Sentences with phrase «religious animosities»

Biafra has managed to hold out, but the fighting has been vicious, heightened by religious animosities.

Political and religious animosities distracted the country.

In other places, we have seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities tears communities apart.»

In recent century's religious fanaticism and religious animosities among people has been declining due to advances in science, technology, system of communications, system of government, and the emergence of modern economic and trade systems in the world.

Not exact matches

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

Far from merely discriminating between what is religious and what is not, the Blaine Amendments discriminate against Catholic and other ecclesiastical authority and thereby carry out theologically liberal animosities.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

During the twentieth century, as denominationalism has lost its vitality, religious tribalism has taken the form of animosity and unco - operativeness among the conservative, liberal and radical wings of the ecclesiastical organizations, with the conservative wing being particularly militant.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

So it is a bit of both religious fault lines and strategic animosity.

It's okay, and any animosity between religious perspectives and science is really pretty ludicrous.

I, for one, feel that the recent court actions upholding a ban on student - conducted, voluntary religious meetings on school property before or after regular class hours serve unnecessarily to arouse animosity and motivate people to tamper with the Constitution by pushing for a prayer amendment.

I wanted to know more about the Shakers as a religious community and especially why there was such animosity towards them.