
symbol of a
public sense
of pastoral care.»
The Conseil begins by stating that laïcité forbids «any display by
public authorities
of signs and
symbols showing a
public recognition or a preference for a given religion.»
Perhaps the court believes that citizens entering a
public building to obtain a
public service shouldn't have to confront religious
symbols of which they disapprove.
Here, then, are nine thoughts I want to share with my fellow religious conservatives: 1) As a matter
of political liberty I believe there are justifiable reasons to support such issues as prayer in schools and
public displays
of religious
symbols.
If anything other religious
symbols should be introduced in
public places thus haveng a mixture
of symbols for every citizen and promoting collaboration between religions / beliefs.
And, I think most christians would be accepting
of other religious
symbols hung in classrooms, or other
public spaces.
Therefore, I see it as a good thing for any religious or non-religious person to display a
symbol of their beliefs in
public settings.
In France there are
public schools — where the display
of crosses (or other religious
symbols) is strictly forbidden.
Religious
symbols in a
public school is now the business
of everyone.
Christian arguments for the cross to be displayed 24/7 in a
public classroom as a constant reminder every second
of the day that Jesus was murdered by Jews and died for our sins won't hold up to Christian review if all other religious
symbols were placed right next to it.