Sentences with phrase «religion by decree»

The party must not try to abolish religion by decree; instead, it should attempt to guide religious people and institutions so that they will «center all their will and strength on the common goal of building a modernized, powerful socialist state.»

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He issued a decree of infallibility which made him the supreme arbiter in matters of religion and then went a step further by promulgating a new religion compounded of Muslim, Hindu and Christian elements.

Over the centuries, religion has gone hand - in - hand with power — kings rule by divine decree was the message.

In recent years we have witnessed a strong and necessary challenge to those who decree that this is a secular society and therefore arguments shaped by religion have no place in the public forum.

Separation between church and state is a phrase often used to summarize, perhaps to sloganize, the relationship between religion and government envisioned by the founders and decreed by them in the religion clause of the First Amendment.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

«The order of society» (in mediaeval Christendom), writes David Edwards, «was at bottom upheld by religion... It was God who decreed the acceptance of the rights and duties of each grade in society.