Sentences with phrase «religion than freedom»

Personally I would rather have freedom from religion than freedom of religion.

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That way you're actually pushing freedom of religion rather than condemnation of a specific religion.

Because without their steadfast support of freedom of speech and religion, you run the risk of ending up in a theocracy that only accepts a religion other than your own.

I am a Born Again Christian who believes in freedom of religion because I trust a Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu ruler more than I trust an Atheist who have no moral compass.

In Islam life is more sacred than anything and should only be shed in self defense, to free the oppressed and to protect the freedom of religion.

I also think many well meaning Christians are often distracted by a few social issues (things that I believe are personal and have more to do with our precious American freedoms than religion) and lose site of the larger picture.

Recently, both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been caught using the phrase «freedom of worship» in prominent speeches, rather than the «freedom of religion» the President called for in Cairo.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

If only Americans really did value their freedom of religion... Instead we are perfectly willing to villify and stigmatize people who think differently than we do.

The dumb christian rednecks in TN don't quite know what to do with religious freedom when they finally realize it protects religions other than theirs.

CHURCHES don't have freedom of religion, and more than corporations have freedom of speech.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

The latest global findings from the Pew Research Center, released two days before Religious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a close second).

If anything, it shows that there is freedom of religion in that space because it conveys the message the FACT that the VAST MAJORITY of the country is Catholic and another viewpoint (other than secularism) is represented.

Is the Hospital (an organization)'s right to enforce what it believes to be right more valid than an individual citizen's right to freedom of religion and receipt of protections given by Federal law?

The US is a secular country not a christian country.Our country was founded on the principles of freedom fo religion and seperation between church and state.I am a muslim, I can tell you that the reason men and women don; t pray in integrated environments is to avoid distractions and to focus on the prayer not because women are less than men.I personally don; t want to be praying next to a woman because all I'll be thinking about is her and not god.Jews also do the same thing in temples by seperating between men and women in temples.A house of worship is built solely for that purpose, worship!

Religious freedom holds above all for a private or privatized religion, one that looks inward rather than outward.

Fortunately freedom is supposed to be more important than religion here in america.

i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you die to yourself by taking up your cross daily... not being centered on the «other» rather than yourself...

It is rather to say that they will be found, if at all, elsewhere than in abstract argument; they will be located in the realm of religion and politics and the everyday requirements of true freedom.

We did not start it, but we have been attacked by the Islamic faith that wants nothing more than to destroy freedom of religion in America and implement Sharia law.

My religion does not persuade me to vote one way or another in an election just because one candidate says god and freedom more than the other.

A less than optimal and still agreeable scenario involves the inclusion of Hanukkah cookies at a class party or even a Hanukkah song at the school's chorus program — usually a previously unknown and completely forgettable musical composition — which, of course, emphasizes the ancient Maccabees» struggle for freedom of religion.

For American Jews, the disestablishment clause of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom from religion is at least as, if not more, important than the Constitution's promise of freedom of religion.

His defense of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque near Ground Zero shows that he's more passionate defending freedom of religion, than he has been in displaying his religiosity.

It is a nontrivial problem in other cultures with other religions, each claiming that an antique document is a better guide for moral behavior than mere common sense and the application of simple principle of personal freedom as long as it doesn't materially hurt others.

Although the majority based their conclusion on his right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, the partially concurring and dissenting opinions and the judgment as a whole provide an interesting insight into the way freedom of conscience challenges are to be approached in a secular society where religion holds less sway than individual ethical positions on certain issues.

The Saumur case [Saumur v. City Of Quebec [1953] 2 S.C.R. 299], which relied on a defence of freedom of expression and religion, established that issuing licences to restrict a person's rights to practise his or her faith was beyond municipal or provincial authority and led to the dismissal of more than 1,000 bylaw charges.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

But Im not prepared to immediately chalk up all opposition (I'll grant you that some undoubtedly is rooted in islamophobia) to something that is unprecedented in this society, and that would not be tolerated in any context other than a freedom of religion context as «islamophobic».

The Shapeshift.io CEO claimed the freedom to choose your money is, for many people, more important than being able to choose a religion.

[44] His Honour indicated that freedom of religion could provide greater protection of Indigenous interests than has, to date, been accorded:

The Commission submits that in conformity with the guarantee of equality, the rights of indigenous minorities and freedom of religion, and consistent with the common law presumption against extinguishment of a proprietary interest and constitutional jurisprudence in relation to the acquisition of property, sub-sec 223 (1) should be construed in a manner which promotes the resilience of native title, rather than its fragility and susceptibility to destruction forever.

In order to give effect to the guarantee of equality, the rights of indigenous minorities, and freedom of religion, the Court should resist approaches which would effectively destroy rather than recognise and protect native title.