Sentences with phrase «religion as a general rule»

While I dislike religion as a general rule, I find this incredibly bad behavior.

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Atheists, as a general rule, know more about religion than their religious counterparts.

Schweitzer was firmly convinced that one of the shortcomings of all world religions is that they regard ethics as ultimately separated from spirituality, as is the general rule in Eastern religions, or as myopically identified with the total meaning of religion, as is the case generally in the West.

As a general rule of thumb, I would say that religions are at their best whenever they challenge their members to chafe against preexisting identities — for example, when St. Paul says that «in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.»

This is a blog concerned with the material culture of religion, and as a general rule, I don't write about politics.

The former refers to where an employee is discriminated against as a direct consequence of their religion or belief, and the latter is where an employee is discriminated against not due to their specific religion or belief but because more general rules put someone of their religion or belief at a disadvantage.

My general rule of thumb is not to bring up politics or religion as these can be personal and hot button topics.

As they bumble around the situation, Oshima's script (with Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki, and Michinori Fukao) becomes slapstick satire, lampooning not just the inane rules that allow the state to execute somebody, but ethnic stereotypes and organized religion in general.

The WWII era conscious objector cases held that the CO exception to military service is not limited to governmentally - approved religions, but as a general rule, the courts have not ruled that you can simply claim to have a religious belief which is being infringed on and thereby be excempt from the law.

As a general rule, employees are employees at will in Colorado, unless otherwise provided, which means that you can be fired at any time, with or without cause, for any reason other than those prohibited by law (e.g. race, gender, religion, whistleblowing in some cases) including a few reasons particular to Colorado law rather than federal law, such as.As a general rule, employees are employees at will in Colorado, unless otherwise provided, which means that you can be fired at any time, with or without cause, for any reason other than those prohibited by law (e.g. race, gender, religion, whistleblowing in some cases) including a few reasons particular to Colorado law rather than federal law, such as.as...

(a) Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, except as provided in subsection (b).