Sentences with phrase «religious communities because»

Second, until very recently many gay people spent their adolescences and even adult years hiding their sexual orientation out of fear of being judged and rejected by their friends, families, or religious communities because they are gay or lesbian.

The relationship to Judaism is more important than that to other religious communities because of its central role in the self - definition of Christianity and the long history of Christian persecution of Jews.

It is important to realize that there is this dimension to the notion of the religious community because the secularized understanding of many modern Westerners can not conceive of it except in purely sociological terms.

Ezekiel blamed the religious community because that community is responsible for truth - telling.

They are now suspicious of any religious community because of the rampant insidiousness of vision in communities they have experienced.

Not exact matches

Minors are selling their bodies because of a crisis that represents a breakdown in community between civilians and the government, between secular and religious fighters, between ethnic groups.

No «Magic» in scinece ID proponernts Behe and Dembski have been thoroughly disenfranchised by the science community because their work is philosophical religious garbage designed only for the gullible and unreasoned.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..

«People who go to church are more likely to volunteer and give to charity — not just because they're religious, but because they're part of a community.»

The silly catch phrase of «love the sinner but hate the sin» becomes nothing but contemptuous mockery because they literally ARE the sin in the eyes of the self righteous religious community.

By participation in an ongoing religious community, particularly of the type we know in the Western world, an isolated individual is partly lifted above himself, not only because he may, in a group, be more recipient of God's help, but also because he there shares in the distilled wisdom of our race.

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

Since then he has been pressing for Christians to change their Christologies, not because they are unfaithful to Jesus Christ but because they are demonstrably falsifying of what occurs in other religious communities and obviously destructive in Christian relations to these communities.

It makes sense that more religious than nonreligous people are going to going to consider their community a nice place to live because It doesn't bother religious people that the average community is clogged with churches.

It is wise to avoid affiliation with any religious community that emphasizes the Decalogue rather than the Beatitudes and if you are pressured for sex or money, run as if escaping hell, because you are!

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Smith and Denton can not answer this question because they did not study youth in the context of their religious communities.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Being a professional driver in a major city, I try to keep informed on the outward practices of the major religious AND community groups, street festivals, etcetera, because they can directly affect my job (through traffic patterns), so it is quite useful.

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anReligious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anreligious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anreligious organizations, and so on.7

Atheism, pantheism, and paganism have, it would seem, made far more inroads within the Jewish community than Christianity, but Jews who adhere to these religious inclinations, because they do not join a rival covenant community, largely escape the censure of the Jewish community.

Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.

On a religious side the Muslin community will be happy, but the non-Muslim community wont be and cause some trouble because of it.

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

Because the religious community is composed of people, it becomes necessary to define the Christian concept of person.

The religious community - priests, prophets, laypeople - lives in the midst of the power and technology and wealth - which is where the religious community always must live, because it is precisely this community in the midst of power that knows that truth - telling is the condition for peace.

This is a more complex scenario, though, because the extent and nature of the complicity between representatives of religious communities and expansionist colonial powers is often hard to assess, and conclusions about it must of necessity be context - specific.

Of course, one of the main problems is that there are many people who don't want to understand each other, or they feel they already understand the religious other because some book told them what others believed or some member of their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believed.

The liberal religious community has felt helpless before the dramatically changing sexual mores of the final decade of the 20th century because we have allowed ourselves to remain trapped between the inflexible moralists on one side and the freedom - worshiping secularists on the other.

A final topic will be «the religious community»; this must be discussed because the orientation here adopted includes human existence together with, in, and under God, the primal cause and the final affect.

I have focused more on the privileges and abuses of power because I think it is the core consideration about communities, including religious or spiritual ones.

«Because this is at some level a moral issue, and the religious community can not stand idly by and allow a moral issue like this to go without a comment,» said Carlos Campo, president of Virginia's Regent University, the college founded by evangelical icon Pat Robertson.

School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it sends the ancillary message to members of the audience who are nonadherents «that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community.»

Because of the differences in religion and customs, these people lived apart in their own communities where they could follow the religious injunctions of Islam in their living habits, marriage and funeral rites, and other ceremonies.

That is why the religious community must do its own research and imagining and forming because it necessarily grows out of the context of encounter of faith.

To re-discover and reaffirm a fundamental agreement between these monotheistic «ways» is important and urgent because, as the letter affirms, «without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world.»

We understand the pluralism of our social context in part because it reflects the variety of ways in which we understand our own experiences.The problem of being the church is acute for us not only because we must live side by side with those of other religious communities, but because the church is only one of the communities in which we live.

For my wife and me we felt led out of the organization because for us, we found a better way of community and fellowship without the religious part and the doctrine and denominational aspect.

Therefore, the implicit suggestion that the Christian community should distrust equally all philosophic systems of thought because they in turn are restrictive and even corrupting in their religious effects is basically idolatrous in character.

The communities and traditions I listed are all religious, because these kinds of practices and experiences play an important role in them.

Western writing on Eastern religion has had, in the course of the last hundred years, because of its substance, an influence on the development of those religions themselves that certainly deserves careful historical investigation; on the whole, because of the form in which it has mostly been cast, it has in addition been causing resentment and is beginning to elicit protest.22 Certainly anyone for whom comparative religion studies are something that might or should serve to promote mutual understanding and good relations between religious communities can not but be concerned at this contrary effect.

Emancipation from the endless discussions of committee meetings, trying to solve problems in both religious and political communities that had hitherto occupied so much of my time, was a desirable freedom from the chores of a democratic society; but it also meant an emancipation from responsibility — a doubtful boon, because responsibility engages us in the causes of moral, political and religious movements.

Produced by the EA Theology Advisory Group (TAG), the report outlined how «spiritual abuse» is a seriously problematic term because attempts by some to use it for safeguarding laws «would be unworkable in practice, potentially discriminatory towards religious communities, and damaging to inter-faith relations».

On behalf of my three friends who killed themselves because of the severe hate and rejection by the religious families and communities they were a part of... go to hell.

It doesn't have to be a religious community — what matters is that you have some sort of community because, as Phil Waugh, who with his wife runs the Covenant Marriage Movement, told us, your community will hold you accountable.

But Vail charges only $ 500 to $ 1,000 because she works in the religious Jewish community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where the parents of large families can not afford $ 3,500 for a birth attendant.

Some State Police officials said they believe Freilich has held onto his non-union job through four governors, and at a time when many state workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leaders.

Dr. Debbie Almontaser of the Muslim Community Network said people — regardless of specific creed or faith — are currently feeling vulnerable because of their religious beliefs.

«That's why this program is so important, because what we're doing is educating our citizens, we're educating our teachers, our religious leaders, our Boy Scout leaders, our Boys Club leaders, our athletic coaches, we're educating the entire community who have a responsibility and role in molding and teaching our children how to recognize and prevent child sexual abuse.»

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.