Sentences with phrase «public symbols of»

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.

The intolerant ones are those who can not live without having a public symbol of the very intolerance that caused this attack, religion.

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.

Not exact matches

The company went public in 2013, and its IPO was one of that year's best: BRP stock, which happens to sport the ticker's coolest symbol (TSX: DOO), launched in May 2013 at $ 21.50 per share and rose 40 % in the next 12 months to $ 29.97.

When you click on the cog symbol, you have the option to make the content public — visible to all your Facebook friends — visible just to you, or some customized group of friends.

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.

ING U.S., a leading provider of Retirement, Investment, and Insurance products and services in the U.S., opened for trading today on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol «VOYA» after its initial public offering.

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.