Sentences with phrase «questions about religious belief»

But Stout's careful statement of the possibilities for democracy raises other questions about religious belief.

Do you have an issue with anyone that asks self - proclaimed Christian candidates questions about their religious beliefs?

For those who are concerned about finding like - minded Christians, it's important to note that the assessment includes questions about your religious beliefs, as well as sexual activity.

Members have to answer questions about their religious beliefs, their ideal first date and their past relationship history.

While the Supreme Court of Canada has commented on the absurdity of questioning children about their understanding of the religious consequences of oaths in getting past that first hurdle of whether or not they understand an oath or affirmation, those questions about religious beliefs continue to prevail, although adults are never asked the same questions.

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To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

Specifically, it's far less common to hear about how a student who finds their way to or from Christianity, Islam, or Judaism (or even Atheism for that matter) while attending a university.Taking classes and sharing experiences alongside classmates from varying backgrounds can cause even the most religious or nonreligious person to inspect, analyze, and even question their beliefs.

My friends at the invaluable Mirror of Justice blog have noted and commented on New York Times editor Bill Keller's snarky questions for and about the religious beliefs of various Republican candidates, but I feel compelled to add my two cents» worth.

You yourself said you want to see a Christian leader so it seems you would want to know answers to your own questions about any candidate's religious beliefs.

Perry and Bachmann have made their religious beliefs part of their campaign; therefore, I think they should be questioned about it.

Keller's column, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.

Questioning long held religious beliefs can bring about very compelling reasons for making this change.

In the country's first major survey on religious beliefs, conducted in 2006, 31.4 percent of about 4,500 people questioned described themselves as religious.

Romney, a former Mormon bishop, has been emphatic in response to questions posed about particulars of his religious beliefs: «I'm not running for pastor in chief.

When the text thus interprets its interpreter, it does so not through re-engaging belief in ancient religious categories but by raising questions about the would - be interpreter's existence — his estrangement from himself and others, his experienced «fulfillment gap» between what he is and what be could be.

I don't agree with converting to a belief system that you have so many questions about, contraception, ho.mose.xuality, and «some aspects of religious liberty» but bashing her appearance?

As Robert George (also then a member of the President's Council on Bioethics) has often pointed out, no beliefs about «ensoulment,» no religious beliefs, and no «metaphysics» about ultimate questions need be invoked to come to the conclusion that the earliest embryo is one of us.

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

that their religion is flawed somehow... and when questioned why they try to push their ideas on everybody else, they get frustrated and say that it's the Religious ones that push their ideas on people... NOT THEM... That's funny because i have about 1000 comments on this thread that state the opposite... Atheist's i see on this post appear to fall into that category of people that need to try and convince others to believe what they do because they're not sure in their own beliefs... They know that believing in the big bang theory or other similar theories takes as much faith as any religion has to offer... and when pinned down to the facts that By the laws of physics... the big bang couldn't happen....

Kapogiannis and a small team of researchers asked 40 subjects these same questions about God and religious beliefs while they were in the MRI machine: 20 who said they were religiously inclined and 20 who said they were not.

The new find, thus, provides information about a key question of the Cluster of Excellence's research project B2 - 20, the question of the continuity of local religious beliefs.

It includes a question about how important your personal religious beliefs are and questions that get at social self - esteem and how psychologically well - adjusted people are.

The matching algorithm is limited to questions about religious practices and beliefs and ethnicity.

An excellent lesson to get students thinking about «life after death» in general and therefore suitable as a KS3 lesson on «big questions» as well as for KS4 on non religious arguments against belief in life after death, or alternatively as a revision lesson for KS5.

Ultimately the Mormon faith does not hold up to the scrutiny of this young boy's mind and this leads to powerful questions about the whole process of forcing fanatical religious beliefs on the mind of a child.

Along the way, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest - growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.