"Religious believers" refers to individuals who hold strong faith or belief in a particular religion or religious system. They engage in rituals, follow religious doctrines, and may worship a higher power or deities.
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Gay people have more rights than
religious believers due to equality legislation, a parliamentary group found today.
Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling
for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).
Orwin says what ends up happening for
traditional religious believers in a liberal democracy is they have to settle for a watered down version of their practice e.g. Catholic Lite, Jewish Lite etc..
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.
As a legal scholar considering the future of society, Ottaviani's fear was that religious freedom would result in religious indifference and then a collapse of religious conviction, which would in turn lead to state hostility
toward religious believers and religious institutions.
So, at least indirectly — though actually quite directly, I believe — Stalin did persecute and kill
religious believers because of his own Communist atheist orientation, even though this was mixed with a significant amount of his own personal megalomania, as Collin suggests.
Faith, on the other hand, deals with transcendent realities that are known only by revelation, freely accepted
by religious believers thanks to the grace of God.
Claims that American Christians today are facing persecution sound tone - deaf not only to secular progressives but also to many non-white
religious believers who have long been actual minorities.
Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of
contemporary religious believers.
From the Administration that more than any I've seen embraces the so - called nanny state, especially in ways that offend the consciences of
sincere religious believers, comes this statement of the essence of that execrable decision: «this Supreme Court decision... affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.»
Claims that American Christians today are facing persecution sound tone - deaf not only to secular progressives but also to many
non-white religious believers.
If religious believers are too modest to insist on their rights — to insist just as emphatically that the secularists abide by the social contract as the secularists have insisted that the believers abide by it — then they must expect a train of further violations to follow.»
Indeed, because, as he concedes,
religious believers still constitute a majority of Americans (and Christians a majority of those), his argument amounts to the demand that believers agree to exclude religious reasons from the public square and allow only secular reasoning as an acceptable basis for any «shared agreement.»
I think the real masters of the GOP learned they would not ever win again unless they expanded their numbers and chose to seek out those they thought would be maliable — evangelical and
extremist religious believers.
The reigns of secular reason have been taken hold of by people, like Barry Lynn and Americans United for Separation of Church and State; like American Atheists; like the ACLU; like the American Humanist Association, etc., who want to see America transformed into a society devoid of the kind morality and ethics Christians and other
religious believers ascribe to and use as a basis for living their lives, and for which America was founded on.
If God does not exist, it doesn't matter how many
religious believers gather, how big their budget is or how vehemently they believe in him.
It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could
allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.
In many cases, most I'd dare to say, comments from
religious believers tend to at least contain positive messages, whereas comments from non-believers, if the comments address religion, tend to be negative.
From the beginning of his pontificate, he reached out to
religious believers outside the Church; and as he grew closer to them throughout the world, it had a parallel effect of forging new alliances in America, particularly between Evangelicals and Catholics, and Jews and Catholics, who have worked together to protect the family, uphold Judeo - Christian morality and combat prejudice.
According to recent estimates from the Soviet Council of Religious Affairs (the state organization that monitors all religious activities in the USSR),
religious believers make up between 10 and 20 percent of the population.
Some argue that the time has come to
push religious believers out of the public square and confine them to the quiet, private realm of personal prayer and worship.
According to this story, the great discoveries since the time of Copernicus and Galileo have disclosed a world that looks ever less like the picture religion painted of it, and have
forced religious believers to fight a centuries «long rearguard action against the truth.
With a population of more than 283 million, this would put the total number of
religious believers at between 28 and 56 million.
The church and xstians are guilty of causing fatality (ie murder) and then whine about «freedom of religion» I think it's time to fight «beam stuffling with beam stuffling» Call it jihad of logic, science, and reason, against these dangerous
lethal religious believers.
On Thursday, he was found guilty of
insulting religious believers and inciting hatred, as well as of «illegal trafficking of special technical equipment» when a pen with a hidden camera was discovered in his home.
This is why scriptures occupy an important place in every religious community: they represent early and fundamental expressions of that community's faith - experience.12 In fact, many
religious believers regard scriptures as the embodiment of God's disclosure to them or to their founder.