Sentences with phrase «religion gives them purpose»

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Millennials, in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized religion, and less likely to join outside organizations than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.

All proselytizing religions do so for the purpose of manipulating masses into giving them wealth & power, & there is no reason to believe otherwise.

Science can give a great deal of facts but philosophy and religion answer the questions of origin and purpose.

Bloom's purpose is to substitute art for the transcendent grounding that once gave coherence to the individual life, since «a universal and unifying culture, to any degree worthy of notice... can not emanate from religion.»

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

My purpose, however, is not primarily to give an exposition of their thought, but rather to address central issues in science and religion.

I do not wish to see religion banned, to some it offer them hope from their fears and in a way gives them a sense of purpose.

Civil religion portrays a divine order of things, giving us a sense of worth and direction in relation to ultimate purposes.

For practical purposes, the individual sociologist, who has special intents in mind, may have to concentrate on a problem or problems of a given period of the history of civilization and religion, in a specific area or group.

Everything else in the Christian religion is auxiliary to him and finds its purpose in helping all persons to come to him and to give themselves to him, proclaiming him Savior and God.

And out of such groundless projections are fashioned the myths, religions and philosophies that have for ages given people a false sense of warmth and purpose in the cosmos.

from individualism in religion and society to corporate existence; from spiritual and economic selfishness to the truth of the community and of the world which God loves; from rigid doctrines of private property to the original purposes for which God gave his earth to his human family; from privatization of life to Trinitarian communion; from ritual preoccupations to pursuit of justice; from law to grace and from sacrifices to mercy.

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

(eh eh) While I agree with you, let's give due credit: the organized religions have done a fine job of establishing an environment that invites, tricks, cajoles or forces gullible people to buy their fantasy, for the purpose of power and control.

Thus I believe it is essential to have revelation if we are to have a religion which can give purpose and power to human living.

So you propose to give up religion — faith in mind behind the universe, purpose running through it, worth - while destiny ahead of it, with man not an accident of the dust but a child of the Eternal Spirit — and to content yourself simply with goodness.

For Ruskin, as the world prevails religion must give way, but Wills believes that empire gave purpose and confidence to Venice's citizens, nurtured learning and the arts and civic achievement, and inspired fervent religious devotion.

Surely, it may be argued, if there is only one God the object of worship in all religions is the same, and it can not greatly matter how that worship is given or what means are used to regulate human life in accordance with the divine purpose.

We have not developed much of a religion of meaning around climate change that might comfort us, or give us purpose, in the face of possible annihilation.

The better religions channel the need for purpose and give it a harmless outlet.

The standard permits law schools with a religious affiliation or purpose to give preference to applicants who are members of that religion or purpose, «only to the extent that those policies are protected by the United States Constitution,» Standard 205 states.

Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit a religious organization, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in such religion is restricted on account of race, color, or national origin.

The statements made in this case appeared to be intended more to relieve the accused's emotional stress rather than to give purpose to religion or spirituality.

Section 2 of the CHRA provides that the purpose of the CHRA is to «extend the laws in Canada to give effect... to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered.»

(The Tribunal accepted that it could insist on its morals if it provided service only to members of the particular religious belief, or if its purpose was to give instruction in its religion — the reason why Catholic schools can fire teachers who divorce.)