Sentences with phrase «religion on society»

There are several «Heinlein themes» that I like and want to explore: Individual liberty and self - reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies (and vice versa), the influence of organized religion on society - and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought.

Inasmuch as it is an interaction which is examined, justice must be done to the influence both of society on religion, and of religion on society.

And considering the impact of religion on society (good or bad) I would argue it is not a moot point for discussion period.

Not exact matches

A century from now, people will look back on our religion - dominated society the way we look back on the Middle Ages, with its weird, religion - based cruelty and violence.

There's well over a century of research on how religions originate, function in society and the individual psychology involved.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

It doesn't matter WHO you are, WHAT your religion is, WHAT your «sincere» intention was — when you put yourself on an airplane, in today's environment, with people of all nationalities, you are REQUIRED to show cognizance of and deference to the small bubble of society that ALL wish to make the trip and land safely.

If someone acts in an ethical fashion based only on religion... that person is a potential threat to society should they lose that motivator.

They can't fund religious - oriented greek societies in any way, and they can't have policies which support selection for funded student organizations based on religion.

The entire religion is based on mistakes from people too illiterate to remember the origin of their religion... and even today we see the church evolving on that same path, rewriting and reinterpreting it's rulebook to try and fit a modern society it can never catch up to.

They fought on the Maidan and now fight in the east for a dignified life and for the integrity of their country as a society united by a shared vision of the common good, not by blood or language or religion.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

Making religious programming more representative of British society, including other religions and atheists on Thought of the Day and Songs of Praise

At some point the morals espoused by religion will, on balance, no longer fit the society as a whole.

The whole point is that religions impose their will on the rest of society.

This has everything to do with excessive religions imposition on society.

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

While there are wonderful examples of kingdom communities who attract, embrace, and transform those who are most judged and marginalized by society and religion today, on the whole today's prostitutes and tax collectors steer as far away from Christians as they did the Pharisees in the first century.

These weekend - long seminars bring First Things readers and writers together for lectures and discussions on important topics on religion, culture, and society.

Since then clergy in many pulpits have articulated what Washington Gladden was to call the doctrine of the «socialized individual,» exhorting society to balance capitalism and its emphasis on self - interest with religion and its traditional emphasis on the public welfare.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

Throughout his life, these essays on Judaism and the Jews provided Kristol with a forum both familiar and provocative enough for exploring his thoughts on religion, society, and human nature as a whole.

«Purify [the Hadith];... Find a new practice of the concept of interaction between the sexes;... Separate religion from the state;... Give guidelines on Western customs, and eliminate incorrect behaviours;... Invite the people to go to God through gratitude and wisdom, and not with threats;... Recognise the right of Christians to occupy important positions [including] the presidency of the republic;... Separate religious discourse from power, and re-establish its connection with the needs of society.»

The federal government has the right to mandate policy on any religion if it is practicing a policy that harms society and creates at - risk children who eventually become drug - addicted, criminals.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

The «everything associated with religion is bad» approach is ridiculous on its face; Dennett tries to examine the value of religion to society from an objective viewpoint, examining whether it is a net positive despite being based on fantasy.

The maintaining of total authority in the home was critical to the functioning of a society that relied on the total authority of the government and / or religion.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

Its story should cause organized religion to reflect on its general role in a society plagued by widespread neurosis and inadequate facilities for treatment.

Suggesting that if you grow up alone on an island will bring you to the same conclusion is completely untestable as religion is a part of every society and corner of our planet.

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

You need to sit down and drink some tea and collect your thoughts, hon.. It depends on what we may learn about how the candidate has applied their religion within the U.S. society — you know in how they vote on things, but also in regards to their actions or words in general.

In this regard, the most decisive indicators of social righteousness in society are the structural freedom of religion and the ethical dependence on an ecumenically shaped «public theology.»

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

Chine is of Nigerian descent and has a passion for reporting religion's impact on society, as well as writing and speaking about faith, race and gender.

He looked on religion as a consequence of a more basic evil, the evil of a society in which man «has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again.»

His critique of religion and society stirred up my prophetic instincts, but there was an absence of a profound theological ethic as he insisted on a teleological suspension of the ethical for the sake of faith.

No doubt many are concerned that in a religiously pluralistic society it is too difficult — and too controversial — to put religion on the educational agenda.

«Many peasants and slum inhabitants need religion as a refuge in a society in permanent and progressive disintegration in order to deal with fear, threats, repression, hunger and death,» explained a report on the subject by Pro Mundi Vita, a Belgian - based Catholic think tank.

Liberals have pretty much one complaint: keep religion to yourself, don't mix it with your politics, don't try imposing it on greater society.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

Your don't get to use the force of law to jam your personal opinion of the teachings of a subset of a subset of a subset of a religion on the rest of society, no matter how much you hate gay people.

It is you that want to change the «fabric of society» bob same s e x marriages have been going on since before any of the now popular religions existed Bob gay people have existed since humans have existed Bob.

They drew their definition of religion from the point of view of its impact on society.

Professional journals and academics generally favored interpretations of American society that focused more on race than religion.

Unfortunately religion has become a defining point for discussion lately in society which makes it important and necessary for greater discussion on the topic.

Precisely because Troeltsch understood the forces that were and are shaping 20th - century religion and society, he can provide us with needed perspective on contemporary theological and religious movements.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.