Sentences with phrase «religions whim»

As for a religious right... I think giving in to every religions whim is detrimental to our society.

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In addition, one finds that this vision has been arrived at, not by personal whim, but by an approach to Christian theology in the context of the history of religions, an approach that is widely approved but rarely attempted.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

While the historian Jonathan Sarna may be right that the split between the Jews as a people and Judaism as a religion came about as a result of the mass forced conversion of Jews during the medieval Spanish expulsion, historically, for the most part, Jews saw themselves as not just an amalgam of individuals thrown together by the whims of history but as a unique people chosen to follow God's word.

The Christian religions that came have sprouted have been around for only a few hundred years, and they were created to appease the whim of man on how to celebrate the word of god.

Hmmmm, a religion based on the whims of a Roman procurator??? Maybe we should rethink the importance of the crucifixion and concentrate on the Beat - itudes!!!!

Polytheisms, essence religions and mystery cults, on the other hand, invoke unalterable forces and eternal returns; they attribute events to inevitability, inscrutability and whim.

Hmmmm, a religion based on the whims of a Roman procurator??? Maybe you should rethink the importance of the crucifixion and concentrate on the Beatitudes!!!!

It was not done on a whim, or because I did not want what religion offered.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Who wants to believe in a religion that says that we're here on the whim of an evil alien overlord who killed us to take care of a population problem.

I had no idea that religion was so weak and pathetic to be so easily used by the whim of the government.

Odd film especially for a Crawford vehicle about a shallow socialite who takes up religion on a whim with an overly simplistic ending.

oh you mean Germany and the other dopey twerps destroying their electricity supply systems on the whims of the defunct AGW religion.