Do you have an issue with anyone that asks self - proclaimed Christian candidates
questions about their religious beliefs?
But Stout's careful statement of the possibilities for democracy raises other
questions about religious belief.
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.
Not exact matches
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.